Odds and Ends — 29 April 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
https://twitter.com/CryptoTea_/status/1783882913009823796
Why Did Elon Musk Just Kick Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Off X?
6-month low Ethereum fees suggest altseason is inbound: Santiment
The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
GlaxoSmithKline sues Pfizer and BioNTech over Covid-19 vaccine technology
Politics:
Biden Roasts Trump at Press Dinner
President Biden joked about his age and took jabs at former President Trump during Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
Said Biden: “The 2024 election is in full swing and yes, age is an issue. I’m a grown man, running against a six-year-old.”
He added: “Age is the only thing we have in common, my vice president actually endorses me.”
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1784561493125554622
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1784327144564473859
Doug Burgum Moves Up Trump’s VP Short List
https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1784200418404254136
Is the Sun Slowly Setting on U.S. Power?
The United States might be stumbling toward a decline from which few great powers have ever recovered. It has many of the tools of national recovery but doesn’t yet have a shared recognition of the problem and how to fix it.
That’s not a quote from a MAGA or progressive leaflet. It’s a summary of a startling new study by Rand that was commissioned by the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. It should serve as a loud wake-up call for America in this crucial election year.
This is news? All empires eventually fall or, at least, decline. Why would America be any different?
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1784309963642261757
Judge Luttig blasts SCOTUS for avoiding ‘key question’ at the heart of Trump immunity case
https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1784611596561502577
Donald Trump Now Blasting RFK Jr.
Donald Trump is now going all-out against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., amid polls that indicate the independent candidate would take more votes than Trump than incumbent President Joe Biden.
“RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal,” Trump said in a three-part post on his Truth Social website late Friday.
https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1784217280596836487
Britain’s Conservative Party in Turmoil
Five years ago, Britain’s Conservative Party scored a landslide victory in a general election that contained outlines of a realignment in that nation’s politics. Today, those same Conservatives appear headed for one of their worst defeats in a generation, an unraveling of a once-proud party that has come with astonishing swiftness.
The decline and fall of the Conservatives is the story of a political party that has become exhausted and inward-looking after more than a decade in power. Not unlike the Republican Party in the United States, it is riven by factionalism, stained by scandal and judged by many voters as incapable of dealing with the country’s problems — all amplified by a whipsawing series of leadership changes.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1784362620310470711
Russian women face violence from veterans of Ukraine War
Long before Russia invaded Ukraine, rights groups had sounded the alarm over the country's woeful record on protecting women from domestic violence.
In 2017, lawmakers -- with the blessing of the Orthodox Church -- reduced penalties for Russians convicted of beating family members.
And the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin has in recent years argued that abuse within families should be resolved by families, not law enforcement.
With the war in Ukraine, campaigners say that an already widespread problem could now be getting even worse.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1784577120850632766
Tensions grow between Trump and Lake in Arizona race for Senate
The former president fears that GOP candidate Kari Lake might not win and will drag down his own prospects in the battleground state
It is, after all, all about him.
https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1784418984437153841
Serendipity:
In America’s Biggest Oil Field, the Ground Is Swelling and Buckling
https://twitter.com/MikeOkuda/status/1784392714400006520
How Sci-fi Inspired Conspiracy Theory
It all goes back to one man in the 1950s: a military-intelligence expert in psychological warfare.
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The most frustrating aspect of X's action in the Mandela case is not the suspension itself, but the absence of information explaining the reasons. The arrogance is in taking action without accountability. Anyway, it is Elon's X.