Odds and Ends — 11 Feb 2024

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

6-figure BTC price in 2024? Bitcoin analyst says $55K now ‘worst case’

‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

Welcome to the ‘Bitcoin Era’ on Wall Street

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic

Politics:

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1756063416182091797

Trump Says He Threatened NATO Allies

Former President Donald Trump said on Saturday that, while president, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would ‘encourage’ Russia ‘to do whatever the hell they want’…

https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1756514126942105974

Media Meltdown Over Biden Report Fuels New “But Her Emails” Nightmare

https://twitter.com/DBarkhuff/status/1755758383322267860

Déjà Vu, the Big Lie, and the Future of Democracy

Special counsel’s report on classified documents has echoes of the 2016 election

For people who were involved with Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign, the echoes of then-FBI Director James Comey's press conference on July 5, 2016, are hard to miss.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1756443545068548511
https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1756664078343237837
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1756678117022683304

Everything That Was Wrong With Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1756540540714459386

The Real “Robert Hur Report” (Versus What You Read in the News)

The Special Counsel Robert Hur report has been grossly mischaracterized by the press. The report finds that the evidence of a knowing, willful violation of the criminal laws is wanting. Indeed, the report, on page 6, notes that there are ‘innocent explanations’ that Hur ‘cannot refute.’
That is but one of myriad examples we outline in great detail below of the report repeatedly finding a lack of proof. And those findings mean, in DOJ-speak, there is simply no case. Unrefuted innocent explanations is the sine qua non of not just a case that does not meet the standard for criminal prosecution – it means innocence. Or as former Attorney General Bill Barr and his former boss would have put it, a total vindication (but here, for real).

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1756348102607569012

Biden campaign must brawl and fight and brawl some more