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

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Japan payments clearing network disruption continues for 2nd day

https://twitter.com/BTC_Archive/status/1712143738439409730?s=20

Exxon Mobil doubles down on fossil fuels with $59.5 billion deal for Pioneer Natural

https://twitter.com/samcallah/status/1712128988611563803?s=20

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

After the covid culture wars, reason to celebrate

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Ron DeSantis dogged by Nick Fuentes questions during CNN interview

Politics:

Biden Will Package Aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan

Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration have privately told lawmakers that the White House is preparing a supplemental funding request to submit to Congress that includes money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and U.S. border security.
Administration officials also said the request would aim to address the strain that providing additional military support for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan would put on the Pentagon’s stockpiles, by asking for money to build more weapons.

Yeah, he could probably get the Senate to agree. But the clown car House is another matter.

Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1711895634096132492?s=20

Prosecutors Ask if Trump Will Blame His Lawyers

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to force former President Donald Trump to tell them months before he goes to trial on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election whether he intends to defend himself by blaming the stable of lawyers around him around at the time for giving him poor legal advice.
In a motion filed to the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, the prosecutors sought an order that would compel Mr. Trump to tell them by Dec. 18 if he plans to pursue the blame-the-lawyers strategy — known as an advice of counsel defense — at his federal election interference trial, which is now set to begin in March in Federal District Court in Washington.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1712067982367613080?s=20

Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology

A close read of Hamas’s founding documents clearly shows their intentions

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1711886647447408667?s=20

House Republicans Show Where Israel Ranks

The House’s paralysis had been embarrassing for the party and the nation. But now it is on the verge of becoming something else entirely. The Republican Party faces a test of its soul on par with the one presented in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021…
Republicans now face a similar test, one where America’s reputation as an ally who could be trusted to deliver when it counts hangs in the balance. Everyone who has watched Congress closely over the years expects both chambers to agree on a supplemental tranche of cash for Israel without much debate. Yet, without a Speaker of the House in place, such a spending plan cannot come to the floor for a vote…
That leaves both Israel and Ukraine caught in the middle of the GOP’s identity crisis. Until Republicans realize their fate—and the legacy of the party and of the country’s long alliance with Israel—hangs on their infighting, there is little beyond Thoughts and Prayers that Americans can send to Israel to combat Hamas (or to Ukraine to shore up its fight against Putin).

https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/1712109293409862116?s=20

Hamas Seeds Violent Videos on Sites

Since Hamas launched a deadly cross-border attack into Israel over the weekend, violent videos and graphic images have flooded social media. Many of the posts have been seeded by Hamas to terrorize civilians and take advantage of the lack of content moderation on some social media sites — particularly X and Telegram — according to a Hamas official and social media experts.
The strategy mirrors efforts by extremist groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda, which took advantage of the lack of guardrails at social media companies years ago to upload graphic footage to the internet. Social media companies reacted then by removing and banning accounts tied to those groups.
The issue has sprouted anew in the past week, particularly on X, where safety and content moderation teams have largely disbanded under Elon Musk’s ownership, and on Telegram, the messaging platform which does virtually no content moderation.

https://twitter.com/cen271/status/1712114952662667392?s=20

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1711830440804233426?s=20

Zelensky Asks to Visit Israel

https://twitter.com/The_Shumater/status/1712116078896181665?s=20

Samuel Alito Really, Really, Really Wants to Save This Racial Gerrymander in South Carolina

https://twitter.com/funder/status/1712163897505902789?s=20

Serendipity:

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The acute suicide crisis among veterinarians: ‘You’re always going to be failing somebody’

https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1711868962504671435?s=20

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