All Jan. 6 roads result in Trump

NY Instances:

How the Worst Fears for Democracy Have been Averted in 2022

A precariously slender however consequential slice of the citizens broke with its personal voting historical past to reject overtly extremist Republican candidates — at the very least partly out of concern for the well being of the political system.

Final January, after county Republican leaders aligned with a gaggle recognized for spreading misinformation concerning the 2020 election and Covid-19 vaccines, Mr. Mohler spoke out in opposition to them — a transfer that he mentioned value him his put up as chairman of the township G.O.P. committee.

“I simply realized how a lot of a sham the entire motion was,” he mentioned. “The second the veil is pulled out of your face, you notice how ugly the face is that you’re taking a look at.”

Yesterday I highlighted an identical theme from Georgia, embodied in a single particular person. However he’s not alone.

Annie Lowrey/Atlantic:

Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of {Dollars} on Fireplace?

Twitter isn’t heading towards a cheerful monetary equilibrium.

Musk’s habits raises many questions, similar to Why?, Why?, and Why?! And Is he going to bankrupt this factor? He appears to be like like he’s making an attempt to: On Tuesday night, Musk vowed to resign as CEO of Twitter “as quickly as I discover somebody silly sufficient to take the job!” He and whoever is silly sufficient to succeed him actually face a difficult yr forward. The as soon as–richest man on Earth took over an organization dropping $220 million a yr and multiplied its losses by 10, if no more, based on one analyst’s estimate. Twitter appears to be like prone to bleed customers, advertisers, and cash for the foreseeable future. However the social community is Musk’s to fund, not simply run. And he’s one of many few individuals on the planet with basically limitless quantities of cash to lose.

An awesome quote from the above piece:

We additionally misplaced Mark Shields, the smart and wisecracking political commentator. He taught a necessary lesson by asserting that spiritual and political individuals alike have been divided between those that hunted for heretics and those that sought converts.

I’m a convert seeker. Life is just too quick for chasing heretics on a regular basis.

James Risen/The Intercept:

Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and the Darkish Path to Extremism

Twitter’s billionaire proprietor appears set to comply with Ford into the abyss.

ELON MUSK IS on his solution to turning into the subsequent Henry Ford.

That isn’t a praise.

Okay, we’d like a palate cleanser.

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Molly Jong-Quick/Self-importance Truthful:

KAMALA HARRIS, A VERY TURBULENT YEAR IN AMERICA, AND THE CHALLENGE OF BEING FIRST

In an interview with Self-importance Truthful, the vp discusses defending abortion rights post-Roe and tackling immigration, together with how, as a girl of a number of firsts—from DA to AG to VP—she hopes to “create a path and widen the trail for others.”

Jonathan Capehart/WaPo:

Kamala Harris had a most glorious yr

To know Harris’s 2022, I recommend taking a look at it as a tent held up by three poles. One is the Munich Safety Convention in February…

One other tent pole in Harris’s yr is the U.S. delegation she led to the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation convention in Thailand in November…

To me, the third tent pole is crucial. After the leaked draft in Could of what would later develop into the Supreme Court docket’s Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group choice to finish the constitutional proper to abortion, the previous California lawyer common noticed plainly the implications for different rights, similar to marriage equality. She was keen to talk out, Harris instructed me, and instructed her workers: “I’m getting the bleep out of D.C.”

Charles Lipson/The Spectator:

Zelensky’s Congress handle was a triumph

Zelensky was smart, too, in repeatedly thanking each events and each the Home and Senate. The one bitter notice was hidden within the viewers, the place 4 right-wing Republicans refused to clap. The remainder of America’s elected representatives stood to cheer Zelensky time after time, displaying there actually is bipartisan, bicameral help for Ukraine’s battle. The exhausting query is how lengthy that can final and what number of superior weapons America is keen to ship. That’s why Zelensky wanted to be so persuasive.

The above is a conservative U.Ok. view, making our “conservatives” even weirder.

And only for enjoyable, you should use Google translate (relying on how good your Finnish is) on this piece. 

HS calculated: How a lot electrical energy would we save if we stopped taking saunas?

Statistics present that decreasing sauna use is an efficient solution to save electrical energy. Stopping using personal saunas fully could be in comparison with reducing the temperature of rooms in Finnish properties by two levels.