The Continuing Crisis
- TX-Gov: Matthew McConaughey Decides to Not Run (hollywoodreporter.com)
- ‘Self-humiliation’: GOP House leader torched by conservative for ‘bending the knee’ to Marjorie Taylor Greene (rawstory.com)
- NY-Gov: Rep. Tom Suozzi Enters Race (nytimes.com)
- Former “Anonymous” Trump aide Miles Taylor: Let’s unite to make politics boring again (salon.com)
- As China Speeds Up Nuclear Arms Race, the U.S. Wants to Talk (nytimes.com)
- Heidi Heitkamp smacks down Chris Christie with lesson on how blue states ‘subsidize southern states’ (rawstory.com)
- Republican McCarthy risks party split by courting extremists amid Omar spat (theguardian.com)
- How Manchin and Sinema’s status as Senate holdouts is proving lucrative (theguardian.com)
- VA-Gov: Incoming Glenn Youngkin tests activists’ patience as he pushes abortion and guns aside (greenwichtime.com)
- Chris Christie distances from Trump in move aimed to look like he wants to shape the GOP’s (and his) future (apnews.com)
More News
- Millennials Confront High Inflation for the First Time (nytimes.com)
- Jack Dorsey Out as twitter CEO (cnbc.com)
- US intelligence community ‘struggled’ to brief Trump, CIA study says (cnn.com)
- More lies from Roger Stone? He says he doesn’t feel safe in Upper Manhattan because people ‘sometimes physically attack me’ (rawstory.com)
- Merkel’s punk pick for leaving ceremony raises eyebrows (theguardian.com)
- Taliban and 9/11 Families Fight for Billions in Frozen Afghan Funds (nytimes.com)
- Ex-defense secretary sues DOD over withheld material from Trump era memoir (theguardian.com)
- Years of Delays, Billions in Overruns: The Dismal History of Big Infrastructure (nytimes.com)
- Israel and Iran Broaden Cyberwar to Attack Civilian Targets (nytimes.com)
- Michael Cohen tips off investigators on who they should ‘squeeze’ to get to Trump (rawstory.com)
Insurrection Watch
- QAnon-linked ex-CEO moves for Michael Flynn to be named president if Trump ‘doesn’t want’ to be reinstated (rawstory.com)
- Prosecutors: Steve Bannon is manipulating the system, wants to try his case in media (dailykos.com)
- Court hearing for ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ actor goes off the rails as the Jan. 6 suspect declares himself a ‘sovereign citizen’: report (rawstory.com)
- The Patriot Movement’s creep into the GOP mainstream formed the war on democracy’s nexus (dailykos.com)
- How Texas secessionists are getting help from Putin — who ‘duped’ Ted Cruz in the process (rawstory.com)
- Far-right extremist groups and members face exposure from army of hacktivists (theguardian.com)
- Capitol siege: Adam Schiff says Mark Meadows contempt decision imminent
- DOJ insiders growing frustrated with Merrick Garland’s foot-dragging on charging Trump’s coup plotters: columnist (alternet.org)
- Federal judges are exposing the truth about the MAGA rioters (rawstory.com)Meet the judge who may have just set a devastating precedent for Trump and his 'big lie' allies (rawstory.com)
- Trump Described As Mob Boss Who Is Retaliating Against Republicans Who Didn’t Support Coup (politicususa.com)
COVID Watch
- Joe Biden to discuss Omicron Covid variant in White House address (theguardian.com)
- Dr. Anthony Fauci takes Sen. Ted ‘Cancun’ Cruz to the woodshed for suggesting he should face prosecution
- International travelers stranded, angry in omicron’s wake: ‘The first thing I did was cry’
- Post-COVID Entrepreneurism: Workers Quit Jobs in Droves to Become Their Own Bosses (wsj.com)
- How the $4 Trillion Flood of Covid Relief Is Funding the Future (nytimes.com)
- Dutch Authorities Find at Least 13 Omicron Cases in Travelers From Southern Africa (nytimes.com)What to know about the omicron variant of the coronavirus (washingtonpost.com)Frustrated by vaccine inequity, a South African lab is on the cusp of replicating Moderna’s shot (washingtonpost.com)Israel bars all foreigners, reinstates phone surveillance in effort to contain omicron variant (washingtonpost.com)
- Thanks to COVID-19, the future could be full of fire, explosions, and really, really bad food (dailykos.com)
- World Scrambles to Shut Out COVID Omicron Variant (nytimes.com)Omicron variant detected from Britain to Hong Kong as countries race to impose controls (washingtonpost.com)UK confirms two cases (theguardian.com)Variant feared at Amsterdam airport as the Netherlands enters nighttime lockdown (washingtonpost.com)African Nations Are Blamed and Banned (nytimes.com)What to know about the omicron variant of the coronavirus (washingtonpost.com)
- A discredited 1998 study paved the way for today’s anti-vaxxers (rawstory.com)
- Michigan leads US in Covid case count with every one in 10 new cases (theguardian.com)Far-right Michigan Republican known for anti-vaxxer views hospitalized with COVID-19 (alternet.org)
