Odds and Ends — 11 December 2024


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

Coffee price surges to highest on record

Italy Set to Scale Back Planned Tax Hike on Crypto Capital Gains

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Studies describe vaccine efficacy against long COVID

DenyDefendDepose:


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Politics:

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Clearly just a coincidence, no way is it a bribe to keep her mouth shut, Trump to nominate Kimberly Guilfoyle for ambassador to Greece

Trump’s Justice Department Secretly Obtained Records

The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during sweeping leak investigations during Trump’s first term, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday.
The new report from the Justice Department’s inspector general raises concerns about how the department tried to root out reporters’ sources from a sprawling and bipartisan list of federal employees who had access to classified information because of their job.

I doubt we’ll be seeing reports like this during the 2.0 version of Trump. He’s all but certain to appoint a toady as inspector general of the DOJ. Thank you, Memory Hole!


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I thought at first that it was a faked Trump post, that he couldn’t possibly so open about welcoming corruption. I was wrong.

Trump to Pick Regulator of His Own Company

There have been internal concerns that Trump Media could be misleading investors… But with its largest shareholder about to be president, experts doubt the SEC is up to the job of investigating Truth Social’s parent company.


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Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong

The election of Donald Trump this year shattered a long-standing piece of conventional wisdom in American politics: that Latinos will vote overwhelmingly for whichever party has the more liberal approach to immigration, making them a reliable Democratic constituency. This view was once so pervasive that the Republican Party’s 2012 post-election autopsy concluded that the party needed to move left on immigration to win over more nonwhite voters.
If that analysis were true, then the nomination of the most virulently anti-immigration presidential candidate in modern history for three straight elections should have devastated the GOP’s Latino support. Instead, the opposite happened. Latinos, who make up about a quarter of the electorate, still lean Democratic, but they appear to have shifted toward Republicans by up to 20 points since 2012…
For more than a decade, Democrats have struck an implicit electoral bargain: Even if liberal immigration stances alienated some working-class white voters, those policies were essential to holding together the party’s multiracial coalition. That bargain now appears to have been based on a false understanding of the motivations of Latino voters.


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“We’ll send the whole family”: Trump’s deportation plans echo depression-era “repatriation” schemes

In the 1930s, states pressured Mexican Americans — including U.S. citizens — to leave the country voluntarily

A Court Called Out Clarence Thomas’ Gun Extremism. He Didn’t Take It Well.

Serendipity:

Dreaming of a move abroad? What it takes to immigrate to 5 countries.

If you’re serious about leaving the United States, you had better do your homework.

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