Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day! Killings by US police reach record high in 2022.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

McCarthy has surrendered everything that makes the Speaker position worth having. He’s given away his authority over committees. He’s promised to do the bidding of people who hate him when it comes to the legislative agenda. He’s given away everything except the office and the gavel … and he’s open to negotiating about the office.

Benj Edwards, writing for Ars Technica, “New AI image-generation technology allows anyone to save a handful of photos (or video frames) of you, then train AI to create realistic fake photos that show you doing embarrassing or illegal things.” Ouch!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/1/2142311/-Those-awesome-photos-you-posted-of-yourself-can-now-be-manipulated-to-wreck-your-life

"Black scholars from WE.B. Du Bois to Derrick Bell have examined the law, history and economics through a racial lens for more than 100 years. But in 2022, white people discovered CRT and redefined it as anything that actually happened that makes white people feel bad. "

Bama should have been in the college playoff. Roll Tide Roll!

What the hell is Dianne Feinstein hanging around for?

It’s time to declare the 42-year Reagan Revolution’s neoliberal experiment a failure, and outlaw the stock manipulation that makes CEOs rich and impoverishes the rest of us. #CriminalizeStockBuyBacks
https://hartmannreport.com/p/was-the-southwest-airlines-meltdown

Every day at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan over a hundred tons of water is flushed through its corroded reactors to keep them cool after the calamitous meltdown of 2011. Now Japan has nowhere else to store its 1.3 million tons of radioactive waste water. So next year it will begin to release (treated waste water) into the pacific. Its neighbors aren't to pleased.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/world/asia/japan-fukushima-wastewater-pacific-radiation.html

The most honest thing House Republicans could do is welcome George Santos with open arms. After all this is the same party that had no platform in 2020 and said they'd support whatever tRump wanted. A guy who at that point had told over 30,000 lies!

If you live in New York, please contact your state senator and ask that they announce their opposition to Hector LaSalle and demand that Hochul withdraw the nomination.

Ryan Mac, New York Times
Donie O'Sullivan, CNN
Drew Harwell, Washington Post
Matt Binder, Mashable
Micah Lee, The Intercept
Independent journalists Aaron Rupar, Keith Olbermann, Tony Webster
All suspended Thurs. evening for allegedly violating Twitters Doxxing policy of sharing Elmo's location.

So the free speech absolutist ain't so free speech after all over there on the Bird app. Several journalist had their accounts suspended yesterday.

5 Louisiana troopers were charged Thursday with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist. Master Trooper Kory York use of force described as "torture and murder."
https://apnews.com/article/crime-louisiana-john-bel-edwards-law-enforcement-966625e9316f0960d4c1728823a36b63

tRump's major announcement: He's gonna hawk some digital trading cards to his yahoo cult for $99 - great grift for Xmas.! He'll grift millions off the yahoos!

U.S. Will Offer Free At-Home Covid Tests as Part of Winter Plan. With cases on the rise, the Biden administration said it would restart a program that provided hundreds of millions of tests through the Postal Service. #MaskUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/us/politics/free-covid-tests-biden.html

Garland continues to procrastinate—ostensibly in search of an exorbitant level of proof that might finally convince Donald John tRump’s followers that their cult hero is a criminal.

Alexander Deanda, the plaintiff in Deanda v. Becerra, is “raising each of his daughters in accordance with Christian teaching on matters of sexuality, which requires unmarried children to practice abstinence and refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage,” so he’s arguing that the availability of federally funded family planning services (birth control) tramples on his rights as a father to control his daughters’ sexuality. And trump judge Kacsmaryk bought that argument.

The members who messaged Meadows about challenging the election included some of the highest-profile figures on the right flank in Congress, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), all of whom are identified as playing leading roles in the effort to undo Trump’s defeat.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-meadows-exchanged-texts-with-34-members-of-congress-about-plans-to-overturn-the-2020-election

Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election
The Messages Included Battle Cries, Crackpot Legal Theories, And ‘Invoking Marshall Law!!’

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-meadows-exchanged-texts-with-34-members-of-congress-about-plans-to-overturn-the-2020-election

Meadows' insurrectionist texts have been reviewed by Talking Points Memo, and they're damning.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/12/2141506/-Meadows-insurrectionist-texts-have-been-reviewed-by-TalkingPointsMemo-and-they-re-damning