How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations  —  Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions.  Demands for refunds spiked.  Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared.  But the money helped keep Donald Trump's struggling campaign afloat.

MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law  —  South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitte  —  Beating Up on Georgia  —  Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial …

America's Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable  —  GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY … Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time.

Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say  —  Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus.  Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer.  —  For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.

China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations  —  Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps  —  A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster “La La Land” …

Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein ‘under house arrest’  —  The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics.  —  In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah …

What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty  —  Images: Chitarman, “Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait,” recto: 1627-28 and verso: circa 1530-50/Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Uttaradhyayanasutra,” circa 1460/Victoria and Albert Museum; Bhairavi Ragini …

Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help  —  Undercover officers sometimes engage in sexual contact with spa workers during stings, records show, which trafficking experts say dehumanizes the women and has spurred calls to set limits on police

Reality catches up with propaganda channel  —  Eleven Fox programs whine about press conference treatment as Dominion lawsuit drops  —  Ask not for whom the world's tiniest violin plays — it plays for Fox News.  Three months ago the network's hosts enjoyed unprecedented political power …

Covid-19 Live Updates: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of Vaccine Doses  —  The Baltimore contract plant ruined millions of doses of another vaccine.  The U.S. is averaging over 3 million vaccine doses a day for the first time.  —  RIGHT NOW For 36 minutes on Saturday, Broadway was open.

Bidenomics, explained  —  It's the end of the Age of Reagan, but it's much more than that  —  “When the formula stops working, you change the formula.”  — Arin Hanson  —  “The era of ‘big government is over’ is over.”  — James Medlock  —  I know this post has a very Vox-like title …

These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says  —  (CNN)Health experts warn the US may be on the cusp of another Covid-19 surge if Americans aren't careful — just as the country races to vaccinate more people.  —  There are two key things the US …

Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence  —  Over the last year, in an unrelenting series of episodes with clear racial animus, people of Asian descent have been pushed, beaten, kicked, spit on and called slurs.  Homes and businesses have been vandalized.

WokeWorld comes for ‘oppressor’ Obama: Activists rip school being named after ‘deporter in chief’  —  They came for Washington.  Then Jefferson.  Then Lincoln.  Then (checks notes) Dianne Feinstein.  —  So, it's no surprise that the woke mob would eventually come for the nation's …

Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks  —  'AIN'T AMERICA GREAT?'  —  Mike Huckabee joked on Saturday that he would now “identify” as Chinese, mocking both LGBTQ people and Asian-Americans simultaneously.  The Fox News contributor wrote, “I've decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese.

CDC director walks tightrope on pandemic messaging  —  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky finds herself in a delicate position as she seeks to balance the optimism of increasing vaccinations with the reality that the U.S. is still very much in the grip of a deadly pandemic.

Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants  —  Kim, a GOP candidate to replace Ron Wright in in Texas' 6th Congressional District, says she'll continue to speak the truth about the Chinese government.

How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now  —  Joe Biden launched the early months of his presidency with a one-two combination that's gone a long way toward taming the party's restive left wing: Listen a lot, and back many of the policies that activists have long wanted.

Biden's Jobs Plan Is Also a Climate Plan.  Will It Make a Difference?  —  The Administration has an ambitious vision for combatting global warming, but it's only a start.  —  The first known reference to Japan's cherry blossoms comes from the country's oldest surviving text, the Kojiki, completed in 712.

Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022  —  A Facebook page shows a child scampering down a school corridor, alerting Ohio families to a scholarship program.  —  Chatter fills the same page with news ranging from a state anti-corruption bill to the vibrant local real estate market.

The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root  —  Come Tuesday, it will be three months since supporters of Donald Trump staged a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  Not much time at all, really.  But the former president and his enablers have been hard …

Why Matt Gaetz is a product of the modern Republican Party  —  “The reason we are where we are today is because the old school Republicans didn't stand up to the crazies.  They embraced them, however uneasily.  And now the crazies are ascendant,” says Mehdi Hasan.