~ 2020 pantry clear-out begins ~ Polling debacles ! ~ Can polling be fixed? ~ Election legitimacy, now and then ~ AOC on ground operations ~ Pfizer ramping? ~ Biden’s Covid plan ~ Nursing home Covid mortality and loneliness ~ Animal Crossing ~ Zamyatin’s “We” ~ Bob and Ray ~ A hole in one
Read more...Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Unions look better than they used to, due to the worsening of non-union work.
Read more...Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.
Read more...Covid charts ~ Can Biden avoid Obama’s mistakes? ~ Manchin on fundamental change ~ Biden transition and Silicon Valley ~ Candidate concessions ~ Vote challenges ~ Boeing 737 ~ Pfizer’s vaccine makes me queasy ~ Book hoarding
Read more...A language directive via the New York Times! Will it take hold?
Read more...The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.
Read more...Rumor, as in press reports, has it that Biden plans to install uber hawk Michèle Flournoy as Secretary of Defense.
Read more...A cri de couer about election 2020.
Read more...~ “Bright college days” ~ Election fraud affidavit emerges, sorta ~ is Pfizer Son of Gilead? ~ GSA “ascertainment” and the Biden transition ~ Malls on the upswing, or not? ~ Mason jar shortage ~ Shutting up Amazon Echo ~ SAD ~ Karl Kraus
Read more...High-quality before and after tests in the Netherlands suggest at-home lockdown education was a complete bust for primary school kids.
Read more...The two major exit poll vendors, their methodological challenges, why we don’t know which is more trustworthy, and a plea for reporting by humans about humans
Read more...Housing itself is just the most egregious tip of a very large iceberg. Everywhere you look, COVID-19 is widening the gulf between those who own assets and those who owe debts.
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