Odds and Ends — 9 March 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
SEC pushes back decision to open up options trading on spot Bitcoin ETFs
Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled
Wyoming Grants DAOs New Legal Structure
The governor signed a law setting up a legal status – “decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations” – for DAOs there, and one investment firm called Wyoming an “oasis.”
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it
https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1766206033418961118
Politics:
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1766302818678325759
The result was a most unusual State of the Union—partisan, shouty, and even, at times, a bit rowdy. What a contrast to the usual hoary clichés and bipartisan applause lines. Democrats loved it; Republicans looked on, squirming in their seats as if they’d accidentally been forced to sit through the Democratic National Convention.
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1765961464341545037
Trump posts $91M bond as he appeals E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict
https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1766197379030831326
The Smart Political Strategy Behind Biden's Big Speech
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1766145426762195313
Alvin Bragg Already Has a Plan to Block an Appeal of a Trump Conviction
Just weeks before the start of the historic criminal trial of Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made a surprising decision to set aside a potentially potent piece of evidence: Prosecutors will try to convict the former president without referring to an admission made by his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show for an interview on May 2, 2018, Giuliani told Fox News viewers that Trump knew about the hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, an important point prosecutors will need to prove at trial later this month.
So why did Bragg decide not to show the interview to the jury during his “case-in-chief”?
https://twitter.com/BowmanInc/status/1766019380310163785
FiveThirtyEight Drops Rasmussen Polls
The poll aggregation and evaluation site 538, part of ABC News, dropped the right-wing polling firm Rasmussen Reports from inclusion in its polling averages and forecasts.
https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1766199713408467425
Post misquotes Biden's remarks on Laken Riley in State of the Union address | Fact check
U.S. ‘Rigorously’ Prepared for Russian Nuclear Strike
In late 2022, the US began ‘preparing rigorously’ for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before.
The Biden administration was specifically concerned Russia might use a tactical or battlefield nuclear weapon.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1766234047422865660
Serendipity:
US says UFO sightings likely secret military tests
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Quote and map - so true!