Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Strategy Could Be Eligible for S&P 500 Inclusion in June if Bitcoin Closes Q1 Above $96K
Javier Milei risks impeachment after endorsing $107M Libra rug pull
The President of Argentina faces significant political pushback after a token he endorsed became a financial catastrophe for investors.
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Trump Cuts Hit Office Handling Bird Flu Response
Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired in the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees.
Politics:
Trump Leaves Anti-Terror Programs in Limbo
President Donald Trump’s sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign assistance has threatened programs intended to counter al-Shabab bombmakers, contain the spread of al-Qaeda across West Africa and secure Islamic State prisoners in the Middle East.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) introduced legislation to make President Donald Trump’s birthday a federal holiday.
Ukraine not attending US-Russia talks in Saudi
Team Trump will agree with Russia, it’s what they do. And Ukraine will not go along with the charade. The only question is will Europe pick up the slack? Poland and the Baltic countries have the most to lose.
Trump May Grant Putin More Power in Europe
President Vladimir Putin of Russia shocked the audience at the annual security conference in Munich in 2007 by demanding the rollback of domineering American influence and a new balance of power in Europe more suitable to Moscow.
He didn’t get what he wanted — then.
Nearly two decades later, during the very same conference, top officials from President Trump’s cabinet made one thing clear: Mr. Putin has found an American administration that might help him realize his dream.
The Opposition Is Already Growing
During his first term in office, Donald Trump loved to complain about judges on social media. Reliably, whenever his agenda was held up in court or his allies faced legal consequences, he would snipe online about “so-called judges”and a “broken and unfair” legal system. Now, in Trump’s second term, this genre of cranky presidential post has returned. A judge who blocked the administration’s mass freeze of federal-grant funding is “highly political” and an “activist,” according to the president.
Read alongside Elon Musk’s and Vice President J. D. Vance’s apparent willingness to defy the courts, Trump’s rhetoric is a concerning sign about where this administration might be headed. But there is significance to the fact that the administration already has a hefty stack of court orders it might want to defy. Despite Trump’s effort to present himself as an agent of overwhelming force, he is encountering persistent and growing opposition, both from courts and from other pockets of civic life.
A bit of a switcheroo here, I’m afraid. We’ve gotten ourselves into quite the pickle and we need you to do us a few favors in the meantime…
We will, as we always have, defeat this threat to our nation. However, this time is truly different because the evil has grown inside, and there is no way to know how long it will take to get it out. But please be assured that Les Misérables are sharpening the guillotines, and we will get the bastards, eventually.
…Trump stunned, strangled and humiliated Europe — leaving America’s closest continental ally dazed and dumbfounded.
That was over the course of three short days this week.
No amount of ‘Trump-proofing’ could have prepared Europe for the MAGA-shaped hurricane that swept across the continent this week, wreaking torrential havoc on America’s closest allies.
How does The Onion stay in business when reality is weirder than parody?
…Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a lawsuit this week against Starbucks, arguing that the company’s DEI program is discriminatory and results in slower service.
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.” — John W. Gardner
Serendipity:
What a potential Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel can learn from the failed Veronica Mars revival
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