THIS COULD HAPPEN PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE: North Carolina county under curfew after power station attack, FBI investigating. “Residents of a central North Carolina county faced a second night of freezing weather without power on Sunday after vandals opened fire on two electric substations in what authorities called a ‘targeted attack.’ A motive for the Saturday night damage spree wasn’t clear, said Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields. Due to outages, schools will be closed Monday and potentially longer. Sunday church services and a well-known golf resort were disrupted. The incidents were being investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Fields said. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Twitter that she had been in contact with Duke Energy Corp, which owns the substations, and the Department of Energy was working with other agencies to investigate and respond.”

TRUMP’S CALL FOR REGIME CHANGE: Too Early and Too Late. The “cabal” has already violated the norms, but it’s too late to do anything about their actions, and also too early. Trump’s misjudgment of the timing is not a mark in his favor.

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: Linus Van Pelt Banned from Community Theater For Reciting Bible Verse. “‘It’s a classic case that shows the dangers of Christian Nationalism,’ said FBI Agent Peter Corrum.”

A MARS-SHATTERING KABOOM: Megatsunami swept over Mars after massive asteroid hit the Red Planet.

MERRICK GARLAND WON’T BE PROSECUTING THEM, THOUGH: More Federal Issues for Twitter as FEC Commissioner Reveals Filing from Previous Management Denying It Worked With Democrats.

YES, HALF THE PEOPLE WITH “SCIENCE IS REAL” SIGNS IN THEIR YARDS SEEM TO BELIEVE IN CRYSTALS AND MANIFESTATION: Massive Global Study Shows Belief in Witchcraft Is More Abundant Than You Might Think.

WELL, YES: Scientist Who Worked at Wuhan Lab Claims COVID Was a Man-Made Virus.

Like Elon Musk’s revelations about Twitter, it’s nothing we didn’t already know, but this is confirmation.

A GREAT GIFT: So I ordered this EFAYCRR Steampunk Table Lamp and it’s really cool. I love the light it gives off with these vintage light bulbs. Highly recommended. (Bumped)

HMM: Mapping the hidden connections between diseases. “With advancing age, millions of people live with multiple conditions—sometimes referred to as multimorbidity—and the proportion of people affected in this way is expected to rise over the next decades. However, medical education and training, health care delivery, clinical guidelines and research have evolved to focus on one disease at a time. The Academy of Medical Sciences and the UK Chief Medical Officer (CMO) have recognized this problem and set out a challenge of investigating which diseases co-occur in the same individuals and why.”

IT’S NOT THE YEARS IN YOUR LIFE, IT’S THE LIFE IN YOUR YEARS: Jonathan the tortoise, oldest living land creature, celebrates 190th birthday.

A PACK, NOT A HERD: Armed Citizen Chronicles: Veteran Holds Fleeing Felon Until Cops Arrive at Georgia Food Bank.

ENDORSED: Toyota May Give the Land Cruiser Another Run in the U.S.

READER FAVORITE: MyPillow Premium Bed Pillow 2 Pack. #CommissionEarned

FIGHT THE POWER: How Chinese netizens swamped China’s Internet controls: Citizens protesting zero-COVID policies proved smartphones can help fuel mass action. “The country’s government has tried to strike a balance between embracing technology and limiting citizens’ power to use it to protest or organize, building up wide-ranging powers of censorship and surveillance. But last weekend, the momentum of China’s digital savvy population and their frustration, bravery, and anger seemed to break free of the government’s control. It took days for Chinese censors and police to tamp down dissent on the Internet and in city streets. By then images and videos of the protests had spread around the world, and China’s citizens had proven that they could maneuver around the Great Firewall and other controls.”

SALENA ZITO: Wines and mines in the Mon Valley. “When you think of river towns like Monongahela or Donora or Monessen, you think about hard-working men who toiled in factories or coal mines to provide for their families, or the women who scrubbed down the walls and baseboards daily to keep their humble family homes clean from the dirty air. The Ripepi family has been there, as grocers and as owners of a mining company — and now as owners of a winery perched above those Mon Valley cities that kept so many generations fed, clothed and moving up and out to test out the durability of the American dream.”

AT AMAZON, Epic Deals. #CommissionEarned.

OH, I DO: A hard winter looms for Americans’ energy bills and wallets. Blame Biden.

A BIT LATE, BUT GOOD: U.S. health officials to test wastewater around the country for polio.

RACISM TO BLAME FOR FIRING OF LIBERAL MSNBC HOST TIFFANY CROSS, CLAIMS WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST:

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah blamed racism for MSNBC’s abrupt firing of Black weekend anchor Tiffany Cross earlier last month.

In a Friday column, Attiah argued that Cross’s ouster was a “a reminder that the rug could be pulled out from under [Black journalists] at any time.”

She added that it was a “bad look” in a time when “attacks against Black educators, authors and journalists are increasing across the country.”

Fair enough. Why is NBC such a cesspit of racism?!