And another day of impeachments, defiance, ‘reconnaissance’ tours, panic buttons, ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ lists, legal jeopardy, repaying jobless aid, Tesla recalls, and the truth is out there comes to a close:
“Others on the Republican side have talked about unity. But we can't have unity without truth and accountability. And I'm not about to be lectured by people who just voted to overturn the results of a free and fair election." — Jim McGovern
“To hear Republicans tell it, the obligation to bring the nation together rests entirely with Democrats. Republicans did not call on Trump to renounce his election lies, and not a single one of the 139 GOPers who voted to toss out Biden votes apologized.” -- Max Boot
Death
US: 393,928 (+4329)
World: 1,986,770 (+16,685)
Cases
US: 23,616,345 (+248,120)
World: 92,771,254 (+762,953)
Countdown: 7 days.
The House Has Impeached Trump Again (For ‘incitement and insurrection’). Here's How House Members Voted. -- 10 Republicans voted to impeach him. The most bipartisan impeachment in history.
McConnell blocks quick Trump trial, unsure how he’ll vote. Minutes after the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump, McConnell suggested in a statement that Trump’s Senate trial will not start before Jan. 19, the chamber’s next scheduled business day. It’s also the day before Democrat Joe Biden is inaugurated as president and about the time Democrats take over majority control of the Senate. The timetable essentially means McConnell is dropping the trial into Democrats’ laps.
President-elect Joe Biden calls on the Senate to pursue impeachment along with the nation's "other urgent business".
Trump grows defiant as the White House becomes a ghost town. As he becomes the first president to be impeached twice, Trump lacks a robust response for the first time. But the relative silence from the president shouldn't be interpreted as submission, those close to him say. Instead, Trump continues to cling to his false assertion that he won the election and is refusing pleas that he leave office days before his term expires because of his role in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Fight Trump Like a Terrorist Leader, National Security Experts Say. But what about sympathies for Trumpism among those with security responsibilities? Last August, former FBI special agent Michael German authored a report for the Brennan Center for Justice focused on the unknown extent but clear existence of extremist views among American law enforcement. “The continued presence of even a small number of far-right militants, white supremacists, and other overt racists in law enforcement has an outsized impact on public safety and on public trust in the criminal justice system and cannot be ignored,” German wrote. There has also been mounting evidence that police officers around the country have been caught up in apocalyptic pro-Trump conspiracy theories stemming from the dangerous QAnon movement, which Trump last fall refused to disavow even after it had been designated by the FBI as a domestic terrorism threat...Trump must be seen as “the operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort,” said Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of Homeland Security, who was among the first experts to call out Trump’s use of terrorist tactics. “He tells them where to go. He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry. So we need to start at the top, like with any counterterrorism effort, which is total isolation of the president of the United States. Impeachment, yes. Twenty-fifth amendment, yes. Deplatforming, yes. No money, no access to campaign funds…What we have to make sure [of] is that Donald Trump does not have a second act.”
Rep. Mikie Sherrill says Congress members gave 'reconnaissance' tours day before Capitol raid. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, during a live webcast Tuesday evening, said she witnessed some members of Congress leading people through the Capitol on Jan. 5 in what she termed a "reconnaissance for the next day" when insurrectionists took part in a deadly siege on the legislative branch.
‘It was like looking at evil’: The Capitol attack through the eyes of the Massachusetts delegation. As people rushed out of other buildings on the Capitol grounds, staffers in Pressley’s office barricaded the entrance with furniture and water jugs that had piled up during the pandemic. Groh pulled out gas masks and looked for the special panic buttons in the office. “Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit,” she said, though they could come up with no rationale as to why. She had used them before and hadn’t switched offices since then.
DC protester arrested with 11 Molotov cocktails, several guns had list of 'good guys,' 'bad guys': DOJ. Federal prosecutors submitted chilling new evidence in their case against Capitol siege suspect Lonnie Coffman on Tuesday, including a list the protester had in his possession naming "good guys" and "bad guys," including the names of a federal judge and a House lawmaker. — Stop calling these people protesters. This was not a protest. It was an insurrection.
Vice president's residence fortified with unprecedented level of security not seen since 9/11.
FBI warns law enforcement to use caution when arresting Capitol rioters. A recent FBI bulletin obtained by CBS News warns law enforcement agencies moving in to arrest suspects in the deadly Capitol attack to "use caution and consider the use of SWAT when affecting the arrest." The bulletin said the agencies should be especially cautious when arresting people who wore "body armor" or "other armament during criminal activity conducted at the U.S. Capitol."
GOP lawmakers' fiery language under more scrutiny after deadly Capitol riot. — There are many. And they’re all traitors.
A growing group of Democrats are calling for the expulsion or censure of Republicans who objected to the results.
Trump's actions in last days as President increase his legal jeopardy. “There are potential state and federal crimes that he can be prosecuted for just for the things he's done this past week and what's troubling for him is he won't have the immunity from prosecution that DOJ say says a sitting president has as of next Wednesday.”
Report: Companies donated $170M to GOP election objectors.
MAGA-land’s Favorite Newspaper. How The Epoch Times became a pro-Trump propaganda machine in an age of plague and insurrection. But conventional descriptions of The Epoch Times don’t adequately capture the singular mix of straight news, religious belief, conspiracy-peddling, Sinophobia, science denialism, legitimate grievance, and political expediency at the heart of the institution—a mix that, despite the paper’s mysteries, makes it a strangely fitting poster child for this unsettled moment.
Parler CEO says social media app, favored by Trump supporters, may not return.
Should The Government Pay People To Get Vaccinated? Some Economists Think So. Here's how his idea works: Everyone who gets vaccinated would be eligible for a $1,000 payment from the federal government. You'd get $200 for taking both vaccine shots. And then an additional $800 once the country reaches herd immunity.
The Supreme Court hands down its first anti-abortion decision of the Amy Coney Barrett era. The Court’s decision may be the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade.
Trump administration condemned over Lisa Montgomery execution. A lawyer has accused the Trump administration of “unnecessary and vicious use of authoritarian power” after a woman on death row was executed early on Wednesday, the first federal execution of a woman in almost seven decades.
Missouri asks thousands of unemployed people to repay jobless aid.
Ohio will no longer sentence kids to life without parole. The law is a “huge sea change” for the state, said Kevin Werner, policy director at the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, because “it recognizes that people change. … The heart of the bill is that Ohio values redemption over excessive punishment.”
U.S. asks Tesla to recall 158,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures.
The truth is out there … perhaps: CIA releases thousands of UFO files. The documents are currently available on the Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government documents, after the site’s founder John Greenewald Jr, purchased a CD-Rom the CIA had made with its UFO documents. About 2,700 pages were included in the collection, what the agency says are all the files it has on UFOs, but Greenewald notes on his website that “there may be no way to entirely verify that”.
RIP Julie Strain. She was 59.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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