12-26-2022 Newsletter

 

ONWARD! We hope you and your dear ones are enjoying a joyous holiday season. Let each of us bring hope, peace, love, kindness, and better days for our country and planet to 2023. Best wishes for your new year from INCO's leadership team, Bebe, Carmen, Cheryl, Eric, Kathleen, Ken, Laurie, Mary Beth FOCUS: BRINGING TRUMP TO JUSTICE   J6 committee last hearing and summary of referrals to DOJ Comments from Heather Cox Richardson, December 19, 2022  Comments from Robert Hubbell, December 20, 2022    Jonathan Last discusses the implications and possible consequences of the referrals in his Bulwark column.  The complete J6 report Joyce Vance presents an excellent chapter-by-chapter overview of the complete 845-page report. Vance quotes the report: “The Select Committee estimates that in the two months between the November election and the January 6th insurrection, President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators, to overturn State election results. This included at least: 68 meetings, attempted or connected phone calls, or text messages, each aimed at one or more State or local officials; 18 instances of prominent public remarks, with language targeting one or more such officials; and 125 social media posts by President Trump or senior aides targeting one or more such officials, either explicitly or implicitly, and mostly from his own account.” FOCUS: OUT OF THIS WORLD INCO celebrates what people accomplish when we cooperate, share, learn, and listen. Thanks to the BBC and the James Webb telescope for these photos of our marvelous universe released after the initial drop last summer. This photo, per BBC.com: "This large galaxy to the right was discovered by the great Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in the 1940s. Its intricate cartwheel structure is the result of a head-on collision with another galaxy. The diameter is about 145,000 light years." Note: 1 light year equals 5.88 trillion miles, so the diameter of this cartwheel galaxy is 85,260,000 trillion miles.  FOCUS: DEFENDING DEMOCRACY -- Photo and caption from The Hill. HAPPENINGS Thursday, January 12 - INCO South County Community Group, 6:30-7:30 pm, via Zoom. All INCO members are invited to attend. Contact Bebe at littlebylittle4change@gmail.com to get the Zoom link. INSIGHTS “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”  ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter       December 26, 2022