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AP’s Today in History for February 14th

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie; Slobodan Milosevic begins his defense against war crimes charges; Dolly the cloned sheep dies.

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Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

• Republicans censured Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter from MLK’s wife — but Cruz and Hawley get a pass
  Sarah K. Burris

• The Problem With “Anti-Corruption”
  BENJAMIN FOGEL

• Biden DOJ Files Appeal to Get Assange Extradited
  Consortium News

• Inadequate healthcare has killed more Americans than Covid-19
  Annalisa Merelli

• Amazon has an app called Mentor that tracks delivery drivers — here’s what they say about it
  Annie Palmer

• Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ‘plans to eliminate two-day delivery for first-class mail and hike postage rates’ as USPS struggles with billions in losses
  KEITH GRIFFITH

• The Lincoln Project, Facing Multiple Scandals, is Accused by its Own Co-Founder of Likely Criminality
  Glenn Greenwald

• Cuomo And The Lincoln Project Are Media-Created Monsters
  David Sirota and Andrew Perez

• Biden Adopts a Trump Approach to Iran
  LAWRENCE DAVIDSON

• “The great reset.”
  Haydar Khan

• Explosive Growth, Vaccines And Covid Variants
  Ian Welsh

• The Centrist Think Tank Third Way Just Can’t Quit Austerity
  ANDREW PEREZ

• It’s Not That Biden Is Too Slow. It’s That He’s Going Too Small.
  TED RALL

• Will the Senate scrutinize Biden budget nominee Neera Tanden’s apparent pay-for-play foreign policy corruption?
  MAX BLUMENTHAL

• Explaining India’s farmer uprising, the largest strike in human history
  ANYA PARAMPIL

• A Complete Capitulation’: Outrage as Democrats Abruptly Back Off Push for Witnesses in Trump Trial
  Jake Johnson

• ‘Fire DeJoy Before He Burns Down USPS’: Postmaster General Pushes Plan for Slower Mail, Higher Prices
  Jake Johnson

Something to think about over coffee prozac

NFL Bankrupted After Receiving $6.3 Trillion Bill From Hospitals For Healthcare Workers Appearance
The Onion

NEW YORK—Weeping into his hands as he realized everything he worked for had been destroyed in an instant, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Monday that the league has been bankrupted after receiving a bill for $6.3 trillion from the hospitals that employ the 7,500 healthcare workers who attended the Super Bowl.

“They were only there for a few hours and we didn’t even need any treatments? What are we going to do?” cried Goodell, who had spent the previous four hours on the phone with the NFL’s insurance company, only to be told it was a standard charge and there was nothing they could do to help. “A hundred years and it’s all gone with one medical bill. How do they expect us to pay this? We could sell off every team and it still wouldn’t even come close. They didn’t even warn us either, they acted like it was no big deal and then they slam us with this bill just because 7,200 of these people were out of network. I’m going to be in debt the rest of my life.”

At press time, an NFL GoFundMe to pay for the bill had raised $792.