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  • The Trump administration keeps finding ways to completely bungle the pandemic response: the Times reports that Trump officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. government additional doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, and now Pfizer "may not be able provide more of its vaccine to the United States until next June because of its commitments to other countries."
  • Here is an absolutely devastating first person piece on life inside a nursing home during the pandemic: "I get this sense sometimes that people are thinking: 'Oh, it’s just another nursing home. It’s not a real tragedy. They were already at the end of their road.' And for a lot of people in here, that’s true. This is their last stop. But they’re still people. They’re still alive."
  • Hawaii is offering free round trips to out-of-state remote workers who want to live there temporarily.
  • The Hartford Courant reports on how a Thanksgiving weekend gathering led to an entire school district being shut down.
  • Things sound very rocky inside WarnerMedia, where executives are trying to make HBO Max the new Netflix with varying results.
  • Watch Bruce Springsteen join Bleachers to perform their collaborative single "Chinatown" on the roof of the Electric Lady Studios building in Greenwich Village today.
  • The New York Philharmonic announced that its musicians had agreed to a four-year contract that includes substantial salary cuts, with musicians getting 25 percent cuts to their base pay through August 2023.
  • The pandemic is causing a spike in breakups and divorces.
  • Important headline question of the day: "Why Are Pandas Covering Themselves With Horse Manure?"
  • Here's a roundup of the best ugly Christmas sweaters you can buy of musicians including Phoebe Bridgers, Metallica, The Zombies, Guns N' Roses, the B-52s and Angel Olsen.
  • And finally, Boxers are weirdos: