Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of thirty. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:40 PM, for 9h 16m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 16.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is both the one thousand five hundred twenty-third day and the sixty-fourth day.
On this day in 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
Recommended for reading in full —
Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny report Extremists made little secret of ambitions to ‘occupy’ Capitol in weeks before attack:
“Everyone who was a law enforcement officer or a reporter knew exactly what these hate groups were planning,” [Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl A.] Racine said. “They were planning to descend on Washington, D.C., ground center was the Capitol, and they were planning to charge and, as Rudy Giuliani indicated, to do combat justice at the Capitol,”
On the fringe message board 8kun, which is popular with QAnon followers, for example, users talked for weeks about a siege of the Capitol, some talking about it like a foregone conclusion. Others simply debated how violent the uprising should be, and if police should be exempt.
“You can go to Washington on Jan 6 and help storm the Capital,” said one 8kun user a day before the siege. “As many Patriots as can be. We will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount.”
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A day before the rally, the investigative journalism website Bellingcat published an article detailing the online convergence of radical conservative groups with QAnon and white supremecist groups leading up to what the president promised would be a “wild protest,” specifically mentioning their online discussion about storming and burning the Capitol and specific threats directed at D.C. government officials and police.
The Washington Post published a similar article, citing specific posts on the encrypted app Telegram and Parler, a Twitter alternative, about sneaking illegal weapons into the rally. NBC News also published an article highlighting the threats, using research from Advance DemocracyInc., a global research organization that studies disinformation and extremism.
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Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman report Trump Is Said to Have Discussed Pardoning Himself:
In several conversations since Election Day, Mr. Trump has told advisers that he is considering giving himself a pardon and, in other instances, asked whether he should and what the effect would be on him legally and politically, according to the two people. It was not clear whether he had broached the topic since he incited his supporters on Wednesday to march on the Capitol, where some stormed the building in a mob attack.
Mr. Trump has shown signs that his level of interest in pardoning himself goes beyond idle musings. He has long maintained he has the power to pardon himself, and his polling of aides’ views is typically a sign that he is preparing to follow through on his aims. He has also become increasingly convinced that his perceived enemies will use the levers of law enforcement to target him after he leaves office.
No president has pardoned himself, so the legitimacy of prospective self-clemency has never been tested in the justice system, and legal scholars are divided about whether the courts would recognize it. But they agree a presidential self-pardon could create a dangerous new precedent for presidents to unilaterally declare they are above the law and to insulate themselves from being held accountable for any crimes they committed in office.
Closest brown dwarf star to Earth has ‘stripes’:
NASA’s TESS space telescope was used to measure brown dwarf Luhman 16B’s brightness. A University of Arizona-led research team used the high precision light data to create a visualization of the star and its atmosphere.