Odds and Ends — 20 April 2024
I’ve found a new go-to stout. As much as I love Guinness, I do like to support local breweries. And this local brewery happens to be just a few miles/kilometers from my backyard.
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Google Searches for 'Bitcoin Halving' Get Higher Than 4/20
Something strange has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately
Bitcoin halving 2024 — Done and dusted!
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Trump’s covid response was even worse than you remember
Politics:
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1781192578261746038
What could possibly go wrong? Trump to Deploys Thousands of Election Monitors
Donald Trump’s political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor — and potentially challenge — vote counting in November.
Trump has privately complained that his political apparatus was not adequately prepared for the legal battles in the 2020 election. … It’s also a sign that, should Trump once again attempt to overturn the election, he will already have in place tens of thousands of workers who could help with that effort.
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1781133776149467642
Emergency Rooms Refuse to Treat Pregnant Women
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.
The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S., especially in states that enacted strict abortion laws and sparked confusion around the treatment doctors can provide.
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1781061718531088542
Appeals court upholds conviction of GOP operative who steered Russian money to Trump camp
https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1781238016570216877
Volkswagen Workers In Tennessee Vote to Unionize
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers on Friday, becoming the first Southern auto factory to approve a union with an election since the 1940s.
https://twitter.com/EHunterChristie/status/1781076025109078172
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1781472915902325105
