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Midnight Summer Solstice in Alaska #summersolstice #SummerSolstice2025 #Alaska #midnightsun

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Sec. Pete Buttigieg shares his thoughts as he prepares to leave office
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/11/nx-s1-5247687/sec-pete-buttigieg-shares-his-thoughts-as-he-prepares-to-leave-office?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Halloween 2024

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https://alaskapublic.org/2024/08/21/southeast-tribes-seek-a-pause-on-canadian-mine-near-b-c-border/

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Downtown Fairbanks Thursday 600am: Cloudy, rainy, slight breeze, 48F (8.9C). #MyAlaskaWx

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My sister's band, Dilemma, is in this music video https://youtu.be/iHDN5_h1Bxc?si=Ohu5KojEOQnhaANf

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Like President Biden, Lyndon Johnson opted out of reelection, understanding the odds against him, and getting replaced as the Democratic nominee by his VP. Hubert Humphrey was resoundingly defeated.
And there’s plenty to learn from this #history. It illustrates the high hurdles that #KamalaHarris must clear, “while also sounding a note of hope for the Democratic Party.”
https://theconversation.com/kamala-harris-is-no-hubert-humphrey-how-the-presumed-2024-democratic-presidential-nominee-isnt-like-the-1968-party-candidate-235358
#Histodons @histodons #USpolitics #News

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Kamala Harris officially secures Democratic nomination for president

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/02/harris-becomes-democratic-nominee/

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Little Nightmares Developer Tarsier Studios Will Reveal Its Next Game During Gamescom ONL 2024

https://www.psu.com/news/little-nightmares-developer-tarsier-studios-will-reveal-its-next-game-gamescom-onl-2024/
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Little Nightmares developer Tarsier Studios will reveal its next game during Gamescom ONL 2024, check out the details for yourself here.

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The post Little Nightmares Developer Tarsier Studios Will Reveal Its Next Game During Gamescom ONL 2024 appeared first on PlayStation Universe.

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Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal weighed in on my reporting about the company’s apparent campaign finance violations, arguing that Coinbase is not a federal contractor.

I have updated the article to include his comments, and I’ve also noted that this argument does not seem to square with the law.

The article, with these updates, is here: https://citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/

More to come soon.

#CitationNeeded #Fairshake #Coinbase #USpolitics #USpol #crypto #cryptocurrency

Tweet thread by Paul Grewal (paulgrewal.eth, @iampaulgrewal):
1/3 Whether intentional or not, this is misinformation. Coinbase is not a federal contractor under the plain language of 11 CFR 115.1. USMS isn’t paying us with appropriated funds—something it made clear in the public RFP.

(Quoted tweet by Molly White sharing the article)

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Screenshot of 11 CFR 115.1:
§ 115.1 Definitions.

(a) A Federal contractor means a person, as defined in 11 CFR 100.10 who—

(1) Enters into any contract with the United States or any department or agency thereof either for—

(i) The rendition of personal services; or

(ii) Furnishing any material, supplies, or equipment; or

(iii) Selling any land or buildings;

(2) If the payment for the performance of the contract or payment for the material, supplies, equipment, land, or building is to be made in whole or in part from funds appropriated by the Congress.

3/3 Screenshotted image: All funds associated with this RFP will be paid out of the Assets Forfeiture Fund.

Coinbase’s response
A Coinbase spokesperson, reached on July 30, declined to answer questions about which entities were associated with the government contract or the political contribution, or to respond to broader inquiries about the apparent campaign finance violation. They stated only that “Coinbase complies with all applicable laws, including campaign finance law.”

Two days after this article was published, Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, took to Twitter to argue that the company’s political contributions were not in violation of campaign finance laws. He further condemned this article as “misinformation”, which he insinuated may have been “intentional”.

Grewal asserted that Coinbase is not a federal contractor, and thus is not subject to the prohibition, pointing to a definition of the term within the Code of Federal Regulations as those who are paid “in whole or in part from funds appropriated by the Congress”.14 He also pointed to a Q&A document that was published as an update to the request for proposals (RFP) on April 18, and which contains questions between (unidentified) prospective contractors and answers from the US Marshals Service. One such Q&A entry identifies the Department of Justice’s Assets Forfeiture Fund as the source of the funding for the contract ultimately awarded to Coinbase. “Coinbase is not a federal contractor under the plain language of 11 CFR 115.1. USMS isn’t paying us with appropriated funds—something it made clear in the publ

(Screenshotted image:) What is the source of the funds used to pay for the Cryptocurrency Management and Disposal Services requested under this RFP? All funds associated with this RFP will be paid out of the Assets Forfeiture Fund. The Fund receives proceeds from the sale of property forfeited to the U.S. Government under the Department of Justice Asset Foreiture Program.

While this Q&A document seems to be what Grewal is drawing upon for his claim that the Marshals Service “made clear in the public RFP” that they would not be “paying [Coinbase] with appropriated funds,” there does not appear to be any statement within the RFP that explicitly addresses whether the funds for the contract are appropriated from Congress or not.

Lawyers at Public Citizen weighed in: “Grewal’s argument that funds in the Assets Forfeiture Fund are not ‘appropriations’ is incorrect. Just this year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar contention, making clear that an appropriation is simply ‘a law that authorizes expenditures from a specified source of public money for designated purposes’. Consistent with the Court’s holding, a report16 published by the Congressional Research Service explicitly describes the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Fund as appropriated by Congress.”

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"I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But…we save each other some of the time."

Baldwin, born 100 years ago today, on how to live through your darkest hour https://t.co/rhlnfdvI8U

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Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission.

"Using a nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on Washington University technology, approved for use in India and licensed to Ocugen for further development in the U.S., the researchers showed that vaccinated hamsters that developed infections did not pass the virus on to others, breaking the cycle of transmission."

"This study shows that mucosal vaccines are superior to injected vaccines in terms of limiting viral replication in the upper airways and preventing spread to the next individual. In an epidemic or pandemic situation, this is the kind of vaccine you’re going to want.”

Source: https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/nasal-covid-19-vaccine-halts-transmission/

Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1290

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