Apologies for not publishing a Morning Sixpack yesterday. I had–ahem–*computer issues*. Before you go all “Get a Mac” on me, know that it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to my own foot – I ran out of hard disk space and then went down a rabbit hole chasing duplicate files.
Color me a *tad* OCD.
All that said, today's Morning Sixpack is a combination of yesterday and today. No, you don't get twelve stories today, just the best six today and yesterday had to offer. Remember, you get what you pay for.
Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed a Plan to Oust Trump from Office on Jan. 6: Report
Steve Mnuchin and Mike Pompeo discussed a plan to remove Trump from office after the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to Jonathan Karl’s new book Betrayal, which chronicles the final days of the former president’s time in office.
Then-Treasury Secretary Mnuchin reportedly called then-Secretary of State Pompeo on the evening of Jan. 6 to suggest using the 25th Amendment, which outlines the protocols for how to replace the president or vice president in the event of their death, removal from office, resignation, or incapacitation. “I learned that Mnuchin had several conversations about the 25th Amendment and, further, that Mike Pompeo actually asked for a legal analysis of the 25th Amendment and how it would work,” Karl said during an appearance on MSNBC Monday morning.
Rolling Stone
Well, well, well…I think this is just a story to CYA. It was never going to happen. But I betcha they knew about all the things leading up to the insurrection…and didn't do jack shit about it.
This could have possibly been the top story today. Pie is as American as guns and war.
How climate change and extreme weather are crimping America’s pie supply
TAMPA — For months, supply chain and labor shortages have been putting the squeeze on Mike’s Pies, a popular commercial bakery here that’s been selling pies based off owner Mike Martin’s mother’s recipes for three decades.
But another powerful factor — climate change — is heightening those challenges. Its impact is less visible but more enduring, and its consequences are playing out right as the food industry is struggling to avoid holiday season shortages.
Many of the ingredients in Mike’s Pies’ pies — wheat, berries, honey, soybean oil, among numerous others — have been hit hard by climate and weather effects, including droughts, wildfires and power shutdowns around the world. That’s sending prices soaring and, combined with a scarcity of workers and other hurdles, is causing mayhem throughout the global food supply chain.
“We are cutting every order that we ship; we can’t fulfill the obligations,” Martin said.
WaPo
Don't mess with Texas OR pie!
100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic
The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. It is the first time that drug-related deaths have reached six figures in any 12-month period.Tracker: U.S. cases, deaths and hospitalizations
The people who died — 275 every day — would fill the stadium where the University of Alabama plays football. Together, they equal the population of Roanoke, Va.
There are now more overdose deaths from the illegal synthetic opioid fentanyl than there were overdose deaths from any drug in 2016.
WaPo
If you can't overdose on pie during Thanksgiving this year, you could always give fentanyl a try.
A deer smashed into a Michigan church on the first day of hunting season. Pastors say it ‘had come for prayer.’
Pastors at Grace Sturgis first suspected someone had broken in when they arrived at their nondenominational church in southern Michigan on Monday morning.
They saw a shattered window in the auditorium and heard thumping in the dark, pastor Amanda Eicher told MLive.com. When they turned on the lights, however, they were surprised to find a 10-point buck scrambling to escape.
It was the first day of Michigan’s firearm hunting season.
“I was just shocked by how high he could jump,” Eicher said. “I was amazed at how big he was.”
Eicher and two other pastors barricaded the hallway to block the deer from going into other parts of the church. Meanwhile, the buck wandered across the auditorium stage, near the drums and soundboard.
Eicher went back into the auditorium and started filming. The buck climbed up to the second-floor balcony and started pacing back and forth, according to a 48-second Facebook video, which had racked up 82,000 views by Wednesday morning.
Washington Post
And the chasm grows ever larger between how hunters on the West Coast and the uncivilized world count points on a buck.
(In the West, hunters count only one side of a deer's antlers. On the East Coast, they count both. Obviously to make the deer sound really really BIG. They're wrong.)
Devastating floods and deadly landslides hit northwest U.S., Canada after heavy rains
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — As many parts of Western Washington began drying out after a storm that dumped rain for days, waters in some areas continued rising, more people were urged to evacuate and crews worked to restore power and reopen roads.
Officials in the small city of Sumas, Washington, near the Canada border called the flood damage there devastating. Officials said on Facebook Tuesday that hundreds of people had been evacuated and estimated that 75 percent of homes had water damage.
The soaking reminded people of western Washington’s record, severe flooding in November 1990 when two people died and there were more than 2,000 evacuations, officials said.
“These families and businesses need our prayers and support as we start the process of cleanup and rebuilding over the next few days,” the Facebook post said.
Across the border, the body of a woman was recovered from a landslide northeast of Vancouver, British Columbia, near Lillooet that was triggered by record rainfall. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said at least two other people were reported missing.
NBC News
Most of Washington, where I live, has gotten at least twice the normal rainfall in the first half of November. Floods everywhere…trees down…and today, it's below freezing, so be careful driving…and walking. Broken tailbones and hips are no bueno.
Schiff says January 6 committee will ‘move quickly' to refer Mark Meadows for criminal contempt
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who also serves on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, said the committee will “move quickly” to refer Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff at the White House, for criminal contempt for not cooperating with its investigation.”We have been moving very quickly to make these decisions and I'm confident we'll move very quickly with respect to Mr. Meadows also,” California Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press.” “But when ultimately witnesses decide, as Meadows has, that they're not even going to bother showing up, that they have that much contempt for the law, then it pretty much forces our hand, and we'll move quickly.”Meadows failed to appear for a deposition on Friday, setting up a potential showdown that could lead to the panel beginning a criminal referral process against him as well.Schiff also called Steve Bannon's indictment by the Department of Justice “very positive” news.
CNN
GOOD! Jail all these mofos. The party of “law and order” abandons all their “sacred” principles when they no longer serve their selfish purposes.
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