One person who Donald Trump’s time in the White House really hurt was Ivanka. Sure, millions of people were affected by the 45th president’s terrible policies—from the children taken from their parents under his heinous family-separation policy to the transgender people who lost their health protections to the hundreds of thousands who literally died on his watch—but the first daughter saw her political and social aspirations take a hit—an outcome that, she’d likely argue, is much, much worse. Whereas she and Jared Kushner moved to Washington reportedly believing it would be just a few short years before she’d become the first woman president, those plans have been put on hold thanks to, among other things, her dad lying to the public about a virus that has now killed more than 5.5 million people worldwide, and that business of encouraging his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol and overturn the election.

Necessarily, that‘s forced Ivanka and the ole ball and chain to lay low this past year, save for a misguided attempt to reenter polite society before being promptly told to fuck off. On Instagram and Twitter—where the former first daughter once regularly cosplayed as a person with an actual job—she’d been completely silent for a record eight months. But on Tuesday, she apparently felt a pull too strong to stay away. You know the pull we’re talking about: the one whispering, “Don’t even think about doing something good for others without posting about it in an attempt to start rehabbing your image.”

According to the New York Post, Trump was in Rochester, New York, on Friday helping distribute food boxes with Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya, which is obviously a worthy thing to do. Less clear is how posting several stylized photos of the event after the fact—and with no information for people who may still be looking for food assistance—helps anyone but herself.

Strangely, Ivanka did not mention the fact that her father’s administration tried to strip approximately 700,000 unemployed people of their food stamp benefits in April 2020, i.e. during the height of the COVID pandemic. And that the only reason it didn’t end up doing so was because a judge intervened the following October, calling the move “arbitrary and capricious.” And that, in combination with two other proposed rules from the Trump administration, the moves would have reportedly taken away the food stamp benefits from approximately 3.7 million people in an average month, reduced benefits for millions more, and resulted in 982,000 students losing automatic access to free or reduced-price school meals. Just something to recall next time Mother Teresa wants credit for all the good she’s supposedly doing behind the scenes.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has lost more than half of her congressional salary to mask fines

The Georgia representative earns $174,000 a year and has been fined nearly $90,000 for refusing to wear a mask. The fines are deducted directly from her paycheck, and while masking has proved helpful in stopping the spread of COVID-19, apparently there is no cure for whatever this woman is afflicted with.

Speaking of selfish anti-maskers 

Apparently they’ve got one on the Supreme Court. Per NPR:

It was pretty jarring earlier this month when the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took the bench for the first time since the omicron surge over the holidays. All were now wearing masks. All, that is, except Justice Neil Gorsuch. What’s more, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was not there at all, choosing instead to participate through a microphone setup in her chambers. Sotomayor has diabetes, a condition that puts her at high risk for serious illness, or even death, from COVID-19. She has been the only justice to wear a mask on the bench since last fall when, amid a marked decline in COVID-19 cases, the justices resumed in-person arguments for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.

Now, though, the situation had changed with the omicron surge, and according to court sources, Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up. They all did. Except Gorsuch, who, as it happens, sits next to Sotomayor on the bench. His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone.

Last year Gorsuch claimed at a conference that his colleagues “really love one another, respect one another and listen to one another,” though apparently that love and respect does not extend, in his case, to wearing a piece of fabric across his face so his colleague can avoid contracting a potentially deadly virus.

The January 6 committee subpoenas Trump’s merry band of unhinged election attorneys

“The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former president about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes,” Chairman Bennie Thompson said, referring to Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Boris Epshteyn, in a statement that actually sort of undersold the lengths to which the group tried to convince the public the election was rife with fraud. (Powell, for one, peddled a conspiracy theory connecting the supposedly stolen election to Hugo Chávez, the deceased former dictator of Venezuela.)

In a letter about the subpoenas, Thompson cited Giuliani’s attempt to convince state legislators to overturn the election results, his telling Trump to seize voting machines across the country, and his contact with the then president in the days ahead of January 6 “regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election.”

Robert Costello, Giuliani’s lawyer, told The Washington Post on Tuesday he will review the subpoena but claimed there are major legal barriers to Giuliani actually cooperating. “It should be obvious, even to a non-lawyer like Bennie Thompson, that besides executive privilege we have attorney-client privilege and to my knowledge Donald Trump hasn’t waived that privilege,” Costello said. “The reality is that this is just more political theater from the committee.” For his part, Giuliani had his law license suspended last June after a court ruled he had made “demonstrably false and misleading statements.” 

Elsewhere!

Manchin: Primary me if you want, I won’t go ‘nuclear’ (Politico)

Nick Saban, Jerry West urge Manchin to support voting rights legislation (The Washington Post)

Florida’s governor wants to create election cops. Yikes. (The Week)

The burgeoning Trump-DeSantis clash (The Washington Post)

Larry Fink Infuriates Republicans and Climate Activists Alike (Bloomberg)

Bill de Blasio Says He Won’t Run for Governor After All (The New York Times)

Goldman’s Record Expenses Show Ballooning Costs of Talent War (Bloomberg)

‘Worst house on best block’ of San Francisco sells for $2M (AP)

An Oklahoma pastor has apologized after smearing his spit in a man’s eye during a sermon: ‘It got too live’ (The Washington Post)

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