Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Visualizing 500,000 Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S.
In 2020, the U.S. saw a more than 15 percent increase in deaths over the prior year, the highest year-on-year rise in deaths across the U.S. since 1918, which experienced both a global flu epidemic and the First World War.
You're Not Imagining It: The Pandemic Is Making Your Hair Fall Out
Boris Johnson lays out go-slow plan to take England out of lockdown by summer
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Bitcoin Stabilizes After Margin Calls Fuel Biggest Plunge in Month
US treasury secretary floats idea of digital dollar maintained by the Fed. What could possibly go wrong?
Wait Till You Hear the Latest Bitcoin Movie Plot
As Cities Grapple With Climate Change, Gas Utilities Fight To Stay In Business
Texas está congelado:
NatGas Traders Begged For Cash As Arctic Blast Paralyzed Texas Energy Market
Ken Paxton Left Texas During Power Outages
While millions of Texans languished in their homes last week without heat, many of them racking up astronomical electricity bills, the state official in charge of consumer protection left to take an out-of-state trip.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) left the state during the middle of the power outage crisis to meet with a fellow attorney general in Utah for a ‘previously planned meeting.’ Hs wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton (R), was also on the trip.
Politics:
Trump Is Angry Prosecutors Will See His Tax Returns
Donald Trump’s yearslong quest to prevent the public, Congress, or law-enforcement officials from seeing his tax statements came to a resounding end with a unanimous Supreme Court ruling. He did not take the defeat in stride. Instead, the former president released a statement that, even by Trumpian standards, brims with anger.
Trump’s response bears every hallmark of an authentically Trump-authored text, as opposed to the knockoff versions produced by his aides. It is meandering, filled with run-on sentences, gratuitous insults, and exclamation points.
The statement does contain one unambiguously true point: ‘This is something which has never happened to a president before.’ That’s correct, because every president for the past several decades has voluntarily released his financial information. Only Trump refused.
New York Attorney General Letitia James says Trump Supreme Court ruling won't affect her tax probe
Garland tells senators his first priority will be prosecuting Capitol insurrection
Republican Senators Are Suddenly Very Concerned About DOJ Being Politicized
Clarence Thomas Promotes Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies in Alarming Dissent
Serendipity:
Terrifying Video of United 328’s In-Flight Engine Failure
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