1. Here is some information you won't read about in Politico Playbook today.
On Jan 5, @benshapiro turned over his "Daily Shapiro Action" email to Ted Cruz.
Cruz used the opportunity to push his bogus allegations that the election was invalid.
Seeing @CoreyRForrester on CNN was the first time I ever felt like our generation was able to speak to the general public. We are here, we are liberal/progressives, and we are in the deep south!
Can't make this up. @politico's official defense for promoting white supremacy is "mischief making."
This is how too many white people think. That allowing white supremacists to tout their views is just... impish.
https://t.co/NQ9wjhTOWa
“I was never taught how to play the guitar. I don’t know what the chords to ‘Everlong’ are. I only know what happens when I put the fingers there.” - the great Dave Grohl, born today in 1969 🎸
“Everlong” (1997)
https://t.co/6bYpg9cXuy
I'm making a thread of articles that I think are seminal to understanding the crisis we're in, but have largely been played down.
They describe massive and horrific crimes that have been carried out with impunity by people in Trump's camp, often for years or decades.
@Ms_Cooper_@thothkristen@esp1371@BlairBraverman re. The Edmund Fitzgerald, I always think of the riff from MST3K doing "Gorgo":
They got back to port, and everyone was OK /
They went out to lunch and felt better
Jared and Ivanka told the Secret Service not to use ANY of the half-dozen bathrooms in their home, so the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date — to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor. https://t.co/lsftQhjhiK
@QuinceMountain The real conspiracy has been training the public to think that the very concept of "conspiracy" is crazy, when in fact groups of people plan and commit illegal acts in secret all the damn time
A week ago MAGA terrorists, incited by Trump, his son, his lawyer, and months of lies by far too many folks in the GOP and media, tried to stop the Constitutional election process through a terrorist attack on the Capitol. 5 were killed. They are now trying to change the subject.
I just want to make clear that corporations that are suspending ALL PAC ACTIVITY for 3 months, or 6 months, or indefinitely are NOT DOING ANYTHING MEANINGFUL.
PACs don't contribute much this early in an election cycle anyway.
It's just a PR tactic.
https://t.co/NiOxH2pTM4
Former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, who also helped bury the Mueller Report, joins the inevitably swelling ranks of whiny douchebags now expressing "regret" for the acts of inhuman evil they committed under Trump. Tell it to the judges at a Nuremberg-style trial, you gutless coward.