Stanford Medical Center Residents Protest Over Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout

Yet with the first 5000 injections scheduled for Friday, “only seven residents and fellows were included,” the Chronicle reports. Who is getting priority for the hospital’s limited number of vaccines? Residents and fellows sent a letter to Stanford’s top brass claiming that several senior faculty members, who have been working from home, were chosen to be vaccinated first, despite not having interacted with patients in person for months.Source: Stanford Medical Center Residents Protest Over Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout

Trump’s Defense Chief Suddenly Cut Off All of Biden’s Briefings | Vanity Fair — Just Sayin’

And right after a massive cyberattack on multiple government agencies, including the department that oversees America’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. — Read on http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/pentagon-cuts-off-biden-transition

Trump’s Defense Chief Suddenly Cut Off All of Biden’s Briefings | Vanity Fair — Just Sayin’

It Takes A Thief (or a Trump; is that redundant?)

New low in grifting…

Mock Paper Scissors

Grifters Gotta Grift

Jar-Jar vanka Time: The big hand is on her ass, the little hand is no where to be seen.

The Business Insider:

“Jared Kushner approved the creation of a campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the campaign’s $1.26 billion war chest.

“The operation acted almost like a campaign within a campaign. It paid some of Trump’s top advisors and family members while shielding financial and operational details from public scrutiny.”

But by all means, our failed political press will talk about Hunter Biden.

Related, The NYTimes tells us about what is most definitely a slush fund:

“Donald Trump will exit the White House as a private citizen next month perched atop a pile of campaign cash unheard-of for an outgoing president, and with few legal limits on how he can spend it.

“Deflated by a loss he…

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Nigeria: Boko Haram ′didn′t kidnap′ 344 boys | News | DW | 18.12.2020

Abubakar Shekau, a factional leader of Boko Haram, had claimed earlier this week in a video message that his group carried out the attack because it believes Western education is un-Islamic.

However, experts also said the attack was likely carried out by local gangs, who have staged increasingly deadly assaults in northwest Nigeria this year and could possibly have been collaborating with Boko Haram.

Source: Nigeria: Boko Haram ′didn′t kidnap′ 344 boys | News | DW | 18.12.2020

L.A. COVID-19 spread hits elderly, people of color extra hard – Los Angeles Times

New daily cases have hit levels that are hard to fathom, including one day this week when more than 20,000 new COVID cases were reported in the county. An estimated one in 80 people in L.A. County are now contagious with the virus; that’s far worse than in late September, when scientists calculated that one in 880 county residents were infectious.

Source: L.A. COVID-19 spread hits elderly, people of color extra hard – Los Angeles Times