Innholdsfortegnelse for 2/12/2021 i Newsweek

1967 With divorce rates high across the U.S., Newsweek related, “Getting in and out of divorce is almost like getting in and out of taxis.” In the middle of the sexual revolution, “what underlies the failure of so many marriages is not a new form of friction—but a new unwillingness to tolerate the old frictions.” Roughly 40 percent of ended marriages had lasted at least 10 years. After reaching a peak in 1981, the U.S. divorce rate has been steadily declining. Only 7.6 out of 1,000 women divorced in 2019—a 50-year low. 1986 “Barely a minute into its 10th orbital mission, the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing six astronauts and teacher Christa McAuliffe,” wrote Newsweek. Shocking the country, “even the computers seemed reluctant to believe the swift, sudden evidence.” This year,…

2:49 PM: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam decides to activate all available assets of the Virginia State Police plus military police of the Virginia National Guard (the Manassas-based 229th Military Police Company) for immediate dispatch to the Capitol. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that DOD authorization for deployment of the Guard in the District was not granted. 2:50 PM: Jazmine Ulloa of The Boston Globe tweets: “…One Capitol security officer said he wasn’t sure if rioters had weapons but he said they had plenty of bear spray, pepper spray—and “lots of sharp objects.” His face had been doused with pepper spray.” 2:51 PM: Steven Nelson of the New York Post tweets: “‘No justice, no peace!’ is new pro-Trump chant at Senate clock. McConnell’s office surrounded now.” 2:52 PM: Casey J. Wooten of…

8:00 PM: House Majority Leader Hoyer tweets and encloses his Statement on the Joint Session of Congress Reconvening for the Electoral College Certification: “Today’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol complex was a direct attack on our democracy. It is shameful and despicable, but it will not prevent us from carrying out our Constitutional duties. Tonight, the House and Senate will reconvene in a Joint Session of Congress to continue the Electoral College certification. We will fulfill our duty to the Constitution and the American people. “This is a dark day in our nation’s history, but our democracy will prevail. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be confirmed as the next President and Vice President of the United States. When they are sworn into office on January 20, I hope that…

“A movie that requires plenty of self-examination” » P.09 STUDENT DEBT IS A CURSE UPON AMERICA’S FUTURE. BIDEN MUST WIPE IT OUT by Astra Taylor ON PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S FIRST DAY in office, one hundred people calling themselves the Biden Jubilee 100 declared themselves to be on a student debt strike. They represent a growing movement of debtors who are demanding that the new administration take bold action to cancel all student loans during its first one hundred days. They also represent the estimated 45 million people in this country who hold a combined $1.7 trillion in student debt. There’s a broad consensus that student debt has reached crisis proportions in this country. In 2012, when Joe Biden was vice president, student debt surpassed $1 trillion dollars. If President Biden…

12:08 AM: President Trump tweets: “Just happened to have found another 4000 ballots from Fulton County. Here we go!” President Trump will tweet 13 more times before he appears to speak at the Ellipse stage at noon—complaints about the vote in Georgia and his belief that Pennsylvania will somehow flip to Trump and, finally, before 1:00 a.m., tweeting: “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency.” 6:25 AM: Drew Hernandez of Tatum Report tweets: “MASSIVE line to get into The Ellipse to where President @ realDonaldTrump will be speaking at the ‘March For Trump Rally’…the line is already wrapping around the Washington Monument. It is still dark out, images to come.” Hernandez is the host of Lives Matter on YouTube. 7:11 AM: Republican Conference Chair…

4:24 PM: Leigh Ann Caldwell of NBC News tweets a video from inside the Cannon House Office Building—“FBI SWAT team in Capitol complex”—she shows a 12-man armed tactical team in military fatigues with FBI markings. At 4:35 PM, Mike Balsamo of the AP responds: “An FBI spokeswoman said agents were being deployed to “assist our U.S. Capitol Police partners as requested in protection of federal property and public safety.” 4:24 PM: U.S. Marshals Service, an element of the Department of Justice, tweets: “The U.S. Marshals Service is joining with other law enforcement agencies in supporting the U.S. Capitol Police during operations in Washington, D.C.” 4:30 PM: Julian E. Barnes and Mark Mazzetti later write in The New York Times: “A column of F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security agents in…

“Rep. Gaetz can leave his beauty bag at home. In Wyoming, the men don’t wear make-up.”—A SPOKESPERSON FOR WYOMING REP. AND GOP CONFERENCE CHAIR LYNN CHENEY “I THINK THE TRIAL IS STUPID, I THINK IT’S COUNTERPRODUCTIVE,” —SEN. MARCO RUBIO “We may look at this story as happening in an economy far from the West, but it is actually happening everywhere…it’s a movie that requires plenty of self-examination.”—PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONASON THE NETFLIX ADAPTATION OF THE WHITE TIGER “I feel confident that by summer, we’re going to be well on our way to heading toward herd immunity and increasing the access for people who aren’t on the list, all the way going down to children.”—PRESIDENT BIDEN “I DON’T WANT IT TO BE THOSE HORRIBLE SEX SCENES WHERE YOU’RE ALL GREASED UP AND…

10:00 AM: At the Save America Rally, the president’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., and then his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, appear to warm up an already active crowd of many thousands. Donald Trump Jr. says: “If you’re gonna be the zero and not the hero, we’re coming for you.” Rudy Giuliani says: “If we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail. So let’s have trial by combat…I’ll be darned if they’re going to take our free and fair vote… We’re going to fight to the very end to make sure that doesn’t happen.” 10:02 AM: Manu Raju of CNN tweets: “Pelosi and her team are conveying to their caucus that they should keep today low drama…let GOP embarrass themselves, per sources on call. ‘We are dignified in…

6:00 PM: District of Columbia curfew takes effect. 6:01 PM: President Trump again tweets, this time not admonishing protestors but ascribing blame to a stolen election: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he says. He then tells them to “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” 6:03 PM: William Turton of Bloomberg News tweets a video from the front of the Capitol: “Armored vehicles entering the Capitol just now.” 6:03 PM: White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien tweets: “I just spoke with Vice President Pence. He is a genuinely fine and decent man. He exhibited courage today…