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Trump’s health nemesis gets a new starring role: Reversing Trump’s policies
Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general and former House lawmaker, would enter Biden’s HHS without traditional health or management experience – but with immense power to undo Trump’s actions.
We’ll Be Stuck With Trump’s Postmaster General for a While
Louis DeJoy is likely to last well into the Biden administration.
GoFundMe’s “Fast Food Philanthropy”
GoFundMe turned charitable giving into another form of social media.
States defer to health providers on who gets first vaccines
Governors will let providers sort out thorny questions over who should be first in line.
Fauci: U.K. ‘really rushed through that approval’ of Pfizer vaccine
The British government “kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile,” he said.
Trump’s health nemesis gets a new starring role: Reversing Trump’s policies
Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general and former House lawmaker, would enter Biden’s HHS without traditional health or management experience – but with immense power to undo Trump’s actions.
States defer to health providers on who gets first vaccines
Governors will let providers sort out thorny questions over who should be first in line.
Fauci: U.K. ‘really rushed through that approval’ of Pfizer vaccine
The British government “kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile,” he said.
Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Deese to be Biden’s top White House economic adviser
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.
Biden unveils diverse economic team as challenges to economy grow
The president-elect intends to name Cecilia Rouse, Neera Tanden and Wally Adeyemo to senior roles in his administration.
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Wins “Alternative Nobel” for Work Against Mass Incarceration
Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, was one of four human rights defenders to win this year’s Right Livelihood Award on December 3. “I work in a country that has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. I work against a system that treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent,” he said in accepting the honor.
Tuesday Night Owls: Tracking COVID’s spread among Latinos in a small Colorado community
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
43 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Markian Hawryluk at Kaiser Health News writes—Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community:
Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker
Tuesday Night Owls: Tracking COVID’s spread among Latinos in a small Colorado community
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
43 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Markian Hawryluk at Kaiser Health News writes—Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community:
Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker
Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed
In a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month’s election in New York’s 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more than a thousand untallied ballots getting counted.
Last week, Judge Scott DelConte ordered all eight county boards to produce official tallies in the race between Democratic Rep.
Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed
In a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month’s election in New York’s 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more than a thousand untallied ballots getting counted.
Last week, Judge Scott DelConte ordered all eight county boards to produce official tallies in the race between Democratic Rep.
Trump Administration Lowballs Unemployment Benefits In New COVID-19 Offer
The latest offer caps a day of confusion over pandemic relief on Capitol Hill.
Democrat senators add language to defense bill requiring federal officers ID themselves at protests
One of the more chilling and underreported developments of the past four years has been the Trump administration’s employment of unidentified federal officers to threaten, intimidate, attack, and arrest lawful protesters. Often heavily armed, these steroid-bulked goons with no personal identification were dispatched last June, for example, to intimidate protesters in Washington, D.C.
Democrat senators add language to defense bill requiring federal officers ID themselves at protests
One of the more chilling and underreported developments of the past four years has been the Trump administration’s employment of unidentified federal officers to threaten, intimidate, attack, and arrest lawful protesters. Often heavily armed, these steroid-bulked goons with no personal identification were dispatched last June, for example, to intimidate protesters in Washington, D.C.
2.4 million ‘please vote’ letters to Georgia are now in the mail. Daily Kos wrote 400,000+ of them
If you’re reading this, you know how high the stakes are in Georgia for the Jan. 5 runoff. And because the two Senate races will be decided by turnout, the real question is: Do enough Georgia Democrats know they need to come back and vote again?
Thankfully, there are now 2.
2.4 million ‘please vote’ letters to Georgia are now in the mail. Daily Kos wrote 400,000+ of them
If you’re reading this, you know how high the stakes are in Georgia for the Jan. 5 runoff. And because the two Senate races will be decided by turnout, the real question is: Do enough Georgia Democrats know they need to come back and vote again?
Thankfully, there are now 2.
A COVID-19-caused Social Security disaster looms for people born in 1960—unless Congress fixes it
If Congress doesn’t act to fix it, around 4 million workers in the United States will have a very bad, long-lasting coronavirus effect: Their eventual Social Security payments will be cut by as much as $2,000 a year in retirement, because they were unfortunate enough to turn 60 during the year 2020.
A COVID-19-caused Social Security disaster looms for people born in 1960—unless Congress fixes it
If Congress doesn’t act to fix it, around 4 million workers in the United States will have a very bad, long-lasting coronavirus effect: Their eventual Social Security payments will be cut by as much as $2,000 a year in retirement, because they were unfortunate enough to turn 60 during the year 2020.
U.S. could face months of vaccine shortages amid global competition
Most Americans’ best hope of getting a shot by spring or early summer may rest on vaccines that have not yet been proven to work.