169 - Do You Hear The People Sing? No, That’s Just a Coincidence

Iran and China are adjusting policies in response to mass protest–even if they won’t admit it. Meanwhile, rail workers are forced to accept a bad contract or carry out a wildcat strike. A sweet grandma’s home is raided and ransacked by a Denver SWAT team, and the new AI chatbot taking the internet by storm gives us our wildflower–a police reform executive order that is meh at best, but what do you expect–the AI is a liberal.

 

Adam Johnson on the rail workers’ deal: https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/1598753656794501121?s=46&t=CS4G4BvrPNPBjnsrH0vRAw 

 

Iran’s morality police: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/world/middleeast/iran-morality-police.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 

 

Grandmother’s home ransacked by SWAT team: https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/aclu-lawsuit-claims-grandmothers-home-was-illegally-raided-by-swat-team-searching-for-stolen-iphone-11/

 

Ending zero covid: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/01/the-beginning-of-the-end-to-covid-zero/ 

More: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/02/why-beijing-will-end-covid-zero-and-the-tech-crackdown/