Republicans are trying to continue the civil war, from the Confederate side.

There is no need to worry about catching Covid-19 from paper money.

It is theoretically possible, but many factors combine to make it an insignificant risk. You don't need to surrender your anonymity out of fear.

George Monbiot contends that taking the UK out of the EU is a scheme for the "warlord" capitalists (who despise regulation and democracy both) to rip up the "housetrained" capitalists who have prospered together with those.

The warlords like to say that "freedom" means that they can use their wealth to do whatever they like, even decree penury or death for millions of people; that nothing stands in their way. Their supporters, the antisocialists, call themselves "libertarians", but they do not deserve that name.

Mnuchin's final act of sabotage: lock away 450 billion in Covid-19 aid so that Biden would need congressional permission to spend it.

The obvious response for a president who really wants to aid Americans is to use this, and the general issue of aid, to make Republicans scream, and to campaign for the Jan 5 Georgia Senate run-offs. I predict that Biden will do this at most half-heartedly.

*Economists Call for $3 Trillion Covid Relief Package to Stop Nation's Descent Into Ruin.*

I wonder if the platinum-coin hack might make enable Biden to bypass the senate's objections to helping Americans. But I have a feeling he would rather moan about being blocked, than overcome the blockage.

*[UK] immigration officials have been accused of using coercive tactics to gain access to people’s homes and businesses without search warrants.*