Today’s joint session of the House and Senate may be the last attempt by the president and his allies to overturn the election results. Here’s what to expect. / POLITICO, CNN

Protests in DC are feared to turn ugly, egged on by the president’s Twitter feed. / The Washington Post

From the left: “If you see them on the street, in a restaurant on your college campus, politely ask them: ‘You were one of the coup plotters, weren’t you? Shame on you.’” / The New York Times

From the right: “No one who has participated in this poisonous buffoonery should ever hold office again.” / The National Review

See also: “The senators who were expelled after refusing to accept Lincoln's election.” / The Stamford Advocate

Democrat Raphael Warnock becomes Georgia’s first Black senator. Democrat Jon Ossoff declares victory, though his race has yet to be called. / The Associated Press, NPR

Top Republicans blame Trump for sabotaging what should have been two easy wins. / Axios

More headlines: “While Republicans fractured, Warnock and Ossoff Teamed Up.” “Abrams’ revenge: Warnock’s victory a direct blow to her rival Kemp.” “To Georgia, and Black People, Who Are One and the Same.” / The Intercept, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Root

“Approaching zero inbox for the first time in six years.” Examples of Ossoff’s most millennial-esque tweets. / Slate

Patricia Lockwood, writing from Georgia, reports on the personal rituals she’s followed to remove the president from office. / The London Review of Books

The last publicly documented widow of a Civil War solider dies at 101. / Facebook

Saudi Arabia says it will unilaterally cut one million barrels a day of crude production starting next month, a surprise move. / The Wall Street Journal

The new Jamal Khashoggi documentary, now available on-demand, is said to have been ignored by big streamers for fear of upsetting the Kingdom. / The Associated Press

Chef David Chang’s new memoir “fails to account for trauma he caused me,” says a former employee. / Eater 

Lovers of celebrity gossip already have much to celebrate in the new year, including those Kim-Kanye divorce rumors. / The Cut, Slate

Following a divorce, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee learns how “to husband” by herself. / Catapult

Poet Alex Finlay blogs elegantly about his struggle to recover from the coronavirus. / The Morning News

"It was a crushing blow." "She picked up the entire steak with her bare hands." Notes from both sides of a pandemic blind date. / The Guardian

A list of 112 good things that happened in 2020. / reasons to be cheerful