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Emily, John and David discuss the stimulus bill, racial inequities in vaccine distribution, the return to in-person learning, and Majorie Taylor Greene’s GOP.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Ezra Klein for the New York Times: “The Senate Has Become a Dadaist Nightmare”Uché Blackstock and Oni Blackstock for the Washington Post: “White Americans Are Being Vaccinated at Higher Rates Than Black Americans. Such Inequity Cannot Stand.”Shreya Kangovi and Uché Blackstock for the Washington Post: “Community Health Workers Are Essential in This Crisis. We Need More of Them.”Thomas B. Edsall for the New York Times: “The QAnon Delusion Has Not Loosened Its Grip”David Blight’s Open Yale Course: “HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877”Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed Monica Potts for The New York Times: “In the Land of Self-Defeat”Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: Emily: Moe Tkacik for Slate: “The Lousy Tippers of the Trump Administration”