The Continuing Crisis
- Republican Senate candidates echo Donald Trump’s big lie – that 2020 election was stolen in advertising (cnn.com)
- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel luring unlikely GOP donors with dinners hyping robots and UFOs: report (rawstory.com)
- A ‘buried’ poll result reveals a trend in the GOP that looks bad for Trump (rawstory.com)
- ‘I Will Not Sit Quietly’: 3 Black Senators in Spotlight on Voting Rights (nytimes.com)
- Glenn Youngkin nominee dogged by his failure to resign from the Trump administration after Jan. 6 insurrection (rawstory.com)
- Progressive groups ditch Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (dailykos.com)
- Trump wanted Clarence Thomas to retire from Supreme Court, thought his wife Ginni was ‘a wacko’ (rawstory.com)
- Republican group is slamming Kevin McCarthy with scathing ads (alternet.org)
- House Oversight Committee schedules 2nd hearing on oil and gas industry’s role in climate disinformation (cnn.com)
- On Voting Rights, Democrats Say They Had to Go Down Swinging (nytimes.com)
More News
- Mayor Adams embraces Bloomberg and de Blasio, a rarity in NYC politics (nydailynews.com)
- U.S. Orders Family Members of Embassy Staff to Leave Ukraine (nytimes.com)
- Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics (nytimes.com)
- SCOTUS Rules 8-1 to Overturn Conviction of Child Killer; Only Justice Thomas Dissents (lawandcrime.com)
- Georgia ‘Pastor’ and His Wife Allegedly Locked Neglected People Inside Unlicensed Group Home (lawandcrime.com)
- Louie Anderson, Emmy-Winning Comedian, Dies at 68 (variety.com)
- Biden ‘fully prepared’ to hold summit with Putin over Ukraine tensions (theguardian.com)Blinken to reassert Ukraine sovereignty in Berlin speech (theguardian.com)
- US charges four Belarus officials with aircraft piracy over flight diversion (bbc.com)
- Saudi-Led Airstrikes Kill Scores at Prison in Yemen, Officials Say (nytimes.com)
- Biden’s chief of staff on potential Putin sanctions: “Nothing on the economic side is off the table” (cbsnews.com)
Insurrection Watch
- Jan. 6 committee has spoken with former Trump attorney general Barr, chairman says (washingtonpost.com)
- Politico has the never-issued written order from Donald Trump that would have seized voting machines. So does the House Select Committee. Uh-oh… (politico.com)
- DC insider: Corporate seditionists are no better than the seditionists who attacked the Capitol (alternet.org)
- Rep. Marc Pocan: Justice Department Must Launch Criminal Investigation Into Wisconsin Republicans Who Signed Forged Election Documents (politicususa.com)
- Michael Flynn allies allegedly plotted to extort Republicans to back vote audits (theguardian.com)
- CNN SCOOP: Rudy Giuliani oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states (cnn.com)January 6 committee requests critical meeting with Ivanka Trump (dailykos.com)Rep. Jamie Raskin: Ivanka Trump could ‘complete the portrait’ in Jan. 6 probe (rawstory.com)Some electors balked at Giuliani scheme (washingtonpost.com)
- Atlanta D.A. Requests Special Grand Jury in Trump Election Inquiry (nytimes.com)
- How Oath Keepers Are Accused of Plotting to Storm the Capitol (nytimes.com)
- Meet the right-wing billionaire who has spent more than $4 million pushing Trump’s ‘big lie’ (rawstory.com)
- Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel (theguardian.com)Trump may have planned to join supporters at the Capitol — and the Secret Service could prove it (rawstory.com)
COVID Watch
- Biden’s Pandemic Fight: Inside the Setbacks of the First Year (nytimes.com)
- Rep. Thomas Massie tests positive for Covid-19 after mild symptoms, says he is not vaccinated (cnn.com)
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, vaccine and mask mandate opponent, tests positive for the coronavirus (washingtonpost.com)
- US children’s Covid vaccinations lag despite record infections (theguardian.com)
- Senior citizens are fuming that Medicare won’t pay for Covid-19 tests at retailers (cnn.com)
- Biden administration to distribute 400 million N95 masks to the public for free (cnn.com)
- Omicron May Be Peaking in Parts of U.S., but Hospitals Are Strained (nytimes.com)New York and other north-eastern US states see a rapid fall in Covid cases (theguardian.com)
- The C.D.C.’s New Challenge? Grappling With Imperfect Science (nytimes.com)
- Some Colleges Loosen Rules for a Virus That Won’t Go Away (nytimes.com)
- Novak Djokovic deported, leaves Australia after court upholds visa cancellation (theguardian.com)
