Odds and Ends — 17 April 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
The Life and Death of Hollywood
Film and television writers face an existential threat
https://twitter.com/dannyctkemp/status/1780307060174827625
Here’s what new LED lightbulb standards mean for American households
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
https://twitter.com/bobcesca_go/status/1780233609619632240
Politics:
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1780276762347196839
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream…
Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head doops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1779956690210718153
First Seven Jurors Selected Over Objections From Uncontained Trump
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1780308945644519469
https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1779658937094017395
The way the first Trump criminal trial has been misnamed
https://twitter.com/bhennrich/status/1779950647871410466
Journalists covering Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1780270431108214903
Supreme Court skeptical of feds’ use of obstruction statute in Jan. 6 prosecutions
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1780264116445233470
U.K. votes on ‘smoke-free generation,’ but conservatives fear ‘nanny state’
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1780275150874910982
Johnson Hands Democrats Power to Shape Aid Plan
Speaker Mike Johnson’s elaborate plan for pushing aid to Ukraine through the House over his own party’s objections relies on an unusual strategy: He is counting on House Democrats and their leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, to provide the votes necessary to clear the way for it to come to the floor.
If Democrats were to provide those crucial votes, it would mark the second time in two years that Republican leaders have had to turn to the minority party to rescue them from their own recalcitrant right-wing colleagues in order to allow major legislation to be debated and voted on.
https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/1780254518879416795
Bob Menendez Poised to Blame His Wife in Bribery Case Defense
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1780257012300808300
US Republican Kari Lake tells supporters: 'Strap on a Glock' as election nears
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, urged supporters in Arizona to "strap on a Glock" pistol as they prepare for what she called an intense six months leading up to the Nov. 5 elections.
"We are going to put on the armor of God. Then maybe strap on a Glock," Lake told a cheering audience at an Arizona rally on Sunday.
"You can put one here," she said, touching her right hip. "And one in the back, or one in the front, whatever you guys decide."
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1780310056950514091
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