Odds and Ends — 20 June 2021

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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Fresh protests in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s handling of Covid pandemic

Palestinians cancel Pfizer vaccine agreement with Israel

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Investment Firms Aren’t Buying All the Houses. But They Are Buying the Most Important Ones.

Money Reimagined: DC’s Digital Dollar Choice

As Washington faces up to the implications of digital currency, it has to decide what it prizes more: surveillance or soft power.

Audi Will Be All Electric By 2026

Politics:

As pandemic subsides, businesses push Congress for one more bailout

ItalyGate Is The Crown Jewel Of Big Lie Conspiracies. And It Just Got A Lot Wilder.

GOP Using Ashli Babbitt’s Death to Rewrite Jan. 6

What’s perhaps most notable about the effort is how slowly it has built. We had the graphic video of Babbitt’s death almost immediately after the Capitol riot. Very little has been added to the record since then, beyond the officer’s being cleared two months ago. But as the questioning of the narrative of the Capitol riot has grown — and with authorities still declining to identify the officer involved — a chorus has swelled around the Babbitt issue as well.
It’s all a logical progression of the effort to recast the Jan. 6 riot.

Republicans Push Back on Ballot Initiatives

After facing defeats at the ballot box in recent years, a handful of Republican state legislatures have pushed to constrain voter ballot initiatives in recent months to limit the ability of progressive policies to leap past them in the lawmaking process.
In recent years, minimum wage increases, expansion of voting rights, marijuana legalization and the expansion of Medicaid among other policies have come close or gained enough voter support in conservative states to sidestep deep-red legislatures in Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Florida and others.

The Simple Remedy for Jan. 6 Trutherism

It’s old-fashioned, hard-nosed inquiry. And if Congress won’t do it, journalists must.

Serendipity:

Is new digital nomadism a myth?

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