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View More NewsBitcoin (BTC) and altcoins are breaking records as short position liquidations pass $3 billion over two days.Key points:Crypto short liquidations since Thursday are in excess of $3.1 billion, per CoinGlass data.Bitcoin continues its upside reaction to a US Treasury liquidity intervention, approaching $72,000.Bitcoin short-term holders take profit on previously underwater positions and move 43,300 BTC.Two-day crypto short liquidations hit $3.1 billionData from CoinGlass shows ongoing crypto short liquidations at $3.1 billion for Aug. 19-20. Thursday’s tally was largest single-day wipeout of shorts ever recorded.Crypto liquidations history (screenshot). Source: CoinGlassOn Wednesday, BTC/USD led the charge by reacting to a liquidity intervention…
Some excerpts from yesterday’s long decision in Planned Parenthood Great Nw. v. Comm’r, decided by Judge David Hamilton, joined by Judge Ilana Rovner: In 2017, Indiana passed what we call the “aid-or-assist” law, which forbids knowingly or intentionally aiding or assisting an unemancipated pregnant minor in obtaining an abortion without first satisfying Indiana’s parental consent and notice requirements. Plaintiff Planned Parenthood provides to its clients factually accurate information about abortion providers who operate lawfully in other states. Plaintiff provides such information to unemancipated pregnant minors who seek it. Defendants are Indiana state officials who maintain that providing such information violates…
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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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