“Tax breaks for billionaires are handouts. Tax deductions for the fossil fuel industry are handouts. Subsidies for pharma corporations, tech companies, and defense contractors are handouts. A survival check is not a handout.” — Robert Reich
“I wish I lived in a country where Donald Trump committing high treason with Russia was treated with half the outrage and gravity of Dr. Jill Biden earning an advanced degree.” -- Andrea Junker
Deaths
US: 323,401 (+2556)
World: 1,691,772 (+10,693)
Cases
US: 18,077,768 (+189,415)
World: 76,620,145 (+613,120)
Countdown 1: 17 days.
Countdown 2: 32 days.
Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash. Flynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump could invoke martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden -- an idea that arose again during the meeting in the Oval Office, one of the people said. It wasn't clear whether Trump endorsed the idea, but others in the room forcefully pushed back and shot it down. -- The fact this was seriously discussed in the Oval Office shows how close we are to becoming a banana republic.
New COVID-19 strain spreads more quickly, UK medical chief says.
For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.
Overwhelmed, California hospitals contemplate rationing care.
Governors complain Covid-19 vaccine shipments being cut, feds say not true. Meanwhile, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla insisted via Twitter on Thursday that the company is “not having any production issues with our Covid-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed.”
Employers can legally require COVID-19 vaccinations, attorneys say.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said he made a trip to the North Pole to get Santa vaccinated for COVID-19: "He is good to go."
In California, wealthy patients are offering top dollar to cut the line for a Covid-19 vaccine.
Mike Pompeo: 'We can say pretty clearly' Russia was behind hack of US agencies.
Trump downplays severity of cyber attack and avoids blaming Russia. Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the grave cyberattack against the United States and tried to minimized its impact. — He is so compromised by Putin.
Pressley: $600 stimulus checks are an "insult" to Americans struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A former acting chief of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence office has told Congress that DHS leaders pressed him to overstate illegal border crossings from Mexico and overplay the role of far left groups in violence during anti-government protests last summer.
With just 33 days left in office, President Trump is still trying to advance his "patriotic education" 1776 Commission, appointing an 18-member panel to be led by longtime Trump ally Larry Arnn.
French modelling agent who knew Jeffrey Epstein placed under investigation. The Paris prosecutor said Brunel was suspected of having raped, assaulted and harassed several minor and adult victims as well as having organised transport and hosting of young women for Epstein.
The US Air Force Test Pilot School graduates its largest class of female test pilots and engineers in history.
Pence announces that Space Force personnel will be called guardians.
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