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Odds and Ends — 14 August 2022

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A weird battle in which, indirectly, Stun was the deciding factor.

I was sure that I was going to win this battle. Yeah, that didn’t happen.

Monero’s Privacy-Focused Crypto Protocol Upgrade Is Now Live

BlueBenx fires employees, halts funds withdrawal citing $32M hack

3 warning signs about the economy coming out of America's top companies

The C.D.C. Continues to Lead From Behind

Despite climate, war and Covid, is everything actually … getting better?

How does COVID-19 increase clotting risk?

Trump’s Explanation of Document Declassification Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test

Whatever anybody thinks about the FBI’s actions at Mar-a-Lago, can we all agree that Donald Trump’s claim — that there was a ‘standing order’ that said whatever he brought to his Florida residence was automatically declassified — is patently absurd? Consider all the times that Trump was at Mar-a-Lago during his presidency and worked out of there. Are we to believe that each and every document he brought with him there, no matter how sensitive, was immediately declassified and thus widely available for people to see? If this ridiculous policy were actually even true, it would raise a different set of serious questions about Trump’s recklessness in handling sensitive documents.

The reason why presidents can't keep their White House records dates back to Nixon

Surprise, surprise: Trump’s Obama whataboutism is totally bogus.

Trump Lawyer Claimed Classified Docs Had Been Returned

At least one lawyer for former President Donald Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government. The written declaration was made after a visit on June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division. The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Mr. Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material.

“This explains why the obstruction of justice statute was on the warrant.” — Taegan Goddard

Salman Rushdie may lose an eye after being stabbed at a speaking event

The Bland Ambition of Kevin McCarthy

The Bakersfield Republican has everything it takes to rise to the top in today’s GOP: zero interest in policy, relentless thirst for power, and slavish loyalty to Trump. If this man becomes speaker of the House—look out, America.

Mississippi will send back fed’s rental aid, even as housing needs remain high

Here’s What Trump’s ‘Nuclear Documents’ Could Be

Broadly speaking, the US intelligence and defense communities would possess four different categories of files that might be considered “nuclear documents”: nuclear weapon science and design; other countries’ nuclear plans, including the nuclear systems and command of allied nations (UK, France) and adversaries (Russia, China, North Korea, Iran), as well as countries whose nuclear programs exist in a more gray zone (Israel, India, Pakistan); details on the United States’ own nuclear weapons and deployments; and details on US nuclear command & control procedures, known in Pentagon parlance as NC2. Each category of these documents would carry with it some unique classification peculiarities. And all of them exist at the so-called Above Top Secret level, because a simple Top Secret clearance on its own isn’t enough to access the files.

Trump’s New Defense Is Everyone ‘Brings Home Work’

Sinema Took Wall Street Money While Killing Tax

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan. For years, Democrats have promised to raise taxes on such investors, who pay a significantly lower rate on their earnings than ordinary workers. But just as they closed in on that goal last week, Sinema forced a series of changes to her party’s $740 billion election-year spending package, eliminating a proposed ‘carried interest’ tax increase on private equity earnings while securing a $35 billion exemption that will spare much of the industry from a separate tax increase other huge corporations now have to pay.

China’s New Vassal

How the War in Ukraine Turned Moscow Into Beijing’s Junior Partner

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you’re gonna see some serious shit: Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition

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