LEADS

Warnock makes history in winning Georgia runoff, CNN projects, as control of Senate down to Perdue-Ossoff race
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/loeffler-ossoff-perdue-warnock-runoff-results/index.html

Abrams’ revenge: Warnock’s victory a direct blow to her rival Kemp
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/abrams-revenge-warnocks-victory-a-direct-blow-to-her-rival-kemp/ZLMYY73FWBE23FBJ75K6WJD5K4/

"Buckle Up!": Schumer Drunk With Power After Ossoff Declares Victory
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ossoff-declares-victory-georgia-senate-runoff-democrats-poised-control-congress

With Black and Jewish Candidates in Deep South, Dems Projected to Win Georgia and Take Senate–Putting Biden’s ‘FDR-Sized’ Promise to the Test
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/with-black-and-jewish-candidates-in-deep-south-dems-projected-to-win-georgia-and-take-senate-putting-bidens-fdr-sized-promise-to-the-test/

How Biden can repair the rocky road Trump left behind
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/532612-how-biden-can-repair-the-rocky-road-trump-left-behind

After Four Years of Trump, the Republic Still Stands
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/after-four-years-of-trump-the-republic-still-stands/

Trump Will Get Away With It and Leave Us With the Mess
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-republican-smallness-georgia-call.html

Blame Everything, but Especially Trump
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/blame-everything-but-especially-trump/

Republicans turn on Trump after Georgia loss
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/republicans-turn-on-trump-georgia-loss-455305

Trump failed the final loyalty test to the GOP. Why should Republicans burn their own fates to be loyal to him?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-failed-the-final-loyalty-test-to-the-gop-why-should-republicans-burn-their-own-fates-to-be-loyal-to-him

Mike Pence Put His Soul on Layaway and the Devil Has Come to Collect
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35132977/trump-mike-pence-certify-electoral-college-congress/

Breaking Announcement From Trump: “Pence And I Are In Total Agreement That The VP Has Power To Decertify Illegal Election Results”
https://welovetrump.com/2021/01/06/breaking-announcement-from-trump-pence-and-i-are-in-total-agreement-that-the-vp-has-power-to-decertify-illegal-election-results/

Trump attorney suggests Pence rejecting electors would be unconstitutional
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jay-sekulow-trump-pence-constitution-electoral-college

‘YOU ARE BREAKING THE CONSTITUTION!’ Utter Chaos Breaks Out in PA State Senate as Republicans Refuse to Seat Democrat, Remove Fetterman from Presiding
https://www.mediaite.com/news/you-are-breaking-the-constitution-utter-chaos-breaks-out-in-pa-state-senate-as-republicans-refuse-to-seat-democrat-remove-fetterman-from-presiding/

Video shows Romney being called "traitor" by Trump fans while on flight
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-fans-chant-traitor-at-mitt-romney-on-flight-from-salt-lake-city-to-washington-dc-2020-01-05/

Trump supporters clash with DC police in BLM plaza ahead of ‘Save America’ rally (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/usa/511647-blm-plaza-protesters-police/

D.C. Police Make Several Arrests As Pro-Trump Supporters Flock To The Capital To Protest Election
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/01/06/dc-police-make-several-arrests-as-pro-trump-supporters-flock-to-the-capital-to-protest-election/

Proud Boys Leader Released From Jail, Banned From Wednesday Protests In D.C.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/05/proud-boys-leader-released-from-jail-banned-from-wednesday-protests-in-dc/

Enrique Tarrio Faces Three Years in Jail Over Weapon Charges Outlined in Court Files
https://www.newsweek.com/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-arrest-washington-1559227

Kyle Rittenhouse pleads not guilty to fatal Kenosha protest shootings
https://www.wisn.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-pleads-not-guilty-to-fatal-kenosha-protest-shootings/35131382

Jacob Blake shooting: Kenosha protests peaceful after no charges announced for police officers
https://abc7chicago.com/jacob-blake-shooting-kenosha-police-officer-rusten-sheskey-curfew-state-of-emergency/9400748/

Nearly 4 Times as Many Cops Killed Themselves Than Were Shot and Killed in 2020
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/more-than-4-times-suicide-2020/

Massive 1-Year Rise In Homicide Rates Collided With The Pandemic In 2020
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020

4 Numbers That Make the Pandemic’s Massive Death Toll Sink In
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/us-covid-19-death-toll/617544/

Why it’s so difficult for journalists to get inside hospitals to document COVID-19 cases
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/why-its-so-difficult-for-journalists-to-get-inside-hospitals-to-document-covid-19-cases/

Some hospital services suspended in San Joaquin Valley due to COVID-19 demand
https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/life-health/health/coronavirus/some-hospital-services-suspended-in-san-joaquin-valley-due-to-covid-19-demand/

Thousands of L.A. health care workers sickened by coronavirus, worsening crisis in hospitals
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-06/covid-19-surge-infecting-la-healthcare-workers-in-huge-numbers

‘We forget about them as being essential workers.’ COVID-19 has made farm workers even more vulnerable — and created momentum to protect them
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/we-forget-about-them-as-being-essential-workers-covid-19-has-made-farm-workers-even-more-vulnerable-and-created-momentum-to-protect-them-11609869802

Biden’s appointment of a health disparities adviser is historic. But will the White House empower her?
https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/05/biden-marcella-nunez-smith-health-disparities/

Greens rip EPA's new 'secret science' rule as last-ditch attempt to hamstring Biden
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/5/andrew-wheeler-epa-secret-science-rule-ripped-atte/

Conservationists Slam Lame-Duck Gut of Migratory Bird Protections
https://www.courthousenews.com/conservationists-slam-lame-duck-gut-of-migratory-bird-protections/

Trump Admin Reportedly Proposes Staggering Rollback Of Civil Rights Protections
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/01/05/trump-admin-reportedly-proposes-staggering-rollback-of-civil-rights-protections/

Trump signs executive order blocking transactions with Alipay, WeChat Pay, and six other Chinese apps
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215961/trump-executive-order-prohibiting-transactions-eight-chinese-apps-alipay-tencent-qq-wechat-pay

WHO team blocked from entering China to study origins of coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/china/china-blocks-who-team-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html

New Covid strain: China rushes to control virus outbreak in city of 11 million
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/coronavirus-pandemic/new-covid-strain-china-rushes-to-control-virus-outbreak-in-city-of-11-million

POLITICS and FLEAS

Test of the American Man
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/04/test-of-the-american-man/

Traditional stereotypes about masculinity may help explain support for Trump
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-traditional-stereotypes-masculinity-trump.html

Rep. Jim Jordan Is Really Mad About Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Also Doesn’t Know What a Pronoun Is
https://www.themarysue.com/jim-jordan-mad-at-pronouns/

People Have Used They/Them as Singular Pronouns for Hundreds of Years
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/people-have-used-they-them-as-singular-pronouns-for-hundreds-of-years

Netflix’s ‘History of Swear Words’ is the doomscrolling companion for this effing moment
https://www.fastcompany.com/90591118/netflixs-history-of-swear-words-is-the-doomscrolling-companion-for-this-effing-moment

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

Metallica Fuels Student Protests in Istanbul as Dozens Detained
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/metallica-fuels-student-protests-in-istanbul-as-dozens-detained

Vietnam jails journalists for 'propaganda' critical of state
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-security-trial/vietnam-jails-journalists-for-propaganda-critical-of-state-idUSKBN29A0VI

Hong Kong arrests 53 pro-democracy activists for trying to 'overthrow' government with unofficial votes
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/hong-kong-arrests-53-pro-democracy-activists-for-trying-to-overthrow-government-with-unofficial-votes

India Is Targeting Defenders of Indigenous Rights as ‘Terrorists’
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-is-targeting-defenders-of-indigenous-rights-as-terrorists/

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

The RBG Affect: Where the Rubber ‘Meats’ The Road On Science, Global Warming And The Convenience Of Hypocrisy
https://newmatilda.com/2021/01/04/the-rbg-affect-where-the-rubber-meats-the-road-on-science-global-warming-and-the-convenience-of-hypocrisy/

Global Warming Already Baked In Will Blow Past Climate Goals, a New Study Says
https://time.com/5926319/global-warming-climate-goals/

Average Temperatures in Cities Forecast to Spike as Climate Change Worsens
https://www.courthousenews.com/average-temperatures-in-cities-forecast-to-spike-as-climate-change-worsens/

Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/warmer-winters-effects-on-gardening/2021/01/05/65e3283a-4496-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html

My green home: $90,000 in clean tech upgrades, $20,000 in tax breaks
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/my-green-home-90000-in-clean-tech-upgrades-20000-in-tax-breaks/

It's electrifying! This is how Earth could be entirely powered by sustainable energy
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-electrifying-earth-powered-sustainable-energy.html

The Energy 202: Trump administration opens millions more acres of Alaska to drilling
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/05/energy-202-trump-administration-opens-millions-more-acres-alaska-drilling/

My tribe holds a funeral every week for people killed by fossil fuels. This isn’t progress – it’s environmental genocide
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/fossil-fuels-trump-land-tribes-b1781438.html

THE MEDIA SCRUM

Mr. Bean Must Be Stopped Before He Defends Free Speech Again
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2021/01/05/mr-bean-must-be-stopped-before-he-defends-free-speech-again-n1306714

The Case Against Julian Assange Is Also a Case Against a Free Press
https://reason.com/2021/01/06/the-case-against-julian-assange-is-also-a-case-against-the-press/

How Julian Assange Beat Extradition
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/julian-assange-extradition-wikileaks-us-prison-system

ODDS, ENDS

Let's Talk About This Intriguing Object Seen In The Scoot-And-Hide Hangar At Area 51
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38518/lets-talk-about-this-intriguing-object-seen-in-the-scoot-and-hide-hangar-at-area-51

A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it.
https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/lost-cia-spyplane-area51/

About That “Alien Technosignature” We Found Last Month…
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/01/05/alien-technosignature-found-last-month/

Are UFOs a threat to national security? We may find out in 6 months
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ufo-national-security-congress-report/

Mass of Drones Storms Manhattan in Trial to Counter Future Threats
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/01/06/drones-manhattan-trial-future-threats/

Why the US wastes billions on nuclear weapons it doesn’t need
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/06/why-the-us-wastes-billions-on-nuclear-weapons-it-doesnt-need/

Race is on for hypersonic weapon supremacy
https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/race-is-on-for-hypersonic-weapon-supremacy/

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