Everything’s fine

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🇮🇷 In Iran, protesters have taken control of an entire city — Abdanan: local police have laid down their weapons and sided with the people Protesters are destroying streets and burning cars. Fierce clashes are ongoing between protesters and police in other cities.

"The United States on Monday reached a deal with Dominica to start sending foreigners seeking U.S. asylum to the small Caribbean nation." apnews.com/article/domi...

On the 5th anniversary of the Jan 6th attack, let's remember that Brazil formally sentenced Bolsonaro for the violent coup attempt after he lost re-election because Brazil has a better-functioning democracy than the US does.

NEW: DOJ announced today that it is appealing the December ruling against the Trump administration in Mark Zaid's case. Judge Amir Ali sided with Zaid, who challenged the gov't decision to "summarily" cancel his security clearance with no process. Ali's ruling is set to go into effect on Jan. 13.

Of course. Explains why they destroyed the "evidence" of the accused drug boats. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.” A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words: “The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”

Billions of US taxpayer money going to oil companies for oil extracted or produced in Venezuela? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In a rambling speech, President Trump announced that America “is going to start producing [weapons] much faster” than before. Trump then went on to claim that he was the “king” of Boeing. Countries around the world are alert to America’s newfound hostility with a second-term Trump. trib.al/f5pGk7i

“Our neighbour’s autocratic and avaricious leader is demonstrably eager to use his country’s massive military power to advance his interests. We must get ready.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

X is the worst www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“Do they even have what they say they do? .. “.. John Arnold, the well known former energy hedge fund manager, yesterday on X basically said the 300 billion barrel reserve claim was made up to Hugo Chavez ..” - Boockvar

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

Joint Statement on Greenland 🇬🇱 stm.dk/statsministe...

#MorningVibe We must never forget the atrocities that were committed on #Jan6, sparked by the madman occupying the WH. Please review this visual archive of that day through the lenses of those who were there. 🔗 apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/ (Separate from video)

Wading through nonstop redistricting news because millions voted for a convicted felon who’s destroying American democracy was not exactly in our cards. But it’s unfolding before our eyes. Here’s everything you need to know👇 https://bit.ly/3Yc8ac8

Breaking News: Federal health officials made dramatic changes to recommended child vaccines, reducing the number of diseases prevented by shots from 17 to 11.

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"Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96." apnews.com/article/holo...

I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643

Per WASH POST, Stephen Miller will play an “elevated role” in Venezuela (what could go wrong!) and Machado won’t be president because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Trump wants (yes, seriously) Couldn’t make it up if we tried www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Dancing could slash your dementia risk. In one study people who danced often had a 76% lower risk of dementia than those who did so rarely. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

NEW: Five years after Jan 6, police victims fight to stop further “whitewashing” of history youtube.com/shorts/KTRVc...

So Trump told the press he was going to invade Venezuela, and he told the oil companies he was going to invade Venezuela, but he never bothered to ask CONGRESS if he COULD invade Venezuela. And congressional Republicans are just like… “meh”. Are you fucking kidding me?!!

This is what Trump cares about - oil companies. Not drug traffickers.

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

The Trump administration is revoking approval for millions of acres of ocean to be set aside for offshore wind development

Neither of these things are true, except in the fever dream of anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. Ultimately, this is another wave that will further erode the wall of immunity the U.S. once had. About 40% of Americans kids are supported by Medicaid.