Letters to the Editor: GOP should publicly disavow Trump s lies
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at the Capitol on Wednesday morning, Jan. 6, 2021. McConnell has told associates he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach Trump, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Following the devastation of the Trump administration and the insurrection at the Capitol, our country will need truth and reconciliation, but reconciliation without truth is impossible. Republican leaders need to disavow President Trump’s big lie and begin with the truth: Joe Biden won a fair election and is our legitimate next president. When all have accepted this, we can move on to finding common ground and a way forward that will allow grievances to heal. Without this first step, Republican calls for unity will continue to invite derision.
Photograph by Matthew Suárez
What needs protecting? The beach and the bluff. Both things make the coast and the coast is being ravaged.
The Sand at Encinitas
Jayme Timberlake tide-watcher, restoration ecologist, avid surfer light-foots it down Encinitas’s iconic Stone Steps. She’s barefoot, having kicked off her shoes and left them on the sand-dusted floor of her truck cab. Desk-chained me follows, white legs and black tennies. We gaze up at the sentinel sandstone cliff-backs beside us and their telltale, sharp-edged furrows (or rills) of erosion. The sight feels perilous: 100-foot escarpments, topped by private homes and the occasional railroad-tie buttress.
Britain braces for Big Freeze: Forecasters issue weather warnings for snow and ice in the north with parts of England to be gripped by harsh frost as Beast from the East sweeps in
Weather warning for snow and ice issued in northern parts of Britain as it braces for a predicted Big Freeze
Temperatures could plummet to -1C (30.2F) in parts of Scotland and not scheduled to go above 4C (39.2F)
Frosts predicted to form in the north west this morning and wintery showers could see some icy patches
Drivers are advised to be cautious as tricky travel conditions may be caused by icy patches and hill snow
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