“In a democracy, we are not free to ignore the truth.”
~ Jonathan Schell, in the The New Yorker during the 1973 Watergate scandal
The Washington Post Editorial Board finally wakes up to reality
~ Dartagnan / Daily Kos Community
Well, FINALLY!
Oath Keeper: Ringleader Rhodes tried to call Trump on Jan. 6 and offered to use force
~ Brandi Buchman, Daily Kos Staff / Daily Kos
Trump’s acting DHS secretary covered up report on Russian interference in 2020 election
~ Mark Sumner, Daily Kos Staff / Daily Kos
People’s Convoy fires live rounds at anti-fascists in Oregon
~ VPSReports / Daily Kos Community
Testimony shows that the MAGA team specifically sent the crowd to the Capitol
~ Frank Vyan Walton / Daily Kos Community
We are in a heap of trouble, and there is no easy way out
~ agnostic / Daily Kos Community
Content warning! Well written. Epic rant!
Trump admits he wanted Barr to take the fall for election scheme: “I said look, get impeached”
~ Igor Derysh / salon
Trump said he told Barr it would help his approval rating: “I went up a lot in the polls when I got impeached”
In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’
~ Alan Feuer / New York Times
Days before Jan. 6, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr. told Trump backers to make lawmakers meeting to finalize the 2020 election results feel that “people are breathing down their necks.”
The 1/6 Committee Has Concluded Trump Broke the Law. But It May Not Urge DOJ to Charge Him.
~ Dan Friedman / MotherJones
It is “absolutely clear” Trump knew his actions were illegal, Rep. Liz Cheney said on Sunday.“They knew that they were going to attempt to use violence to try to stop the transfer of power,” Cheney told CNN. “That is the definition of an insurrection, and it is absolutely chilling.”
Jury finds 2 men not guilty in Whitmer kidnap case; unable to reach verdicts on 2 others
~ Robert Snell, Sarah Rahal / The Detroit News
First on CNN: January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows
~ Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jamie Gangel / CNN
January 6 riot in DC: 29 text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia "Ginni" ThomasDonald Trump sues Hillary Clinton over 2016 Russian collusion allegations
~ Jan Wolfe and Jonathan Stempel / REUTERS via yahoo!news
Just when one thinks it can't get any stupider. . . .
Ginni Thomas Admits She Attended January 6 Stop the Steal Rally
~ Noah Y. Kim / MotherJones
She says she left before Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. (the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas)
‘Coup Memo’ Lawyer Loses Bid To Hold Up Records He Warns Could Convict Trump
~ Mary Papenfuss / HUFFPOST
A federal judge shoots down twisted legal arguments by John Eastman battling to hold back his documents from the Jan. 6 House select committee.
JUST FOUND: (Updated November 14, 2021) ‘Coup Memo’ Lawyer Ripped Mike Pence As He Hid From Jan. 6 'Hanging' Mob: Report
~ Mary Papenfuss / HUFFPOST
“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary,” John Eastman emailed Pence’s aide as rioters barged through the Capitol.
These companies stopped campaign donations to election objectors. Their lobbyists did not.
~ Emily Birnbaum, Megan Wilson and Hailey Fuchs / POLITICO
Throughout 2021, in-house government affairs staffers for at least 13 companies gave personal donations to Republicans who objected to the presidential election results.
Trump’s incendiary Texas speech may have deepened his legal troubles, experts say
~ Peter Stone in Washington / The Guardian
Promising pardons for insurrectionists and calling for protests if indicted could help make a case for obstruction of justice
GOP’s shadow Jan. 6 committee targets Capitol Police “negligence”
~ Andrew Solender / AXIOS
GOP fake committee for fake “facts”
G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
~ Jonathan Weisman and Reid J. Epstein / The New York Times
The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the inquiry into the deadly riot at the Capitol.
Trump Says Pence Should Have “Overturned the Election”
~ Noah Y. Kim, Assistant News and Engagement Writer / MotherJones
It was perhaps his most explicit admission yet that he had wanted his vice president to throw out legitimate electoral votes.
Newt Gingrich, Who Is Advising GOP Leadership, Floats Jail Time for Jan. 6 Committee Members
~ Peter Wade / RollingStone
“This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels,” GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who sits on the committee, said in response to the former House speaker’s comments
Oath Keepers Anticipated “a Bloody and Desperate Fight” to Overturn the Election for Trump
~ Mark Follman / MotherJones
US prosecutors paint a chilling picture of the extremist group’s alleged seditious conspiracy.Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines
~ Betsy Woodruff Swan / POLITICO
The Jan. 6 select panel has obtained the draft order and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.” Both are reported here in detail for the first time.Task Force Brings First Case on Threats to Election Workers
~ Bob Cronin, Newser Staff / Newser
Indictment says Texas man wanted to ‘put a bullet’ in Georgia official
Request For OathKeeper Confinement Is Chilling
~ KeithDB / Daily Kos Community
Political Extremism Presentation — Trygve Olson / Faith or Fear
Takeaways from the landmark sedition indictment against the Oath Keepers and why DOJ acted now
~ Marshall Cohen / CNN“I’ve learned one thing from social media, and QAnon proves what I’m gonna say: if you make something up, and then you believe what you made up is true, then you are crazy. And if you read something that someone had made up, and you believe what they made up is true, then you are crazier.”
~ Lewis Black on the Tonight Show“The January 6th stormtrumpers are finally getting rounded up. The Justice Department charged eleven people with seditious conspiracy for their roles in planning the attack on the Capitol. The definition of seditious conspiracy is, essentially, two or more people conspiring to overthrow the government by force. You know how your mother used to say, If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you jump too? These are the people who answered yes.”
~ Jimmy Kimmel“This is starting to restore my faith in the Justice Department. Finally, they’re charging people with the sedition we saw with our own eyes on live TV. And, hopefully, one day the Feds will learn the identity of the shadowy figure who was the president who told them to do it.”
~ Stephen Colbert
A look at some of the Evidence in Today’s Seditious Conspiracy Charging Document
~ jamess / Daily Kos CommunityStatement And Acts By Stewart Rhodes In Furtherance Of Sedition By The OathKeepers
~ KeithDB / Daily Kos Community
The Back-story behind the Bill Barr “Betrayal”
~ jamess / Daily Kos Community“Trump says his ‘authority is absolute’?”
“That’s like ‘When a President does it, it’s not illegal’”
When a President says it — that means it must be true, right? … (or at least it must be ‘Unimpeachable’.)
Documents: Capitol Police Misjudged Risk of Violence
~ Newser Editors and Wire Services
Documents show clashing assessments warned of possible trouble and even ‘war’
More Officers Are Suing Trump Over Capitol Riot
~ Rob Quinn, Newser Staff / newser
They say they were injured by mob he incited
‘The playbook for authoritarianism counts on this’
~ Anna Gustafson and Laina G. Stebbins / The Michigan Advance
Experts, pols warn Jan. 6 insurrection anniversary is reminder that U.S. democracy is at risk
Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find
~ Stuart A. Thompson / yahoo!news - from "The New York Times"'MAGA nation should rise up': Trump sends out incendiary message to followers on eve of Capitol riot anniversary
~ Brad Reed / RAWSTORY
Capitol rioter compares attacks on her to treatment of ‘Jews in Germany’
~ Didi Martinez, Kate Snow, Anna Schecter and Rich Schapiro / yahoo!news from NBC News‘A Literal Call to Arms’: Jan. 6 Officers Sue Trump for ‘Directing’ Angry Mob
~ Zoe Richards, Breaking News Reporter / Daily Beast
Two new lawsuits accuse Trump of playing a critical role in fanning the flames of the Jan. 6 attack that left officers fearing for their lives.
Pro-Trump Rioters Tear Down American Flag, Replace it With Trump Flag at U.S. Capitol Building
~ Morgan Smith and Virginia Chamlee / People
Thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to protest the president's loss in the 2020 election
Bernard Kerik provides batch of documents to Jan. 6 select committee
~ Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney / POLITICO
The former New York City Police commissioner also provided a “privilege log” describing materials he declined to provide to the committee.Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election
~ Mary Louise Kelly, Noah Caldwell & Ashish Valentine / NPR: All Things ConsideredCapitol Officer Furious Over Mike Pence’s Jan. 6 Comments After Police Saved His Life
~ Mary Papenfuss / HUFFPOST
Pence’s recent comments are a “disgrace,” the sergeant said. “We did everything possible to prevent him from being … killed in front of his daughter and his wife.”
California grocery worker arrested in Iowa on charge of threatening Obama, Clinton, Fauci
~ Sam Stanton / Merced Sun-Star
Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Lays Out How He and Bannon Planned to Overturn Biden’s Electoral Win
~ Jose Pagliery, Political Investigations Reporter / Daily Beast
“It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them…”
January 6 committee ramps up efforts to uncover funding behind Capitol riot
~ Katelyn Polantz and Mary Kay Mallonee / CNN
A new court challenge is revealing how the January 6 House select committee is demanding bank records, providing a new window into its effort to understand what propelled the violence that day.
Evidence suggests Defense delayed Jan. 6 response to keep Trump from invoking Insurrection Act
~ Brandi Buchman, Staff / Daily KosFauci Calls for Fox Host’s Firing
~ Arden Dier, Newser Staff / newser
Jesse Watters called for a metaphorical ‘kill shot’ against the infectious disease expert
What killed Trump’s coup inside the Capitol may have been Trump’s insurgency outside the Capitol
~ Mark Sumner, Daily Kos Staff / Daily KosI Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows’ Book. It’s Damning.
~ David Corn, Washington, DC, Bureau Chief / MotherJones
Trump’s last chief of staff is hiding what happened that awful day. - Jan 6, 2021
HOLY S***: FOX News Hosts Begged Mark Meadows to Get Trump to Stop the Insurrection on January 6th
~ News Corpse
California governor pushes for gun laws modeled on Texas abortion ban
~ Reporting by Ann Maria Shibu in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard / ReutersPence Jan 6th “Kidnap” Misread by DK Commenters
~ RainJustRain / Daily Kos Community
Referenced Story: Why did Chuck Grassley expect Pence’s absence from the Capitol on 6 January?
~ annieli for KremlinAnnex / Daily Kos Community
Barton Gellman’s dark, dark truth, Democracy may already have lost its last, second chance…
~ vjr7121 / Daily Kos Community
Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.
~ Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times
Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral “Birds Aren’t Real” movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about.
Jan. 6 insurrectionists seek protection from the Constitution they tried to destroy
~ EJ Montini, Opinion / Arizona Republic
It’s an irony those caught up in their alleged participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection either won’t admit or, even sadder, don’t even recognize.
MTG threatens deputy warden in wild stunt at jail holding January 6th insurrectionists
~ Natalie Dickinson / Occupy Democrats
The two far-right representatives reached for the nuclear option when their PR stunt backfired and they were denied access to the facility.
What If Everything You Know About Murder Rates and Policing Is Wrong?
~ Samantha Michaels, Reporter / MotherJones
Five common myths about the FBI’s homicide data, debunked.
Judge Argues Claim That Rioters Are Treated Unfairly
~ By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Seeking racial justice and trying to overthrow the government aren’t equivalent, judge tells court
Study: 55% of Police Killings Don’t Appear in Statistics
~ Rob Quinn, Newser Staff / Newser
Researchers call fatal police violence an ‘urgent public health crisis’We Are the Real Patriots
~ Dale Lunsford, Op-Ed / DemcasT
Progressives are Patriots – Kate McMahon - 9/10/21
Trump Extremists Brought Numerous Guns on January 6, Evidence Shows
~ Mark Follman, Dan Friedman, Ryan Little, and Sam Van Pykeren / MotherJones
Rioters at the Capitol carried concealed pistols, allegedly stockpiled weapons nearby, and called for overthrowing the US government.
• • • Pursuant to the United States and District of Columbia Criminal Codes, • • •
… firearms, dangerous weapons, explosives, or incendiary devices are prohibited on U.S. Capitol Grounds.
The Making of a Dictatorship: The Eastman Memo and GOP Silence
~ Hank Cetola, Op-Ed / DemcasT
We learned definitively last week that former President Donald J. Trump and his allies did indeed want to destroy our democratic republic and install autocracy. CNN obtained a memo written by John Eastman, a lawyer working with Trump’s legal team, describing how Trump could persuade former Vice President Mike Pence to throw out the election results on Jan. 6.
Republican/Trump Coup: Their plan to overturn the 2020 electon: eastman.memo.pdf
The Eastman Memo and What It Might Have Triggered
~ Elwood Dowd / Daily Kos Community — 9/21/2021
Republicans’ silence on memo that proves Trump’s Big Lie was a lie is deafening—and telling
~ Darrell Lucus / Daily Kos CommunityBUSTED: Steve Bannon admits he helped plot Jan. 6 Trump rally to ‘kill Biden presidency in the crib’
~ David Edwards / RawStory
John Durham accused by former prosecutor of trying to hand Trump a new weapon
~ Tom Boggioni / RawStory
Lawmaker accused of kicking boy pleads guilty to 3 charges
~ John Hanna - AP Political Writer / The Associated Press
Guess which party? Republican? Bingo!
Minnesota State Patrol officers purged their texts and emails after they were sued over their response to George Floyd protests, according to witnesses
~ Morgan Keith / INSIDER
• The ACLU of Minnesota filed a lawsuit in June 2020 on behalf of journalists who were targeted and attacked at the protests.
• State troopers were aware of pending litigation against them when they purged communications, according to witnesses.
• No trooper has been disciplined for arresting, using force against, or using chemical weapons against a journalist at the protests.
[Republican] McCarthy warns telecom companies not to cooperate with Jan. 6 probe, citing future GOP majority
~ Aldous J Pennyfarthing / Daily Kos Community
Jim Jordan exposes more details about Trump’s Jan. 6 communications — and ropes in Matt Gaetz, too
~ Cody Fenwick / salon
“Look, I definitely spoke to the president that day. I don’t recall — I know it was more than once”
Report: Michigan has highest number of armed protests at state capitals across country
~ Julia Forrest / Michigan Advance
Ranks 5th for total armed protests
On average, 1,212 people die and 3,507 people are injured by guns each year in Michigan, per the groups. Gun violence also costs taxpayers in Michigan $422.6 million every year.
Defendant in Plot to Kidnap Governor Gets Prison
~ Bob Cronin, Newser Staff / Newser
Judge goes light after prosecutors praise Ty Garbin's cooperation ← Why?
Exchange of gunfire in downtown Portland culminates Proud Boys’ latest incursion into city
~ David Neiwert / Daily Kos Staff
A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy
~ Paul Rosenberg / salon
Social scientist Michael Bang Petersen on why people believe outrageous lies — as a tool in violent group conflict
Charles M. Blow:
I call that party a national security threat and a cancer on our democracy.
~ xaxnar / Daily Kos Community
From the N.Y. Times: The G.O.P. Menace to Society
Large percentage of Republicans believe ‘patriotic Americans’ could ‘take the law into their own hands’
~ Meaghan Ellis, AlterNet / via RawStory
Hearing exposes TV viewers to blunt language, racial slurs
~ David Bauder, AP Media Writer / AP News'This Is How I'm Going to Die:' 4 Cops Remember Jan. 6
~ John Johnson, Newser Staff / Newser
Special House panel begins its investigation
2 Men Indicted in Plot to Blow Up Democrats’ Office
~ Bob Cronin, Newser Staff / Newser
California defendants hoped a movement would follow, officials say
Yes, this is fascism: The Atlantic’s conservative David Frum says it’s time to use the F-word
~ Dartagnan / Daily Kos CommunityThe concept of a new civil war is not, in fact, a purely notional or hypothetical one.
~ annieli for KremlinAnnex / Daily Kos Community
A second US Civil War will not be fantasy football or Call of Duty. It won’t even be Jade Helm or the Turner Diaries even if Trump resembles Huey Long, Buzz Windrip, or Willie Stark.MSNBC shows just how horribly Trump is gaslighting America, and it’s a thing of pure horror
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos Staff
Sovereign Citizens: More Than Paper Terrorists
~ Christine Sarteschi / Just Security
Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.
This needs to be understood.Slouching toward fascism, or why sometimes you just can’t go home again
~ Dartagnan for Community Contributors Team / Daily Kos Community
Also: “Dehumanization and the Normalization of Violence: It’s Not What You Think,” – Social Science Research Council
6 months after Capitol assault, corporate pledges fall flat
~ David Klepper / APNews
As shockwaves spread across the country from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, corporate America took a stand against the lies that powered the mob. Or so it seemed.
"Dark Money" is buying our politicians.
Michigan Republicans Confirm the Obvious: Trump Lost Fair and Square
~ AJ Vicens, Reporter / MotherJones
A GOP-led investigation found “no evidence” to doubt Biden’s win.
A letter to Rep. Madison Cauthorn, North Carolina.
~ VietNamVet1962 / Daily Kos Community
Telling it like it is!Amid reform movement, some GOP states give police more power
~ Farnoush Amiri / AP News
21 House Republicans Voted Against Congressional Medals for Officers Who Defended Capitol Against Insurrection
~ Blake Montgomery, Reporter/Editor / DailyBeast
→ Read it at: The Washington Post
Watchdog: Trump Photo-Op Wasn’t Why Park Was Cleared
~ Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
The June 1, 2020 operation was planned hours before Trump decided to visit church, inspector general finds
The paradoxes of the conservative mind derive from a simple principle
~ Cody Fenwick / AlterNet
Observers of the Republican Party and the American right wing have noticed a perplexing pattern of beliefs about the COVID vaccines. — And almost everything else "Republican."
Author of ‘How Democracies Die’ reveals why the US is in worse shape than he thought
~ Alex Henderson / AlterNet
Go Tell the Spartans
~ Major Kong / Daily Kos Community
All Congressmen Sent Anonymous Capitol Police Letter
~ Evann Gastaldo / Newser Staff
Statement rebukes Republicans who don’t back Jan. 6 probeAZ may have to replace voting machines examined in windmill-tilting audit — on taxpayers’ dime
~ Darrell Lucus / Daily Kos Community
Rick Wilson is Right. DRAG THEM.
~ RenaRF / Daily Kos Community
I’m tired of being reasonable, especially when the other side — which is an existential threat to democracy — is anything but.
“His book, by the way, is called The Tyranny of Big Tech. Apparently the title Gaslighting For Idiots was taken.”
~ Brian Williams on MSNBC, after reporting that Sen. Josh Hawley was hawking his new book on Twitter
The GOP is falling into mass delusion — and the time is coming for Biden to call McConnell’s bluff
~ John Stoehr / AlterNet
Man Convicted After Posting ‘Kill Your Senators’
~ Newser Editors and Wire Services / Newser
Supporter of Trump and Capitol riot found guilty of threatening members of Congress
Here’s why MAGA rioters thought they’d get away with posting selfies taken at the Capitol
~ Brad Reed, Raw Story / via AlterNet
Raw Story link
“Free-dumb,” & “Guns,”
For The People and George Floyd Act featured in Editorial Cartoons
~ Democracy Labs
Justice Dept. now expects to charge more than 500 in Capitol riot probe
~ Pete Williams / NBC News
Department lawyers have described the sprawling investigation as one of the largest in American history.
The current number of people charged is 440.
“The system of policing isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it’s meant to do in America. We’re not dealing with ‘bad apples.’ We’re dealing with a rotten tree. … America is a country where white people can storm the Capitol and be given the benefit of the doubt, but Black people just going about their lives are treated like they’re about to storm the Capitol.”
~ Trevor Noah
Michigan Republican Party Chair Calls State Leaders “Witches”
~ AJ Vincens / MotherJones
Ron Weiser suggested the state’s top three elected officials be “softened up” so they can be “burn[ed] at the stake.”
See related events: RWNJ Traitor ReportsInsurrectionist insists that she won’t go to jail because she has ‘blonde hair, white skin’
~ SemDem / Daily Kos Community
Also: Texas Realtor Who Went To D.C. Insurrection Sure Made It Easy For Feds To Identify Her
“Y’all know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor,” she said on video as she stormed the U.S. Capitol. – Huffpost, 1/15/2021
MI GOP Chair calls Whitmer, Nessel, Benson “Three Witches,” talks about assassinating officials.
~ Brainwrap / Daily Kos Community
See related events: RWNJ Traitor Reports
Carrying Guns in Public Is Not a Constitutional Right, Ninth Circuit Rules
~ Nicholas Iovion / Courthouse News Service - save?DOJ: Messages Suggest ‘Alliance’ Made Before Jan. 6
~ Kate Seamons / Newser Staff
Filing shows what Kelly Meggs, Florida head of the Oath Keepers, allegedly wrote
Incarceration “Taking An Extremely High Toll” On Oath Keeper Insurrectionist’s “Mental Well-Being”
~ PvtJarHead / Daily Kos Community
Did he have any concern for the mental well-being of the people he terrorized in the U.S. Capitol on January 6th?
DOJ lead prosecutor: Yes, it was sedition
~ Dartagnan / Daily Kos Community
The wheels of Justice turn slowly, but they do turn.
Trump, Jr declared ‘devoid of anything resembling judgement’ after violent meme about Joe Biden
~ Bob Brigham / Raw Story
Donald Trump, Jr. on Friday received harsh criticism after posting a video on social media showing his father physically attacking the current president of the United States.
New: Michigan Capitol bomb threat suspect got Secret Service visit over 2014 Obama threat
~ Todd A. Heywood / Michigan Advance
Fox News: Take Kids Out of School Because They Teach Hating White People
~ Mark NC / News Corpse
Republicans: Up is down, night is day and other Fake Facts, a.k.a. "Alternate Facts".DOJ: Two Arrested In Assault on Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Who Later Died (Update 2)
~ Charles Jay / Daily Kos CommunityJohn Oliver completely exposes Tucker Carlson’s support for everything terrible
~ Christopher Reeves / Daily Kos Staff
Was the Pentagon’s holdup on Jan. 6 not what it seemed?
~ subtropolis / Daily Kos Community
“Sometimes, when attempting to make sense of something, it helps to flip it on its head.”
Insurrectionist who put his feet on Pelosi’s desk screams ‘It’s not fair!’ during hearing
~ Aldous J Pennyfarthing / Daily Kos Community
Too funny for words!
‘Q’ is for Quisling
~ LaFeminista / Daily Kos Community
Origin: Second World War from the name of Major Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), the Norwegian army officer and diplomat who ruled Norway on behalf of the German occupying forces 1940–45).
Republicans Keep Pretending Antifa Is Equivalent to Violent White Supremacists
~ Matt Cohen, Fellow / MotherJones
Antifa: Anti-Fascist. — Republicans: increasingly Fascist.
Why the Odal/Othala Rune Used By CPAC is 100% Explicitly a Nazi Symbol
~ AndyT / Daily Kos Community
Also see the article below ↓The CPAC Main Stage Strongly Resembles A N*zi Symbol.
~ DigitusImpudicus / Daily Kos Community
A GOP West Mich. official who was reportedly at the Jan. 6 insurrection is now running for governor
~ Kayla Sosa / Michigan Advance
Insurrectionist and wants to be governor? — You can’t make this stuff up!
Right-wing fraudster Jacob Wohl receives some bad news in his civil and criminal cases
~ Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos Staff
Idiot Who Sat in Pence’s Chair is Arrested. After He Bragged He Would Never be Caught.
~ AlyoshaKaramazov / Daily Kos Community
“I love the poorly educated!” — Donald Trump
House Republicans behaving badly over metal detectors find themselves subject of investigations
~ Joan McCarter / Daily Kos Staff
‘Hated by absolutely everyone’: Kentucky columnist delivers brutal take down of GOP's Mitch McConnell
~ Tom Boggioni / Raw Story
You can read the whole piece on Raw Story.
Vandals Go After Home of Trump Impeachment Lawyer
~ Jenn Gidman / Newser Staff
Driveway of Michael van der Veen’s Philly residence spray-painted with the word ‘TRAITOR’
FIRED!! Trump has privately voiced concern about being charged related to January 6 riot
~ Kaitlan Collins / CNN
GOP’s ‘domestic army’: How Michigan Republicans allied with paramilitary extremists and paved the way for insurrection
~ Alex Henderson / AlterNet
The pro-Trump insurrection was more violent than first reported. The damage will be long-lasting
~ Hunter / Daily Kos Staff
Pink Hat Wearing Bullhorn Lady Positively Identified! Insurrectionist Makes First Public Comments!!
~ PvtJarHead / Daily Kos Community
Tips to the fbi.gov/tips if you know where she is.
It’s Happening! ‘Proud Boys’ And ‘Oath Keepers’ Get Federal Charges UPGRADED To... CONSPIRACY!!
~ PvtJarHead / Daily Kos Community
Federal conspiracy charges for 2 Proud Boys in Capitol riot
~ Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press
GOP Congressman Wants to Hear Ocasio-Cortez Apologize
~ Arden Dier / Newser Staff
Media Research Center wants her suspended from Twitter over Ted Cruz comment
• Seems Teddy-boy had his feelings hurt (b/c of things he said about others)Now, it's going even further: GOP wants AOC muzzled!
GOP Rep. Accused of Threatening AOC After He Warns of ‘Alternative Means’ to Condemn Her Remarks
~ David Badash / thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
• • Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is being accused of threatening Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez via a letter he sent Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
AOC Won’t Work With Cruz: ‘You Almost Had Me Murdered’
~ Bob Cronin / Newser Staff
Seems Teddy-boy thinks rioting and killing people is fine, b/c ... “IOKIARDI” or “IOKIYAR”?
“There’s a lot of partisan anger and rage on the Democratic side,” senator says
D.C. National Guard commander says he wasn’t allowed to respond to Capitol insurgency
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos StaffDC National Guard Commander Says Pentagon Took His Authority Away Before Jan 6
~ Dan K / Daily Kos Community
Trump controlled the Pentagon. Trump is to blame for this.
They have waived their right to bear arms.
~ agnostic / Daily Kos Community
Dallas man’s social media ‘incriminates’ him in Capitol attack; charged for death threat against AOC
~ Jessica Sutherland / Daily Kos Staff
More evidence emerges that it wasn’t an “intelligence failure”
~ subtropolis / Daily Kos CommunityHere’s the real difference between Republicans and Democrats — and why it matters
~ John Stoehr / AlterNetAn Open Letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell From an Army Veteran
~ David Weissman / DemCasTLiz Cheney Might Be in Trouble
~ John Johnson / Newser Staff
House conservatives angry at her vote for impeachment aim to oust her from No. 3 position
Michael Flynn’s brother admits to being part of call where National Guard were delayed on Jan. 6
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos StaffSiblings of 2 Congressmen Call for Removal From Office
~ Arden Dier / Newser Staff
Ariz. Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar face family's blame for Capitol riot
‘Trump will go down as a total failure’: Proud Boys jump off the MAGA Train
~ Aldous J Pennyfarthing / Daily Kos Community
Do You Remember That Guy Who Said “The only good democrat, is a dead democrat”? Well Guess What...
~ PvtJarHead / Daily Kos Community
“PATRIOTS” always figure to kill elected leaders! GOP! GOP! GOP!
Abraham Lincoln explained exactly how we should respond to the insurrection of Jan. 6
~ Dartagnan / Daily Kos CommunityHawley Takes Another Hit
~ Bob Cronin / Newser Staff
Hotel cancels fundraiser planned for Florida
Hawley: “If these corporations don't want conservatives to speak, they should just be honest about it.”
1. Hawley – you are not a “conservative” You are a RWNJ. You may be a terrorist and/or an insurrectionist.
2. We don’t need those who support traitiors and insurrectionists speaking.
For first time, federal prosecutors label Jan. 6 ‘violent insurrection,’ and ‘armed revolution’
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos StaffMore Bad News for TrumpLand. Good News for Our Nation.
~ AlyoshaKaramazov / Daily Kos CommunityAssault on Capitol included horrifying violence, coordinated attacks, and police on both sides
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos Staff
The other thing that shocked police wasn’t the fact that they were facing off with forces at least as well equipped as they were, but the goals of those forces. From the beginning, it was obvious that insurgents entered the Capitol not with the intent of just waving flags at statues, but to assault members of Congress directly.Federal judge gently pats zip tie insurrectionist on the head, and sends him home
~ Dartagnan / Daily Kos Community
The Leaders of the Riot Were Paid!
~ middleoftheroadDem / Daily Kos Community‘We have receipts’: Analysis details $170 million in corporate gifts to GOP lawmakers who voted to overturn Biden win
~ Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams via AlterNetRep. Brian Mast is a craven, repulsive liar, but we can still answer his question
~ Hunter / Daily Kos StaffWho removed the panic buttons in Ayanna Pressley’s office?
~ HarpboyAK / Daily Kos CommunityImpeachment Vote: I Don’t Think Anyone Has Really Wrapped Their Head Around What Happened Yesterday
~ AlyoshaKaramazov / Daily Kos Community
QAnon extremist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to file articles of impeachment against Joe Biden
~ JGibson / Daily Kos CommunityBiden has an obvious and easy answer to Republican calls that he stop Trump’s impeachment
~ RETIII / Daily Kos Community
Biden should tell them: “Sorry, Trump can’t pardon himself, and I can’t pardon him either.”Pelosi signs Trump articles of impeachment ‘sadly, with heart broken’
~ Joan McCarter / Daily Kos StaffMultiple Republican representatives accused of helping to plan January 6 insurrection
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos StaffPelosi Announces Lawmakers Will Be Fined $5,000 If They Bypass Metal Detectors To House Floor
~ PvtJarHead / Daily Kos CommunityNew metal detectors in Congress are also detecting Republican entitlement
~ Laura Clawson / Daily Kos StaffFootage Emerges Of Terrorists Inside Capitol Talking About The Building’s Schematics.
~ Seashells / Daily Kos CommunityTrump Will Lose his Trump Organization. Strap-in friends, for a Schadenfreude Smörgåsbord!
~ AlyoshaKaramazov / Daily Kos CommunityNew York City terminates Trump Organization contracts over criminal activity
~ Laura Clawson / Daily Kos Staff
WOW: Congresswoman says GOP Reps led extremists through Congress on “Reconnaissance” before coup
~ Blue Tuesday / Daily Kos CommunityOff-duty cops from across the country identified as participants in Capitol insurrection
~ Aysha Qamar / Daily Kos Staff
Capitol police: more than 50 law enforcement officers who responded to the violence on Wednesday were injured by the white supremacists.More evidence of treason: FBI sent warning that extremists planned Jan. 6 assault on Congress
~ Hunter / Daily Kos StaffArmy investigating active-duty special forces officer for participation in D.C. riot
~ Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos Staff
★ Holy S--- FBI warns of ‘huge uprising’ planned by Trump supporters
~ Laura Clawson / Daily Kos Staff★ ★ House has the votes to impeach Trump—again
~ Joan McCarter / Daily Kos StaffAn Open Letter to the Republican Party
~ TokyoSand / Political ChargeCamp Auschwitz hoodie wearing neo-Nazi thug identified
~ ComfortablyNumb / Daily Kos Community
Robert Keith Packer - of Virginia
Impeachment push builds, 2 GOP senators want Trump to resign
~ Darlene Superville, Alan Fram and Mary Clare Jalonick / APNewsTrump’s secretary of defense is either incompetent or a traitor. He must be removed
~ Hunter / Daily Kos StaffMust watch video from Arnold
~ teacherken / Daily Kos Community
Very worth viewing. — Link to twitter: Arnold SchwarzeneggerCongress member declared “Today is 1776,” tweeted re Pelosi’s location during insurrection
~ Clio2 / Daily Kos Community
Lauren Opal Boebert, 34-year-old firearms enthusiast, covid-restrictions refusenik, QAnon sympathizer, somehow or other brand-new newly-sworn-in member of Congress from the third district of Colorado. Remember her name and remove her.Susan J. Demas: Fascists planted their flag in the U.S. Capitol this week. Let’s stop denying it.
~ Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance
Timothy Snyder’s ‘The American Abyss’ op-ed is scary, accurate, and pulls no punches
~ Dartagnan / Daily Kos CommunityThe American Abyss
~ Timothy Snyder, Essay / NYTimes
A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next.Trump-appointed Pentagon officials rename assault on Capitol—prepare to be outraged
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos Staff
The Pentagon is calling Wednesday’s events “First Amendment Protests.”Statement from the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on the Events of January 6th
~ Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign
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~ Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign
2 Arrests Made of High-Profile Participants in DC Riot
~ Newser Editors / Newser Staff‘Hitler Was Right on One Thing,’ Lawmaker Says
~ Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff / Newser Staff
Illinois Republican congresswoman now faces calls to resignTroubling Details Emerge in Death of Capitol Officer
~ John Johnson / Newser Staff
‘New York Times’ reports Officer Brian Sicknick was assaulted with a fire extinguisherKim vows to improve ties with outside world at party meeting
~ HYUNG-JIN KIM / Associated PressPelosi, Democrats lay plans for swift Trump impeachment
~ Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Zeke Miller / APNewsTrump remains defiant, Pence refuses to act. Impeachment is inevitable and must start now
~ Joan McCarter / Daily Kos StaffTrump’s new officials at Pentagon blocked National Guard from ‘interacting with’ insurrectionists
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos StaffLucy Lawless (the Warrior Princess) very perceptively smacks down the Flying Monkeys
~ AKALib / Daily Kos Community
Lucy Lawless Slams ‘Hercules’ for Antifa Conspiracy Theory
⇒ Too much good stuff in this to not share.Breaking Gen Honore Accuses Capitol Police of Complicity
~ Phil In Denver / Daily Kos Community‘Loved’ terrorists got thrown under Trump bus; NOW are seriously groveling for mercy
~ SemDem / Daily Kos CommunityBreaking: Wisconsin’s biggest paper urges traitor Ron Johnson’s expulsion from the Senate
~ Blue Tuesday / Daily Kos Community
What the Holy Heck is Going On?
~ Teri Kanefield / Attorney and Author
Trump Crimes: Discussion of RemovalHurt feelings, anger linger after Pence, Trump clash
~ Jull Colvin / Associated PressCapitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
~ Colleen Long, Lolita Baldor, Michael Balsamo and Nomaan Merchant / APNewsPelosi Calls For Removing Trump From Office
~ Kara Voght / MotherJones
The Speaker said that if Pence declines to invoke the 25th Amendment, Congress would consider impeachment.★ ★ 100+ Civil Rights, Racial Justice, Labor, and Grassroots Groups Demand Trump Be Immediately Removed from Office, Co-Conspirators Held Accountable
~ by DemCast Staff / DemCastA Majority of House Republicans Just Sided With the Mob
~ Tim Murphy / MotherJones
121 of them voted to overturn Arizona’s election.At least 6 Michigan residents arrested in connection to US Capitol riot
~ Darcie Moran and Clara Hendrickson / Detroit Free PressEPI denounces the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
~ The Economic Policy InstituteBomb threat called in to Michigan Capitol, facilities manager says
~ Kara Berg and Carol Thompson / Lansing State JournalIt wasn’t just Washington, D.C.: Pro-Trump rallies across the country threatened violence
~ Laura Clawson / Daily Kos StaffRep. Matt Gaetz providing cover for Nazis who carried out insurrection against the United States
~ Mark Sumner / Daily Kos Staff
One photo sums it up.
No words needed.To me, the one photo that sums up yesterday. No words needed. Check out the t-shirt.
~ CameronProf / Daily Kos Community
~ Insurrectionist ldentified:AboveSome among America's military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had he
~ zman1527 / Daily Kos CommunityMyth of ‘Exceptionalism’ Shattered as Globe Expresses Shock Over ‘Day of Shame for American Democracy’
~ Julia Conley, staff writer / Common Dreams
“After four norm-shattering years of Trump, it took just a few hours of mob rule to make America look pretty ordinary, and as fragile as anywhere else.”Threats to ‘Storm the Capitol’ were public. Why did police let it happen anyway?
~ Laura Clawson / Daily Kos StaffCapitol Police leadership have some very serious questions to answer
~ Laura Clawson / Daily Kos StaffListen: Rudy Giuliani urges the wrong senator to 'slow it down' so Trump has more time to overturn the election
~ Cody Fenwick / Alternet
Rudy does it again: Wrong message to the wrong senator! Oops!
Donald Trump Is Now a Terrorist Leader
~ David Corn, Washington, DC, Bureau Chief / MotherJones
The attack on the Capitol is the culmination of Trumpism, and the GOP owns this.★ ★ ★ Project Lincoln ★ ★ ★
We made this pre-election, thinking that we’d never have to release it.Pro-Trump protesters gather in Lansing as violence erupts in D.C
~ Christian Martinez / Lansing State JournalPresident Obama's Statement About Today’s Coup Attempt
~ JoanMar / Daily Kos CommunityAt pro-Trump rally, militia leader claims accused Whitmer plotters are ‘not guilty’
~ Todd A. Heywood / Michigan Advance