Odds and Ends — 20 March 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
BlackRock Creates Fund With Securitize, a Big Player in Real-World Asset Tokenization
https://twitter.com/Victorshi2020/status/1770101418000863334
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
https://twitter.com/zakavkaza/status/1770193861035360545
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
In a pandemic milestone, the NIH ends guidance on COVID treatment
Politics:
Why Rich Republicans Won’t Loan Money to Trump
Why aren’t any patriotic conservative businesspeople stepping in to rescue Trump with a loan?
This is a perfectly natural response to the premise that Trump’s totally legitimate business is facing a sudden cash crunch. And yet, none of the Republican billionaires have stepped forward to loan Trump the funds to get him through this short-term crisis.
Let me propose an alternative explanation for the paradox Levin is observing: Wealthy Republicans are hesitant to extend large loans to Trump because he is, in fact, a crook.
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1769890531784454306
Still Unable to Post Bond, Trump Has Most Crazed Meltdown Yet
Kushner Says Gaza’s Waterfront Is ‘Very Valuable’
https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1770110216199401809
Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House
Donald Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, but positioning the violent siege and its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House.
Initially relegated to a fringe theory on the edges of the Republican Party, the revisionist history of Jan. 6, which Trump amplified during the early days of the GOP primary campaign to rouse his most devoted voters, remains a rally centerpiece even as he must appeal more broadly to a general election audience.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1770120651241660603
Trump Says Jews Who Support Democrats ‘Hate Israel’
Donald Trump accused Jews who vote for Democrats of hating their religion and Israel, reviving and escalating a claim he made as president that Jewish Democrats were disloyal.
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1770025693297926199
If Donald Trump loses November’s election, it will be for one reason: He can’t help making it all about himself.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1770075033693491242
Jair Bolsonarro Indicted in Brazil
Brazil’s Federal Police have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own Covid-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in store.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1770061641553477675
Trump Has Just Five Days to Show the Money
If he cannot produce the bond by March 25, Mr. Trump faces the possibility of financial disaster and humiliation. New York’s attorney general, who brought the fraud case, would be entitled to collect the $454 million and could seek to seize Mr. Trump’s New York properties or freeze his bank accounts.
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1769782010233405464
Netanyahu to Consider Rafah Invasion Alternatives
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to send a senior delegation to Washington in the next few days to discuss an alternative strategy to an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah.
As clear a statement as any that Joe Biden holds veto power over at least some Israeli actions.
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1770153180006871047
A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military
A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.
https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1770178889496633817
Fox News buried Mike Pence’s refusal to endorse Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1770089927247544415
The U.S. Crime Rate Is Still Dropping
New FBI data confirms previous indications that crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend and belying widespread perceptions that crime is rising.
The new fourth-quarter numbers showed a 13% decline in murder in 2023 from 2022, a 6% decline in reported violent crime and a 4% decline in reported property crime. That’s based on data from around 13,000 law enforcement agencies, policing about 82% of the U.S. population, that provided the FBI with data through December.
David Weiss Does Not Contest He Reneged on Hunter Biden’s Plea Agreement to Chase Russian Lies
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1770160770695024912
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1770169021301658003
Supreme Court Justices Balk At Red States’ Free Speech Absolutism In Social Media Case
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Wishing Trump well