Odds and Ends — 25 October 2021


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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Reactivated Ethereum pools trigger a 78% surge in THORChain price

Russia will cut gas supplies to Moldova unless $700 million debt is paid & new contract signed before December 1

Facebook Whistleblower Holds Crypto to Support Herself Financially

Frances Haugen said she was managing financially for the “foreseeable future” because she had bought crypto “at the right time.”

It now looks that Europe has essentially run out of paper to print books on. Spent yesterday speaking to our factories and the story is the same throughout the continent. No paper now until the new year. @thebookseller @ipghq pic.twitter.com/43kAjkrM8e

— VertebratePublishing (@VertebratePub) October 23, 2021

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

How did California go from the epicenter of the US pandemic to the lowest statewide transmission rate?

Politics:

Two Reasons Why Trump Will Run for President Again

One is money. Political contributions may be the most reliable revenue stream the Trump family enterprise has at the moment.
“>The other, equally important, is to bolster his legal defense. As long as he’s running (or even sort of running), Trump can denounce every inquest and subpoena as just another part of a political vendetta. It’s a way to hold his troops together — and to make every prosecutor think twice.
He’s notching up another presidential first: He’s running for reelection to stay out of jail.

Rioters Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings

As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., have begun communicating with congressional investigators and sharing new information about what happened when the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Two of these people have spoken to Rolling Stone extensively in recent weeks and detailed explosive allegations that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.

It’s Trump lost o’clock, my favorite time of day.

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) October 23, 2021

Twitter Suspends GOP Congressman

Twitter suspended the account of Indiana Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) after the Republican congressman intentionally misgendered Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, the first transgender person to hold an office that requires a Senate confirmation.

Trump Tries to Trademark ‘Truthing’

Trump Rips Fox News for ‘Untruthful’ Political Ads

”What good is it if FOX News speaks well of me when they continually allow horrible and untruthful anti-Trump commercials to be run—and plenty of them. In the good old days, that would never have happened and today it happens all of the time.”

What a freaking whiner.

A Nevada man said a ballot cast in his dead wife's name ‘lent some credence’ to voter fraud claims. Now officials say he’s the one who did it.

Going out on a limb, I’d have to guess that his wife’s ballot shows Trump/Pence as the vote.

Hunter Biden’s Art on Display

Serendipity:

A Bomb Cyclone Has Merged With an 'Atmospheric River' to Batter California

Why are children representing themselves in immigration court?

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