*Number of Journalists Murdered in Retaliation for Their Work More Than Doubled in 2020.*

Biden has named Bruce Reed, who wants to cut Social Security, to a White House position, deputy chief of staff.

I don't know whether that position will give Reed much of an opportunity to attack Social Security and other programs to help non-rich Americans, but that Biden would even consider such a person is bad.

Biden praised the stimulus bill as a "model" despite not doing enough to help non-rich Americans. Maybe that's what Biden means by "bipartisanship" — praise the right wing for not being as bad as one could imagine.

As usual, Sanders shows what our model should be.

New York State has temporarily banned biometric surveillance of students in schools.

Biometric surveillance should be forbidden except for specific circumstances, and those exceptions should be strictly regulated.

*Democratic senators call on Biden to adopt measures to forbid some practices that nourish corruption.*

The SolarWinds crack gained access to companies that service infrastructure such as turbines. The crackers may be able to wreck machinery, much as the US did to Iran's uranium centrifuges some years ago.

No one in the US knows whether they are in a position to shut off, or wreck, critical infrastructure.

I've said for many years that we should not connect such thing to the internet.