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from BBC News (UK)
The Queen is the UK's longest-serving monarch, having reigned for almost 70 years. Born in 1926, Princess Elizabeth became queen on the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952. She married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1947 and the couple have four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward. A former prince of Denmark and Greece, Prince Philip was born in 1921 and served in the British Royal Navy in World War Two. He is the longest-serving consort of any British monarch, and retired from royal duties in 2017 having completed more than 22,000 solo engagements.
from Daily Kos
Josh Hawley was right to worry, because the FBI really is reading his communications with insurgents
America watched the events of the January riot and insurgency occur in real time. They saw Trump supporters pushing down police lines to swarm the Capitol grounds. Then watched as those Trump supporters swarmed up the Capitol steps. Watched them smash through the doors and windows. Watched them surge into the halls of Congress carrying zip ties and weapons. Watched them raid congressional offices and stroll the floors of both House and Senate while calling for the murder of Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. As more evidence about events of that day appears, what’s clear is that America didn’t come close to seeing all the violence and destruction brought on by those trying to roll back the revolution and crown Trump as America’s king. New testimony from those present on that day, video not previously seen by the public, and evidence developed by investigation is revealing a situation that was even more violent, more destructive, and more threatening to the nation than was obvious from the jaw-dropping scenes that appeared on television screens. And in addition to evidence of destructive violence, there is also increasing evidence of involvement from Republican officials. That includes both a State Department official now wanted for taking an active role in the violence, and increasing signs of coordination between those breaking into Congress and the Republican legislators inside.
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from Forbes
A former State Department aide who had been appointed by former President Donald Trump was arrested Thursday in connection with the Capitol riot, Politico first reported and the FBI also later confirmed with The Hill, making him the first person who worked directly in the Trump Administration to face charges for playing a role in the attack. The FBI arrested Federico Klein in Virginia, a spokesperson at the FBI’s Washington Field Office told Politico, and was charged with unlawful entry, violent and disorderly conduct, obstructing Congress and law enforcement, and assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon, the New York Times reported. Video from the riot shows Klein resisting and assaulting officers in and around the Capitol building, court documents say, including one where he is seen trying to take items from officers and attacking them with a riot shield.
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from The Independent
LEFT BIAS, Media/News Company in London, UK
A proposal from Bernie Sanders to raise the federal hourly minimum wage to $15 from its current $7.25 failed in the Senate after the senator sought to include the measure in a White House-backed coronavirus relief package. The House of Representatives included the wage hike in its version of its $1.9 trillion legislation, which includes unemployment relief, support for families with children, and funding for schools and vaccine distribution, among other initiatives critical to Joe Biden’s plan to combat the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout a year after the outbreak. After the Senate rules-advising parliamentarian shot down the inclusion of a wage increase in the bill, Senator Sanders vowed to introduce an amendment to put it into the legislation. The proposal would gradually raise the minimum wage by $2.25 each year through 2025. On Friday all Senate Republicans, seven Democrats and one Independent senator rejected the amendment for a vote of 42-58 against. It needed 60 votes to pass.
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from Rolling Stone
The newly minted Cabinet secretary on the climate crisis, electric vehicles, and bringing sexy back to transportation policy
Pete Buttigieg, the man now responsible for managing the means by which Americans travel trillions of miles per year, can’t leave his house. Just days after he was confirmed as secretary of transportation, a member of his security detail tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the newly minted Cabinet member to start turning the wheels on his agenda from quarantine. “We’re trying to practice what we preach, right?” he says of the decision to stay home. He’s trying his best to hide his exasperation.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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The values that guided me in opening Black Cypress inform my support for raising a wealth tax on the capital gains profits of those who can most afford it: the wealthiest 1 percent of Washingtonians. To rebuild our economy and our communities, we must grow out of this crisis by investing in our economy and our communities. The proposal in Olympia – Senate Bill 5096 – would create a wealth tax on capital gains profits made from the sale of stocks and other lucrative assets.
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from The Vancouver Sun
Bill Barlee was B.C.'s most beloved popular historian.
Bill Barlee started Canada West magazine in 1969 with seven subscribers, all friends. It was a labour of love. The Penticton history teacher was obsessed with B.C. history, and wanted to tell some of the stories he had learned about “gold creeks and ghosts towns.” Against all odds, it caught on. When Barry Broadfoot interviewed Barlee for the March 5, 1971, edition of The Vancouver Sun, Canada West had 2,000 subscribers, and was selling another 2,000 copies on newsstands. Not bad, considering that Barlee wrote, printed and distributed the magazines by himself, working out of the basement of his home in Summerland. It was not a slick publication. The stories looked like they had been written on a typewriter, then photocopied. Barlee did many illustrations himself, in a rudimentary style few newspapers or magazines would have ever published. But it suited stories like “Old Women’s Buffalo Jump,” the “Leech River Gold Rush,” and “The Lost Morgan Mine.” Canada West was a publication about the pioneer days that looked like it was from the pioneer days.
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