Reading archive 2020-12-30

'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns

Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows

What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say: His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

N.Y. prosecutor hires forensic accounting experts as Trump criminal probe escalates

Why increasing the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 is a bad idea

The Playbook for Poisoning the Earth

Secret Service to make changes to presidential detail to bring on agents who worked with Biden

Nikki Haley’s mind-numbing inanity - "The mindless denunciation of policies Democrats are not pursuing, appealing to White grievance, reiterating delusions of Christian persecution and uttering empty platitudes about capitalism are what pass for Republican 'ideas' these days.

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"Republican 2024 aspirants think that appeals to White Christian victimology and cartoonish portraits of Democrats are the way to win over the MAGA crowd. Alas, I doubt that crowd is interested in a less inflammatory version of the message they have imbibed for four years, especially coming from slick politicians such as Haley."