Vaccine weaponism.
As Biden calls for the current administration to take urgent action against the coronavirus, Trump says the White House won't go into lockdown. / The Hill
The last few weeks of Trump rallies are linked to more than 130 Secret Service agents becoming infected with COVID-19 or quarantining. / The Washington Post
Trump's vaccine czar has asked the White House to make contact with Biden's transition team. / Ars Technica
Trump says the US government won't deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to New York, pointing to Cuomo's reluctance to trust the federal government's opinion of the vaccine. / CNBC
"It was doable over the summer, but now it’s just too much." Emergency rooms are again filling with COVID-19 patients, and healthcare workers are being crushed. / The Atlantic
The British Heart Foundation estimates nearly 5,000 excess deaths from heart disease since the start of the pandemic. / The Guardian
The final two states have been called in the US presidential election, leaving Biden with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. / CBS News
Why Trump allegedly carried out his Pentagon purge: "He wants to put us on an irreversible course to a total withdrawal [in Afghanistan]." / The New Yorker
As part of the return to normalcy, Biden is bringing back the daily briefing. / POLITICO
Trump never signed the executive order for federal buildings to follow a neoclassical style, but the ban on modernism is appearing in government solicitations anyway. / Bloomberg
"Someday, someday sooner rather than later, we will be removed from Donald Trump's subconscious and returned to our own devices." / BuzzFeed News
ProPublica is using plain language to make some articles more accessible for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. / Nieman Journalism Lab
A group of scholars says a portion of the Atlantic Basin should be designated as a memorial to protect African artifacts lost during the slave trade. / Duke University
"When the soundscape has changed, the habitat may have changed, too." How listening to the deep sea could save it. / The New York Times
Kilie Minogue just became the first woman to top the album chart in five consecutive decades. / The Guardian
Spotify's pay-for-play Discovery Mode isn't exactly payola. But it's also not exactly not payola. / Pitchfork
See also: More than 18,000 musicians have signed a letter demanding Spotify pay at least a penny a stream. / VICE
A list of songs—from the Velvet Underground, Donna Summer, Toto, even Andrew Lloyd Webber—that would receive copyright lawsuits today. / Stereogum
"The Beastie Boys had begun to grow into Beastie Men." Josh Gondelman on his love of Paul’s Boutique. / Talkhouse
"We talked the NYFD into bringing a fire truck to the pool and hosing everyone down." An oral history of Brooklyn’s McCarren Park pool parties, circa 2006 to 2008. / We'll Have to Pass
On Bradbury's "The Pedestrian" and the socially dissident act of going for a walk at night. / Literary Hub
German police are tracking down a driver who smashed through a barrier by using drawings from six-year-olds who witnessed the incident. / BBC
How supermarkets and all their abundance affect American health, perspectives, and so much more. / NPR
A foliage map of garden sizes across London. / Reddit
Twitch streams where no one's watching. / nobody live
Thank you to all our supporters. If you haven't already, please consider becoming a Sustaining Member or making a one-time donation today.
Got a correction, or a link we should consider? Email us, or just reply to this newsletter.
Your Headlines are sourced and written by TMN's Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin and arrive in your inbox, Monday through Saturday. View this edition and the latest Headlines all day long at TMN.