2024-01-09

• Beginning our 4th year of daily news links, and our 4th month of publication!

• See today's Retrospective section for highlights from the news on this day over the past 3 years.

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• Chesterton's Fence, Bayes' theorem, and the decay of tradition

  Yet the tradition that Chesterton was defending was not the things we do for no other reason except that we've always done them. Rather, he was defending the things we do for a good reason we've forgotten — almost like an amnesiac who still wears a wedding ring even though they can't recall their spouse's name.

• Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night

• Ideas matter: How I stopped being a Culture Incel

  If Enlightenment thinkers believed that Technology can uplift the human condition, we have seen the exact opposite mentality applied to climate change. In fact, one of the greenest energy generating options, nuclear power, has been actively campaigned against by major climate organisations like Greenpeace (although this shows signs of changing recently).

  I was for all intents and purposes a Culture Incel. As with all Incels, My Inceldom was born out of cope for feeling spurned by the object of my desire. The way in which Culture rejected me is that it didn't seem to reflect my identity or beliefs. Mingling with humanities students highlighted this chasm; their societal perspectives vastly differed from mine. I could simplify it as “I appreciate the importance of free markets and they didn’t; I was fascinated by the wonders of human civilisation, the moral & technological innovations of the last ~300 years and they did not; I believe a victim mentality is bad and they didn’t”. But the rift was deeper than that. Similarly, I did not really appreciate most journalism: the kind of cultural commentary that was en vogue did not resonate with me; the permanent doom and gloom over free markets and how bad our world is felt hollow.

• On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes - by Brian Potter

  It’s true that many jurisdictions use zoning rules to try to prevent manufactured homes from being placed (this Reason piece gives several examples, and the Manufactured Housing Institute lists several more). It seems reasonable that reducing zoning restrictions would go a long way to increasing manufactured home sales. However, it’s hard to know what zoning changes are most important: many attempts at doing this don’t seem to have worked.

• Explosion at Fort Worth hotel, 21 injuries reported, missing person located

  An explosion that blew out at least two floors of a high-rise hotel and injured nearly two dozen people in downtown Fort Worth on Monday afternoon is suspected of being caused by a natural gas leak, according to the ATF and Fort Worth Fire Department.

  • Aerial video shows impact of an explosion in Texas hotel

• Where To Get Pro-Liberty Legal Help - by Rebecca de Winter

  Here is a short list of libertarian/conservative legal aid organizations, organized by primary focus

Horseshit

• Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines

  • HN comments

• The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022) | Hacker News

• American Policy Won't Get Us to Mass EV Adoption. Chinese Cars Will

• Tips to make 2024 even brighter

  • Don't waste time on a bad book. If you're falling asleep, checking your phone or rolling your eyes as you read, that might be a sign you aren't a fan. So put the book down and find something new to read.
  • Use your washing machine's express cycle. This option offers a shorter wash cycle and a high-speed spin cycle, which helps quicken drying time. It can also help protect your clothes from abrasion by reducing the amount of time the fabric is rubbing against other fabric in the washer.
  • Cut down how much trash you produce outside the home. Opt for a digital receipt instead of a paper one. Bring your own reusable fork to a restaurant that uses single-use plastic utensils. Or ask your local barista to fill up your coffee mug instead of a paper cup.
  • To minimize conflict at a family function, it's OK to avoid people who trigger you. You're allowed to avoid a the family member who always tries to fight with you or criticizes your life choices.

• Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate

  • Investigators found the 'door plug' that blew off a Boeing 737 Max

  • United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft

  • HN comments

• Study: Positive thinking and other magical beliefs' relationship to bankruptcy

• Marijuana Buyers from Texas Fuel a 'Little Amsterdam' in New Mexico

• Washington sues Labor Law Poster Service for repeat frauds of small businesses

• We Own More Cars Than Ever. So Why Are We Driving Less?

• A missing person with no memory, cold case solved using post-mortem fingerprints

• DPH warns crisis pregnancy centers against deceptive practices

  MA Department of Public Health is reminding physicians and other medical professionals to operate with transparency after an influx of complaints about anti-abortion centers. The licensed crisis pregnancy centers often provide services like ultrasounds and pregnancy testing, but opt to not provide other reproductive care services including abortions, abortion referrals, or contraception, despite depicting themselves as fully equipped pregnancy care facilities, the state said.

• How the dark days of January shape your mood, intelligence and sex drive

  Google users are more likely to seek pornography in the deep mid-winter and early summer. They are also more likely to hunt for dating websites. Once again, many factors are likely involved, but it seems reasonable to speculate that the wintertime peak may, in part, reflect our desire for greater human contact. Whatever the explanation, this variation has real-world health consequences, with further studies revealing a rise and fall in sexually-transmitted infections over the same periods.

• The "10k-hour rule" was debunked again

  • HN comments

celebrity gossip

• Mr. Beast Moves 80K Chocolate Bars in 3 Weeks

  • Why MrBeast Is Rebuffing Elon Musk

Epstein

• Jeffrey Epstein: Fourth batch of court documents released

• Epstein had ‘sex tapes’ of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, witness claimed

• Epstein Urged Ghislaine to Rope in Clinton Over Bad Press

• Epstein Docs List All His Harvard Pals

• The Epstein “list,” explained

• Ghislaine Maxwell had a secret Tumblr account, according to newly unsealed court records

  • Ghislaine Maxwell's Secret Tumblr Account Exposed - MSN

  • (2020) Did Ghislaine Maxwell secretly run one of the most powerful Reddit accounts in history? | Daily Mail Online

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Backlash grows over Substack permitting extremist speech, Nazi content.

  • Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform

  • Substack is going to remove five Nazi newsletters

  • Substack said it removed some newsletters after criticism about Nazi content

• Misinformation proving challenge to relief effors after Japan quake

Musk

• Elon's war against bots on X is failing

• Supreme Court rejects decade-old Twitter First Amendment case

  The Supreme Court has declined a long-running legal challenge from X Corp., formerly Twitter, over whether it can publicly reveal US government demands for user data. X Corp. v. Garland was on a list of denied petitions released this morning. That leaves X with a March 2023 ruling that the First Amendment doesn’t protect Twitter from limits on reporting national security demands — a ruling civil liberties organizations say sets a disappointingly low bar for censorship.

  Twitter filed its original suit in 2014, the year after whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed details of extensive secret US telecoms surveillance. In the wake of those disclosures, social networks won the option to report how many demands agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation had made, but — thanks to government nondisclosure requirements — only in extraordinarily broad ranges. Twitter sought to publish the exact number of requests it received within a six-month period, arguing that redactions demanded by the FBI overstepped the First Amendment.

  • Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk's X on disclosing federal surveillance

• Elon Musk Denies He Has a Drug Problem After Bombshell Report

  • Elon Musk's drug use causing turmoil for Tesla, SpaceX

  • When did it become okay for the Wall Street Journal to accuse Elon Musk of using LSD and cocaine without evidence? On Saturday, apparently.

    the Journal’s sources: None. That’s right. None. Not even an off-the-record quote. The closest the article gets to sourcing is this: “people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.” The Wall Street Journal - the second-most important newspaper in the United States - had accused Musk of using cocaine and LSD without evidence.

    I cannot imagine the Journal or The New York Times running this piece with this kind of sourcing even a couple of years ago, much less in 2010, the year I left the Times. But standards at the top papers have plunged across the board. They have fallen even faster for coverage of people such as Musk, who have political views unacceptable to left-leaning newsrooms.

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• 4 Ways The BLM And Antifa Riots Were Worse Than January 6.

• Steven Calabresi: The January 6th Riot Was Not Like the Civil War.

• What If Trump Weren’t On The Ballot?

• Dem Rep. Steve Cohen Shares the DUMBEST J6 Pic-Tweet of 'Em ALL and the (Copypasta) Backfire Is DELICIOUS – Twitchy

• DOJ Expands J6 Dragnet to Peaceful Protesters

  We have used our prosecutorial discretion to primarily focus on those who entered the building or those who engaged in violent or corrupt conduct on Capitol grounds,” Graves said.“ But if a person knowingly entered the restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime. Make no mistake, thousands of people occupied an area that they were not authorized to be present in in the first place.” Graves has not indicated what he considers to be the “restricted area.”

• Whoopi Goldberg says people are losing faith in America and that’s very bad because then people will vote for Trump who is planning on putting people in camps .

• Landmark presidential immunity case to be heard in court

• Donald Trump's Immunity Appeal Opens New Campaign Front

• Trump co-defendant in Georgia election case alleges DA benefited from 'improper' relationship

• Judge in Trump election subversion case targeted by fake 911 ‘swatting’ call

  • Apparent ‘Swatting’ Incident Targets Judge in Trump Election Case

• The reality of Trump and Stefanik's Jan. 6 'hostages'

  • Elise Stefanik Gives Master Class On Refuting Democrats’ ‘Insurrection’ Lies

  • Raskin suggests Stefanik's Jan. 6 'hostages' remarks due to VP ambitions

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• (Dec 2021) The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication

  • HN comments

• The AARP just told its 38 million members to get an eighth (yes, EIGHTH!) shot of mRNA

  AARP’s unbelievably bad advice doesn’t end there. The column then goes on to tell members that “the most recent shot, which was released in September 2023, isn’t actually a booster. It’s a new vaccine that targets the latest variants.”

  A what-now? A new vaccine?

  Wow. Guess it must have gone through the randomized trials that are required in the United States for any new drug or vaccine. No? Let’s just call it a new vaccine anyway, since our elderly readers have gotten kinda suspicious of the failure of the Covid shots they’ve already taken.

• Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

• Fauci Appears Before Congress to Answer Questions on Mask Mandates, COVID-19 Origins | The Epoch Times

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Trend of the Week: Silicon Valley Has the Woke Mind Virus on the Brain

• Anti-Israel radicals who shut down NYC bridges linked to AOC, funded by Rockefellers

  • Anti-Israel Protesters Blocking Three NYC Bridges and Holland Tunel

  • 325 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after blocking NYC bridges, tunnel

• Riot Unfolds as NYPD Responds to Discovery of Underground Tunnel in Brooklyn Temple

• Pope calls for universal ban on surrogate parenting, calls it ‘deplorable’

  • Pope Francis blasts surrogacy as a "deplorable" practice

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Importance of Supporting Real Science in the Battle Against Narrative Science

• GWU To Pay $5.4 Million In Covid Lawsuit Over Online-Only Instruction | ZeroHedge

• Severe financial pressures at University of Chicago

• The Thrill Of Word-Policing

  The implication being that hearing an occasional use of the word cannibalism or stripping in reference to astronomical phenomena will somehow, in ways never quite specified, deflect an otherwise promising astronomer from their calling, despite an uncommon focus and years of study.

• U.S. News Makes Money from Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges

• Bill Ackman’s war to make universities accountable has the left panicked.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2

• U.S. 'Cord Cutting' Sets New High. Again

• How F1 is laying the groundwork for 8K TV future

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before

  Bruce Perens is unhappy. He sees the spirit and potency of FOSS decaying into obsolescence as the big guns learn to game the system and users don't see the point.

• "47 year old monster" Bringing A Chain Printer Back To Life: The Power Supply

• GitHub's subversion support has been sunset

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The New York Times' AI Opportunity

• Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'

• Wizards of the Coast admits using AI art after banning AI art

• In race for AI supremacy, China, US are travelling on different tracks

  • Wasn't "Quantum supremacy" the shiznit just a little while back?

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Massive ‘lost’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2024, NASA says.

• New Vulcan rocket sends privately-built Moon lander to space.

• Peregrine lander: Private US Moon mission runs into trouble

  The Astrobotic company behind the project says its Peregrine spacecraft has experienced an "anomaly" that has stopped it from pointing its solar panels stably at the Sun. Without the ability to charge batteries and maintain a power supply, the mission won't be able to proceed.

• Hours after its launch, a US lunar lander experiences an anomaly

• Peregrine moon lander suffers anomaly after launch

• Peregrine Mission One: Critical Loss of Propellant

  • HN comments

• Peregrine 1: Spacecraft attempting first American moon landing in 50 years has probably failed

• Peregrine mission abandons moon landing after suffering critical fuel loss

• NASA expected to announce 'months-long delay' for crewed Artemis moon mission

Crypto con games

• BlackRock, Ark File Amended Forms in Final Push for Bitcoin ETFs

• Bitcoin could soar 344% to $200,000 by the end of next year as ETF approval drives huge inflows

• Bitcoin climbs back to $45,000 as investors await ETF decision this week

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Car dealers back away from Buick amid lower sales, EV push

• "office space" Union Square Tries to Become Manhattan's Future

• Offices Around America Hit a New Vacancy Record

• IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022 - WSJ

  • HN comments

• Private US Companies Increasingly Going Bust as Profit Shrinks - Bloomberg

• Initial US employment reports overstated by 439,000 jobs in 2023.

• Biden admin to announce independent contractor rule that could upend gig economy (Archive)

  Joe Biden will release a final rule as soon as this week that will make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors rather than employees that typically cost a company more, an administration official said. ... its potential impact on app-based services that rely heavily on contract workers has garnered the most attention. Shares of Uber Technologies Inc, Lyft Inc and DoorDash all tumbled at least 10% when the draft rule was proposed in October 2022.

• Janet Yellen Says US Has Achieved a Soft Landing After December Jobs Report - Bloomberg

• Unity is laying off 25% of its staff

  • Unity plans to layoff 1800 – 25%

  • Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in 'company reset' continuation

  • Unity Software plans to reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating \~1,800 jobs

  • Unity is laying off 25 percent of its staff

• Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content

  • HN comments

• Consumer Credit Shocker: November Debt Soars After Second Biggest Surge In Credit Card Debt On Record | ZeroHedge

• "Sugar Taxes" and inflation totally not to blame. Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge

  The global cost of sugar has surged to its highest level since 2011 following concerns of underproduction rates from India, which has experienced an extreme dry spell that has threatened crops, and Thailand, which is facing a severe drought. The two countries are the largest exporters of sugar, after Brazil. US consumers saw prices for sugar and sweets rise by 8.9% in 2023 and a 5.6% increase is expected this year, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which is well above historical averages.

• Samsung warns fourth-quarter profit could plunge 35%, misses expectations

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise nears $13B deal to buy Juniper Networks

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Biden to drop out of 2024 US election, JPMorgan top strategist predicts - The Jerusalem Post

  The full prediction states that “President Biden withdraws sometime between Super Tuesday and the November election, citing health reasons. Biden passes the torch to a replacement candidate named by the Democratic National Committee.” This prediction cites Biden’s low approval rating, as well as his approximately 10% job creation since his inauguration, although his inauguration coincided with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and the reopening of the US economy.

• Speaker Johnson Announces $1.66 Trillion Bipartisan Package To Avert Shutdown

  • Will hard-right Republicans derail the fragile US spending deal?

  • US Again Faces Possibility of Government Shutdown Over Spending

• Income redistribution through taxes and transfers continues to rise

  The broader historical trends show that the US tax-and-transfer system is getting more progressive, including in recent years. And the US government is increasingly redistributing wealth to the bottom half of the income distribution.

• Worst Presidential Speach Ever - by John A. Lucas

  The principal purposes of Biden’s irresponsible and inflammatory speech were, I submit, three-fold: (1) make Trump appear as deranged and dangerous as possible to justify any extraordinary measures to remove him from the ballot and imprison him, (2) to let the Democrat base know that anything goes; no tactics are too dirty; and (3) to divert attention from Biden’s sorry and indefensible record.

• apropos of nothing much: Charles Coughlin - Wikipedia

  In 1934, he established a political organization called the National Union for Social Justice. Its platform called for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and railroads, and protection of labor rights. The membership ran into the millions but was not well organized locally.

  After making attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin began to use his radio program to broadcast antisemitic commentary. In the late 1930s, he supported some of the policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The broadcasts have been described as "a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture". His chief topics were political and economic rather than religious, using the slogan "Social Justice".

  After the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, the Roosevelt administration forced the cancellation of his radio program and forbade distribution by mail of his newspaper Social Justice. Coughlin largely vanished from the public arena, working as a parish pastor until retiring in 1966. He died in 1979 at the age of 88.

• "Report it Right!" Biden campaign brings top journalists to Wilmington

  Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has begun organizing a series of off-the-record trips for top political reporters and editors to the team’s headquarters

  They’re also using it as an opportunity to tell them what they’re getting wrong. Two people with knowledge of the situation told Semafor that during meetings with reporters from outlets like The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, campaign officials have invoked a coverage spreadsheet laying out areas where the team believes their reporting has fallen short.

  ... Biden staffers were scheduled to meet in the coming days with political reporting teams from ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, and others in Wilmington.

  • If Donald Trump Did This, the Establishment Media's Heads Would've Exploded

• Crypto 'dark money' group ramps up lobbying efforts ahead of 2024 election

• Biden Describes White Supremacy as 'Poison' in Pitch to Black Voters

• Biden Interrupted by Protesters Calling for Gaza Ceasefire at Charleston

• Biden targets Trump in South Carolina speech

• One of the key pieces of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Iowa plan: Free beer

• Haley looks to defy expectations in Iowa

• Democrats to spend $35M targeting voters of color in House races

• Biden’s ‘War On Democracy’ Speech Previews Democrats’ Coming Insurrection If They Lose In 2024

• Christian Ziegler: Florida Republicans fire party boss over rape claim

• Biden admin reverses decision to remove William Penn statue from park commemorating founding of Pennsylvania

  • Park Service Withdraws Plan to Remove William Penn Statue

• Bucshon becomes latest Republican to announce retirement

• New Hampshire sends DNC cease-and-desist letter: Stop saying our primary is 'meaningless'

  • N.H. attorney general accuses DNC of voter suppression over primary fight

• Michelle Obama Says 2024 Election Worries Keep Her Up At Night

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Vehicle Crashes Into White House Gate, Driver in Custody

  • Driver Arrested After Car Smashes Into White House Gate

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• ‘He’s a cipher’: How Austin’s need for privacy just backfired - POLITICO

  • Okay – Now the Joint Chiefs Head Knew About Austin and Agreed to KEEP THE SECRET?!

  • “The failure to disclose that Austin had been hospitalized for days was a breach of the norm in which health issues of senior government officials are released with alacrity.”

  • Defense Secretary Austin's bizarre behavior demands answers from Biden & Co.

  • White House, Pentagon Reviewing Procedures After Defense Chief’s Hospitalization

  • Only Russian media was reporting this yesterday: Defense Secretary Austin still recovering in hospital, Pentagon says

  • Haley calls for Biden to be fired over Austin controversy

  • 4 Aides to Austin Waited 2 Days to Tell White House About His Hospitalization

  • White House says Lloyd Austin will stay in job despite ‘lack of transparency’

  • Biden Backs Defense Chief Austin, Won't Take Resignation if Offered

• U.S. Navy Officer Who Helped China Is Sentenced to 2 Years

World

• Saving the Panama Canal will take years and cost billions, if it’s even possible.

• Asia's business heirs look beyond profits, hoping to escape parents' shadow

• Mass killer Breivik sues Norway in bid to end prison isolation

• Britain needs an unprecedented expansion of the electricity grid

• 'Ramen noodles budget': EU moves to end exploitation of unpaid internships

• France's Prime Minister Resigns After Immigration Fight Splits Macron's Party

  • France gets its youngest-ever prime minister as Macron seeks a reset

  • Gabriel Attal becomes France's youngest, first openly gay prime minister

• South Korean Parliament Approves Ban on Selling and Consuming Dog Meat

• Hasina remains the high priestess of Bangladesh’s dynastic democracy

  • UN Urges Bangladesh to Change Course After Controversial Vote

• Pakistan's Top Court Outlaws Lifetime Election Bans on Convicted Politicians

Iran / Houthi / Red Sea / Mediterranean

• "95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa"

  • HN comments

Israel

• IDF says 40 Hamas fighters killed in Khan Younis; Blinken meets with Israeli leaders

• Blinken begins meetings in Israel amid deepening disagreements over the war.

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Evasion of EU sanctions against Russia through Central Asia

• A Vision of Russia as a Country That Runs on Violence

• Wave of Russian missiles pounds areas across Ukraine

• Russia Continues its New Year Barrage of Attacks on Ukraine

• Photos show sappers neutralizing the warhead of one of Russia's overhyped Kinzhal missiles after it was shot down

• Russian Missiles Pound Ukraine, Officials Say

China

• Chinese satellite launch triggers alarm in Taiwan

• Chinese military invasion unlikely, think tank says

Health / Medicine

• The better cholesterol test you didn't know you needed

• Many dead patients still listed as alive in electronic health records

• Does chicken soup help when you're sick?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 'Greener, cheaper, much warmer' – heat pump owners laud their new system

  • HN comments

• Houston Becomes Hotspot for Clean Tech Startups

• Federal Judge Orders Removal of Wind Farm in Osage County

• Why decades of progress in cars' fuel efficiency is ending

• Autonomous weapons will only work against corvids for a week or so. Clever birds, they is. Laser scarecrows could offer a solution for protecting crops from birds

• 2023 confirmed as hottest year on record

• Central US Walloped by Blizzard Conditions

Retrospective

• A look back at the news of the day in 2023, 2022, and 2021

From Monday 09 January 2023

• How to Bounded Distrust | Don't Worry About the Vase

  Alas, the media often misleads. It implies and insinuates that which is not. It abuses the language. It selectively omits. It is highly motivated by partisanship and ideology and its own interests. It does not do or understand the research. It is terrible at interpreting science. It confuses cause and effect. It purports to use technically accurate data to show, even prove, conclusions known to be false, in ways that are designed to mislead and obviously in bad faith.

• Brazil had their own election fuss: Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says perpetrators will be found and punished after supporters of Brazilian far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress. The dramatic scenes come a week after the left-wing veteran's inauguration.

• eggs were egg-spensive, inflation was "no longer a problem", gas stoves were found to cause kids asthma

From Sunday 09 January 2022

• People Obsessed with Celebrities May Be Less Intelligent, Study Suggests

• AI: Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?

• Yale continues to say it can ban legal, off-campus behavior

• Remember the "chip shortage"? Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM

• Bitcoin prices fall to lowest in months after US Fed remarks

  The crypto-currency dropped in value from $47,000 (£34,700) earlier this week to less than $42,000 (£31,000) per digital coin.

• RSS Feeds about what the Government is doing

• Argentines are desperate for dollars as bets on devaluation soar

• COVID was bigger news:

  • Vaccinated women pass Covid-19 antibodies to breastfeeding babies

  • How Soon Will Covid Be “Normal”?

From Saturday 09 January 2021

• DELTA airlines boots two women for private conversation about Trump… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

• Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

  • I can barely look at the comments around this one, "they're posting memes about 'make them afraid' with pictures of congress cowering; no democratic society can tolerate this"

• A Big Move to Ban Realtor 'Hate Speech' — At Work, Anywhere, 24/7

  the National Association of Realtors, called the nation’s largest trade organization, has revised its professional ethics code to ban “hate speech and harassing speech” by its 1.4 million members. The sweeping prohibition applies to association members 24/7, covering all communication, private and professional, written and spoken, online and off. Punishment could top out at a maximum fine of $15,000 and expulsion from the organization. NAR’s decision, allowing any member of the public to file a complaint, has alarmed other real estate agents, and also some legal and ethics experts,

• "Jan6" propaganda was in full spew:

  • Pelosi: Capitol rioters chose their 'whiteness' over democracy | Fox News

  • MSNBC Dismisses GOP Denunciation of Violence, Whole Party Is Now ‘Violent,’ ‘Fascist’ | Newsbusters

  • The Police’s Tepid Response to the Capitol Breach Wasn’t an Aberration

  • Cellphone Data Could Lead to More Capitol Arrests

  • Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt - World Socialist Web Site

  Lisa Desjardins told NPR yesterday that she realized the danger she was in when she noticed police had abandoned their posts inside the Capitol building. She was barricaded in a room with several congressional representatives who held hands and prayed, worried that they were about to be killed.