DC residents get visits from FBI as agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, telling them investigators were tracking people whose cell phones connected to wi-fi or pinged cell phone towers near the Capitol during the riots.

Stevens said an FBI agent told her they were reaching out to every single person whose cell phone put them near the Capitol during the riots.

She was out for a walk with a friend and his two young daughters on the afternoon of Jan. 6, but they were diverted by bomb scares until they ended up right next to the insurrection. Adults and kids were cordoned off and unable to get back to their apartments for four hours.

“You don’t want to be anywhere where they’re going to go!” she said on a video she shot while police officers in riot gear quick-stepped toward the Capitol.

Stevens was out of town, so the agent called her on the phone number that the FBI had tracked.

“Extremely creepy, because he explained that they have everyone’s phone number from pinging off the cell phone towers, and they know basically exactly where you were, within the vicinity of the Capitol,” Stevens said. “And they can actually pinpoint on Google Maps exactly where you were standing. Like, he knew where I was standing on the sidewalk, like specifically, based on my cell phone ping.”

Maybe it’s time to invest in long-range walkie-talkies for regular communication within your family.

Also, get yourself an RF signal blocking bag.

When shit goes down, don’t whip out your cellphone and start taking videos, go dark and GTFO.

You don’t want to get an anal-probe from the FBI because you just happened to be near something you weren’t involved in.

Did not go shooting because Honey Do, but I took a bit of time off to head to the water and cast me some worms:

First cast: Not bad, small but maybe better things are coming?

Several casts later, I caught baby brother/sister/whatever:

But the next catch was unsuspected and a good fighter!

I know, it ain’t big, specially measured against the Hot Chick Hand-Catching Catfish Half Butt Naked you see in YouTube, but it will do. Besides, nobody would Patreon me for fishing wearing a Speedo.

Some reader were amazed at the Ferrari Formula One pit stop, so I looked and found a video of of the Mercedes team practicing pit stops with the actual drivers. I have seen races lost and won in the pits and even people getting killed. The pit is not a joke.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect Practice makes Perfect.

Reader Dano slaps me with this even before coffee.

Amazon.com Inc. is seeking to postpone a unionization vote at a warehouse in Alabama and is asking federal labor authorities to reconsider a decision to allow mail-in voting due to the pandemic.

The company Thursday filed an appeal to a decision by the National Labor Relations Board, which is allowing a mail-in process due to Covid-19 risks instead of the in-person elections that are typical in such unionization votes.

Amazon Seeks to Postpone Alabama Unionization Vote

No way! Why would Democrat-Loving Amazon insist that voting in such an important decision has to be made in person?

 Amazon declined to comment on its appeal but has said it believes the best approach to an election would be conducting it in person, saying it “provided the NLRB with a safe, confidential and convenient proposal for associates to vote on-site, which is in the best interest of all parties—associate convenience, vote fidelity and timeliness of vote count.”

So, not only suddenly Vote-By-Mail is bad, but another union is screwed by Democrats. Yup, you keep voting for them and enjoy then anal probe sans the benefit of lubricant.

But hey, Orange Man bad and be thankful your new Aristocracy is overseeing your lives.

Now, I am gonna get me some coffee.

It is becoming an iconic photo, not only for the memes but for the little story behind the mittens.

The mittens captured the imagination of so many that his campaign store is coming up with a crewneck for sale.

And they are donating 100% of proceeds to Meals on Wheels Vermont which is laudable, but we hope some of those meals are sent to Jen Ellis, the woman who knitted the mittens. Why is that?

The Vermont school teacher who made Bernie Sanders’ mittens, featured in the most recent viral meme, said she had to stop making them after the federal government taxed her too much.

“People have been contacting me thinking that they can get mittens, and actually they can’t. I don’t have any more, and I don’t have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn’t worth it,” Jen Ellis explained to Slate. “Independent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government. We get taxed to the nth degree, and it wasn’t really worth it pursuing that as a business, even as a side hustle.”

Woman Behind Bernie Sanders’ Iconic Mittens Quit Making Them Because High Taxes Killed Her Business

There is a lesson there somewhere, but apparently she missed it because she still loves Bernie and what he represents.

Oy!

I don’t follow Formula One anymore but if there is something they do right are pit stops. From firs car stopping to second car leaving? 12.7 seconds.

I mentioned yesterday (?) about having one wireless camera for the inside of the house when we are out and for smoking ribs. This is it right now.

It is Black and White because I activated the Night Vision. It gives me a better contrast and I can se the thermometer much better and the brightness of natural light on that old dial was not helping.

A couple of more hours and I figure supper will be ready!