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jmfinizio

Opinion: We should have seen the Capitol riot coming - CNN - 0 views

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  • None of us should have been surprised. Months of escalating threats and violence at our state capitols should have served as notice of what was coming.
  • All too often, these rioters have been greeted as allies by Republican state legislators -- one allegedly opened the door to protesters.
  • In Oregon last month, where the state Capitol has been closed to the public, a Republican lawmaker, who said that legislative proceedings should be open to everyone, allegedly held open a side entrance to allow a gathered mob inside.
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  • In Idaho last August, anti-government and anti-vaxxer groups succeeded in disrupting a special session on the pandemic by overwhelming police and forcing their way into the Idaho House chamber.
  • Perhaps the original dress rehearsal for the Washington assault, however, occurred in Michigan last May, when an armed mob pushed its way into the state Capitol to protest a pandemic stay-at-home order issued by Democratic Gov.
  • And while the astounding crimes at the US Capitol last week rightly captured headlines, the day was also rife with violence and threatened violence at other state capitol buildings as well.
  • If this comes as news, it could be because there are fewer reporters than ever covering statehouses.
  • Armed extremists have been allowed to menace lawmakers in buildings that belong to the people and must remain transparent and accessible to the people.
  • We ignore what happens in our state capitols at our peril.
  • Our state capitols stand as the symbols and workplaces of our democracy at home
aprossi

Kevin Seefried, seen carrying Confederate flag inside Capitol during riot, arrested - CNN - 0 views

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  • Man carrying Confederate flag inside the US Capitol during riot arrested, identified as Kevin Seefried
  • The FBI has arrested Kevin Seefried, seen carrying a Confederate flag inside Capitol Hill, according to a federal criminal complaint.
  • Seefried had been a focus of the FBI's efforts to get the public to help them identify riot participants. The complaint identifies him as the man seen in the photos, widely circulated online, carrying a large Confederate flag inside the US Capitol during the January 6 siege.
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  • Kevin Seefried told the FBI he had brought the Confederate flag with him to Washington from his home in Delaware, where he normally displays it outside.
  • Seefried was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
  • Some people who stormed the Capitol have already come forward or have been identified by CNN and other news organizations. Many face criminal charges, and some have lost or left their jobs because of their participation.
anonymous

Was the US Capitol Riot a Coronavirus Superspreader Event? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • The riot on Wednesday may have started a coronavirus superspreader event, fueled by the mob that roamed through the halls of Congress and unmasked Republicans who jammed into cloistered secure rooms.
  • It could have been worse. Because of the pandemic, lawmakers were instructed to remain in their offices unless speaking during debate over the certification of votes
  • But the normal precautions — already haphazardly enforced — collapsed as pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
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  • On both sides of the Capitol, lawmakers, aides, police officers and reporters who had fled to secure locations have been warned that they might have been exposed to the coronavirus while hiding from the mob
  • “It angers me when they refuse to adhere to the directions about keeping their masks on,” Ms. Watson Coleman, a lung cancer survivor who will turn 76 next month, said in an interview. “It comes off to me as arrogance and defiance. And you can be both, but not at the expense of someone else.”
  • The scene that unfolded on Wednesday in that one secure room — where an offer of masks from Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, Democrat of Delaware, was rejected by a group of Republicans — is emblematic of the challenge that has dogged Capitol Hill’s disorderly response to the pandemic.
  • Republicans accused Democrats, who needed their narrow majority fully present in person to confirm Ms. Pelosi as speaker, of subverting their own rules on the first day of the Congress
  • permitting the construction of a small plexiglass enclosure with its own ventilation system in one of the galleries so that lawmakers in a protective quarantine could vote in person
  • Complicating matters further, lawmakers in both parties have delayed receiving a vaccination, despite being granted primary access, arguing that essential workers needed to receive it first.
jmfinizio

Capitol riot investigation: 275 cases are open, US prosecutors say - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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shared by jmfinizio on 15 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • US investigators have opened up 275 criminal cases and charged roughly 98 individuals in connection to last week's pro-Donald Trump riot at the US Capitol,
  • they are focused on rounding up the most violent offenders.
  • Some of the individuals who breached the Capitol intended to "capture and assassinate elected officials,"
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  • Law enforcement officials did not deny they are investigating allegations that Capitol Police and lawmakers were involved in the riot.
  • "we don't have any direct evidence of kill-capture teams,"
  • Some of the pro-Trump rioters who rampaged the Capitol were heard screaming "where's Mike Pence" and seen on video shouting "hang Mike Pence"
  • Authorities are investigating a growing number of current law enforcement officers who allegedly participated in the riots.
  • , if you are conducting or engaged in criminal activity, we will charge you and you will be arrested,"
  • Prosecutors have noted in court filings how several charged defendants have already spoken to investigators about the riot and how many have posted about their experience or footage they took of the riots on social media.
cvanderloo

For Black Americans, The White Terror In D.C. Looks Familiar | HuffPost - 0 views

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  • This was the case for pro-Trump rioters in 2021. It was also the case for white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, in America’s first and only successful coup d’etat.
  • His refusal to accept the results of a fair and free election, as well as his spread of lies and conspiracy theories about election fraud, emboldened his base to besiege the U.S. Capitol building, riot on its steps, fire bullets in its halls and terrorize elected officials.
  • Nooses, unambiguous symbols of mob mentality and racial terror against Black Americans, were strung up on the Capitol grounds to remind everyone exactly what the rioters stood for — and who they stood against.
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  • Many saw this coming. The rioters had been planning in plain sight. But perhaps Black Americans were the least surprised by the day’s events. The precedent had been set, time and again. We don’t have to look back that far for reminders: Whether in 1900, or 1925, or 1939, or 1965, or 2020, white terror has been deeply embedded in American culture, especially in the face of Black progress and the quest for freedom and equality.
  • For more than a century, Black Americans have documented and warned us of similar moments where racial terror and white supremacy were the status quo.
  • Less than a year later, at the height of the KKK’s popularity, 30,000 members descended upon Washington, and were welcomed by the city.
  • The whites, once again, had free rein to terrorize.
  • Civil rights activists, including the late John Lewis, set off to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to advocate for equal voting rights. Lewis, then 25, was beaten by Alabama state troopers and his skull was fractured. Activist Amelia Boynton Robinson was knocked unconscious. They were tear-gassed. 
  • And then there are too many instances to list from the last six years of the Black Lives Matter movement. At protest after protest against police brutality, Black activists were met with state-sanctioned violence at the hands of police.
  • “I guarantee you if that was a Black Lives Matter protest in D.C., there would already be people shackled, arrested or dead,
  • “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently from the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol,” he said. “We all know that’s true, and it is unacceptable.” 
jmfinizio

26-year-old arrested for alleged participation in Capitol riot - CNN - 0 views

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  • ederal agents have arrested a 26-year-old New York resident for his alleged participation in the January 6 US Capitol riot in Washington, DC,
  • Edward Lang is in custody for the ones he made during the assault on our Capitol,
  • We will continue to track down and hold accountable those who attempt to violently subvert it
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  • It is not clear if Lang has secured legal representation and attempts to reach his family have been unsuccessful.
  • Federal officials told reporters Friday that investigators had opened 275 criminal cases and charged roughly 98 individuals in connection to the January 6 riot by supporters of President Donald Trump at the Capitol.
jmfinizio

Megan Rapinoe condemns US Capitol riots as 'White supremacy mob' - CNN - 0 views

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  • Megan Rapinoe has denounced last week's riots in the US Capitol as "a huge stain on the country."
  • In the wake of the deadly riots, criminal defendants have been rounded up across the country, with some accused of bringing weapons and bombs to Capitol Hill.
  • "This is America, make no mistake about it,"
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  • "I think we showed very much our true colors. This is not the first time we have seen a murderous mob like that.
  • "Unleashing a White supremacy mob is nothing new to America as people of color, Black and Brown, know that very well."
  • "If we do not punish this and investigate this to the fullest extent it only encourages more of this to happen,"
  • "The US crest is not to be confused with anything that has to do with White supremacy, anything that has to do with the Trump administration, anything that has to do with that divisive culture that we saw on the Capitol.
aprossi

US Capitol riot: Military Joint Chiefs condemn 'sedition and insurrection' - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Military Joint Chiefs condemn 'sedition and insurrection' at US Capitol as federal and local officials scramble to ensure security
  • America's most senior military leaders condemned the violent invasion of the US Capitol last week and reminded service members of their obligation to support and defend the Constitution and reject extremism
  • President Donald Trump's supporters.
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  • inconsistent with the rule of law
  • violence,
  • 50 states are preparing for possible violence
  • The House is expected to vote Wednesday on Trump's second impeachment,
  • DC National Guard is also providing additional training to service members
  • particularly the militia extremists among them -- is "scary."
  • "everybody will be fully prepared"
  • military leaders felt it was important to make a statement given the gravity of events surrounding the inauguration
  • 'No place for extremism'
  • Lawmakers, deeply shaken by the hours of violence last week
  • "There is no place for extremism in the militar
  • "The Capitol grounds outside and inside are essentially a crime scene,"
ilanaprincilus06

Poll On Capitol Riot: Majority Of Americans Blame Trump : NPR - 0 views

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  • Almost 6 in 10 Americans said they blame President Trump for the violent insurrection that took place Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol
  • and half believe social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter — which have banned him from their platforms — should not continue to restrict Trump after Wednesday.
  • Eight in 10 Republicans disagree that Trump is to blame for the violence, don't believe social media companies should continue restrictions on him and don't trust that results of the 2020 election were accurate.
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  • To date, Trump has still not conceded, even after the House impeached him for a second time Wednesday.
  • Overall, 58% said Trump is to blame either a "great deal" or a "good amount" for the violence at the Capitol, while 40% said "not much" or "not at all."
  • When it comes to trusting that the results of the election are accurate, 60% said they do, while 38% said they don't.
  • As with most things in the Trump presidency, there's a big split between whites with college degrees and those without — 67% of whites with degrees trust the results, while 50% of whites without do not.
  • By a 50%-43% margin, Americans do not think social media companies should continue to restrict Trump's use of their platforms beyond his term as president.
  • There are 1,012 registered voters in the survey. Where they are mentioned, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
clairemann

Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized | Time - 0 views

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  • As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hundreds of restrictive voting laws across the country, the obvious question is how does American democracy come back from all this?
  • The super-majority of Americans across the political spectrum who reject the extremism need to come together. This includes the pro-democracy right
  • But only a new small “l” liberal Republican Party—distinct from the increasingly illiberal Trumpist GOP, can establish a new partisan identity that gives center-right voters a meaningful home.
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  • Republican Party is an illiberal anti-democratic nativist global outlier, with positions more extreme than France’s National Rally, and in line with the Germany’s AfD, Hungary’s Fidesz, Turkey’s AKP and Poland’s PiS, according to the widely respected V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute.
  • The GOP has been sliding into authoritarianism over two decades, using increasingly demonizing rhetoric against its opponents.
  • Historically, democracy dies.
  • Three-quarters of Americans disapprove of the January 6 mob’s actions, and Trump’s seemingly immovable approval floor dropped by about more than six points. In the days after, only 13 percent of Americans considered themselves “Trump Supporters” while another 16 percent considered themselves “Traditional Republicans.” If “Trump Supporters” were their own party, they’d be about as popular as Germany’s far-right AfD, which polled at about 15 percent for 2019, though their support more recently dropped off to 11 percent.
  • . For decades, majorities of Americans have told pollsters they want more parties to choose from, and registered their dissatisfaction with the two-party system by increasingly identifying as independents.
  • But as the two parties began sorting more clearly along liberal-conservative lines as “culture war” issues starting in the 1970s, and as American politics nationalized around these cultural issues, and, starting in the 1990s, as the long-time Democratic control of the House ended, every election became a high-stakes all-or-nothing fight for control of federal power.
  • The only way to elevate the moderate Republicans is for Congress to use its constitutional authority (Article I, Section IV) to change how we vote, and create electoral opportunities for a center-right to rise again.
jmfinizio

Opinion: I've had it with interviewing Trump supporters who go off the deep end - CNN - 0 views

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shared by jmfinizio on 15 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • Or maybe you saw the one where a panelist told me he would believe Donald Trump over Jesus Christ.
  • The cries from right-wing politicians telling us we need to hear the feelings of Trump supporters are wearing thin, as is the idea that the mob at the Capitol was somehow "silenced" or "censored" for too long.
  • He left a "nasty note" for Nancy Pelosi and stole some of her mail. I guess he didn't know that's a federal crime. I'm not sure we should take any pointers from him either.
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  • , I don't think the arsonists and vandals who caused damage in Portland, Oregon and other cities last summer need to be listened to either
  • They broke windows, scaled walls, carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol Rotunda, defecated in the halls of the Capitol, killed a police officer, savagely beat another one with a pole holding an American flag and crushed yet another officer in a door while he screamed for help.
  • 73% of Republican voters believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election
  • A Pew poll finds that roughly 41% of Republicans who have heard of QAnon, a group that peddles the conspiracy theory that a ring of satanic pedophiles have taken over the US government, say QAnon is a good thing for the country.
  • I think the time for listening to present-day Trump supporters is over.
  • I think at this point the smartest thing the rest of us could do is no longer give warped Trump supporters a platform and no longer lend them our ears. It's time to turn off their microphones.
ilanaprincilus06

World Leaders React To Pro-Trump Extremists Storming U.S. Capitol : Insurrection At The... - 0 views

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  • The spectacle transfixed people around the globe.
  • "Disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress," Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain tweeted. "The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power."
  • Violence is incompatible with the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms.
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  • "A basic rule of democracy is that after elections there are winners and losers," Merkel said. "Both have their part to play with decency and responsibility so that democracy itself remains secure.
  • "The enemies of democracy will be delighted at these terrible images from Washington DC."
  • He noted that for generations, American democracy has inspired millions of people, including him.
  • I have no doubt that American democracy will prevail — it always has."
  • "Everyone saw what a populist did to his country and damaged his country's reputation in the international arena."
  • "While people in Palestine & in many other places in the world are struggling to achieve democracy, there are those in the US who are actively sabotaging theirs,"
edencottone

Trump's disastrous end to his shocking presidency - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • President Donald Trump is leaving America in a vortex of violence, sickness and death and more internally estranged than it has been for 150 years.
  • Hospitals are swamped and medical workers are shattered amid a faltering rollout of the vaccine supposed to end the crisis.
  • It took 200 years for the country to rack up its first two presidential impeachments.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      made history but in a bad way. This president is deserving of the 2 impeachments
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  • Trump's malfeasance has led the country down that awful, divisive path twice in just more than a year.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      though this line is opinionated I agree
  • The city Trump has called home for four years is being turned into an armed camp incongruous with the mood of joy and renewal that pulsates through most inaugurations.
  • In a symbol of a democracy under siege, the people's buildings -- the White House and the US Capitol -- are caged behind ugly iron and cement barriers.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      a threat to our democracy
  • eight days
  • unintended irony, Biden's team has picked "America United"
  • It is becoming ever more obvious that the horrific scenes on Capitol Hill on Wednesday were not a one-off.
  • In a chilling new warning, the FBI revealed the possible next stage in this now nationwide wave of radicalization, saying armed protests were planned at state Capitols in all 50 states between January 16 and Inauguration Day, January 20.
  • Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was shocked by the magnitude of the bureau's intelligence on possible new violence.
  • "I don't think in the entire scope of my career working counter terrorism issues for many, many years, I don't think I ever saw a bulletin go out that concerned armed protest activity in 50 states in a three- or four-day period,"
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      we are in uncharted territory
  • he was not afraid of taking the oath of office outside next week
  • So far, after a massive domestic terror attack on the citadel of US democracy, there has been no major public briefing by any major federal law enforcement agency or the White House, an omission that fosters a sense of an absent government
  • By contrast, senior officials from the outgoing Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration worked closely together in the Situation Room on January 20, 2009, when there was concern about the authenticity of terror threat to the inauguration.
  • current atmosphere of fear and wild political insurrection
  • Momentum towards impeachment is now all but unstoppable
  • hinted at the insincerity of the Republican approach.
  • With a few exceptions, Republicans -- who indulged and in many cases supported Trump's blatantly false claims of electoral fraud for weeks -- have responded to the uproar over last week's Capitol attack by complaining that by pushing impeachment, Democrats are fracturing national unity.
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      good that they now acknowledge however should have been done much earlier
  • His comment eerily recalled the rationalizations of Republicans who declined to convict Trump in his first impeachment trial after he tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the election to damage Biden.
  • "Face the Nation."
  • has emerged from many dark periods since the Civil War
    • edencottone
      edencottone on 12 Jan 21
       
      we can do it again
  • Trump has not appeared in public for days.
  • The virus is meanwhile running rampant. Eleven states and Washington, DC, just recorded their highest 7-day average of new cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic began. For the first time, the country is averaging over 3,000 deaths from the pandemic per day.
  • hopes that the nation could soon turn a corner are being tempered by the glitches in the vaccine roll out.
jmfinizio

Kevin Seefried, seen carrying Confederate flag inside Capitol during riot, arrested - CNN - 0 views

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  • The FBI has arrested Kevin Seefried, seen carrying a Confederate flag inside Capitol Hill, according to a federal criminal complaint.
  • Seefried had been a focus of the FBI's efforts to get the public to help them identify riot participants.
  • Kevin Seefried told the FBI he had brought the Confederate flag with him to Washington from his home in Delaware,
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  • Many face criminal charges, and some have lost or left their jobs because of their participation.
jmfinizio

Opinion: The jarring, revealing video of Black men cleaning up the Capitol - CNN - 0 views

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  • The image is jarring because it's a scene so commonplace, so normal.
  • it's difficult or darn near impossible not to see those decades-deep racial connections
  • An illustration of their importance to the health of this country
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  • the racial and income and power inequalities evident in that video shouldn't exist.
  • Black people have always been forced into a kind of Sophie's choice, to love a place that has for too long hated us while knowing that's what's best for us all, nevertheless.
  • Black people cleaning up after a White mob trying to undermine democracy is a powerful image
  • They didn't get caught up in returning hatred with hatred, anger with bitterness, confrontation with balled fists.
melnikju

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - Glenn Gree... - 0 views

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      melnikju on 17 Feb 21
       
      Both conservatives and liberals, people on any side of the argument, are trying to twist it to make themselves look better
  • But none of the other four deaths were at the hands of the protesters: the only other person killed with deliberate violence was a pro-Trump protester, Ashli Babbitt, unarmed when shot in the neck by a police officer at close range. The other three deaths were all pro-Trump protesters: Kevin Greeson, who died of a heart attack outside the Capitol; Benjamin Philips, 50, “the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo,” who died of a stroke that day; and Rosanne Boyland, a fanatical Trump supporter whom the Times says was inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.”
    • melnikju
      melnikju on 17 Feb 21
       
      Obviously, news coverage wouldn't want to make the rioters look innocent or hurt at any point, so they wouldn't want to cover this
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  • The problem with this story is that it is false in all respects.
  • nobody saw video of it. No photographs depicted it. To this day, no autopsy report has been released. No details from any official source have been provided.
  • “with a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.”
  • does not say whether it came from the police or protesters.
  • With the impeachment trial now over, the articles are now rewritten to reflect that the original story was false. But there was nothing done by The New York Times to explain an error of this magnitude, let alone to try to undo the damage it did by misleading the public. They did not expressly retract or even “correct” the story.
  • far-right forums
    • melnikju
      melnikju on 17 Feb 21
       
      dividing people more by using labels that are extreme
  • and the FBI has acknowledged it has no evidence to the contrary
  • So it matters a great deal legally, but also politically, if the U.S. really did suffer an armed insurrection and continues to face one. Though there is no controlling, clear definition, that term usually connotes not a three-hour riot but an ongoing, serious plot by a faction of the citizenry to overthrow or otherwise subvert the government.
  • people rightly conclude the propaganda is deliberate and trust in journalism erodes further.
  • One can — and should — condemn the January 6 riot without inflating the threat it posed. And one can — and should — insist on both factual accuracy and sober restraint without standing accused of sympathy for the rioters.
tongoscar

'Women's rights are human rights': Hundreds rally at the Capitol for Salt Lake City wom... - 0 views

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  • “It’s important because women’s liberation is something that we’ve been fighting for for so long, and it’s not something that’s come to fruition yet. As we can see misogyny is still deeply rooted in this nation.” said Ermiya Fanaeian, 19, a speaker at the event.
  • On the steps of the Capitol, six speakers discussed issues facing indigenous women, incarcerated women, African American women and LGBTQ women.
  • “Young people are the future leaders, young people are folks who need to start now, who need to start recognizing these socio-political issues, so that in the future they’re folks who can lead the way when it comes to laws.”
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  • “When we start fighting for liberation for all women, then those of us in the margins can be liberated the most — those of us who are of color, those of us who are queer, those of us who are lower class, who are working-class — all these different intersections.”
  • She said it’s important for people to use their privilege and voices to speak out for marginalized groups. “People are being put in cages, missing and indigenous women and children are being ignored and when we end all injustice it will be a better world for everyone.”
Javier E

'The Fourth Turning' Enters Pop Culture - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • According to “fourth turning” proponents, American history goes through recurring cycles. Each one, which lasts about 80 to 100 years, consists of four generation-long seasons, or “turnings.” The winter season is a time of upheaval and reconstruction — a fourth turning.
  • The theory first appeared in “The Fourth Turning,” a work of pop political science that has had a cult following more or less since it was published in 1997. In the last few years of political turmoil, the book and its ideas have bubbled into the mainstream.
  • According to “The Fourth Turning,” previous crisis periods include the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War II. America entered its latest fourth turning in the mid-2000s. It will culminate in a crisis sometime in the 2020s — i.e., now.
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  • One of the book’s authors, Neil Howe, 71, has become a frequent podcast guest. A follow-up, “The Fourth Turning Is Here,” comes out this month.
  • The play’s author, Will Arbery, 33, said he heard about “The Fourth Turning” while researching Stephen K. Bannon, the right-wing firebrand and former adviser to President Donald J. Trump, who is a longtime fan of the book and directed a 2010 documentary based on its ideas.
  • He described it as “this almost fun theory about history,” but added: “And yet there’s something deeply menacing about it.”
  • Mr. Arbery, who said he does not subscribe to the theory, sees parallels between the fourth turning and other nonscientific beliefs. “I modeled the way that Teresa talks about the fourth turning on the way that young liberals talk about astrology,” he said.
  • The book’s outlook on the near future has made it appealing to macro traders and crypto enthusiasts, and it is frequently cited on the podcasts “Macro Voices,” “Wealthion” and “On the Margin.”
  • In the new book, he describes what a coming civil war or geopolitical conflict might look like — though he shies away from casting himself as a modern-day Nostradamus.
  • “The Fourth Turning” captured a mood of decline in recent American life. “I remember feeling safe in the ’90s, and then as soon as 9/11 hit, the world went topsy-turvy,” he said. “Every time my cohort got to the point where we were optimistic, another crisis happened. When I read the book, I was like, ‘That makes sense.’”
  • “The Fourth Turning” was conceived during a period of relative calm. In the late 1980s, Mr. Howe, a Washington, D.C., policy analyst, teamed with William Strauss, a founder of the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps.
  • Their first book, “Generations,” told a story of American history through generational profiles going back to the 1600s. The book was said to have influenced Bill Clinton to choose a fellow baby boomer, Al Gore, as his running mate
  • when the 2008 financial crisis hit at almost exactly the point when the start of the fourth turning was predicted, it seemed to many that the authors might have been onto something. Recent events — the pandemic, the storming of the Capitol — have seemingly provided more evidence for the book’s fans.
  • Historically, a fourth turning crisis has always translated into a civil war, a war of great nations, or both, according to the book. Either is possible over the next decade, Mr. Howe said. But he is a doomsayer with an optimistic streak: Each fourth turning, in his telling, kicks off a renaissance in civic life.
  • “I’ve read ‘The Fourth Turning,’ and indeed found it useful from a macroeconomic investing perspective,” Lyn Alden, 35, an investment analyst, wrote in an email. “History doesn’t repeat, but it kind of gives us a loose framework to work with.”
  • “This big tidal shift is arriving,” Mr. Howe said. “But if you’re asking me which wave is going to knock down the lighthouse, I can’t do that. I can just tell you that this is the time period. It gives you a good idea of what to watch for.”
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President Trump Impeached: 4 Ways Washington Has Changed : NPR - 0 views

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  • The House of Representatives approved one article of impeachment Wednesday against President Trump for "incitement of insurrection," with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats in a 232-197 vote.
  • She never spoke on the House floor and made it known she thought it was a vote of conscience, but her vote could potentially cost her spot at the leadership table.
  • Now he has a distinction in the history books that no president wants — the first to be impeached twice.
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  • He also is the president who has had the most members of his own party vote for impeachment.
  • but the split among congressional Republicans about the future of the party is accelerating after the events of last week, and it's happening in real time.
  • "I think every day that goes by, there's going to be people regretting their 'no' vote as more information comes out."
  • But Washington and the country are still reeling from the images of the attack.
  • Biden's allies openly worried about what starting the impeachment train moving would mean for the incoming president's ability to secure Senate confirmation for his Cabinet nominees and press for top priorities like coronavirus relief.
  • "Impeachment now is like a primal scream,"
  • The symbol for democracy used to be a frequent tourist attraction pre-pandemic for school groups learning about the country's founders and history. Now, it has a new image of what can happen when political rhetoric ignites supporters to turn on their opponents.
  • Although members praised law enforcement, and there are amazing stories of those who fought off the mob, the serious security failures have many lawmakers questioning the leadership of the force
  • Members rarely socialized with members of another party. The level of trust has really changed in the past week.
  • Some Democrats are already pledging not to work with Republicans who voted in favor of challenging the election results.
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Twitter blocks 70,000 QAnon accounts after US Capitol riot - 0 views

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  • Twitter says it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts associated with the far right QAnon conspiracy theory following last week’s U.S. Capitol riot.
  • “These accounts were engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service,”
  • Twitter’s sweeping purge of QAnon accounts, which began Friday, is part of a wider crackdown that also includes its decision to ban President Donald Trump from the service over worries about further incitement to violence.
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  • The QAnon conspiracy theory is centered on the baseless belief that Trump is waging a secret campaign against “deep state” enemies and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
  • Tuesday it will limit the spread of posts that violate its civic integrity policy by preventing anyone from replying to, liking or retweeting them.
  • The policy prohibits attempts to manipulate elections and spread misleading info about their results, with repeated violations resulting in permanent suspension.
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