Oh, yeah? Well, we don’t do “desperate fading starlets” anymore because that’s “too John Mayer.” [Page Six/NYP]
Related: John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us
trump administration
Who Did Trump Pardon on His Last Night As President?
THE FEED
inauguration liveblog
Biden Heads to D.C. for Inauguration: Live Updates
the national interest
Trump’s Farewell Address Is a Hypocritical Paean to Patriotism and Free Speech
A major foreign policy shift out of the gate
Blinken confirms Biden admin will end support for Saudi-led campaign in Yemen.
“The Houthis bear significant responsibility for what’s happened in Yemen, but the way the campaign has been conducted has also contributed significantly to that situation & so our support should end”
—@jmhansler
“The Houthis bear significant responsibility for what’s happened in Yemen, but the way the campaign has been conducted has also contributed significantly to that situation & so our support should end”
coronavirus
U.S. Surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 Deaths
president trump
We’re Lucky the Trump Presidency Wasn’t Worse
politics
Could Trump’s Going Away Ceremony Be a Ghost Town?
coronavirus vaccine
How to Sign Up for a COVID Vaccine in New York
voting rights
Democrats Push Voting-Rights Expansion With Fresh Urgency
politics
If Trump Doesn’t Keep You Up All Night, MyPillow Will
pivot
Policing Facebook Under a Biden Administration
impeachment trial
Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Will Be a Democratic Production
McConnell doesn’t seem to be softening on the president
McConnell, just now, on the rioters who stormed the Capitol: “The mob was fed lies… they were provoked by the President and other powerful people”
—@PeterAlexander
biden administration
All of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet Nominees
The Biden team noted that Levine has been confirmed three times by the GOP-controlled Pennsylvania state senate
President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate Pennsylvania’s top health official, Rachel Levine, to be his assistant secretary of health. Levine, a pediatrician, would become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
“Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond,” Biden said in a statement. “She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health efforts.”
Levine serves as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health and has been leading the state’s public health response to the coronavirus pandemic.
life after warming
After Climate Alarmism
the end stage
Trump Plans to Issue at Least 100 Pardons and Commutations on Tuesday
coronavirus
New COVID Strain Spreading Across U.S.: What We Know
politics
How Close Did We Get to an Election Coup?
the national interest
Trump Wanted to Erase Obama’s Legacy. He Failed.
capitol riot
Multiple Extremist Group Members Arrested: Live Updates
Keystone XL may soon be out of stock
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday. A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president’s team with U.S. stakeholders. The words “Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit” appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden’s presidency.
Navalny returns to Russia, is immediately detained
Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who recuperated in Germany from a near-deadly poisoning, returned to Moscow on Sunday and was detained shortly after leaving his plane. The detention of Mr. Navalny could set off an international backlash and protests at home. He has accused the Kremlin of trying to murder him in YouTube videos viewed more than 40 million times.
Russia’s penitentiary service, which has said that Mr. Navalny was wanted for violating the terms of a prior suspended sentence, released a statement saying that Mr. Navalny had been detained pending a court hearing. …
Before he was detained at passport control, Mr. Navalny gave an impromptu statement to journalists. He stood in the transit area of the airport’s Terminal D, before a lit-up screen showing a photo of the Kremlin, and apologized to air travelers inconvenienced by the air-traffic tumult surrounding his arrival. “I am not afraid,” he said in remarks carried by Russian news media livestreams from the scene. “I know that I am right. I know all the criminal cases against me are fabricated.”
NSA is installing Trump-selected GOP operative as agency’s top lawyer
The National Security Agency is “moving forward” to install Michael Ellis, a former GOP political operative and White House official, as the agency’s top lawyer, the agency said Sunday. The announcement came a day after acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller ordered the NSA director, Gen. Paul Nakasone, to immediately place Ellis in position as the agency’s general counsel.
Ellis had been selected for the job in November by the Pentagon general counsel after a civil service competition. But Nakasone was not in favor of Ellis’s selection and sought to delay his installation, according to several people familiar with the issue, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. …
Ellis was selected under pressure from the White House, people familiar with the matter said at the time. The move drew criticism from national security legal experts as an attempt to politicize a career position.
the money game
What Explains Bitcoin’s Resurgence?
how we live now
What Has the Pandemic Done to Our Eyes?
A look back at the president’s most notable lies from the most tireless fact-checker of the Trump era
My personal favorite lie: Trump was once named Michigan’s Man of the Year
Trump has never lived in Michigan. Why would he have been named Michigan’s Man of the Year years before his presidency? He wouldn’t have been. He wasn’t. And yet this lie he appeared to have invented in the final week of his 2016 campaign became a staple of his 2020 campaign, repeated at Michigan rally after rally. It’s so illustrative because it makes so little sense.
end times
Trump’s Job Approval Plunging as He Leaves Office
politics
Even the Guy the MyPillow CEO Wanted to Enlist for a Coup Is Confused
end-times
How BidenWorld Is Scrambling to Prepare for January 21
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