I foolishly felt confident with my line-up going into battle and got my but whupped. Weak Magic/Little League, it was dumb to have only one melee monster.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Blockstream and Block Inc to build solar Bitcoin mining facility powered by Tesla technology

It’s almost as if they’ve never heard of hardware wallets: Russians’ EU Crypto Investments Capped at 10K Euros

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Covid-19 Raises Risk of Lingering and Serious Blood Clotting, Swedish Study Finds

Shanghai hospital pays the price for China’s COVID response

How a Zambian morgue is exposing the real covid toll in Africa

One of the pandemic’s enduring mysteries is how much of Africa seemed to have been spared the worst. A study of corpses suggests it hasn’t.

Politics:

Oklahoma state officials resist Supreme Court ruling affirming tribal authority over American Indian country

It’s unusual for someone to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit one of its decisions. It’s very rare for that to happen almost immediately after the ruling was issued. But in the two years since the court’s ruling in a key case about Native American rights, the state of Oklahoma has made that request more than 40 times.

Putin’s Next Victory Could Be In France

There is growing concern within President Joe Biden’s administration about the narrowing polls in the French presidential election that show a tight race between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.
A possible victory by Le Pen, a Putin sympathizer, could destabilize the Western coalition against Moscow, upending France’s role as a leading European power and potentially giving other NATO leaders cold feet about staying in the alliance, according to three senior administration officials not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations.

Ex-Trump Staffer Sentenced in Child Pornography Case

The best part of this exchange is that @LeaderMcConnell seems to be genuinely befuddled that one might expect him to have a moral red line. He literally can't come up with anything. Acts as if that's a gotcha question. Because for him it is, since he has none. https://t.co/H2yBAuxd6u

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) April 7, 2022

Rape Exceptions to Abortion Bans Fall Out of Favor

As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.
It was a veneer of acceptance embraced by every GOP president from Reagan to Trump, and even the strongest abortion foes, that a woman should not be required to carry a rapist’s child. Not anymore.

Ukraine’s ‘iron general’ is a hero, but he’s no star

Border Wall Fundraiser Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran who launched a multimillion-dollar crowdfunding effort to build a private border wall, has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges after prosecutors say he surreptitiously took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fundraiser.

Don Jr. Texted Ideas to Overturn the Election

Proud Boys Leader Admits Plan to Storm Capitol

Donohoe was aware that members of MOSD leadership were discussing the possibility of storming the Capitol. Donohoe believed that storming the Capitol would achieve the group’s goal of stopping the government from carrying out the transfer of presidential power. Donohoe understood that storming the Capitol would be illegal.

Judge tells Jan. 6 defendant his disbarred lawyer has to leave case

Serendipity:

Differences between the moon’s near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact

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