Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Positive Coronavirus Test? Canadians Worry Their Neighbors Will Find Out

Biden to Mark 500K Covid Deaths with Ceremony

Can I choose my covid vaccine? Strong opinions on Oxford vs. Pfizer emerge in U.K.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

JP Morgan Values Bitcoin By Cost of Production? Wall Street Has No Idea What This Stuff Is

For all you expert market timers out there #bitcoin pic.twitter.com/oDN8A77e6I

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) February 21, 2021

Texas está congelado:

Texas Officials Outline Why Energy Crisis In Winter Was Preventable

Family of 11-year-old boy who died in Texas deep freeze files $100 million suit against power companies

Texas officials launch inquiry into winter storm energy bills spike

His Lights Stayed on During Texas' Storm. Now He Owes $16,752.

Texas Crisis Exposes a Nation's Vulnerability to Climate Change

Ted Cruz Mocked for Posting Photos Handing Out Water to Texans After Cancun Backlash

Politics:

That they’re even thinking about it is not a good sign: Moscow to vote on whether to reinstate statue Felix Dzerzhinsky. What’s next, Lavrenti Beria?

What Were the Capitol Rioters Thinking?

For the rioters who are alleged to have committed serious criminal acts, more information is coming out in court papers filed in the Justice Department cases against them. And now, specifically, there is a new indictment against nine people who are said to be members or associates of the Oath Keepers militia. It’s a revealing document…
The indictment shows what they were saying to each other on social media in the days and weeks before the riot. Read together, their social media posts suggest people living in a kind of fantasy world in which they could take the Capitol, while carefully obeying Washington, D.C.’s strict gun control laws and carrying no firearms, change the course of U.S. history, and then head home.

Dominion Sues MyPillow, CEO Mike Lindell Over Election Claims

U.S. Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns

Serendipity:

Mask force: London's five centuries of face coverings

A tenacious nation built on shape-shifting land

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