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Odds and Ends — 12 October 2021

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Learning by Doing: A Different Kind of Graduate School for Blockchain

Bakkt crypto exchange partners with Google for payments

If the US defaults on debt, expect the dollar to fall – and with it, Americans’ standard of living

Texas governor bans Covid-19 vaccine mandates by any employer in state

So if you’re a large multi-jurisdiction employer, do you defy Abbott or Biden? Either way, you’ve got to piss off one of the two. Rock, meet hard place.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he is ‘bored’ with COVID deaths questions

Russia Stole Vaccine Formula

Trump Enjoyed Watching Capitol Riot

While the Capitol was under attack on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump remained out of sight from the public and watched TV in the White House private dining room. The former president liked what he saw, boasted about the size of the crowd and argued with aides who wanted him to tell his supporters to stop rioting.

Steven Mnuchin Stepped in to Prevent Ivanka Trump World Bank Appointment

President Donald Trump very much wanted Ivanka at the helm, and it was the Treasury secretary who blocked her ascent.

Cheney Slams Scalise For ‘Perpetuating’ Big Lie: It’s An ‘Attack’ On ‘Constitutional Republic’

2020 Autopsy Sends Warning to Democrats

Democrats shouldn’t expect the racially diverse coalition who helped defeat former President Donald Trump and win the Senate to automatically show up in the next nationwide election. Black, Hispanic and Asian voters may have loathed Republicans, according to a major review of the 2020 election cycle, but they still need to be convinced to show up to the polls, and Democrats lacked a core argument about the economy or returning the country to normal in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.”

Joe Biden Is in a World of Trouble

Biden’s Proposal to Empower IRS Rattles Banks

When the Biden administration looked for ways to pay for the president’s expansive social policy bill, it proposed raising revenue by cracking down on $7 trillion in unpaid taxes, mostly from wealthy Americans and businesses. To help find those funds, the administration wants banks to give the Internal Revenue Service new details on their customers and provide data for accounts with total annual deposits or withdrawals worth more than $600. That has sparked an uproar among banks and Republican lawmakers, who say giving the I.R.S. such power would be an enormous breach of privacy and government overreach.

Steve Scalise’s Rhetoric Is Just as Dangerous as Trump’s

Consider what Scalise is doing. He’s intentionally trying not to say that Biden won fairly because that position is anathema to the loudest part of his party’s base. And to avoid saying that, he’s seizing not upon unproven claims of fraud but a similarly inflated assertion that states made it too easy to vote. He doesn’t allege that this led to more fraud or anything along those lines, though others have; he’s simply claiming that because states made it easier to vote, that was the equivalent of an illegitimate Biden win or an election being stolen. Because legal voters cast votes in a manner that their states have authorized. In case Scalise wasn’t sufficiently obvious in suggesting that the election was stolen not through fraud but through votes he didn’t like, he made it more clear. He wanted to try to loop criticism of Georgia’s new voter law into his argument, drawing Fox News viewers to his side by condemning those who’d attacked Georgia’s law. After all, he said, the law was simply ‘cleaning up some of the mess’ from the election.

California to Ban Gas Lawn Mowers, Leaf Blowers

California will outlaw the sale of new gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers and chain saws as early as 2024 under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Flooding could shut down a quarter of all critical infrastructure in the U.S.

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