60 million Americans are subject to a stay at home order or curfew.

11 million are right here in Ohio.

What would the Founders say?

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 29, 2020

Axios: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday blocked Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) effort to unanimously pass a House standalone measure that would boost the size of stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person. President Trump has demanded that the payments be increased, creating a rift between him and Senate GOP leadership ahead of a crucial runoff election in Georgia that will determine control of the chamber. McConnell did not explain why he objected to Schumer’s request to fast-track the bill, but noted that President Trump has demanded Congress act on repealing liability protections for tech companies and election-related reforms, in addition to the stimulus checks.”

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No, I’m not sharing the URL. Figure it out on your own, Wut.

Law and Crime: “The Delaware computer repairman at the center of the Hunter Biden laptop story that popped up before the election filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter on Monday that also was dismissed on Monday. John Paul Mac Isaac attempted to sue Twitter for $500,000,000 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida but was immediately shot down because the complaint ‘fail[ed] to allege complete diversity.’ The complete diversity requirement means ‘no plaintiff shares a state of citizenship with any defendant.’ But Twitter is incorporated in Delaware and Mac Isaac is a Delaware resident. For this reason, the judge said, the court lacked jurisdiction.”

A federal judge just blocked two Georgia counties from purging their voters rolls of potentially ineligible, out-of-state, or dead voters.

The judge's name? Stacey Abrams' SISTER—Leslie Abrams Gardner.

You can't make this up.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 29, 2020

“The laptop repairman at the center of the New York Post’s controversial Hunter Biden exposé is suing Twitter for defamation, saying the social media giant insinuated he was a hacker and caused him to lose his business. John Paul Mac Isaac explains in his lawsuit, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida and viewed by Business Insider, that he was hired to repair Biden’s laptop in April 2019, but Biden never came to collect the device despite Isaac reaching out to him at least twice” Business Insider reports.

“Isaac subsequently turned the device over to the FBI, and shared a copy of the hard drive with Robert Costello, a personal attorney of Rudy Giuliani – President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, the Post reported in their exposé. It was Giuliani who provided the information on the laptop to the Post for their story on Biden and his business dealings with Ukraine. Shortly after the Post published their story, Twitter suspended the newspaper’s Twitter account, and stopped people from being able to tweet about the story, citing a policy against ‘distribution of hacked material.'”

Not clear if Soros or Bill Gates will now be controlling her mind now. Maybe it’s both, and Soros has Sundays through Tuesdays, and Gates has Wednesday to Friday, with Saturdays rotating.

“Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on Tuesday both came out in favor of increasing direct payments in the coronavirus relief package from $600 to $2,000 per person. The two Republican senators are on the ballot in a pair of runoffs in Georgia next week that will determine control of the Senate. Their Democratic opponents, Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, had previously called on them to support the $2,000 payments. President Trump’s push to increase the size of the checks has put him at odds with Senate GOP leadership, risking dividing the party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has not yet indicated whether he will bring the measure to the Senate floor for a vote. Amid pressure from Trump, several GOP senators – including Sens. Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, as well as co-sponsor Sen. Josh Hawley – have said they will vote in favor of the $2,000 checks. 60 votes are needed in the Senate to pass the measure” – Axios.

WMAZ: “A Macon-Bibb County fire truck was significantly damaged in an engine fire Monday afternoon. According to Fire Chief Marvin Riggins, the crew was returning from a fire call on the interstate when they heard a loud noise under the engine. Riggins says that by the time the truck was pulled over onto the shoulder just before the Zebulon Road exit on I-475 that it was engulfed. Fortunately, all the firefighters onboard are alright and the fire is now out, but he says the fire truck sustained significant damage.”

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“Just when you thought the Swamp couldn’t get any worse. Hotel Harrington in Washington DC has announced that it will CLOSE on January 4, 5, and 6, 2021. And no… This is not a coincidence. The hotel has CONFIRMED that it will NOT be accommodating Trump supporters. If you’ve already made reservations at the hotel for the January 6, 2021 protest, Hotel Harrington will be giving you a refund. We have a simple question… Did Hotel Harrington close for the Women’s March? Did they close for the countless BLM marches over the summer? If not, then why are they refusing service to Trump supporters? Is that not discrimination?!” says an article on a website literally named WeLoveTrump.com, which links to another article titled “New Footage Appears To Show Explosion Did NOT Come From The RV!” which means these guys are totally on the level.

New York Times: “A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck central Croatia on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, with local rescue crews reporting widespread damage near the epicenter in the town of Petrinja and the surrounding area. There was no immediate confirmation of casualties, but there were reports that the quake, which hit just after noon local time, could be felt across the Balkans and as far away as Hungary.”

“Images from the scene on social media and local television stations showed streets strewn with rubble, buildings with roofs caved in and rescue crews rushing through the streets. In one scene captured by local television crews, a man and a child were pulled from a car buried under debris and rushed to the hospital. Petrinja is about 30 miles southeast of Zagreb, the capital, where buildings were rocked and debris from broken windows and damaged structures littered the streets. The Red Cross in Croatia said it was a ‘very serious’ situation.”

“President Trump finally signed the Covid-19 relief bill and 2021 budget on Sunday night, but not before giving a big assist to Democratic hopes of gaining control of the Senate in the two runoff elections on Jan. 5. Current GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is left this week trying to undo the significant political damage. Mr. Trump had been insisting that Congress write checks of $2,000 each to most Americans, rather than the $600 in the bill. His own Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, negotiated the $600 figure. But after the bill passed, Mr. Trump decided that wasn’t enough. Never mind that the $2,000 would go to tens of millions of Americans who have kept their jobs and maintained their incomes during the pandemic. It would also add some $350 billion or more to a federal deficit that is already into the trillions of dollars. The economy won’t benefit since the recipients aren’t going to change their behavior knowing it’s merely a one-time check.”

“Senate Republicans oppose the $2,000 for these sound reasons, but Mr. Trump has put them in a political spot. Democrats immediately joined Mr. Trump’s call for the $2,000, and on Monday they passed the larger amount through the House, 275-134. That leaves Mr. McConnell with a tough call of barring a vote as Democrats bang away in TV ads in Georgia against GOP incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Or he can hold a vote, which would split the GOP caucus and upset fiscally conservative voters. Either way it amounts to a Donald Trump in-kind contribution to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden” – WSJ Editorial Board.

The Atlantic: “As a white house resident, President Donald Trump is a goner. But his stranglehold on the GOP seems as tight as ever: Three in four Republicans say they believe their man won the 2020 election. Can the GOP channel the energy of his most fervent supporters and advance a sort of Trumpism without Trump? The answer depends on what Trumpism is – a populist prototype, a personality cult, or something stranger.”

“To some, Trumpism marks the beginning of a new Republican Party. Four years ago, Trump created a coalition that was more blue-collar and less white than the GOP vote in previous elections by combining an anti-immigration and protectionist message with a call to dismantle the sclerotic and corrupt bureaucracy. In 2020, he expanded his working-class base by winning significantly more Latinos, especially in south Texas and Florida. ‘You can see the foundation of a possible after-Trump conservative majority that is multiethnic and middle class and populist,’ the columnist Ross Douthat wrote in The New York Times. But the UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild believes that Trumpism is intimately tied – for now at least – to its namesake, because it exists beyond the logic of policy. It exists in the dreampolitik realm of feelings. ‘If there’s one thing I think the mainstream press still gets wrong about Trump, it’s that they are comfortable talking about economics and personality, but they don’t give a primacy to feelings,’ Hochschild told me. ‘To understand the future of the Republican Party, we have to act like political psychiatrists'”

With no political experience and having never held elected office, Ivanka Trump is considering a campaign for the US Senate or the Florida governorship in 2022, according to the Times of Israel.

If Ivanka were to run for office, she would be taking on either incumbent Republican Senator Marco Rubio or incumbent Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who are both up for reelection in 2022.  Presumably, Ivanka would run as a Republican, although she could run under the banner of a third party her father might try to establish because he is aggrieved by (what he considers) Republicans betraying him for recognizing the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, recently purchased a 1.8 acre estate on Indian Creek Island, an exclusive gated community located on a 0.4 square mile Florida island with just 41 houses.

Ivanka has never had a job outside of a company owned by her father.  She’s was banned from sitting on the boards of non-profit organizations in the settlement of a fraud case involving the now-closed Trump Foundation, and she received at least a dozen Chinese trademarks while she held a position in the White House.  Prior to her taking that position, national security agencies objected to giving her and her husband security clearances; they got them because her daddy–the now-outgoing president Donald J. Trump, who has an unnatural attraction to his daughter–demanded they be issued.

A federal district court in Georgia ruled that county election officials in two Georgia counties cannot remove more than 4,100 voters from the voter registration rolls and require that they file provisional ballots in the upcoming Senate runoff elections.

Republicans had sought to have more than 4,000 voters in Muscogee and and 100 Ben Hill Counties removed from voter lists based on data from the United States Postal Service’s National Change of Address database, claiming that the voters were no longer eligible because of address requirements.  Muscogee County, the home of Columbus, Georgia’s third largest city, went strongly to Democrats in the November election; the small county of Ben Hill voted largely for Republicans.

Judge Leslie Gardner, an Obama appointee, ruled that such action was unwarranted and unjustified, saying that blocking the votes would cause irreparable harm to the voters and the plaintiffs in the case.  The judge ruled that the defendants in the case, the county election officials, relied on “inaccurate, unreliable, and inconclusive data allegedly drawn from the NCOA registry.”

Just three days after Christmas Day, the United States has hit a new high in hospitalizations, with a 2% increase in the last 24 hours to more than 121,000 patients, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

The US had been averaging about 185,000 hospitaliations since the holiday, but the number of in-patients jumped by more than 2,500 in one day to 121,235, topping the previous high set December 24th.

Since Christmas, the United States has averaged 1,500 fatalities per day, although data over that time may be underreported because of holiday slowdowns in processing reports.

President Trump should never concede the election.

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 28, 2020

The Columbus, Ohio police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Black man, 47-year-old Andre Hill, who had emerged from a garage showing the officers the glowing screen of his cell phone, has been fired, the Associated Press report.

Early Tuesday morning, Adam Coy, who is white, and his partner responded to a neighbor’s non-emergency call about a car blocking his driveway and which had been repeatedly starting and shutting off.  It is unclear if Hill was associated with the car or was coming out of the neighbor’s garage.

Columbus Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. announced Coy’s firing for shooting Hill and for also turning off his body camera while on the call.  Coy turned on the body cam after the shooting, but the system’s automatic “look back” function allowed investigators to recover one minute of video before Coy turned his camera on. 

Politico: “Sen. Bernie Sanders will filibuster an override of President Donald Trump’s defense bill veto unless the Senate holds a vote on providing $2,000 direct payments to Americans.”

“‘McConnell and the Senate want to expedite the override vote and I understand that. But I’m not going to allow that to happen unless there is a vote, no matter how long that takes, on the $2,000 direct payment,’ Sanders said in an interview on Monday night. The Vermont independent can’t ultimately stop the veto override vote, but he can delay it until New Year’s Day and make things more difficult for the GOP.“