And another day of missing seven hours and thirty seven minutes, growing pressure, contempt of Congress, Trump ask Putin for a favor, BA.2, 2nd boosters for 50+, Congressional orgies, making lynching a federal hate crime, and ending state residency for medically assisted suicide comes to a close:
“It is too common for Christians to fear the power of culture more than they fear the power of God.” — Michael Wear
Deaths
US: 1,005,056 (+813)
World: 6,156,551 (+4689)
Cases
US: 81,686,628 (+28,774)
World: 485,547,911 (+2,369,045)
8-hour gap in Trump’s Jan. 6 White House phone records. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has identified a roughly 8-hour gap in official White House records of then-President Donald Trump’s phone calls as the violence unfolded and his supporters stormed the building, according to two people familiar with the probe. The gap extends from a little after 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, and involves White House phone calls, according to one of the people.
“7 hours and 37 minutes is a very long time.” -- Molly Jung-Fast
Editorial: It’s certainly longer than 18 minutes. Look it up.
A 7-hour gap in Jan. 6 phone logs raises the question: Did Trump use a burner? The ongoing mystery over what Donald Trump was doing behind closed doors on January 6 as his supporters stormed the US Capitol now includes a glaring, seven-hour gap in the phone records of the White House logs. The Washington Post reports that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is looking at whether the former president used unofficial backchannels, including burner phones, to shield his communications from 11:17 am to 6:54 pm that day…I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term,” he told the paper.” Well, it doesn’t take a legal genius to see that the second beat of Trump’s statement is doing a lot of work here. That’s understandable, considering Trump’s extensive history of flouting official record-keeping rules. That record includes the allegation that the former president, in order to get rid of potentially damaging documents, would rip up pieces of paper in the Oval Office—only to eat them. His own aides have also reportedly suspected him of flushing potentially compromising material down a toilet with such frequency that it routinely clogged the White House plumbing system. -- He damn well knows what a burner phone is. All criminals do.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection voted to recommend two former Trump White House advisers, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino Jr., be held in criminal contempt of Congress. "They are obligated to comply with our investigation. They have refused to do so. And that's a crime.” -- I’d like to believe something will come of this, but my faith in our institutions and systems has been badly damaged. Consequences no longer seem to apply to a certain group of people in politics.
Clarence Thomas faces growing pressure to step aside from Jan. 6 cases. Democrats are calling for his recusal in related cases due to his wife's campaign to overturn the 2020 election, and pushing for a formal Supreme Court code of ethics. -- If this was any normal world we lived in, he would resign.
Trump brazenly asks Putin to release dirt about Biden's family. In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he has about the Biden family, in a brazen request for domestic political assistance from America's top adversary.
“It's depressing sharing a country with people who think Donald Trump is someone worth emulating.” -- John Pavlovitz
The highly contagious Omicron subvariant BA.2 is now the dominant strain of coronavirus in the United States, CDC says. The hardest hit region continues to be the Northeast, where BA.2 is causing more than 70% of all cases. The South and Mountain West are seeing the fewest cases in the US. BA.2 is causing slightly more than one-third of infections in those regions.
US opens second COVID boosters to 50 and up, others at risk. Americans 50 and older can get a second COVID-19 booster if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination, a chance at extra protection for the most vulnerable in case the coronavirus rebounds. -- Get your booster shots, people.
21 states sue to end mask requirement on public transportation. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, argues that the federal mandate exceeds the CDC's authority and interferes with state laws banning forced masking.
'Biggest fraud in a generation': The looting of the Covid relief plan known as PPP. Many who participated in what prosecutors are calling the largest fraud in U.S. history — the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money intended to help those harmed by the coronavirus pandemic — couldn’t resist purchasing luxury automobiles. Also mansions, private jet flights and swanky vacations…The prevalence of Covid relief fraud has been known for some time, but the enormous scope and its disturbing implications are only now becoming clear.
Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named after the Black teenager whose killing in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights era. His grieving mother insisted on an open casket to show everyone how her son had been brutalized. -- More than 100 years after it was first proposed? Jesus fucking Christ this country.
Kevin McCarthy Wants to Talk to Madison Cawthorn About Alleged Congressional Orgies. The Republican from North Carolina says he’s been invited to orgies and seen his colleagues do cocaine in front of him.
Millions of women in U.S. lack access to maternity care. More than 2 million women in the U.S. live in counties with no access to prenatal care or obstetricians, what's known as maternity care deserts, according to the March of Dimes. Millions more live in areas where medical support is extremely limited. Fewer than half of rural Texas hospitals deliver babies. A shortage of nurses heightened by the COVID pandemic has been one of the biggest factors in the decline of maternity wards, though cost is also an issue.
Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide. Oregon will no longer require people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional…Advocates said they would use the settlement to press the eight other states and Washington, D.C., with medically assisted suicide laws to drop their residency requirements as well.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Will Smith Did a Bad, Bad Thing. When Will Smith stormed onto the Oscar stage to strike Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife’s short hair, he did a lot more damage than just to Rock’s face. With a single petulant blow, he advocated violence, diminished women, insulted the entertainment industry, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Black community. That’s a lot to unpack. Let’s start with the facts:...This “women need men to defend them” is the same justification currently being proclaimed by conservatives passing laws to restrict abortion and the LGBTQ+ community...What is the legacy of Smith’s violence?...Young boys—especially Black boys—watching their movie idol not just hit another man over a joke, but then justify it as him being a superhero-like protector, are now much more prone to follow in his childish footsteps. Perhaps the saddest confirmation of this is the tweet from Smith’s child Jaden: “And That’s How We Do It.” The Black community also takes a direct hit from Smith. One of the main talking points from those supporting the systemic racism in America is characterizing Blacks as more prone to violence and less able to control their emotions. Smith just gave comfort to the enemy by providing them with the perfect optics they were dreaming of.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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