In this video from More Perfect Union, we learn about Moderna raising the price of the COVID vaccines by about 400 percent and how we, as a result, are getting utterly ripped off as taxpayers (full disclosure: I got the first 2 COVID shots and both of my first two boosters from Moderna and the bivalent from Pfizer...the first booster knocked me on my ass, but I know that, in some cases, that’s what the "jab" is supposed to do)...
...and Chris Hayes brings us the latest source of wingnut umbrage, namely, the utterly preposterous claim that the Biden Administration is coming for our gas stoves...as usual, the issue isn’t the veracity of the talking point, because there isn’t any, but the attempt by the “party of Lincoln” to drive their BS narrative (more on that here)...
...and Ana of TYT brings us more details on the Brett Favre scandal in Mississippi ($5 million for the volleyball arena which we knew about), taking $$$ from the TANF program, which makes it even worse of a slap in the face I know given that we’re talking about the most impoverished state in the country...total cost of the alleged abuse of the program is $70 million – people need to go to prison, and I don’t care if that means Favre too...
Update 2/9/23: In addition to being elitist and nepotistic, this move is also a really stoo-pid legal strategy because it opens the door for all kinds of stuff I’m sure Favre doesn’t want to bring out as part of discovery.
...and John and Yasmin Khan of The Damage Report discuss the protests going on in Brazil in response to the attempts by Jair Bolsonaro and his crowd (including Steve Bannon of course) to overturn a free and fair election...looks like another case of the rich and powerful in this country who are up to their elbows in criminal behavior who may end up skating for it...love to be wrong...
...and in the latest episode of Utterly Clueless Rich White Guys Displaying Their Entitlement, Sam Seder (not Sam) discusses Larry Summers and his analysis that unemployment basically has to go up (despite the fact that we’re at a 50-year low, or maybe because of it - ??) to bring down inflation (which is going down already) and rebuild our economy from COVID, or something (and of course Lars con-vee-niently fails to mention corporate price gouging, as the ocean waves gently lap and foam behind Summers in the background)...
...and I’m planning to include some selections as a tribute to guitar legend Jeff Beck, including this number.
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