Quarantine Diaries: Day 260

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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

80 nursing home patients in West Virginia facility, nearly every resident, test positive for Covid-19

Thanksgiving Travel Not Slowing

Governments boost coronavirus enforcement with required forms for flyers, 'compliance units' for Thanksgiving

Study: A good cloth mask is a powerful weapon against the coronavirus

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer warns 'economic emergency has only just begun'

How to Answer Your Family’s Bitcoin Questions This Thanksgiving

The labor market mess awaiting Joe Biden: Many of the solutions he's offering — massive infrastructure, clean energy and technology investments — will need the approval of a largely hostile Congress.

Politics:

Relax, nobody’s canceling Thanksgiving

Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story

Indiana Asks the Supreme Court to Let It Strip Rights From Same-Sex Parents: The justices have shown interest in a case that could begin the rollback of marriage equality.

watch to the end—very clever https://t.co/SXt9SBsYXo

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 24, 2020

Jewish leaders defend Raphael Warnock after Loeffler attacks

Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20

The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a rule that could reintroduce firing squads and electrocutions to federal executions.

Trump Corruptly Pardons Michael Flynn

Trump Pardoned Flynn to Save Himself: The president’s act of clemency was less about mercy than self-interest.

Donald Trump Might Want to Think Twice Before Trying to Pardon Himself

Serendipity:

The tiny parasitic wasp that saved an industry

^{Badge thanks to @arcange}