♦ Two more Dem Congressmembers get COVID after sheltering through riot with Republicans who refused to wear masks ♦ and other news

■ Trump deliberately withheld aid to combat the insurrection

    CORPORATE CAPITALISM

■ Amazon removes QAnon merchandise from its marketplace

Why did Amazon allow such merchandise for sale on its site in the first place? —CKB

■ Stripe and PayPal halt payments for Trump’s campaign and supporters

    HEALTH & SCIENCE

■ Two more Dem Congressmembers get COVID after sheltering through riot with Republicans who refused to wear masks

Just being stupid isn't enough for Republicans. They're aggressively stupid, trying to share their potentially-fatal stupidity with everyone. —CKB

■ 👍 Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they’re being charged in Flint water scandal

■ Psychedelic mushrooms grew in a man's veins after he injected them

    JOURNALISM ABOUT JOURNALISM

■ Twitter suspends tens of thousands of accounts dedicated to sharing QAnon content

Not enough, and why so late? —CKB

■ YouTube prohibits uploads to Trump's channel for seven days

Not enough, and why so late? —CKB

■ Voice of America reporter reassigned after asking Pompeo about Capitol riot

If you're not allowed to ask questions, you're a stenographer, not a reporter. —CKB

    LIBERTY & JUSTICE FOR ALL

■ Capitol Police: Overfunded, undercompetent, unaccountable

Excerpt: The force of about 2,100 sworn officers, which patrols a hallowed but tiny area, boasts a $516 million budget. That is more than twice the spending on police in Atlanta, 1½ times the spending in Detroit and approaches the $545 million budget for the District of Columbia, budget documents show. Yet reports by the force’s Office of Inspector General, tasked with rooting out waste and fraud, are kept under wraps. The Capitol Police, like Congress, is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

■ Supreme Court reimposes rule forcing women to obtain abortion pill in person during pandemic

Unlike other prescription drugs, women can't send a friend to pick up their meds, and can't order delivery by mail. Gotta go in person. This is just hard-boiled misogyny. —CKB

■ 👍 Mexico moves to create world’s largest legal cannabis market

■ White man who intentionally drove into racial injustice protesters avoids prison, may have record expunged

■ In 'nasty parting shot,' HHS finalizes rule axing LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections

PEACE ON EARTH

■ 👍 Pompeo cancels final European trip after foreign officials refuse to meet

■ At the 11th hour, Trump hands Biden a whole new set of foreign policy headaches

    STUPID & LOUD

■ Republican House Reps. revolt against basic security after the insurrection

It's a metal detector, that's all — the low-level annoyance all Americans have put up with at airports and government buildings for decades. Now, after the siege, there's one at the Capitol, and of course, some Republicans in Congress refuse to walk through it because muh freedumb. —CKB

■ 👍 Sheldon Adelson, billionaire underwriter of evil, croaks at 87

■ Sponsors of the pre-attack rally have taken down their websites. Don’t forget who they were.

■ "Stunning admission of ignorance": Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) says her "first thought was that the Iranians" hit the Capitol

    🌞 WALKING ON SUNSHINE 🌞

■ Lost passwords lock millionaires out of their Bitcoin fortunes

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