this just in, and no surprise; those states that refused to lock down did much better than those that did, all way round;

New Data Show HUGE Economic Gulf Between Lockdown and Free States

When COVID-19 first came to our shores, it presented policymakers and elected officials with a crisis like nothing in living memory. In the year since, states have taken markedly different approaches to pandemic policy. Some, like New York, embraced sweeping government lockdowns and top-down mandates while others like Florida and South Dakota took a more humble, hands-off government approach, trusting individuals to make the best decisions for themselves.

The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments. First, we saw that states with the harshest restrictions didn’t actually achieve the best COVID-19 death outcomes. Meanwhile, free state economies have fared much better.

The national unemployment rate was a poor if not disastrous 6.2 percent in February. Yet new Labor Department data show that many free states have returned to nearly their pre-pandemic unemployment rates while lockdown states dominate the wrong end of the list..........read more.......

 this is an encouraging development for those who prefer an honest legal system. it seems that this judge realized there wouldn't have been a 'plot' unless the fbi began one;

This didn’t make many headlines back in October…
The ring leader in the plot to kidnap wretched Governor Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI informant.
He was planted into the group and was the one who pushed the entire plan.

The FBI was spying on lower, middle-class Americans and setting them up on terrorism charges.

The FBI then later arrested one of their own informants in the plot,

This was occurring as Antifa-BLM rioted and pillaged cities across the US.....read more.......

 for much of my life i've heard questions asked about how the good germans allowed what transpired in their land, and though i've known some answers this writer presents a good case for you being one as well, highlighted in our current realities;

As my listeners and readers can hopefully attest, I have been on a lifelong quest to understand human nature and human behavior. I am sad to report that I have learned more in the last few years, particularly in 2020, than in any equivalent period of time.

One of the biggest revelations concerns a question that has always plagued me: How does one explain the "good German," the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime? The same question could be asked about the average Frenchman during the Vichy era, the average Russian under Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev and their successors, and the millions of others who did nothing to help their fellow citizens under oppressive dictatorships........read more.......

 caitlin's always good for presenting a clear view of our surroundings and this essay is no different. she presents some of the ways 'our free press' controls what you believe and think, and reality be dammed;

Nothing of significance has changed since Trump left office, apart from the narratives about how much things have changed.

The wars are still going. Washington is still the hub of an oligarchic globe-spanning empire. Americans are still being impoverished and propagandized into political impotence by an unfathomably wealthy plutocracy. Sanctions are still squeezing people to death in Venezuela, Syria, Iran and North Korea. The world’s worst mass atrocity is still continuing in Yemen. The kids are still in cages. Authoritarian creep continues to metastasize. All the old abuses roll on completely uninterrupted, along the same trajectories they were on before.

If you were to take the entire US-centralized power structure and assess its overall behavior as a whole, you would find that the actual behavioral changes amount to the tiniest fraction of a single percentile of the total. If you’d just been analyzing the raw data without looking at the news stories, you’d see that the money, troops, weapons and resources have continued to move in more or less the same ways after January 20th as they were moving before.

What has changed is the narratives, the stories that Americans are being fed by those who are responsible for controlling the way people think, act, organize, and vote. If you are a Democrat, you have been hearing that the country is now a thousand percent better without the Orange Menace in charge. If you are a Republican, you’ve been hearing that it’s a thousand percent worse. In reality, in terms of the overall operation of the empire both domestically and internationally, hardly anything of significance has changed apart from the narrative overlay............read more......

i've seen a larger photo collection with many more well known people with a similar black eye, and there is no questioning that presents a reason, but this is much more than a coincidence; 

If you believe the Pope got a black left eye because the Pope Mobile came to a hard stop, you are part of the problem

 there once was  at least the illusion of blind and fair justice in the empire but the comparisons of what sticks and what doesn't in recent years openly presents the mockery its become. portland vs 1/6 in dc is another comparison that displays the illusion for what it really is;

 'our free press' was actually once free and as honest as you can expect from such sources but in the years since acting president reagan its fallen slowly and in recent years, quite quickly into a slime of propaganda with out regard for reality;