Apparently the Cabinet thinks “No 10 is a f***ing mess”.
— Andrew Levi (@AndrewPRLevi) January 15, 2022
And the Prime Minister is angrily asking his staff “How has it come to this?”
Impossible to say. Hmmm. No. I can’t work it out.
Anyone? pic.twitter.com/TiIhUerhav
Don't be daft, that's months away he doesn't think beyond tomorrow 😂😂😂
— Angela from Kent (on BlueSky) 💙#FBPE (@aev1609) January 15, 2022
Best line in this via a "senior minister" -."[Johnson] is in total survival mode. He is so worried he's started reading his [government] papers." https://t.co/n919UrxyOj
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) January 15, 2022
Boris Johnson’s approval rating has plummeted to -42%, falling from -24% last week, according to the latest polling from @OpiniumResearch.
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) January 15, 2022
In line with other polls, they give Labour a 10 point lead.
Looks like Johnson has decided to throw his wife under the bus. pic.twitter.com/j7mNtCdfcf
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) January 15, 2022
On the present discontents: Tory MPs, not Sue Gray, must deliver Final judgment on the PM and the booze culture and contempt for rules inside Downing Street. Second, those same MPs, backed by Labour, should give statutory powers to the ethics adviser to the PM as per Lord Evans
— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) January 15, 2022
The Daily Mail, in backing Johnson, has catastrophically misjudged the public mood. pic.twitter.com/dZO0fxGKxM
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) January 15, 2022
Once people decide someone is a dickhead, they’re never respected again. Tolerated maybe. But essentially done. Not funny. Not liked. Not trusted. Most of us have always thought of Johnson as a dickhead. Painful that we’ve had to go through so much for others to catch up.
— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) January 15, 2022
I cannot believe how much damage @metpoliceuk are doing to the credibility of policing in England and Wales. The reputational damage of stubbornly refusing to investigate this matter surrounding @BorisJohnson is a horrendous mistake.
— Philip Priestley 🇪🇺🇮🇪 (@PublicPriestley) January 14, 2022
This government's #PolicingBill would give the police the power to stop and search anyone attending a protest.
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) January 14, 2022
While he parties at Downing Street, Boris Johnson is turning this country into an authoritarian state. #KillTheBill #PCSCBill pic.twitter.com/0p8oGMQpa6
The right to protest is not a gift of government, it’s one of our most precious democratic rights
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) January 15, 2022
This Govt is trying to remove that right
That's why I support peaceful protests against the #PolicingBill @killthebill_1
My column in @MetroUK ⬇️https://t.co/6EAYchYveI
Times has corker of a tale about Chinese "agent" named by MI5 and Patel, Christine Lee, gave £65,000 to Tories after being a fund raiser with Johnson. Tories did not record Chinese "gift" says Times
— Denis MacShane (@DenisMacShane) January 15, 2022
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Field day for FBI agents as Trump rally urges decertification
Do you have trouble maintaining an insurrection?
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) January 15, 2022
The #TrumpRally may be right for you.
State legislatures have no legal or constitutional authority to "decertify" electors once they've been selected according to the laws that were in place at the time the election was held. https://t.co/CGRF86rpxG
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 15, 2022
“so far [DOJ] does not appear to be directly investigating the person whose desperate bid to stay in office motivated the mayhem [Trump] either for potentially inciting a riot or for what some observers see as a related pressure campaign to overturn the results of the election.” https://t.co/QZC4R5SuGY
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) January 16, 2022
If you made a movie about a tacky attempt to decertify the election and steal the Presidency by bullying secretaries of state and one of the main characters was a pillow salesman defending a real estate tycoon who used to sell steaks on TV you would be laughed out of a room.
— Conor Rogers (@conorjrogers) January 12, 2022
AZ had over 20,000 new cases of COVID on Friday, and the state has officially requested President Biden send military paramedics to help with overflowing hospitals. Donald Trump is having a mask-free rally there today.
— Mark Sumner (@Devilstower) January 15, 2022
Trump (yeah the loser bleach guy) is holding a rally
— Planet Belfast 🇪🇺 (@Planet_Belfast) January 16, 2022
The attendees are all perfectly sane 🙄 https://t.co/cgHDE0fiJm
What’s nice about this kind of stuff is that believers seem completely unbothered by the fact that none of it has happened. https://t.co/lI8ruUhtMN
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 16, 2022
Spotted going through the expedited entrance at the Trump rally in Arizona tonight: Ali Alexander, one of the main Stop the Steal organizers.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) January 15, 2022
PHOTO: World’s shittiest parent. #TrumpRally pic.twitter.com/Z3wi0Hiy1U
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) January 15, 2022
This isn’t about the mask wars. This is about no rules for the high court. https://t.co/QoFlHJGnhz
— Slate (@Slate) January 15, 2022
A strategy to dismantle democracy – by replacing professional election administrators with partisans willing to block election results they disagree with – talked about openly, in broad daylight. https://t.co/2EV7E1Wyqw
— Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) January 15, 2022
The forged electoral certificates show coordination across seven states. Those fake certificates were key to the plan of the Eastman memo and to the Jeffrey Clark DOJ draft letter to Georgia. The conspiracy involved fraud and force. At the head of the conspiracy: Donald Trump.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 15, 2022
Developing…
BREAKING: A man has apparently taken hostages during services at a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas, and a SWAT team is on the scene, authorities said. https://t.co/nkJNCaF5vi
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 15, 2022
One suspect has taken the rabbi and three others hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, TX. The hostage-taker is claiming to be armed and says his sister is Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in New York of trying to kill US military personnel
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) January 15, 2022
Authorities are responding to a hostage situation at a Dallas-area synagogue. Negotiators are in contact with someone in the building, police say. https://t.co/AFye9N0PUW
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) January 15, 2022
President Biden has been briefed on "the developing hostage situation" at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, the White House press secretary said. Follow live updates: https://t.co/qWG2Wf8DxP
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 15, 2022
Whoa….
Tonga's Hunga Tonga volcano just had one of the most violent volcano eruptions ever captured on satellite. pic.twitter.com/M2D2j52gNn
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) January 15, 2022
Huge volcanic eruption near Tonga. Reports of tsunami there and it's gone pitch black. Lots of lightning too. #tonga pic.twitter.com/Eia4fidPRc
— Rick Threlfall (@RickThrelfall) January 15, 2022
Tonga: tsunami floods streets and cuts communication after undersea volcano erupts https://t.co/GZvHK4X4lK
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 15, 2022
The Overnight Note 