Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II quietly passed away. This saddens me because I don’t have a lot of respect for, or confidence in, the new Charles III. But – of course – it is what it is. The New Yorker has published a very thoughtful retrospective on her. Also yesterday, I received approval to visit Vergil Sunday, so it will be one of those days.
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HuffPost – Hundreds of Law Enforcement, Military Part of Jan. 6-Linked Oath Keepers: Report
Quote – The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military. It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Click through for story. On one level this is terrifying – but Beau actually found it encouraging, because 370 out of 38,000 and 100 out of 38,000 are not very large percentages. If he had looked up the actual number of law enforecement and active duty military (665,380 and 1.195 million respectively), he might have felt even better. But it’s important to know, and good that there’s now a database.
The New Yorker – The Election Official Who Tried to Prove “Stop the Steal”
Quote – Douglas Frank,… a high-school math and science teacher with a doctorate in chemistry, had previously been promoting another mathematical formula that, he claimed, allowed him to determine the number of covid cases more accurately than state health authorities and the media. “I was modelling every single county in the United States, and people would come to my social-media pages to find out what the real numbers were,” Frank said. “So that’s how Sherronna first met me. I was on her podcast, and I had her on mine.” Frank told me that, after building an audience of covid skeptics with his revisionist statistics, he was invited by several politicians to examine their 2020 election results. “I noticed a pattern,” Frank said. “And the pattern enables me to go into any state and look at one county. And, once I’ve looked at one county, I can predict all of the other counties to preposterous accuracy.” PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism school and research organization, has given one of Frank’s claims about vote manipulation a hundred-per-cent “Pants on Fire” rating,
Click through for full investigative reporting. This really scares me, more so than the obviously violent.
Food For Thought
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