1) Liz Cheney faces ouster from GOP leadership – Republican Conference Chair – for telling the truth about Donald Trump, not lying about the election and standing firm against insurrectionist propaganda.
- The move is led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
- Vote to remove her expected Wednesday (today)
2) The Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Hack of a major petroleum pipeline
- Perpetrated against the main gas artery along the East coast 100 million gallons of ful typically flow from the pipeline each day
- FBI has attributed the attack to Darkside
- Stupid people panicking, has caused gas shortages
3) Donald Trump’s Facebook ban was made permanent – for 6 months
- The supposedly independent “Oversight Board” upheld the ban initiated after the Jan 6 insurrection but called for Facebook to review its ‘permanent’ ban in 6 months
- The Board said it was inappropriate to ban Trump “with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored.”
- Republicans jeered the results, progressives called for government regulation of Facebook
4) The New York Times has called out the CDC for its claim that "less than 10 percent" of COVID-19 transmission occurs outdoors.
- The actual figure is closer to 1%, perhaps being as low as 0.1% - why the exaggeration?