Chris Christie: Trump incited Jan. 6 riot to “intimidate Mike Pence”  —  Former President Trump incited the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 “to intimidate” former Vice President Mike Pence into overturning the 2020 election, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday.

National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago  —  The recovery of multiple boxes from Trump's Florida resort, including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, underscores the previous administration's cavalier handling of presidential records

‘Precipitous decline’: J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race  —  Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” — and that's according to the well-funded super PAC supporting him.  —  A 98-page PowerPoint presentation produced by Tony Fabrizio …

Biden's top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation  —  President Joe Biden's top science adviser, Eric Lander, bullied and demeaned his subordinates and violated the White House's workplace policy, an internal White House investigation recently concluded …

Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN as a Contributor After Leaving Fox News … Jonah Goldberg, one of the two conservative political analysts who resigned from Fox News Channel in colorful fashion over its coverage, is joining CNN as a contributor, the WarnerMedia network confirmed Monday.

US intel indicates Russian officers have had doubts about full scale Ukraine invasion  —  (CNN)Intercepted communications obtained by the US have revealed that some Russian officials have worried that a large-scale invasion of Ukraine would be costlier and more difficult than Russian President Vladimir Putin …

IRS to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification  —  The tax collection agency will transition away from using a service from the authentication service ID.me amid bipartisan backlash.  —  WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service plans to stop using facial recognition software …

Message Regarding Posters Displayed on Campus  —  Dear Members of the George Washington University Community,  —  Last week, the university learned of posters on campus depicting images that alarmed some members of our community, and we began to receive a number of concerns through official …

Garcetti former chief spox to prosecutors: Charge Biden ambassador pick with perjury  —  Old and busted: Eric Garcetti holding his breath.  New hotness: The White House holding theirs.  The former spokesperson of the current mayor of Los Angeles and future US ambassador to India …

If Spotify's Staff Can't Cope with Running a Content Library, They Should Find Another Job  —  Spotify's CEO made a statement over the weekend: … I want to reiterate that nobody is actually “impacted” by Joe Rogan's podcast.  Nobody is actually “drained” or “frustrated” or “unheard.”

Lies Are the Building Blocks of Trumpian Authoritarianism  —  Deceit and the danger to democracy.  —  Americans like to think our country is immune to authoritarianism.  We have a culture of freedom, a tradition of elected government, and a Bill of Rights.  We're not like those European countries that fell into fascism.

N.J. Governor to End School Mask Mandate in Move to ‘Normalcy’  —  For the first time since the start of the pandemic, New Jersey districts will be permitted to allow students and teachers to stop wearing masks.  —  Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat who has imposed …

Kilar Comes Back for More...  After a series of off-the-rails newsroom conversations last week to address Jeff Zucker's ouster, the likely outgoing WarnerMedia C.E.O. returned to the barrel today via an emotional virtual meeting with select high-level staff.

The NYT article on MMT is really bad  —  The fringe ideology's star is falling, and puff pieces will not resuscitate it  —  The New York Times just came out with a big glowing writeup of MMT, entitled “Time for a Victory Lap*”.  This article aroused the anger of just about every macroeconomist on Twitter …

The plan to ‘Trump-proof’ 2024 gets a big boost — from Donald Trump  —  As frustrating as Sen. Joe Manchin III has been in the past year or so, the West Virginia Democrat may have found the sweet spot on a very big question: How to get 10 GOP senators to support a plan to safeguard our elections …

Andrew Cuomo Says He's Been ‘Vindicated,’ Won't Rule Out Run  —  Five months after he resigned over a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, New York's former Governor Andrew Cuomo isn't ruling out another run for public office.  He insists it's too soon to talk about it.

New book details how Palin felt uncomfortable after 2010 meeting with Fox News CEO Ailes … Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was so unsettled after a 2010 meeting with then-Fox News executive Roger Ailes that she told staff members she would not meet with him alone again, according to a new book from a New York Times journalist.

Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland  —  The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information …

Why Americans Are Slow to Get Booster Shots  —  Why are Americans slow to get booster shots?  —  The United States has a vaccination problem.  And it is not just about the relatively large share of Americans who have refused to get a shot.  The U.S. also trails many other countries …

Donald Trump quietly making millions from coffee table book  —  WaPo reporter on Trump's ‘unprecedented’ document destruction habits  —  (CNN)A few months ago, former President Donald Trump signed a book deal.  —  There wasn't the huge fanfare most former presidents receive when they ink deals …

See the 1960 Electoral College certificates that the false Trump electors say justify their gambit  —  When Donald Trump's allies signed false documents claiming he won several states he lost — and that they were his legitimate presidential electors — they came armed with an excuse: Democrats did it first, 60 years earlier in Hawaii.

Saving evangelicalism?  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks  —  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The New York Times is very concerned about saving evangelicalism.  Yesterday, the nation's newspaper of record devoted three entire print pages of its “Review” section to a massive essay …

Heritage Foundation, former powerhouse of GOP policy, adjusts in face of new competition from Trump allies  —  ‘People do not walk around in fear of the Heritage Foundation the way they did 10 years ago,’ one conservative expert said  —  The Heritage Foundation has long shaped mainstream Republican policy in Washington.

Indicted GOP congressman seeking reelection claims he forgot alleged 2018 crime  —  Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) is taking a page from former President Donald Trump's legal playbook.  —  Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) was indicted in October on three felony charges relating to illegal campaign contributions …