How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? At United Airlines, 50% of unvaccinated employees have already complied in the first 3 weeks of the 5 week grace period, according to CEO Jack Kirby. npr.org/2021/09/10/103…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? At Delta Airlines, the vaccination rate has risen to 78% in just two weeks since a mandate was imposed, with no resignations, says the company's chief health officer. seattletimes.com/business/delta…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Tyson's Food imposed a mandate in August, employee vaccination rate has risen from 45% to 72% - cutting number of unvaccinated workers in half in less than a month whitehouse.gov/covidplan/
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Yesterday 3M and Qiagen joined ranks of employers that will weekly testing of employees who refuse vaccination. reuters.com/business/healt…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? USA Today reports that a dozen labor law experts agree that employees who lose jobs for refusing vaccination will be ineligible for state unemployment insurance benefits. usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? AP poll finds that only 21% of Americans oppose vaccine mandates for federal employees. apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Only 2% of human-resource professionals surveyed say they have noticed any instances at all of employees quitting rather than be vaccinated. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? You know those surveys about police officers threatening mass resignation? This one was based on a response rate under 40% - in other words, a huge over-sampling of the cranks latimes.com/california/sto…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? One of the first in the country was imposed by tax office in Florida's Orange County. Vax rate doubled from 45% to 90%. Only 12 employees quit. And that's FLORIDA. wftv.com/news/local/12-…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Here's what it looked like when anti-vax protesters unsuccessfully tried to force the closure of a school in Washington State. A handful of this
(Note that the pro-vaxxer correctly spelled the always tricky word "harassing")
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? 73 Chicago school bus drivers quit over mandate. They caused a couple of days of chaos, especially for special education kids, but Uber and Lyft have stepped up to close the gap businessinsider.com/chicago-parent…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Local CBS affiliate built an entire story over one - ONE - unnamed employee who quit her job one - ONE - unnamed hospital in Maryland. baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/08/31/hos…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Frustrated by Gov Abbott order forbidding businesses to require proof of vaccination, 9 Houston gay bars now working with Texas National Guard to offer free vaccination on site outsmartmagazine.com/2021/09/lgbtq-…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Final word to this Wilmington NC doctor, interviewed by a local TV station after working 7 straights days in an ICU wect.com/2021/09/09/wil…
How's the mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? 34,000-employee Indiana U. Health System ordered all staff vaccinated by 9/1. 300 were suspended w/out pay for missing deadline. By 9/14 only 125 part-timers had to be terminated. cnn.com/2021/09/18/us/…
Anti-vaxxers are hailing the departure of 61 full-time equivalents from a 34,000-person organization as a huge symbolic win for their cause - which makes one wonder what they would consider an embarrassing defeat. Mandates work. cnn.com/2021/09/18/us/…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Operator of Milwaukee convention center, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee arena, and other venues will deem any unvaccinated employee to have voluntarily resigned. jsonline.com/story/money/20…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? Three Vermont state troopers who faked vaccination cards lost their jobs after their colleagues turned them in. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09…
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going? San Jose, Calif., police department employs almost 1000 officers. *One* - and a reservist too! - resigned rather than be vaccinated. nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavir…
The story from San Jose by the way casts some unflattering light on the role of local media. Can you imagine a local TV news item on the resignation of a single part-time employee from a 1,000 person department over any other issue than this one?
Here's how Fox News online is covering the resignation of one part-time post-retirement police officer from a nearly 1,000-person department
"More could resign" is a nice extra touch when you're covering an event involving a single part-time retiree.
How's that mass civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Here's a news story by an Oklahoma City TV station about how 1 (one) unnamed nursing home employee MIGHT quit (but hasn't yet). news9.com/story/6148d28d…
Seriously, Oklahoma City Channel 9, you might serve your viewers better if your reporter told the nurse: "Call me back if you actually go through with it."
How's that mass civil disobedience campaign against vaccine mandates going?
I think we may have reached the point where there are more TV/newspaper stories about people who *might* quit to protest vaccine mandates - than there are actual human beings who *have* quit to protest vaccine mandates.
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? North Carolina's Novant Health has suspended 375 of 35,000 employees for missing the vaccination deadline. The company's overall vaccination rate: 98.6%. wcnc.com/article/news/h…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Highly conservative Gray.TV (chief political correspondent Greta van Susteren) fires its northern Michigan local weatherman for refusing vaccination. fox11online.com/news/coronavir…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Delaware's largest health care provider announces vaccination requirement for its 14,000 employees effective 9/28. A protest against the mandate attracted only about 50 people whyy.org/articles/prote…
One of the Delaware protesters, an employee of the healthcare provider, declined to give her last name to a reporter ... because she didn't want to lose her job.
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? Kentucky hospitals that have imposed vaccination requirements report that fewer than 1% of employees have been terminated for refusal. wbko.com/2021/09/19/doz…
How's the mass civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of 30,000 employees in the University of North Carolina health system, 60 have quit rather than be vaccinated. Of 23,000 in the Duke U health system, 97% have gotten vaxxed. wral.com/coronavirus/do…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? As of mid-July, only 1/3 of students at New Jersey's Stockton U had been vaccinated. Post-mandate, only 156 of 9,378 students had to be disenrolled for noncompliance. insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/2…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of almost 41,000 students at University of Maryland, 79 have been disenrolled for refusing vaccination dbknews.com/2021/09/02/umd…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of 34,000 students at Virginia Tech, 134 have been disenrolled for refusing vaccine wric.com/news/134-stude…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? With a week to go before the deadline, University of New Mexico covid trackers shows nearly 100% compliance among faculty and staff, student compliance at nearly 80% covid.unm.edu
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of nearly 100,000 students at Penn State, 117 have been suspended for failing to meet vaccination/testing requirements philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/09/22/pen…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? With a week to go before University of Oregon's deadline, 81% of students report themselves already fully vaccinated. Faculty + staff over 95%. registerguard.com/story/news/edu…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? University of Washington at St. Louis (Missouri) reports 98% compliance among faculty, staff, and students covid19.wustl.edu/danforth-campu…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? An Illinois woman who tried to gain entry to Hawaii with a faked vaccination record was arrested because she had misspelled "Moderna" on the forgery kiro7.com/news/trending/…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Three academic researchers find theconversation.com/half-of-unvacc…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? The three researchers found some cases I had missed: theconversation.com/half-of-unvacc…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience against vaccination mandates going? Out of 76,000 employees, New York's Northwell healthcare group this week fired an estimated two dozen managers for vaccine refusal. Company vax rate is now 100%. nypost.com/2021/09/27/ny-…
How's the mass campaign of civil disobedience to vaccine mandates going? As rate of vaccination among French nursing-home workers reaches 85%, @Reuters profiles one who quit his job rather than be vaxxed. reuters.com/business/healt…
@Reuters How's the campaign of mass civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Duke University health system announced Sept 29 that only 20 of its 23,000 employees had to be terminated for vaccine refusal. newsobserver.com/news/local/art…
How's the campaign of mass civil disobedience against vaccine mandates going? Of 33,000 employees at Michigan's Henry Ford health system, only 400 have had to be terminated. COO expresses regret - but notes that the 400 are being rapidly replaced. eu.freep.com/story/news/hea…
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The Trump administration appears to be actively contemplating an act of Putin-like aggression and annexation against a NATO ally
US treaties are part of the supreme law of the land.
I question whether a presidential directive to the US military to invade and annex the territory of a NATO ally would be a "lawful order."
PS I was thinking of VP Vance's threats against the Danish territory of Greenland, which sounded like a warning of imminent US invasion. But I should have been more specific, since the Trump administration has been threatening US aggression against Canada too.
America's allies are deciding that the F-35 fighter cannot be trusted under a Putin-governed US administration. "[B]y severing maintenance support, shipments of spare parts, and cutting foreign F-35s off from U.S. computer networks, the aircraft would quickly be hobbled. …"
“Without these software updates, F-35s could fly, but would be much more likely to be shot down by enemy air defenses. Also without U.S. maintainers and spare parts, it would be difficult to keep the aircraft flying for long ...." breakingdefense.com/2025/03/no-the…
I've personally heard similar concerns from allied governments about the reliability of US-made naval vessels as well. French / Swedish / South Korean equipment may not be as advanced as American, but potentially more trustworthy than weapons from a Russian-aligned USA.
Such a curious coincidence, that's exactly what Herbert Hoover said on October 25, 1929, the day after the Dow Jones dropped 9% in a single day. millercenter.org/the-presidency… Trump's stock market is down 10% from in less than 30 days. x.com/charliespierin…
Soon after Herbert Hoover deployed his "fundamentals of the economy are sound" line in October 1929, he signed a big tariff increases, started a global trade war, and converted a stock market shock into a worldwide depression.
Here's the full Herbert Hoover quote from October 25, 1929. As you read it, you'll see that Hoover - a highly intelligent and perceptive man - was uneasily aware that the fundamentals were actually coming apart. Hoover signed tariff increases anyway.
A lively industry is growing of talkers/influencers trying to sell the idea that there is some rational patriotic motive to Trump's pro-Putin foreign policy and his costly trade wars. Don't believe them. My latest. theatlantic.com/international/…
Trump-splainers pretend that cozying to Russia as part of a rational strategy to counter China. But no rational US strategy to counter China includes launching a trade war against Australia. Yet that's what Trump just did. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Trump foreign policy is a compound of pervasive corruption, personal malice, and ideological Putinism. There's no grand strategy to it. theatlantic.com/international/…
In the minds of many, Jews are a problem. They were supposed to be replaced by Christianity, or by Islam, or by nationalism, or by socialism - and yet they keep lingering on, refusing to accept the message that history is done with them and it's time for them to be gone.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, it's awkward to say directly that Jews should not exist any more. But many people are very ready to say - and even more to hear - that the Holocaust shows that Jews need to improve, be less difficult and particular.
The Jewish memory of the Holocaust is: "You can live in a highly cultured and advanced nation - and yet still your neighbors may turn on you and try to kill you."
Much of the non-Jewish memory is: "Will you people never learn to trust the superior ethics of your many critics?"
I appreciate why those appalled by the attack on Congress January 6, 2021, emphasize the violence against police that day. Trump supporters and fellow-travelers will concede that violence against police is wrong - even if they hedge with many "what abouts?" 1/x
The violence against police on January 6, 2021, was vicious and intentional. Yet the anti-police violence was incidental to the day's central crime. President Trump incited - and thousands of his supporters attempted - a violent plot to overturn a democratic election. 2/x
Trump supporters attacked police on January 6, 2021, because the police stood in the way of the mission Trump sent his supporters to execute: killing, kidnapping, or incapacitating Vice President Pence to force a halt to the electoral count so Trump could stay president. 3/x