Face Time: Despite a massive document dump of unflattering internal information about Facebook, the social network earned $29 billion in the latest quarter ending September 30^th, up nearly $8 billion from the same period last year.

  But Facebook’s stock has also fallen roughly 5 percent in recent weeks, shaving billions off its market value. Shareholders filed a resolution to dilute the power of its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.

  Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen released a cache of internal documents to the press, claiming that Facebook puts profit before user safety. Reports in the press say the documents show Facebook routinely failed to moderate content that promoted hate speech and sex trafficking outside of the US. 

  Haugen’s lawyers say the internal documents reveal that Facebook took action on only 3 to 5 percent of hate speech, and less than 1 percent of posts that promoted or incited violence. According to the documents, one employee wrote, “Not only do we not do something about combustible election misinformation in comments, we amplify them and give them broader distribution.” 

  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerburg is basically claiming he’s the victim of online hate speech. Yesterday, he told investors on a conference call: “What we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company.”

Covid Nation: New York police officers, firefighters, and other city employees marched across the Brooklyn bridge to City Hall yesterday in protest of the city’s requirement for them to get the Covid vaccine. The drop dead — or rather, drop off the payroll deadline — is Friday. Anyone who doesn’t get a shot by then will not be paid.

  While that was happening, the New York police union sued the city to block the vaccine mandate. The suit claims it’s unfair to have a mandate that does not include the choice of weekly testing. 

   The crowd estimate at the demonstration was 5,000 with at least 20 arrests. Some of the marchers carried signs saying “We will not comply!” while others had the yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag that has become a standard of the anti-government right wing.

Heavy Weather: The drenching storm known as a Bomb Cyclone that dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of the West Coast over the weekend hit the East overnight. Several inches of rain were expected.

  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared states of emergency last night.

  This same storm dropped more than 16 inches of rain over a 48-hour period on Mount Tamalpais in California’s Marin County. More than 10 inches were recorded in St. Helena in the heart of California wine country.

Zero to 60: Stock in the electric car company Tesla took off yesterday after the Hertz rental car company announced it would buy 100,000 Teslas in a plan to make 20 percent of their fleet electric.

  The company’s value spiked over $1 trillion. “Wild $T1mes!” tweeted Tesla chief executive Elon Musk. He also said Hertz is not even getting a discount as is usual in the rental car business. “Same price as to consumers,” Musk said.

The Spin Rack: Two people were killed and five injured, including a police officer, during a shooting at the giant Boise Town Square  mall in Boise, Idaho. The shooter was arrested. — Blue Origin, the space exploration company started by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos,  says it will create a new privately owned space station, what it calls a “mixed-use business park” in space. Here on earth, Amazon workers in New York are moving toward forming a union. — The Nike Air Ships sneakers that Michael Jordan wore during his first season with the Chicago Bulls sold for nearly $1.5 million at auction. — Veteran prop master Neal Zoromski told the LA Times that he turned down a job with the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” because he thought the operation was overly focused on saving money and “There were massive red flags.” Baldwin accidentally killed the cinematographer and wounded the director with a six gun on the set.

Play Ball: The World Series begins tonight with the Atlanta Braves in Houston to play the Astros.

  The Astros will be playing for their second championship in the last five years while the Braves have not won the series since 1995.

 As for who’s favored to win, baseball analysts say blah, blah, blah, however, you have to consider blah blah. 

Trumpthink: No one ever accused Donald Trump and his progeny of having human sympathy in the midst of tragedy. Remember Trump’s “very fine people on both sides?”

  Donald Trump Jr. is selling T-shirts on his website that mocks the fatal shooting on Alec Baldwin’s movie set. One of the shirts bears the legend, “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people.”

  This is the family that wants to re-claim The White House.

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