ATLANTA, Jan. 24 - At a 1:00 p.m. ET news conference tomorrow, longtime DUer Pinback is expected to reveal the discovery of several classified documents at his Atlanta-area residence. The documents are believed to be printouts of emails from his time as a contractor at {REDACTED}, Inc.

"I had no idea I had anything like that," Pinback reportedly told a confidant, saying he found them in an old manila folder in the bottom drawer of his filing cabinet. "To tell you the truth," he allegedly told the source, "I hardly ever look in there. It's pretty disorganized, and kind of scary, really."

The long-forgotten emails are believed to contain "parodies of corporate announcements written with co-workers and several draft resignation letters."

What more do you want? He’s sorry if anyone was offended by his statements, or his feet on the desk, or by the envelope that crawled into his hand. The Capitol became attacked — some innocent tourists got caught up in the events of the day. Most unfortunate happenstance.

Now he has become convicted. Oh well, thoughts and prayers.


https://seditiontracker.com/suspects/richard-barnett.html

If you've seen "Servant of the People," the Volodymyr Zelenskyy TV sitcom that was his unlikely springboard to the Ukrainian presidency, you'll recognize several of the cast members in this troupe.

According to DuckDuckGo's translation of the Russian text from YouTube, this is from a March 2019 performance for the popular TV program "Evening Quarter." (If anyone who knows the language can provide more information, please post your response!)

Even without knowing the language, I found this song (and the audience's reaction) quite moving. Hope you'll enjoy it.

By Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker
December 7, 2022

- Mark Niesse, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, tonight

- https://www.ajc.com/news/live-updates/2022-senate-runoff-election/

Metro Atlanta is getting a lot of credit, but this is a statewide win. As in 2020, when Biden lost by less in small counties all over Georgia as compared to Clinton in 2016, Warnock’s team put together a win that drew support from every part of the state.

Those Democratic voters in Alice Walker’s hometown of Eatonton, in Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains and nearby Americus, even the badly outnumbered Dem voters in Rome and Cedartown — where they have to live with representation by the Jewish Space Laser lady — all those votes added up to bring home the win for Sen. Warnock.

THANK YOU to the Georgia Dem Party, every county Dem Party, Fair Fight Georgia, the New Georgia Project, Black Voters Matter, Unite Here, and many other organizations — and to the thousands of volunteers who knocked doors, made phone calls, worked campaign events, wrote post cards and letters, and never gave up.

I remember the last time we had a Democratic U.S. Senator before we were blessed with Ossoff and Warnock. That was Zell Miller. (Sorry for that memory.)

Although it would be wildly optimistic to say that Georgia has “turned Blue” — we do have a state government that’s still firmly in Red clutches — tonight, we can take a breath, hoot and holler, and enjoy this win for the ages.

As another DU thread tonight pointed out, Warnock has now won election to the U.S. Senate FOUR TIMES in two years (not counting the primaries). I’d say he deserves it.

Warnock carries ‘swingiest’ county in Georgia
- Greg Bluestein, AJC, tonight


- https://www.ajc.com/news/live-updates/2022-senate-runoff-election/

I suspect most of us will be following Warnock vs. Werewolf results via teevee or various Internet sources tonight, but in case you want to check results as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, they'll be posting updates as noted here:
https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/georgia-senate-runoff-dec-6-how-to-follow-results-and-updates-from-the-ajc/PPHUZI6WQBHSPKIGQFG643NSIM/

• Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/sdn6o

- More info at link posted above.

See also:
https://www.ajc.com/news/live-updates/2022-senate-runoff-election/
https://www.ajc.com/politics/election-results/

Gotta be getting close if not there already!

https://thestadiumreviews.com/blogs/info/what-is-the-mendoza-line/

Congratulations to Sen. Cortez Masto! And to all of us.

Now, let's re-elect Senator Warnock for the icing on the cake.