And another day of hostages, Trump saying all the quiet parts out loud, Flynn encouraging sedition, companies that donate to the ‘Sedition Caucus,’ how the ‘Big Quit’ happened, Portland police encouraging brutalizing ‘dirty hippies,’ and a volcano eruption in the Pacific comes to a close:
“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism - they will reject democracy.” -- David Frum
“The forged electoral certificates show coordination across seven states. Those fake certificates were key to the plan of the Eastman memo and to the Jeffrey Clark DOJ draft letter to Georgia. The conspiracy involved fraud and force. At the head of the conspiracy: Donald Trump.” — Bill Kristol
“Daily Reminder: Today's GOP is no longer a political party, it's a white nationalist, fascist movement that must be utterly destroyed in order to save our Republic.” — Dean Obeidallah
Deaths
US: 873,149 (+1552)
World: 5,553,744 (+6600)
Cases
US: 66,664,283 (+501,524)
World: 326,810,269 (+2,537,121)
One hostage released from Dallas-Fort Worth synagogue where man is holding rabbi, others. The man told authorities he wants the release of Aafia Siddiqui, convicted in 2010 of attempted murder of U.S. soldiers, from federal prison.
Trump tells PA GOP why he is placing an emphasis on Supervisor of Elections races in 22: “We have to be a lot sharper the next time when it comes to counting the vote .. Sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate. They have to get a lot tougher and smarter.” — Spoken like a true autocrat except he’s saying the quiet part out loud.
General Flynn says county sheriffs and county officials can “change this country” by blocking voting machines, only offering paper ballots, and regulating absentee ballots for “invalids in nursing homes.” — General Flynn has just told county sheriffs and county officials to commit sedition.
“The past six years have somewhat numbed us to the fact it's highly abnormal for a major political party to be as passionate about extrajudicial punishment as the modern GOP is.” -- Aaron Rupar
These 8 companies and trade groups are said to be among the top donors to 'Sedition Caucus' Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election result. In the aftermath of the Capitol siege, "many big-name companies assured their customers and employees how much they value our democracy, but it's obvious they value something more – holding political influence over as many lawmakers as possible, even if those lawmakers voted to subvert our government.”
The CDC updated its mask guidelines. What to know about 'the highest level of protection'. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its mask guidelines to recommend that people "wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear consistently." The agency describes well-fitting respirators approved by the National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) -- such as N95 masks -- as offering "the highest level of protection."
Expect more worrisome variants after omicron, scientists say. Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate, and omicron has an edge over its predecessors: It spreads way faster despite emerging on a planet with a stronger patchwork of immunity from vaccines and prior illness. That means more people in whom the virus can further evolve. Experts don’t know what the next variants will look like or how they might shape the pandemic, but they say there’s no guarantee the sequels of omicron will cause milder illness or that existing vaccines will work against them.
Students walkout of classes to demand safer COVID protocols. Students in Boston and Chicago walked out of classes on Friday in protest, demanding a return to remote learning as the Omicron variant surges across the country.
Red Lobster employees forced to come into work when sick. He added that Red Lobster got back to him in response to his report and said their sick leave policy was the industry standard. — I don’t think it’s a good idea to be going to restaurants right now.
Workers Got Fed Up. Bosses Got Scared. This Is How the Big Quit Happened. But they are missing the point. Quits are a Janus-faced piece of economic data—a sign of how bad our work politics have gotten, and also of hope that they could be better. It signals that people are fed up but also confident they can find new jobs, often better-paying ones. It can feel radical after living under the austerity provisions that have been a hallmark of neoliberal governments since the 1970s—which, as Amelia Horgan noted in Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, meant that “we, almost always, need a job more than a job needs us.” For the past 40 years, MIT economist David Autor wrote in the New York Times, the United States has “generated vast numbers of low-paid, economically insecure jobs.” And given that we haven’t invested much in social infrastructure, some people are dropping out of the workforce because they are falling through the holes in our social safety net. Recent reporting shows workers are pissed off and burned out. This year has seen more vigorous organizing; there have been strikes and other actions by entertainment workers, John Deere employees, and Kaiser Permanente nurses. But it’s spread beyond the organized: From the white-collar workers reconsidering their life priorities, to the service industry staff tired of dealing with terrible customers, to low-wage laborers finding solidarity against the shit conditions laid bare by the pandemic, people are broadly opting out…In either case, we know to prepare for a backlash. In 1947, after the wave of postwar strikes, Republicans won Congress for the first time since the Great Depression. One of their first moves was to implement a semi-prohibition on labor actions: the Taft-Hartley Act. It ushered in our era of so-called right-to-work laws, bans on sympathy strikes, and firms being able to push anti-union propaganda on their workers in the name of “free speech.” That law is still at the core of what’s suppressing labor today. And, in some ways, it set the groundwork for the past two years: Quitting is one of the few actions many have left.
Portland Police Riot Training Presentation Included Graphic Slide on Brutalizing 'Dirty Hippies'. The meme depicts an officer with a raised fist, apparently in the act of beating of a long-haired citizen. The overlaid text reads:
And the Lord said…
Woe be unto you, dirty hippy;
For thou stinketh of patchouli and BO;
For thou talk of Marx, yet know him not;
For thou has bills, yet have not paid;
For thou has dreadlocks and white skin.
And so I shall send among you,
My humble servants with hat, and with bat;
That they may christen your heads with hickory,
An anoint your faces with pepper spray.
And once thou hast been cuffed and stuffed;
Once thou has been stitched and bandaged;
Perhaps thou shall learn,
I am tired of your shit.
Amen
— WTF?
Earth is running low on wildlife. Plants will be next. Many plants need to migrate to survive climate change, but they’re losing their animal rides. But this strategy has a major drawback: It rides on wildlife, and wildlife is disappearing around the world. That means many plants are losing their mode of transportation, according to a new study published in the journal Science, leaving them stranded in areas that are becoming less hospitable to their kind and at a greater risk of dying out.
A volcano erupts in the Pacific, triggering a tsunami advisory for the West Coast. An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. A tsunami advisory was in effect for Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific coast.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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