Biden to phase out Operation Warp Speed co-leader
Moncef Slaoui will take on a reduced role advising the incoming administration.
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How Prominent Evangelicals Reacted to the Capitol Riot
“Violence is never the answer. God have mercy on and help us all.
Help! My Mom Wants to Build a Shrine for My High School Boyfriend.
He was verbally and physically abusive. She idealizes him.
How Biden’s dream of fighting income inequality runs through Georgia
The share of wealth controlled by the top 1 percent sits at levels not seen since the 1920s. Biden’s hopes for changing it rests on Senate control.
Trump backs down, signs stimulus package
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
Congress sends Covid package and spending measure to Trump
The president has thrown the fate of the bill into jeopardy.
Fed enters Biden era with clipped wings and a warning from Republicans
Congress curbed the central bank’s emergency lending despite the economy’s continuing struggles.
Friday Night Owls: Rep. Jamaal Bowman calls for a commission to look into Capitol Police
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
12 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Kara Voght at Mother Jones writes—Democrat Introduces Bill to Investigate If Capitol Police Have Ties to White Supremacist Groups.
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Insurrectionists didn’t just come to invade the Capitol, some were planning to take hostages
The people who besieged the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday were not merely rioters and insurrectionists. Some of them appear to have been intent on taking hostages and murdering them, and there are signs that the attempt was carefully planned out.
Photo evidence shows people who entered the building came prepared to take hostages, and to bind them with zip ties.
The other crisis: As Trump incites insurrection in Washington, COVID-19 rampages everywhere
On the same day that Donald Trump sent his followers to capture the Capitol and threaten the lives of lawmakers in an attempt to overthrow the nation, COVID-19 killed over 4,000 American in a single day. The 4,100 who were tallied at WorldOMeters by the end of Wednesday was, by far, a new record. That record held all the way until Thursday, when 4,200 died. Thursday also brought 261,000 new cases in a single day, also a new record.
Had Republicans even shreds of principle or spine, they’d be joining calls for impeachment. As if.
A handful of elected Republicans—most notably Adam Kinzinger—have taken a stand in favor of giving the squatter in the White House the 25th Amendment treatment and ousting him from power. This is happening against the backdrop of some Cabinet members resigning to get themselves out of having to vote on the amendment so they can launch the process of scraping the Trump taint off their résumés and reputations.
Dark money group behind Republican state attorneys general organized protest before the insurrection
As more and more detail emerges about the events in the nation’s capital Wednesday, it becomes clearer that this was a planned revolt and that it was organized within the Republican establishment. So much so that the Republican Association of Attorneys General (RAGA)—the chief Republican law enforcement officers for their states—used its dark money group to help organize the mob.
Trump Tries And Fails To Tweet From POTUS, Ally Accounts
Trump’s tweets from the official presidential account quickly disappeared, indicating Twitter deleted them. Other associated accounts were suspended.
FBI Smacks Right-Wing Media With Stinging Fact-Check: No Sign Antifa Stormed Capitol
Fox News, Newsmax and Republican politicians get hit with the truth after an attempt to deflect criticism of Trump supporters for the attack on Congress.
Listen: John Bresnahan Helps Us Understand What the Hell Just Happened
John Bresnahan has covered Congress for decades, previously as Politico’s Capitol Hill bureau chief and now as co-founder of Punchbowl News. On the podcast The Ticket, he describes what he saw inside the building as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol this week—and what implications the searing event could have going forward.
Listen: How Badly Is Vaccination Going?
Operation Warp Speed pledged to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of 2020. We fell far, far short of that. How worried should we be?Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of homeland security and an Atlantic contributor, joins staff writer James Hamblin and executive producer Katherine Wells on the podcast Social Distance. She explains what’s going on, what the problems have been, and why we shouldn’t be too concerned (yet).
Twitter *Permanently* Bans Trump After Years Of Aggressive, Violent Rhetoric On Platform
The president, who often used Twitter to govern and whose account had more than 88 million followers, was permanently removed on Friday.
The Atlantic Daily: The Week in Review
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.MIKE THEILER / REUTERSImpeachment calls grow. Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter (justifiably so). And those are just the latest developments in the fallout from the Capitol attack.Below, our writers and editors process what was only the first week of 2021.1. An attack on the U.S.
Angry Trump Supporters Harass Lindsey Graham At D.C. Airport: ‘Traitor!’
The Republican senator had been helping the president’s effort to overturn the election until this week, when Trump incited a mob attack on Congress.
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The Insurrectionists Would Like You to Know That They’re the Real Victims
History is rewritten by the self-styled victims.Even after more than four years of rationalizing and excusing every violation by the president, Donald Trump’s enablers have their work cut out for them this week, after a mob incited by Trump sacked the U.S. Capitol, disrupted constitutional order, and killed a police officer. But, undeterred, they are still energetically devoted to the task.
Calls Grow For Sens. Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz To Resign For Subverting Democracy
The two senators helped incite a riot at the Capitol by Trump supporters believing the election was rigged.
MAGA World Is Splintering
Bryson Gray, a 29-year-old rapper and Donald Trump superfan from North Carolina, wants to make one thing clear: It was a group of the president’s most loyal supporters that rioted in the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, and nobody else.
Biden calls for speeding up release of Covid shots
The pledge comes in the wake of calls from eight Democratic governors to ship out as much of the vaccine as possible.
Biden calls for speeding up release of Covid shots
The pledge comes in the wake of calls from eight Democratic governors to ship out as much of the vaccine as possible.
Dear Care and Feeding: I Have a Crush on a Classmate of Color, but My Mom Is Racist
Parenting advice on racist moms, annoying stepdaughters, and perfectionist dads.
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Public strongly backs Biden’s demand for Covid aid
The vast majority of Americans are eager for sweeping legislation that could end the pandemic and rescue the ailing economy.
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Public strongly backs Biden’s demand for Covid aid
The vast majority of Americans are eager for sweeping legislation that could end the pandemic and rescue the ailing economy.
The Country Lost Jobs in December, Which Was Totally Predictable
This is why so many of us spent the late summer and fall screaming our heads off for Congress to pass some sort of new coronavirus relief bill.