BECAUSE NOBODY TRUSTS TECH, OR PUBLIC HEALTH, ANYMORE: Why Aren’t COVID Tracing Apps More Widely Used? Along with technical issues, a new study suggests that trust and transparency are barriers for broader acceptance of the apps.

Many things are possible in a high-trust society that are impossible in a low-trust one.

THIS COULD BE FUN: Introducing Wokeyleaks. “A regular column by an anonymous whistleblower operating deep within heart of the Social Justice Movement that is the entertainment industry. To protect their identity, they will go under the code-name ‘They/Them’. Wokeyleaks will also function as a confidential news leak organization for any other sources who wish to divulge classified information (and hilarious anecdotes) about woke culture without fear of getting canceled.”

TRIUMPHS OF KNOWLEDGE: Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur’s Butthole in Exquisite Detail.

‘UNITY’ ALWAYS MEANT ‘UNITY WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ELITES WHO DON’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU PROLES.’

LOVELY: Trump Follows Tradition, Leaves A Note For Biden In Oval Office.

AT THIS LATE DATE, WHAT’S THE JUSTIFICATION? Biden will not ease U.S. travel ban for Europe, Brazil travelers, official says. Except for a few islands that have managed to stay Covid-free, it’s everywhere. What difference can international travel make, really?

NICE: Second B-21 Under Construction as Bomber Moves Toward First Flight.

NONSHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Study: As more legal pot stores open, more young adults start using.

JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Is the President an “officer of the United States” for purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment?

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Hasn’t Cancel Culture Come for Alec Baldwin? “The far-left star can do, or say, almost anything and Hollywood keeps calling.”

LET THE SUN SHINE IN: Shining Sunlight On Shannon Watts’ Campaign Contributions. “What’s going on here? Why is there a donation to a federal candidate using an old address in which she also donated using her current listed address in the same election cycle? Why was the old address used right in the middle of two ‘correct’ donations?”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Takes Oath of Office, We Take Shots.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What are you doing today instead of watching the fauxnauguration?

Answer: We’re day-drinking and hoping you’ll join us.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Fox News does what it should have done on November 4: Fire Chris Stirewalt
• Biden Center at center of questions about Communist Chinese influence peddling
• Trump’s final middle finger salute

Bonus Sanity: Colorado tries to break the law of supply and demand, fails.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

PLUS: Joe Biden Becomes President. “At noon, Joe Biden took the Oath of Office and became the 46th president of the United States.”

Welcome to the resistance.

BIDEN SWORN IN AS 46th President.

LOTS OF PEOPLE SIGN CLIMATE ACCORDS. THE U.S. IS ALMOST ALONE IN HAVING ACTUALLY LOWERED ITS CARBON EMISSIONS. Surprise! Chinese Coal Output has Risen to 2015 Levels, Undermining Climate Pledges.

But between making climate pledges and actually lowering carbon emissions, guess which one gets more praise?

HE HAD WON THE VICTORY OVER HIMSELF. HE LOVED BIG BROTHER: This unbelievably Orwellian 30-second CNN clip shows exactly what we can expect from the corporate media for the next 4 years.

TRUMP SHOULD DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE CRIMINAL TRIAL FOR INCITEMENT. Impeachment is a political circus that, as we learned last time, is nothing more than a Congressional popularity contest based on emanations from the penumbra of the definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors” or something. So skip it! Trump should demand his day in court on the exact charges in the articles of impeachment, and when he’s acquitted, let Congress explain how words have no meaning anymore.

CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: YouTube extends Trump suspension for another week.

PAVING THE WAY FOR VPOTUS: Wow, Politico Is No Longer Covering Up Biden’s Cognitive Decline.

FASTER, PLEASE: Brave browser takes step toward enabling a decentralized web. “Brave has just taken a step toward supporting a decentralized web by becoming the first browser to offer native integration with a peer-to-peer networking protocol that aims to fundamentally change how the internet works. The technology is called IPFS (which stands for InterPlanetary File System), a relatively obscure transport protocol that promises to improve on the dominant HTTP standard by making content faster to access and more resilient to failure and control.”

COLLUSION: UT-Austin partners with Chinese institute later deemed a security risk by Department of Education.

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Biden’s Climate Team: Climate Change Is Happening Because of ‘Systemic Racism.’

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Howard prof, Biden’s pick to lead DOJ ‘Civil Rights Division,’ said Black people are ‘superior’ to Whites. “Clarke wrote that melanin ‘endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.'”

Party of science.

CHANGE: ‘Anti-Facebook’ MeWe social network adds 2.5 million new members in one week.

I’m really happy with MeWe, and find its interface to be a huge step up from the cartoony-looking mess that Facebook has become.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Colleges Lobby Biden to Halt Federal Probe Into Foreign Donations. “Education Dept. investigation has already found $6.5 billion in unreported gifts.”

“I LOVE RUBBING IT IN THEIR FACES.” “On the heels of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showing the Mountaineer State is leading the nation in vaccine distribution to its people, outperforming centers of culture and power such as New York and California, Gov. Jim Justice has some words for elites who often characterize his state’s government or her people as backward or unsophisticated.”

You see the same thing on a smaller scale in Tennessee. The major urban counties are doing much worse than the outlying counties. Here in Knox County the first mass-vaccination effort was a debacle featuring long lines at the crack of dawn, while in the surrounding counties they set up appointments on Eventbrite and did drive-through vaccinations.