George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽The Jan. 6th Committee will be making criminal referrals! Yes, that’s plural. Besides the orange one, who else might be in the barrel with him?
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Eric TopolIn many US states, such as New York and Califonia, the rate of Covid hospitalizations for seniors now exceeds the BA.5, BA.2 and Delta waves.
It's not getting enough attention as part of a new global wave, reviewed here:
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave
It's not getting enough attention as part of a new global wave, reviewed here:
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave
Benjamin WittesHere’s an interesting fact: Trump’s Twitter account just came back online and it has only 2.8 million followers. If memory serves, this is down from more than 80 million when the account was suspended. What explains the more than 90 percent decrease? Is it that a huge number of his followers left? That they were purged in bot purges? That they were fake to begin with with?
emptywheelAnd that would make Jack Smith's experience prosecuting Congressman Rick Renzi directly on point.
If all the GOP Members of Congress who were on the pardon list are under investigation (with Perry and Jordan, Biggs, Gosar, Gaetz, Marge), that gets you to 6 of a likely 7 seat majority.
Then there are two freshmen MoCs who were at Jan6, Van Orden and Santos.
The MoC exposure BY ITSELF justifies a Special Counsel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/15/derrick-van-orden-jan-6-congress/
As I noted on the failing bird, Garland's cited recent developments, plural, in appointing a Special Counsel yesterday.
The more urgent development is probably the GOP majority in Congress, not Trump.
We know, eg, that Scott Perry is almost certainly a subject of the investigation (they already seized his phone). If Jim Jordan is, too, that by itself would require the SCO, since Jordan will be HJC Chair demanding info on investigation.
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