Biden Administration:
Congress:
- Democrats rejected Republicans’ proposal to limit eligibility for payments and will likely move forward with passing the package on their own.
Impeachment:
- Day Two of Trump’s second Impeachment Trial continued.
COVID-19 Updates:
- Unlikely that Covid came from Wuhan lab, WHO says.
- Biden admin on track to meet goal of 100M coronavirus shots in first 100 days.
- Coronavirus-related deaths, which rose sharply in the United States beginning in November and remain high, appear to be in a steady decline, following in the tracks of new virus cases and hospitalizations, which began to drop last month.
- CDC would like us to MASK-UP x2.
White ISIS/MAGAts/White Supremacists:
- Great Read: A majority of the people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble.
Other headlines:
- Twitter will uphold its ban on former President Donald Trump, even if he were to run for office again, according to the company’s chief financial officer.
- Quaker Oats is releasing a new name and logo for its “Aunt Jemima” products, finally retiring the racist stereotype that has adorned its pancake mixes and syrups for decades.T
- he name “Aunt Jemima,” long criticized as a racist caricature of a Black woman stemming from slavery, will be replaced with the Pearl Milling Company name and logo on the former brand’s new packaging, according to parent company PepsiCo.
- Looks like El Rushbo is getting pretty damn close to meeting his maker. Burn, baby, burn.
- The U.S. government posted a budget deficit of $163 billion in January, a record high for the month and a $130 billion jump from the deficit in the same month last year, as a new round of direct payments to individuals were distributed, the Treasury said on Wednesday.
- Georgia prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s election results, NBC News confirmed Wednesday. The investigation by Fulton County prosecutors will look into a damning phone call in which Trump begged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes to reverse President Joe Biden’s victory.
