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Monday, what other better day to procrastinate? Need to get over this, tho, so maybe purging whatever varia I found while procrastinating will help me to get over it.

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Fact check: Joe Biden did not predict or manipulate the weather that caused the Texas freeze
Say... what? There have to be a special type of insanity to actually believe that.

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Ah, BTW. The science of making rain - Sabine Hossenfelder's overview of the cloud seeding seems to show that the effect amounts to an extra 15% of extra rain considered over long term averages. She points to the fact that, even with science involved, it is still hard to control ("If you would not have seeded, how can you know that it wouldn't have rained anyway?" - not very different a question from the one involving the rainmaking cons).

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After acquittal, Trump 2024? Maybe not so fast

If Trump chooses to run for the White House in 2024, opponents are likely to call on a constitutional provision adopted after the Civil War to try to stop him. The Supreme Court could have the final say.
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The drafters of the 14th Amendment wanted to keep former officials who joined the Confederacy from resuming public service, without an explicit vote from Congress restoring their eligibility. Section 3 was enforced for several years at both the state and federal level, according to Gerard Magliocca, a professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. But in 1872, by a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate, Congress lifted the prohibition against most who had been barred from office.
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At least two Democrats in Congress say they are working on it. Rep. Steven Cohen, D-Tenn., ... Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
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Even if Congress does nothing, though, state elections officials, or even state courts, might say that Trump cannot appear on their ballots because he engaged in insurrection, the professors said.

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People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests

Cambridge University team say their findings could be used to spot people at risk from radicalisation
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The study, built on previous research, included more than 330 US-based participants aged 22 to 63...
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Overall, the researchers found that ideological attitudes mirrored cognitive decision-making, according to the study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
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A key finding was that people with extremist attitudes tended to think about the world in black and white terms, and struggled with complex tasks that required intricate mental steps, said lead author Dr Leor Zmigrod at Cambridge’s department of psychology.

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Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll

Meh, last time they tried it was with The Tea Party. Very likely they'll flop in 2024 and fall into nothingness in 2028.

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Trump to speak at CPAC next week

• The former president will criticize what he'll argue is the Biden administration's "disastrous" amnesty and border policies, and vow to remain a key leader in the conservative movement to fight against Biden.
• His speech comes after Trump ripped into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, promising to battle the GOP leader's 2022 midterm picks.
• The New York Post first reported on Trump's plans.

* what?!? Has Trump gone sane? No more "stop the steal", no more birthers conspiracies? Just the little they want your cookie old trick?
* Runaway may rejoice having the occasion of seeing superspreader events, featuring rock star politicians. Unless, of course, Biden conjure a big freeze over Florida, you just can't trust those liberals.

Related: Pence declined invitation to attend CPAC: reports. Ummm... have Trump hooked the evangelical fish, so he can dispense of Pence bait?