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- "We’re all bored and it’s just seemed so strange to me that no one had ever come out and said it." The anonymous woman who outed Hilaria Baldwin as Hillary from Boston told the NY Times why she did it, and Baldwin gave an 80-minute-long rebuttal.
- Argentina's Senate voted this morning to legalize abortion — a significant step for the home country of Pope Francis, a noted opponent of legal abortions.
- Representative-elect Luke Letlow, a 41-year-old Republican who won a runoff election in Louisiana earlier this month, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19.
- In the early months of the pandemic, Carnival and Royal Caribbean forced thousands of cruise ship workers to spend most of the day confined to their cabins out at sea. Several of those workers died of suspected suicide.
- President Trump's supporters have vowed to line the roads outside Mar-a-Lago and cheer when he comes and goes, even when he's no longer president.
- Jamaal Bowman, the incoming congressman from Yonkers, told The Cut about the challenge of winning an election and suddenly having to pay rent for an apartment in Washington, D.C.
- Did we really think 2020 would end without radicchio becoming A Thing We Need Right Now?
- You know the rules: Win the Cheez-Its Bowl, get doused with Cheez-Its.
- Thank you, @Lubalin, for recreating this small internet drama:
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