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Odds and Ends — 26 June 2022


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That’s Someone You Never Forget

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Finance Redefined: Uniswap goes against the bearish trends, overtakes Ethereum

Decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has overtaken its host blockchain Ethereum in terms of fees paid over a seven-day rolling average.

Morgan Creek Is Trying to Counter FTX’s BlockFi Bailout, Leaked Call Shows

FTX’s $250 million credit facility offer – if inked as initially proposed – stood to effectively wipe out all BlockFi shareholders, including Morgan Creek Digital, the firm told its investors.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

South Africa ends COVID restrictions as fifth wave fades

Pfizer, BioNTech say updated vaccines offer ‘substantially higher immune response’ against omicron

Politics:

Woman’s Preventable Death During Childbirth Upheld In 6-3 Supreme Court Vote

Roe demise shows conservative Supreme Court wants to move ‘very far and very fast’

The End of Roe Is Just the Beginning

America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good

What’s becoming clearer over time is that the Trump-era GOP is hoping to use its electoral dominance of the red states, the small-state bias in the Electoral College and the Senate, and the GOP-appointed majority on the Supreme Court to impose its economic and social model on the entire nation—with or without majority public support.
As measured on fronts including the January 6 insurrection, the procession of Republican 2020 election deniers running for offices that would provide them with control over the 2024 electoral machinery, and the systematic advance of a Republican agenda by the Supreme Court, the underlying political question of the 2020s remains whether majority rule—and democracy as we’ve known it—can survive this offensive.

The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court

Republicans Brace for Impact of Reversing Roe

Republicans finally got the Roe v. Wade decision they wanted, and in public, they are delighted.
More quietly, however, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican strategists and party officials, they just didn’t want it to come right now — not during a midterm election campaign in which nearly everything had been going right for the GOP.

Susan Collins Is Shocked! Shocked! Claims Gorsuch And Kavanaugh Betrayed Her

Ron Johnson now says he helped coordinate effort to pass false elector slates to Pence, but his new explanation drew a quick rebuke

”Mr. Kelly has not spoken to Sen. Johnson for the better part of a decade, and he has no knowledge of the claims Mr. Johnson is making related to the 2020 election.”

Does anyone believe that a Congressman and Senator could not speak to each other for “the better part of a decade”?

Prince Charles accepted €1m cash in suitcase from Qatari sheikh

Serendipity:

You’ll be charged to visit Europe from 2023

Demolishing schools after a mass shooting reflects humans’ deep-rooted desire for purification rituals

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