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Inbox: Today, Jill Biden, the next First Lady of the U.S., will travel to D.C. to assemble care packages with Operation Gratitude to be delivered to service members deployed overseas during the holidays. Dr. Biden will be joined by Secretary of Defense-designate Lloyd Austin.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1337094730539098112?s=20

SAD. Kids' letters to Santa this year hit a little harder

How many Americans die every day in ironing board accidents?

New whale species discovered off coast of Mexico

Ensenada, BCN, Mexico – Dec. 8, 2020 – Researchers working with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society believe that they have discovered a previously unknown species of whale off the western coast of Mexico.





On the morning of November 17, scientists on board Sea Shepherd vessel Martin Sheen observed three beaked whales surfacing in nearby waters. The sightings occurred 100 miles north of Mexico’s San Benito Islands, a group of three remote islands located approximately 300 miles from the US border.

The expedition, led by renowned beaked whale researchers Dr. Gustavo Cárdenas Hinojosa from the Marine Mammal Research Group of CONANP, Dr. Jay Barlow, and Dr. Elizabeth Henderson, Leader of the Whale Acoustic Reconnaissance Program of NIWC PAC in collaboration with Sea Shepherd’s Scientific Department, aimed to study the cetaceans present in the waters surrounding the San Benito Islands. The team set forth to identify a beaked whale species associated with an unidentified acoustic signal previously recorded in the area.

What a REALLY ugly asshole looks like:

Speaker Pelosi.

>@FoxReports: “a lot of Republican senators are arguing that you and McConnell just need to get in a room and iron this out”

@SpeakerPelosi: “is that what they think? Good for them. Tell them to go meet with McConnell.”

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1336792634715758594?s=20

HELP! I'm Drowning In Evidence Of Voter Fraud!

What's going on here? The Republicans are running out the clock.

Unsanitized: The Dealmakers Don’t Want to Make a Deal
Mitch McConnell keeps dodging and obfuscating. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for December 9, 2020.

BY DAVID DAYEN DECEMBER 9, 2020

.........

...I hope you can figure out what’s going on here. The Republicans are running out the clock. They have offered up increasingly untenable proposals in a bid to pin the responsibility for no deal on the Democrats. They are disinterested in actually getting to yes and helping people. It conflicts with their overriding desire to make life miserable for the incoming administration.

Back in March—I can’t believe it was that long ago—I assumed that there would only be one chance for COVID relief in this Congress, and so the negotiators had better make that one count. I thought that once corporate America was set right (and with the vaccine on the way and light at the end of the tunnel for pulling out of this crisis, they’re set right), leverage would be lost. I thought that inequality would skyrocket and the relief for ordinary people struggling in the crisis would run out. I thought the lack of state and local aid to cover revenue shortfalls would prove a fatal mistake.

Absolutely all of that has come to pass. It was a tragedy of shortsighted policymaking that’s going to cause a lot of pain, even if we manage to get some eventual half-measure. Governance has failed often in this era; add this to the list....

the rest:
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-dealmakers-dont-want-to-make-deal-stimulus-liability/

2020 Leftovers Anybody?

Sticking With Trump