It doesn’t require much of an imagination to think of all the ways Gov. DeSantis might use a weaponized force that’s accountable exclusively to him, @_jahan writes for @thereidout Blog.

.@AriMelber: "Given the rate of vaccination in the United States...is the CDC's view and is its level of planning right now that this will not really be eradicated?" CDC director: "This is likely to become an endemic disease here in the United States and really around the world" https://t.co/H6U2AOU2tg

.@MaddowBlog: For the second time this week, a lawyer close to Former President Trump has told the Jan. 6 committee that he will plead the Fifth.

CDC director: While we are watching omicron carefully right now, we have 86,000 cases a day in the United States and 99.9% of those are the delta variant...We may very well see more omicron in more states in the days ahead and we will be following the science as those data emerge https://t.co/yJ3rhNBJ7l

Live on @MSNBC: CDC Dir. Walensky joins @arimelber to discuss the omicron Covid-19 variant. https://t.co/Ef1rpUcej3

.@Maddow: "Magic dirt. What? This is a real thing that the anti-vaccine people are doing now."

"Americans will not stand for the fall of our nation," Stacey Abrams says.

"There's no question that Donald Trump was the superspreader around this time within the White House," Omarosa Manigault Newman says. "Not only does he not care if he exposed his staff...he tried to blame military families for giving him Covid."

As the Supreme Court hears a challenge to Roe v. Wade from Mississippi, Democrats plan to focus their 2022 midterm campaigns on abortion rights.

Envelopes full of cash and checks were found behind a loose toilet by a plumber doing repairs at celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas, according to church officials.