The potential for right-wing violence

Our new ProPublica/Wash Post investigation reveals public Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and Jan. 6, with many calling for executions or other political violence. 🧵https://t.co/ZJBcFI0Dm3
— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) January 4, 2022

Two recent polls capture a deeply divided country with much reckoning left to do over the insurrection and its place in US history. A year after the riot, Americans are increasingly likely to say political violence can be justified. | Analysis by @CNNPaul https://t.co/9fgYntJCXj
— CNN (@CNN) January 4, 2022

“So the reality is that the danger has not abated. Quite the opposite.” https://t.co/aEEVhXhSjY
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) December 27, 2021

Analysis: The role of violent threats in Trump’s GOP reign, according to Republicans https://t.co/MnXCfLN2oQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 11, 2021

Domestic violent extremists will "likely continue" to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure in the US, a DHS intelligence brief says https://t.co/nUflPzomX8
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 25, 2022

Covers: The Times They Are A-Changin’

“The Times They Are A-Changin'” is probably Bob Dylan’s most famous protest song. It was released in 1964. There are many covers including versions by the Byrds and Nina Simone.

The Times They Are A-Changin’ released on 1/3/64

One of the few Dylan albums where the album title was a song title

His last strictly folk music album although his next one was also acoustic

Think I’ll do a covers post now

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What is this shit?

That infamous Self Portrait review opener by critic Greil Marcus had been posed directly to Bob Dylan six years earlier by a friend who had just read the lyrics to the title track of his third album, The Times They Are a-Changin’. pic.twitter.com/uTuQKyhNjB
— DylanRevisited (@DylanRevisited) May 23, 2022

A great mop

I’ll have to find this one

It hasn’t been released yet where you could buy it.

Floor mops for high school basketball tournament in Japan: Cup Noodles Ramen mops with pieces of shrimp, beef and chicken on the top of the mop!

(H/T @jeremybrahm) pic.twitter.com/u8mS9lai2O
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 27, 2021

The Trump cult knows that it was its members who staged the insurrection

This shows that most of the Trump cult knows the rioters were Trump supporters. If they really believed it was Antifa, they would want the rioters to be prosecuted.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 28, 2021

Funny autocorrect tweet

#AmandaMcBroom, who wrote “The Rose”, just sent me this…. pic.twitter.com/kiRWpSADAd
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) December 28, 2021

A great newspaper correction

My father once referred to a popular TV show as “Beavis and Buckwheat”. I’d watch that!

That would have been a much more entertaining raid! https://t.co/8LClE0Cf18
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) December 30, 2021

another one:

Glorious recent correction in WSJ:

"The full names of two Belarusian officials charged with aircraft piracy are not known. An article incorrectly identified them as Andrey Anatolievich Lnu and Fnu Lnu. FNU and LNU are acronyms for 'first name unknown' and 'last name unknown.'"
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 1, 2022

Your day wasn’t as bad as you thought pic.twitter.com/D5BSnuiTfs
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) February 5, 2022

Republican governors are supporting the unvaccinated with unemployment

This shows that their old argument that unemployment benefits discouraged people from working was a lie. They just want to give money to their supporters and base it on politics, not need or merit. Disgraceful.

red-state governors are allowing anti-vaxxers to leave their jobs and collect unemployment. Sloth! Dependency! Biden should condemn the notion that taxpayers should foot the bill for vaccine refusers. https://t.co/WsS88oUift
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 3, 2022

From the Washington Post Editorial Board | Handing out unemployment aid to people who refuse to get vaccinated (as at least five states are doing) is silly https://t.co/nOYZJ2ZvKH
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 2, 2022

Republicans used to complain about excessive unemployment benefits. Now they encourage sloth, @JRubinBlogger writes. https://t.co/hg2Ji8ZzVp
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) December 31, 2021

Iowa cut extended unemployments benefits in the spring, reasoning that they were disouraging people from working and not needed even during the pandemic.

Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021

As Dave Weigel would say, I've seen enough: the red-state rush to cut off aid to the unemployed did not do much if anything to create jobs, but did create vast, gratuitous hardship for millions of Americans 1/ https://t.co/O4FrE2icsR
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 20, 2021

Covers: YYZ

“YYZ” is a Rush song from 1981. I don’t know much about them but liked the tweet.

Yes, you did 👏👏👏 https://t.co/NNWOjSx3aK
— Rush (@rushtheband) January 2, 2022

More delays on return to office work

New: Staff at @WSJ were told today that the company won't be mandating a broad office return, and instead team leaders will figure out what the "hybrid and flexible" work arrangements should be for their group
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) February 22, 2022

This is the right move. Nonessential workers should work remotely during surges…and employers should do everything in their power to make environments truly safe for essential workers.https://t.co/ymbjwSPEO9
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) January 3, 2022

The omicron variant is forcing many companies to once again change their back-to-office plans, upending expectations for workers. https://t.co/DQm1vNMJnv
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 22, 2021

The New York Times today "strongly encouraged" all employees to work from home as Omicron spreads in the city. Those who do go into the office "must wear a mask at all times unless … eating or drinking," per memo.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 21, 2021

Like other major media companies, CNN is making changes due to the new Covid surge. CNN offices are closing "to all employees who do not have to be in the office to do their jobs," per internal memo tonight. Back to 2020 protocols, essentially.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 19, 2021

Major corporations that had planned to bring all their employees back into offices in early 2022 now have to decide whether those dates make sense in light of further evidence of the pandemic’s unpredictability. https://t.co/NsDx3SgX57
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 7, 2021