Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Let’s just stop asking questions: WHO will end research into ‘extremely unlikely’ theory that COVID-19 originated in Wuhan lab

Anti-vaxxers are using a doctor's miscarriage to claim the COVID-19 vaccine affects pregnancy - but the doctor lost her baby before getting the shot

New Variants Raise Worry About COVID-19 Virus Reinfections

Universal basic income and covid-19 pandemic

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

”The Mother Of All Fat-Tails” - Bill Miller Says ‘No Other Asset Has Bitcoin's Upside-Potential’

Apple can surge another 25% by adding cryptocurrency services to its Wallet app, RBC says

Netflix Will No Longer Borrow, Ending Its Run of Debt

Politics:

In case you missed it, the video timeline of the January 6 insurrection as presented by the House impeachment managers at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is devastating.

DOJ purging all Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys — except the one investigating Hunter Biden

Trump’s Lawyer Rambles Through Hilariously Incoherent Impeachment Defense

The House managers cited precedent from English common law, which is an utterly standard method for determining the intent of the Founders (for whom English common law was a common point of reference). Castor, astonishingly, warned that citing English common law would create a “precedent” that would somehow lead the United States to have a king and a parliament.
When he was not displaying a shocking ignorance of foundational legal concepts, he was using his time to discuss things that had nothing to do with either the law or this case. … Republican Senators – i.e., the jurors castor was attempting to persuade – sounded unimpressed. Sen. Bill Cassidy called the performance “disorganized” and noted it was “almost like they were embarrassed” of their arguments. “The president’s lawyer just rambled on and on… I’ve seen a lot of lawyers and a lot of arguments and that was not one of the finest I’ve seen,” said the normally reliable partisan Republican John Cornyn. Susan Collins put it drily, “It did not seem to make any arguments at all, which was an unusual approach to take.”

Adviser Says Trump Could Be In Legal Jeopardy

Trump hid his calls with Putin. Now, Biden has access to them.

Trump’s lawyers say he was immediately “horrified” by the Capitol attack. Here’s what his allies and aides said really happened that day.

At Least 15 Rioters Say They Took Direction from Trump

Progressives Score Victory In Push Against Lowering Stimulus Check Eligibility

Serendipity:

Hackers Tried to Poison Water Supply of Florida Town

Hackers remotely accessed the water treatment plant of a small Florida city last week and briefly changed the levels of lye in the drinking water, in the kind of critical infrastructure intrusion that cybersecurity experts have long warned about.

In other news, there’s lye in your drinking water.

The missing continent it took 375 years to find

^{Badge thanks to @arcange}

^{Meme credit: BrianCollins5 (source)}