Just before the election, someone at Slate started a Slack channel where folks could dump

their campaign-related anxiety.

They called it spiraling.

It's the place you'd go to complain about the talking heads on CNN or admit that you

smoked a cigarette to relieve some tension.

And on Saturday, after Joe Biden was declared the president-elect, an editor archived

this channel because we didn't think we needed it anymore.

Until yesterday.

That's when it began to feel like maybe we should start worrying again about how this is

going to play out.

Inspiraling, it was open for business.

Today, the incumbent president, his campaign and his cadre of loyal Republicans continued their

campaign of baseless claims of voter fraud going on all over the country.

Today Attorney General Bill Barr did them all one better.

He wrote a letter to all U.S. attorneys on letterhead telling federal prosecutors they

are allowed to investigate allegations of voter fraud.

Sure.

The race has been called.

Joe Biden's the clear winner.

But the president, he still hasn't conceded, and the administration has been making these

strange defensive moves.

A bunch of the top officials at the Department of Defense are suddenly out of work.

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