(con't) with his right hand, and told her he is an otolaryngologist”

-The number of shipping containers sitting backlogged on docks at the Port of Los Angeles has declined by 29% in recent weeks

-Summer job growth was revised upward more sharply than at any point in the last forty years

-COVID-positive State Sen. John Bizon (R-MI) has been charged with assault after inappropriately grabbing a nurse while he was in the exam room: “The patient intentionally grabbed her with his right arm/hand, by her waist, pulled her into his body, squeezed her hip (con't)

-Steve Bannon leaving the courthouse today: “They took on the wrong guy this time”

-At today’s Build Back Better signing ceremony, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) credits DJT for “furthering the discussion” on infrastructure

-Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): “Text BRANDON to 24005”

-By a vote of 31-29, "the Wyoming Republican Party will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a member of the GOP"

-Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) wants the Build Back Better program pushed back until 2022, citing concerns about inflation

-A Connecticut judge finds InfoWars’ Alex Jones guilty by default in the case against him brought by parents of children killed at Sandy Hook because Jones repeatedly refused to hand over documents pertinent to the trial

-Jan. 6th defendant Jenna Ryan, who told a judge social media is "an image I project and not my real life,” —and who is still seeking donations for her legal bills— stayed at the Trump Hotel while in D.C. to be sentenced. Ryan, a real estate agent, took a private plane to D.C. for the Jan. 6th riot

-DJT is selling the lease on the Trump International Hotel in D.C. (the federal government owns the building) to CGI Merchant Group for $375M. The building will become a Waldorf Astoria

-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) says he will not seek re-election in 2022

Everything old is new again.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period”
Elon Musk: “I keep forgetting that you’re still alive”

-When former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) was hospitalized with COVID, DJT called him to ask “Are you going to say you got it from me?”

-Russia has begun a piecemeal invasion of villages in eastern Ukraine

-The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis releases new evidence showing how the CDC was pressured by Trump Administration officials to alter scientific guidance and was prevented from communicating directly with the public

-The new Oklahoma National Guard Commander, Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino, is refusing to enforce the Department of Defense's vaccination mandate for troops. Mancino writes in a memo, “No negative administrative or legal action will be taken” against troops who refuse to get vaccinated

-Disgraced Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, at a right-wing event: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God”

-Capitol rioter Jeremy Baouche is a DoD contractor with a secret security clearance. He used his work computer to search “Capitol building layout, guns, rifle scopes, lasers, Trump protests, FBI Capitol”

-Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch visits UK P.M. Johnson and tells him he must get rid of the BBC

-In Kansas, anti-vaxxers are showing up to municipal meetings wearing yellow stars, portraying themselves as having equal footing with Jewish victims of the Holocaust

-Disgraced Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, on his subpoena from the Jan. 6th Committee: “In my case, we’re going to respond to the request. I mean I don’t have anything to hide…”