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Odds and Ends — 13 August 2022


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If you employ Yodin Zaku as your summoner, it’s probably a mistake to not deploy at least one ranged monster.


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I had thought my opponent would use Mylor but it turned out to be Lir Deepswimmer. 48 mana, Holy Protection rule set. I had rented a Kralus, which did a damn fine job.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Sam Bankman-Fried, Justin Sun in Talks to Buy Majority of Huobi Global Exchange

Dutch authorities arrest suspected Tornado Cash developer

FWIW, The US economy is in a better spot than naysayers believe

The Real Culprits Behind Britain's Energy Crisis.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

People Exposed to Covid May Need to Take as Many as Three At-Home Tests, F.D.A. Says

COVID rebound is surprisingly common — even without Paxlovid

Politics:

FBI Recovered 11 Sets of Classified Documents in Search

FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities…
The list includes references to one set of documents marked as ‘Various classified/TS/SCI documents,’ an abbreviation that refers to top-secret/sensitive compartmented information. It also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.

Guess Who Leaked the Search Warrant?

Did Trump leak Mar-a-Lago warrant revealing names of FBI agents as threats against bureau rise?

Donald Trump’s O.J. Defense

His apologists keep shifting their arguments—desperately trying to sow confusion and doubt.

Trump’s Allies Have No Clue How to Respond to Report of Nuclear Docs at Mar-a-Lago

The Crystal-Clear Message Merrick Garland Just Sent Trump and His Supporters

Shooter Was Prolific Contributor to Trump’s Social Network

In the minutes after an armed man in body armor tried to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati, an account with the suspect’s name, Ricky Shiffer, posted to former president Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social: ‘If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the FBI.’
The Shiffer account appeared to be one of Truth Social’s most prolific posters, writing 374 messages there in the past eight days — mostly to echo Trump’s lies about election fraud and, in the hours after FBI agents searched Trump’s Florida home, calling for all-out war.

Fetuses Must Be Wireless Now

More Americans Are Trying to Take Guns onto Planes

Judge Faces Firestorm After Signing Search Warrant

Those who worked with Reinhart during the decade he worked as a federal prosecutor in West Palm Beach said they are stunned by the misinformation and the malice being heaped on a magistrate who was simply doing his job.

California unveils water strategy, planning for greater scarcity

Trump baselessly bashed Obama for transferring records from the White House to Chicago. Here’s why Obama was allowed while Trump is under scrutiny by the FBI.

GOP Escalates Dark Rhetoric After FBI Search

Republicans in Congress who are relying on Donald Trump to excite voters in the fall elections are not only defending the former president against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home but politically capitalizing on it with grave and potentially dangerous rhetoric against the nation’s justice system.
The party that once stood staunchly for law-and-order has dramatically reversed course, stirring up opposition to the FBI and tapping into political grievances and far-right conspiracies that fed the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
It’s all part of the GOP’s election year strategy to harness voter outrage over the unprecedented search, quickly and unequivocally set in motion as Trump hosted a dozen Republicans for dinner of steak and scallops at his private Bedminster club the day after the FBI action

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