Ye Old Link Roundup!

• I updated my professional website with online article and interviews for the first time in four years. So, yeah, I guess you could say I’m not doing great.
• Special issue of Loading on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
• Second Languages and Jesuit Core Education.
• Still stripping the walls of copper wire on his way out the door: Trump sought to tap Sidney Powell as special counsel for election fraud. Officials increasingly alarmed about Trump’s power grab. Giuliani asks DHS about seizing voting machines. Ivanka Trump, Famed Public Health Expert, Screened CDC Guidance to Make Sure It Was Nice to Her Dad.

ok but can I just mention that being all the way down to the “is the military on board” gate on the flowchart is also alarming https://t.co/eQ2KG8dJPg

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 19, 2020

American learned helplessness is evident not only in its inability to recognize what is happening as an attempted coup, but also in its failure to see this behavior as both illegal and illegitimate. https://t.co/MmKjpPBQfW

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 19, 2020

👍 https://t.co/xMXI5ljZcD

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 19, 2020

• Remember? Remember? We had fun, didn’t we?
• Panel: People over 75, essential workers next for vaccines. Some more details from the New York Times.

neoliberalism: celebrities, politicians, and other rich people should get the vaccine first
progressivism: because they are advertising the safety of the vaccine, celebrities, politicians, and other rich people should get the vaccine first

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 20, 2020

• New ‘worrying’ Covid strain found in South Africa is ‘more severe among young adults.’ Holiday Travel Breaks Pandemic Record Despite Dire Covid Warnings.
• At long, long last: gimme that stimmie.

Taking step back, some big picture things:

IN:
– $300/week UI
– $600/person checks
– $284B PPP for 2.0
– $82B for schools
– $27B for transit
– $25B for rental $, eviction moratorium
– $13B for hunger
– Vaccine distribution $
– Surprise billing legislation
– $10B for childcare

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 20, 2020

Pelosi explaining that $600 is actually good, rather than blaming McConnell or Trump, or saying you get more if the Democrats win in Georgia https://t.co/bjMw2vBxbJ

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 22, 2020

Democrats see their role as selling right-wing policy to liberals, while making sure no one ever gets too angry that the richest nation in human history is a human rights nightmare https://t.co/5koWcRVmTE

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 22, 2020

• Congressional Deal Would Give Higher Ed $23B. Stimulus deal delivers billions in pandemic aid to colleges, but much more is needed, advocates say.
• Congress finally moves to stop surprise medical billing as part of spending deal.
• The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony.
• Unsanitized: Congress Again Taxes the Time of Benefit Recipients. 35% of Americans Could Lose Their Home in Next Two Months, Census Report Says.
• When do you think would be a good time?
• Dragonlance Writers End Lawsuit Against Dungeons & Dragons Maker. I was hoping for Dragons of Fifth Season Postnormality but someone on Twitter pitched prestige Dragonlance TV and now I’m all in on that.
• Kylo Ren Is the Real Hero of Star Wars, The Stand edition.
• The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star.
• After 25 years, I’m retiring from ‘takes.’
• And they say love is dead: The Journalist and the Pharma Bro.

every so often you see a tweet that completely changes your worldview https://t.co/mwfESJjbPy

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 21, 2020

• Early humans had the right idea I think.
• Chinese Jesus goes hard.
• Discovery roundup. Architecture roundup. Genre theory roundup. Email etiquette roundup.
• I never promised you an LCD factory.
• Divorce as a tool of class struggle.
• 19 years.
• Star Wars, explained.
• And the flood is gonna get here any day.