Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Craig Wright Won’t Give Cryptographic Proof He’s Satoshi, His Lawyers Say at Hodlonaut Trial
Wright’s attorneys say his scholarly work, personal history and, above all, his success convincing Gavin Andresen that he held Satoshi’s private keys are proof enough.
Does anyone still take Craig Wright seriously?
Get ready for a food fight: High grocery costs are here to stay
The economics behind ‘quiet quitting’ — and what we should call it instead
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
U.S. known COVID cases hold at lowest level since May, but infections are rising again in New York
Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market
China Is Stuck With Its Zero-Covid Policy Because of Weak Vaccines
Public perception of COVID risk at low point: survey
Politics:
Trump Not Even Hiding His Support for QAnon
A 15-Week Gestational Ban Is In No Way A ‘Late-Term’ Abortion Ban
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plans to unveil a new national abortion ban Tuesday afternoon — the so-called “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act.”
“Of course, this is not actually a ‘late-term’ abortion ban, so that term is a misnomer,’” Jessie Hill, associate dean and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, told TPM. “Pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks; 15 weeks is a point early in the second trimester.”
“He’s reinventing the English language with this idea,” David Cohen, professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline law school, added.
“Trump turned DOJ into his personal law firm”: Senate probes prosecutor’s claim of Trump corruption
The Age-Old Effort to Block Americans From Voting
For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has been paid to one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America: the effort to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read — a group that amounts to about 48 million Americans.
Time and again, federal courts have struck down such restrictions as illegal and unconstitutional. Inevitably, states just create more.
Conservatives Try to Block Aid for Ukraine
I’m not sure listing all these investigations helps pic.twitter.com/YqbtMvUCYL
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 13, 2022
Justice Department Issues 40 Subpoenas
The Justice Department has issued about 40 subpoenas over the past week seeking information about the actions of former President Donald Trump and his associates related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol…
The department’s actions represent a substantial escalation of a slow-simmer investigation two months before the midterm elections, coinciding with a separate inquiry into Mr. Trump’s hoarding of sensitive documents at his residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.
Republicans: "How dare the Justice Department issue subpoenas for our many crimes eight weeks before an election!"
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) September 13, 2022
Trump wants it both ways on ‘declassified’ documents
One Third of Americans Hold Anti-Democratic Views
About one in three Americans prefers strong unelected leaders to weak elected leaders and says presidents should be able to remove judges over their decisions…
A third of Americans — 34% among both Republicans and Democrats — said the federal government should have the power to prosecute members of the news media who make offensive or unpatriotic statements.
Arizona’s Latino voters and political independents could spell midterm defeats for MAGA candidates
In the past two years, America’s favorability score is close to having doubled in much of the rich world. Currently 9 out of 10 Poles and South Koreans are well-disposed to it. Germans are as smitten as they were in the first years of President Barack Obama. Brits are back on board.
What, besides human fickleness and whimsy, is at work here? The departure (for now) of Trump is part of it. But the timing and violence of the swing point to the pandemic being the machine element. In 2020, America’s handling of that crisis seemed to discredit not just a nation but liberal individualism itself. Now? No one would extol the record, not with more than a million dead Americans. But one might reasonably prefer it to the untenable rigours of zero Covid.
Serendipity:
Jean-Luc Godard: Legendary film director dies at 91 by assisted suicide
People who do this one thing every day have half the dementia risk that the rest of us do
