LOL!

Facebook went down for a considerable period yesterday. So did its other "crapps" (crappy applications), Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

This, after Sunday's blockbuster 60 Minutes interview with a whistleblower blowing the whistle on Facebook's unethical business practices.

You can read about that here.

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In other news, some dude (not me 😭) won the lottery (nearly $700 million). Oh, and this happened:

Criminal inquiry into #TFG's Georgia election interference gathers steam

Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia over his attempt to sway the 2020 election there, and that heat is now overlapping with investigations in Congress looking at the former president’s efforts to subvert American democracy.

A criminal investigation into Trump’s 2 January call prodding Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “just find” him 11,780 votes to block Joe Biden’s win in the state is making headway. The Georgia district attorney running the inquiry is now also sharing information with the House committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol in Washington DC.

Meanwhile, a justice department taskforce investigating threats to election officials nationwide has launched inquiries in Georgia, where election officers and workers received death threats or warnings of violence, including some after Trump singled out one official publicly for not backing his baseless fraud claims.

Despite these investigations, Trump is still pushing bogus fraud claims in Georgia. Trump wrote to Raffensperger in September asking him to decertify the election results, which is impossible, and with an eye on the 2022 elections is trying to oust Raffensperger, as well as the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, and other top Republicans who defied his demands to block Biden’s win.

While this is great news, nothing will come of it. #TFG will never be punished for the crimes he committed.

But at least we can hope his entire motley crew of miscreants will serve a little time behind bars and suffer financially. It's the best we'll get.

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Make it a great day!

Bill

🍺 PS - Buy me a beer. Since the kids have been back to school, we've had to get two COVID tests (halfway there!) - one came back negative and we're waiting on the second...I could use my own sixpack (hint hint).