My inbox does not respect the fact that I had meetings between my debugging sessions all day. So this all piled up:
- Josh Marshall calls our Covid-19 response an "abject failure" compared to, say, Europe's. Paul Krugman says it shows we've "failed the marshmallow test."
- Former CIA acting director Michael Morell says President Biden will inherit "a world of trouble." ("Arguably, only Abraham Lincoln, with Southern secession waiting, faced a tougher challenge when taking office than would Biden.")
- Illinois governor JB Pritzker yesterday signed legislation decreeing Election Day a state holiday.
- Alexandra Petri lists some other statues we should remove.
- Bruce Schneier calls out Postbank, a South African bank, for a "catastrophic security failure."
- Arizona State University researchers have found evidence that burning coal in the Siberian Traps caused sudden global warming that led to the Permo-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago.
- Chicago's Mercury Theater has become the latest fatality in Covid-19's assault on the arts.
- Chicago History Today found photos of the very last Western Avenue streetcar run on 17 June 1956.
Finally, conferencing app Zoom will roll out true end-to-end encryption in July.
