Watch who you’re in that helicopter with (Update #22)

Updates

  1. Originally published, February 6, 2021, 10:46 am.

  2. February 6, 2021, 1:45 pm:

    • So I’d just pulled out of my garage and gotten out to close the garage door. I heard a crunch. A neighbor, pulling out of his parking space, had backed into my car (figure 1).


      Fig. 1. Photograph by author, February 6, 2021.

      I doubt this is a total loss. But I’m going to lose the car for at least a couple weeks. I’ll get a rental on Monday. But I obviously can’t use my car for Uber or Lyft until this is fixed.

  3. February 6, 2021, 10:53 pm:

  4. February 7, 2021, 5:44 pm:

    • Amy Davidson Sorkin reviews the case for Donald Trump’s impeachment.[1]

    • In a previous installment, I had begun reading Ezra Klein’s book, Why We’re Polarized,[2] and was perturbed both 1) by how he emphasized differences between the Democrats and Republicans at the expense of their similarities and 2) by how he lumped vast portions of the polity into two groups, overlooking the profound differences among each of those groups.[3]

      Because I’m now stuck at home, I’ve read a couple chapters further in now, probably more than half way through. Klein argues, probably more correctly than I’m really able to address, that our reasoning is governed more by our social circles than by rationality and further that whites generally feel threatened by demographic change in the country and therefore are shifting to the political right.[4]

      I have to grant that there’s truth to all of that. The paleoconservative claim is that “Blacks and browns” are out to get whites and social conservatism as we know it today develops from a perceived need to preserve white hegemony in response to a surge in immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries;[5] Klein seems to believe that most whites shift to that view as they become aware of demographic changes that are, in fact, occurring,[6] and certainly this helps to account for my inclination since writing my dissertation to view the distinctions between authoritarian populists, paleoconservatives, and social conservatives as even blurrier.[7]

      The trouble for me is that the picture doesn’t seem to me to be nearly so neat, nearly so clear-cut.

      Certainly, I’ve had trouble recognizing white privilege when I can’t get a real job,[8] but as far back as 2011, when I was already bitter about a job hunt that had then already been a decade-long failure, I was noticing graffiti that confirmed my once-favorite professor’s claim that many Blacks feel a greater threat from police than from gangs[9] and I’ve come to see my white privilege more sharply since arriving in southwestern Pennsylvania.[10] My dissertation was sympathetic to migrants across the southern border.[11] As to borders themselves, I understand them as denying human beings on the ‘wrong’ side of those arbitrary lines rights and privileges available on the ‘right’ side,[12] and as marking divisions between territories, and between the people and resources within those territories, controlled by competing elites whose disputes lie behind most if not all war.[13] I’ve never been a xenophobe in the way that Klein seems to think I should be and my thinking has rarely aligned with the Left in precisely the way that Klein seems to think it should; his work so far fails to explain why.[14] And when I see that this isn’t just me, but people I encounter on Twitter, and people I encounter as Uber/Lyft passengers in the back of my car, even in southwestern Pennsylvania, Klein’s idea, which is apparently that we’re polarized because we’re conformists,[15] becomes a real problem for me.

  5. February 8, 2021, 9:09 am:

    • I’ve been reading on in Ezra Klein’s book, Why We’re Polarized, In the latter half of the book, he turns to, so far, how journalism tends to focus on and amplify outrage and how moderates have all but disappeared, leaving parties and candidates to focus on energizing their bases, which they do with outrage.[16] Again, my perception is somewhat different. While yes, among a lot of people, my theory of the morality of polarization applies, in which whatever a person on your side does is good, strictly by virtue of the fact s/he is on your side, and whatever a person on the other side does is evil, strictly by virtue of the fact s/he is on the other side is evil,[17] between Democrats and Republicans, it is Republicans who reject Democratic presidents and who refuse to acknowledge the latter as legitimate, going back at least as far as Bill Clinton[18] and, I strongly suspect, Jimmy Carter, but I really don’t see the same antipathy from Democrats toward Republicans. Albert Gore conceded to George W. Bush even after a Supreme Court fight over the Florida recount. Michelle Obama hugs Bush; he gives her candy. As president, her husband, Barack Obama embraced and extended Bush’s policies. Both parties embrace neoconservatism and its moral imperative, neoliberalism.[19] Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump. Too late for Klein’s book, Donald Trump fought his election defeat every step of the way.[20] Certainly there was Democratic demonization of the Republican incumbent in 2020, but it took Trump to provoke cries of “Vote Blue, No Matter Who,” and then at least as much to suppress the candidacy of Bernie Sanders.[21]

      Yes, there’s polarization, but it’s among party activists and Republican politicians, but not among Democratic politicians, who often continue to insist upon “bipartisanship.” Klein is still making the same mistake he makes throughout his book so far, of sweeping much too broadly with his generalizations, neglecting the nuances that I see everywhere I turn.

    • I have updated my spreadsheet on U.S. military history, a timeline showing how the U.S. has been involved in killing expeditions in all but sixteen calendar years of its existence, based on the History Guy’s “American Military History Timeline.”[22]

    • It’s official:

      It will be mildly interesting to see how he does. He’s progressive in everything I’ve seen him say. The trouble, of course, is that he’s a Democrat, which means that if he wins, he’ll be co-opted by the national party.

  6. February 8, 2021, 1:30 pm:

    • John Fetterman has not endorsed a Green New Deal, saying “We can’t just throw [out] all of these union jobs and all these workers’ jobs and say, ‘Well, just go learn to code and maybe you can get on at Google or someplace.’”[23] I haven’t seen enough of Green New Deal thinking to know clearly exactly what its proponents advocate here, but my impression that it includes jobs like solar cell installation, not the high tech arrogance that “everyone should learn how to code.” The latter is just a bad, awful, utterly dehumanizing idea,[24] and it’s likely unfair of Fetterman to characterize the Green New Deal in this way.

      The entire point of the Green New Deal, as I understand it, is to recognize that previous environmental activism has too often been arrogant with regard to people’s need to earn livings and to move toward a sustainable economy.

  7. February 8, 2021, 9:34 pm:

    • As promised, the Crack’d Egg has requested a stay[25] of the order requiring it comply with Allegheny County and Pennsylvania COVID-19 mitigation measures or shut down.[26] The county health department had sued when the restaurant flouted the rules,[27] the Crack’d Egg tried and failed to evade the suit with a bankruptcy filing,[28] and has now asked to withdraw the bankruptcy filing.[29] In asking for the stay, the restaurant cites a federal court ruling[30] that invoked first and fourteenth amendment rights[31] which itself has been stayed[32] and faces long odds on appeal.[33]

      Which is all to say these guys aren’t just stretching; they’re really stretching. But that’s the power of ideology, in this case, capitalist libertarian ideology.

    • I have spoken with the insurance adjuster. Talking to these people is sometimes refreshing. They’re basically bureaucrats. They have rules. It’s all pretty cut and dried with them. And it’s happened a couple times now that they’ll tell me back my own story in a way that makes the question of culpability all crystal clear.

      Anyway, she says there isn’t even anything to investigate here. It’s the other guy’s fault. I guess the operative principle here is if somebody hits a stationary object—my car was parked—it’s their damn fault. Well, yeah, I guess when you put it that way. . . .

    • I have my rental car and my own car is now at the body shop. This repair will cost me my $500 deductible, assuming they don’t declare it a total loss. Yes, I could have filed directly with the other driver’s insurance company, but he’s got a company I’ve never even heard of. My history includes dealing with another driver’s insurance company and that’s an experience that’s worth $500 to avoid repeating.

      I’ve been losing sleep about that possibility they might declare it a total loss. It’s a 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid. These cars don’t hold their value like Priuses do. And that’s going to be at least a mighty expensive piece of plastic, plus any damage that I can’t see from the outside.

    • It looks like I’m not going to be able to drive with Uber with the rental car. They say I can, but the documentation I have from the rental car company doesn’t meet Uber’s requirements. I’m not even trying with Lyft.

      I tried going to what Uber used to call a Green Light center—I don’t know what they’re calling these places now—which is where you go when you have a problem you can’t resolve on line. But I found the space where the center had been vacant and available for lease.

      I’m not willing to fight this further. I want a real job[34] and the thought of fighting to be humiliated by these assholes is just more than I can bear. I’ll just hope my car gets fixed soon.

  8. February 9, 2021, 11:34 am:

    • There is yet another new blog post entitled, “On the ‘n-word.’ The idiocy of a single person and its ensuing human relations consequences is not an issue I generally take an interest in, but I gather from Twitter that there’s a controversy over a New York Times reporter using the ‘n-word.’ He shouldn’t have done it, even to discuss the word itself, and that he did do it demonstrates extremely poor judgment.

    • You and I might agree that, especially in light of the attempted coup on January 6, 2021, that various forms of right-wing extremism and white supremacy constitute a national security threat, that indeed, we could perceive such sympathies as giving aid and comfort to an enemy. If so, the military is not only having difficulty counting such subversives,[35] but even having difficulty identifying, even trying to understand what that enemy looks like within its own ranks, or what to do about these people when it finds them.[36]

  9. February 9, 2021, 12:32 pm:

    • I haven’t thought much about the Bundys since commenting on a discrepancy in the law enforcement response to a right-wing uprising on public land in Oregon in contrast to that to left-wing protests about five years ago.[37] Guess what? They’re back, trying to piggyback onto the anti-mask and COVID-19 denial movement.[38] Ick. Just ick. Ick. Ick. Ick.

  10. February 9, 2021, 5:42 pm:

    • Anytime anybody wants to explain why people do this (figure 2), well, that’d be just great.


      Fig. 2. Photograph by author, February 9, 2021.

      I had gone grocery shopping. Especially since the pandemic began, I’ve had to go grocery shopping at multiple stores, obviously increasing the risk of exposure. I was actually a bit more successful than usual at Whole Foods, though true to form,[39] I saw a lot of empty shelves, which, sorry, Jeff Bezos and John Mackey, doesn’t make me feel pampered even one little bit.

      Next was Giant Eagle’s Market District which was a lot less successful than I expected. But I managed to pick up a little bit of stuff and when I came out, I discovered somebody (license plate in figure 3 because I’m just not seeing why I should be nice about this shit) had gone to great care to touch his or her front bumper to my rental car’s rear bumper. No damage that I could see, but yeah, I took pictures just in case the rental car company finds something, because yeah, I’ve had that happen, too.


      Fig. 3. Photograph by author, February 9, 2021.

      My next stop was at a Home Depot for a snow shovel because while the management company at my apartment complex drives a snow plow down the middle of the driveways in the parking lots, they don’t do a damn thing about the snow drifts that accumulate at my garage door.

      As I found a parking space, I saw a cop with three store employees searching a Toyota Forerunner. They recovered a lot of merchandise and one of those devices for removing anti-shoplifting tags. It’s a sign of the times,[40] though it’s something I expect to see a bit less of around relatively prosperous Upper Saint Clair and Bethel Park.

      As I drove home, I saw a grocery give-away at a church adjacent to my apartment complex. The parking lot was full and I saw people walking with bags of groceries back into my complex, you know, the one that tried to evict a bunch of people.[41]

      But here’s Logan Mohtashami to tell us all how the economy is going to be just great![42]

    • Meanwhile, yet another reason I have for dissatisfaction with rideshare driving is that the same high technology arrogance that created Uber and Lyft[43] is actively seeking to put me out[44] of the only work I can find.[45] The truth is that self-driving technology is probably quite a long ways away,[46] as Uber’s spinoff of its self-driving technology unit to Aurora[47] suggests. But their optimism is richly funded. My pessimism, reinforced every time I see a self-driving car around Pittsburgh—there are a lot of them here—is not.

  11. February 9, 2021, 8:38 pm:

    • I’m just going to leave this here:

      I’m not sure how well this will work. You may need to go to the original tweet to see the video.

      Jamie Raskin is one of the House of Representatives’ impeachment managers[48] in the Senate trial of Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021.[49]

  12. February 10, 2021, 11:46 am:

    • I’m expecting to hear from the body shop today about my car. My insurance company has told me the damage is around $1,000; they’re thinking the work can be done this week.

    • Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 vaccine eligibility tool says I’m eligible, probably because I said I’m obese (not morbidly, but with a body mass index exceeding 30). There’s a huge difference between being eligible and actually securing the vaccine, especially in Allegheny County, which has a large number of health care workers. What I’m seeing so far is that while there is large number of vaccine providers in my area, none are offering appointments. I’m pondering what to do about that.

      The vaccine rollout has been a mess, it turns out, in part due to ethical concerns really not all that unlike those I have expressed. But it’s increasingly apparent the priority simply has to be to get shots in arms.

  13. February 10, 2021, 11:55 am:

    • I just heard from my claim adjuster. She said the other insurance company accepted 100 percent liability so my insurance company is waiving the $500 deductible. This is certainly unexpected good news.

  14. February 10, 2021, 1:15 pm:

    • There isn’t a lot of need for me to cover Donald Trump’s impeachment here, especially when the outcome seems preordained, despite his lawyers’ appalling performance yesterday.[50] But I archived Amy Davidson Sorkin’s article. Because yeah, I’m kinda keeping an eye on it. But what will really be interesting is if, improbably, Republicans start shifting towards conviction. We’re not seeing that yet.

  15. February 10, 2021, 8:44 pm:

    • The body shop says that contingent on getting the parts tomorrow, my car should be fixed on Friday. There’s a snowstorm coming in tonight, so we’re just not so sure about that.

    • Since my eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine seems to hinge on my obesity, I bought a bathroom scale, and checked it. Yup, 31.2, pretty normal for me over the last several years, which is to say, at least it hasn’t gotten worse.

  16. February 10, 2021, 9:53 pm:

  17. February 11, 2021, 5:15 am, updated 12:29 pm:

    • The body shop that’s repairing my car is in North Huntingdon (yes, with a “d,” not a “t,” and no, I don’t know why) Township, just across the line into Westmoreland County from North Versailles (nobody pronounces it correctly unless, like me, they’re not from here) Township and White Oak Borough in Allegheny County. The next town going east and a bit south, along U.S. Highway 30, is Irwin Borough, whose council has just decided it will meet in person, with no capacity limits, without a mask requirement, utterly disregarding state COVID-19 mitigation orders. Other than one council member labeling the state requirements “crap,” no coherent reason seems even to need be offered.[51]

      The body shop was the closest on my insurance company’s list and about a half hour away from my apartment. It’s not quite as close as some hardcore Trump places in Washington County, but Westmoreland County has struck me as more socially conservative (mostly evangelical Protestant). The anti-abortion movement is strong there and I guess they’re counting on their god to protect them from the coronavirus that they probably don’t even believe is real.

      The Irwin Borough Council’s denial of reality[52] merely mirrors that of Senate Republicans who still appear on course to acquit Donald Trump,[53] despite another visually spectacular performance by House of Representatives impeachment managers that revealed new information about how much danger lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence had been in.[54] I’m not really hearing from these people directly these days. But the signs of their presence are all around.

  18. February 10, 2021, 12:29 pm, updated 6:25 pm:

    • I have to note that the discrepancy between Democrats’ performance in this impeachment[55] and its predecessor, which I called “[t]he stupidest impeachment ever, historically notable first for all the offenses it failed to charge Donald Trump with,[56] second for its utterly predictable futility, and third for its transparent (and apparently failed) attempt to protect Joe Biden,[57][58] is striking. For me, it shines a harsh light on the “comity,” for which, read complicity, with which Democrats have treated Republicans, but which Republicans have not reciprocated.[59] It is as if Democrats have suddenly realized that maybe, after all, Republicans aren’t really right, aren’t really morally superior.

      It won’t last, of course. The neoconservative consensus that has been in place since the fall of the Berlin Wall[60] and that treats neoliberalism as a moral imperative,[61] with all its attendant and intentional cruelty to workers and the poor,[62] a cruelty before which the events of the attempted coup on January 6, 2021, pale,[63] will surely reassert itself. But for this very briefest of moments, we are seeing, at very long last, what the Democrats might look like if they actually opposed Republicans.

      Ezra Klein denies drawing an equivalence between the two parties. His sympathies, he says, lie clearly with Democrats.[64] But this disparity between business as usual and business as conducted in this impeachment for me eviscerates his premise of polarization in the way he understands it.

    • Wow. Just wow. In 2013, it seems that, as Braddock’s mayor, current Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman, having heard gunshots, grabbed a shotgun, got in his pickup truck, and chased down a Black jogger, who had absolutely nothing to do with the gunfire, and held him at gunpoint. He refuses to apologize, even now. Yes, Braddock has a problem with guns. Yes, Braddock has a problem with crime. And yes, also, Blacks are a majority of Braddock’s population.[65] Which is to say that Fetterman, like far too many other whites, sees all Blacks interchangeably as potential, even probable, criminals. No, Mr. Fetterman, having a formerly unauthorized migrant for a wife[66] does not shield you from the charge of racism, which is precisely what you are.

      Look, I can see how, in younger days, I might have made a similar mistake. I also know that having made such a mistake, no apology could ever suffice. But, Mr. Fetterman, you refuse even this, even now.[67] This is not okay. You are a part of Pennsylvania’s problem, Pittsburgh’s problem.

    • So I’m putting a hypothesis to as best a test as I can manage. Dressed as I expect to be when weighed at a doctor’s office this afternoon but with a little residual moisture in my hair from my shower, I come in at 220.4 pounds. (I’m 5’10.5″ tall for you body mass index freaks.) We shall see what the scale there says.

      It’s 26° F out, down to 17° with wind chill, but I’m putting on sandals because I do not want to be fussing with my winter boots while there.

  19. February 11, 2021, 6:25 pm:

    • I have failed to confirm my hypothesis (see update at 12:29 pm). After wandering through the snow in my sandals to dump some trash, after wandering through the snow in my sandals to get into my garage, after shoveling the snow in my sandals in front of my garage, after wandering through the snow in my sandals to pump up the tire on my rental car that has a slow leak (the rental car company doesn’t have any alternative vehicles to put me into), and arriving at the doctor’s office, I weighed in at 219.4 pounds, down a full pound from the measurement I took in my bathroom this morning. I was expecting a larger discrepancy in the opposite direction.

      Sorry folks, just don’t know what to tell you about that.

    • John Fetterman has a reputation for being in shorts regardless of the weather. It’s one of his kinks. I don’t know what he does for footwear but he doesn’t look like a sandals kind of guy. I wasn’t in shorts, but I think I might have had him beat with my flip flops. Wimp.

    • I have to notice a distinct difference with my contacts with medical people here in Pittsburgh from that in California. These people are actually nice, really nice. I also was able to schedule an appointment with them the very next day. When I screwed up the appointment time, they still fit me in nearly immediately. This has been a good experience.

      It turns out my height is a half inch higher than I thought, which will mean my previously reported body mass income will be slightly off. I’m still clinically obese: The doctor has me at 31.04 (and yes, that’s good enough to be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine). Also I’ve corrected my height and enhanced the description of Fetterman in the previous update (12:29 pm).

    • It’s now well after business hours and I have not heard from the body shop that’s working on my car. They promised to call me if there was a delay in getting the parts due to the snowstorm. So I’m expecting to get my car back tomorrow, which is one less reason to worry about that slow leak in the right rear tire of the rental car.

    • A leader of the Oath Keepers was allegedly waiting for direction from Donald Trump before launching an attack on Joe Biden’s inauguration and believed that her group was responding to direction from Trump in the U.S. Capitol coup.[68]

      Five Proud Boys have also been charged with conspiracy in the attack.[69]

  20. February 12, 2021, 12:26 pm:

    • When it comes to fracking in southwestern Pennsylvania, mostly what I see are a bunch of signs offering to buy oil and gas rights and a few more signs regulating which roads trucks may use to access the wells. I haven’t actually seen a well. I certainly haven’t had any passengers going to fracking jobs. The only thing I’ve seen remotely related is the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, an ethylene cracker plant under what my passengers have characterized as seemingly endless construction on the Ohio River in Beaver County that makes—or will make—microplastics.

      Ordinary folks in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have gained little economically, if any, from the fracking boom in these states.[70]

      But John Fetterman says, “We can’t just throw [out] all of these union jobs and all these workers’ jobs and say, ‘Well, just go learn to code and maybe you can get on at Google or someplace.’”[71] So, um, what union jobs? Where the fuck are they?

    • At the Washington Post, Dan Balz is marveling at Republican senators’ obstinacy about voting to convict Donald Trump.[72] But here’s the thing: The very states where these senators come from are the same states where the militia groups that stormed the Capitol are strongest. This isn’t merely the threat of being primaried that Balz alludes to.[73] It’s a physical threat to themselves, their properties, and their loved ones.

    • Another positive from my experience at the doctor’s office yesterday (February 11) was that University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) actually had a lab on site at the office. The nurse practitioner prescribed some tests and when she was done with me, I walked over and somebody drew some blood. This morning, I have the results. No surprises, by the way.

      This is in sharp contrast to having had to make a separate appointment with Quest Diagnostics in Sebastopol and then to wait days for the results.

      This entire experience has been seriously impressive. Based on what I’m seeing, I have to think the medical care is orders of magnitude better here than in California.

    • My car is done. I’m on my way to get it.

  21. February 12, 2021, 9:48 pm:

    • I have my car back but not without an adventure.

      I had decided to return the car in North Huntingdon, near, I hoped, the body shop. I figured I’d call an Uber or a Lyft to get me between places.

      Except there weren’t any Ubers or Lyfts available. And the body shop was 1.7 miles away. A half hour walk, I figured.

      As a kid in San Francisco, I wouldn’t have thought anything at all of such a distance. But this was a busy highway (U.S. 30) with no sidewalks with several inches of snow on the ground. Oh yeah, and I’m not a kid anymore. It probably took me an hour of dodging traffic, navigating snow-covered landscaping, and parking lots, only some of which had been cleared. Over hill and over dale.

      At least I had my winter boots on.

      And I have my car with it’s wonderful sound system and its bright LED lights back. (I’m not supposed to be, but yeah, I’m occasionally that obnoxious asshole with the too bright lights. You try doing what I’m reduced to doing[74] without them.)

  22. February 13, 2021, 4:57 am:

    • As if there was any question whose side Donald Trump was on, even as his own vice president was in danger during the attempted coup on January 6, 2021, details have come to light of a phone call between Trump and California Republican and House of Representatives minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who begged Trump to call off the rioters.[75]

      The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.

      “He is not a blameless observer, he was rooting for them,” a Republican member of Congress said. “On January 13, Kevin McCarthy said on the floor of the House that the President bears responsibility and he does.”

      Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd. Trump’s comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation.[76]

      The conventional wisdom remains that Senate Republicans will vote to acquit Trump, although there is no whip count.[77]

      Even as I understand that this really isn’t just about being primaried (see update, February 12, 2021, 12:26 pm), that there is a physical risk to senators voting to convict, I really can’t help but share Dan Balz’ perplexity at their refusal to do so.[78] It’s perhaps worth noting at this point that there has never been a successful impeachment of a president of the United States. Its failure in this case has to raise doubts about how meaningful a procedure it is.


Right-wing militia groups

There is a new blog post entitled, “‘Free’ helicopter rides.”

Christopher Ketcham, “What the Far-Right Fascination With Pinochet’s Death Squads Should Tell Us,” Intercept, February 4, 2021, https://theintercept.com/2021/02/04/pinochet-far-right-hoppean-snake/

Ed Pilkington, “Seditionaries: FBI net closes on Maga mob that stormed the Capitol,” Guardian, February 6, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/us-capitol-insurrection-fbi-investigation

Richard Read, “Ammon Bundy, veteran of armed standoffs, builds militia network on COVID backlash,” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2021, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-02-09/idaho-ammon-bundy

Missy Ryan, Paul Sonne, and Razzan Nakhlawi, “Seeking to combat extremists in ranks, the military struggles to answer a basic question: How many are there?” Washington Post, February 9, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/military-extremist-threat-lloyd-austin-/2021/02/09/198794c8-66f9-11eb-bf81-c618c88ed605_story.html

Katelyn Polantz, “Justice Department says an Oath Keepers leader waited for Trump’s direction before Capitol attack,” CNN, February 11, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/politics/oath-keeper-justice-trump-capitol/index.html

David Shortell, “Five people associated with Proud Boys arrested for Capitol riot on conspiracy charges,” CNN, February 11, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/politics/proud-boys-capitol-riot-arrest/index.html


San Francisco

Isaac Chotiner, “How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools,” New Yorker, February 6, 2021, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools


Donald Trump

Amy Davidson Sorkin, “What’s at Stake in Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial,” New Yorker, February 7, 2021, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/whats-at-stake-in-trumps-second-impeachment-trial

Amy Gardner et al., “House impeachment managers emphasize the danger to Pence and other top officials in harrowing retelling of Jan. 6 attack,” Washington Post, February 10, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-impeachment-trial-trump/2021/02/10/17863674-6bbe-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Trump’s Impeachment-Trial Lawyers Refuse to Seriously Engage with the Constitutional Issues,” New Yorker, February 10, 2021, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-impeachment-trial-lawyers-refuse-to-seriously-engage-with-the-constitutional-issues

Andrew Desiderio, Burgess Everett, and Marianne Levine, “Trump on path to acquittal despite stunning evidence,” Politico, February 11, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/10/trump-acquittal-despite-stunning-evidence-468540

Dan Balz, “All eyes on Republican senators after strong presentation by House managers,” Washington Post, February 12, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/balztake-impeachment-gop-trump/2021/02/11/7b910ee8-6cc0-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

Burgess Everett and Marianne Levine, “Senate GOP gripped by conviction vote intrigue,” Politico, February 12, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/12/republicans-weighting-conviction-trump-impeachment-468862

Jamie Gangel et al., “New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters,” CNN, February 12, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html


Depression

Logan Mohtashami, “The last stand for forbearance housing market crash bros?” Housing Wire, February 8, 2021, https://www.housingwire.com/articles/is-this-the-last-stand-for-forbearance-home-price-crash-bros/


Self-driving cars

Levi Sumagaysay, “Aurora, Toyota team up to bring self-driving cars to ride-hailing and the masses,” MarketWatch, February 9, 2021, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/aurora-toyota-team-up-to-bring-self-driving-cars-to-ride-hailing-and-the-masses-11612893367


Pennsylvania

Joe Napsha, “Irwin Council: Masks are optional at future meetings,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 10, 2021, https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/irwin-council-masks-are-optional-at-future-meetings/


John Fetterman

Stephen Caruso, “Fetterman justifies — but does not apologize for — chasing down and brandishing shotgun at Black jogger while Braddock mayor,” Pennsylvania Capital-Star, February 10, 2021, https://www.penncapital-star.com/blog/fetterman-justifies-but-does-not-apologize-for-chasing-down-and-brandishing-shotgun-at-black-jogger-while-braddock-mayor/


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