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</center>Agor Longtail goes solo and <a href="https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_11c0c63a8413ecd5e1af2a1270a5f786&ref=preparedwombat">gets the job done</a> (22 mana, Aimless and Odd Ones Out rule sets).
<h1>Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:</h1>
<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/california-dmv-to-digitize-car-title-management-system-via-tezos">California DMV to digitize car title management system via Tezos</a>
<a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/16-trillion-european-union-economy/">Visualizing The $16 Trillion European Union Economy </a>
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64327724">Cost of living: How onions became a luxury in the Philippines</a>
<a href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/27/wazirx-says-binance-lied-about-ownership-as-dispute-about-indias-largest-exchange-escalates/">WazirX Says Binance Lied About Ownership as Dispute About India’s Largest Exchange Escalates</a>
>The back-and-forth about the ownership of WazirX could have a devastating effect on the Indian exchange and its users.
<a href="https://archive.is/szvYb">Soaring Rice Price Shows Food Inflation Still Stalking the World</a>
>Rice prices are climbing, a sign that the food inflation shock that threw millions into poverty is still reverberating, even as the cost of wheat and other farm commodities has declined.
<h1>Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:</h1>
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/27/covid-cdc-urges-immunocompromised-to-take-precautions-after-evusheld-pulled.html">CDC urges people with weak immune systems to take extra precautions after Covid subvariants knock out Evusheld</a>
<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/27/23571263/2023-covid-19-flu-cold-rsv-cases-tripledemic">Believe it or not, we are not going to be sick forever</a>
>This year’s weird, bad cold-and-flu-and-Covid season might have peaked.
<h1>Politics:</h1>
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/memphis-braces-release-video-tyre-140451905.html">Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating by police shown on video</a>
WTF? There is something seriously wrong with this country.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/27/trump-secretly-donated-1m-arizona-election-audit">Trump Secretly Bankrolled Arizona Election ‘Audit’</a>
>One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential battle has been solved: who made a secret $1m donation to the controversial election ‘audit’ in Arizona?”
>The identity of one of the largest benefactors behind the discredited review of Arizona’s vote count has been shrouded in secrecy. Now the *Guardian* can reveal that the person who partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen from Trump was… Trump.
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/u-general-predicts-war-china-014701613.html">U.S. general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to get ready</a>
<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/bill-barr-john-durham-special-counsel-investigation">The Worst Attorney General In 50 Years Was Even More Corrupt Than We Thought</a>
<a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/584005-florida-house-administration-dress-code-asks-women-to-cover-their-shoulders/"> Florida House ‘Dress Code’ Targets Women’s Shoulders</a>
>Republican leadership of the Florida House has posted flyers throughout the Capitol showing what to wear — and perhaps more strikingly, what not to wear.
The flyer breaks down a dress code for three different scenarios — when in the chamber, when Members are in the building, and when Members are not in the building. The required attire is, not surprisingly, most formal when in the House chamber.
>What sticks out though, is the requirement that women never show their shoulders when House Members are present in the building, whether in the chamber or not.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The most important thing to remember about sore losers is that they are, first and foremost, losers. <a href="https://t.co/dx5sGGFPw1">https://t.co/dx5sGGFPw1</a></p>— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) <a href="https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1618999478236897285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/us-intel-chief-warns-of-devastating-impact-of-russian-missile-attacks-161313460.html">U.S. intel chief warns of ‘devastating’ impact of Russian missile attacks</a>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/russian-president-putin-plans-new-offensive-in-ukraine-as-he-girds-for-long-war">Putin Plans for Years of War</a>
>Nearly a year into an invasion that was supposed to take weeks, Vladimir Putin is preparing a new offensive in Ukraine, at the same time steeling his country for a conflict with the US and its allies that he expects to last for years.
>The Kremlin aims to demonstrate that its forces can regain the initiative after months of losing ground, putting pressure on Kyiv and its backers to agree to some kind of truce that leaves Russia in control of the territory it now occupies, according to officials, advisers and others familiar with the situation.
<a href="https://archive.is/tfRuG">Criminal Probe Launched Into George Santos</a>
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/supreme-court-chertoff-leak-investigation/index.html">Justices Did Not Disclose Ties to Leak Investigator</a>
>The Supreme Court did not disclose its longstanding financial ties with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff even as it touted him as an expert who independently validated its investigation into who leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
The court’s inquiry, released last week with Chertoff’s endorsement, failed to identify who was responsible for the unprecedented leak. The decision to keep the relationship with Chertoff quiet is a reflection of a pattern of opacity at the nation’s highest court, whose rulings affect every American.
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-trying-231000046.html">Wisconsin Judge Opening Gun Range That Serves Alcohol</a>
Not sure why this is news. Several states allow gun clubs to serve alcohol *and* specifically disallow access to their shooting ranges for those who’ve imbibed.
<a href="https://archive.is/OE0U4">Biden Needs to Show He’s Serious About the Debt Limit</a>
>When it comes to the debt ceiling, President Joe Biden is right not to negotiate with House Republicans, whose strategy is to take hostages first and decide the ransom later. But their confusion also demonstrates why his decision doesn’t go far enough.
>What Biden needs to do — now, not the day before the US is expected to default — is take action. Specifically, he should instruct Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to resume normal payments. Yellen has already notified Congress that the government has been taking extraordinary measures to prevent a breach of the debt limit, such as altering payments to government-run funds for retirees, and that she can continue to do so for several months.
>If Biden is not willing to order the Treasury to return to business as usual, he should make it very clear to Republicans that the only choices are a debt-limit increase or a government default.
<h1>Serendipity:</h1>
<a href="https://theconversation.com/pain-of-police-killings-ripples-outward-to-traumatize-black-people-and-communities-across-us-159624">Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US</a>
<a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/01/27/could-we-feed-a-city-on-mars-this-question-is-central-to-the-future-of-space-exploration_partner/">Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration</a>
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