Lame-duck congress should ram through DC & Puerto Rico statehood (with their agreement, of course).

Nice piece on New York Times' pro-Republican false equivalency bias, along with its reluctance to actually describe political policy & plausible effects on the actual situation in US (preferring to couch policy discussions in horserace terms) https://www.salon.com/2022/12/10/how-the-new-york-times-helped-win-the/ (with a nice H/T to my 2017 paper with Duncan Watts: Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media.)

Is it too late for House Democrats to get ahold of the translator's notes from Helsinki--you know, from 2018 when the White House occupant betrayed America to side with Vladimir Putin?