Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Celsius Network hires advisers ahead of potential bankruptcy: Report

and/or

Goldman Sachs Leading Investor Group to Buy Celsius Assets: Sources

Meanwhile, in the land of splinters:

Exploding Dwarf shines with the Equalizer rule set:

There’s a method for countering Mylor (Little League rule set):

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

In China, science-based approaches to the virus are being sidelined

These ER doctors said profit-driven company officials pressed them to work while they had Covid symptoms

One doctor who worked for American Physician Partners says in a lawsuit there was an unwritten policy: “Motrin, mask, man-up and must not test.”

Our garden is coming along just fine:

Politics:

Supreme Court Votes 5-4 To Reclassify Women As Service Animals

Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett will never enjoy another peaceful meal at a restaurant.

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) June 24, 2022

Mike Pence Calls for National Abortion Ban

More proof this fight was never about “state’s rights.” — Taegan Goddard

Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rights

It’s Much More Than an Era of Unsafe Abortions

Anyone who can get pregnant must now face the reality that half of the country is in the hands of legislators who believe that your personhood and autonomy are conditional—who believe that, if you are impregnated by another person, under any circumstance, you have a legal and moral duty to undergo pregnancy, delivery, and, in all likelihood, two decades or more of caregiving, no matter the permanent and potentially devastating consequences for your body, your heart, your mind, your family, your ability to put food on the table, your plans, your aspirations, your life.

Welcome Back To A Pre-New Deal America

Multiple House Republicans on defensive over Jan. 6 panel testimony that they sought post-riot pardons

It’s Time to Convene a Grand Jury

Although a Trump prosecution is far from certain to succeed, too much focus has been put on the risks of prosecuting him and too little on the risks of not doing so. The consequences of a failure to act for the future of democratic elections are enormous.

Gov. Kemp to testify in Fulton County’s Trump probe

What Happens if the GOP Tries to Leave Trump Behind?

Donald Trump's Insane Criminal Conspiracy

On Thursday we got a stark reminder that farcical fascism is still fascism.
Yes, Jeffrey Clark was a clownish Iago; the theories about Italian satellites were certifiably insane; Trump’s election lies were absurd and easily debunked; and the smoking guns are right there in plain sight. But even so, it was a damned close run thing.
The President of the United States was moments away from installing a seditionist crony as the nation’s top law enforcement officer and using the Department of Justice to execute his coup.
The line held. Thank God. But that line was thin, and it might not be there the next time around.

Trump Had a Mystery Call with Putin

Serendipity:

How to rewild a country: the story of Argentina

Lake Mead is nearing dead pool status. The engineer for whom it was named would be ‘horrified.’

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