Hey everyone. Here to tell you @SouthwestAir thinks the pandemic is over.

Yep, they did their research and consulted some very important people and now they’re canceling flights that aren’t packed to the gills and filling all middle seats with potential COVID carriers.
My nonstop flight to Chicago was canceled twice. I sat on a plane in Columbus for over an hour before learning this flight would have no empty seats.

I had flown from Denver with many middle seats open.
But at least @SouthwestAir’s stock price has almost fully recovered since pandemic slammed it hard earlier this year.

As a customer, I’m always happy to sacrifice my personal health for their shareholders’ wealth. Aren’t you? Image
You can bet with this treatment I will be deliberately avoiding air travel for at least the first half of 2021, @SouthwestAir

Especially while the uncontrolled spread continues Image

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8 Dec 20
Tom Vilsack, a.k.a. Mr. Monsanto, is Biden's pick for Agriculture Secretary. He was secretary of agriculture under Obama.
Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) previously summarized for @inthesetimesmag how Vilsack earned the moniker "Mr. Monsanto."

While in Obama admin, he looked out for interests of agriculture and biotech corporations, especially when it came to GMOs.

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Tom Philpott (@tomphilpott ) reported in 2011 on Vilsack's total cave-in to biotech genetically modified alfalfa from Monsanto was approved without any restrictions.

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Neera Tanden, who is Biden's pick for OMB director, is ardent opponent of Medicare For All.

Here is Neera on 2016 DNC Platform Committee rendering "healthcare is a human right" meaningless and redefining words to help Democrats suppress movement for universal health care:
Centrist liberal Neera Tanden, a Hillary Clinton loyalist and think tank president, is exactly who the health insurance industry want in White House to make sure expanding Medicare to cover all Americans never becomes a budget priority for Biden-Harris administration.
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They are very pleased with Biden picking Neera Tanden for OMB.
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24 Nov 20
President-elect Joe Biden announced his first batch of appointments.

As I've done throughout #BidenTransition, here's a thread on the national security elites and corporate consultants named to his administration.
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From 1994 to 2001, he was part of President Bill Clinton's National Security Council.
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To Blinken, world has little chance of survival if United States doesn't dictate its future.

He expressed this view at USGLC event on Nov. 10:
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19 Nov 20
The Biden-Harris Transition released a list of individuals who are briefing President-elect Joe Biden on national security matters.

Here's a thread examining each of these people.
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As a bio for him celebrates, Austin was an assistant division commander in the 3rd Infantry Division. He helped "spearhead the invasion into Iraq in March 2003." He boasts about US military forces leaving Kuwait and seizing Baghdad "in a record 22 days."

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The Biden-Harris Transition Team released names of people who are on their "agency review teams," which will prepare Biden and his Cabinet for their administration.

Let's examine some of the individuals who are notable because of their backgrounds. #BidenTransition Image
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A deadly virus has ravaged United States for past six or seven months, killing around 235,000 Americans so far. #Election2020
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