…in the words of john mcenroe…you cannot be serious

“Mission largely accomplished … for now,” said Boris Johnson, winding up his final prime minister’s questions with a delusional requiem for his faded glamour. “Hasta la vista, baby.” Yet even in his going, The Pastiche Terminator left open the possibility of his return. He cannot survive without the spotlight. There is no substance to him. Just a carapace of molten neediness that feeds on attention. No matter of what kind. Better to be despised than to be forgotten or ignored. He’d torn the Tories apart once. He’d happily do it all over again.
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It was bonkers. The same Tory MPs who had spent months summoning up the self-worth to remove a prime minister who had done little, lied a lot and was totally unfit for office, now indulged themselves in a mawkish farewell.
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Only in the Tory party do you find that level of good-mannered treachery and deceit. There are many on the government benches dreading the prospect of further interventions from The Convict. Not least the leadership contenders

…ah, yes…the contenders…& their bones of contention…truss wants to live up to her name…she’s all I-will-slash-taxes & down-with-regulations…never mind the economic context…& rishi would love to cut taxes but has the unfortunate disadvantage of being familiar with the state of the books

The frontbench filled early. Nadine Dorries, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Vacant. The Continuity Boris leadership candidate Liz Truss just looked gormless. Radon Liz. She’s a gas. But she’s inert. So inarticulate she’s condemned to live a life on Mogadon. And for some reason the Tories find that desperately attractive. Over on the backbenches, Rob Roberts sat by himself. Even the Tory sex pests didn’t want to miss The Convict’s last day in office.
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Lindsay Hoyle opened by reminding the Commons that it was customary on these occasions to try to find something nice to say about the outgoing prime minister. So he was going to start by saying The Convict had managed not to die during the pandemic so he was going to pay tribute to that. A big thankyou for living! It felt very like the boss class giving a leaving speech for a member of staff no one much liked.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/20/tory-mps-indulge-in-a-mawkish-farewell-for-their-poundshop-arnie

…you might call it damning with faint praise…if it weren’t for all the back-slapping…or the part where there won’t be new leader until september if it all goes to a party-ballot…which against the assumptions of a fair few folks I know…& the recent precedents of the last couple or so tory leadership challenges…it seems like it’s going to…luckily for all of you I’m running late…so not even I am deluded enough to think I could type fast enough to try to fit in all the ways the dwindling fortunes of the 11 people who threw their hats into that ring are likely to compound the less attractive consequences of boris’ tenure…but…if there’s any sort of silver lining to grasp at it could be that they’ve shot themselves in the electoral foot…shame it’d be with respect to an election that’s likely a couple of years away…& a week is a long time in politics…or maybe it just makes it feel that way

The national unity government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who restored Italy’s influence and credibility, fell apart on Wednesday, leaving the country careening toward a new season of political chaos at a critical moment when the European Union is struggling to hold together a united front against Russia and revive its economies.

After key parts of Mr. Draghi’s coalition excoriated him on the Senate floor and abandoned him in a confidence vote on Wednesday evening, the prime minister was expected to discuss his resignation Thursday for a second, and almost certainly final, time in a week with the country’s president, Sergio Mattarella.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/world/europe/draghi-italy-prime-minister.html

…which is not to underplay the groundhog day effect

Wisconsin’s Republican house speaker said Tuesday that former president Donald Trump called him “within the last week” seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election that Joe Biden won.

Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) told WISN in Milwaukee that he received a call from Trump after the state Supreme Court ruled on July 8 that most absentee ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin are illegal. The ruling addresses future elections, not the one Trump lost in 2020 by more than 20,000 votes in Wisconsin.

“It’s very consistent. He makes his case, which I respect,” Vos said to WISN. “He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained that it’s not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion.”
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The Wisconsin case the state Supreme Court ruled on this month was brought by two suburban Milwaukee men represented by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty after about 2 million people voted by absentee ballot in the November 2020 election, largely because of the coronavirus pandemic. There were 528 drop boxes in use across 430 state municipalities for the 2020 election, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

After the conservative group argued in a lawsuit that nothing in state law indicated that absentee drop boxes were allowed, the case made its way to the state Supreme Court. On July 8, the Wisconsin high court ruled 4 to 3 against the use of drop boxes, with conservatives in the majority and liberals in the minority.
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“I think we all know Donald Trump is Donald Trump,” Vos said. “There’s very little we can do to control or predict what he will do.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/20/trump-election-wisconsin-vos-overturn/

…I don’t know about that part, though…he seems pretty predictable in a lot of ways…none of them good…& whether there’s anything the GOP can do seems moot when most of them show no inclination to try…even when things speed up

The government rested its contempt of Congress case Wednesday against former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon after calling just two witnesses — a congressional staffer and an FBI agent — to describe the tough-talking podcaster’s alleged refusal to provide documents or testimony to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

…it’s worth remembering that it’s all part of one big slow-walk

The fast pace of the prosecution, which began Tuesday afternoon and finished a day later, speaks to the relatively simple factual and legal issues at the heart of the high-profile, politically charged trial: whether Bannon spurned a congressional subpoena and, therefore, committed the rarely charged crime.

Bannon’s legal team countered Wednesday by asking about a series of letters, some as recent as a week ago, between Bannon’s lawyer and the committee in which the prospect of his testimony was still discussed. The defense is trying to show that he didn’t refuse to cooperate, he was just negotiating.
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In rejecting the committee’s subpoenas in late 2021, lawyer Robert Costello — who represented Bannon in his dealings with the House select committee — claimed in a letter that Trump had invoked the privilege to cover Bannon. Earlier this month, however, as Bannon was seeking to delay his trial, Trump told Bannon he was no longer asserting such a privilege.

But Amerling said both of those claims were specious, based on a mischaracterization of what executive privilege is, and how it works. “The president had not formally or informally invoked the privilege, even if you accept the premise that the privilege applied,” she testified.
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In any case, Nichols has ruled that the privilege is not a valid defense for Bannon, unless he can show it caused him to misunderstand the subpoena’s October 2021 compliance deadlines.

Bannon’s defense strategy became clearer Wednesday, as his lawyers repeatedly suggested he and the committee were negotiating in late 2021 about information he might provide and continued to do so as recently as a week ago. The defense team also tried to show that the committee’s Democratic chairman, Bennie G. Thompson (Miss.), played a key — and political — role in the pursuit of Bannon.
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Prosecutors repeatedly objected to the defense strategy, saying it was a legal fiction designed to fool the jury into thinking Bannon had acted appropriately. Nichols said he would not allow the high-profile trial to become “a political circus,” warning that he would allow Bannon’s team to raise some political questions but also would police the issue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/20/bannon-witnesses-wednesday-trial/

…it’s the fashion of the times, it seems

“I don’t want to be lectured about what we need to do to destroy our economy in the name of climate change,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.

One Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, last week blocked what could have been the country’s most far-reaching American response to climate change. But lost in the recriminations and finger-pointing is the other side of the aisle: All 50 Republicans in the Senate have been as opposed to decisive action to confront planetary warming.
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But for many, denial of the cause of global temperature rise has been replaced by an insistence that the solution — replacing fossil fuels over time with wind, solar and other nonpolluting energy sources — will hurt the economy.

In short, delay is the new denial.

Overwhelmingly, Republicans on Capitol Hill say that they believe that the United States should be drilling and burning more American oil, gas and coal, and that market forces would somehow develop solutions to the carbon dioxide that has been building in the atmosphere, trapping heat like a blanket around a sweltering Earth.
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The fact that scientists say nations must quickly cut greenhouse gas emissions or global rising temperatures will reach catastrophic levels does not appear to faze many conservatives.

In many ways, elected Republicans mirror the views of their voters. A May poll commissioned by Pew Research Center found 63 percent of Democrats named climate change as a very big problem, while just 16 percent of Republicans felt the same.
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So it has gone with the Republican Party, where warnings of a catastrophe are mocked as hyperbole, where technologies that do not exist on a viable scale, such as “carbon capture and storage” and “clean coal,” are hailed as saviors. At the same time, those that do, such as wind and solar power and electric vehicles, are dismissed as unreliable and overly expensive. American leadership on a global problem is seen as a fool’s errand, kneecapping the domestic economy while Indian and Chinese coal bury America’s good intentions in soot.
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Last month Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, made public a conservative road map to address climate change. Lawmakers also have started a House Conservative Climate Caucus to discuss solutions that Republicans can support.

But Mr. McCarthy’s climate plan calls for increasing fossil fuel production. And last Thursday, when the Conservative Climate Caucus met with business executives to discuss climate change, the gathering was dominated by talk of more oil and gas drilling. Executives from fossil fuel companies also criticized new federal rules that require them to disclose their business risks from global warming, according to a Republican lawmaker who was at the meeting.
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Republicans grappling with the undeniable reality of climate change still struggle with a philosophical aversion to intervening in energy markets — or, they would most likely say, in any markets at all. Left unsaid are federal tax breaks totaling as much as $20 billion a year that the fossil fuel industry enjoys and that Republicans, and some Democrats, support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/us/politics/climate-change-republicans-delay.html

…which leaves what, exactly?

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday a set of executive actions he is taking on climate change that fall short of the ambitious plans he proposed at the start of his presidency as prospects for his wider climate agenda dwindle in Congress.
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“I have a responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and present danger and that’s what climate change is about,” Biden said. “It is literally, not figuratively, a clear and present danger. The health of our citizens in our communities is literally at stake.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-announce-executive-action-climate-failed-effort-congress

…but if there may actually be a chance this might make it through the senate & into the realm of federal legislation

Senate Democrats on Wednesday signaled an eagerness to swiftly vote on legislation that would protect same-sex marriage, offering an early window into the party’s plans to solidify individual rights in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

The shifting terrain — with several Senate Republicans voicing support for the legislation a day after the House passed a similar bill with the support of 47 Republicans — came as a surprise to members of both parties and seemed to offer a rare pocket of bipartisan support in a political arena increasingly polarized on social issues.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/20/same-sex-marriage-vote/

…might they actually quit choking the legislative life out of the current administration & actually pass something to counter at least one strand of the electoral shenanigans the party of geriatric obstructionists have been so busy with?

That President Donald Trump attempted to steal the 2020 election is scary enough; that he or another candidate could steal it next time around remains a terrifying threat. This is what makes the passage of a just-introduced bipartisan proposal to reform the Electoral Count Act so essential.
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The Electoral Count Act as it stands is full of ambiguities. According to one scholarly study, the losing party in nine of the past 34 presidential elections could have exploited gaping holes in the law to overrule the people’s decision. So far, enough has stood in the way — sometimes a general respect for norms, sometimes particular political courage — to prevent disaster. But the events following the 2020 election, including the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, made clear that the danger of a constitutional coup is real, and growing.

The bill introduced this week would create blocks against the specific maneuvers Mr. Trump attempted. It would clarify that the vice president’s role in certifying electoral votes is “solely ministerial”; that speaks to the former president’s efforts to coerce Vice President Mike Pence — with the help of a mob — into rejecting the votes of several states. It would raise the threshold for Congress to challenge a state’s submitted results from a single member of both chambers to at least one-fifth of members; that answers last year’s frivolous objections from six GOP senators and more than 100 representatives.

Perhaps most important are changes that would impede state-level mischief. By identifying governors as responsible for submitting a slate of electors, appointed according to rules in place before Election Day, the legislation would exclude competing lists from other officials. Better yet is a process to counter a rogue governor who lodges an illegitimate submission for approval by a friendly House or Senate. Under the reformed act, any such attempt could be challenged by a vice-presidential or presidential candidate in federal courts, to whose judgment Congress would be bound. Finally, the bill would ensure that state legislatures can’t simply override the popular vote by calling it a “failed election.”

The Electoral Count Reform Act will not fix everything, because it can’t fix everything: Some additional protections can be provided only by the states; others, including enhancements to the Voting Rights Act desired by Democrats, aren’t politically possible. Even now, the electoral reform portion of the Collins-Manchin package has only nine of the 10 Republican votes needed to surmount a filibuster. Democrats are right to dream of even more than is on offer today, and they’re right to push hard as they investigate the events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection. But they would also be wrong to say no to what they might be able to get from this legislation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/20/electoral-count-reform-act-must-pass/

…however you look at it

Heat advisories and excessive heat warnings were issued affecting more than 105 million people in 28 states across the central United States and the Northeast, where the combination of hot weather and high humidity will lead to conditions ripe for heat-related illness or heatstroke.
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The U.S. heat coincided with a historically extreme European weather event, which so far has killed more than 1,000 people and fueled wildfires that have prompted 40,000 to evacuate. A staggering 34 weather stations broke the 101.7 degrees threshold in Britain, logging temperatures higher than anything Britain has ever observed.

The impact of that weather event has been becoming more clear, with Portugal alone reporting more than 1,000 deaths linked to extreme heat.
200 million people will experience temperatures in the 90s or higher for the next three days [WaPo]

…the heat is still on…although when your pants have been on fire for years that probably ought not to be a surprise

Giuliani, who has been one of the most outspoken proponents of false claims that Trump won the election, did not appear before a New York Supreme Court judge on July 11 for a hearing to argue that he shouldn’t have to comply with the grand jury’s subpoena. On Wednesday, the judge ordered Giuliani to testify on Aug. 9.
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In addition to Giuliani, the district attorney issued subpoenas to six other out-of-state residents who embraced Trump’s false claims about the election and tried to overturn Biden’s victory. They were Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), lawyers John Eastman and Cleta Mitchell, Trump campaign lawyers Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, and conservative commentator Jacki Pick Deason.
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The subpoenas help define the full scope of the district attorney’s criminal probe into a sustained effort by Trump and his associates to contest the results of Georgia’s elections or cast doubt on the legitimacy of the state’s election administration.

On Tuesday, court filings showed that prosecutors have notified 16 Republicans who participated in a plot to certify fake electoral college votes for Trump in Georgia that they’re now “targets” of the criminal probe.
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The special grand jury seated at the start of June has identified more than 100 people of interest so far. Grand jurors have already heard testimony from Georgia’s attorney general, secretary of state, state lawmakers and local election officials. Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is set to submit a sworn written statement next week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/20/giuliani-grand-jury-georgia/

…meanwhile…apparently it’s important to prove there’s no such thing as a free lunch

The nation’s first experiment in feeding every public school student free of charge, launched to arrest a burgeoning child hunger crisis in 2020, will come to an abrupt end this summer. Administrators will race to ensure that hungry children still qualify and draft the correct paperwork to receive cafeteria food, even as rising food prices pinch family budgets.
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For children in poverty, schools are not just a place to learn but a lifeline. Before the pandemic, more than half of schoolchildren came from households poor enough to qualify for the free and reduced-price meals, and schools served about 20 million free lunches every day.

In 2020, households with children saw a marked increased in food insecurity, with about 1 in 6 reporting that they did not have enough food for every member of the household. In about 7 percent of households, children as well as adults were going hungry. It reversed a more than decade decline in food insecurity. And in a survey of teens conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year, one-quarter reported food insecurity.
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An aide to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that the minority leader and other Republicans think schools no longer need the pandemic-era provisions, especially as the conditions that made them necessary — such as school closures — have ended.

…because of course the fucking dime-store-palpatine-looking motherfucker would say that kind of shit…starving children should be seen & not heard, or something…preferably not even seen…probably sent to their rooms to think about what they’ve done…it’s not like he’s keen on educating the poor mites, after all

Less than a week before the provisions were set to expire, President Biden in June signed the Keep Kids Fed Act, which equips schools, summer meal sites and child-care food programs with extra resources to weather rising food and labor costs. But it allows the universal lunch provision to sunset at the start of the coming school year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/20/universal-free-school-lunch-end/

…so…sure…we’d all rather not go full-dr-strangelove anytime soon

If Russia used nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the U.S. military would provide possible “options” on how to respond but America’s goal remains to avoid a nuclear conflict with Moscow, the top general in the U.S. Air Force said Wednesday.
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“It’s all about deterrence,” Brown said. “The goal is not to get into a conflict broader than the conflict that’s already going on today and definitely not into a nuclear conflict.”

He added, “You want to make sure that those range of options don’t lead us down a slippery slope that we can’t recover from.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-seeks-avoid-broader-war-nuclear-conflict-ukraine-air-force-chief

…might help if it seemed a little farther out of reach, though

All it takes to obtain enough radioactive material to build a dirty bomb is a fake company and forged licenses, according to a new government watchdog report.
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“We already knew that the threat of a dirty bomb attack in the United States is real,” said Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, which commissioned the report.

“There are actual terrorist groups, including neo-Nazi groups in the United States, that have been trying to get a dirty bomb to launch real attacks against civilians,” he said. “And now the GAO is telling us that it’s incredibly easy for pretty much anybody to get the materials in the United States needed to make a dirty bomb.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/easy-get-materials-build-dirty-bomb-report-says

…so…I guess we add that to the pile of things the people who only seem certain about how they should be in charge seem to file under we’re-doing-something-but-we-can’t-tell-you-what

The Senate on Tuesday took the first step to advance what lawmakers are calling “CHIPS-plus” to try to combat the global chip shortage that has affected everything from auto manufacturers to the video game industry. The package is a slimmed-down version of a much broader China competitiveness bill that House and Senate negotiators had struggled for months to reach a deal on.

Fearful that impatient chip manufacturers would build their semiconductor fabrication plants elsewhere if they didn’t act soon, top Democrats made the call to switch tactics: Congress would take up a more narrowly focused bill including $52 billion in subsidies to chip manufacturers, then deal with the larger China competition package later.
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What they have agreed on is that this is an urgent matter. In recent days, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Republican leaders and top Biden administration officials have all made the argument that passing the CHIPS package soon is an economic and national security imperative as China and other nations ramp up production amid global supply-chain woes.

“We will see if members can come to an agreement on adding other provisions to the bill, but the bottom line is that we must come up with a package that is capable of passing this chamber without delay,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday after Senate Democrats’ weekly lunch.
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Schumer’s GOP counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said he also believed the “CHIPS thing is a national security issue of significant proportion.” But, he said he’s “not going to vote to proceed until I know what we’re proceeding to.”
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The No. 2 Republican in leadership suggested that the authors of the bill want to gauge the GOP appetite on the floor and craft it on that basis.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-are-advancing-computer-chips-bill-dont-know-yet

…this whole blind-leading-the-blind routine is killing me

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-invokes-powers-build-tourist-train-threat-pre-historic-sites

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/brazil-authorities-pay-no-mind-deforestation-think-tank-finds

…my kingdom for people who understand the shit they’re dealing with…although I’d settle for putting the worst of them on mute

“This is a republic,” Mastriano declared from atop the Capitol’s terrace over a public-address system. “I know the Democrats want to play a game with our republic. They keep calling it a democracy. ‘And to the democracy for which it stands,’” he recited mockingly. “Come on, really? Come on, man!” Behind him, someone waved a large America First flag. Another rallygoer held up a sign with Mastriano’s own slogan: WALK AS FREE PEOPLE.
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In retrospect, the path from Harrisburg on Nov. 7 to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is a direct one. Harrisburg was among the first protests in what would come to be known as Stop the Steal: a series of rallies in solidarity with Trump and his claims of a stolen election, snowballing until the last of them crashed through the doors of the Capitol in a blur of bear spray and body armor. Mastriano chartered buses to take demonstrators to Washington and is visible in video footage passing by police barricades along with the mob. (He has said he did not actually enter the Capitol, and no evidence has surfaced that he did; his campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.)

But it is also possible to see the path from Harrisburg to Washington as a small part of a much longer arc: one that began before Trump and will outlive his presidency, whether or not he tries to reclaim the office in 2024. This has become clear in the past year, as the particulars of his final perilous months in office have emerged amid the wash of reporting, documentary evidence and testimonies to the House committee investigating the events around Jan. 6. Clearer, too, is the view of what became of Stop the Steal after its climactic battle was lost.
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In 17 of the 27 states holding elections this year for secretary of state — the top elections officer in 24 states — at least one Republican candidate is running on the claim that the 2020 election was illegitimate, according to the States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan democracy watchdog organization. In four of the eight Republican primaries held so far, that candidate has won.
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The movement’s progress has been uneven, but it has been progress nonetheless — as exemplified by Mastriano himself. A retired Army officer, he was not even two years into his political career at the time of the Harrisburg rally. But his appearance before the Stop the Steal crowd was a preview of his ambitions: He would later announce a campaign for governor of Pennsylvania, and in May he won the Republican nomination. If he succeeds in November, he will control the state election system that he claims deprived Trump of his rightful victory in 2020. (In Pennsylvania, the equivalent position to secretary of state is appointed by the governor.)
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The language of Mastriano’s speech at Harrisburg, and his speeches since, reflect the partitioning of American politics over the past decade and a half. They are full of references that are often opaque to anyone outside the base but immediately significant to anyone within it. The insistence on America as a “republic” but not a “democracy” is a tendentious reading of James Madison popularized by the John Birch Society, the conspiratorial anti-communist organization — a justification for governing the country according to conservative values and policy prerogatives, even when the numerical majority of its people did not vote for them. “Speaking life” is contemporary evangelical parlance, which infuses the efforts to overturn the election at every level; it means to speak positively over something in accordance with God’s word. The liars, the cheaters, their exposure and imprisonment? That, of course, comes from the Book of Trump.
How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right [NYT]

…I’d like to be the bearer of glad tidings for a change

For about seven years, the researchers tracked the coffee consumption and health of 171,616 participants, who were an average of nearly 56 years old and were free of cancer and cardiovascular disease when the study started. They found that those who regularly drank 1½ to 3½ cups of coffee a day, whether plain or sweetened with about a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die in that time frame from any cause, including cancer and cardiovascular disease, than were those who did not drink coffee.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/19/coffee-drinkers-lower-death-risk/

…but…damn it all…the times don’t feel all that compatible with “in moderation” to me?

Committee members will be talking a lot about those 187 minutes during Thursday’s primetime hearing — the finale in a series of eight televised public hearings but hardly the last of the year.

“The story we’re going to tell tomorrow is that in that time, President Trump refused to act to defend that Capitol as a violent mob stormed the Capitol with the aim of stopping the counting of the electoral votes and blocking the transfer of power,” a Jan. 6 committee aide said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters.
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The roughly two-hour hearing will be led by Reps. Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. It will provide a “minute-by-minute” account of what was happening inside the West Wing and what Trump was doing during the 187 minutes, aides said. That’s the period from the end of Trump’s speech at the Ellipse at 1:10 p.m. to 4:17 p.m., when he tweeted a video telling rioters to “go home.”
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The committee also will examine a 6:01 p.m. tweet by Trump that day that was deleted. He had suggested that the Capitol attack should be blamed on widespread election fraud.

“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love and in peace. Remember this day forever!” Trump wrote before deleting the tweet.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/primetime-jan-6-hearing-detail-minute-minute-account-trumps-inaction

[…so…predictably…that’ll be another coffee coming my way while I get some other stuff done & come back once I’ve found a tune or two]