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[View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter]( January 11, 2021 Hello, and welcome back to another week in hell 2021. I hope you had a nice, relaxing weekend. It's going to be another chaotic week, with House Democrats vowing to proceed with an impeachment resolution if Vice President Pence and Trump's Cabinet don't invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president. Get ready for Trump impeachment 2.0—with President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration just nine days away. It's funny: When Trump was impeached the first time, in December 2019, I bought a copy of the New York Times, intending to save it for posterity. I remember holding the newspaper as I stood on an elevated subway platform waiting for the train to take me to work at Mother Jones’ New York office. It was cold and windy; the pages of the paper were flapping so wildly that I couldn't read it until I stepped inside the subway car, where I shared unmasked breath with my fellow passengers. The 13 months since then have diminished my perception of the importance of that day. How is it that I've grown desensitized to impeachments? That the apex of a pandemic takes a back seat in my mind to the rioters storming the Capitol and threatening to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power? That I step away from my computer for an hour on Friday evening and return to find the internet erupting with takes and jokes over Twitter having [permanently banned]( the president? I don't know how anyone is expected to keep a grip on reality these days. But I do know that my colleagues here at Mother Jones are churning out smart analyses every day to help us sort through the chaos. As always, I'll be blogging. I hope you'll follow along with us as history unfolds. —Abigail Weinberg Advertisement [House Donation Ad]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [The New York Bar Says It Is Investigating Rudy Giuliani]( The bar is looking into Giuliani for his role in frivolous election lawsuits and encouraging insurrection. BY PEMA LEVY SPONSORED POST [Sponsored Content]( [The Biden Administration’s Must-Do List for Women’s Rights]( When the Biden team takes office, they must make equity for women and families a top priority within the first 100 days. THIS CONTENT WAS PAID FOR AND SPONSORED BY [AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION](. 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After last week’s deadly Capitol rampage, when the escalating effects of Trumpism laid bare the atrocities of American history, Roach’s insistence on political engagement and justice resonates. The drummer’s 1960 [We Insist! Freedom Now Suite](, with Abbey Lincoln, acutely protested injustice and set the stage for his affirmation that “I will never again play anything that doesn’t have social significance.” In a poem for the drummer’s 75th birthday, Amiri Baraka [painted]( the picture: “Max is the highest, the outtest, the largest, the greatest, the fastest, the hippest…When we say Max, that’s our word for artist, djali, nzuri ngoma, Señor Congero, leader, mwalimu, scientist of sound, sonic designer, trappist definer, composer, revolutionary democrat…Papa Joe’s successor, Philly Joe’s confessor, AT’s mentor, Roy Haynes’ inventor. Ask Jimmy Cobb, Elvin, or [Klook](, or even Sunny Murray when he ain’t in a hurry…Barry Harris can tell you…Ask Bud if you see him. You know he know even after the cops beat him Un Poco Loco.” “I mean you can ask [Pharoah]( or David or Dizzy when he come out of hiding. It’s a trick, Diz just outta sight. I heard ‘[Con Alma’]( and [Diz and Max in Paris]( just the other night. But ask anybody conscious who Max Roach be. Miles certainly knew and Coltrane too. All the cats who know the science of drum, know where our last dispensation come from.” [Watch]( Baraka read the full poem at Roach’s funeral at the end of an interview on Democracy Now. “A drum master for freedom,” [tweeted]( the saxophonist Charles Lloyd yesterday in celebration, “who stood up and marched alongside Hawk, Monk, Bird, Diz, Bud, Sonny, Clifford, and Booker Little, fighting for all of humanity. He metered out his protest with each beat of his drumstick.” Roach’s Emarcy best with Sonny Rollins is [here](. Baraka’s video is [here](. The drummer in conversation is [here](. —Daniel King Did you enjoy this newsletter? 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