Monday, December 27, 2021

Politics Corner December 27th

 

Via National Park Service


We keep being told that the world is different now that we know about this police murder or that conviction. It looks a lot different if you're black. Rather, it looks exactly the same as it always has. [ProPublica]


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The House select subcommittee on the insurrection will look into phone calls from the White House (including from Trump) to Trump's underlings in the Willard Hotel across the street on January 5th and 6th. The noose is tightening. [Guardian]


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The CDC has reduced it's recommended quarantine for COVID infected people. This is partly to relieve the crush on hospitals and clinics but mainly because they want to bring isolation time in line with what they now know about the risk of contagion. [Associated Press]


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Like last year and every year before that, the Defense Department got everything it asked for and much more that it doesn't even want. And the ribbon on that giant package is language that bars the President from shutting down Guantanamo Bay. [NBC]


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Political discussion welcome.

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