Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Greetings from (very) Sunny Florida, and welcome to the Weekend Edition. Your roundup includes: Your roundup includes: a sitting Lieutenant Governor indicted over covid testing contracts, which the New York Times filed under local color; the four Hawaii Democrats who went down with her, one of whom is currently unreachable in the Philippines; why state-level corruption prosecutions suddenly started happening everywhere at once, and the small D.C. office that spent decades making sure they didn’t; a $22.5 million mountain of covid tests the state bought, never opened, and then paid extra to get rid of; CNN’s discovery that federal scientists find customs declarations oppressive; the NIH researcher who allegedly carried monkeypox through Detroit and assured agents it was nothing; corporate media’s designated victim, who also happens to be the only man in the story formally barred from taking federal research money; and the British broadsheet that finally broke ranks on Senator Paul’s Slack messages — along with the one sentence from a molecular biologist that quietly demolishes twenty years of gain-of-function funding arguments.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/let-them-crank-saturday-july-25-2026?

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IF I WERE A TRUMP ADVISOR I WOULD HAVE TOLD HIM ABOUT THE BEST OF THE BEST CONSERVATIVE / MAGA COMMENTATORS WITH LARGE FOLLOWINGS AND THEN…AND WITH TRUMPS APPROVAL …QUIETLY FEED THESE
PEOPLE THE RIGHT INSIDE SCOOPS ON THE MOST IMPORTANT STORYLINES EVERY DAY

I BELIEVE JEFF CHILDERS IS ON THAT LIST …ALONG WITH CLANDESTINE …AND JH KUNSTLER….ERIC DAUGHERTY

PROMETHIAN ACTION….STEVE TURLEY…SCOTT JENNINGS DATA REPUBLICAN AND MAYBE EVEN TOM LUONGO AND GOD WILLING…MR POOL !

EACH OF THESE HAVE THEIR OWN STYLE AND EACH BRINGS DIFFERENT LIGHTING TO THE WHOLE PICTURE

THERE’S PROBABLY OTHER “INFLUENCERS ” THE WHITE HOUSE IS FEEDING SUPPORTING BUT THOSE COULD BE OUTSIDE OUR CIRCLE AND MORE FOR THE NORMIES.

IF I …A HUMBLE SMALL TIME CHAT BOARD MODERATOR CAN THINK OF THIS STRATEGY I AM SURE THE TRUMPSTER’S HAVE FIGUERED IT ALL OUT…

BUT OF ALL THE ABOVE NONE IS MORE IN TUNE THAN JEFF CHILDERS ….HOW CAN HE POSSIBLY BE THIS GREAT AND TIMELY ON ALL TOPICS TRUMP RELATED …7 DAYS A WEEK …IN THE MORNING BEFORE HE GOES TO HIS REAL JOB…THE RESEARCH NECESSARY FOR HIS WORK…DAY AFTER DAY…AMAZING ..BUT HE HAS TO BE AN INSIDER
HOWEVER HE DEFINITLY WRITES HIS OWN SARCASM….HE’S A MASTERSARC …

A SAVANT !

EXIBIT A

As we all know, The Science™ is a majestic, infallible entity, sort of like a surreal combination of Albert Einstein, Gandalf, and a Social Security office clerk. For years, we were told that we must unquestioningly obey The Science™, even when The Science™ told us to stand exactly six feet apart, mask our children while they were running track, and furiously scrub our groceries with bleach.

But lately, one gets the impression that The Science™ has been driving over a bit of a rough road with bad suspension. It turns out that when you start asking The Science™ basic questions —like, “Hey, why did you bring vials of deadly monkeypox on a commercial airplane without telling anyone?”— The Science™ gets cranky.

EXIHIT B

For years, the biomedical establishment demanded total transparency and absolute compliance from the American public. They wanted to know where we went, who we saw, whether we took the jab, and whether our toddlers were properly muzzled. They tracked our phones and mandated our most basic behaviors, down to and including breathing.