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What We’re Reading Today: Goya Boycott Backfires, Quitting The NYT, Biden’s Little Red Quote … And More

COVID Kills

California rolls back reopening with new restrictions on indoor dining, churches, salons — Los Angeles Times

I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up  —  New York Times

Can shopping malls survive the coronavirus pandemic and a new slate of permanent store closings? — USA Today

How Politicization, Anxiety And Misdirection Are Still Driving The Pandemic Narrative — Daily Wire

Buycott

The Left’s “Boycott” Of Goya Has Backfired Spectacularly As Conservative Customers Clean Out Store Shelves — ZeroHedge

GoFundMe campaign raising money to buy Goya products for food pantries surpasses $127,000 — Just the News

Liberalism At Work

Priorities: De Blasio Immediately Fixes Defaced BLM Mural, But People Still Being Shot — Weaselzippers

Seattle Just Passed a New Tax on Jobs in the Middle of an Economic Crisis—But Exempted Government Workers — Foundation for Economic Education

Cuomo ripped for internal report shifting blame for nursing home deaths away from controversial policy — Fox News

Election 2020

Suddenly, some GOP candidates are maintaining social distance from President Trump — Andrew Malcolm, McClatchy

Trump tars Biden as soft on crime, hostile to cops after Dem’s gaffes on police funding, equipment — Just the News

Little Red Quote

Biden cites quote made famous by Mao Zedong during fundraiser — Washington Examiner

Breaking China

UK follows US in banning Huawei from 5G network — CNET News

Is We Learning Yet?

Orange County, CA to Open Schools, Blasts Remote Learning as “Failure” — Yahoo News

Pelosi: Opening School Is Big “Risk” — Reuters

All The Bias That’s Fit to Print

Why I Quit the New York Times — Bari Weiss

Not Satire

NBA Store Allows ‘Defund Police,’ ‘Beware of Jews’ on Custom Jerseys, But Not ‘Free Hong Kong’ — Washington Free Beacon

Satire

Every NFL Team Must Change Their Name — Babylon Bee

10 Naming Ideas for the Washington Redskins — Fansided

Misc

FDA fast-tracks vaccines as California leads charge toward second lockdown — Washington Times

Concerns Emerge As Congress Moves to Hand Airport Security to Private Sector — Washington Free Beacon

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