@chargrille It is additionally galling that companies and governments collect data on every damn thing now *except* COVID. Mass license plate readers? Sure! Pay for those eggs with an x-ray of your skeleton? Sounds great. Monitor a dangerous infectious disease? Hey whoa now, the emergency is over. It's like upside down land.
Anyway I plan to get boosted when the shots are out. It's a no-brainer. Just a bit frustrating 🤦
FBI to Trumpist lackeys threatening Fulton County officials and grand jurors: See y'all real soon.
Over at Twitter, Musk is deleting the "Block" option except for DMs. Given the increasing numbers of extremists there, this is guaranteed to piss off all kinds of people who routinely get trolled. Based on experience and observation, journalists are among them.
When will journalists realize they should leave that vile platform, and bring their followers to better places like this one?
Maybe now?
The doxing and threats against the Georgia grand jurors is arguably an even worse travesty than the sickening harassment of low-level election workers (though both are unacceptable and frightening).
The jurors weren't there by choice and had no idea what cases they would be evaluating. They were simply ordinary citizens, selected at random, who answered a summons to serve a routine, but critical, civic duty.
Trump oversaw one of the worst recessions in our history and Biden’s been in office for one of the most robust recoveries. Yet Gallup’s issue polling had Trump’s approval on the #economy consistently 10-15 pts higher than Biden’s.
Those saying it’s the cost of living and not the #media coverage driving these numbers have to explain that gap btw perception and reality.