So this just happened — Sidney Powell has taken a plea deal in the Georgia election interference case.

Powell agreed to plead out one day before her trial, alongside Ken Chesebro, was set to begin in Fulton County Superior Court.

Powell agreed at the hearing to plead guilty to six counts of conspiracy to commit interference with the performance of election duties. The penalty includes six years probation, a recorded proffer interview with prosecutors, a commitment to testify about her actions in future trials, and a $6,000 fine.

This suggests Powell is not utterly demented. And I bet she knows a lot of stuff. So who’s next?

In other news: The House is supposed to convene at noon today, and Gym wants a third vote. We’ll see if he gets it. I’ve read in several sources that there are some Republicans and Democrats warming up to the idea of giving temp speaker McHenry enough authority to let the House do its basic functions as a legislative body until the GOP can settle on a speaker. But it’s far from a done deal. If that doesn’t happen, and if Gym keeps losing, I don’t see that there are any other plans.

See also Multiple members are detailing death threats and other intimidation they’ve faced for opposing Jim Jordan’s speakership bid at Politico. I bet a lot of these people never imagined the MAGA goons would be coming after them.

I’ll update this post as stuff happens today.

Update: Gym surrenders. There won’t be another vote. He’s endorsing the plan to empower the temp speaker to temporarily run the House.

Update: Whoops, scratch the last update. The New York Times just reported that Gym wants another vote after all.

Just hours after the hard-right Republican said he would hit pause on his candidacy and support elevating the interim speaker, Representative Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina, to temporarily lead the House, Mr. Jordan reversed course yet again and said he would move forward with his bid to win the post. It was not immediately clear when another vote could be scheduled.

His decision came after a furious backlash from rank-and-file Republicans including many of his far-right supporters, who said empowering Mr. McHenry — a stand-in appointed to his post after the ouster of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy — would effectively cede control of the House floor to Democrats and set a bad precedent.