YouTube video maker / cultural critic had an opium problem

Goes back on initial offer to settle, now is trying to force binding arbitration

Igor Vamos talks about how Facebook shows military gear to pro-Trump Facebook users

Group of displaced samurai arrived in 1869, apparently swindled by a European

16 year old girl with a monstrous mother who literally is posting topless photos of her on Twitter

Birx talks; there was no full time staff working on the epidemic inside the executive branch

Fauci on what it was like working under Trump

Deep investigation finds no evidence for the theory that NASA administrator James Webb was a key figure in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s

Wikipedia editor's edit history includes an obsessive catalog of terms related to breasts

Another performance from the inauguration poet

Tainted Love in handmade music box form /cc @celesteramsay

DoJ shenanigans in the eleventh hour, trying to overturn an election

The actual site; 6000 faces from videos of the attack on the capitol

Simple machine learning stuff extracts 6000 faces from Parler videos of the day of the attack on the Capitol. (Not all of them are attackers.)

A roundup of all the harm the Trump FCC appointee did

The Trump folks had no plan for distributing vaccine, so Biden has to start from zero

Amanda Gorman's amazing poetry performance at the inauguration. Video and text.

Bitcoin's price is largely driven by Tether, and Tether appears to be an enormous fraud

One of the attorneys who will be handling many Trump cases in the next few years. Sounds like an awesome woman.

Pitch-perfect op/ed on how simple Biden's plan and how infuriating it is that we're only now doing it

A commonly quoted Voltaire bit is mistranslated into English

Python parallel execution tool; run map() in parallel locally or on a cloud, transparently

Bank of America takes away permission to post memorials at what is essentially sacred ground for queers in SF

From staring directly into the sun to drawing in a fake hurricane track with a Sharpie

Details of why California is doing so bad distributing vaccines

Jared and Ivanka wouldn't let their security detail use the bathroom in their house, so a bunch of ridiculous accommodations had to be made

An Ethiopian form of music, its own kind of jazz. Very groovy from what I've heard on Spotify

Sat watching his brownshirts attack America for six hours rather than do anything to help defend the country

A new minute by minute narrative

List of companies banning Trump or other fascist groups from their platforms. Too late, but better than nothing.

Legislator in Oregon opened the door to the Oregon statehouse and let fascist thugs in to attack the government

First insurrectionists in the door at the Capitol were organized and looking for people to kidnap

Anonymous accounts of Trump acting insane and blind with rage during the coup

Detailed article on what the Capitol police did and how badly they failed

First person story from a reporter trapped in the Capitol by the insurrection

Graphic: video of the coup attempt where one of the insurrectionists tried to climb through a window and was shot.

Detailed illustrated timeline

Bellingcat leading an effort to archive live streams, etc showing evidence of crimes related to the Trump coup

WaPo editorial

Gab and Parler played a big part in organizing the insurrection today

How GOP violent discourse today echoes the pre-Civil War escalation of violence

Uber turned off over 2/3 of their ad spend and found no effect on user acquisition. Because the ad networks were all fraudulent

Trump continues to try to subvert the vote because he just can't accept he lost. What a child.

History and context as Trump lays the groundwork for a very ugly transfer of power