SO, ON THE GLORIOUS 6TH:  Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”.

“So when they got mad because we stole the election in plain sight, we decided to take their very mild protest and claim it was an insurrection.  They said we wouldn’t like what came next.”

“And did you?”

“I still hear the tumbrils rolling. I hid under the bed afraid they’d stop at my door. Then one day they did.”

…..  Or, to put it more clearly: the tea party was the polite request. Trump’s election… not so polite.

They won’t like us when we’re angry. And at this point, most of us are.

HOW AMAZING WOULD IT BE IF OUR PUTATIVE LEADERS DIDN’T HATE US? The View From Rural Japan – Guest Post By Francis Turner.

ALL SOME LEFTISTS MEN JUST WANT TO SEE THE WORLD BURN:  A Former College Professor Is A Serial Arsonist In Northern California, Feds Say.

Yes, he did teach environmental history.  How shocked are you? I’m shocked, shocked, shocked, with a side of shocked!

OPEN THREAD: Let’s go back to the rock.

YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF AUSTRIA, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE THE AUSTRIA OUT OF THE MAN: Schwarzenegger to anti-maskers: ‘Screw your freedom.’

Related: Rand Paul is right: It’s time to stop listening and start resisting.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

“ELON MUSK HAS OFFERED TO HELP.” US astronaut moon landing ‘not feasible,’ by 2024, NASA’s inspector general finds.

WORST. INSURRECTION. EVER: Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks.” Calls into question the trespassing and related non-violent crimes charged against defendants like Cuoy Griffin.

Related: Former ‘Anonymous’ Trump Official Says Trump Supporters Are a Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

CUOMO BRAND NAME STILL PAYING BIG DIVIDENDS: CNN has another Cuomo problem as female viewers turn off ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ in droves.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Leaked documents show Baltimore high schoolers perform math, reading at elementary level. “iReady is a system schools use to measure at which grade level a student is performing. In Baltimore City Schools, iReady assessments are given in math and reading, three times a year, to measure a student’s progress. The scores we obtained show some students are performing 10 grade levels below their age.”

DUCK AND COVER:

E.E.W. allows seismologists to estimate, in real time, the potential amount of shaking an earthquake will cause. The principles are relatively simple. Seismometers can scan the ground for the “P waves,” or compression waves, which precede the slower and more powerful “S waves,” or shear waves, that are responsible for severe earthquake damage, like lightning before thunder. Using the P waves, a local data-processing center can calculate the likely reach and magnitude of a quake moments after it begins. The resulting alert, dispatched at the speed of light, usually beats the S waves, which ripple through rock at about two miles per second.

To call the warning “early” is generous. It usually arrives between a few seconds and less than a minute ahead of the quake—advance notice that, in duration, is somewhere between a sneeze and a red light. The Achilles’ heel of the system is what its designers call the “blind zone.” Those who might benefit the most from a warning—the people at the epicenter—won’t get one, because the S waves arrive too soon. Still, if you’re far enough outside that bull’s-eye, a few moments can be meaningful. In the past few decades, more than half of earthquake injuries in the U.S. have been caused by people or things falling—two occurrences easily avoided if you have time to take cover beneath a sturdy piece of furniture. For those who are landing planes, assembling electronics, operating cranes, or drilling into molars, even the smallest warning would be welcome. You might have just enough time to lock the wheels on your wheelchair, or to remove your scalpel from your patient’s chest. The effectiveness of the warning depends on how much can be done in a handful of seconds. The goal of E.E.W., therefore, isn’t just to sound the alarm. It’s to help transform knowledge into action as quickly as possible.

Vaguely related: The Unexpected Return of Duck and Cover.

TOOMEY TARGETS EVICTION MORATORIUM: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) wants a quickie review by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to determine if the CDC’s eviction moratorium extension should be viewed as a regulatory rule rather than a public health regulation.

If GAO says it is viewable as a rule, then Toomey plans to force a Senate vote to repeal the moratorium, which even His Fraudulency admits is unconstitutional. That repeal vote would be under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which means all that is required is a majority vote in the Senate.

DEMS TO MAKE UNION  DUES TAX DEDUCTIBLE: Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation that will both repeal the Right-to-Work laws of 27 states and make compulsory union dues tax deductible. In other words, taxpayers subsidize Big Labor, but those same taxpayers better not even think about having a choice about joining the union.

AS A WISE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ADVISES, GET IN THEIR FACES AND PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Breaking: Monroe County GA Board of Education rescinds mask mandate after backlash.

YES:

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JIM TREACHER: Cuomo Goes, Though.

As Kyle Smith at NRO notes:

Cuomo’s March 25, 2020, order that nursing homes accept COVID-19 patients (not rescinded until May 11) now looks like possibly the single most catastrophic move made by any American politician during the pandemic, and Cuomo proceeded to lie about it and cover up to understate the consequences of his blunder — even as he was entreating publicly paid staffers to work on a memoir bragging about his pandemic management for which he was paid a ludicrous $5.1 million.

That’s why Cuomo should’ve resigned over a year ago. But as a wise man once said, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Forcing Cuomo out of office for sexual harassment is a bit like imprisoning Al Capone for tax evasion. It’s not the sentence he deserves for his worst crimes, but it’s still right. It’ll do for now. Maybe this will make it easier to throw Cuomo in jail for his criminally negligent response to COVID-19.

So, who’s getting the 9PM spot on CNN now? Stephen “Not the Trump Guy” Miller thinks it’ll be their new hire Kasie Hunt. Maybe. It’s not like anybody’s watching anyway.

If Andrew Cuomo stays out of jail, maybe he and Chris can go into business together. A neighborhood “candy store,” or perhaps a “construction company.” Y’know, a “legitimate business.”

I’m not used to getting what I want in the realm of politics. The last time it happened was on Election Day 2004. Every day since then has been a nightmare.1 So I’m trying to enjoy this feeling while I can. It won’t last, and it won’t undo all the damage Cuomo has done. It won’t bring back all the lives he’s taken. It won’t teach his onetime acolytes anything, because if they were capable of learning, they never would’ve kowtowed to him in the first place.

But it’s something. And every once in a while, something is better than nothing.

Plus a look back at 2020’s many “Cuomosexuals.” Read the whole thing.

ANDREW CUOMO ISN’T THE PROBLEM: Corporate media and powerful Democrats knew all about Cuomo, but they said nothing because they didn’t care — and they still don’t.

Jennifer Rubin will pretend she never once tweeted obsequious nonsense about Cuomo during the worst months of the lockdowns. Brian Stelter and Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Nicolle Wallace will all nod and purse their lips and say how important it is that Cuomo is being held accountable, what a step forward it is for women. They will suggest that in fact it speaks to the media’s moral uprightness — and perhaps to their own — that all this came out and in the end forced a bad man out of public office.

Not one of them will acknowledge their roles in elevating Cuomo or turning a blind eye to what they all surely knew had been happening for years and years to young women who worked for him. CNN’s Chris Cuomo will almost certainly not be fired, or even censured, despite having actively helped his older brother try to sweep all this under the rug. His buddy Don Lemon will never ask him about it on air, and neither will anyone else at CNN.

Why? Because none of these people really care. As long as sexual harassment, assault, abuse, even the sex trafficking of underage girls stays quiet, then they stay quiet, too.

They don’t even care about people dying.

As with Harvey Weinstein, Cuomo has to go now, not because the establishment found out about him, but because we did.

CHRISTOPHER RUFO: Lie of credit — American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist.

AS LONG AS YOU REMEMBER THAT SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS ARE JERKS: A No-Jerks Rule Can Make Your Business (And Law School) Thrive.

FINALLY: China Mulls Crackdown on National Pastime: Singing Karaoke.

THE DEMAND FOR HATE CRIMES IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Racism is now the new gold. Regarding the Colorado Rockies’ “Dinger” faux-hate crime, Jason Whitlock tells Tucker Carlson, “Racism is now the new gold and people mine for racism gold the same way they mined for gold in the 1840s and 1850s. We have to understand that the miners, in this desperate rush to get rich – take Patrice Cullors, the founder of Black Lives Matter — she plays the racial game with Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, any other dead man that she thinks has been unjustly killed resisting arrest – and she’s now bought four homes across America.”

BIDENFLATION: 2022 Nissan Frontier Pricing Pushes Toward Higher Frontiers.

TO BE FAIR, SHE DOES HAVE QUITE A BIT OF KNOWLEDGE ON THE TOPIC: MSNBC Brings On Katie Hill To Discuss Cuomo’s Resignation.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: John Kerry Family Jet Has Emitted 30 Times More Carbon In 2021 Than Average Vehicle Does In Year: Report.

EVIL, BLOOMBERG-FUNDED ASTROTURF RETURNS: How Shannon Watts and Her Everytown Cohorts Are Gearing Up for the Midterm Elections.

SAUL ALINSKY SMILES: Left’s Angry That Ted Cruz Is Using Dems’ Own Tactics Against Them. “The Texas Republican is blocking State Department nominees en masse because he is upset that Biden waived some sanctions related to Nord Stream 2, a Russian-German energy pipeline project that the United States has long opposed.”

Oceania has never been at war with Russia.