And another day of unhinged responses, a shooting rampage in NC, FBI agents ‘sympathetic’ to rioters, a surge of RSV cases, and litter boxes in schools join the GOP culture wars comes to a close:
“I don't say this lightly, but I don't know how else to read this letter as anything other than the rantings of a madman.” — Amanda Carpenter on Trump’s 14-page response to the January 6th Committee
Deaths
US: 1,090,289 (+373)
World: 6,569,844 (+1705)
Cases
US: 98,814,003 (+34,060)
World: 629,395,967 (+494,472)
Trump’s Official Response to Jan. 6 Subpoena Is as Unhinged as His Truth Social Posts. Trump followed up his rantings on Truth Social with even more rantings beneath his office’s letterhead, sending a rambling, 14-page response to Chairman Bennie Thompson in which he does not indicate whether he will comply with the committee’s forthcoming request for testimony and documents. -- Trump is fucking unstable.
Police: 15-year-old boy kills 5 in Raleigh shooting rampage. The victims were different races and ranged in age from 16 to their late 50s, Patterson said. Family members and friends said some of the victims were gunned down while doing normal, everyday activities — an off-duty police officer was killed while on his way to work, one of the women who died was on her porch talking to a neighbor, another woman who died was out walking her dog and another was out exercising. Gov. Roy Cooper called the shooting an “infuriating and tragic act of gun violence.” He added: “No neighborhood, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in their communities — no one.” -- But in America, we have no choice but to fear it. The GOP and ammosexuals force us to fear it.
FBI official was warned after Jan. 6 that some in the bureau were 'sympathetic' to the Capitol rioters. A week after the Jan. 6 attack, an email landed in a top FBI official’s inbox expressing concern that some bureau employees might not be particularly motivated to help bring to justice the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol and threatened lawmakers’ lives. “There’s no good way to say it, so I’ll just be direct: from my first-hand and second-hand information from conversations since January 6th there is, at best, a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol," and that it was no different than the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020, the person wrote in an email to Paul Abbate, who is now the No. 2 official at the bureau. “Several also lamented that the only reason this violent activity is getting more attention is because of ‘political correctness.’”
Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate debate. When Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker met to debate in the already contentious Georgia Senate race, all the focus was on how personal allegations against Walker would roil the first – and likely only – debate in the campaign.
A GOP gov in liberal Oregon? Dems sound alarm on ‘spoiler’. Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism, where Democrats are easily elected and a Republican hasn’t served as governor since the early 1980s. But with an unusually competitive three-way contest for governor, the Democratic candidate’s success is hardly a guarantee this year. As mail-in ballots become available to voters next week, Oregon is becoming the unlikely site of one of the most competitive governor’s races in the country. -- There should not be a GOP governor anywhere, much less in Oregon.
Officials: Musk seeks US funds for Ukraine satellite network. The Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces since almost the beginning of its war with Russia, U.S. officials said Friday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter not yet made public, said the issue has been discussed in meetings and senior leaders are weighing the matter. There have been no decisions.
With Bolsonaro’s rule in question, eco-thugs plunder the Amazon. Government satellites show a 562-square-mile area of rainforest was destroyed in September, as environmental criminals raced to wreck the region before a possible change of president could bring Jair Bolsonaro’s era of destruction to an end. The Climate Observatory watchdog said that figure was up nearly 48 percent compared with last September and on a par with the destruction wrought in September 2019, the first year of Bolsonaro’s far-right administration. August saw a 81 percent rise in deforestation.
Hundreds of students at a San Diego high school call out amid flu outbreak. The outbreak at Patrick Henry High School started Monday, doubled on Wednesday, and now, more than half the student body is out sick. — 1400 students out sick.
Surge in cases of RSV, a virus that can severely sicken infants, is filling hospital beds. Hospitals across the country have reported a surge in RSV cases over the last three to four weeks. The virus began circulating in the summer, to doctors' surprise, since it usually peaks in winter. For many kids, RSV symptoms look like a common cold. But for others — young babies or children with lung diseases or weakened immune systems — symptoms can be more severe.
Alaska has canceled snow crab season after a catastrophic population crash of the sizable crustaceans. The red king crab season was canceled for the second year in a row, making it a two-pronged disaster for Alaska’s economy and for those whose livelihoods rely on crab.
How an urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a GOP talking point. At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats, according to an NBC News review of public statements. Every school district that has been named by those 20 politicians said either to NBC News or in public statements that these claims are untrue. There is no evidence that any school has deployed litter boxes for students to use because they identify as cats…The rise of the litter box rumor shows the power of false claims that start on social media to shape political discourse. And it demonstrates how quickly some elements of truth can be twisted and mashed up with fully debunked assertions to create a viral narrative amplified by prominent politicians, as well as commentators with large audiences.
Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’. Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting.
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