Fox to politicize the weather?

From the New York Times:

As the appetite for cable news wanes, Rupert Murdoch is preparing to launch a new TV venture: Fox Weather.

The company is aggressively poaching star meteorologists, hoping to become a powerful new player in a sphere long dominated by the Weather Channel.https://t.co/oxG0YHNNW8

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 6, 2021

There has been considerable reaction to the Fox decision. On Twitter, references to a certain president with a sharpie is one of the most popular responses. Others predict that it will be weather for people who don’t believe in climate change. Still others suggest a renaming of hurricanes. (For example -- Hurricane Antifa followed by Hurricane Bengazi and so on.) One of my favorite humor columnists, the Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri, wrote about possible programming earlier today:

• Dangerous Hurricane Now Making Its Way from Foreign Waters to Your Home Because Joe Biden Isn’t Strong Enough
  
• Cloud Caravan Shaped Like All Your Worst Nightmares Is Almost to Your Neighborhood
  
• Could the Flood Be Because of Something Your Child’s Public School Teacher Is Doing Wrong

Remembering the insurrection

Republicans would prefer that we forget it, but here is a compilation of major newspaper front pages from six months ago today:

Front pages from this morning six months ago. pic.twitter.com/1OTeSdovRY

— The '60s at 60 (@the_60s_at_60) July 7, 2021

And if you haven’t watched the excellent New York Times video on the January 6 insurrection, you can watch it by clicking on the link:

For some, Jan. 6 was just a rally for their president. For others, it was more.

The New York Times spent months collecting and analyzing footage from the Capitol riot. We scoured radio communications. We interviewed witnesses. Here’s what we found. https://t.co/0EQ2JilQgN

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 30, 2021

Finally

"Well, Hitler did a lot of good things"
Trump allegedly praised Adolf Hitler during a discussion with his White House chief of staff John Kelly in 2018 while on a trip to Paris to commemorate the armistice after World War I, according to book excerpts. https://t.co/uKQv8Y901k

— CNN (@CNN) July 7, 2021