Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Capital International Group purchases 12.2% stake in MicroStrategy

Great buy? Bitcoin trades at record 59% below stock-to-flow BTC price model target

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

F.D.A. Will Attach Warning of Rare Nerve Syndrome to Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

Newsmax Host Says Vaccines ‘Go Against Nature’

Politics:

Ashli Babbitt as the 21st-century Horst Wessel: Symbolic martyr to the fascist cause

On the GOP’s Growing Antagonism for Big Business

I can think of a lot of greater tragedies in U.S. politics than headaches for the Chamber’s political strategists, or diminished influence for business interests in general. But the real problem isn’t about business interests. It’s about the collapse of the Republicans’ ability to create policy and function within a democracy, along with partisan polarization that pushes both parties away from pluralistic policy agendas. That’s bad news for everyone.

Trump Lawyers May Be Penalized In Michigan

A federal judge is considering whether to order financial penalties or other sanctions against some of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers who signed onto a lawsuit last year challenging Michigan’s election results.

Biden Rejects China’s South Sea Claim

The Biden administration on Sunday upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea. The administration also warned China that any attack on the Philippines in the flashpoint region would draw a U.S. response under a mutual defense treaty.

Scholar Carol Anderson on the “anti-Blackness” coded into the Second Amendment

Serendipity:

Insect Experts Will Change The Name Of The ‘Gypsy Moth’ And ‘Gypsy Ant’

California wildfire generates its own lightning as it more than doubles in size

Visualizing Silver’s Uses Through The Ages

Voice cloning of growing interest to actors and cybercriminals

(source)

^{Badge thanks to @arcange}

^{Meme credit: Dont_click_this_its_a_trap (source)}