Post by mhbruin on Nov 22, 2021 9:00:58 GMT -8
US Vaccine Data - We Have Now Administered 453 Million Shots (Population 333 Million)
The last time we administered 2 million doses in a day was May 13. However, we weren't doing boosters then.
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This is Really Dumb. They Call It "Acting" Because You Play Someone You Are Not.
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has said that playing a trans character in “The Danish Girl” was a “mistake.”
Based on true events, Redmayne played one of the first people in the world who underwent gender reassignment surgery in the Tom Hooper-directed film.
Redmayne, who won a best actor Oscar in 2015 for playing disabled scientist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” earned an Oscar nomination in the same category a year later for “The Danish Girl.” There were demands at the time for the character to be played by a trans actor.
“No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake,” Redmayne told The Sunday Times.
“The bigger discussion about the frustrations around casting is because many people don’t have a chair at the table. There must be a leveling, otherwise we are going to carry on having these debates,” Redmayne added.
Do You Have to Be a Serial Killer to Play One? Do You Have to Be a Physicist to Play Einstein?
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17 Strikes, and They Are Still Not Out
It has been 19 months since the discovery of 17 bodies in a tiny morgue at the Andover Subacute II nursing home in Sussex County, New Jersey, in April 2020. The federal government fined the owners $221,115 for not being in "substantial compliance," and the attorney general’s office began an investigation.
But the owners are still in business. They changed the names of Andover and its sister facility and installed new signs out front. As of Friday, there were 25 residents of Andover with Covid, according to state data.
And the owners are still being paid by Medicare and Medicaid, the taxpayer-funded programs that pay most costs for U.S. nursing home operators — even though one of the owners, Louis Schwartz, helped run a chain called Skyline Healthcare, which collapsed in 2019 amid accusations of neglect and financial mismanagement, which the chain denied.
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Predictable, and Frightening
The exultation on right-wing social media following Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal has been sickeningly predictable: Mainstream conservatives loudly valorize Rittenhouse as a “hero,” while more extremist voices, applying the same logic, demand that more Americans follow his footsteps—urging the likeminded to take to the street now to begin using guns to “be like Kyle.” They have even appropriated his name for their future plans, voiced in numerous celebratory threads: Any leftist protester shot by a right-wing “patriot” henceforth will have been “Rittenhoused.”
As we forecasted, the acquittal is now a beacon-like green light granting permission to violent right-wing extremists to openly wage the kind of “civil war” against “the left”—which ranges from liberal Democrats like Joe Biden to the “antifa” bogeyman they have concocted—that they have been fantasizing about for the past decade. In the words of Charlie Kirk’s interlocutor, it’s the signal that now they “get to use the guns.”
The bloodlust has been palpable. Online trolls celebrated that “it’s Open Season on pedo-commies” and boasted that the verdict means “there’s nothing you can do about it.” A neo-Nazi channel on Twitter urged readers to “let this win fuel your rage.” A fan of pseudo-journalist Andy Ngo commented in a retweet: “Every one of these anarchist criminal thugs should be shot in the street like the worthless dogs they are.”
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This Guy Has a Point
None of these are heartwarming stories. They are sick. Please tell me how the wealthiest nation in the world allows children to starve or tells a mother of a sick child it can’t be bothered to pay for a f**king $100 walker? So I’m supposed to be happy that a teacher had to choose between making a living and his dying child? F**k you!
Billionaires got 54% richer during the pandemic—getting an excess of $4 trillion dollars. Why the hell is anyone begging for food, or the minimum baseline of healthcare? Are we that morally bankrupt? Is our plan to feed homeless vets really dependent on sick children giving up their charity wishes because our government can’t be bothered?
I might have to live in this workplace dystopia, CNN, but don’t f**king tell me I should “feel good” about it.
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Two New Trends We Don't Need. Driving Into Crowds of People
"Right in front of my family, this man drives through the parade hitting as many people as possible while shooting out the window. He ran over several elderly women who were dancing in the parade and many others please pray for everyone in Waukesha."
A vehicle has ploughed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon local time, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40.
Here’s what we know so far:
A red sports utility vehicle (SUV) drove at speed into marchers at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon.
Waukesha authorities have confirmed at least five people have died and more than 40 people injured.
Police have not released the names or ages of the deceased.
Eleven adults and 12 children have been taken to hospital.
The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin said it had received 15 patients from the parade and no reported fatalities as of 8 pm.
One person of interest is in police custody, with the vehicle involved also recovered.
Police would not say if the incident was terror-related.
Videos of the horrifying incident have been posted on social media, showing the SUV speed toward marchers.
Eyewitnesses estimated the car was travelling at around 40mph (67kmh) when it struck the crowds.
Police confirmed an officer fired his gun in an attempt to stop the vehicle, but did not know if the driver was struck by the officer’s bullets.
An advisory was issued for residents to “shelter in place” while police searched for the driver, prompting Carroll University in Waukesha to go into lockdown.
The city’s livestream of the holiday parade captured scenes of the car speeding through the parade.
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Beloved ‘Dancing Grannies’ among those killed after driver plows through Wisconsin Christmas parade
The only requirement for joining the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies is to be a grandmother. Each year, the award-winning group performs in more than 20 parades, shuffling through streets and shaking their pompoms, which are sometimes silver, sometimes gold.
The grannies say their mission is to entertain audiences, which is what brought them to Waukesha’s Christmas parade — before a driver in an SUV plowed into it, killing at least five people and injuring 40.
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A person of interest in the SUV attack that killed five and injured dozens more at a quaint holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday has been identified as a 39-year-old who recently posted bail on reckless- endangerment charges.
Darrell Brooks was taken into custody as a person of interest and was being questioned in connection with the Sunday evening incident involving a red Ford Escape that plowed through barricades and into the crowd, sparking panic and unleashing mass bloodshed, NBC News first reported. The sprawling Sunday disaster left members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies among the dead, and at least a dozen children and a priest among the injured.
NBC News cited five law enforcement officials who also noted investigators were looking into the possibility the Milwaukee resident had been fleeing an earlier incident involving a knife fight at the time of the Sunday afternoon parade. Brooks has not been charged with a crime in the Sunday incident. The Associated Press also reported Brooks was a person of interest, citing two officials.
Public records show Brooks has a significant criminal history in Wisconsin that spans over two decades. This past Friday, he posted a cash bond in connection with charges including resisting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety with domestic abuse assessments, disorderly conduct with a domestic-abuse assessment, and battery.
Brooks is also facing felony charges that include recklessly endangering safety and possession of a firearm that were filed in July 2020.
And Looting Flash Mobs
The San Francisco area saw back-to-back flash mobs ransack a Nordstrom and a Louis Vuitton over a 24-hour period, alarming security experts in a city that has already been struggling with rampant smash-and-grab incidents.
"I think what happens now is there's no accountability for it anymore, and the liability for the stores if they try to apprehend these guys. They just stand by and watch," Steve Reed, a retired police officer and the former head of security at Arden Fair Mall, told ABC 10.
Some security experts are pointing to California’s laws that are intended to reduce costs of incarceration as to why there is an increase in such crimes, ABC 10 reported. Shoplifting charges regarding the theft of $950 or less were lowered from felonies to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 in 2014. Stores also often have no-chase policies of shoplifters.
"Some people calculate, 'Hey, you know, I don't want to go over the $950, so let me steal $949 worth of property,'" San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said earlier this year.
"If it's a felony, our officers can take action," he added at the time. "But if it's a misdemeanor, that arrest has to be a private person's arrest. And that makes a difference because they have to be willing to do that."
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Here's A Third Thing We Don't Need: Internet Trolls
Misinformation and disinformation is circulating on social media after a red SUV sped through a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.
A "person of interest" is in custody, Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said at a news conference on Sunday night. However, he did not release the person's name or give details about the person, or indicate a possible motive for the incident.
Since then, false information about the perpetrator has been posted on Twitter, including some claiming that he has been identified as Sam Hyde.
Several anonymous Twitter accounts have posted a picture of a white man in a red vehicle and identified him as the driver of the red vehicle who sped through the parade.
But others on the social media platform have noted that the man pictured is Hyde, a comedian who is the subject of a long-running hoax that identifies him as the perpetrator following mass killings in the U.S.
Internet trolls are spreading disinformation about the #Waukesha driver with a photoshopped image of Sam Hyde, who's often misreported as the perpetrator of mass killings, in a red car. The long-running hoax resurfaces after tragedies. pic.twitter.com/A2DalHuxzT
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Posit Away, Dan!
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If Only We Had Passed a Bill To Create Charging Stations... What?
Startling Transformation: California has 1 milllion EVs on road, as they become state’s No. 1 Export
Energy Commissioner of California, David Hochschild pointed out that electric cars are now California’s number one export. The state exports $156 billion of goods abroad annually, and is second only to Texas in exports among US states and territories. California exports make up 10% of the US total.
In 2020, California exported $5.7 billion worth of electric vehicles, amounting to 3.7% of the state’s total exports. Aircraft and plane engines and parts came in second. The next few items are related to computer chips and modems. Almonds and diamonds come in 6th and 7th. Joe Biden rightly considers electric vehicles a potential winner for American industry if we don’t let China get a technological and market edge and crowd us out of the market. There is money in the just-passed infrastructure bill for electric charging stations to encourage EV sales.
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I Am A Broken Record: We Need More Jabs!
I Am A Broken Record: More Mandates!
The White House confirmed Monday that more than 90% of 3.5 million federal employees covered by a presidential COVID-19 vaccine mandate have received at least one vaccine dose ahead of a Monday deadline.
In total, the administration has deemed 95% of federal workers comply with its requirements in that either they have been vaccinated, are completing vaccinations or have a pending religious or medical exemption request, the White House said.
Officials declined to disclose to Reuters the total number of fully vaccinated federal employees, but said the "vast majority" of the 90% have received both doses.
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It Took Them 10 Years to Realize This?
Two conservative commentators who have appeared on Fox News for more than a decade have resigned from the right-wing network over what they say is a “dangerous” Tucker Carlson special filled with lies about the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, two co-founders of the conservative website The Dispatch, wrote that Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” special was “a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions.”
They praised some of the reporters at Fox News, but said the “voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.”
They'll Just Be Replaced With More Wackos Or Greedy Liars
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The last time we administered 2 million doses in a day was May 13. However, we weren't doing boosters then.
Doses Administered 7-Day Average | Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses | Number of People Fully Vaccinated | New Cases 7-Day Average | Deaths 7-Day Average | |
| Nov 22 | 1,521,815 | 230,732,565 | 196,398,948 | ||
| Nov 21 | 1,774,196 | 230,298,744 | 196,284,442 | 91,021 | 985 |
| Nov 20 | 2,136,513 | 229,837,421 | 196,128,496 | 90,823 | 996 |
| Nov 19 | 1,952,717 | 229,291,004 | 195,920,566 | 92,852 | 1,047 |
| Nov 18 | 1,870,564 | 228,570,531 | 195,713,107 | 94,260 | 1,069 |
| Nov 17 | 1,811,047 | 228,175,638 | 195,612,365 | 88,482 | 1,032 |
| Nov 16 | 1,608,906 | 227,691,941 | 195,435,688 | 85,944 | 1,028 |
| Nov 15 | 1,582,519 | 227,133,617 | 195,275,904 | 83,671 | 1,029 |
| Nov 14 | 1,375,998 | 226,607,653 | 195,120,470 | 80,823 | 1,043 |
| Nov 13 | 1,370,279 | 226,157,226 | 194,951,106 | 80,590 | 1,049 |
| Nov 12 | 1,335,066 | 225,606,197 | 194,747,839 | 78,552 | 1,038 |
| Nov 11 | No Data | 73,218 | 999 | ||
| Nov 10 | 1,316,294 | 224,660,453 | 194,382,921 | 76,458 | 1,051 |
| Nov 9 | 1,316,228 | 224,257,467 | 194,168,611 | 74,584 | 1,078 |
| Nov 8 | 1,300,925 | 223,944,369 | 194,001,108 | 73,312 | 1,078 |
| Nov 7 | 1,265,361 | 223,629,671 | 193,832,584 | 71,867 | 1,068 |
| Nov 6 | 1,254,975 | 223,245,121 | 193,627,929 | 71,327 | 1,079 |
| Nov 5 | 1,283,684 | 222,902,939 | 193,425,862 | 71,517 | 1,071 |
| Nov 4 | 1,188,564 | 222,591,394 | 193,227,813 | 71,241 | 1,102 |
| Nov 3 | 1,068,184 | 222,268,786 | 192,931,486 | 70,431 | 1,109 |
| Nov 2 | 1,112,624 | 221,961,370 | 192,726,406 | 71,029 | 1,130 |
| Nov 1 | 1,243,313 | 221,760,691 | 192,586,927 | 74,798 | 1,190 |
| Oct 31 | 1,203,517 | 221,520,153 | 192,453,500 | 71,207 | 1,151 |
| Oct 30 | 1,114,502 | 221,221,467 | 192,244,927 | 71,690 | 1,156 |
| Oct 29 | 1,008,247 | 220,860,887* | 191,997,869 | 69,197 | 1,104 |
| Oct 28 | 1,086,543 | 221,348,530 | 191,242,432 | 68,177 | 1,086 |
| Oct 27 | 959,348 | 220,936,118 | 190,990,750 | 68,792 | 1,129 |
| Oct 26 | 796,148 | 220,648,845 | 190,793,100 | 68,151 | 1,098 |
| Oct 25 | 786,321 | 220,519,217 | 190,699,790 | 65,953 | 1,159 |
| Oct 24 | 768,503 | 220,351,217 | 190,578,704 | 59,129 | 1,122 |
| Oct 23 | 772,744 | 220,145,796 | 190,402,262 | 64,096 | 1,188 |
| Oct 22 | 770,307 | 219,900,525 | 190,179,553 | 70,153 | 1,277 |
| Oct 21 | 795,156 | 219,624,445 | 189,924,447 | 71,550 | 1,257 |
| Oct 20 | 831,213 | 219,381,466 | 189,709,710 | 73,966 | 1,257 |
| Feb 16 | 1,716,311 | 39,670,551 | 15,015,434 | 78,292 |
| At Least One Dose | Fully Vaccinated | |
| % of Total Population | 69.5% | 59.2% |
| % of Population 12+ | 80.3% | 69.2% |
| % of Population 18+ | 82.2% | 71.0% |
| % of Population 65+ | 99.9% | 86.4% |
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This is Really Dumb. They Call It "Acting" Because You Play Someone You Are Not.
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has said that playing a trans character in “The Danish Girl” was a “mistake.”
Based on true events, Redmayne played one of the first people in the world who underwent gender reassignment surgery in the Tom Hooper-directed film.
Redmayne, who won a best actor Oscar in 2015 for playing disabled scientist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” earned an Oscar nomination in the same category a year later for “The Danish Girl.” There were demands at the time for the character to be played by a trans actor.
“No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake,” Redmayne told The Sunday Times.
“The bigger discussion about the frustrations around casting is because many people don’t have a chair at the table. There must be a leveling, otherwise we are going to carry on having these debates,” Redmayne added.
Do You Have to Be a Serial Killer to Play One? Do You Have to Be a Physicist to Play Einstein?
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17 Strikes, and They Are Still Not Out
It has been 19 months since the discovery of 17 bodies in a tiny morgue at the Andover Subacute II nursing home in Sussex County, New Jersey, in April 2020. The federal government fined the owners $221,115 for not being in "substantial compliance," and the attorney general’s office began an investigation.
But the owners are still in business. They changed the names of Andover and its sister facility and installed new signs out front. As of Friday, there were 25 residents of Andover with Covid, according to state data.
And the owners are still being paid by Medicare and Medicaid, the taxpayer-funded programs that pay most costs for U.S. nursing home operators — even though one of the owners, Louis Schwartz, helped run a chain called Skyline Healthcare, which collapsed in 2019 amid accusations of neglect and financial mismanagement, which the chain denied.
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Predictable, and Frightening
The exultation on right-wing social media following Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal has been sickeningly predictable: Mainstream conservatives loudly valorize Rittenhouse as a “hero,” while more extremist voices, applying the same logic, demand that more Americans follow his footsteps—urging the likeminded to take to the street now to begin using guns to “be like Kyle.” They have even appropriated his name for their future plans, voiced in numerous celebratory threads: Any leftist protester shot by a right-wing “patriot” henceforth will have been “Rittenhoused.”
As we forecasted, the acquittal is now a beacon-like green light granting permission to violent right-wing extremists to openly wage the kind of “civil war” against “the left”—which ranges from liberal Democrats like Joe Biden to the “antifa” bogeyman they have concocted—that they have been fantasizing about for the past decade. In the words of Charlie Kirk’s interlocutor, it’s the signal that now they “get to use the guns.”
The bloodlust has been palpable. Online trolls celebrated that “it’s Open Season on pedo-commies” and boasted that the verdict means “there’s nothing you can do about it.” A neo-Nazi channel on Twitter urged readers to “let this win fuel your rage.” A fan of pseudo-journalist Andy Ngo commented in a retweet: “Every one of these anarchist criminal thugs should be shot in the street like the worthless dogs they are.”
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This Guy Has a Point
None of these are heartwarming stories. They are sick. Please tell me how the wealthiest nation in the world allows children to starve or tells a mother of a sick child it can’t be bothered to pay for a f**king $100 walker? So I’m supposed to be happy that a teacher had to choose between making a living and his dying child? F**k you!
Billionaires got 54% richer during the pandemic—getting an excess of $4 trillion dollars. Why the hell is anyone begging for food, or the minimum baseline of healthcare? Are we that morally bankrupt? Is our plan to feed homeless vets really dependent on sick children giving up their charity wishes because our government can’t be bothered?
I might have to live in this workplace dystopia, CNN, but don’t f**king tell me I should “feel good” about it.
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Two New Trends We Don't Need. Driving Into Crowds of People
"Right in front of my family, this man drives through the parade hitting as many people as possible while shooting out the window. He ran over several elderly women who were dancing in the parade and many others please pray for everyone in Waukesha."
A vehicle has ploughed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon local time, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40.
Here’s what we know so far:
A red sports utility vehicle (SUV) drove at speed into marchers at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon.
Waukesha authorities have confirmed at least five people have died and more than 40 people injured.
Police have not released the names or ages of the deceased.
Eleven adults and 12 children have been taken to hospital.
The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin said it had received 15 patients from the parade and no reported fatalities as of 8 pm.
One person of interest is in police custody, with the vehicle involved also recovered.
Police would not say if the incident was terror-related.
Videos of the horrifying incident have been posted on social media, showing the SUV speed toward marchers.
Eyewitnesses estimated the car was travelling at around 40mph (67kmh) when it struck the crowds.
Police confirmed an officer fired his gun in an attempt to stop the vehicle, but did not know if the driver was struck by the officer’s bullets.
An advisory was issued for residents to “shelter in place” while police searched for the driver, prompting Carroll University in Waukesha to go into lockdown.
The city’s livestream of the holiday parade captured scenes of the car speeding through the parade.
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Beloved ‘Dancing Grannies’ among those killed after driver plows through Wisconsin Christmas parade
The only requirement for joining the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies is to be a grandmother. Each year, the award-winning group performs in more than 20 parades, shuffling through streets and shaking their pompoms, which are sometimes silver, sometimes gold.
The grannies say their mission is to entertain audiences, which is what brought them to Waukesha’s Christmas parade — before a driver in an SUV plowed into it, killing at least five people and injuring 40.
...............
A person of interest in the SUV attack that killed five and injured dozens more at a quaint holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday has been identified as a 39-year-old who recently posted bail on reckless- endangerment charges.
Darrell Brooks was taken into custody as a person of interest and was being questioned in connection with the Sunday evening incident involving a red Ford Escape that plowed through barricades and into the crowd, sparking panic and unleashing mass bloodshed, NBC News first reported. The sprawling Sunday disaster left members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies among the dead, and at least a dozen children and a priest among the injured.
NBC News cited five law enforcement officials who also noted investigators were looking into the possibility the Milwaukee resident had been fleeing an earlier incident involving a knife fight at the time of the Sunday afternoon parade. Brooks has not been charged with a crime in the Sunday incident. The Associated Press also reported Brooks was a person of interest, citing two officials.
Public records show Brooks has a significant criminal history in Wisconsin that spans over two decades. This past Friday, he posted a cash bond in connection with charges including resisting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety with domestic abuse assessments, disorderly conduct with a domestic-abuse assessment, and battery.
Brooks is also facing felony charges that include recklessly endangering safety and possession of a firearm that were filed in July 2020.
And Looting Flash Mobs
The San Francisco area saw back-to-back flash mobs ransack a Nordstrom and a Louis Vuitton over a 24-hour period, alarming security experts in a city that has already been struggling with rampant smash-and-grab incidents.
"I think what happens now is there's no accountability for it anymore, and the liability for the stores if they try to apprehend these guys. They just stand by and watch," Steve Reed, a retired police officer and the former head of security at Arden Fair Mall, told ABC 10.
Some security experts are pointing to California’s laws that are intended to reduce costs of incarceration as to why there is an increase in such crimes, ABC 10 reported. Shoplifting charges regarding the theft of $950 or less were lowered from felonies to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 in 2014. Stores also often have no-chase policies of shoplifters.
"Some people calculate, 'Hey, you know, I don't want to go over the $950, so let me steal $949 worth of property,'" San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said earlier this year.
"If it's a felony, our officers can take action," he added at the time. "But if it's a misdemeanor, that arrest has to be a private person's arrest. And that makes a difference because they have to be willing to do that."
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Here's A Third Thing We Don't Need: Internet Trolls
Misinformation and disinformation is circulating on social media after a red SUV sped through a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.
A "person of interest" is in custody, Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said at a news conference on Sunday night. However, he did not release the person's name or give details about the person, or indicate a possible motive for the incident.
Since then, false information about the perpetrator has been posted on Twitter, including some claiming that he has been identified as Sam Hyde.
Several anonymous Twitter accounts have posted a picture of a white man in a red vehicle and identified him as the driver of the red vehicle who sped through the parade.
But others on the social media platform have noted that the man pictured is Hyde, a comedian who is the subject of a long-running hoax that identifies him as the perpetrator following mass killings in the U.S.
Internet trolls are spreading disinformation about the #Waukesha driver with a photoshopped image of Sam Hyde, who's often misreported as the perpetrator of mass killings, in a red car. The long-running hoax resurfaces after tragedies. pic.twitter.com/A2DalHuxzT
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Posit Away, Dan!
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If Only We Had Passed a Bill To Create Charging Stations... What?
Startling Transformation: California has 1 milllion EVs on road, as they become state’s No. 1 Export
Energy Commissioner of California, David Hochschild pointed out that electric cars are now California’s number one export. The state exports $156 billion of goods abroad annually, and is second only to Texas in exports among US states and territories. California exports make up 10% of the US total.
In 2020, California exported $5.7 billion worth of electric vehicles, amounting to 3.7% of the state’s total exports. Aircraft and plane engines and parts came in second. The next few items are related to computer chips and modems. Almonds and diamonds come in 6th and 7th. Joe Biden rightly considers electric vehicles a potential winner for American industry if we don’t let China get a technological and market edge and crowd us out of the market. There is money in the just-passed infrastructure bill for electric charging stations to encourage EV sales.
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I Am A Broken Record: We Need More Jabs!
I Am A Broken Record: More Mandates!
The White House confirmed Monday that more than 90% of 3.5 million federal employees covered by a presidential COVID-19 vaccine mandate have received at least one vaccine dose ahead of a Monday deadline.
In total, the administration has deemed 95% of federal workers comply with its requirements in that either they have been vaccinated, are completing vaccinations or have a pending religious or medical exemption request, the White House said.
Officials declined to disclose to Reuters the total number of fully vaccinated federal employees, but said the "vast majority" of the 90% have received both doses.
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It Took Them 10 Years to Realize This?
Two conservative commentators who have appeared on Fox News for more than a decade have resigned from the right-wing network over what they say is a “dangerous” Tucker Carlson special filled with lies about the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, two co-founders of the conservative website The Dispatch, wrote that Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” special was “a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions.”
They praised some of the reporters at Fox News, but said the “voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.”
They'll Just Be Replaced With More Wackos Or Greedy Liars
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