If you want to read stories about anti-vax, anti-mask assholes, the media is there for you — can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting one of those. But the mainstream media is showing a lot less interest in a Treasury Dept. study that found the wealthiest 1% of Americans dodge as much in taxes as the bottom 90% pay. Yeah, wouldn’t want to stir up the masses against their paymasters, would they?
To the surprise of precisely nobody, childhood Covid cases have soared as kids return to school, with 252,000 reported nationwide last week. The number was about 8,500 the last week in June. Remember when kids didn’t get Covid? Last week they accounted for 27% of new cases.
Graceless to the last, Trump appointees to military academy advisory boards — people like Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway — are refusing Biden’s request to resign, so he’ll have to fire them. They’re all just as classy as the guy who hired him, aren’t they?
If you’re interested in economics, Vox has an interview that talks about the death of Reagan/Thatcher neoliberalism as a result of the pandemic.
The floor’s yours.