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Billion-Dollar Volumes and Then a Steep Drop Prompts Allegations of Wash Trading on Aevo

Why Qatar’s $500B Bitcoin investment is highly unlikely

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

https://twitter.com/bobcesca_go/status/1768673832330535268

https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1768677191175327891

Politics:

Are Americans Blind to the Crazy?

When insanity becomes the norm, it ceases to be insane.
As a practical matter, it is impossible for a society to spend a decade listening to an unwell man say crazy, disassociated, garbled words for hours at a time, almost daily, and maintain the position that he is unhinged. At some point, society decides that the man they once regarded as unhinged, simply is.
It’s like sitting in a room that stinks of sulfur. At first the smell is intolerable; but after a while you can’t even notice it if you try. This is more than human nature: It’s how our brains are wired to adapt to environmental conditions.

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1767279721774244167

I Listened to Trump’s Rambling, Unhinged, Vituperative Georgia Rally—and So Should You

The ex-President is building a whole new edifice of lies for 2024.

The Chaos of 2020

Over the course of the last couple of years, Donald Trump has pulled off an impressive maneuver: He has slowly gaslit America into thinking his presidency ended in 2019. This is to say, he has gotten many Americans to tacitly accept that nothing that happened in 2020 can be used against him—that the whole crazy year is off-limits to discuss.
If Biden wants to win re-election, he will have to dismantle this premise.

https://twitter.com/ericswalwell/status/1768736844534227196

Texas governor predicted donations would pay for busing migrants out of state. He’s collected less than 1% of that cost

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted shortly after he began soliciting private donations for his controversial migrant busing program that there would likely “be no cost to the state” given the outpouring of support from concerned citizens across the country.

https://twitter.com/billprady/status/1768648707451531340

Hawkish Macron refuses to back down on possibility of Western troops in Ukraine

https://twitter.com/sarahstankorb/status/1768367085732630727

San Antonio experimented with giving people $5,108 no-strings-attached. They spent it on housing and school supplies for their kids.

https://twitter.com/LadyJayPersists/status/1768620736657096734

Elon Musk smears Haitian migrants with 'cannibal' claims amid crisis

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1768777881595855302

Former Brazil military chiefs implicate Bolsonaro in coup conspiracy

The former commanders of Brazil’s Army and Air Force told police investigators that President Jair Bolsonaro summoned them twice to meetings to discuss a possible coup d’état after his election defeat in 2022.
Their accounts place Bolsonaro at the center of a plot to declare martial law and stop leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva coming to power after he won the election that year.

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1768774644901843155

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