Biden’s slow but steady press conference performance ... Mickey gets ratio’d ... Bob attempts to convince Mickey to run for governor of California, immediately solicits a bribe ... Disappointing foreign policy decisions and the journalists that abet them ... Bob: “Blinken is totally out of control” ... The post-vaccination blues ... How intellectual property laws choke the global vaccine supply ... Parrot Room preview: Bob’s branding problem—and ours, near-death crises, JAMA deputy editor placed on leave, guaranteed income for Oakland POCs ...