The @PresElectBiden  navigated his presser well, keeping focus on his priorities, touting progress on the virus and recovery, and generally avoiding making big news on other subjects.

Amazing to watch the big right-wing propaganda machine roll. They can’t paint @JoeBiden  as “radical” or “socialist,” so they instead paint him as clueless and senile. Biden was in command of that presser today but the predictable braying on the right was that he was out of it.

On the #AxeFiles , � @karaswisher ⁩ of the � @nytimes ⁩, who has been covering the tech giants since their infancy, scoffed at their claims of innocence in the information wars and sounded the alarm about how social media is being weaponized. Pod👉

GIven the outrageous new voter suppression laws, @MLB  should move the 2021 All-Star game from Georgia. The film industry, which is flourishing there, should move their productions. Corporations should vote w/their dollars and reconsider investments.

He also joked about assassination in reference to two @GOP  reps from MI-Upton and Meijer-who voted to impeach Trump and have received threats. Can’t we at least agree that this stuff is way out of bounds and dangerous?

I don’t know Hansjorg Wyss. But to me, as a Chicagoan & proud veteran of the @chicagotribune  newsroom, his intervention to try & save the Trib from the clutches of hedge fund scavengers is an unexpected ray of hope and good news for our town & journalism.

Here’s the problem w/the GA law: It’s based on the false claim that the 2020 election was riven by fraud. And based on that throughly debunked lie, it offers “remedies,” some of which will make it harder for some citizens to vote & easier for politicians to undermine elections.

@SenDuckworth  may have the most remarkable & inspiring story of anyone in public life. Now she’s written a new memoir, Every Day is a Gift. In new #AxeFiles , I spoke w/her about her life & searing moments like the one below that helped shape her. Pod👉

The memorial service in the Capitol rotunda for Officer Billy Evans, who died protecting others, was heartbreakingly sad. But the images of his young family were absolutely wrenching. May his memory be a blessing.

Two noteworthy milestones in American social history today: The 1947 debut of Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and 99th the birthday of the late Harold Washington, who in 1983, became the first Black mayor of Chicago. Both heroic path-breakers!