Donald Trump will be inaugurated for the second time where the January 6 riots took place

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To the last article of the week from the blog’s favorite living Canadian)

So, because Washington is going to be in a deep freeze on Monday, they will have him sworn in at a podium. in the Capitol rotundathe place his most ardent fans desecrated on January 6, 2021. History plays a joke on us all, one that resonates through the sad history of the last decade of American politics. Maybe he could dress up in a buffalo head hat and a spear. He could hand out clips as souvenirs. From Policy :

(Brian) Kelly filmed a horrific scene: Rioters seeking to stop the transfer of power to President Joe Biden clash with Capitol Police and vandalize artwork and statues, while the halls of Congress are choked with tear gas. On Friday, Kelly was one of a handful of defendants convicted on Jan. 6 for his role in a riot that Trump has made clear he hopes to erase from history — as federal judges implore the world to never forget.

“I just wish the rest of the country could see some of the things I see,” U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said before sentencing Kelly to 10 days in prison. “Based on what’s happening outside the walls of this courthouse, this may be the last of them. I don’t know.” Chutkan said she had never been to the Capitol until her visit to pay tribute to President Jimmy Carter earlier this month. Her visit, she said, after presiding over numerous cases on January 6, was a reminder that “people came in and desecrated this beautiful space.”

Chutkan was a valiant Winter Soldier in what now appears to have been a largely futile attempt to uphold the rule of law in his fight against the Vandal State. That battle was lost last November, when voters returned a verdict that the president who had rioted should be president again. That battle was lost in the Supreme Court, when, first, the carefully crafted conservative majority “reinterpreted” a section of the 14th Amendment that bars anyone involved in an insurrection against the government from holding any federal office, then when that same carefully manufactured conservative majority produced a radical doctrine of presidential immunity that paralyzed the case before Judge Chutkan. That battle was lost when a Florida judge tore up the procedural rules in the Pool Shed Papers case, then threw it out, and is now trying to stifle the special prosecutor’s office’s release of that report. The memory lapse claimed all these investigations, his two indictments, as well as all the evidence and conclusions of the special commission of January 6. The reign of the vandals has triumphed. The Capitol rotunda, recently honored by the memorial ceremony for President Jimmy Carter, now serves as a train car outside Compiègne and on Monday, May 22, 1940.

This week, in addition to the farcical Senate confirmation, the Supreme Court considered a Texas law requiring proof of age for anyone viewing adult websites online. This allowed Justice Samuel Alito to get a little funny. The lawyer opposing the Texas law argued that these websites were the modern equivalent of Playboy at its peak in the 1960s and 1970s.

“Is this like the old Playboy magazine?” Do you have essays there from the modern equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?

Wow. I guess some people really read it for the articles.

Meanwhile, Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing as the next attorney general was marked by some grotesque anomalies. The first was that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley kicked things off with a statement that was a compendium of MAGAworld bogeymen. A sample:

And then we come to Special Counsel Jack Smith and his legal operation. It involved an unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s home, including agents who even searched the former First Lady’s clothing drawers. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden certainly did not receive the same treatment from the government when it came to their results. Indeed, as my oversight revealed, the FBI surprisingly agreed to destroy laptop records and records associated with Clinton’s staff. This Orwellian behavior should have no quarter.

The Justice Department used the power of the federal government to prosecute individuals who were peacefully praying outside an abortion clinic. The FBI has suggested that traditional Catholics could pose domestic terrorism threats, saying these individuals adhere to an “anti-Semitic, anti-immigration, anti-GBT, and white supremacist ideology,” the citation concludes. The FBI has opened dozens of investigations into parents who expressed concerns at school board meetings about curriculum choices and mandates related to COVID-19.

Chuck on one phone, it’s your turn on the next.

And as far as I know, Bondi’s questionable interference because Florida AG in the Trump University fraud case was not even brought up during her hearing, which would be a gross dereliction of duty by Democrats on the committee. As AG in Florida, Bondi refused to investigate the university. Shortly before this decision, and in what I’m sure is an unfortunate coincidence, his campaign received a $25,000 donation from the Trump Foundation.

WWOZ weekly choice to click: “Who’s sorry now?” {Percy Humphrey’s Hot Six} — Yes, I still really like New Orleans.

Weekly Visit to the Pathé Archives: Here, from 1925, it’s the inauguration by Calvin Coolidge, which must have been a real dabba-doo period, Cal became a notorious 23 skidoo party animal of the Roaring Twenties. My God, there are so many really white people out there. The story is so cool.

I am a notorious baseball agnostic. Whatever deep connection the game has with certain people, I’m losing it. But what I love about the game, I really love about the game: summer evenings. Fenway. The old Tiger Stadium. Minor League concession stands. Bob Uecker, who died this week, was certainly one of them. A genuinely funny man, he used his gaming days as a springboard for Johnny Carson’s Couch, his own admittedly lame sitcom, and, most memorably, he starred as broadcaster Harry Doyle in the Major League movies, especially the first one, which a number of baseball people I know consider their favorite baseball movie, and which I view as a necessary corrective to the pious lie. Field of dreams. In more than one press box, I heard an obviously wild speech greeted by Doyle’s signature, “Jusssst a little outside.” Carry on, United Kingdom.

Discovery Corner: Hey, look what we found!

From CNN:

Inside a residential house, archaeologists discovered one of the largest and most complex thermal bath complexes ever discovered at the world-famous site, according to the Pompeii Archaeological Park.

The luxurious bathing areas are connected to the black-painted and frescoed banquet hall discovered in April, suggesting the private home was a huge setting for the celebrations, the park said in a news release Friday.

A home spa in Pompeii. Nice house until the volcano reinvents the thermal bath.

Hey, SciNews, this is it a good day for dinosaur news? It’s always a good day for dinosaur news!

The newly identified dinosaur lived in what is now Africa during the Cretaceous period, about 95 million years ago. Double Tameryraptor markgrafithe ancient species is part of a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs called Carcharodontosaurids.

The fossilized remains of the dinosaur were discovered in 1914 about 2 km from Ain Gedid, at the western foot of Gebel Harra of the Bahariya Formation.

What is remarkable about this story is that these real fossils were destroyed during World War II. Scientists reconstructed the dinosaur based on the original archaeologists’ journals and an ancient analysis of its brain. But you can’t hold back a good dinosaur. After all, they lived then to make us happy today.

I’ll be back Monday, live from Hell’s Envore in DC. Be well and play nice, bastides. Stay above the snake line, wear the damn masks and take the damn shots, especially the boosters and The New One. In your free time, spare a thought for all those in the fire zones of Los Angeles, and for all the people of Ukraine, who continue to fight stubbornly, and for all the people of Gaza, winter is approaching, and for all the inhabitants of New Orleans. , Las Vegas and Queens, which received a visit from Crazy before the start of the year. And the people of Lahaina, who are still rebuilding. And all the people we have regularly cited here over the past year, and in particular our fellow citizens in the LGBTQ+ community, who deserve so much better from their country than what they received. And for all of us, who will get exactly what we deserve.