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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

Elon Musk: "I am a free speech absolutist."

Employee: "Good, because I have some mild criticisms..."

Elon Musk: "You are absolutely fired."

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) June 17, 2022

The Next Crisis to Hit Markets May Be About Liquidity

A sentence in a book I’m reading:

“Being without electronics for more than a few hours is like being kidnapped by a cult deprogrammer in a cheap brown suit and taken to a fluorescent motel somewhere in New Jersey.” — from A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

China turns Winter Olympic villages into Covid quarantine camps

‘The Dirty Secret of Covid’: Scott Galloway on the Postpandemic Economic Turmoil

North Korea reports 'epidemic' of unidentified intestinal disease after Covid wave

Politics:

Evidence Shows Trump Knew His Plot Was Corrupt

At this point, the Jan. 6 committee’s hearings might as well be one big criminal referral to the Justice Department. And to make the case that Donald Trump and his allies broke the law, the committee has had to establish that they were acting corruptly — i.e., that they were likely to have known that their scheme was wrong and pursued it anyway.
To do that, the committee in its last two hearings has focused on two matters: that those involved in the push to overturn the election a) knew that their efforts probably were illegal and b) that they were told repeatedly that their claims of voter fraud were bogus.

Dan Crenshaw & Staff Assaulted by Right Wingers Shouting ‘Eyepatch McCain’ and Saying He Should be ‘Hung for Treason’

French National Assembly vote decides battle between Macron and left

Ukraine's fight grinds on, Boris Johnson pledges long-haul support

Despite Revelations, Election Lies Still Dominate the GOP

A parade of Republican witnesses — his attorney general, William Barr, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and his own campaign lawyers — knew he had lost the election and told him so. Mr. Trump was informed that the demands he was making of Mr. Pence to block his defeat unilaterally were illegal. Even the most active coup plotter, the conservative lawyer John C. Eastman, conceded before Jan. 6 that his scheme was illegal and unconstitutional, then sought a presidential pardon after it led to mob violence.
Yet the most striking revelation so far may be how deeply Mr. Trump’s disregard for the truth and the rule of law have penetrated into the Republican Party, taking root in the fertile soil of a right-wing electorate stewing in conspiracy theories and well tended by their media of choice. The Republican response to the hearings — a combination of indifference, diversion and doubling down — reflects how central the lie of a stolen election has become to the party’s identity.

Pioneering Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace medal for Ukraine

The 19th Century Divorce That Seized the Nation and Sank a Presidential Candidate

When James G. Blaine went to war with his son’s ex-wife in the national press, he had no idea that two could play that game.

Uvalde officials are using a legal loophole to block the release of shooting records

Serendipity:

How Texans have coped without water in US heat wave

Bill Clinton reveals he sent a team to Area 51 ‘to make sure there were no aliens’

I guess that means there are aliens that, prior to the team’s arrival, had already been moved from Area 51 to an undisclosed location?

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