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POLITICO Get the Transition Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories With help from Allie Bice Welcome to POLITICO’s 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to the first 100 d...

Journalists are expressing solidarity with recently-ousted New York Times reporter Donald McNeil Jr. after new reporting shed light on remarks he made during a 2019 educational trip to Peru.

The Daily 202: Heres why Republicans are in fighting mode over Marjorie Taylor Greene Olivier Knox ! Today, we look into why the GOP has found its not easy beating Greene — Marjorie Taylor, that is. But don’t miss the latest on Trump’s impeachment trial, Biden’s nominations,   vaccines and variants.  Sometimes local or regional news is national news in disguise, so send me your most interesting items from outside the Beltway.  . The House vote later today on wheth...

Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Intercept, said Tuesday that congressional Democrats are less likely to concede ground to Republicans on COVID-19 relief funding this year when compared with the partys response to the financial crisis and Great Recession. “I think there are two things going on here,” Grim said in a Hill.TV interview. The first, he said, is that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Second, he said, Schumer “also doesn’t want to have to face a primary challenge ...

zagonostra >How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive – NPR Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir. Poverty, they find, is like a parasite, consuming mental energy that could be put to more beneficial use…The authors conclude that giving workers cash upfront helped alleviate the mental burden of their financial problems and freed them to be more productive Planet Money -THE ECONOMY EXPLAINED. My, my, I haven’t visited this sector of the alternative universe in years, since I stopped listenin...

Neera Tanden has been nominated by President Joe Biden to direct the Office of Management and Budget despite her anti-Palestinian censorship. (Gage Skidmore) It’s imperative that Neera Tanden face questions in her anticipated US Senate confirmation hearing regarding actions and communications that suggest she harbors Islamophobic views. The matter is urgent as President Joe Biden has chosen Tanden to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In the post, she would be...

TK News by Matt Taibbi Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content On January 6th, Jon Farina, photographer and videographer for Jordan Chariton’s Status Coup outlet, captured horrifying images. At the Capitol, a pro-Trump mob tried to burst into the building, and a police officer who attempted to intercede was caught in a door. He cried out in pain, but the crowd was indifferent, chanting, “Heave, ho!” as they tried to break in. Farina, in the middl...

Ryan Grim, the D.C. bureau chief for The Intercept, on Tuesday said the use of a homophobic slur by a member of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee who had also voted in favor of the party’s pro-LGBTQ resolution represents “the equivalent of putting a pride flag on your porch, but still propping up systems that perpetuate homophobia.”  During an interview on Hill.TV’s “Rising,” Grim explained that at a recent Massachusetts Democratic committee hearing, some members backed a res...

  Share Source: Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP The Los Angeles Times got an earful from users on Twitter after the paper announced a new project dedicated to covering Vice President Kamala Harris "historic rise to the White House" since she is the "first vice president who is Black, South Asian, female and the direct descendants of immigrants." Accompanying the announcement is a glorifying picture of Harris with a link to an Instagram account that mainly features Harris tweets, praise for her, a...

Bird Song of the Day After last week, I searched on “most beautiful bird song” and ended up with the Wood Thrush. Readers? Lots of modern-day dino action in State Game Lands 285! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Noah Smith writes: “And in another bit of good news, COVID cases are plummeting. Apparently people are staying home and refusing to take risks while they wait for the vaccine.” •...