Odds and Ends — 5 January 2024

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Bitcoin ETF Looks Very Likely Given These Bureaucratic SEC Steps

https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1742991951387877758

Surge in ‘buy the dip’ mentions highlights traders’ bullish crypto outlook

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during COVID, study finds

Former US President Donald Trump said: ‘What do you have to lose? Take it.’

Florida Man:

https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1742712349411156292

Politics:

https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1743070467488137282

Alan Dershowitz Has a New Retort to “Feminists” Who Question His Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1742756599377097106

https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1742648365710745902

Kellyanne Conway Thinks Republicans Can Win Back Women in 2024 by Saying, “We Took Away Your Abortion Rights, but We’re Letting You Keep Contraception”

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1742642873315533162

Donald Trump’s Tirades Barely Make a Blip

The ex-president is ranting and raving on social media, making wild claims and vowing revenge—and yet, too often, he’s treated as a conventional candidate.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1742929399757066322

Trump’s Vow to Deport Millions Undercut by His Record

Donald Trump has lauded the Eisenhower-era raids without using their name since he first ran for president and is now promising voters he would begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, exceeding the 1950s. He has escalated his verbal attacks on immigrants as he seeks a second term, telling supporters twice in recent weeks that immigrants were ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’
People affected by ‘Operation Wetback’ and historians on immigration argue Trump is using fragments of history and rhetoric for political reasons while discounting his own administration’s failures to carry out mass deportations, even as it separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border and enacted sweeping restrictions on asylum.

https://twitter.com/Braveswyn/status/1742672845594075161

Venue Cancels Marjorie Taylor Greene Event

A central Florida venue has canceled an event that was to have featured Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after it learned the event was intended to commemorate the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1742933927554425305

Stefanik pulls endorsement of House GOP recruit over Trump criticism

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik is abandoning a top party recruit in a swing Ohio district after he was caught on tape calling Donald Trump "arrogant." …
That left scandal-tarred J.R. Majewski, who lost handedly to Kaptur in 2022, with a clearer shot to the nomination again — a problem for Republicans due to reports that he lied about serving in Afghanistan and allegations that he has called Trump "an idiot."

https://twitter.com/Locati0ns/status/1742184541488566491

A Far-Right Court Just Admitted a Truth That Abortion Foes Want to Hide

https://twitter.com/timruss2/status/1742796348016267294
https://twitter.com/chillywillyh20/status/1742690260839207102
https://twitter.com/WeHearPodcast/status/1742737483400380441