Reading archive 2020-12-09

‘God be with us’: Covid-19 becomes personal in a South Dakota town as neighbors die and the town debates a mask mandate

Who’s going to tell the GOP base that they’re being scammed? - "As long as those millions of suckers keep sending in their contributions and tuning in to their favorite shows, the people perpetrating the con will keep winding them up to greater heights of outrage. But what happens when President-elect Joe Biden actually takes office? Will they finally realize they got scammed? That their leaders knew all along that Trump lost but kept milking them for money anyway?

"Don’t bet on it. The GOP base’s eagerness to fall for every new iteration of this con is limitless, and nobody knows that better than the party’s leaders."

Biden to face wary allies after four years of Trump’s ‘America First’ rhetoric

Tamron Hall is betting on herself — and winning

TV’s gay Christmas movies are as benign, charming and cliche as we always hoped they’d be

The world’s rich need to cut their carbon footprint by a factor of 30 to slow climate change, U.N. warns: Despite sharp drop in greenhouse gas emissions during the pandemic, the world remains on pace for catastrophic warming in coming decades