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Odds and Ends — 1 May 2025

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Published: 01 May 2025 › Updated: 01 May 2025Odds and Ends — 1 May 2025

Odds and Ends — 1 May 2025

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:

For Hive Power Up Day, I staked 94.551 HIVE.

Something Alarming is Happening to the Job Market

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads

Letitia James Confirms Her Office is Reviewing Market Manipulation Allegations

Sam Altman’s World Crypto Project Launches in US

Um, no thank you.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Long COVID has unique symptoms, persistence not seen in flu, pneumonia, research suggests

Politics:

Trump’s Latest Attack On The Press Involves Being Upset That Reporters Cite Expert Sources

Trump’s ‘51st State’ Folly

What did Trump get out of this ploy? What did America gain? What did Republican voters achieve? What was improved for conservatism, or nationalism, or MAGA, or whatever other Trump-coded movements are the supposed beneficiaries of his maneuvers? Where, as the old advertisement liked to inquire, is the beef?
Because, from where I’m sitting, the whole incident looks monumentally, comprehensively, impressively stupid.

Supreme Court appears ready to bless the country’s first public religious charter school

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices signaled Wednesday they are open to allowing the Catholic Church to launch the country’s first publicly funded religious charter school, despite arguments from opponents who say the school would violate the Constitution’s ban on government-established religion.

This probably falls into the category of be careful what you ask for. Once there’s a precedent, why not a taxpayer-funded madrassa?

Federal Election Commission Effectively Shuts Down

The Wednesday meeting is likely the FEC’s last for what could be weeks or months due to the departure of Republican Commissioner Allen Dickerson and the failure of President Donald Trump and the Senate to nominate and appoint new commissioners.
After Wednesday, the FEC won’t have its required quorum of four commissioners to conduct high-level business.

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

Where Things Stand Now In The Abrego Garcia Case

Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda

The Polls Are Sending Trump a Message

An unpopular president is a less powerful president. Enacting an authoritarian approach is harder (though not impossible) without public support, and other institutions—the Republican Party, universities, law firms—are less likely to bend their knee if they see weakness.
One way you can tell these polls have some effect is that Trump is lashing out furiously about them.

Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport

Trump Crowd Cheers Video of Migrants Sent to El Salvador

Trump’s team twice played on big screens the entirety of that made-for-social video of Venezuelan migrants being deported to El Salvador, shackles and forced head-shavings and all. And yes, the crowd went wild. It’s one thing being pleased that your government is deporting undocumented immigrants. This felt like something else entirely.

'Why are they involved?' Insiders 'nervous' as USPS tapped to hunt down migrants

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

Trump Says Kids May Have to Live With Fewer Toys

"Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30,” Trump said about the prospect of empty store shelves due to his trade war with China.

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

———— Mors Imperii ————

Trump Tries to Bend Reality to His Will

This clip from President Trump’s interview with ABC News last night is really something.
Trump can’t believe Terry Moran’s refusal to accept his un-reality.
The Bulwark: “Seriously, you cannot possibly believe how long he spends dying on this hill without watching it happen yourself.”

Serendipity:

What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences

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