Odds and Ends — 15 January 2022

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Strike App Won’t Support Bitcoin in Argentina

The company trumpeted its expansion into Argentina earlier this week, but the Lightning Network-powered app is only supporting Tether’s stablecoin in the country.

Near Protocol raises $150M to promote Web3 adoption

Grocery Shortages Deepen

High demand for groceries combined with soaring freight costs and Omicron-related labor shortages are creating a new round of backlogs at processed food and fresh produce companies, leading to empty supermarket shelves at major retailers across the United States.
Growers of perishable produce across the West Coast are paying nearly triple pre-pandemic trucking rates to ship things like lettuce and berries before they spoil.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Trump Backs Boosters. Clearly, Someone Did the Math for Him.

Trump is losing hundreds of voters a day to Covid — far more than the margins in the swing states.

Treasury Threatens to Hold Relief Funds From Arizona

The Treasury Department told Arizona officials on Friday that it could claw back some of the state’s pandemic aid and withhold future payments if the state did not halt or redesign programs that use the money to undercut mask requirements in schools.

Politics:

Political Necromania

When the future judges our political present, it will stand in appalled, slack-jawed amazement at the willingness of GOP leaders to endanger the lives of their constituents — not just the interests of their constituents, but their lungs and beating hearts — in pursuit of personal power and ideological fantasies.

U.S. Charges Russia Sent Saboteurs Into Ukraine

The Biden administration accused Russia on Friday of sending saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to stage an incident that could provide President Vladimir Putin with a pretext for ordering an invasion of parts or all of the country.
The White House did not release details of the evidence they had collected to back up its charge, though one official said it was a mix of intercepted communications and observations of the movements of individuals.

Texas DA Finds AG Paxton Violated Public Records Law By Withholding Jan. 6 Texts

Census Memo Cites ‘Unprecedented’ Meddling

A newly disclosed memorandum citing ‘unprecedented’ meddling by the Trump administration in the 2020 census and circulated among top Census Bureau officials indicates how strongly they sought to resist efforts by the administration to manipulate the count for Republican political gain

Portland police investigate 'dirty hippy' meme in training document making light of violence against protesters

Serendipity:

Why Legal Weed Didn’t Kill Oregon’s Black Market

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