Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Flashbots build over 82% relay blocks, adding to Ethereum centralization

London Silver Inventories Continue to Plummet as Metal Exits LBMA Vaults

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

New Boosters Test Covid-Weary Nation. Shots Are Here. Do Americans Care?

What moves us 'closer to the unfortunate finish line of getting long Covid'

Politics:

Georgia Prosecutor Investigating Trump Says “Prison Sentences” Are on the Table

Matt Gaetz Sought Pardon from Sex Trafficking Probe

The testimony is the first indication that Gaetz was specifically seeking a pardon for his own exposure related to the Justice Department inquiry into whether he violated sex trafficking laws. His public posture in the final months of the Trump administration was much less specific, repeatedly calling for broad preemptive pardons to fend off possible Democratic investigations.

Republican Jesus: "Sure, I could totally heal your leprosy. But that wouldn't be fair to lepers who have already died."

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) September 17, 2022

Some Republicans Won’t Promise to Accept 2022 Results

Nearly two years after President Donald Trump refused to accept his defeat in the 2020 election, some of his most loyal Republican acolytes might follow in his footsteps.
When asked, six Trump-backed Republican nominees for governor and the Senate in midterm battlegrounds would not commit to accepting this year’s election results, and another five Republicans ignored or declined to answer a question about embracing the November outcome. All of them, along with many other GOP candidates, have pre-emptively cast doubt on how their states count votes.

Trump Says People Are Being Threatened to Denounce Him

Ted Cruz forced to admit trafficking migrants to Martha’s Vineyard is illegal in Sean Hannity interview

Stunts Backfire on Ron DeSantis

The conceit of this dehumanizing bit of political theater was that the liberal denizens of Martha’s Vineyard would reject the migrants out of hypocrisy, thus proving that Democrats aren’t actually interested in welcoming immigrants into their communities. To DeSantis and his amen corner, asylum seekers are disposable, and they believe that liberals will want to dispose of them too.
What happened, instead, was that residents of Martha’s Vineyard rallied to provide food, shelter, clothing and services. The asylum seekers are now on their way to Cape Cod, to receive further assistance. The stunt failed to make its intended point.
The same was true of a previous stunt, in which DeSantis touted the arrests of 20 former felons for election fraud. The intended message was that Florida, and presumably the entire country, needed to be on constant alert to block fraudulent voters. But in the days and weeks after the arrests, an investigation by The Tampa Bay Times found that the state had actually cleared those residents to vote.

Serendipity:

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