Avoid your eyes!mine sunday morning Look at incompetence, corruption and policy blunders:

• Celebrity ads have never been so bad pete. Depp. Wahlberg. Damon. bad. mute. stupid. horrible. It has been proven, time and time again. Celebrity ads don’t work. They were expensive to produce but didn’t increase sales; they were a complete waste of money. But brands—marketing “experts”—have been hiring celebrities. why? (replicator)

• long shadow of the big lie: How a network of conspiracy peddlers made the GOP eager for major electoral change. (five thirty-eight) see also Seven ways Republicans are sabotaging the 2024 election The next attempted coup will not be a mob attack, but a carefully planned and even technically legal coup. The insurgents are not thugs in suits, but men in suits and ties. (protector)

• COVID hospitalizations are as bad as they seem Many so-called “accidental” infections are not truly accidental and cannot be ignored. (atlantic organization)

• I Spent Riot Week Listening to Steve Bannon: The Trump Coup Is Real, Spectacular and LastingFor three hours a day, the Republican coup planners who sparked the domestic terror attack on the U.S. Capitol last year gather to discuss their next move. In their January 6th anniversary show, the Dead Police Association implored their great patriotic listeners to “seize the day. We deserve it all. We’re proud of what we did on January 6th.” (barrier)

• It’s Official: Gun Deaths Hit Record High in 2020 Driven by a surge in homicides, more than 45,000 Americans have died from gunfire for the first time, according to the CDC. (trace)

• Ron Johnson wasn’t always like that.Trump’s years break his heart. RonJon It wasn’t always like that. He used to be a relatively straightforward pro-market, small-government, budget-conscious conservative. He seemed to have more or less a firm grasp on reality. But Trump’s years have broken him because they have broken so much within the Republican Party. (New York Times)

• Lawsuit: Yale, Georgetown and other top schools colluded illegally to limit student financial aid A new federal lawsuit adds to an ongoing effort to change college admissions practices. (Wall Street Journal)

• What role did far-right platform Parler play in the January 6 uprising? One of the biggest unanswered questions about the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 last year was the extent to which social media played a role in the violence that day. A year later, just over 700 people who responded to Donald Trump’s call to march to Congress now face charges related to the attack. Many of those indicted were posted to Facebook, Twitter and Parler (the far-right rival to the mainstream platform) via social media. (slate)

• Accused of denying aid to disabled children, a state agency responds – hires PR firm The company collected nearly $200,000, pledging to help Florida’s NICA program “win the court of public opinion.” But in the end, state lawmakers insisted that administrators listen to parents and make changes. (the public)

• We are all “experts” now.it’s not a good thingNo wonder so many of us think we can parse vaccine trial data, compare personal protective equipment, write school policies and call career scientists idiots on Facebook. We are omniscient because it is our duty to know everything. God bless we shouldn’t know something and be deceived. If that happens, it’s definitely our fault. (New York Times)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview this weekend with Jim McKelvey, Co-founder square (with Jack Dorsey), current CEO invisible, the future of enabling people to manage their personal data.

World ocean temperatures in 2021 are warmest on record

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