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“…The mask advice was a train wreck and now you’re doing the same with vaccines. What just broke about the vaccine and transmission is exactly the opposite of what Fauci had said previously.
It all looks politically motivated and that’s because it is. We didn’t elect these people. We didn’t elect any of these COVID experts who frightened the nation and gave juice to the Democrats’ power grab fetish during this pandemic. Remote learning isn’t working. Lockdowns don’t work. As for masks, well, please tell me how they’re working. California has a near-universal compliance rate and they still got 1 million cases in six weeks over the holidays…”
They think you are stupid.
On the Tenn. side, bars are able to stay open until 2 a.m. while just several feet away, Virginia bars must close at 10 p.m.
It would be one thing if this were just one outlet with an off-color and confrontational obit.
But it wasn’t. I mean. Cmon, @Reuters.
Limbaugh gets distilled down to a “Trump ally” but Soleimani “sought stability” pic.twitter.com/tdecG3TQi8
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) February 19, 2021
And it would be wrong not to revisit this @washingtonpost classic (albeit involving a different terrorist). pic.twitter.com/jocoYHG1XO
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) February 19, 2021
I think we can agree that this from @latimes isn’t quite the height of charity.
When Soleimani was killed, we got live updates on his funeral. pic.twitter.com/FTO2raAMN5
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) February 19, 2021
@esquire is the picture of class and grace, as always.
Also, while I’m sympathetic to the framing about those who led us into Iraq, it is interesting to reflect on the fact that the promised war with Iran never actually happened. pic.twitter.com/u3ycKksUXq
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) February 19, 2021
What has happened to @newrepublic continues to be a tragedy. pic.twitter.com/8zPGzL53gO
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) February 19, 2021
This is from a piece from @TheRoot (in 2018!) explaining why Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam are complicated.
At right, you have their response to Limbaugh’s death.
You mean to tell me that Farrakhan, who compared Jews to termites, deserves more of a pass than Limbaugh? pic.twitter.com/5COJET6lcH
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) February 19, 2021
Our friend @MarkSteynOnline 's tribute to Daily Beast staff critic @justinbaragona We hope you enjoy! pic.twitter.com/KBw9PY3WDA
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 19, 2021
Shut up, you dumb parents. We know what’s best.
What could go wrong?
Selfie-taking tourists could be spreading COVID-19 to gorillas https://t.co/4zFPh5xTmU pic.twitter.com/W097CTsoDY
— CTV News (@CTVNews) February 19, 2021
“…POLICE IN CHINA’S Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information, vehicle registrations, social media, and surveillance camera footage. To make sense of it all, they needed sophisticated analytic software. Enter American business computing giant Oracle, whose products could find relevant data in the police department’s disparate feeds and merge it with information from ongoing investigations.
So explained a China-based Oracle engineer at a developer conference at the company’s California headquarters in 2018. Slides from the presentation, hosted on Oracle’s website, begin with a “case outline” listing four Oracle “product[s] used” by Liaoning police to “do criminal analysis and prediction.” One slide shows Oracle software enabling Liaoning police to create network graphs based on hotel registrations and track down anyone who might be linked to a given suspect. Another shows the software being used to build a police dashboard and create “security case heat map[s].” Apparent pictures of the software interface show a blurred face and various Chinese names. The concluding slide states that the software helped police, whose datasets had been “incomprehensible,” more easily “trace the key people/objects/events” and “identify potential suspect[s]” — which in China often means dissidents.
Oracle representatives have marketed the company’s data analytics for use by police and security industry contractors across China, according to dozens of company documents hosted on its website. In at least two cases, the documents imply that provincial departments used the software in their operations. One is the slideshow story about Liaoning province. The other is an Oracle document describing police in Shanxi province as a “client” in need of an intelligence platform. Oracle also boasted that its data security services were used by other Chinese police entities, according to the documents — including police in Xinjiang, the site of a genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic groups…’
JACOB MCLEOD:
“…In 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office reported that individuals or organizations made $226 million in private donations to organizations at Newsom’s request. These “behested payments” were a record-setting haul eclipsing all prior donations on record by nearly $100 million. While most donations supported COVID-19 relief efforts, a closer look suggests Newsom’s fundraising was supercharged not just by the pandemic, but also by the broad emergency powers the Democratic governor has assumed because of it.
Behested payments are a unique feature of California politics. State law defines a behested payment as a donation to a government program or charity made “at the request, suggestion, or solicitation of, or made in cooperation, consultation, coordination or concert” with a public official. While payments of $5,000 or more are disclosed to the public, they remain an overlooked portion of politicians’ finances, even though contributions often come from businesses with interests in the state government.
Last year, Newsom raised a combined $45 million from insurance giants Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente for Project Homekey, his housing initiative. Newsom had selected Blue Shield CEO Paul Markovich to co-chair California’s task force on COVID-19 testing. In January, the governor again tapped Blue Shield, with assistance from Kaiser Permanente, to manage vaccine distribution across the state. That decision has raised eyebrows as the governor’s office has remained silent about the particulars of the deal, including why his administration selected Blue Shield and how much the company would be paid…”
