Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

5 NFT-based blockchain games that could soar in 2022

Splinterlands is only mentioned in passing, not as one of the five.

Bitcoin Falls Toward $40K, Racks Up Longest Losing Streak Since 2018

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Huge Majority Say U.S. Faces Mental Health Crisis

An overwhelming majority of Americans believe the U.S. is in the grips of a full-blown mental health crisis.
Nearly two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought a rise in depression, anxiety, stress, addiction and other challenges, almost nine in ten registered voters believe there’s a ‘mental health crisis’ in the nation.

Pop-up Covid testing sites may be rife for identity theft, experts say

DeSantis defends allowing stockpiled Covid tests to expire

Politics:

Donald Trump should be very afraid: This anniversary was not good news for him

Watching him on TV and reading my Bob Woodward tea leaves, it looked to me on Thursday that he has heard talk from friends and sources amounting to more than rumor — that Trump is going to end up charged with a felony, or multiple felonies. He made clear that he thinks the House Jan. 6 committee is being thorough, almost to a fault, in the way they're going about their investigation of the events before, during and after the day itself. Woodward is a Washington Whisperer par excellence. He's been at it for almost 50 years. He is one of the least excitable guys I've ever met. But on Thursday, as he was being interviewed by Lawrence O'Donnell, he looked like he was about to levitate out of his chair.

U.S. and NATO reject Russian demand that alliance not admit new members

Russian Troops Pour Into Kazakhstan

Russian forces continued to pour into Kazakhstan on Sunday, deploying to help Kazakh authorities reassert control in the country’s biggest cities following days of sometimes violent protests against the country’s leadership.

Prospects Dim as U.S. and Russia Meet Over Ukraine

With the fate of Ukraine and potentially broader post-Cold War European stability at stake, the United States and Russia are holding critical strategic talks that could shape the future of not only their relationship but the relationship between the U.S. and its NATO allies. Prospects are bleak.

Karl Rove, a GOP stalwart in Texas and nationally, delivers blunt Jan. 6 message to his party

GOP Lawmaker Said Teachers Must Be Neutral on Nazism

Serendipity:

Leaning San Francisco skyscraper is tilting 3 inches per year as engineers rush to implement fix

US government sues Georgia auto-repair shop that dumped more than 91,000 pennies in a former employee's driveway

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