Oakland Fire: At least nine people died overnight Friday and about 30 remain missing in a warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif., where a large party was being held. Portions of the roof collapsed.

The two-story building, which has been described as huge, had units where artists both lived and worked, although it did not have a residential permit. The building housed an artist collective known as “Ghost Ship.” Firefighters said they found no clearly marked exits and the interior had a makeshift stairway made of wooden shipping pallets. They said the inside of the building was like a maze clogged with furniture, artworks, and structures.

Oakland building inspectors following up on a complaint about the habitability of the building tried to get inside last month but didn’t succeed.

The fire was intense. Bob Mule, an artist who lived in the building, said, “I literally felt my skin peeling and my lungs being suffocated by smoke. I couldn’t get the fire extinguisher to work.”

In Transition: Right-wingers Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter are already unhappy with Donald Trump, and he’s not President yet. Coulter, the Valkyrie of the Right, tweeted, “Sounds like the big sell-out is coming.  Oh well.  The voters did what we could.  If Trump sells out, it’s not our fault.”

Sarah Palin is also critical, writing that Trump and Pence basically paid $7 million to preserve 800 jobs at the Carrier company in Indiana. She called it “crony capitalism.” Palin wrote, “When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent,” Palin said in an opinion article. We question whether she wrote the article because it makes sense.

Recount: Green Party candidate Jill Stein has dropped her effort to get a vote recount in Pennsylvania. She was never likely to get the results of the election overturned, but this seals it.

Post Truth: Donald Trump appears to get most of his news from Breitbart, the ultra-right and racist news website, according to an analysis of his tweets by BuzzFeed. The website examined the links Trump attached to his tweets since he declared for President, and he linked to Breitbart articles more than from any other source.

BuzzFeed noted that Trump sent 75 retweets of white supremacists and false claims about gun violence.

The website characterized Trump’s favorite news sites as follows:

They often favor sensationalism over facts and reporting; 2) They frequently echo direct quotes from Trump himself or his closest advisers; and 3) They routinely malign his enemies and vindicate his most controversial opinions.

Other than Breitbart, Trump’s favorites are Daily Caller (21 links), Newsmax (18), the Gateway Pundit (14 links), the Conservative Treehouse (11), the Political Insider (1), Conservative Tribune (1), Infowars (1).

Tweeter in Chief: Donald Trump fired off a volley of tweets this morning threatening companies that leave the States with a 35 percent tariff on goods they then ship back and sell in the US. “expensive mistake! THE UNITED STATES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.”

But that’s not what was on his mind at midnight. “Just tried watching Saturday Night Live – unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad”

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