just so you know if you see it discussed, this is where it's coming from; I also see other similar organizations working with them on this, like detentionwatchnetwork.org

Yellen "has long been an advocate for addressing the income and wealth distribution, and now she will be able to act on it,” said one economist.

During the last few years, I've been following Jonah Goldberg's Twitter feed. Many years ago, I saw him speak when I interned with the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. It was clear that the man thought at the time that he was at the forefront of conservatism but his Twitter feed now conveys a different feeling.

Years later, a friend of mine from high school got caught up in a CPAC video in which him and a friend ended up in an argument about interracial marriage with an older guy who was part of the then growing Alt Right movement. I remember bringing it up with him and just hearing that "there are many different types of people in the conservative movement." A Lincoln Project video I saw said that maybe they were naive about the nature of racism in the conservative movement.

I think that conservative intellectual types like Goldberg, or Michael Medved, Ross Douthat, etc. got so wrapped up in a philosophy that extolled all the warm and fuzzy things that seem to be worth preserving that they thought that's what right wing politics was for everybody. I would say that militia politics is really the primary basis of the modern GOP and has grown in to that since the 1990s at least. Militias are also a much smaller, but still potent, part of left wing politics, as seen by the rise of antifa in the Pacific Northwest. (Unlike right wing militias, left wing extremist groups aren't being validated by national political leadership of a major party.)

This doesn't dismiss conservative philosophy - but Donald Trump, while fading, being supplanted by an equally controversial figure like Hawley shows that this ideology has staying power. It resonates more with struggling white people in Red State America than Jonah Goldberg ever would. It's possible that sticking it out like this is a big gamble on the part of Hawley, to see if he can be seen as a daring leader for a movement that he knows will last long past Donald Trump.

By Alberta Luperon @ LawandCrime.com, Jan. 24

Police in Indianapolis, Indiana say a “mass murder” happened in their city. They’re not saying much about it. Investigators are not clear on how many shooters were involved, or if it was just one. The motive is unclear.

What they do know is that five people were found dead from gunshot wounds at the residence Sunday morning. One of them was pregnant, and she was taken to a hospital. Her unborn child did not make it, police spokesman Sgt. Shane Foley said in a press conference. That brought the death toll to 6. The one saving grace described by officials is that a juvenile male victim is expected to survive.

“What occurred this morning, based on the evidence that has been gathered so far, was a mass murder,” said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Randal Taylor. “More than that, we believe it was not random. There are no right words to say at this time, a time when our community must come to terms with the largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade.”

Foley said that right before 4 a.m. EST, cops responded to the 3300 block of East 36th Street regarding a report of a person shot. They found the juvenile victim suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to an area hospital. Further investigation led officers to a residence on the 3500 block of Adams Street, where they found five people dead from apparent gunshot wounds, Taylor said [....]

Republican governors of New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and Montana all now have said they’re calling Guardsmen from their states home. Some 7,000 will remain in D.C. through Feb. 6.

By Ben Leonard & Lara Seligman @ Politico.com, Updated: 01/23/2021 12:23 PM EST

[....] The majority of the troops staying in D.C. will be on a volunteer basis, but several groups have been involuntarily extended through Feb. 6, according to two Guard members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the topic.

On Thursday, Guard members were abruptly called to leave the Dirksen Senate Office building and vacated into a parking garage, a Guardsman previously told POLITICO. There were about 5,000 troops in a garage without internet and one bathroom with two stalls, with chilly nighttime temperatures, the Guardsman said.

“They don't complain but it's my job to really protect the team and make sure they are not put into those substandard conditions, so we pulled them out,” Sununu said on Fox & Friends on Saturday morning. “If there’s another call, there’s another mission we’re always going to be there, absolutely. But I just needed to make sure we weren’t being part of a broken system.”

DeSantis called the deployment a “half-cocked mission at this point” and said it was time to bring the Guardsmen home.“These folks are soldiers,” DeSantis said on Fox News on Friday morning. “They’re not Nancy Pelosi’s servants. This comes on the back end of them trying to investigative the backgrounds of our guardsmen. Florida, we did not let them go into their political beliefs. That was totally inappropriate.”

One Guard member whose unit has been involuntarily extended through Feb. 6 said morale was already low due to the long hours and poor conditions. The extension is a new hardship, particularly during a devastating pandemic in which many of the citizen-soldiers would rather be home with their families.

"The treatment we've received lately and the Covid symptoms we face are taking their toll. Especially as it becomes clear to us that we are no longer wanted," the person said. "It's shameful."

The FBI vetted guard members amid fears of an insider attack, removing 12.

Texas’ Abbott tweeted Thursday night that he had instructed a general to order the state’s National Guard back home, and Montana’s Gianforte did the same Friday morning. [....]