“As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” Biden said, adding that at the current pace under Trump, “It’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.” nytimes.com/live/2020/12/2…
Mr. Biden promised a “much more aggressive effort” under his administration.

“This is going to be the greatest operational challenge we’ve ever faced as a nation,” Mr. Biden said, “but we’re going to get it done.”
He has vowed to get at least 100 million vaccine shots into the arms of Americans in his first 100 days in office.
Earlier this month, federal officials said their goal was for 20 million people to get their first shots by the end of the year. As of Monday, 11.4 million doses of the vaccines had been distributed across the country, but just 2.1 million people had received their first dose."

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31 Dec 20
“You’re killing me! This whole thing is! We’ve got all the damn cases,” Trump yelled at Jared Kushner in the Oval Office on Aug. 19. “I want to do what Mexico does. They don’t give you a test till you get to the emergency room and you’re vomiting.”

nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/…
Among the most damning indictments you'll read about any president on his response to a crisis:

"The government’s public health experts were all but silenced by the arrival of Dr. Scott W. Atlas, the Stanford professor of neuroradiology recruited after appearances on Fox."
Read every single sentence of this comprehensive report of Trump's mishandling of the virus by @shearm @maggieNYT @noahweiland @SharonLNYT @MarkMazzettiNYT
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On his final day before retiring, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the 4th gen of his family to control the NYT, writes to its nearly 5000 employees: "We view ourselves first and foremost as stewards: Our highest purpose is to ensure the The Times’s mission thrives decade after decade."
"I’ve heard people wonder what place, if any, this kind of journalism has in a time when every partisan can find an agreeable opinion, the media is attacked as the enemy of the people, misinformation spreads with impunity..."
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Since 1995, her family's farms have collected $3.2 million in federal subsidies.

nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/…
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21 Dec 20
A Robert E. Lee statue was removed today from the U.S. Capitol as decided by its donor, Virginia's legislature.

The statue was installed in 1909 as part of revisionist history of the Civil War.

Expected replacement is statue of Barbara Johns.

flickr.com/photos/1466117…
Barbara Johns was a high school student when she led a strike against poor conditions in her segregated school.
She became a plaintiff in a suit for equitable schools, one of the cases that lead to the historic Brown desegregation decision in 1954.

americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/barb…
This is the 3rd Lee statue VA has removed, after one at the state Capitol and on Monument Ave., Richmond. AG Mark Herring called the latter “a grandiose monument honoring a racist insurrection.”

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