Flotsam and Jetsam - How Was Your Fedsurrection Day?

Yesterday was the 3d anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Incursion, being celebrated by people on both sides of the aisle, of course, each with their own spin. Althouse, Must we commemorate January 6th? Is it going to be an annual occasion for reflection and disingenuity? "I'll just check the front page of The Washington Post and The New York Times." Never-anybody-but-Trump Sundance at CTH calls it Fedsurrection Anniversary Day – They Needed an Emergency Session. Never-Trumper Steve Calabresi at the Volokh report explains why he maintains January 6, 2021 Was Not an Insurrection. At No Pasaran! Insurrection and Treason: What Did The Words of the 14th Amendment Mean in the 1860s? + FREE JANUARY 6 DOCUMENTARY Today Only. From Twitchy, Brian Stelter Explains Why January 6 Gets So Much More Attention Than the 2020 Riots "Jan. 6 receives outsize attention in part because there is a concerted campaign, led by a former president, to deny and cover up what happened. There is no equivalent campaign re: 2020's rioting " and  Attn. Community Notes! Dem Rep Shares Harrowing Tale of Survival at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Nick Arama at RedState enjoys Brian Stelter Getting Dunked Into Next Week by NY Post Reporter on Jan. 6 vs. 2020 BLM Riots. At NewsMax, Watchdog Files $30M Lawsuit on Behalf of Ashli Babbitt. Gateway Pundit reports DC US Attorney Matthew Graves Says DOJ is Now Going to Target THOUSANDS of Americans Who Were Around the Capitol on Jan 6 – But Did Not Enter the Building (VIDEO)  “But, if a person knowingly entered a restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime. Make no mistake, thousands of people occupying the area that they were not authorized to be present in in the first place.” Sundance hosts Tucker Carlson Interviews Clay Higgins About FBI Involvement in Fedsurrection Day ’21. 

Roger Kimball at Am Great on From Insurrection to Satire: Biden’s Valley Forge Speech Fails to Cement the Trump-Dictator Narrative. "I would not be surprised if future historians singled out Joe Biden’s Valley Forge speech as the moment his campaign began its final retreat into senile collapse." Wretchard the Cat at Hat Hair, POTATUS: If Trump Wins He's Coming For Us. I should hope so. At Althouse, "Obama grew 'animated' in discussing the 2024 election... and has suggested to Biden’s advisers that the campaign needs more top-level decision-makers..."

Nick Arama sees Biden's Back on Vacation and the Confusion Looks Very Bad. Savannah @BasedSavannah, "I just saw that Dementia Hitler was trending.  It’s terrifying that this idiot has nuclear launch codes."  Insty thinks  EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: SecDef Hospitalized; Press Protests Lack Of Info To Public. “The Pentagon Press Association (which represents the press corp at the Pentagon) went on to say in it’s letter protesting the lack of information: ‘At a time when there are growing threats to U.S. military service members in the Middle East and the U.S. is playing key national security roles in the wars in Israel and Ukraine, it is particularly critical for the American public to be informed about the health status and decision-making ability of its top defense leader.'” Related: A Pentagon mystery: Why was Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stay kept secret for days? UPDATE: Ouch. But our ruling class sees China as a role model, so . . ." Christian Datoc at WaEx, White House forcefully defends UNRWA amid alleged terrorism ties: 'They do great work in Gaza'. Leslie Eastman at LI reports 2024 Begins with Another Big Offshore Wind Project About to be Scrapped. "The Biden economy is the nightmare destroying Biden’s green energy dreams."

At Am Think John Green thinks he's found A Case Study in Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome in Robert Reich. Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw shakes his head, Seriously? Nikki Haley 'Might Consider' DeSantis as Her Running Mate. Ben Bartee at PJM reports Nikki Haley Forcibly Renamed Her Husband. Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. 

From the Reform Club A Judge on Twitter "Ours is a dying legal culture. A recrudescence of reason may yet be possible, but only just possible. See generally Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Practice Tip: Citing Older U.S. Cases—state and federal,’ New Reform Club (Dec. 7, 2023, 7:16 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/practice-tip-citing-older-us-casesstate.html>. Talking Feds on YouTube, Analyzing Trump’s Petition in Colorado Case and the Supreme Court’s Next Moves. Sarah Arnold at TownHall analyzes Democrat Attempts to Link Trump To Foreign Influence, But There's One Major Problem. You mean hotels charge money to stay in? 

At Althouse, Overstepping. Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "All four federal judges to rule -- 1 district judge and 3 appellate judges -- said the Biden Admin. severely violated the 1st Am by using FBI, CIA and CDC to censor the internet of dissent, yet corporate media basically ignored it so he can pretend he's Defending Democracy." Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea presents The Inaugural ‘Weekend Free Speech Update’ (1/6/2023). At Trib Live, As 2024 election approaches, voting officials worry Pa. isn’t prepared for misinformation at least not approved misdismal information.

NBC whines Black women at Harvard say Claudine Gay’s ouster reflects a system that wasn’t built for them. "Some Black women students at the university say Gay's ouster has been "heart-wrenching" to witness." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair kvetches, "Well, gosh, I’m sorry, privileged Harvard students. The “system” was built for learning, working, following rules, and earning what you receive. Is that you or not?" Althouse, "If You Use a Ghostwriter, You Need to Check for Plagiarism." "Writes Jonathan Bailey, in Plagiarism Today." Also, It is still possible to astonish. Thomas Chatterton  Williams @thomaschattwill "This is an astonishing piece that argues "merit, itself, cannot be defined," yet it does not mention the word plagiarism even one time."

At the New Discourses The Grievance Studies Project. We engaged in a one-year immersive exploration to attempt to understand certain academic fields as “outsiders within” and test their scholarship at its highest levels. To speak broadly, these include gender studies and other cultural studies fields within the humanities and reaching into sociology, psychology, and, perhaps most worryingly, education. Beege Welborn comments, "These three are tremendous individuals who have faced some awesome calls for cancellation already with immense courage, dignity and integrity. This should have progressive heads exploding." Ace's KT has a long post starting with DEI heretics pay a price even when they are financing DEI. Insty, EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Cenk Uygur@cenkuygur, "Now @JohnFetterman is telling everyone how he's not a progressive, he rejects us and is now calling Harvard "pinko." What the fuck? This is why people lose hope, because of frauds like Fetterman. You work hard to get a progressive elected and they turn into Republicans instantly." At Tablet, White People Are Going to Colonize Mars, and Other Fears From Today’s Campuses. Beege comments "I don’t know how we recover from what has been allowed to be done to an entire generation of college students by the previous generation of radicals. These self absorbed, emotional children, with a firmly entrenched sense of victimhood are so dangerous, but they’re who’s next leading the country! HOLY CRAP, it’s depressing. And too early to drink." Insty, TAKING SIDES AGAINST CIVILIZATION: Ezra Levant@ezralevant, "Holy f@ck. @torontopolice deliver hot coffee to the Hamas supporters who are blockading the Jewish community in Armour Heights, Toronto."