What's the connection between the release of Trump's taxes and the release of the 1/6 report? I explain in the latest issue of my "Our Land" newsletter.

Plus Dumbass Comment of the Year (guess who!); the weirdest congressional scandal; the Mailbag; MoxieCam; and more. Please read/share:

https://link.motherjones.com/public/30059864

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By now, you've no doubt heard of Republican Congressman-elect George Santos...if that is his real name.

Turns out he's lied about pretty much his entire resume and biography. And now he's finally broken his silence with a truly bizarre statement.

Sounds to me like he's just hoping everyone forgets about him over the holiday. Good luck with that.

https://www.comicsands.com/george-santos-bizarre-statement-biography-2659007600.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Today 83,000 Texans lost power and prices surged by 400%

Greg Abbott had YEARS to fix this

Instead of fixing ERCOT and the shitty power grid, he spent all his time policing our vaginas

Flying to fancy campaign fundraisers

Building a useless wall

Not attending Uvalde funerals

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May we rage when we must & rest when we can.

May we offer & welcome compassion.

May seek & find joy.

And may we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice peace requires.

Choose kindness, friends.

Shabbat shalom ❤️

Among the many revelations in the #Jan6 report, one sentence stuck out to us because of how much #media criticism we publish.

Trump lawyer, while instructing and possibly tampering with Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, tells her "don't worry" that New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman will report anything negative because "Maggie's friendly to us. We'll be fine."

This piece from @parkermolloy for us speaks to the absolute scourge of access #journalism

https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/11/03/access-journalism-is-a-fools-errand/

Found an incredibly useful app for finding people to follow on Mastodon. It crawls your social graph then finds the people who your followers follow the most that you don't follow.

https://followgraph.vercel.app/

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: The #January6thcommittee has dropped nearly 50 more #transcripts. Here's the list: