Odds and Ends — 7 January 2024

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

Final Bitcoin ETF Application Filings Get Posted by Major U.S. Exchanges

Releasing them suggests they’re confident the SEC will approve the first U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs soon.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Kari Lake offers up the mother lode of COVID-19 conspiracy theories

Florida Man:

Politics:


Trump Refuses Pledge to Not ‘Overthrow the Government’

Donald Trump didn’t submit a state loyalty oath that candidates in Illinois have been signing for more than a half century that asserts they won’t “advocate the overthrow of the government” — a pledge that holds new resonance on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6th insurrection.
That’s a departure his presidential campaign is not explaining after Trump signed and submitted the document to Illinois election authorities for both the 2016 and 2020 election cycles, when he ran against Democrats Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, respectively.

Liz Cheney backs push to bar Trump from ballot under 14th Amendment

How Trump Brought ‘Networked Incitement’ To The Capitol

Roger Stone Recorded Telling Associate to ‘Abduct’ and ‘Punish’ Mueller Investigator

How Trump Taught America to Tolerate Brazen Corruption

Biden, top White House officials were not informed for days about Austin’s hospitalization

The news came as a shock to top staff, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

FBI captures three Jan. 6 fugitives at Florida ranch on the third anniversary of the Capitol attack

US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army

Beholding the SCOTUS Disqualification Unicorn

Has the United States Given Up on Protecting Global Trade?

Maybe not given up at this point, but it suggests that Peter Zeihan’s thesis that the U.S. is likely to de-emphasize protecting shipping lanes may have some validity.

Trump tries reappropriating ‘insurrection’ on Jan. 6 anniversary

“He’s now directly saying that violence and criminality is okay if it’s in service of my power,” said Michael K. Miller, a political science professor at George Washington University who studies democracy and autocratic elections. “Once you endorse violence in rejecting electoral outcomes, you’ve turned away from democracy, it’s really that simple. Having a large fraction of the population with that attitude is very dangerous.”

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Odds and Ends — 7 January 2024 | Ecency