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This photo above is of Bernard Albertson. If you do nothing else with this newsletter today, do yourself a favor and at least skip to the bottom and watch his video. You won’t be disappointed.
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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Hit New Daily Record; Officials Squabble Over Mask-Wearing “Confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. neared 3.6 million as it posted a single-day record of more than 77,000 new infections.”
15 women accuse then-Redskins employees of sexual harassment “Allegations of harassment and abuse raised by the women, who all worked for the team, span most of owner Daniel Snyder’s tenure. Three men in his inner circle and two longtime scouts are among the accused.”
Disappearance of covid-19 data from CDC website spurs outcry “Governors joined calls for a delay of a plan to shift control from the agency as the Trump administration pledged to make the information available to the public.”
Chief Vaccine Scientist Will Not Have to Disclose Pharmaceutical Stocks “The chief adviser for the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine program can remain a government contractor, shielding him from disclosure rules.”
Gov. Greg Abbott says "there is no shutdown coming” in Texas
WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO
🎧 LISTEN: Pro Sports Are Coming Back. Can They Pull It Off? Professional basketball and baseball players return to work this month under dramatically different conditions. WSJ's Ben Cohen and Jared Diamond explain why Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association ended up with such different plans for playing in the pandemic.
Democrats—and Some in GOP—See Signs of Realignment in South "Population growth in liberal-leaning cities, diversifying suburbs and growing support for protests against racial injustice in several Southern states have Democrats hopeful they can improve on their 2016 performance there.”
What does the Twitter hack mean for you? Is there anything you can do to take precautions against this kind of attack on the platform?
Inspector general says Medicare chief Seema Verma mishandled millions of dollars in federal contracts that ultimately benefited friends, former Trump officials.
THE COMMENT
“Science and partisan politics seem, in our era, inherently in conflict. One runs on fact-centered reality, the other on point-scoring spin. Yet Fauci more than any other figure has brokered a generational peace between the two worlds. Now that the coronavirus pandemic has divided an already riven country between those who believe the disease is an all-consuming danger and those who believe it is dangerously overblown, it is fair to ask: How did this man get to be the singular referee the country trusts — and how are we ever going to manage when he is gone?” - Molly Roberts
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