They’ll be earning, on average, 10 percent more than you.
coronavirus vaccine
The Fyre Festival of Vaccine Rollouts
THE FEED
politics
Parkland Parents: Marjorie Taylor Greene Won’t Get Away With Lying About Our Son
the rational market
The Unlikely Stocks Soaring After Reddit’s GameStop Run
transition liveblog
Biden Signs Sweeping Climate Change Orders: Live Updates
stonks
How Redditors Beat Hedge Funds at Their Own Game(Stop)
impeachment trial
Centrists Air Censure Option As Trump Conviction Hopes Fade
Turns out letting “college kids” with little health-care experience run vaccine distribution wasn’t a great idea
Philadelphia is home to some of the most venerated medical institutions in the country. Yet when it came time to set up the city’s first and largest coronavirus mass vaccination site, officials turned to the start-up Philly Fighting COVID, a self-described “group of college kids” with minimal health-care experience.
Chaos ensued.
Seniors were left in tears after finding that appointments they’d made through a bungled sign-up form wouldn’t be honored. The group switched to a for-profit model without publicizing the change and added a privacy policy that would allow it to sell users’ personal data. One volunteer alleged that the 22-year-old CEO had pocketed vaccine doses. Another described a “free-for-all” where unsupervised 18- and 19-year-olds vaccinated one another and posed for photos.
Now, the city has cut ties with Philly Fighting COVID, and prosecutors are looking into the “concerning” allegations.
The virus picture is improving in New York
Per @NYGovCuomo, the latest positive testing rate for #COVID19 in New York State was 5.44%. 170 individuals lost their lives to the virus in the last 24 hours and 8,771 people are now hospitalized statewide. “All the numbers are down across the State,” says Cuomo.
—@ZackFinkNews
vaccines
Vaccine Delays Are Screwing Up the E.U.’s Already Slow Rollout
Another wild rise, courtesy of Reddit
The latest nostalgia stock to jump on the Reddit rally is BB Liquidating Inc., the final remnant of bankrupt video-rental company Blockbuster.
The penny stock surged 774% Tuesday to just under 5 cents a share, the highest since 2012, on volume that was nearly 30 times above the three-month average, showing that even the most retrograde of old-technology stocks isn’t immune to the ebullience of retail investors and day traders.
past is prologue
How Feasible Is a MAGA Third Party?
Weeks later, we’re still learning appalling details about law enforcement failures during the Capitol riot
Members of Congress were left stunned during a briefing from law enforcement about their failure to prepare for the insurrection at the US Capitol earlier this month, two members who attended a House Appropriations Committee briefing told CNN on Tuesday, with one saying it was “dumb luck” more people didn’t die.
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, said in a phone call with CNN that members were “shaking their heads in disbelief” throughout the briefing about the security breakdown in the lead up to January 6. During that briefing, acting US Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman admitted her department knew there was a “strong potential for violence” targeting Congress, but did not take appropriate steps to prevent it.
… After participating in the hearing, Rep. Matt Cartwright, a Pennsylvania Democrat, told CNN, “It was only by pure dumb luck that elected officials, staffers and more Capitol policemen were not killed.”
Cartwright said his theory of why there was not enough action to prepare was “that people were more worried about optics more than they were worried about security.”
the filibuster
The Democratic Party’s Civil War Over the Filibuster Has Barely Begun
coronavirus
CDC Study: Students Can Return to In-Person School With Proper Precautions
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
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
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