The Stephen King/Elon Musk story is funny, but it's satire.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-stephen-king-banned/

Based on his last administration, Trump's #1 priority is to overturn any popular policies of his predecessor.

If you're on Medicare and thinking of getting a shingles vaccine, get it now. The copay is now $0, but it could go back to the "brand name drug" copay of about $600 for the two-shot series.

Anyway, boycotts are of limited effectiveness when a few billionaires and investment firms own controlling shares of everything, and they use our 401K funds to do it.

Positive actions work better than negative ones. It is much more useful to share info about independent businesses that may cost a bit more but are responsive to their customers, like Penzys. (Which I only know about because people do share stuff like that on CoSo).

If a particular person says/does something worthy of being shunned, yes, do so. But most people were only Trump voters or Harris voters for one day. Campaigns “got out the vote” and begged for money, but they made no effort to encourage nuanced critical thinking. I wish there were a super PAC for that, but there isn’t.

We’re angry and hurting, feeling betrayed and even threatened. We want to resist, fight back, make them feel pain.

And that’s exactly why Russia backed Trump, to convulse the US in internal conflicts. So Russia can be less afraid of us. Don’t take the bait.

Remember that the news amplifies those whose views are so extreme they provoke morbid curiosity. They are the few and the noisy.

Most people are fairly apathetic and easily led. They voted against high prices, not FOR Trumpism.

While you're thinking about what fascist businesses you're NOT going to patronize, make sure you direct some patronage to the nonprofit media outlets that did not go along with sanewashing Trump.

Subscribe if you can afford it, or send them a little donation if that's all you can do. They can take those statistics to get donations from large foundations. The number of donors who give to them is as important as the amount they gave when they want to be taken seriously.

#politics

Philadelphia collar county Chester County is only 11% counted. Results are meaningless now

I'm getting a huge increase in the number of spam phone calls in the past couple weeks, mostly claiming to be from American Solar.

It's almost as if someone is trying to make it difficult for phone bank volunteers to get people to pick up the phone for get out the vote calls.

Heavy turnout in Philadelphia.

And if anyone tells you urban voters or young voters are apathetic and vote in low percentages, remember that no one removes their voter registrations when they move or re-register in a voter registration drive -- PA just lets it age off the list after two missed elections. The denominator for people who rent and move frequently is grossly exaggerated (about 10% in my experience canvassing).

https://www.insidernj.com/heavy-election-day-turnout-early-in-philadelphia/