WYFP? Open Thread

List 5 famous people you've either met or have been within a few feet of, but ONE is a lie. Then let your friends guess which one they think is a lie.

1) Barack Obama
2) Bobby Orr
3) Pete Townshend
4) Lady Bird Johnson
5) Mel Gibson

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 5, 2022

Trump is obstructing justice and has 'a guilty mind’: Watergate’s John Dean https://t.co/BaHcPocguC

— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) February 6, 2022

Trump's a Mobster. They use burn bags, talk in code, and generally get rid of evidence so the Feds don't catch them.

It's why we're not supposed to have them RUN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. https://t.co/6ZddTcKtwY

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) February 6, 2022

The Feds Are Coming For Steve Bannon With 3 Prosecutors And 4 FBI Agents On The Case. All I care about is seeing the perp walk on TV.

https://t.co/hAeyjMNlJi

— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) February 6, 2022

Mousab Younis reminds us that “whiteness studies” did not start as an effort to make white people feel shame and guilt about being white, but to abolish “whiteness.”“I don’t believe in white people,’ James Baldwin wrote, ‘White is a metaphor for power.’https://t.co/br0fpYFvLj

— Nikhil Pal Singh (@nikhil_palsingh) February 5, 2022

New U.S. assessment:

Russia is nearly ready for what appears to be a large-scale invasion of Ukraine that could cause 50,000 civilian deaths, decapitate the government in Kyiv within two days, and launch a humanitarian crisis with up to 5 million refugees https://t.co/TDoL3vyWl2

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) February 6, 2022