If you see your glass is half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Marjorie Taylor Greene leads conspiracy-heavy attack on Fauci Genius turns down a plea bargain for willful injury causing bodily injury, a Class D felony, goes to trial, ends up with willful injury causing serious injury — a Class C felony: Iowa man convicted of assault over mask fight sentenced to 10 years. Burbank restaurant that defied COVID-19 shutdown orders is evicted

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Michael "Big Short" Burry: This Is The Greatest Bubble Of All Time In All Things "By Two Orders Of Magnitude" Amazon tracks warehouse workers' every move because Jeff Bezos thinks people are inherently lazy, report says Hunt for Yield: Wrapped BTC Now Holds More Than 1% of Bitcoin’s Circulating Supply Have NFT’s already jumped the shark? CNN selling historic news ‘moments’ as NFTs. https://youtu.be/h8XzvE250gU

Politics:

On January 6, as the violent mob advanced on the House chamber, I was standing near @RepGosar and helped him open his gas mask. The Capitol Police led us to safety. It is disgusting and despicable to see Gosar lie about that day and smear the men and women who defended us. https://t.co/GKsnekHBKx
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 16, 2021

Biden and Putin Take Questions “It’s also worth re-watching the Trump-Putin joint press conference in Helsinki in 2018. It’s actually worse than you remember.” — Taegan Goddard Media Melee Leaves Journalists Outside Summit >Journalists from both countries rushed to the site of the meeting — the Villa La Grange, an 18th century building located in a park near Lake Geneva — but were stopped by U.S. and Russian security and government officials and told to line up separately and in single file. … Instead, journalists and officials screamed as a Swiss official kept urging journalists and officials to be quiet. Eventually nine U.S. journalists and an unknown number of Russian journalists were allowed inside the villa’s library, where Biden and Putin were seated. >The shoving didn’t stop. Journalists pushed and yelled at each other to move. After just a minute or two, Russian security pulled the red rope separating the media from the leaders to try to keep the media further away … Russian security yelled at journalists to get out of the room, and began pushing journalists. U.S. journalists and White House officials began screaming that the Russian security should stop touching them. ‘Ridiculous Comparison’: Biden Slams Putin’s Defense For Crackdown On Russian Protesters Texas Bans ‘Critical Race Theory’ Without Defining It In related news from Alabama, GOP Lawmaker Struggles to Define Critical Race Theory >“These people, when they were doing the training programs — and the government — if you didn’t buy into what they taught you a hundred percent, they sent you away to a reeducation camp.” Congress Votes to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Face Financial Squeeze >The far-right group the Oath Keepers is splintering after board members accused the founder of spending its money on hair dye, steaks and guns. **The leader of the Proud Boys, choked off from the financial system, is printing ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-shirts to make money.** >The finances of the two most visible groups with members involved in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol are sputtering. Leaders are low on cash, struggling with defections and arguing with members over the future. Garland Reverses Trump Ruling on Seeking Asylum >Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday reversed a Trump-era immigration ruling that made it all but impossible for people to seek asylum in the United States over credible fears of domestic abuse or gang violence, marking one of the Justice Department’s most significant breaks with the previous administration. >Attorneys general can overturn decisions made by immigration judges because immigration courts are housed under the Justice Department, not the judicial branch.

Serendipity:

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