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Our Powerful, Shiny New Space Telescope Got Its First Upsetting Ding
Lee Feinberg was on vacation, and he deserved it. It was late May, and Feinberg, a manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, had spent “an incredibly tense several months” leading the effort to carefully deploy the mirrors on the world’s newest and most powerful space telescope, making sure that each of the gold-coated tiles—18 in all, arranged in a honeycomb shape—was properly aligned.
Trump’s “Big Lie Was Also a Big Ripoff” as He Raised $250 Million from Supporters After 2020 Loss
Monday’s January 6 committee hearing ended with closing statements from January 6 committee vice chair, Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Zoe Lofgren describing how the Trump administration raised over $250 million from his supporters, off of the lie that the 2020 election results were fraudulent, for an election defense fund that didn’t exist.
Pennsylvania GOP Election Official Tells Jan. 6 Comm. His Family Faced Death Threats Because of Trump
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack heard live testimony Monday from Al Schmidt, the sole Republican on the Philadelphia County Board of Elections in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the 2020 election. He described how he found no evidence of voter fraud in 2020, and said he and his family received death threats after Trump lashed out at him on Twitter for not halting the vote count due to false claims of fraud.
“Detached from Reality”: Barr Says Trump Embraced Lies & Conspiracy Theories After His Election Loss
One of the key witnesses who testified live at Monday’s hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt, who led the the Fox News decision to become the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night in November 2020. Fox fired Stirewalt months later. Answering questions from Congressmember Zoe Lofgren, Stirewalt said Trump’s chance of winning was virtually zero.
A Drunk Rudy Giuliani Urged Trump to Declare Victory on Election Night, Trump Aides Testify
We spend the hour featuring highlights from the second public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Main witnesses were ex-President Donald Trump’s former inner circle, including campaign manager Bill Stepien, Attorney General William Barr, campaign adviser Jason Miller and his own daughter Ivanka Trump, who all said Trump ignored them on election night in November 2020 when they argued against declaring victory.
Michigan’s abortion providers brace for a ban — or a surge
The swing state could soon lose all abortion access if Roe is overturned. It could also become a destination for patients across the midwest.
CDC widens net of monkeypox symptoms for clinicians to watch for as cases continue to rise
While monkeypox can be spread at close range through saliva droplets or respiratory secretions, the agency said it cannot travel through aerosols, like SARS-CoV-2.
U.S. orders 500,000 monkeypox vaccines to be delivered this year
The order is larger than earlier ones to the U.S. and represents a significant escalation in the fight against a growing monkeypox outbreak.
U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6 percent
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
China’s fragility feeds the doom-mongers in Davos
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.
RIP Davos Man, long live globalization
Open markets aren’t what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.
Carnage & Chaos: “I Was Slipping in People’s Blood” on Jan. 6, Says Brain-Injured Capitol Officer
The second witness who testified live in the first primetime hearing of the House select January 6 committee was Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as she tried to hold the line outside the Capitol with fellow officers. She was with officer Brian Sicknick, who she said appeared to have been sprayed in the face and was extremely pale. Sicknick died the next day. Sicknick’s fiancee sat behind Edwards as she testified.
“From Protesters … to Insurrectionists”: Jan. 6 Witness Describes Proud Boys’ Violence at the Capitol
The white supremacist Proud Boys group and the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia played an instrumental role in planning for a violent insurrection on the Capitol, according to the January 6 House committee, which aired new testimony from witnesses and the groups’ leaders in its first public hearing Thursday night. British filmmaker Nick Quested was embedded with the Proud Boys and shared his footage with the committee.
“Hang Mike Pence”: Watch Dramatic New Footage of Trump Mob Attacking Capitol on Jan. 6
The January 6 committee released new footage Thursday night showing a detailed timeline of the day of the insurrection.
Green Day Has A Message For NRA-Lovin’ Ted Cruz After Deadly School Shooting
The band shared an expletive-laden message for the Texas senator at their Berlin concert last week.
2022 Midterms: What To Watch In Maine, Nevada, North Dakota And South Carolina
Primary contests on Tuesday will offer the latest test of the Trump political brand.
Ukraine Update: Ukraine won’t get all the artillery it wants, but it doesn’t need to
I’ve been writing about perspective on how hard it is to ship, to use, to maintain, and to supply complex Western weapons systems. Those are all real challenges, yet there is another, perhaps bigger one: the amount of equipment Ukraine is demanding simply don’t exist.
Fox News Analyst: Republicans Will Secretly Be ‘Glad’ If Jan. 6 Panel Damages Trump
Brit Hume predicted “a great many Republicans would privately be very glad” if the findings made Trump’s possible 2024 candidacy “go away.
News Roundup: Jan. 6 hearings follow the money; Texas begins burying Uvalde evidence
The Jan. 6 committee hearings continued today with more evidence that Donald Trump’s closest inner circle absolutely knew the anti-election hoaxes Trump was offering up weren’t true—and with new evidence that Trump was siphoning off the cash he was collecting from supporters who believe his lies.
Jan. 6 Testimony Details Chilling Threats To Family After Trump’s Tweet Names GOP Official
When Trump tweeted “at me by name,” the threats became “more specific, much more graphic,” and included family, said a former Philadelphia city commissioner.
Photo essay: A good day for Pride, a bad day for menacing extremists in Coeur d’Alene
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho—Over the past couple of decades, Pride events in northern Idaho have come and gone with little controversy as communities have come to embrace them.
Conservative National Review editor to Jan. 6 committee: ‘Leave Ivanka alone!’
If you want to understand Donald Trump’s mindset in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, it’s crucial to get a clear picture of the information ecosystem he was part of at the time. It’s not like the insurrection spontaneously erupted out of a singularity in the void. As much as it may have looked spontaneous, it wasn’t simply a case of “then one day Trump besmirched his Underoos and up from the ground come a bumblin’ coup.
Bilingual ‘Show Me Your Friends’ campaign shows ties between Republican candidates and extremists
There’s a popular saying in Spanish that goes: dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres. In English, it translates to, show me your friends and I’ll show you who you are. It basically means that you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.
That knowledge is essential when an entire political party has openly embraced white supremacist rhetoric and authoritarianism.
‘Theater’: Senate Republicans Tune Out Jan. 6 Hearings About Capitol Riot
Republican lawmakers say they have no interest in hearing more information about an attack on their workplace.
The Atlantic Daily: Can the Hearings Overcome American Indifference?
As we continue to learn more about the January 6, 2021, attack on our democracy, I explore whether any of it will matter to Republicans or disaffected Democrats. But first, here are three great new stories from The Atlantic.
Light and noise pollution are warping animals’ senses, Ed Yong warns in our July/August cover story.
A negative COVID test has never been so meaningless.
This is the most important study in the abortion debate.
How Bipartisan Gun-Control Talks Actually Succeeded
Time is the enemy of gun-control legislation, any advocate will tell you. The outcry for stricter gun laws has always been loudest during moments of national horror, in the hours and days after a massacre, when the anger is raw and the anguish of grieving survivors and families fills the airwaves. That brief window for action quickly begins to close when the public’s attention inevitably drifts to other topics. The opposition mobilizes, and talks break down or simply peter out.
10 Reader Views on Crime in Their Neighborhoods
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
When Partnership Is Not the Destination
Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google | Pocket CastsIn a society dominated by romantic couples, it can be hard to accept your unpartnered state for what it is. But for the “single at heart,” the desire for partnership is nonexistent—replaced with a sense of self-sufficiency, satisfaction, and robust friendships.
Harvest of Empire: Juan González on His Landmark Book, Immigration & Consequences of U.S. Imperialism
As the Summit of the Americas wrapped up in Los Angeles with President Biden announcing a plan to address migration in the Western Hemisphere that includes a series of so-called bold actions, we spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host, professor, longtime journalist and author Juan González, who has just released the newly revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.