And another day of subpoenas, inciting violence, the ‘first battle,’ a TX election police force, ‘near-limitless energy,’ blizzards, disbanding the trust and safety advisory group, and screen time linked to OCD comes to a close:
“The last time a dude given a massive platform started likening segments of the population to viruses, the country I'm in and most of Europe was devastated.” — Mike Stuchberry
Covid Deaths
US: 1,109,983
World: 6,660,216
Covid Cases
US: 101,369,163
World: 654,206,641
Trump probe subpoena served on Georgia secretary of state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has received a subpoena related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of former President Donald Trump, who focused strongly on the state as he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says if she ran Jan. 6 Capitol attack, 'We would have won'. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said at a Republican event in New York over the weekend that if she had organized the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol "we would have won" and "it would've been armed," according to video from her appearance that was posted on social media. Greene, R-Ga., made the comments at the New York Young Republican Club in New York City on Saturday night. -- Don’t believe she was making a “sarcastic joke.” She meant every word she said. She is violence spewing trash who should be kicked out of Congress.
Prosecutor: Oath Keepers saw Jan. 6 as ‘first battle’ in war. Four Oath Keepers charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden accepted an “invitation to sedition” issued by the far-right extremist group’s founder, a federal prosecutor said Monday at the start of a second trial for group leaders and members.
Texas Republicans propose a Florida-style election police force as it tees up more changes to voting laws. As of Friday, GOP legislators had already prefiled 20 bills in the Texas House and Senate. When the legislative session begins in January, they’re likely to consider many of them seriously. Most of the bills fall into three categories: legislation that would impose harsher penalties for infractions; expand the state attorney general’s authority to prosecute election and voting crimes; and create a new law enforcement unit dedicated exclusively to enforcing and prosecuting election and voting crimes.
Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could mean ‘near-limitless energy’. Researchers have reportedly made a breakthrough in the quest to unlock a “near-limitless, safe, clean” source of energy: they have got more energy out of a nuclear fusion reaction than they put in.
EXPLAINER: Why fusion could be a clean-energy breakthrough. It’s a technology that has the potential to one day accelerate the planet’s shift away from fossil fuels, which are the major contributors to climate change. The technology has long struggled with daunting challenges. Here’s a look at exactly what nuclear fusion is, and some of the difficulties in turning it into the cheap and carbon-free energy source that scientists believe it can be.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas, local authorities say. Bankman-Fried had been expected on Tuesday to make his first public appearance since FTX’s collapse before US lawmakers.
Musk’s Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group. Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives Monday night. But Twitter informed the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to multiple members.
Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats amid ‘Twitter Files’ release. Twitter’s former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him...Yoel Roth, who resigned from the social media company in November, has in recent weeks faced a storm of attacks and threats of violence following the release of the so-called “Twitter Files” — internal Twitter communications that new owner Musk has released through journalists including Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss...While Musk had initially been publicly supportive of Roth, that soon changed after he left the company. Roth has since been the subject of criticism and threats following the release of the Twitter Files. However, things took a dark turn over the weekend when Musk appeared to endorse a tweet that baselessly accused Roth of being sympathetic to pedophilia — a common trope used by conspiracy theorists to attack people online. -- Elon Musk gets off on bullying people.
US blizzard expected to impact millions in Rockies, Midwest. The National Weather Service warned that there would be “numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country this week.” Across the Rockies and into the northern Plains and parts of the Midwest, people were warned to prepare for blizzard-like conditions. Those farther south in Texas and Louisiana could get heavy rains with flash flooding, hail and tornadoes by Tuesday. The storm will continue southeast into Florida later in the week, forecasters said.
Screen time linked to OCD in youth: study. For children in this study, each additional hour playing video games increased the risk of developing OCD by 13 percent. And for each additional hour watching videos, the risk of subsequent OCD increased by 11 percent. By the two-year mark, 4.4 percent of the preteens had developed new-onset OCD from their baseline.
Supreme Court won’t block California flavored tobacco ban. The Supreme Court on Monday refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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