Biden reaches out.  The GOP slaps him in the face.  —  President-elect Joe Biden's victory offered the cheerful prospect that we might begin to detoxify our politics.  Maybe we could forget Donald Trump for a while and argue with at least a touch of civility about the actual problems our country faces.

Waiting for Sidney  —  The pressure to make these allegations disappear is enormous.  Where is the evidence? … Lawyers as well as front-line election canvassers working for Trump campaign have been doxxed, harassed, threatened. … Many big claims have been made, and not only by Sidney Powell.

Release: Toomey Statement on PA Federal Court Decision, Congratulates President-elect Biden  —  Allentown, Pa. - U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) issued the following statement after Judge Matthew Brann's decision to dismiss the Trump campaign's lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania:

Chris Christie: Trump's legal challenges against election results have been “a national embarrassment”  —  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday denounced a lack of evidence in President Trump's legal challenges against election results as “a national embarrassment,” …

Trump threatens to wreak havoc on GOP from beyond the White House  —  President Donald Trump has spent the three weeks since he lost the election savaging a pair of GOP governors for not backing his claims he was robbed.  —  Republicans are worried it's just the start of what's in store from the soon-to-be-ex-president.

How Trump Hopes to Use Party Machinery to Retain Control of the G.O.P.  —  Ronna McDaniel, a close ally of President Trump, wants to remain head of the Republican National Committee, worrying party members who believe the president will try to use the group to keep control of the G.O.P.

Breaking: Loeffler self-isolating after positive, then inconclusive, coronavirus tests  —  U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign said Saturday she is self-isolating after she tested positive for the coronavirus and later received an inconclusive result.  —  It's not clear how the diagnosis …

The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him.  Here's what reality-based journalists must do about it.  —  President Trump didn't create the media cesspool that he'll bequeath to a troubled nation.  He just made it exponentially worse — not only with his own constant lies …

'It's over': Michigan GOP House member defies Trump by saying there was no election fraud in his state  —  Appearing on CNN's “Inside Politics” with host Dana Bash, Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) insisted that there was no election fraud in his state and that it is time for Donald Trump to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Biden to name first Cabinet picks on Tuesday, top aide says  —  President-elect Joe Biden's incoming chief of staff, Ronald A. Klain, said Sunday that some of Biden's first Cabinet picks will be revealed Tuesday, although he declined to say who or what positions will be announced.

‘A huge catastrophe’: Democrats grapple with congressional and state election losses  —  But President-Elect Joe Biden's victory ended up looking more like the horror movie Alien, with the last bedraggled survivor kicking the monster out the airlock and then drifting off to an uncertain fate in deep dark space.

Trump: Liz Cheney's election remarks sparked by push to bring US troops home  —  President Trump blasted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) after the Republican Conference chair suggested he should accept the results of the presidential election, saying she is “unhappy” he is bring U.S. troops home.

Goodbye To All That  —  Leaving the GOP.  —  1 hr ago  —  Welcome to Tim's bonus weekend Triad.  —  Join  —  1. TimoGOP 1995-2020  —  In 1992 as a puckish elementary school student I bet my lifelong Republican, FDR-hating, Washington Times subscribing grandmother $1 that Bill Clinton would beat George H.W. Bush.

NYC Dead Stay in Freezer Trucks Set Up During Spring Covid-19 Surge  —  Hundreds of bodies are still in storage at pandemic disaster morgue on Brooklyn waterfront  —  The bodies of hundreds of people who died in New York City during the Covid-19 surge in the spring are still in storage in freezer trucks on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Hispanics shock Democrats in deep blue California  —  Hispanics in California sent a strong message to Democrats: Help not wanted here.  —  One of the biggest hiccups in the recent election was the emphatic 14-point defeat of Proposition 16 in deep blue California.

Putin Says He's Not Ready to Recognize Biden as U.S. President  — Russian leader says he's ready to work with Trump or Biden  — Move won't damage relations because they're ‘already ruined’  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said he's ready to work with any U.S. leader …

White House adviser Peter Navarro: ‘President Trump is going to get a second term’  —  White House trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted over the weekend that President Donald Trump will have a second term regardless of the election results.  —  During an interview with Eric Bolling of Sinclair broadcasting …

Pompeo Trolls Critics in Long Goodbye as He Looks to His Future  — A 10-day swing angers Turkey's leaders, befuddles the French  — Secretary of state is seen as harboring presidential ambitions  —  By the time Secretary of State Michael Pompeo was wrapping up a 10-day swing through Europe …

US economy hurtles toward ‘COVID cliff’ with programs set to expire  —  A slew of expiring emergency programs are setting up an economic “COVID cliff” come 2021, which could see millions of people lose unemployment insurance and get evictions, while a growing wave of small businesses close shop.