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The Commentariat -- June 13, 2021
Afternoon Update:
Karla Adam, et al., of the Washington Post: "As Group of Seven leaders wrapped their three-day summit [in Cornwall, England,] on Sunday, President Biden said democratic governments face a defining challenge: to show they can meet tests such as global health crises and climate change better than autocracies such as China and Russia. 'I think we're in a contest, not with China per se, but a contest with autocrats, autocratic governments around the world, as to whether or not democracies can compete with them in a rapidly changing 21st century,' Biden told reporters during the first news conference of his first foreign trip as president. He singled out China and Russia for reprobation after working here to enlist U.S. allies in what he has repeatedly cast as the existential battle of the 21st century.... In the summit-concluding communique issued Sunday, the leaders said they would work together to challenge China's 'non-market policies,' and they called on Beijing to respect human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, pushed for greater transparency on the origins of the coronavirus and raised concerns about tensions in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. The language fell short of an explicit condemnation of China's human rights practices." ~~~
~~~ Jordyn Phelps of ABC News: "President Joe Biden declared that 'America is back at the table' Sunday as he concluded his first Group of Seven summit on his first overseas trip as president and prepared to head for Brussels for another round of talks with top allies at a NATO summit. 'America's back in the business of leading the world alongside nations who share our most deeply held values,' Biden said during a press conference at the conclusion of the G-7 summit. 'I think we've made some progress in re-establishing American credibility among our closest friends,' Biden continued, in an indirect reference to his predecessor...."
To Windsor, to Windsor, to Visit the Queen. Karla Adam of the Washington Post: "President Biden and first lady Jill Biden met Queen Elizabeth II for tea at Windsor Castle on Sunday, concluding the U.K. leg of their first overseas presidential trip.... The monarch greeted the Bidens in the castle's quadrangle. Assembled soldiers gave a royal salute, which was followed by the American national anthem. There was then an inspection of the Honour Guard, though the queen didn't walk with President Biden, as she did in 2019 with ... Donald Trump, who was accused of breaking protocol by walking in front of her. Instead, the queen, 95, stayed with Jill Biden on the dais, which shielded them from the sun. This is the queen's first prominent weekend since the funeral of her husband, Prince Philip, and she was seen managing her duties as she always has." ~~~
~~~ Marie: I don't know why so many news stories describe Trump as having "broken protocol" by walking in front of Elizabeth. Any idiot knows you don't try to outpace your hostess at a reception, and you certainly don't race to outrun an elderly lady, much less a head of state. Trump didn't "break protocol"; he behaved like the bumptious, rude rube he is.
AP: "Churchgoers in a seaside resort in England say they have been left 'gobsmacked' when U.S. President Joe Biden and the first lady Jill Biden dropped in for a Sunday service.... On Sunday morning, ahead of the summit's conclusion, they were seen attending mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in St. Ives.... [Parishoner] Gayle Wood, 63, said Biden appeared to make a 'very generous donation' to the church before leaving."
Michael Schmidt & Charlie Savage of the New York Times: "Apple told Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel to ... Donald J. Trump, last month that the Justice Department had subpoenaed information about an account that belonged to him in February 2018, and that the government barred the company from telling him at the time, according to two people briefed on the matter. Mr. McGahn's wife received a similar notice from Apple.... It is not clear ... [that] Mr. McGahn was [the FBI's] specific focus.... Gag orders for subpoenas may be renewed for up to a year at a time, suggesting that prosecutors went to court several times to prevent Apple from notifying the McGahns earlier." In January 2018 -- just prior to the DOJ's issuing the McGahn subpoenas to Apple -- the NYT reported that Trump had tried to get McGahn to order the firing of Robert Mueller, then demanding that McGahn deny Trump had ordered Mueller's firing. Trump then blew up at McGahn & called him "a liar and a leaker." Schmidt & Savage say it's unlikely there a connection because a leak from McGahn to the press about the attempted Mueller firing would not be illegal. MB: Sorry, I think the time is not coincidental. Thanks to RAS for the link. An AP story is here. ~~~
~~~ Marie: Just as there was a certain cachet to making Nixon's "enemies list," I suspect that among some of Washington's elite, a secret Trumpy subpoena will become a point of pride.
Israel. Steve Hendrix & Shira Rubin of the Washington Post: "For the first time in 12 years, Israeli lawmakers voted Sunday to install a government led by someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu, breaking a two-year electoral deadlock, marking a likely shift toward the political center and ending -- for now -- the reign of the country's longest-serving prime minister, and one of its most consequential."
Exit, Stage Right. David Halbfinger of the New York Times: Benjamin Netanyahu, "Israel's longest-serving leader..., [inspired] such admiration that supporters likened him to the biblical King David. His political agility got him out of so many tight spots that even his detractors called him a magician. He presided over an extraordinary economic turnaround, kept the perennially embattled country out of major wars and kept casualty tolls to historic lows. He feuded with Democratic American presidents, then capitalized on a symbiosis with the Trump administration to cement historic gains, including the opening of a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.... He struck watershed accords with four Arab countries that had long shunned Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.... Mr. Netanyahu ... was ousted as prime minister on Sunday.... He compartmentalized the Palestinian conflict, snubbing the endless peace talks that had stymied his predecessors, unilaterally expanding the Jewish presence in the occupied West Bank and treating Palestinians largely as a security threat to be contained."
Bob Brigham of the Raw story: "Despite violent rhetoric from her family inciting the January 6th insurrection, Lara Trump suggested vigilante violence against people perceived to be from south of the southern border during a Saturday night appearance with Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro.... '... I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border,' she said. 'I guess they better arm up and get guns and be ready -- and maybe they're going to have to start taking matters into their own hands.'"
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The New York Times' live updates of G7 developments Sunday are here.
Patrick Wintour of the Guardian: "The G7 group of rich nations has agreed [to] plans to set up an alternative to China's belt and road initiative as part of a broad push back against Beijing covering human rights, supply chains, support for Taiwan and demands to reveal more about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some G7 leaders, however, including the Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, the current chair of the G20, have urged Joe Biden not to push competition with China to the extent that it prevents cooperation on other vital issues such as the climate crisis. The EU is also pressing the US to back a legally binding code of conduct for the South China Sea that Beijing has been negotiating with regional powers."
G7 Leaders Glad to Be Rid of Trump. Kevin Liptak, et al., of CNN: "Officials attending this week's Group of 7 summit on the Cornish coast in England are emerging shell-shocked after four years dealing with a US president who often appeared intent on injecting animosity into their gatherings. In front of cameras and behind-the-scenes this weekend, officials said the abrasive interjections and lengthy tangents Trump brought to world summits were absent, replaced by a more businesslike and predictable agenda, including on areas of serious disagreement like China. Asked alongside Biden on Saturday whether the United States was back, French President Emmanuel Macron answered yes. 'Definitely, he said.... 'Are you supposed to be looking as if you're enjoying yourself?' quipped Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who later was pictured in friendly conversation with [President] Biden and his wife outside a futuristic biosphere...." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
She Really Does Care, Do U? Alexandra Jaffe & Aamer Madhani of the AP (June 10): Dr. Jill Biden “wore a black jacket with the word 'love' outlined on the back in silver beading as she and the president met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Thursday. She wore the same jacket more than two years ago to kick off Biden's presidential campaign. 'We're bringing love from America,' she told reporters, explaining her fashion choice."
Here's a fun Washington Post slideshow of Queen Elizabeth's meetings U.S. presidents. Photos, some videos. (Also linked yesterday.)
Ben Leonard of Politico: "Five years to the day after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., President Joe Biden called for the Senate to pass gun legislation to address what he called a 'public health epidemic of gun violence.'... A lone shooter at the gay Florida club killed 49 people in June 2016, when Biden was serving as vice president. To mark the five-year anniversary of the mass shooting, the victims are being honored with a number of events, including a remembrance ceremony Saturday. Since the shooting, Biden has 'stayed in touch' with survivors and victims families, he said in the statement Saturday. Biden said in the statement that he will soon sign a bill that will make the nightclub a national memorial."
Freedom of the Press ... Or Not? Charlie Savage of the New York Times: "Enshrined in the First Amendment, the role of the free press in bringing to light information beyond what those in power approve for release is a foundational principle of the American system of self-government. In Senate testimony this past week, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said the transparency that comes from investigative journalism about 'wrongdoing and error in the government' gives people faith in democracy. An essential task for journalists who report such material is to talk with officials who are not authorized to publicly speak about government matters and to protect their confidentiality. Leak prosecutions and seizures of journalists' communications data not only jeopardizes particular sources, but can also frighten others with newsworthy information into staying silent. But the confluence of recent events ... has brought into focus how fragile the protections for journalism are in the 21st century. [President] Biden has vowed a major course correction. Mr. Garland, who as a federal appeals court judge in 2005 stressed 'the public interest in protecting' reporters' sources..., has signed onto that effort while acknowledging this past week that 'there are some definitional questions, but I think they are quite resolvable.' The unresolved details are expected to be a focus of a meeting on Monday between Mr. Garland and leaders of The Times, The Post and CNN."
The Mysterious Subpoenas Nobody Knew About. Katelyn Polantz & Pamela Brown of CNN: "Ex-top Trump Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein has told people in recent days he was not aware of a subpoena that targeted the data of Democratic members of Congress while he was deputy attorney general, a source familiar with Rosenstein told CNN on Saturday. The attorney general at the time of the Apple subpoena, Jeff Sessions, was recused from all matters related to the Russia probe so a related leak investigation would have fallen under Rosenstein, CNN has reported. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who took office a year after the subpoena was issued, also said Friday he does not recall discussing a probe of lawmakers.... The Justice Department has not publicly explained why Apple was being ordered to hand over the data ... [nor] why the request was so broad, who approved it, and what was being investigated." MB: According to the Daily Beast (story linked yesterday) JeffBo also said he didn't know about the subpoenas. ~~~
~~~ Josh Gerstein of Politico: "Friends and allies of a federal prosecutor tapped last year to dig into a series of leak cases are pushing back against perceptions that he was a pro-Trump crony brought in to try to pin leaks on Democratic members of Congress. Associates said Osmar Benvenuto, 39, had misgivings about taking the assignment because he feared he might be seen as tarnished by the work given the perceived politicization of the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr, but the New Jersey-based career prosecutor ultimately decided to accept the job after friends counseled him to do so. Several of Benvenuto's friends and mentors said they found it utterly implausible that he would have taken on a political mission for the Trump administration. For one thing, Benvenuto is registered to vote in New Jersey as a Democrat and previously registered as a Democrat in New York City." ~~~
~~~ Marie: So it wasn't Barr's fault, and it wasn't JeffBo's fault, and it wasn't Rosenstein's fault and it wasn't Benvenuto's fault. Apparently all those subpoenas just typed themselves and flew out of the Kennedy DOJ building and wafted in the air till they found an Apple store and landed on the counter.
"Private Inequity." Jesse Drucker & Danny Hakim of the New York Times: The day before the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump's Treasury Department handed down new "regulations," "overseen by a senior Treasury official whose previous job involved helping the wealthy avoid taxes..., ensur[ing] that executives in the $4.5 trillion [private equity] industry ... could avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes. The Trump administration's farewell gift to the buyout industry was part of a pattern that has spanned Republican and Democratic presidencies and Congresses: Private equity has conquered the American tax system.... The I.R.S., its staff hollowed out after years of budget cuts, has thrown up its hands when it comes to policing the politically powerful industry.... The private equity industry, which has a fleet of almost 200 lobbyists and has doled out nearly $600 million in campaign contributions over the last decade, has repeatedly derailed past efforts to increase its tax burden.... One [reform] bill after another has died, generally without a vote."
Oh, the Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Poorer. Maureen Dowd: "Forgive me if I don't want to celebrate Jeff Bezos’ midlife crisis rocket ride. Given what this country has been through with Covid, given all the corrupt bankers who got off scot-free after the economic collapse, and given how hard it is to earn a buck, this new glimpse into inequities is genuinely disgusting.... We're halfway to a plutocracy here."
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post: "On Saturday, thousands of educators and others gathered virtually and in person at historic locations in more than 20 cities to make clear that they would resist efforts in at least 15 Republican-led states to restrict what teachers can say in class about racism, sexism and oppression in America. Organized by local educators across the country in association with several social justice organizations, the National Day of Action is meant to raise public awareness about the legislation and to send a message that they will not lie to students about the country's racist past and present. Several thousand teachers have signed a pledge that says: 'We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events -- regardless of the law.'"
Marie: I guess I don't care much, but if you'd like to read about Southern Baptists behaving badly, Sarah Bailey of the Washington Post has a story here, and Ruth Graham & Elizabeth Dias of the New York Times have a story here. The whole thing a big ole power play, and it's all coming to a head this week when the conservative & the ultra-conservatives and the confederates go to Nashville to fight it out. Jesus loves you, folks! ~~~
~~~ I've been wondering if those beings running the UFOs might be built without our greed genes. Maybe they're stopping by to see what's wrong with the dominant Earth creatures. If they are, I'll bet they feel sorry for us, because we are so messed up.
The Pandemic, Ctd.
Sharon LaFraniere of the New York Times: "A Baltimore factory that rendered useless 75 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson failed for weeks to seal off a preparation area for vaccine ingredients and allowed production waste to be hauled through the area, the Food and Drug Administration said in a memorandum analyzing the plant's operations. The memo, posted on the agency's website late Friday, offered the most extensive explanation to date of why regulators believe that tens of millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine produced at that factory must be discarded." The FDA memo is here. MB: You wonder if the supervisors of this plant made it through their junior high school health & safety week classes.
Jordan Williams of the Hill: "A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a lawsuit from more than 100 employees of the Houston Methodist hospital system over the hospital's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes said the employees weren't illegally being forced to get vaccinated in order to keep their jobs. The decision is a victory for Houston Methodist, which was the first hospital system in the U.S. to mandate its employees get vaccinated, though plaintiffs plan to appeal the ruling.... The judge specifically blasted the plaintiffs for equating the vaccine mandate to forced experimentation during the Holocaust. 'Equating the injection requirement to medical experimentation in concentration camps is reprehensible,' Hughes wrote. 'Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on victims that caused pain, mutilation, permanent disability, and in many cases, death.'" MB: Hughes is a Reagan appointee. According to his Wikipage, "His federal judicial service has been hallmarked by being one of the most reversed judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit."
The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Saturday are here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Beyond the Beltway
North Carolina. Learn All about It: Black Emancipation Was So Hard on White People. Hannah Knowles of the Washington Post: "... most of the event description for a Juneteenth activity at Historic Latta Plantation dealt with White people, seemingly fallen on hard times. 'White refugees have been displaced and have a story to tell as well,' it declared. Visitors to the site just north of Charlotte would hear from defeated Confederate soldiers, the description said. Also from 'the massa himself who is now living in the woods' and on the run from the Yankees, his home taken over by the people he used to own. Then there was the overseer, 'now out of a job.'... The event was canceled. And the plantation's Facebook page filled with scathing reviews and dismay that a historic site would so whitewash a cruel and racist past." ~~~
~~~ Dear Latta Plantation Events Planners: You know what's hard on white people? It's knowing that Black people look at us and can't tell whether or not we're just like you horrible excuses for humanity. S/Marie
Virginia. Rachel Weiner of the Washington Post: At the instigation of Black students, Alexandria's T.C. Williams High School -- named for a white segregationist who was superintendent of the city's public schools from the 1930s to the 1960s -- will be changed to Alexandria City High School. Ironically, the school is famous as the site of the film "Remember the Titans," the script of which is loosely based on the true story of the school's first Black football coach Herman Boone. "Another school, Matthew Maury Elementary, is also changing its name -- to Naomi L. Brooks Elementary School, honoring a local Black educator who died last year, replacing the name of a Confederate veteran who tried to reestablish the plantation system in Mexico. Both new names go into effect July 1."
Way Beyond
Israel. Bye-bye, Bibi. Joseph Krauss of the AP: "Israel is set to swear in a new government on Sunday that will send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the opposition after a record 12 years in office and a political crisis that sparked four elections in two years. Naftali Bennett, the head of a small ultranationalist party, will take over as prime minister. But if he wants to keep the job, he will have to maintain an unwieldy coalition of parties from the political right, left and center. The eight parties, including a small Arab faction that is making history by sitting in the ruling coalition, are united in their opposition to Netanyahu and new elections but agree on little else." The Washington Post's story is here.
News Ledes
New York Times: "Ned Beatty, who during a prolific acting career that spanned more than four decades earned an Oscar nomination for his role in 'Network' and gave a cringe-inducing performance as a weekend outdoorsman assaulted by backwoods brutes in 'Deliverance,' died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83."
Washington Post: "Douglas B. Huron, a lawyer who won several major cases concerning the rights of employees, including a landmark Supreme Court decision that declared gender stereotyping a form of workplace discrimination, died June 7 at his home in Washington. He was 75.... During President Jimmy Carter's administration from 1977 to 1981, Mr. Huron was a White House adviser, leading efforts to nominate female and minority candidates for federal judgeships. Among those he recommended was Ruth Bader Ginsburg...."
AP: "Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a mass shooting on a crowded downtown Austin[, Texas,] street left 14 people wounded early Saturday, two of them critically."
Hill: "An off-duty flight attendant forced a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Atlanta from Los Angeles to divert in Oklahoma after he attempted to access the plane's intercom system. Oklahoma City Police told CNN that the man was subdued after assaulting two fight attendants, and threatened to 'take the plane down.'... The incident marks the second Delta flight in as many weeks to be diverted due to an unruly passenger. Earlier this month, a Delta flight was forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Los Angeles International Airport after a passenger attempted to breach the cockpit."
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" ~~~ Marie: So it wasn't Barr's fault, and it wasn't JeffBo's fault, and it wasn't Rosenstein's fault and it wasn't Benvenuto's fault. Apparently all those subpoenas just typed themselves and flew out of the Kennedy DOJ building and wafted in the air till they found an Apple store and landed on the counter."
Am I missing something here? Who contacted Apple????? Is Apple responding to this? But maybe Marie is correct in the wafting subpoenas––like a miracle they be carried by the wind.
Get the usual suspects lined up in a row and have a hearing pronto! Put Tim "Apple" on the end.
Watching a few videos of the Biden's abroad is a pleasure. Watching past clips of Doofus walk in front of the Queen–--pushing aside the president of Montenegro to be up front in a photo–-still makes me shutter. We may be on the brink of democratic disaster but we finally have a president and first lady we can be proud of––because WE CARE! And we have "Love" on the back of a jacket to spell it out.
No sermon today, but many questions about something I don't understand but am willing to learn about: this cryptocurrency thing. Why is it even a thing?
Aside from the fundamental mysteriousness of any money at all and our hman willingness to value anything that we cannot eat , that is, what's its fascination or utility for anyone engaged in non-criminal activites or in the kind of speculation that relies on a steady supply of fools willing to risk their government-backed fiat money in the hopes of making their pile of it even bigger?
Understanding as little about it as I do, it seems that speculation in cryptocurrencies has taken up some of the psychological and political space once occupied by gold bugs like my father whose government distrust and fear had I think something to do with his interest in precious metals. That was years ago, but it's surely no accident that gold sellers' advertisements are still directed Rightward.
So some questions about cryptocurrencies and what interest in them means.
Do they appeal to the same folks that speculation in gold and silver once did, a group I would guess tends to possesses a libertarian or politically conservative streak.
Has the market for them cut into the precious metal market?
Are cryptocurrencies especially attractive to computer geeks? Is theire a generational split at work here? Are old folks still more attracted to gold and silver?
Should we see the cryptocurrency interest, even fervor among some, as similar to some kind of fantasy sports league attraction, of no social utility, but no more harmful or revolutionary than any gaming or gambling addiction?
Or is there reason for governments to fear the growth in cryptocurrency interest and use? Will governments take increasing aim at them as their use expands among those intentionally circumventing the law?
And finally, for this Sunday morning, is there something I should not trust about Elon Musk?
I have spent half the morning reading this extremely long piece on Kip Kinkel from Springfield, Oregon who at 15 shot and killed both his parents, two classmates and wounded 25 others. "He's been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since."
This piece depicts the ineptitude of early diagnosis of psychosis in young children. Early on his parents detected problems but still encouraged his shooting abilities ( something that bonded father and son) and his first therapist encouraged this but later in court denied it. Kip was hearing voices early on even before 15–-the kid struggled , knowing this was not normal but convinced that the voices were right–-hated being controlled by them but was too paranoid to tell anyone about them. Kip slept with a gun underneath his pillow.
Lots of pictures here–-Kip now speaking out–- engaged in helping others, etc. Questions ( and changes) should be triggered on our justice system and our mental health care system. This story spells that out forcefully and clearly.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kip-kinkel-is-ready-to-speak_n_60abd623e4b0a2568315c62d
My perception of Elon is he has hired the best PR money can buy. Do you think he had a helicopter mom? Socialize the costs and privatize the benefits: thanks California, hello Texas. Thanks South Africa, hello America. Not much different than Murdoch.
When I see Butte, Montana as a big deal in Bitcoin, I immediately think "multi-level marketing". Ponzi. I think crypto is for folks who want to avoid taxes and don't have the wherewithal and knowledge to actually avoid them. Anyone else?
On the crypto currency thread, I wonder if the revelation that it can be traced will have a dampening effect.
I read part of that Huffpost story on Kip Kinkel too, PD...until I just realized that I did not want to read any more about such extreme psychosis. Seems like his parents knew as little as his classmates, and he was unable to share any of it. I don't really understand about "voices" that "tell" people to kill everyone, and don't really believe it, I think. Completely bizarre. He is now 38-- are we supposed to think he deserves some kind of mercy, and based on what? If he "heard" people in his head telling him to kill everyone then, how can meds alter that? Well, it was interesting, and then I was done... I think that person is done, and should stay locked away. I don't see taking chances with setting someone free who killed his parents and more, based on voices in his head. (I am surprised at myself-- usually I think there is still a kernal of good hidden in there, but this time, not so much.) There should be some lines drawn, beyond which a person is irretrievable, I think. In our town, a 14-year old girl stabbed her older sister in a wheelchair numerous times this year. Naturally she will go to trial as insane, but I dunno...That is a really intimate act. There are a few other crimes on the books: one at my kids' high school-- three kids lured a girl's mother to school by pretending to be an official requesting a meeting, then went to their condo and slit the girl's throat. One or two of them are now out of the clink, and the girl who wielded the knife is not. I hope she never is. Irretrievable. I'm ranting...sorry--
How much does $600 million get you? I wonder what the cost-benefit analysis is for all this lobbying. At the very least that's billions of dollars that should have gone to the American people. And private equity is just one industry that is $peaking to Congress this way. It's no wonder our infrastructure, education and other investments are falling behind.
This line in Gerstein's piece leapt out at me "he feared he might be seen as tarnished by the work given the perceived politicization of the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr" PERCIEVED, seriously? Benvenuto was brought in to comb through Congressmen's emails and data. Everytime a new corruption scandal in the Trump administration popped up the DOJ said nothing to see here (or here or there). Trump's criminal friends, like Flynn, Stone and Manafort, all got special treatment from the DOJ. Trump had a public friends and enemies list and the DOJ helped him check names off the list. Perception was not the problem at the Department of Justice.
This is scary, but predictable
Exodus of election officials raises concerns of partisanship
“It’s hard to convince someone it’s a good way to give back to the community when you’re afraid of going to clerk jail,” she said. “It’s harder and harder to get people to work in government as a whole.”
Also predictable, Don McGahn and his wife also got the "We've been watching you" greeting card from the DOJ.
What is the cost of crypto in kWh? Where is the value-add by solving an algorithm equation?