Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Bitcoin Is Like Coiled Spring Nearing Burst of Price Volatility, Key Indicator Suggests
Ledger co-founder released after days in captivity in France
Back From the Dead? John McAfee's Twitter Used to Promote Solana AI Token
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Health Agencies Ordered to Pause All Communications
The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.
The instructions were delivered Tuesday to staff at agencies inside the Department of Health and Human Services, including officials at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health.
What could possibly go wrong?
Politics:
Trump Gives Security Clearances Without Checks
In an unprecedented move experts say could present a major national security risk, Donald Trump is handing out temporary top secret security clearances to White House staff without any of the usual background checks.
Trump Suggests Biden Should Be Investigated
Said Trump: “I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars of legal fees and I won…. It’s really hard to say they shouldn’t have to go through it also.”
He added: “The funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon.”
This is a blueprint for a lawless administration that knows it will not be held accountable for criminal acts. That would include, of course, crimes committed to interfere with the next presidential election to allow the party, if not Trump himself, to stay in power. Trump’s team came very close to overturning the 2020 election. No doubt they have learned some lessons and will not repeat the same mistakes.
'Appalling': Current and former prosecutors lament Trump's Jan. 6 pardons
People in the Justice Department and legal scholars are calling the move an unprecedented and dangerous use of the pardon power that dealt a crushing blow not just to federal law enforcement, but also to the U.S. justice system.
They say it makes a mockery of years of work by FBI agents, prosecutors and federal judges, some of whom Trump appointed, after an effort that included charges against 1,583 defendants, more than 1,000 guilty pleas and more than 200 convictions at trial.
The cascading effects of pardoning some 1,500 insurrectionists remain to be seen. But to researchers, activists and reporters covering extremism in America, the implication was clear: Political violence will be tolerated, and even rewarded, when it’s carried out on behalf of Trump.
Trump Revokes Security Detail for Mike Pompeo
President Trump revoked security protection for his former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and a former top aide, Brian Hook, despite warnings from the Biden administration that both men faced ongoing threats from Iran because of actions they took on Mr. Trump’s behalf.
No recess till Trump gets his Cabinet, top GOP senators say
Top Senate Republicans are vowing to stay in session until all of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees are confirmed — a pledge that could keep senators in Washington for weeks due to Democratic delay tactics.
Said Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY): “We’re not intending to go on recess. We want to get the entire Cabinet confirmed before we talk at all about going into a recess.”
Trump Threatens to Adjourn Congress
I’d be very surprised if that survived a federal judge’s ruling.
