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Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Graham, Cotton break with GOP objectors

Igor Derysh

Two of Trump's Senate allies pour cold water on the president's plans to challenge Electoral College results

Brad Raffensperger and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Georgia call was no idle threat

Heather Digby Parton

Why bother calling Brad Raffensperger if he doesn't really believe he can coerce him to deliver those 11,000 votes?

A voter wears a bilingual I voted sticker at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) during early voting in the 2020 US presidential election. (Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images)

The force of secular "value voters"

Phil Zuckerman - The Conversation

Secular voters — a quickly growing demographic — vote on values with just as much motivation as the religious

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (Getty/Michael B. Thomas)

MO Senator will contest Biden's victory

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Despite urging from McConnell to the contrary, Hawley still plans on voicing objections to the results in Congress

A nurse cares for a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at El Centro Regional Medical Center in hard-hit Imperial County on July 28, 2020 in El Centro, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

GOP senator dies of COVID

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

Virginia Sen. Ben Chafin's office recently announced his death due to complications of coronavirus.

US President Donald Trump (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's new crime: Mary's not surprised

Chauncey DeVega

Mary Trump on her uncle's desperate attempt to escape being a "loser": It's a "uniquely terrifying situation"

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thanksgiving on November 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump had earlier made the traditional call to members of the military stationed abroad through video teleconference. (Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Images)

Shafer rages over Trump call recording

Sarah K Burris - Raw Story

Brad Raffensberger recorded a call where the President of the United States demanded a crime be committed

U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump accused of "extortion" after call

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

After Trump's call with Brad Raffensperger is leaked, a new question: How many other such calls has he made?

(Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Expert: Sunburst hack was devastating

Paulo Shakarian - The Conversation

The scope of the attack was huge, with SolarWinds estimating that around 18,000 firms were affected

(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Ecosystem loss, pollution & COVID-19

Leanna First-Arai - Truthout

Ecosystem loss has caused hundreds of diseases to jump from other animals to humans

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Instagram shifts towards shopping

Nazanin Andalibi - The Conversation

Instagram's Shop button signals the growing commodification of human interactions on social media

"Cobra Kai" (Sony Pictures Television)

Cobra Kai & middle-aged masculinity

Panizza Allmark - The Conversation

The characters already redefined masculinity for a generation of teenagers — now they're back to address mid-life

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in "Sherlock" (BBC)

Sherlock & the case of toxic masculinity

Ashley Morgan - The Conversation

Holmes is often portrayed as unemotional and arrogant — why hasn't this been challenged in modern adaptations?

Engraving of the Stratford House in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the birthplace of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1845. Where the enslaved cook Caesar worked. From the New York Public Library. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

The history of chocolate and slavery

Kelley Fanto Deetz - The Conversation

The story of Caesar, an enslaved cook and chocolatier in Colonial Virginia

Class of women performing the meditative Sukhasana pose in a bright, modern yoga studio. (Getty Images)

Did 2020 kill yoga?

Nicole Karlis

Big Yoga was hit by the pandemic, questions of appropriation, and QAnon. Is the fitness trend dying in the US?

SIERRA MADRE, CA: Spam, the often-maligned classic canned lunch meat made by Hormel Foods, is seen on a grocery store shelf May 29, 2008, in Sierra Madre, Calif. Spam was created in 1937 and was popularized as a staple food for World War II Western allied forces. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

The lonely legacy of Spam

Eric Kim - Food52

Once seemingly alone in their love for Spam, many Asian Americans today are finding comfort in shared histories

The Berkshire Family Restaurant on State Hill Road in Wyoming Tuesday morning September 29, 2020. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Restaurants brace for "gift card season"

Ashlie D. Stevens

Some restaurant owners have crafted an ingenious scheme: Convince customers to wait on redeeming gift cards

Rolled Kimbap (Photo courtesy of the Institute of Culinary Education/Grace Lee)

Kimbap: Korean rolls fit for a picnic

Joy Cho - Institute of Culinary Education

Pastry Chef Joy Cho shares a traditional Korean dish from her family and culture

Bridgerton (Netflix)

"Bridgerton" sex is not sexy

Melanie McFarland

For all of the ballyhoo over the Netflix series' depiction of sensual Regency, the sex looks terrible

(Melina Hammer / Food52)

A love letter to scallops

Melina Hammer - Food52

Plus, some favorite ways to prepare them in each season

Liquid drop falling into test tubes (Getty Images)

When poison becomes medicine

Luke Shors, Amit Chandra

How the concept of "dose response" shaped modern science and vaccinology

Brad Raffensperger and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Hear: New audio of Trump trying to cheat

David Edwards - Raw Story

In hour-long call, Trump pressures Republican Brad Raffensperger to "recalculate" the vote in his favor

(Getty/Ethan Miller/Olivier Douliery/Salon)

Pence welcomes Cruz to the resistance

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

The vice president green-lights GOP scheme to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote

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How to cut an avocado like a pro

Jess Kapadia - Food52

Start churning out avocado slices and cubes like a lean green machine

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