Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Another Bitcoin Miner Adopts MicroStrategy's Playbook of Buying BTC in Open Market
Finnish Police Seeking Hex Founder Richard Heart for Suspected Gross Tax Evasion, Assault
US gov’t cites Caroline Ellison’s ‘extraordinary cooperation’ before sentencing
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Evidence growing for COVID antivirals to cut poor outcomes, long COVID
Politics:
Confused Trump struggles in 'painful' crypto interview and keeps trying to change topic
Inglis endorses Harris, calling Trump ‘a clear and present danger’
Former six-term S.C. Republican Congressman Bob Inglis is adding his name to the growing list of Reagan- and Bush-era conservatives who say they plan to vote in November for Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump blames ‘rhetoric’ of Biden, Harris for possible assassination attempt
“Look violent rhetoric is wrong, and has no place. But MAGA pretending they didn’t light this fire is gaslighting to the 100th power. Since Trump showed up our politics has gone to crap.” — Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
Trump Arlington Cemetery Incident Under Investigation
Law enforcement officials at a Virginia military base are still actively investigating an August incident at Arlington National Cemetery involving what has been described as a confrontation between former President Donald Trump’s campaign and a cemetery worker, even as the Army says it considers the matter closed.
Senate GOP Abandons Anti-Biden Strategy
Senate Republicans have quietly reversed course on trying to rebuke or embarrass the Biden White House, concerned it could help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stay in power.
$50 Billion in Aid to Ukraine Stalls
A long-awaited plan to help Ukraine rebuild using Russian money is in limbo as the United States and Europe struggle to agree on how to construct a $50 billion loan using Russia’s frozen central bank assets while complying with their own laws.
Trump, Outrage and Political Violence
Trump has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking a near-fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House speaker and suggesting that a general he deemed disloyal be executed.
While Mr. Trump insists his fiery speech to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, was not responsible for the subsequent ransacking of the Capitol, he resisted pleas from advisers and his own daughter that day to do more to stop the assault. He even suggested that the mob might be right to want to hang his vice president and has since embraced the attackers as patriots whom he may pardon if elected again.
Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose Right-Wing Junket
Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the controversial jurist who tossed out the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump in July, failed to disclose her attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school.
Russia Takes Aim at Harris Campaign
Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign.
Starting in late August, a well-known Russian influence group, called Storm-1516, created and spread two fake videos online to discredit the Harris-Walz campaign…
Trump Traps Senate GOP with Flip-Flop on Taxes
Trump’s surprise post on SALT deductions Tuesday has forced Senate Republicans into a pickle: contradict their party’s leader or their old positions.”
For Republican leaders, it’s a taste of what’s to come if Trump wins back the White House.”
They’ll have to harmonize their own positions — in real time — with a president who is constantly changing his.
