In 2010, police made more street stops than ever before, but complaints about them dropped precipitously. [City Room/NYT]
coronavirus
CDC Study: Students Can Return to In-Person School With Proper Precautions
THE FEED
Not good news, particularly with the Democratic majority hanging by a thread
immigration
Judge Blocks Biden From Implementing 100-Day Deportation Ban
extremism
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Trying to Impeach the Biden Family
the national interest
McConnell: It Was Too Soon to Impeach Trump, Now It’s Too Late
politics
McConnell and Most Republican Senators Vote to Dismiss Trump’s Impeachment
loser
Trump-Branded Buildings in Manhattan Have Lost Half Their Value
Well, that would be nice
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: US expects to deliver enough vaccine to states this summer for 2-dose regimen for 300M Americans.
—@JonLemire
A sign of where this trial is going
Just five Republican senators voted to not dismiss the Senate impeachment trial: Sens. Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey.
The rest, including McConnell, voted to dismiss the trial. @MSNBC @GarrettHaake
—@kylegriffin1
The rest, including McConnell, voted to dismiss the trial. @MSNBC @GarrettHaake
transition liveblog
Biden Raises Vaccination Target to 1.5 Million Per Day: Live Updates
streets
What Does Polly Trottenberg’s NYC DOT Tell Us About What She’ll Do in D.C.?
You can stop fiddling with your router – it’s not just you
People across the East Coast were having trouble accessing core Internet services Tuesday morning, just as they were logging on for work and school.
Users reported trouble loading Gmail, Slack and Zoom — apps that have become necessities to keep work-from-home life running smoothly during the coronavirus pandemic. Downdetector, which tracks reports of outages, showed widespread issues with Verizon, Google, Zoom, YouTube, Slack, Amazon Web Services and others Tuesday just before noon.
On Twitter, which many still were able to access, people reported they were seeing issues with their Verizon Fios Internet service. Verizon’s customer support team said on Twitter Tuesday that a fiber had been cut in Brooklyn, which could possibly account for some of the issues. The support account on Twitter quickly became inundated with customers asking why their internet was slow and bumpy.
It was not immediately clear what was causing the outages, though many people pointed to issues with their Verizon Fios service. Amazon Web Services’ status page showed its service, which provides computing power to large swaths of the Internet, was experiencing an issue with an external provider. On its status page, it said that it is “investigating connectivity issues with an internet provider, mainly affecting the East Coast of the United States, outside of the AWS Network.” Slack said there were no issues with its own service.
joe biden
Biden Begins Presidency More Popular Than Trump Ever Was
pivot
Facebook’s ‘Rope-a-Dope’ Strategy on Trump
the national interest
Why Do Trump Fans Think Amazon Proved Mail Ballots Are Fraudulent?
debates
New York Loves Its Bodegas, But What Are They Officially?
All
Now that McConnell has caved on the filibuster, we should see a Senate power-sharing agreement later this week
Senator Mitch McConnell on Monday dropped his demand that the new Democratic Senate majority promise to preserve the filibuster — which Republicans could use to obstruct President Biden’s agenda — ending an impasse that had prevented Democrats from assuming full power even after their election wins.
In his negotiations with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the new majority leader, Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, had refused to agree to a plan for organizing the chamber without a pledge from Democrats to protect the filibuster, a condition that Mr. Schumer had rejected.
But late Monday, as the stalemate persisted, Mr. McConnell found a way out by pointing to statements by two centrist Democrats, Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, that said they opposed getting rid of the procedural tool — a position they had held for months — as enough of a guarantee to move forward without a formal promise from Mr. Schumer.
“With these assurances, I look forward to moving ahead with a power-sharing agreement modeled on that precedent,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement.
Democrats had been anticipating a capitulation by Mr. McConnell and said they believed he had overreached in the negotiation.
games
A Marquee Super Bowl Is the NFL’s Reward for Cutting Corners
jeffrey epstein
Apollo CEO Leon Black to Step Down After $158 Million Payments to Epstein Emerge
coronavirus
What We Know About the New P.1 Strain of the Coronavirus
rudy giuliani
The Strangest Details From Dominion’s Defamation Suit Against Rudy Giuliani
Yellen’s got the votes
NEWS: The US has its first ever ‘Madam’ Treasury Secretary@JanetYellen has enough votes from Senators to become the 78th Treasury chief
She is the first woman to hold the job
No details on when Yellen will be sworn into office
—@SalehaMohsin
She is the first woman to hold the job
No details on when Yellen will be sworn into office
The good vaccine news keeps on coming
Very positive vaccine news: Israeli HMO Maccabi reports just 20 positive coronavirus tests out of 128,000 people who had their second Pfizer shot a week or more ago. None of the 20 were serious cases.
—@ariehkovler
2022 midterms
Republican Senator Rob Portman to Retire in 2022
impeachment
The Timeline for Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial
impeachment trial
Senate Republicans Don’t Even Want to Have an Impeachment Trial
the national interest
Josh Hawley Believes Disliking Josh Hawley Is an Act of Censorship
Not news Senate Republicans wanted to hear
VERY big Senate development: Ohio Republican Rob Portman announces he’s not running for re-election in 2022.
—@gdebenedetti
log off
Does Ted Cruz Truly Have Nothing Better to Do?
2020 election
Dominion Voting Systems Sues Giuliani Over All Those Lies
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