Schools are closed, bars are open

It’s still too early to know how the Thanksgiving holiday — and some Americans’ refusal to follow the advice of experts and stay home for it — will impact the number of coronavirus cases, but we’re headed for a dark winter indeed. What are teachers to do? We’ll talk about it. Plus, Molly’s sad bitcoin story and the changing GOP line on “mean tweets.”

Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:

• “Teaching in the Pandemic: ‘This Is Not Sustainable’” from The New York Times
• “Exxon Slashes Spending, Writes Down Assets” from The Wall Street Journal
• “Bitcoin Climbs to Record High” from The New York Times
• “With Bank of America Announcement, Every Major US Bank Has Ruled out Funding for Arctic Drilling” from the Sierra Club
• And finally, this bit Kai caught on CNN this afternoon