https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/25/hysterical-staff-at-penguin-random-house-canada-melt-down-over-publishing-jordan-petersons-new-book/

The management at book publishing company Penguin Random House Canada is facing fierce opposition this week from company staff after plans were announced to publish a new book by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in March of 2021.

Four anonymous Penguin Random House Canada employees informed Vice News that the company held a town hall Monday for hysterical employees over the upcoming publishing of Peterson’s latest book, “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life.”

Angry staff at Penguin Random House Canada appear to have been largely unreceptive to the idea of diversity of thought.

One employee told Vice News that “people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.” One contended Peterson radicalized their father, and another insisted that if the book is published it will negatively affect their non-binary friend.

A different staffer said that Peterson is “an icon of hate speech,” “transphobia,” and “white supremacy.” Another claimed Peterson is responsible for “causing this surge of alt-right groups, especially on university campuses.”

“We publish a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community and what is the company going to do about making sure these authors are still feeling supported by a company that is supporting somebody who denies their existence?” one employee asked.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/527369-a-way-out-of-trumps-continuing-crisis-a-president-pence

Despite President Trump’s decision to permit Joe Biden to begin preparing for a presidential transition, his persistent questioning of the integrity of the election and ongoing refusal to concede keeps the country in a most precarious situation.

One way out of this quagmire is for Trump to resign in protest over election irregularities and to inaugurate Vice President Mike Pence to carry out the duties of the president until Jan. 20, 2021.

An attentive follower of Rudy Giuliani’s press conferences has much to be concerned about with respect to voting errors, malfeasance and missing ballots — despite the campaigns failure to provide any evidence of such. While most journalists and national media organizations have called the presidential election for Biden and largely dismissed any notions of a rigged or corrupted election, that doesn’t mean much for Trump. He has raised concerns about media bias for years and made numerous unfounded predictions of election fraud in the weeks and months before Election Day. He also has good reason to be concerned about vacating his office while federal and state investigations continue to threaten him and his close family members with imprisonment.

In the coming weeks, as states will certify their election results and Electoral College electors will cast their ballots on Dec. 14, we can expect to see an official, unequivocal win for Biden. But it’s going to be a rough ride until then and in the unlikely event that the Electoral College system fails, we face the unprecedented possibility of an unpeaceful transition of power. Trump likely does not want that to happen. He likely wants to leave office gracefully, preserve our 233 year old democracy and protect himself and his family from prosecution.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/527575-mnuchin-puts-455b-in-covid-19-relief-funds-beyond-successors-reach

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has moved $455 billion in COVID-19 relief from the Federal Reserve back into the Treasury’s General Fund, making it harder for his successor to access the emergency funding.

Mnuchin said last week that he was shuttering a handful of the Fed's emergency lending facilities, a move the central bank opposed in a rare critical statement. Those facilities, though little used during the pandemic, were seen as confidence boosters for capital markets.

Mnuchin at the time requested the Fed return the funding, which Congress appropriated to cover potential pandemic-related losses, saying the CARES Act from March set a legal deadline for the facilities to expire by year’s end.

Putting the cash back into the general fund would make it harder for former Fed chair Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden's reported pick to lead the Treasury Department next year, to deploy the funds, and may require another act of Congress to do so.