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

Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm Moves to Dismiss Indictment Over Crypto-Laundering Allegations

The US immigration surge saved the economy

Grayscale introduces crypto investment fund that prioritizes staking rewards

Investors must have assets under management exceeding $1.1 million or a net worth over $2.2 million to qualify for Grayscale’s Dynamic Income Fund.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Meta-analysis: Global COVID reinfection rate less than 1%, depending on variant, country, time

Politics:

Michigan Congressman Suggests Nuking Gaza

“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”

Alabama town that hasn’t held elections in decades sued to allow voting

The town of Newbern saw white officials deny its first Black mayor, Patrick Braxton, from exercising his duties for three years

Fani Willis Takes the Lead In Case Against Trump

Two weeks after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis survived a bid by defense lawyers to have her disqualified from the Georgia election interference case, she has all but taken over the case personally, focusing intensely on legal strategy and getting her team in fighting form for trial.
In a significant move along these lines, according to a source close to her, Willis has decided to play a leading courtroom role herself in the sprawling conspiracy case against Donald Trump and 14 co-defendants.

The Political Economy Of Normalization

Mainstream institutions keep rehabilitating enemies of democracy because enemies of democracy are now normal; they'll only stop when we abnormalize them again…
If the past seven years have taught us anything it’s that these kinds of organizations—mainstream news outlets, think tanks, elite universities, civil-society organizations—aren’t well calibrated to make moral choices when their mandates come into tension. Abstract values will more often than not yield to other considerations: mass appeal, revenue, brand management, and, given the bent of the modern right, insurance against organized retaliation.
I’m not sure if or how the rest of us can change this calculus. The durability of the dynamic may simply underscore two things: First, how important it is for the Trump opposition to embrace politics that convey MAGA’s incompatibility with democratic life; second, our collective obligation to defeat it so soundly that it shrivels on its own, before the corrosive effect it has on these mediating institutions destroys them.

https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1774110142419620124

NOT from The Onion: Saudi Arabia to chair UN forum on women’s rights and gender equality

One More Way the Supreme Court Has Legalized Corruption

Disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez is pretending to ‘run’ for re-election because that allows him to tap his campaign account for legal defense.

https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1774111452984414653

Police Raid Home of Peru’s President

Peruvian authorities raided the home of President Dina Boluarte as part of an investigation into possible illicit enrichment after she was spotted wearing luxury watches at public appearances.

https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1773914111094759552

Revisiting Florida 2000 and the Butterfly Effect

We’ll never know what would have happened if the Supreme Court had allowed the recount to continue. But I don’t think it’s always appreciated that we probably do know that Mr. Gore would have won Florida, and therefore the presidency, if it weren’t for the infamous ‘butterfly ballot’ in Palm Beach County.
If you don’t remember — it has been a while — the butterfly ballot was very unusual. Candidates were listed on both sides of the ballot, and voters cast a ballot by punching a corresponding hole in the middle. What made it so unusual was that the ordering of the candidates on the ballot didn’t have the same logic as the corresponding punch hole: George W. Bush and Mr. Gore were the first two candidates listed on the left-hand side, but they corresponded to the first and third hole on the punch. The second punch corresponded with the first candidate on the right-hand side of the ballot: the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan, running as a Reform Party candidate.
After the election, many voters from Palm Beach claimed they had inadvertently voted for Mr. Buchanan when they meant to vote for Mr. Gore. This is clear in the data.

How Trump Keeps Potential Witnesses Loyal

https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1774162186371293385

https://twitter.com/JJohnsonLaw/status/1773811028654014875

Homeland Security Will Stop Buying Tracking Data

The Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones — a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people for years.

The cynic in me wonders if instead of buying the data, they’ll just get it from the NSA for free.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1774231808479232315

Serendipity:

Marvin Gaye: Never-before heard music resurfaces in Belgium

What is Volt Typhoon? A cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure

https://twitter.com/JacobOller/status/1755260193825341478

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