H.R.1, which contains voting protections and much else, just passed the house, 220 -210.
Late Night Open Thread – H.R. 1 Passes The HousePost + Comments (65)
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H.R.1, which contains voting protections and much else, just passed the house, 220 -210.
Late Night Open Thread – H.R. 1 Passes The HousePost + Comments (65)
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I had my second dose of the Moderna m-RNA vaccine yesterday. What comes next? It takes three weeks to build immunity, and I don’t plan to change what I’ve been doing until then. I have been isolating rather thoroughly. I haven’t been inside a store since last October. I’m taking piano lessons via Zoom. I …
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Nature magazine, one of the top two science journals in the world, did a survey of 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists working on the coronavirus, asking if they thought that the virus would become endemic in the human population. Ninety percent of them said they thought it would. From just the mathematics of it, …
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The previous thread was getting long. I’m not sure how much more there is to go – I am not watching, just getting snips from Twitter as I get some other stuff done. I found this interesting – the nuclear football that follows the Vice President around was also at risk. You can see the …
Continuing Impeachment Trial Open ThreadPost + Comments (151)
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Here’s the live feed: And here’s the video that the House Impeachment Managers showed. Damning. Open thread
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If you’re not following Dan Froomkin at Press Watch, you should be. We vent a lot about the evils of the press here at Balloon Juice. But there are critics out there who have been advocating practices that speak to our concerns. Now that Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron has announced his retirement, Los …