Show your teeth: So that's what smiles look like. It's been so long.

That's one of many benefits of the CDC's announcement Thursday that the fully vaccinated can largely discard their masks and go full (facial) frontal. It was welcome news for Americans who have spent the last 14 months in lockdown or breathing through masks in public.

The CDC officially lifted mask requirements for the fully vaccinated for the first time since the start of the pandemic that claimed over a half-million American lives and millions of livelihoods. The CDC called the move a testament to the overwhelmingly high efficacy of vaccines. Over one-third of Americans are currently fully vaccinated.

"Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing," said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky. "If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic."

Despite a small number of "breakthrough cases," growing evidence shows the fully vaccinated are safe to go maskless outdoors and indoors. In the rare case of someone who is fully vaccinated being infected, research has shown they are unlikely to transmit the virus.

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Bipartisan gesture: The standoff between ambitious Democrats and contentious Republicans can only come to an end if one side offers an olive branch. President Biden has signaled he will do just that as his administration enters talks about the infrastructure bill.

It's a topic Biden has felt sure he could gain bipartisan support from GOP lawmakers eager to bring job-creating projects to their home states and districts. But the $2 trillion price tag and some of the items in the bill that address social issues are unpopular with Republicans.

In fact, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently announced that he is "100% committed" to stopping Biden's agenda, a similar policy that worked in shutting down former President Barack Obama's plans. Biden hinted Thursday that he is willing to negotiate.

"I'm prepared to compromise," Biden said of his Oval Office meeting with six GOP senators for a "good faith" discussion on the details. But will Republicans see his gesture as bipartisanship or blinking?

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Tourists gone wild: We're barely four months removed from the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill and the whitewashing of the facts is in full force. Listen to what Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., actually verbalized with a straight face at this week's congressional hearings.

“Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through statuary hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and roped and taking video and pictures,” he said. “If you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from Jan. 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”

Really? Because the rest of the world must have watched a different channel. We saw scenes of rioters hitting Capitol police officers with lead pipes, flag poles and pepper spray. The pro-Trump mod yelled "Hang Mike Pence!" and defiled the symbol of our democracy. And how many Capitol Hill tours end with a full National Guard escort?

Predictably, Clyde's comments blew up Twitter, including this zinger from The Lincoln Project showing side-by-side photos of a tour group and the mob with the caption "Can you spot the difference?"

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