“Sen Josh Hawley has filed an ethics complaint against Democrats who filed an ethics complaint against him over allegations he fomented the Capitol riot” reports Bloomberg’s Eric Wasson.

The United States passed 25 million confirmed coronavirus cases just one year and three days after the first case was confirmed in the nation, according to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard.

The first case on American shores was confirmed Tuesday, January 21, 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

One in thirteen residents in the United States have contracted the coronavirus.  According to Worldometers, the United States has the second highest infection rate in the world among nations with more than 1 million in population; only Czechia has a higher rate.

It's time to stand up against the muzzling of America https://t.co/rrTrtfrYZn via @nypost

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 25, 2021

AP: “Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the U.S. Capitol, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. The threats, and concerns that armed protesters could return to sack the Capitol anew, have prompted the U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement to insist thousands of National Guard troops remain in Washington as the Senate moves forward with plans for Trump’s trial, the official said. The shocking insurrection at the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob prompted federal officials to rethink security in and around its landmarks, resulting in an unprecedented lockdown for Biden’s inauguration.”

“Though the event went off without any problems and armed protests around the country did not materialize, the threats to lawmakers ahead of Trump’s trial exemplified the continued potential for danger. Similar to those intercepted by investigators ahead of Biden’s inauguration, the threats that law enforcement agents are tracking vary in specificity and credibility, said the official, who had been briefed on the matter. Mainly posted online and in chat groups, the messages have included plots to attack members of Congress during travel to and from the Capitol complex during the trial, according to the official. The official was not authorized to not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. Law enforcement officials are already starting to plan for the possibility of armed protesters returning to the nation’s capital when Trump’s Senate trial on a charge of inciting a violent insurrection begins the week of Feb. 8. It would be the first impeachment trial of a former U.S. president.”

“Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former press secretary for President Trump, will announce tomorrow that she’s running for governor of Arkansas. She’s seen as leader in the polls and the president’s preferred candidate in a GOP state” reports the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey.

Daily Beast: “In recent days, former President Donald Trump has watched from afar as one of his most popular rivals for public attention has been unleashed by the Biden administration to, in part, disparage Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the ex-president hasn’t even been able to tweet about it. Dr. Anthony Fauci, once a prominent figure on Trump’s coronavirus task force who’s now a top COVID-19 adviser to President Joe Biden, began his multi-day blitz to different news outlets that included openly expressing his relief that the old crew was gone and that he could now serve in the Biden administration.”

“And as Biden’s predecessor watched on – albeit from hundreds of miles away from where he last week sat at the height of executive power – he reacted in a fit of grievance, self-obsession, TV hate-watching that largely defined his presidency and now-defunct policy-making operations. Fauci’s re-emergence on prime-time television during the Biden era infuriated the exiled Trump, who began whining about how ‘incompetent’ the doctor was, and how he probably should have fired Fauci when he had the chance, a source close to the former president and another individual familiar with the matter tell The Daily Beast. On top of everything else that was stripped from him, he’s lost his primary emotional release valve, thanks to his post-Capitol riot banning from Twitter, just as his enemies – real and perceived – keep dancing atop his administration’s freshly dug grave. And it’s not just Fauci. Trump has also griped this weekend about not being able to tweet about the Biden team telling journalists that Trump and ex-officials had left them with a gigantic COVID mess to mop up, according to a person with direct knowledge of his recent ramblings. ‘He very much feels that a lot of people are working to downgrade his legacy out of hatred for him.'”

Five people and an unborn child were killed Sunday in a mass shooting at a home in Indianapolis, Mayor Joe Hogsett announced.  No suspect or identify has been identified, NBC News reports.

Police were first alerted to the incident when a juvenile male was found shot on a road at 4 a.m. local time.  He is expected to survive.  All the victims are thought to be members of the same family.

“What happened this morning was a mass murder. A choice of an individual or individuals to bring, and I do not use these words lightly, terror to our community,”  said Mayor Joe Hogsett. “Today Indianapolis has lost much. Including an unborn life. Justice will be done.”

IN A STUNNING UPSET, the Tampa Pirateers defeated the Wisconsin Green Boys in the football match by having a higher quantity of scoring units than their opponent when the clock expired at the end of the game time on Sunday night. It was very exciting at Lambeau Field, which is reportedly going to be demolished early Monday morning to make way for a community center now that the Green Boys have been defeated permanently. We wish all of the talented players on the Green Boys luck in their new careers – some of whom have already been hired as maintenance and administrative staff for the new community center.

IN A STUNNING UPSET, the Raytheon-built cyborg killing machine XOR-9991-C5 a.k.a. “Dustin Poirier” spared the life of escaped mental patient Connor MacGregor after defeating him in a brutal contest of unarmed combat while locked in cage. MacGregor, who had consumed twelve servings of Monster Energy Drink mixed with thirty servings of Jameson Irish Whiskey prior to the contest, is said to be resting comfortably in the arms of his girlfriend Dana White.

IN A STUNNING UPSET, the New York Mets fired their general manager for sending a dick pic to a female reporter back in 2016. We don’t tolerate that kind of behavior in NYC. And yeah, Brett Favre did the same thing when he was on the Jets, but technically that happened in New Jersey.

“Many once-loyal members of Mar-a-Lago are leaving because they no longer want to have any connection to former President Donald Trump, according to the author of the definitive book about the resort. ‘It’s a very dispirited place,’ Laurence Leamer, historian and author of ‘Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace,’ told MSNBC host Alex Witt on ‘Weekends with Alex Witt’ Saturday. He said members are ‘not concerned about politics and they said the food is no good.’ Leamer said he spoke to a number of former members who ‘silently walked out’ after Trump left office. Trump moved to the Palm Beach, Florida, estate after his term ended last week. But without the cachet of the sitting president of the United States working at the estate, guests are finding Mar-a-Lago lost a step. There isn’t any entertainment on the property during the pandemic, and Leamer added, ‘It’s a sad place … it’s not what it was.'”

“Disgruntled members might lead to a smaller paycheck for Trump. When Trump was president, many people paid up to $200,000 for Mar-a-Lago memberships, Leamer pointed out, and he said they don’t think they’ll continue paying that price. Mar-a-Lago has long been ridiculed by critics as a stodgy, stuffy club filled with Trump memorabilia – some of it fake. Trump’s hotels and hospitality companies were hit particularly hard during the coronavirus pandemic, but sales at the Mar-a-Lago resort increased over the last year, from $21.4 million to $24.2 million. In 2019, the former president transferred his permanent residence to the Florida resort from Trump Tower in New York. But questions remain about whether he’ll be allowed to live there permanently, because it may violate his 1993 agreement with the town of Palm Beach” – CNN.

AP: “Official results from Portugal’s presidential election Sunday gave a clear victory to the center-right incumbent candidate, who was returned to office for a final five-year term. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa captured 62% of the vote, with 98% of districts reporting. He had widely been expected to win. In a stunning development, newly arrived right-wing populist André Ventura was in a close race for second place with Socialist candidate Ana Gomes, with both polling around 12%.”

“In last 24 hours, after floating through a few folks that he was considering creating a third-party as a way to keep Senate Republicans in line ahead of impeachment, Trump has been talked out of that and is making clear to people he isn’t pursuing it, per people familiar with his thinking” reports Maggie Haberman of the New York Times.

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— Roland B. Hedley Jr. (@RealRBHJr) January 24, 2021

In the midst of a major coronavirus outbreak, Israel is implementing extreme measures, including banning any international passenger flights and cracking down on religious groups who continue to flout public health regulations, the Associated Press reports.

“We are closing the skies hermetically, except for really rare exceptions, to prevent the entry of virus mutations, and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Israel is banning all incoming and outgoing flights into the country with the exceptions of medical, cargo and humanitarian flights.  The order will go in effect Tuesday and last through the end of January.

“President Biden is expected to impose travel ban Monday for most non-US citizens traveling from South Africa, two White House officials say; Biden is also expected to reinstate travel restrictions affecting travel from the UK, Ireland, and parts of Europe” MSNBC reports.

President Joe Biden will rescind the executive order from the former president that banned transgender people from serving in the United States military, according to CBS News.

The announcement could be made as early as Monday, in a ceremony with newly-confirmed Secretary of Defense of Lloyd Austin.  The policy will revert back to the policy put in place by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in 2016.  Donald Trump announced the transgender ban in a tweet in 2017.

“I support the president’s plan or plan to overturn the ban,” Austin said on Tuesday when asked by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand during his confirmation hearing. “I truly believe, Senator, that as I said in my opening statement, that if you’re fit and you’re qualified to serve and you can maintain the standards, you should be allowed to serve. And, you can expect that I will support that throughout.”

With a phone call that started at 3 p.m. ET, the White House is taking a step to gain bipartisan support for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, CNN reports.

Up to sixteen Senators–eight Democrats and eight Republicans–were expected to participate in the call with Brian Deese, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council.  The Biden Administration hopes to have enough support in the Senate to avoid the use of reconciliation to enact portions of the package.

“President Biden and his advisors will continue to engage and consult bipartisan groups of lawmakers, including today, to make the case why urgent action is needed to get relief to hard-hit communities and families and more resources to public health officials so we can ramp up vaccinations,” one White House official told CNN.

See libs, we’ve already explained why you’re responsible for the Capitol riot and the seemingly unbridgeable political divide in the United States, but it seems more specifically you’re also responsible for QAnon driving millions of Americans into the pure madness of an internet cult.

The bottom line is that if you hadn’t spent four years making life so difficult for Trump by voting for Democrats who worked – often successfully – to thwart his agenda and leave him with next to zero real presidential accomplishments during his administration, his fans would not have felt the need to invent an alternate reality where he’s secretly fighting against a cabal of murderous Satanic pedophiles who communicate in code through product listings on Wayfair.com. They wouldn’t have come up with that shit if you had just shut up and not laughed at him for sharpie-ing a hurricane forecast map to make it look like he was right when he said Alabama might be in the storm’s path.

According to the Washington Post, the Department of Justice and the FBI are considering not charging all of the insurrectionists who illegally entered the Capitol during the January 6th coup attempt, opting to forgo charges against those that did not commit any act of violence or vandalism.

While the DoJ has pledged to identify all those involved, the spectre of charging up to 7,000 people who trespassed on Capitol grounds, and specifically the 800 or so who illegally entered the Capitol building, could clog up the DC federal courts.

According to sources familiar with the internal debate, those people for whom there is no evidence of violence, threatening behavior or property damage – and are therefore only alleged to have illegally entered the building – would not be charged. 

Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio said that he will vote to end the impeachment trial of Donald Trump the first chance he gets, saying that revisiting Trump’s role in fueling the Capitol insurrection will be bad for the country.

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On “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, Rubio claimed that the Constitutional ability to bar someone from running for office is”an arrogant statement for anyone to make. Voters get to decide that. Who are we to tell voters who they can vote for in the future?” according to Politico.

Establishment politicians should think long and hard before turning President Trump into the American equivalent of Alexei Navalny. Navalny is Putin’s major opponent-jailed, harassed, imprisoned, poisoned. Turning President Trump into a martyr will deepen political conflict.

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 24, 2021