Out d'Coup | Biden's Goes Big on Exec Orders; GameStop; COVID Updates; Cuomo Lied; GOPs Q Problem; Jeffrey Yass; WITF; Axiom Space Tourists; Free Will Releases

Biden signs significant executive actions on climate change and restoring Obamacare. His climate action calls for converting the federal vehicle pool to all electric vehicles. And, the government must now take into account all the climate costs before approving any federal permits. 

Wall Street Hedge Funds feel the pitchforks as Reddit-fueled retail traders take revenge. Think about the big GameStop story as the revenge for what those very same Hedge Funds did to Toys R’ Us. Gotta say, it’s fun to see “eat the rich” trending. 

The GameStop controversy has done more to bring Left and Right politiicans together than any initiative of the Biden administration. That’s after the trading platform Robinhood screws retail traders to protect hedge fund billionaires. But AOC tells Ted Cruz that he’s not wanted and he should resign. 

According to new reporting in the Guardian, it looks like most of the world's poorest countries will not be vaccinated against COVID-19 until well into 2024. Some may never reach necessary vaccination levels. Nothing like adding yet another crisis on the backs of the most vulnerable regions. I guess fomenting global uprisings are going to be a thing this decade. 

New York’s Governor Cuomo allegedly purposely underreported nursing home deaths by as much as 50%. 

Iowa lawmakers on the verge of eliminating tenure at all Iowa state universities. It would be the first, but presumably not the last, state to eliminate tenure. 

And those Hedge Fund babies are gonna cry more tears when they hear that Sweden has put a ban on mink breeding due to the spread of a COVID-19 variant through the country’s mink population. No fur coats for you. 

And, Q-Anon, Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Green gets crazier by the day. Not only did she call the Parkland shooting a “false flag” operation, newly revealed posts show her applauding calls to assassinate Democratic congressional leaders including Nancy Pelosi. 

PA Republicans make headlines in the New York Times again. An article dropped yesterday about why Pennsylvania Republican leaders are doubling down on their Trump credentials 

Pennsylvania has a Jeffrey Yass problem.  PA Spotlight published an oped in the Penn Capital Star about billionaire hedge funder Jeffrey Yass, his connections to the education privatization movement and how he has used Commonwealth Foundation associated PACs to fund Pennsylvania’s leading insurrectionists.

WITF, Harrisburg’s NPR affiliate, has made the editorial decision to mention how key Republicans played a role in the insurrection by signing onto letters to overturn the 2020 election results whenever they report on those republicans from here on out.  For example: “Sen. (name), who signed a letter asking members of Congress to delay certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral votes despite no evidence that would call those results into question, today introduced a bill …”

A thirty-year-old bartender in Montgomery County has tested positive for the UK variant of the coronavirus. That’s one the variants that spreads more easily and more quickly than the original strain. 

Axiom Space has announced that it will fly the first ever crew of tourists to the International Space Station in early 2022. Three of the globes super rich will pay $71 million each for the trip. They will spend 8 days on the space station. 

Free Will Brewing releases.