Mehdi Hasan - @mehdirhasan · 1:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
It begins...

New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate, Change COVID Policies
Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.
If you vote for the @GOP, you are voting to make ( Read more... )

This is the natural result of @GOP pro-plague politics, and why we have the worst COVID-19 numbers in the world.
InMinivanHell - @inminivanhell · 9:08 AM · Jan 8, 2022
Thomas Apollo went to a mobile clinic in Tustin, CA to protest covid vaccines. After calling employees “murderers” he assaulted them. Punching numerous staff members, leaving one ( Read more... )

Another small Twitter essay, of course.
Reuters Fact Check -
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Kyle Griffin - @kylegriffin1 · 10:30 AM · Dec 21, 2021
Important note for the unvaccinated who believe in 'natural immunity':

The first Omicron-linked death in the U.S. was recorded in Texas' Harris County on Monday evening. The man was unvaccinated but had previously been infected.
Solarbird - @solarbirdy · 1:59 PM · Dec 21, 2021
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The way to keep your bar from becoming a Nazi bar is to bring down the hammer the instant even one of them shows up.

I just had to do that on a mailing list I host - we host a bunch, mostly for clubs and not-for-profits - against QAnon antivax horseshit.

Not havin' it.

Just not.

I told the poster, I'm not gonna try to get through to you, I'm not gonna ( Read more... )

The Bad Guys Are Winning, a pretty good article in The Atlantic on how autocratic regimes have formed a sort of syndicate backing each other, and the complete abandonment of any pretence that autocratic rule improves lives. It's all about looting.
Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
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Another Twitter essay, this one on the national right-wing money going into local school board races.

There's a rightist effort going to distance from or leave the National School Boards Association, keying off their letter asking for help with "threats and acts of violence against public schoolchildren, public school board members, and other... ( Read more... )

Big Lie 2.0 rollout, continuing tonight on Fox News:

Hannity lies: Covid wasn't so bad under Trump
Trump lies in response: The GOP's vaccine rejection is Biden's fault and Trump handled it perfectly
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This is a video of a man detailing how he personally interacted with Instagram user AntiVaxMama. She was selling forged vaccination cards that included entry into actual vaccination databases.

He pretended to be a Florida pharmacist, responding to her actively seeking additional pharmacists to work with who were willing to enter fake vaccinations ( Read more... )

Something I kept harping on and people kept blowing off is that at least 20% of pre-vaccine asymptomatic COVID-19 patients had long-term organ damage. It was more on Twitter other places where I'm more politically active these days, but still - remember that? Remember?

Oh look, it's the chickens:

"Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought ( Read more... )