Peter Navarro indicted and brought into custody

For individuals who have misplaced all religion within the system, a reminder that generally the system surprises you.

AP Information:

EXPLAINER: Can Pa. GOP candidate make voters re-register?

Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican candidate for governor, is probably the state’s most outstanding peddler of former President Donald Trump’s lie that widespread fraud value him the 2020 election.

A state senator and retired U.S. Military colonel, Mastriano says he needs to make everybody re-register in the event that they need to vote once more. The idea flatly violates federal regulation, authorized students say, and should battle with state regulation, to not point out constitutional protections. It’s also a throwback to legal guidelines designed by white individuals in previous eras to maintain Black individuals or newer European immigrants from voting.

This AP story is wild in its simplicity and directness. 

Simply Safety:

Primer on the Hearings of the January sixth Choose Committee

The useful resource is structured round the important thing prongs of the investigation itself — how the Choose Committee has organized its investigative work — which mirror the important thing prongs of the marketing campaign to overturn the election. The Committee’s investigative groups are color-coded in title (Gold, Blue, Purple, Crimson, and Inexperienced); this primer has in flip highlighted key info and findings based on that very same organizational construction.

Critically, “January sixth” has, like “Watergate,” change into a helpful shorthand. However as with Watergate, January sixth represents neither a single nor remoted occasion, however as a substitute a much wider and extra multifaceted effort to cease the switch of energy. We hope this useful resource is beneficial in distilling these elements and what we critically know — and don’t but know — about every. This useful resource was produced as a collaboration between Simply Safety and Defend Democracy.

The Primer is obtainable in Scribd format under and likewise as a PDF.

On Biden’s gun security speech:

Jonathan Weiler/Substack:

On Misogyny and the Limits of Our Consideration

The struggles underneath our noses

In the meantime, #MeToo surged and foundered within the US on the backs of its framing as a celeb phenomenon. I consider this because the Hollywoodification of the difficulty. Excessive profile abusers and excessive profile victims gentle up the information cycle. They permit information organizations to show a pervasive social actuality into compelling story-telling. There’s nothing essentially flawed with this. Or to place it one other approach, it could be unavoidable, no less than to some important diploma. The revelations of 2017-18 introduced centered consideration to a elementary downside. In addition they helped encourage a number of individuals to change into extra energetic in making an attempt to power their societies to take the issue extra critically.

However, dwell by the excessive profile tales, die by the excessive profile tales. Smarter individuals than me are actually writing in regards to the Johnny Depp defamation case in opposition to Amber Heard because the loss of life knell of #MeToo.  One might argue that the start of the tip of #MeToo, no less than within the sense of a motion that felt too highly effective, too according to the prevailing tide of historical past to be on the flawed facet of, was the Kavanaugh affirmation course of in 2018. Regardless, no matter consciousness was raised, no less than for some, by the graphic documentation of the truth that rich and highly effective males had spent many years getting away with abusing (principally) girls, the fact of the day-to-day concern and violence that so many ladies expertise has not modified. In any respect.

Gallup:

‘Professional-Selection’ Identification Rises to Close to File Excessive in U.S.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• 55% now establish as pro-choice, the best share since 1995
• For first time, majority of People say abortion is morally acceptable
• Democrats drive many of the attitudinal shifts supporting abortion rights

Alexander Sammon/The American Prospect:

The RNC’s Floor Recreation of Inches

Contained in the secretive, doubtful, and intensely offline try and convert minorities into Republicans

The RNC neighborhood middle mannequin is the most recent try by Republicans to courtroom nonwhite voters, who’ve lengthy eschewed the get together and been demonized by its main representatives. However 2020’s frenzied election returns recommended a possibility. Joe Biden’s share of votes from Latinos decreased by eight share factors in comparison with Hillary Clinton’s, based on a report from the progressive knowledge utility Catalist. As Vox reported, this marked the “most dramatic shift in a four-year interval among the many main racial or ethnic teams seen.” The motion was beautiful in areas like South Texas, the place 5 closely Latino counties flipped to Donald Trump.

Biden’s vote share of Black People additionally decreased by three factors, and the GOP overperformed with Asian People and Native People as nicely. It was one thing lower than a breakthrough with nonwhite voters; Republicans shedding Asian People by a 27 p.c margin exhibited their finest efficiency with any main racial minority bloc. However given the massive turnout enhance in 2020, in uncooked numbers, Republicans put up vote totals that when would’ve appeared unattainable even to the Pollyannaish.

HuffPost:

Daughter Of Slain Sandy Hook Principal Would Like You To Cease Asking For Post-mortem Photographs

Some gun management advocates assume exhibiting graphic pictures of mass shootings will sway lawmakers. Victims of those self same shootings say to stop asking them.

“STOP ASKING ME FOR AUTOPSY PHOTOS,” Lafferty tweeted on Tuesday. “The audacity of those that are asking and demanding Sandy Hook crime scene pictures to be launched is unfathomable. I envy those that don’t and may’t perceive the burden of this ask.”