NEW: The party of "corporations are people" would now prefer that those "people" shut up — or else. Ex-@GOP officeholders and experts say such threats reek of desperation and are doomed to fail. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Ex-@GOP Chair @MichaelSteele said leaders at companies such as @CocaCola and @Delta aren't afraid of retaliation by Republicans who are angry at companies that support voting rights.
.@MichaelSteele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, said business leaders can do the math needed to know the better long-term bet is on democracy. there’s a cost-benefit analysis..but there’s also the longer term consideration," he said. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
There are some good points here. Cutting the defense budget has become politically toxic for many bipartisan reasons but I can't say that I have ever read anything about the F-35 that doesn't include it being awful in one way or another. Some examples: 1/x
"The pricey new stealth jet can’t turn or climb fast enough to hit an enemy plane during a dogfight or to dodge the enemy’s own gunfire, the pilot reported following a day of mock air battles back in January." 2/x medium.com/war-is-boring/…
"According to the Pierre Sprey, co-designer of the F-16, the F35 is a turkey. Inherently, a terrible airplane. An airplane built for a dumb idea. A kludge that will fail time and time again. Just impossibly hopeless." 3/ gizmodo.com/the-designer-o…
In this @Axios piece, @felixsalmon says that the decline of Americans' trust in media is "mostly not a function of Trump's war on "fake news".
That's true, sort of.
It's a function of a nearly 50-year post-Watergate war on fact-based news by political... axios.com/media-trust-cr…
...activists looking to bully the press into holding their fire on corruption and scandal so as to prevent what happened to Nixon from ever happening again, and in recent years they've been joined in their efforts by lefty "media critics" who would like the press to go easy on...
...their side. Add to that the completely irresponsible cable news culture that has created an environment where viewers can't tell the difference between news and opinion by letting primetime pundits conduct interviews of high-profile gov't officials instead of insisting that...
NOW: White House Covid coordinator @JeffZients says 22 million vaccine doses have gone out this week. More than 6,000 active duty military will be assisting with vaccinations in coming weeks.
Additional 700 community health centers will have vaccines by end of April, @JeffZients adds.
Current 7-day average is 2.4 million shots per day.
"Eight weeks ago, only 8% of seniors, those most vulnerable to COVID-19 had received a vaccination. Today, 65% of people aged 65 or older have received at least one shot, and 36% are fully vaccinated," says @POTUS
.@POTUS credits use of the Defence Production Act for ramping up vaccine supply over the past 50 days.