The long tradition that started with FDR's fireside chats returns in the Biden White House with a modern twist. https://t.co/UTvtOtWcQa
— Mashable (@mashable) February 6, 2021
Americans practically forgot what it was like for our government to tell us what’s going on, truthfully, on a regular basis.
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) February 6, 2021
President Biden’s first two weeks have been a massive breath of fresh air. https://t.co/QKmkI0ziZJ
After four years of fights for access to Trump’s White House visitor logs, Biden is ensuring that who the president meets with will no longer be a secret. https://t.co/YuNhVQPWZg
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 6, 2021
Opinion: The FT's @andrewtghill on how Joe Biden’s administration is modelling better behaviour – transparency and accountability are its watchwords. https://t.co/fRkRcF95Ve pic.twitter.com/sIFoVZJn4V
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 2, 2021
Scoop: Biden inherited a USPS crisis. Democrats’ plans to fix it include getting trying to force out Louis DeJoy and restore $100 billion in funding, a potentially drawn out process. (via @jacobbogage and @kevinschaul)https://t.co/zIsanrvB3K
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) February 6, 2021
While Democrats’ priorities in two communities that gave Joe Biden more than 80% of their votes illustrate a range of expectations facing the new president, voters emphasized they want a return to bipartisanship https://t.co/L2ezrs2bIW
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 6, 2021
WAPO finds Trump's Big Lie has cost taxpayers $519 million, and counting. https://t.co/TvSha7SMlP
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) February 6, 2021
House impeachment managers must ask Trump's attorneys straight-up: "Was the 2020 election stolen from Donald Trump?"
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) February 6, 2021
If no: good, we can put that lie to rest.
If yes: makes it even more imperative for Senate to convict and DQ. https://t.co/L5RjkUv9x6
"The 1st Amendment is designed to protect individual speech from government intervention, not to protect government speech, or speech that leads to action. There are many examples—hate speech—where speech is actually criminalized. So that's not a defense."https://t.co/R4wRvNyXpj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 6, 2021
Trump's allies fear the impeachment trial could be a PR nightmare: His boosters fear major reputational damage if the hearings focus on the Capitol violence and not questions about the Constitution.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 6, 2021
"Democrats have a very emotional and compelling case."https://t.co/Wlu8vAlSbH
‘QAnon Shaman’ after leaving Capitol: ‘Donald Trump asked everybody to go home’ pic.twitter.com/Cf3UKAKZRC
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) February 6, 2021
Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands will be the first manager of a presidential impeachment trial from a U.S. territory. She will face a familiar dynamic when she walks into the Senate chamber: being one of the only Black women in the room. https://t.co/LejDVYpKpl
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 6, 2021
We’re still here, America.
— Stephanie Kennedy (@WordswithSteph) February 7, 2021
Building back, and determined to succeed. We’ve survived so very much. Let’s move forward, together. Our brilliant friends @Eleven_Films bring us another masterpiece to remind us that help is finally, finally here. #SquareOne pic.twitter.com/NyS1z25i7Z
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BRITAIN AIMS TO KEEP VACCINATIONS ON TRACK
Everyone over 50 in Britain to be offered vaccine by May https://t.co/lse3Jm2bFg via @IrishTimesWorld
— Irish Times World (@IrishTimesWorld) February 5, 2021
This is big. The was hope, promoted by @AstraZeneca , that its #COVID19 #vaccine could stand up to the South African mutant. But…. https://t.co/85CKquXKqG
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) February 6, 2021
Study shows not a single person taking Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine hospitalized or dead from S Africa strain.
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 6, 2021
This is good news. https://t.co/1fKPMzxGyG
I'm sure this will be fine. pic.twitter.com/8duIN1UCRj
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) February 6, 2021
Despite #BorisJohnson's refusal to accept his mistakes, and
— Sam (@sammwittings) February 6, 2021
despite the hostility of covid deniers, there is still hope
A moving read
'I’ve been called Satan': Dr Rachel Clarke on facing abuse in the Covid crisis https://t.co/pS7ruWAeBV
Former Cabinet minister Esther McVey and chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs Sir Graham Brady are rebelling https://t.co/fREjOM7Q4P
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 6, 2021
Peter Oborne – “I have been a political reporter for almost three decades,” he writes, “I have never encountered a senior British politician who lies and fabricates so regularly, so shamelessly and so systematically as Boris Johnson.” https://t.co/LyH9H6gWDR
— Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance (@nickreeves9876) February 6, 2021
The NI Protocol furore is a deliberate distraction from the biggest single act of economic self-harm since Pol Pot's Year Zero.https://t.co/JTRcCxBVSL
— Berlin Faustino #blockandreportcovidiots (@BerlinFaustino) February 6, 2021
Ulster Unionists wrecked northern Ireland and the Union by backing Brexit – me in @Observer on the bottomless stupidity of the world's worst politicians.https://t.co/iTrhuvM7PC
— (((Nick Cohen))) (@NickCohen4) February 6, 2021
Having published, for years, pieces claiming any claim that Brexit may cause the return of an Irish border was nonsense, Telegraph now seamlessly pivots to publishing "let's put a hard border back – it's the only solution to this mess WE DEFINITELY DIDN'T CAUSE".
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) February 6, 2021
F'kin Shysters. https://t.co/izUEBgDOu4 pic.twitter.com/mwQd0Pa2cS
And there we have it. https://t.co/4N6yDjE7qP
— Shown (@northernlad18) February 6, 2021
I'm not sure the other 99% of us appreciate the OO issuing demands that would make the disaster of Brexit worse than it should be by throwing away the biggest advantage NI has.
— 😷 alt – DUP (@dup_online) February 6, 2021
We are surrounded by all-white lineups on TV and in wider media every day. I recall Gregory Campbell being outraged at precisely none of them.
— Eóin Tennyson (@EoinTennyson) February 6, 2021
This is just so pathetic. In one week the DUP have managed to make a show of themselves on Brexit, on LGBT+ issues and now on race. pic.twitter.com/nO6eTIY6Na
Government with no idea
— LaupLaup (@LaupLaup2) February 6, 2021
I'm English but I wanted Scotland to win. Any nation that elects you doesn't deserve to win a fucking thing.
— Steven Seagull (@AngrySeagull2) February 6, 2021
The Overnight Note 