Odds and Ends — 25 March 2023
Is it just me?
For several days now, peakd.com has been lagging, updating my feed, upvotes, and notifications several hours after the fact. But hive.blog seems to update in almost real-time.
My First Time Making Stuffed Peppers:
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Most Americans Doubt Their Children Will Be Better Off
SVB Collapse Prompts Effort to Quash Bank Frenzy on Social Media
Deutsche Bank Tumbles, Default Protection Costs Spike as U.S. Bank Crisis Spreads to Europe
‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
US appeals court walks back COVID-19 vaccine requirement for federal employees
Florida Man:
DeSantis’ Culture Warrior: ‘We Are Now Over the Walls’
DeSantis Allies Question If He’s Ready for 2024
A number of the Florida governor’s donors and allies are worried his recent stumbles suggest he may not be ready for a brutal fight against Donald Trump. Some feel DeSantis needs to accelerate his timeline to run for the GOP presidential nomination and begin directly confronting Trump if he’s to have any chance of thwarting the former president’s momentum. Others believe DeSantis should sidestep Trump altogether and wait until 2028 to run.
Politics:
Trump Raises Specter of Violence if He Is Charged
In an overnight social media post, former President Donald Trump predicted that ‘potential death and destruction’ may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star made during the 2016 campaign.
The comments from Mr. Trump, made between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on his social media site, Truth Social, were a stark escalation in his rhetorical attacks on the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, ahead of a likely indictment on charges that Mr. Trump said would be unfounded.
Alvin Bragg may have been asked to delay Trump charges: John Dean
The Surreal Post-Trump Embrace of Mark Milley
In spreading the gospel of an apolitical military, he’s become a political lightning rod — and a reminder of how far Washington is from normal.
Powder, threat sent to Manhattan DA investigating Trump
A powdery substance was found Friday with a threatening letter in a mailroom at the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the latest security scare as the prosecutor weighs a potential historic indictment of former President Donald Trump…
Judge Orders Trump Aides to Testify
A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, was subpoenaed along with the other former aides by Special counsel Jack Smith for testimony and documents related to the probe.
The principal of a Florida charter school was fired after a teacher showed students a picture of Michelangelo’s David because, in Florida, showing penises to children is Matt Gaetz's job.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) March 23, 2023
We’ve Been Getting Waco All Wrong
“It would be impossible to overstate just how monumental Waco was in the advancement of the anti-government movement,” says the filmmaker behind just one of this spring’s series about David Koresh and his Branch Davidians.
U.S. warns China's promises often empty as Honduras wavers on Taiwan
U.S. judge rules Internet Archive's digital book lending violates copyrights
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Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
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Oh man I am not one for politics and believe one side is as bad as the other but the GOP primaries are shaping up to be a world class bum fight. The sensationalized stupidity is making me embarrassed for my smart American friends!
I wonder why we haven’t delved into stuffed peppers! Perhaps you have inspired this weeks new dish we like to explore creating Sunday evenings.