Odds and Ends — 26 November 2024

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Good luck with that: Consumer confidence jumps to 16-month high as Americans see the economy improving

The kiss of death: Justin Sun has just become Trump crypto project’s biggest investor

7 Million UK Adults Now Own Crypto: Financial Conduct Authority

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Surprise Discovery Finds Severe COVID Infection May Shrink Tumors

Politics:

https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1861123784419188977
- HeathMayo

https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1861175710557040781
- danielsgoldman

Flashback quote of the day: “President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations has run, still liable for everything he did while in office, didn’t get away with anything yet – yet.” — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), on February 13, 2021, arguing against the need to impeach Donald Trump.

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1861130134188916896
- WalshFreedom

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1861121724210684336
- AdamParkhomenko

https://twitter.com/WonderKing82/status/1861120913464271258
- WonderKing82

Trump’s evasion of January 6 accountability will echo for next four years and generations to come

Special counsel Jack Smith set out to prove in the United States of America v. Donald Trump that even presidents are not above the law.
Instead, his failed prosecutions ended up making Trump even more powerful as the ebullient president-elect prepares to return to office on January 20.

https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1860877166218510707
- AntiToxicPeople

Devoted Aide Will Follow Trump to the White House

President-elect Donald Trump has always demanded loyalty from his aides, but few have answered the call quite like Natalie Harp.
A 33-year-old former far-right cable host, Ms. Harp is nearly always at Mr. Trump’s side. She has written him a series of devotional letters, including one that said, ‘You are all that matters to me.’ Once, when Mr. Trump was playing golf in Scotland, she ran behind his cart to keep him up to date with positive stories and social media posts.
Little known beyond Mr. Trump’s immediate orbit, Ms. Harp is now poised to play a potentially influential role in his White House, sitting right outside the Oval Office and acting as the conduit for a largely unsupervised flow of information to and from the president and helping him with his social media feed.

https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/1860977676208554405
- Daractenus

Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes on goods from Mexico, Canada and China on Day 1

https://twitter.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1860884222317068358
- BlackKnight10k

I Just Listened to Steve Bannon’s Show for a Week. What’s Coming Is Clear.

The biggest fight MAGA is about to pick probably won’t be with liberals.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching For Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1861172459652653475
- Strandjunker

Pam Bondi Isn’t Much Different Than Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration as Donald Trump’s attorney general is unquestionably a big victory for the rule of law. But now that Trump has put forth Pam Bondi—the former Florida attorney general whose loyalty to Trump is almost as slavish as Gaetz’s—it raises a question: Why assume she’ll be any less wedded to his agenda of unleashing the Justice Department on his enemies and otherwise reducing it to a tool of his most corrupt designs and whims?

White Supremacist Incidents Are Rising Across the U.S.

Flash displays of hate and white power are happening more frequently in the United States, a trend that experts say is a reaction to changing demographics, political turmoil and social catalysts. More than 750 such incidents have taken place since 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League, with more than half of them occurring in the last 18 months.
National experts describe a familiar pattern: Small groups of mostly masked men chant and wave swastika or white power flags in public and yell racial slurs at targets as varied as immigrants, Black people, Jews and L.G.B.T.Q. people. They unfurl offensive banners over highways or post racist fliers in communities. The demonstrations are typically captured on video and ricochet across social media to large audiences.