I'm old enough to remember when too many news leaders questioned if Black journalists could cover Black Lives Matter & the nation's civil unrest. They claimed we couldn't be objective. Now I ask those leaders, can white journalists effectively cover the Trump insurrection story? pic.twitter.com/d4v4EX9xCV
It appears that Parler may not have been as much of a safe haven for the so-called patriots as they thought. I wonder how much of the information captured will lead to more arrests.
"The PGA of America Board of Directors voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster." — Jim Richerson, PGA of America President
Were donations from post general election fundraising used to pay for this coup? [Trump/Trump officials/donors planned, recruited, paid & launched attack on Capitol]
A speculation of what may come out:
Trump/Trump officials/donors planned, recruited, paid & launched attack on Capitol
210 House members have signed on as cosponsors of the main House impeachment proposal. There is no longer any question that, if Mike Pence fails to answer the House’s call to invoke the 25th Amendment on Monday, Donald Trump WILL be impeached this week.https://t.co/sdUBnpq8Mu
I’m stunned after watching this #60Minutes interview with @SpeakerPelosi thinking about the fact that her young staff knew to kill the lights, barricade the door, and hide under the table after growing up doing those drills in their classrooms.
My kid saw that and said, “Oh, that’s what we do in school.” She said that kids discuss which classroom they hope they would be in if there is an active shooter. They always hope for a room with two exits. Our kids are like combat veterans, scanning the rooms for egress.
She also said they’ve been taught to throw pencils and whatever else they can find if they are in the room with the shooter “to stall for time so that others can live.”
One of the BEST things about an impeachment trial is that folks will have to go on record as either supporting an insurrection leader or voting to remove him from office.
I’m asking Ambassador Bill Burns to lead the Central Intelligence Agency because he’s dealt with many of the thorniest global challenges we face. As a legendary career diplomat, he approached complex issues with honesty, integrity and skill. That’s exactly how he’ll lead the CIA. pic.twitter.com/ypnuH016BV
Nancy Pelosi gave Mike Pence an ultimatum Sunday evening, saying that if he refused to meet Democrats’ demands to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, the House would move forward with impeachment. https://t.co/21sWmR7CuW
A hacker has archived every single post on Parler from the date of the Capitol riot, complete with metadata including GPS locations of the users. She’s about to make it public.
BOOM! U.S. TREASURY SANCTION RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES BEHIND DISINFORMATION ATTACK AGAINST JOE BIDEN IN 2020 ELECTION; GIULIANI, SEN. JOHNSON, SEN. GRASSLEY IMPLICATED 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/aj1CbLk5G4
I’m one of those people who keeps asking why the Democrats aren’t doing something NOW; why there doesn’t seem to be as much urgency in their actions as I would like. Just as we know an elected president can’t just go in and implement their agenda, I have to remember that there is a process even for something that should be more automatic.
The Democrats can't just open a trap door under Trump. They can't convict and remove him without Senate Republicans. They can't require Pence to invoke the 25th. Democrats are doing everything they can. If you're blaming them for Trump still being in office, you've lost the plot.
NEW: Talk radio powerhouse Cumulus Media—which airs conservatives like Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino—has told its hosts not to lie about the election after last week's deadly insurrection at the Capitol. Unclear how its business model will adapthttps://t.co/mwPZViqIL9
Charlie Kirk has deleted this tweet from last week in which he claimed to be “sending 80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president.” https://t.co/Ipc6H2i3K2pic.twitter.com/6Zbe6wy9fX
Charlie Kirk and Turning Point no longer want you to know that they were responsible for bringing in the people who attacked the Capitol https://t.co/TJQziGpk8w
Michael Moore introducing his video:
“This week’s terrorist attack was not random. It wasn’t an accident.
It was planned, aided and abetted by certain members of the police, the military, and the republican party. And it was one the dry run. This violent attack is not. Over. Allow me to share my thoughts about what I think is happening and is about to happen.”
Michael Moore: “The Terrorist Attack Is NOT Over.”
“Many of the attackers are still in D.C. They were aided and abetted by certain members of the police, military and Republican party. And Wednesday’s terror attack was just a dry run for what they are planning next. Michael Moore shares his latest, urgent thoughts on the terror attack that occurred this week and the one we must prepare for.”
BREAKING: Parler sues Amazon for antitrust violation, breach of contract and unlawful business interference. Asks federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate the platform
NEW: SCOTUS won't fast-track review of pro-Trump election lawsuits brought or repp'd by Trump, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell. More disappointment after tallying an abysmal post-election court record and spouting phony—and deadly—voter fraud conspiracy theorieshttps://t.co/Ef49Hkv0Er
Today, Rep. Cori Bush will introduce a resolution to sanction or potentially remove from office Republican House members who supported challenges to certified election results.
The irony of ironies: Trump supporters spent the past year droning on about protecting statues and monuments and now their own militant hardcore, and not 'Antifa' or BLM, has forced the shutdown of the *Washington Monument*. https://t.co/pT6Pq4V1d3
Covid – 19, Trump and republican’s biologic warfare, by ignoring and letting it spread like the fires in California. Wonder how many of their own were consumed by the flames? Not that they care about anything but themselves, power and money.
I thought it was already a rule. Too bad it sometimes works out like a person who gets into an accident while driving drunk. They often walk away unscathed while innocent people end up suffering harm.
Punchbowl News: "House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and congressional Republicans have a gigantic problem. Their money spigot is getting cut off, they're becoming pariahs and corporations and organizations are beginning to consider them a reputational risk."
“‘It Was No Accident’
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.”
“Pramila Jayapal: There were a number of congresswomen up there in the gallery: Val Demings, Abigail Spanberger, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Sheila Jackson Lee, Terri Sewell … And before anything had really happened — we noticed that there were very few women on the floor…..
Before we knew it, everyone on the floor below us had been removed, and … we were still there. And it didn’t look like anyone was coming to get us.
The Capitol police with us seemed very confused about who had the key to the doors. They were closed, but we weren’t sure if they were locked, and we were yelling, “Lock the doors! Lock the doors!” We heard shots being fired, presumably into the chamber.”
“The Only Strategy Left for Democrats After this week, the mandate is clear:
Make people’s lives better. And stop trying to placate Republicans.”
“And in their sops to bipartisan comity, and after all their defensive concessions to the opposition…
Democrats have gained almost nothing.
A historic yet unbearably incomplete and fragile reform of health care —
and for it, the erosion of labor and civil rights;
environmental and reproductive-health-care protections;
the privileging of the market above all else,
and with it the widening chasm of economic inequality.
“Hitler was charged with high treason.
Despite his conviction, Hitler was out of jail before the end of the year, with his political position stronger than
ever.
The failed coup turned out to be quite a boon for Adolf Hitler.
His trial brought him more attention and publicity than ever before. With a crowd of thousands-including press from around the world-watching the proceedings, Hitler made the most of this opportunity by going on the offensive.
Taking every chance to turn the subject away from the putsch itself, Hitler frequently made speeches about Germany’s postwar plight. He blamed the Jews, Marxism, and France for all of the country’s problems, repeatedly returning to his theme of hypernationalism. The conservative-leaning judges did nothing to stop Hitler or keep the focus on the attempted coup. The prosecutors, who had been threatened by Hitler’s student followers, shrank from challenging the defendant……
After his conviction,
Hitler spent the remainder of the year in prison writing the first volume of Mein Kampf.
By the time he was released, he had become more popular than ever,
and within eight years he had taken over Germany.”
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has asked Americans NOT to come to the inauguration on January 20th, and to instead participate virtually, for safety concerns.
President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration theme will be “America United." Meanwhile, the National Park Service says it will shut down the Washington Monument until Jan. 24, citing threats surrounding the inauguration. https://t.co/S3DC3L63RF
1. There has been A LOT of news about major corporations suspending their political contributions to members of Congress that objected to the presidential vote.
I'm going to summarize where we are at in this thread.
Hallmark is one of Kansas City's largest employers. Add this to Commerce Bank and BlueCross and it is clear Hawley is losing key support in Missouri. Other companies here that should take similar action: @UMBBank@Cerner@HRBlock@honeywellhttps://t.co/QlIlUNurqn
Either the State Department was hacked, or it's a placeholder for something else, or something big is about to go down at 7:49pm ET today. https://t.co/im7uZTuJfq
“Biden says he’s spoken with members about a way to ‘bifurcate’ Trump’s impeachment, so as not to delay his agenda. The Senate would spend ‘a half day dealing with impeachment and a half day’ on confirmations and COVID relief. Says he awaits info from Senate parliamentarian,” Bennett reported.
“There are more than a dozen House Republicans considering support for the impeachment measure if Trump won’t resign. But the big news is on the Senate side: There are at least 10 Republican senators who may vote for conviction depending on what Dems say and do in the House,” Luntz said.
Biden wants to "bifurcate" Trump's impeachment in the Senate, so it would do the impeachment trial and covid relief at the same time, @GeoffRBennett reports:https://t.co/YjoVGIJbzm
That suggests Biden is okay with the House sending impeachment over right away: https://t.co/Pfq5fT1mNC
Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the U.S., including Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen — or else face termination. https://t.co/uWOjWPlxm0
Make no mistake, the politicians who challenged the 2020 election results weren't doing so because they thought it would work. They did it so they could get free airtime and raise money for 2024.
President-elect Biden’s dog Major will be honored with an ‘indoguration’ hosted by the Delaware Humane Association & Pumpkin Pet Insurance. Major will be the first shelter dog in the White House 🐾 pic.twitter.com/WygPPwzDXG
New: @FBI now reports in a bulletin "Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the US Capitol from 17 January through 20 January,” @AaronKatersky reports.
Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino’s employer, Cumulus Media, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or face termination “immediately”https://t.co/aMzP3nO7PV
NEW: Acting DHS Sec. Chad Wolf: "..at the recommendation of Secret Service Director James Murray, I have instructed the U.S. Secret Service to begin the National Special Security Event operations for the 2021 Inauguration effective Wednesday, January 13th instead of January 19th"
"I've been studying authoritarian regimes for three decades, and I know the signs of a coup when I see them," writes former Trump administration official Fiona Hill https://t.co/0UwkCtwA5L
A lot of the national conversation right now seems to be revolving around whether people who have chosen to believe damaging lies that aren't true should be catered to and treated with kid gloves or whether they should be treated like adults who can handle the truth
If we don't address the "stolen election/stabbed in the back" stuff now and make it clear that's fringe bullshit that has no place in a rational national conversation, we're screwed. I'm not confident!
The attack on the Capitol makes it even more important that the Senate continue the long-standing tradition of confirming the President-elect’s national security team on day one. https://t.co/jGQcWYWmPm
JUST IN: Facebook: "We are now removing content containing the phrase 'stop the steal' under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram." https://t.co/tJsNdxmBfQpic.twitter.com/WaNavw58QJ
(PS) According to Manu Raju of CNN, what Sen. Schumer is considering doing is using a Senate procedure to try to force the Senate to come back into session *before* January 20 so that an impeachment trial for Incitement to Insurrection can begin immediately.
A senior Dem aide confirms to @CBSNews that @SenSchumer is looking at using authority granted to the top two leaders in the Senate in 2004 to bring the Senate back in times of emergency. Would require consent from @senatemajldr but could allow an impeachment trial to begin sooner
Two US Capitol Police officers have been suspended and another individual has been arrested for their alleged involvement in the riot on January 6th, according to Rep. Tim Ryan, who chairs a House panel probing last week’s events, per @ryanobles@AnnieGrayerCNN
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It appears that Parler may not have been as much of a safe haven for the so-called patriots as they thought. I wonder how much of the information captured will lead to more arrests.
Brilliant achievement!!!
So proud of all who contributed their time and systems to archive that trove of disinformation and numerous crimes.
from the horse’s mouth.
OOOOHHH! Now that one hurts Trump. Is Trump giving out more Presidential Medals of Freedom this week?
Of course he will. McConnell has been complicit with Trump’s worst tendencies and inclinations.
Were donations from post general election fundraising used to pay for this coup? [Trump/Trump officials/donors planned, recruited, paid & launched attack on Capitol]
count on all this and THEN some
This all needs to be investigated.
disbar the mofo.
Ironic since the fallen officer supported Trump. President Biden is a decent human being with compassion. Thank goodness he was elected.
Don’t they need 217? Where is the rest of the dem caucus?
Sad that things are such that our *children* are better prepared for such incidents than we are. I never had such drills when I was that age.
Just awful! Poor kids.
WOW!!! Love this guy. Exactly…what is it they wanted? What has their country not given them? Every word….
My room mate asked the exact same question, what is it that they want?
🎻
So sad…. we “feel”for you all. The Chickens (you all) have come home to roost.
Also Scarlet T does that stand for Trump of Traitor?
It’s all about me me me. They only care about themselves.
I assume they can use pings from their cell phones to catch some of these terrorists since they videotaped themselves during the insurrection.
Forward.
Bloop!
Yes “He learned his lesson.” says Senator Susan Collins.
I’m one of those people who keeps asking why the Democrats aren’t doing something NOW; why there doesn’t seem to be as much urgency in their actions as I would like. Just as we know an elected president can’t just go in and implement their agenda, I have to remember that there is a process even for something that should be more automatic.
If they can’t lie, they have nothing to say.
Made my day.😂😂😂
Mine, too. LOL!
Welp!
Good News Break:
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/880027
Leslie Stahl…. 79 years old. So why are you still working? What about your age Leslie?
Michael Moore introducing his video:
“This week’s terrorist attack was not random. It wasn’t an accident.
It was planned, aided and abetted by certain members of the police, the military, and the republican party. And it was one the dry run. This violent attack is not. Over. Allow me to share my thoughts about what I think is happening and is about to happen.”
Michael Moore: “The Terrorist Attack Is NOT Over.”
“Many of the attackers are still in D.C. They were aided and abetted by certain members of the police, military and Republican party. And Wednesday’s terror attack was just a dry run for what they are planning next. Michael Moore shares his latest, urgent thoughts on the terror attack that occurred this week and the one we must prepare for.”
Moore says there is a call out nationwide for an armed march to take the country back in DC
and in all 50 capitals.
Moore spoke to members of the Capitol.
Said they knew the attack was coming.
However only a quarter of the police were on duty.
um…Trump might figure his only way out is to commandeer the country. Sack the state capitals?
(Declare martial law, stop the inauguration?)
Mrs. Clarence Thomas must be very unhappy about this.
Not soon enough😩
Awesomeness….she is.
Covid – 19, Trump and republican’s biologic warfare, by ignoring and letting it spread like the fires in California. Wonder how many of their own were consumed by the flames? Not that they care about anything but themselves, power and money.
Awful. Republican Reps should be forced to wear masks or not allowed in the House.
I thought it was already a rule. Too bad it sometimes works out like a person who gets into an accident while driving drunk. They often walk away unscathed while innocent people end up suffering harm.
“‘It Was No Accident’
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.”
“Pramila Jayapal: There were a number of congresswomen up there in the gallery: Val Demings, Abigail Spanberger, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Sheila Jackson Lee, Terri Sewell … And before anything had really happened — we noticed that there were very few women on the floor…..
Before we knew it, everyone on the floor below us had been removed, and … we were still there. And it didn’t look like anyone was coming to get us.
The Capitol police with us seemed very confused about who had the key to the doors. They were closed, but we weren’t sure if they were locked, and we were yelling, “Lock the doors! Lock the doors!” We heard shots being fired, presumably into the chamber.”
(https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/pramila-jayapal-surviving-capitol-riots.html)
That aging thing…
Good luck with that!
LOL … ok, that made me laugh. ‘Hey … gimme my money back’ 🤣 … i second that SW, Good luck with that.
LOL!
“The Only Strategy Left for Democrats After this week, the mandate is clear:
Make people’s lives better. And stop trying to placate Republicans.”
“And in their sops to bipartisan comity, and after all their defensive concessions to the opposition…
Democrats have gained almost nothing.
A historic yet unbearably incomplete and fragile reform of health care —
and for it, the erosion of labor and civil rights;
environmental and reproductive-health-care protections;
the privileging of the market above all else,
and with it the widening chasm of economic inequality.
Good-bye to all that, buttercups.
Placation of the opposition is morally suspect,
but also, it doesn’t work.”
(https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/the-only-strategy-left-for-democrats.html)
By Zeus!
Please add COVID-19 Infection as a federal crime to the Articles of Impeachment.
“Hitler was charged with high treason.
Despite his conviction, Hitler was out of jail before the end of the year, with his political position stronger than
ever.
The failed coup turned out to be quite a boon for Adolf Hitler.
His trial brought him more attention and publicity than ever before. With a crowd of thousands-including press from around the world-watching the proceedings, Hitler made the most of this opportunity by going on the offensive.
Taking every chance to turn the subject away from the putsch itself, Hitler frequently made speeches about Germany’s postwar plight. He blamed the Jews, Marxism, and France for all of the country’s problems, repeatedly returning to his theme of hypernationalism. The conservative-leaning judges did nothing to stop Hitler or keep the focus on the attempted coup. The prosecutors, who had been threatened by Hitler’s student followers, shrank from challenging the defendant……
After his conviction,
Hitler spent the remainder of the year in prison writing the first volume of Mein Kampf.
By the time he was released, he had become more popular than ever,
and within eight years he had taken over Germany.”
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/beer-hall-putsch-secures-hitlers-rise-to-power)
Ivana Trump maintains that Donald Trump had a copy of Mein Kamf on his bedside table.
Nobody is surprised.
remembering that she said this some time ago.
Now find a way to shut FOX down.
Hold them accountable for hundreds of thousands of deaths and an insurrection.
–FOX is majorly culpable.
SOON – President-elect Biden receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
v
Wow!!
Good Afternoon TODbots.
Thanks, NW.
How I wish this was factual.
Yes, inquiring minds want to know.
“Biden says he’s spoken with members about a way to ‘bifurcate’ Trump’s impeachment, so as not to delay his agenda. The Senate would spend ‘a half day dealing with impeachment and a half day’ on confirmations and COVID relief. Says he awaits info from Senate parliamentarian,” Bennett reported.
“There are more than a dozen House Republicans considering support for the impeachment measure if Trump won’t resign. But the big news is on the Senate side: There are at least 10 Republican senators who may vote for conviction depending on what Dems say and do in the House,” Luntz said.
Bingo. Walk and chew gum as the truism goes.
👍🏾
Now we pay ……
Good, the rw media abandoning the seditious thug and his minions a starting point to normalcy.
We will only know if it blew up in their faces if voters reject them.
First shelter dog? Wow. Quite an achievement!
Someone wants to know …who planned this attack on the Capitol…was it Trump…or someone else in collaboration with Trump
The seditious thug and his minions in the traitors’ party, pentagon, police depts, it’s a whole cabal.
Aaaand….?
We shouldn’t hear any “Nobody saw that coming”. After discounting all the warnings before, January 6th should be the ultimate notice.
Now let’s see if these corrupt cowards continue to lie.
Good.
Wasn’t ‘chad’, the muthafucka ‘holidaying’ in dubai when the seditious insurrection was going on? Nope, don’t trust any of the thug’s minions.
Chad Wolf just resigned.
Looks like it’s been changed back.
Because this is a direct hit to his pockets….
‘consider’? wtf?
god dems suck at messaging.
what s seditious coward. what a mark of rubes.
Doesn’t matter now. The scum made 300 mil from his marks post election.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/madam-vice-president/
Ask the Republicans Who are obstructing impeachment etc … are they then condoning PP’s action in inciting his followers to harm Mike Pence?
ah t’is mystery of posting on line – you cannot tell if you have offended someone.
isn’t it?