Communities continue to recover from tornados that swept through six states Friday night and Saturday morning, with Kentucky officials confirming that eight people were killed and eight are still missing at a candle factory, the Associated Press reports.

In Illinois, officials say six people were killed at an Amazon warehouse, including one that had taken shelter in a bathroom with his co-workers.  Searchers are still combing the wreckage for any survivors or additional victims.

The winds were so powerful, debris has traveled at least 130 miles.  A woman in New Albany, Indiana found a photo of a couple from 1942 on her car; the photo was from a house destroyed by a tornado 130 miles away in Dawson Springs, Kentucky.

The House Capitol riot committee on Sunday published a 51-page criminal referral for Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, a key section of which says Meadows emailed an unnamed individual about the events on January 6, saying “the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ and that many more would be available on standby.”

People change jobs all the time–and even moreso now that workers are finding the liberty to go after new positions in the friendly Biden economy–but with the recent resignations, new contracts, firings and free-agent signings, the coverage coming from the three primary cable news networks is going to shift in a big way in the coming months.

Fox News will shift further to far right:  Let’s state the obvious:  journalists with remaining shadows of self-respect and personal standards are abandoning Fox News, and Fox cannot find respectable talent to replace them.  First, it was Shepard Smith, who took off for the 7 p.m. ET slot on CNBC, where he’s struggling to regain his audience.  Now, Chris Wallace announces he’s leaving Fox immediately and going to CNN’s new streaming service (which will likely lead to a network show in the near future).

The University of Florida is holding an investigation after allegations that University administrators pressured researchers to destroy Covid19 data. The story of an investigation being launched first became public on December 10th when several University of Florida faculty members began posting the contents of an internal e-mail to social media.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will remain in Congress past the 2022 elections, CNN reports. Though widely rumored to be retiring, the acidic queen of Right Wing nightmares will stay on for the 118th Congress and will soon file the paperwork to run again next year, sources told CNN.

It must run in the family.  The sister of convicted child pornographer and reality television personality Josh Duggar has been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, TMZ reports.

Jana Duggar was cited on September 7th for an unspecified incident.  She is due in court next month–“due” as in “expected to appear,” not “due” as in “expected to drop another child,” something that needs to be explicitly stated with this family.

The Duggars became reality television sensations because their mother, Michelle, and father, Jim Bob, believe that Michelle is just an earthen vessel to be a perma-breeder for Jim Bob’s whims.  They started in a exploitamentary show 19 Kids and Counting to highlight the grotesqueness of excess.

The hashtag #LaurenBoebertIsSoDumb was trending on Twitter at 2:32pm on December 12th. The replies are a collection of hilarious responses to the array of stupid comments the high-school dropout has posted to Twitter.

We’d like to think that doctors are competent, but crooked MAGA doctors all across the country are working hard to prove that just because someone is a medical doctor doesn’t mean they aren’t a hopeless MAGA jackass.

CBS News reported that “Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician, said he was let go from Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi, for taking three COVID-19 patients off Remdesivir, an antiviral drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat the virus, and instead trying to put them on ivermectin. That violated the hospital’s policy on ivermectin, which is not approved by the FDA for COVID-19.”

NBC News reported that a Texas doctor was suspended by her hospital. “A Texas hospital suspended the privileges of a doctor who promoted ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment and criticized vaccine mandates, saying she spread “dangerous misinformation” that is “not based in science.” Dr. Mary Bowden, an ear, nose and throat doctor at the hospital, had her privileges suspended Friday, Houston Methodist Hospital said in a statement. That means she no longer has the power to admit or treat patients at the hospital as the investigation continues. Houston Methodist said she has had privileges for less than a year and had never admitted a patient.”

A report on the Coronavirus19 Omicron variant published by the CDC has found evidence of cases in 25 states, but all of the cases so far appear to be relatively mild. Highlights from the report include: “During December 1–8, 2021, 22 U.S. states reported at least one COVID-19 case attributed to the Omicron variant. Among 43 cases with initial follow-up, one hospitalization and no deaths were reported.”

From Patriot Takes on Twitter.

“I’m just done…I can’t believe you assholes give a moron like Tucker Carlson free reign but I’ve got news executives telling me I have to leave out important details to spin the news because you’re afraid the truth is too ‘pro Biden’. I’ve just had it with you fucking lunatics I’m out of here!” is what we imagine Chris Wallace said shortly before he announced on the December 12th episode of Fox News Sunday that he’s leaving FOX News.

“After 18 years I have decided to leave FOX,” said Wallace.  “This is my final Fox News Sunday. I want to try something new, to go beyond politics to all the things I’m interested in. I’m ready for a new adventure, and I hope you’ll check it out.”

A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll showed some surprisingly good news for President Biden. The December 10th, 2021 version of that poll showed that Biden’s recent slump  in approval polling appears to be reversing, and that his approval and disapproval rating have converged at 48%, an improvement from other recent polling. You wouldn’t know that though from the story that appeared on the ABC News website, which bore the headline “President Biden’s job approval sinking on inflation, crime and COVID: POLL” and made absolutely no mention of the increase in Biden’s overall approval.  Instead focused obsessively on alternate measures of approval that painted a less promising picture.

Just spent 45 mins finding out why I don’t hv history channel Negotiations btwn 4 channels incl history & Direct tv Results: if I want history channel my bill go fr $65 to $99 I’m not paying $34 for history ch when not much history /or should I change from Direct to DISH??

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 11, 2021

Judge makes surprise decisionhttps://t.co/mHtnMpdNcR

— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) December 12, 2021

“The ruling is in” on a “Mike Lindell case”! Can you guess what case it is? Do you think that the Coffee Boy is implying that Mike Lindell somehow got his big Thanksgiving lawsuit “decided” even though it didn’t make it to the Supreme Court at all? Do you think that’s what he and Conservative Brief want to lie about by omission to get you to click on so they can get paid?

Well we’ll ruin it for you now: Turns out Mike Lindell lost a defamation suit against the Daily Mail for reporting he was dating TV actress Jane Krakowski. That’s what the judge “decided”.

Rand Paul, July 2013: “[Chris Christie and Former Long Island GOP Congressman Peter King are] precisely the same people who are unwilling to cut the spending, and they’re ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme – give me all my Sandy money now. Those are the people who are bankrupting the government and not letting enough money be left over for national defense. So I think it’s those people who are making us weak in defense.”

Rand Paul, December 2021: “Dear President Biden, Last night and early this morning devastating Storms swept across multiple States, including Kentucky. A single tornado from that system may have been on the ground for over 200 miles, and a large swath of the Commonwealth has been severely hit. As the sun comes up this morning We will begin to understand the true scope of the devastation, but we already know Of loss of life and severe property damage. The Governor Of the Commonwealth has requested federal assistance this morning, and certainly further requests will be coming as the situation is assessed. I fully support those requests and ask that you move expeditiously to approve the appropriate resources for our State. Sincerely, Rand Paul, US Senator”

“Next:  Have you had a hard time getting a smear of cream cheese on your bagel?” Jerge Jernline asks her audience, who are always up for a good smear.  Back to you, Geraldo.

If states can shield their laws from review by federal courts, then CA will use that authority to help protect lives.

We will work to create the ability for private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in CA. pic.twitter.com/YPBJ00vN6z

— California Governor (@CAgovernor) December 12, 2021

The search continues for a woman in her 20s who fell off a cabin balcony and into the Pacific off the coast of Mexico early Saturday.  After turning the search over to the Mexican navy, the Carnival Miracle continued on its planned voyage, NBC News reports.

There was a rumor that ship’s photographer Ace Covington Evans may have captured the woman going overboard, but Captain Merrill Stubing stated that Evans had not, in fact, photographed the incident.  Stubing also denied that the woman, who has not been named, was over-served by Head Bartender Isaac Washington, despite her having to treated for …[checks notes]… “dehydration” by ship’s doctor Adam Bricker.

“This is an unusual thing on our cruises,” cruise director Julie McCoy said.  “Most of the time, we just have drinks on the Lido Deck… and then maybe some coke… and more drinks.  Because it’s hard being this perky all the time.”

No Democrat vaccine mandates.

— GOP (@GOP) December 12, 2021

A New Zealand man received 10 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a single day after being paid by an unknown number of persons to pose as them at different sites, a Ministry of Health official said Saturday to the New Zealand Herald. Astrid Koornneef, MOH group manager of operations for the Covid-19 vax program would not give specifics about the man’s identity or where exactly the deception took place, only that they’re forwarding information to law enforcement.

The man is unlikely to be harmed by the 10x doses, said vaccinologist and associate professor Helen Petousis-Harris, citing documented instances in which recipients had accidentally been given undiluted concentrate of the vax. He’s definitely going to feel like absolute shit the next day from the immune response, said Petousis-Harris, also calling the people who paid the man “unbelievably selfish” for taking advantage of an idiot who needed money.