WHAT'S BREWING
FLORIDA POLICE RAID HOUSE OF COVID-19 WHISTLEBLOWER Rebekah Jones, the former Florida Department of Health official who says she was ousted from her job managing the state’s COVID-19 data for refusing to censor and alter case information, said armed officers raided her Tallahassee home and took all of her tech hardware. After her ouster in May, Jones made public allegations that her superiors had told her to put misleading and false information on the public-facing COVID-19 dashboard. [HuffPost]
1,500 ATTORNEYS CONDEMN GIULIANI In an open letter, 1,500 attorneys slammed the Trump campaign for seeking to overturn the will of U.S. voters and called on bar associations to investigate lawyers who filed lawsuits on Trump’s behalf. The letter’s signatories include law professors, judges and local officials. They accuse Rudy Giuliani and other Trump campaign lawyers of violating their code of conduct by lying and filing baseless legal actions, calling their behavior a “disgrace.” [HuffPost]
WHICH ESSENTIAL WORKERS SHOULD GET A VACCINE FIRST? When the pandemic started, John Costa, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, lost sleep wondering if the bus drivers that his union represents should be pulled off the job. Nine months later, with vaccines on the horizon, a different question keeps Costa awake: When can his members get vaccinated? “Each state is going to have a slightly different take on what is an essential worker,” said Josh Michaud, associate director for global health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. [HuffPost]
CHUCK YEAGER, FIRST TO BREAK SOUND BARRIER, DIES AT 97 Chuck Yeager, the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound and an ace pilot who fought in World War II, died Monday night. He was 97. “It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET,” Yeager’s wife, Victoria, announced on Twitter. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever.” [HuffPost]
THE MARINES AND THE RACIST PORN ACTOR WHO TRIED TO START A 'MODERN SS' In 2016, Liam Collins, then just a teenager living in New Jersey, had a very specific vision for his life. He was going to join the U.S. Marines, get the training he needed, and then form a fascist paramilitary group that would use violence and terror to create a whites-only ethnostate. “It takes a man’s willpower and heart to make a commitment like this,” Collins wrote at the time on a since-shuttered neo-Nazi web forum called Iron March. [HuffPost] |
