Odds and Ends — 16 January 2023
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Source: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Job interviews are a nightmare — and only getting worse
Employers are constantly finding new hoops for candidates to jump through.
President Herbert Hoover Saves the Day for a Crypto Bank? Yeah, That’s Weird
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk
U.S. FDA, CDC see early signal of possible Pfizer bivalent COVID shot link to stroke
Politics:
The Merrick Garland You Don’t Know
The nation’s famously low-key attorney general is actually quite comfortable in the spotlight. Now he has to decide whether to take on Donald Trump.
Why Trump Will Likely Still Be Indicted Over Documents
Trump is under investigation for willful retention of classified records because he ignored direct requests from national archives officials, a grand jury subpoena and even a personal visit from DOJ’s top counterintelligence official. The FBI seized the documents pursuant to a search warrant only after they discovered that Trump’s attorneys lied to them and that documents had been moved inside Mar-a-Lago after their visit.
If you or I possessed top secret information in our home, the feds wouldn’t ask for it politely or even issue a subpoena.
Republicans want Biden home visitor logs - but not Trump’s
Pennsylvania GOP to Conduct Midterm Autopsy
As a sign of the seriousness of the effort, the state party has enlisted Public Opinion Strategies, a D.C. area-based firm, to conduct the review of the 2022 election. Republicans said it is expected to cost $100,000.
Discovering the truth is one thing. Accepting it is another. And the state GOP’s ability to do just that will likely have a profound impact on whether it can help the party take back the White House in 2024.
Medvedev Says Japanese Leader Should Commit Suicide
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and a senior security official in President Vladimir Putin’s administration, said Saturday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should perform a ritualistic suicide by disembowelment to repent for what Medvedev called servitude to the United States.
Serendipity:
How a U.S. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot
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