Marc Cooper says the hard left has blown multiple opportunities to organize a genuine movement against Trump. Reasons include the usual idiot sectarianism, along with ludicrous amounts of pessimism and fear. Trump is not the Big Bad Wolf. He’s a…
IRS tax letters are being sent now, probably by the tens of thousands daily. There are huge backlogs since the IRS was mostly closed for months. I work at H&R Block and we are seeing many of them now. First…
TikTok and Onyfans both help creators make money. And probably do it better and easier than Facebook and Twitter. Bella Thorne, former Disney actress now directing porn as well as doing regular movies just earned one million dollars in one day on…
Yikes. Anonymized cell phone data shows 26,000 visitors to Las Vegas were also in 48 other states in a 4 day period in July. This makes contact tracing maddeningly difficult. A vistor who has COVID-19 could spread it here in…
My wife and I used mailboxmap to locate mailboxes in our area, then drove around to see if they were still there. For the most part, yes, they were. Two missing boxes were at mail stores that were no longer…
California ISO manages the flow of high-voltage long-distance electricity for 80% of California. Their charts show how they manage the current heat wave and huge demand for power. For a bit they were forced to institute rolling blackouts to keep…
Trump publicly said he wants to disembowel the USPS to stop mail-in and absentee voting. It’s blowing up in his face, and is now a huge nationwide story. People and Congress are mobilizing. We can turn this around and make…
If I hear one more leftie say in response to the insane turmoil of our current moment that we must ignore politics as usual and instead build an independent worker’s movement, I’m going to scream. This is wrong on so…
Children under 5 can carry way more COVID-19 virus than adults, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study. Older children carry it as much as adults. So absolutely, let’s open all the schools. And have few or no guidelines. Nothing could…
COVID-19 is clobbering low income people. This isn’t just due to COVID-19 illnesses. The really devastating problems is services they rely on like health clinics, food stamps, subsidized internet, etc. are often barely functioning. The services are overwhelmed by unprecedented…
