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HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE
The shortest day of the year, and the start of winter
Do not work for money someone else can create for free.
Binance founder CZ says nations will print money to buy BTC, creating their Strategic #Bitcoin Reserves
We are going so much higher
President-elect Elon Musk
Trump’s transition team is using private emails instead of secure government accounts. In this year’s production of Rome is Burning, the part of Nero will be played by Merrick Garland.
Trump was disqualified to run per the 14th Amendment Sec. 3 but we were led to believe the election would stop him. It didn’t.
Kill the Tesla stock bubble, you kill a large percent of Musk’s wealth.
Tesla sales need to drop. Protests need to happen at Tesla locations and charging stations. Make people think twice about buying a car from him.
Chris Hayes: “President-elect Musk, the richest man in the world, worth 250 billion dollars, took 150 million dollars from kids with cancer.” Pure. Fucking. Evil. No wonder the trumps love Elon so much. They like to steal money from kids with cancer too.
China Dominates the Global Electric Car Market with 76% market share Inside China EVs are now 53% of all new car sales as of October 2024. China has become the largest exporter of cars globally surpassing Japan. The growth has been driven by EVs.
Senate Judiciary Committee @JudiciaryDems
After a revealing investigative report, it’s in the record: Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito *violated federal law* by not disclosing gifted trips.
NEVER BEFORE SEEN. Justice Clarence Thomas took a July 2021 private jet trip to Saranac, New York, and an October 2021 private jet and yacht trip to NYC sponsored by Harlan Crow.
In response to information in the scathing report by Senate Judiciary Committee on the lack of ethics in the Supreme Court, Senator Whitehouse has introduced the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, which is cosponsored by every Democratic member of the Committee.
Chief Justice Roberts refuses to act.
The Judicial Conference refuses to act.
Congress must act.
Sen. DURBIN on Democrats’ besting Donald Trump’s judicial confirmation total:
Every single Biden nominee was found “qualified” or “well qualified” by the American Bar Association. That was not the case under Trump.
Sen. SCHUMER on Democrats’ besting Donald Trump’s judicial confirmation total:
One out of every four active judges on the bench was appointed by this Senate Democratic Majority.
Biden-appointed judges to the federal courts: 235
Trump-appointed judges to the federal courts: 234
Who Is Mike Roman? The Trump Indictee with Canadian Ties
Charged with US election crimes, Roman strategized with Scheer and helped Harper push a global right-wing agenda.
Luigi Mangione’s Indictment Is Another Example of the Dangers of Terror Charges
The indictment comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block “critical infrastructure.”
Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. This raises the question: Why are these documents written in a style that makes them so impenetrable?
MIT cognitive scientists believe they have uncovered the answer to that question. Just as “magic spells” use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese acts to convey a sense of authority, they conclude.
In a study appearing this week in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that even non-lawyers use this type of language when asked to write laws.
“People seem to understand that there’s an implicit rule that this is how laws should sound, and they write them that way,” says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the senior author of the study.
In Alabama, the man frying chicken at KFC and the woman making beds at Holiday Inn could be a prisoner. The state earns millions leasing inmates to hundreds of companies, deeming them safe enough to work, but routinely denying them parole.
Politicians and cabals
Markwayne Mullin (born July 26, 1977) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,
@SenMullin Seriously, what is going on with ruby red Oklahoma senators? Compromised? Corrupt?
Markwayne Mullin has the 8th highest return portfolio tracked among politicians over their lifetimes. His return is over 140%! On 12/19, it was disclosed that he recently purchased between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of shares in $EZU and $IEFA, as well as between $1,000 and $15,000 in $IEMG.
$EZU is an interesting one. The daily gamma on $EZU has spiked over the last five sessions, with a huge increase in net call premium on 12/13. Makes you wonder if someone knows something.
Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips | Book review | The TLS
She made Einstein add up
The self-effacing woman behind the theory of relativity
Massive increase in robocalls and dangerous phishing ~ Lauren Weinstein
Robocalls are seeing a massive increase lately. Keep in mind that
efforts to stop caller-ID spoofing have largely had no real effect,
because callers now use “throw away” numbers that verify correctly and
then are abandoned after days or even hours. In fact, if you get an
“unknown caller” on your phone, it’s likely NOT a spam call, because
spammers can now so easily not bother spoofing or blocking their
numbers, they just keep switching to different “legit” numbers that
spam blocks usually don’t detect.
Email phishing is on the rise, and much of it now is bypassing SPF and
DKIM checks (that Google and other large mailers started requiring for
bulk mailings) due to techniques such as DKIM replay and a range of
other methods. Fake PayPal invoices are flooding the Net, and they
often are passing those checks meant to block them. It’s reported that
many of these are coming from Microsoft’s Outlook, with forged PayPal
email addresses. Easiest way to detect these is to look at the phone
number they want you to call if you have a question — and if it’s not
the legit PayPal customer service number you know it’s not really from
PayPal. Getting you to call the scammers on the phone is the basis of
the entire scheme. It’s all getting worse, not better.
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