On average, counties with a preponderance of malicious assholes experience three times the death rate from COVID-19

Daniel Wood and Geoff Brumfiel, “Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame,” National Public Radio, December 5, 2021, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

Martin Pengelly, “Trump double negative: Twitter sees proof positive of no electoral fraud,” Guardian, December 5, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/05/trump-double-negative-twitter-electoral-fraud

Betsy Woodruff Swan and Meridith McGraw, “‘Absolute liars’: Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6,” Politico, December 6, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777

The New York Times has a map that shows how often state bans on abortion will spill across state lines.^[1]

Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz, “What an America Without Roe Would Look Like,” New York Times, December 5, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/upshot/abortion-without-roe-wade.html

Julia Ioffe, “Putin’s “Nightmare” Threat to Europe,” Puck News, December 6, 2021, https://puck.news/putins-nightmare-threat-to-europe/

Andrew Roth and Julian Borger, “US says it will send troops to eastern Europe if Russia invades Ukraine,” Guardian, December 6, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/06/us-says-it-will-send-troops-to-eastern-europe-if-russia-invades-ukraine

Peter Hartcher, “US can’t win two wars at once: Joe Biden’s worst nightmare,” Sydney Morning Herald, December 7, 2021, https://www.smh.com.au/national/us-can-t-win-two-wars-at-once-joe-biden-s-worst-nightmare-20211206-p59f4b.html

^[1]Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz, “What an America Without Roe Would Look Like,” New York Times, December 5, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/upshot/abortion-without-roe-wade.html ↩