Peter Navarro indicted and taken into custody

For many 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 distinguished peddler of former President Donald Trump’s lie that widespread fraud price 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 wish to vote once more. The idea flatly violates federal regulation, authorized students say, and will battle with state regulation, to not point out constitutional protections. It’s also a throwback to legal guidelines designed by white folks in previous eras to maintain Black folks 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 identify (Gold, Blue, Purple, Pink, and Inexperienced); this primer has in flip highlighted key details and findings in accordance with that very same organizational construction.

Critically, “January sixth” has, like “Watergate,” turn out to be a helpful shorthand. However as with Watergate, January sixth represents neither a single nor remoted occasion, however as an alternative a much wider and extra multifaceted effort to cease the switch of energy. We hope this useful resource is beneficial in distilling these parts 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 beneath 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 problem. 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 unsuitable with this. Or to place it one other means, it could be unavoidable, not less than to some vital diploma. The revelations of 2017-18 introduced centered consideration to a basic drawback. Additionally they helped encourage plenty of folks to turn out to be extra lively in making an attempt to drive their societies to take the issue extra severely.

However, stay by the excessive profile tales, die by the excessive profile tales. Smarter folks than me at the moment are writing concerning the Johnny Depp defamation case in opposition to Amber Heard because the demise knell of #MeToo.  One may argue that the start of the tip of #MeToo, not less than within the sense of a motion that felt too highly effective, too in line with the prevailing tide of historical past to be on the unsuitable aspect of, was the Kavanaugh affirmation course of in 2018. Regardless, no matter consciousness was raised, not less than for some, by the graphic documentation of the truth that rich and highly effective males had spent a long time getting away with abusing (largely) girls, the truth of the day-to-day worry and violence that so many ladies expertise has not modified. In any respect.

Gallup:

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

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• 55% now establish as pro-choice, the very best share since 1995
• For first time, majority of People say abortion is morally acceptable
• Democrats drive a lot 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 very offline try to convert minorities into Republicans

The RNC group middle mannequin is the most recent try by Republicans to court docket nonwhite voters, who’ve lengthy eschewed the occasion and been demonized by its main representatives. However 2020’s frenzied election returns recommended a chance. Joe Biden’s share of votes from Latinos decreased by eight share factors in comparison with Hillary Clinton’s, in accordance with a report from the progressive information 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 gorgeous 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 effectively. It was one thing lower than a breakthrough with nonwhite voters; Republicans dropping Asian People by a 27 p.c margin exhibited their finest efficiency with any main racial minority bloc. However given the massive turnout improve in 2020, in uncooked numbers, Republicans put up vote totals that after would’ve appeared not possible even to the Pollyannaish.

HuffPost:

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

Some gun management advocates assume exhibiting graphic pictures of mass shootings will sway lawmakers. Victims of those self same shootings say to give up 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 might’t perceive the load of this ask.”