Open Thread: Banana Art!

Shorter Tom Cotton: That dang free speech is for white Republicans, NOT you, hippies! Chris Hayes takes the story from here: CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Back in 2020, during the George Floyd protests, a United States senator penned a controversial op-ed in the New York Times, calling for the US military to be brought in to crush the protests in the streets, claiming those demonstrations were shot through with, quote, cadres of left-wing radicals like Antifa. That was, of course, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas. And that essay was hugely controversial, led to a revolt among staff at the Times, where leaders concluded it should not have been published.

Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk agrees with the 1864 Arizona abortion ban law that was written by a pedophile who married a 12-year-old child. He also married a 15-year-old girl. William Jones has a very dark history, and conservatives are supporting the law anyway. And Kirk agrees with Trump, saying that Democrats are "the extremists," Media Matters reports. "President Trump is talking about how the Democrats are the extremists.

Katie Couric was interviewed by Bill Maher, where she offended the snowflakes of Fox and Friends. Resentment and jealousy are two components of the MAGA cult, but it's much more hateful than that. Maher tried to defend the white-nationalist anti-Democratic cult and offer up the culture war lies they had been spoon-fed and living off of since COVID struck. That soothed Brian, Steve, and Ainsley. Doocy: So he was trying to explain to her the mindset.

George Santos, the serial liar who was expelled from Congress for multiple financial malfeasances, told Stew Peters (of course) that Congress actually needs more people like him. RightWingWatch describes Peter's as a vehement antisemite, violent conspiracy theorist, vicious bigot, and virulent racist. He's also a virulent ant-vaxxer, who produced a movie in 2023, that claims swathes of people are suddenly and suspiciously dropping dead in large numbers, and that Covid vaccines are to blame. Santos: We need more outsiders like myself, like Matt Gaetz, and people who are willing to fight for the American people.

Food and beverage giant Nestlé adds sugar and honey to its infant milk and cereal products in developing countries but not in European markets, according to a new report published Wednesday. In a joint investigation, Zurich-based watchdog Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) sent popular baby food samples in Asia, Latin America, and Africa from Nestlé—the world’s largest consumer goods corporation worth $265.57 Billion of April 2024—to a testing laboratory in Belgium.

(BANGKOK) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an amnesty to mark this week’s traditional New Year holiday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Those released included several political prisoners, including a member of the Kachin minority who is one of the country’s most prominent Christian church leaders. Suu Kyi, 78, and Win Myint, the 72-year-old former president of her ousted government, were among the elderly and infirm prisoners moved to house arrest because of the severe heat, military spokesperson Maj.