1-15: red hot year

✅ Exhausted Health Care Workers Feel Betrayed by Those Who Ignore COVID Rules -- The onslaught has exhausted them, but many also use the word "betrayed" to describe their feelings toward the public, and they have grown angry at people for skirting safety rules because they know much of the suffering is avoidable. Lesley McClurg KQED -- 1/15/21

✅ No uniform system for California’s mass vaccine rollout -- demand for the coronavirus vaccine vastly outpacing supply, California’s efforts to methodically plan who gets a vaccine and when are quickly being thrown out the window. Kathleen Ronayne Associated Press -- 1/15/21

✅ 2020 ties 2016 as hottest year on record, even without warming boost from El Niño -- Global warming pushed temperatures into record territory in 2020, in effect tying 2016 as the hottest year on record, according to data released Thursday by U.S. science agencies. Tony Barboza in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 1/15/21

✅ 'A call for unity': Biden lays out vast federal expansion of pandemic response -- President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday night broke sharply with the Trump administration on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, unveiling a new plan for a robust federal role in everything from testing to vaccine delivery. Alice Miranda Ollstein and Adam Cancryn Politico -- 1/15/21

✅ Poll finds clear opposition to riot, support to bar Trump from serving again
—WashPo

✅ Long before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and the GOP purged John Birch extremists from the party
Six decades ago, Reagan, Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. and others in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.
—WashPo

✅ Lawmakers who conspired with Capitol attackers in legal peril 

If any members of Congress are proven to have colluded with the rioters, their position likely won't save them from criminal liability. 

—Politico