Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Germany Risks a Cascade of Utility Failures, Economy Chief Says

Peter Schiff’s bank closure strengthens Bitcoin case for financial freedom

From One to Zero: BlockFi’s Fire Sale Shows the Uber Startup Model Is Disastrous for Finance

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

With hospitalizations up, France weighs return to masks

Who’s most at risk of developing long COVID? Experts think these 6 groups of people might be

Politics:

Noem Squirms When Pressed On Pregnant 10-Year-Old Forced To Travel For Abortion

SCOTUS Wants Maryland, Virginia Officials To Stop Protests At Justices’ Homes

Republicans want to force ten-year-old rape victims to have babies, but letting a ten-year-old boy wear a dress is "child abuse."

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) July 3, 2022

New Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts

He was not speaking metaphorically. It was not an offhand comment. President Donald Trump had every intention of joining a mob of supporters he knew to be armed and dangerous as it marched to the Capitol. And there had even been talk of marching into the House chamber himself to disrupt Congress from ratifying his election defeat.
For a year and a half, Mr. Trump has been shielded by obfuscations and mischaracterizations, benefiting from uncertainty about what he was thinking on Jan. 6, 2021. If he truly believed the election had been stolen, if he genuinely expected the gathering at the Capitol would be a peaceful protest, the argument went, then could he be held accountable, much less indicted, for the mayhem that ensued?
But for a man who famously avoids leaving emails or other trails of evidence of his unspoken motives, any doubts about what was really going through Mr. Trump’s mind on that day of violence seemed to have been eviscerated by testimony presented in recent weeks by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack — especially the dramatic appearance last week of a 26-year-old former White House aide who offered a chilling portrait of a president willing to do almost anything to hang onto power.

Newsom running ads attacking GOP in Florida: ‘Don’t let them take your freedom’

Multiple criminal referrals of Trump possible, Cheney says

Tribe: I do think the odds are he will be indicted.
Wolf: So you think Merrick Garland, the attorney general of the United States will indict the former president of the United States?
Tribe: If I had to guess, that would be my guess. pic.twitter.com/H6mhH6SK9F

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 2, 2022

Serendipity:

The Norwegian library with unreadable books

A huge mass of used wet wipes has formed an ‘island’ that has changed the course of England’s second longest river, MP says

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