MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 This week of detailed torture, impassioned protest, and yet another batch of allegations against Bill Cosby kicks off in cyberspace, where today a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace posted an online message warning Sony Pictures Entertainment to stop "immediately showing the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the war." As Variety reports, the online threat didn't name the targeted movie, but "authorities have been investigating whether the hacker attack is in some way connected to The Interview," the forthcoming action comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco as celebrity journalists sent to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which "has generated condemnation from the government of North Korea." As the week progresses, the "Sony hack" will morph from a story about international cyberthreats to one about the shitty things studio executives say behind famous people's backs, thanks to the release of hacked e-mails from Sony execs Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal, featuring everything from blunt denunciations of superstar talent to racist jokes involving President Obama. Whatever the case, The Interview is scheduled to hit cinemas on Christmas day.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9 In much worse news, the week continues in Washington, DC, where today the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its horrifying report on the torture practices of the CIA. Among the revelations highlighted by the New York Times: "The CIA's interrogation techniques were more brutal and employed more extensively than the agency portrayed" (including weeklong sleep deprivation, punitive "rectal feeding," and a "series of near drownings" via waterboarding), "the C.I.A. misled members of Congress and the White House about the effectiveness and extent of its brutal interrogation techniques," and "interrogators in the field who tried to stop the brutal techniques were repeatedly overruled by senior CIA officials."

•• For a response to the fundamentally damning torture report, we turn to Fox News' Andrea Tantaros, who discussed the report (and the reasons behind its release) tonight on Outnumbered: "The United States of America is awesome. We are awesome. But we've had this discussion. We've closed the book on it. The reason [Democrats] want the discussion is not to show how awesome we are. It's to show us how we're not awesome. They apologized for something. They don't like this country. They want us to look bad and all this does is have our enemies laughing at us."

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 In better news, the week continues in Bellingham, Massachusetts, where today a Toys R Us store became the site of something close to a real-life Christmas miracle. "Around noon Wednesday, a woman walked into the story and told a cashier she wanted to pay off a layaway balance," reports MyFoxBoston.com. The woman's response to the clerk's query of the specific layaway balance she was aiming for: "'All of them,' she replied... The person we know only as the 'Layaway Angel' walked in and with little fanfare paid off every single layaway balance at the store." Thank you, generous Toys R Us angel, for giving Last Days something sweet to report after yesterday's exposed lies and rectal feedings, and congratulations to the woman's 154 beneficiaries, whose Toys R Us balances "ranged from a few dollars to a few hundred, for a total of $20,000," reports MyFoxBoston.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 Another day, another woman coming forth to allege being drugged by Bill Cosby. Today's subject: Beverly Johnson, a top model of the 1970s and '80s, who wrote about her experience for Vanity Fair: "He offered me a cappuccino from the espresso machine. I told him I didn't drink coffee that late in the afternoon because it made getting to sleep at night more difficult. He wouldn't let it go. He insisted that his espresso machine was the best model on the market and promised I'd never tasted a cappuccino quite like this one. It's nuts, I know, but it felt oddly inappropriate arguing with Bill Cosby so I took a few sips of the coffee just to appease him. Now let me explain this: I was a top model during the '70s, a period when drugs flowed at parties and photo shoots like bottled water at a health spa. I'd had my fun and experimented with my fair share of mood enhancers. I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I'd been drugged—and drugged good." In a happy twist, Johnson managed to extricate herself from Cosby's lair (reportedly calling him a "motherfucker" several times for good measure) and got herself to safety. As for why she's going public with her story now: "I couldn't sit back and watch the other women be vilified and shamed for something I knew was true."

•• Speaking of "the other women": Today Tamara Green, who first publicly accused Cosby of sexual assault in 2005 and repeated her claims this year, filed a defamation suit against Cosby, claiming he damaged her reputation when his representative "publicly branded" her a "liar." As Green's lawyer Joseph Cammarata told ABC News, "She realized that there was an opportunity to have her allegations against Mr. Cosby heard in a court of law, where the truth can be tried."

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 Nothing happened today.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 The week continues with another day of brave and heartening protest on the streets of Seattle. The first march of the day kicked off this morning at the University of Washington's Red Square, where the #HANDSUPCANTBREATHE March Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism presented a small handful of speakers before winding through the University District. The day's second protest launched from Garfield High School. Hosted by the United Black Christian Clergy of Washington, the Church Council of Greater Seattle, and the Seattle chapter of the NAACP, this afternoon's march proceeded from Garfield High to a rally at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, with the stated aim to "end police brutality, [and] to demand justice, economic development of the black community, and education that ends the school-to-prison pipeline."

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 The week ends with a continuation of the protests of yesterday, as a large group of protesters gathered outside CenturyLink Field, inside of which the Seattle Seahawks trounced the San Francisco 49ers 17–7. Congratulations and thanks to all (except the 49ers).

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