This week’s big stories are mostly just continuations of last week’s stories: the war in Gaza, the House of Representatives frozen by the Republican majority’s inability to choose a speaker, and the Trump trials.
The featured post last week focused on Gaza; this week it focuses on the House. In addition to the play-by-play of Jim Jordan’s failure to become speaker, I found a couple of insightful articles about why the Republican majority is the way it is. “The House, still divided” should appear around 10 EDT.
The weekly summary will include a few odds and ends about the House that would have cluttered the featured post, a quick rundown of developments in Gaza (including Biden’s speech to the nation Thursday night), the significance of Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell pleading guilty (and promising to testify against other defendants) in the Georgia RICO trial, and a few other things, before closing with a barbershop quartet’s amusing medley of 90s pop-music hits. I’m aiming to get that out around noon.
The Weekly Sift 