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I’m going to start a new thread with details of just how bad this was - which is nowhere close to as bad as it could have been.
I don’t even work there anymore and I was so upset I had to take sick time Thursday. I hope members and staff are getting any help they need. https://twitter.com/grace4ny/status/1348007528957947906
I don’t even work there anymore and I was so upset I had to take sick time Thursday. I hope members and staff are getting any help they need. https://twitter.com/grace4ny/status/1348007528957947906
I think the nonwhite and Jewish members and staff do appreciate this. https://twitter.com/susan_hennessey/status/1348058306686939136
. @RepJayapal certainly does. https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1348004509965053954
So does @WhipClyburn. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-clyburn-says-somebody-on-the-inside-of-capitol-was-complicit/
This was all the protection @RepGraceMeng had. https://twitter.com/grace4ny/status/1346967836422451200
“They had radios, we found them, they had two-way communicators and earpieces. They had bear spray. They had flash bangs...They were prepared. They strategically put two IEDs, pipe bombs in two diff locations...A lot of them were former military.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob
They build a scaffold and hung a noose. I truly cannot imagine what Black members/ staff and Black people in general are feeling. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/trump-rioters-wanted-more-violence-worse/617614/
“Eight Pelosi staffers trapped inside their suite barricaded themselves inside a staff conference room, and huddled together under the table in the middle, hoping that the protesters...wouldn’t make it any farther inside.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
This thread is going around #natsec circles (guess my undistinguished time covering that portfolio was useful after all). If you’re interested in tracking, I recommend following @charlie_simpson to start. https://twitter.com/jayulfelder/status/1348302523573149696
Another axis where this could get much worse over the next 2-4 weeks. https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/1348305163107364864
A reminder that Republican members refused to wear masks. A reminder that this directly impacts District residents who have no voting Congressional representation and directly suffer from their negligence. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/republican-congress-members-refuse-masks-trnd/index.html
The above location is where someone has tested positive for COVID. https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/1348306420291264513
". @RepMaxineWaters grilled Sund...about the Proud Boys...about keeping them off the Capitol plaza...“He kept assuring me he had it under control they knew what they were doing,” she said. 'Either he’s incompetent, or he was lying or he was complicit.'" https://apnews.com/article/politics-police-riots-michael-pence-capitol-siege-c3a5973a68c699ff6a57cdd76d675e29
Valuable thread from observers who were there (not participants): https://twitter.com/TerryBoutonHist/status/1348365375449268226
Unfortunately our fears about COVID during the Capitol insurrection were correct. https://twitter.com/repjayapal/status/1348871117407203328
And fears about USCP response. https://twitter.com/amzam/status/1348989970074263553
"The tragic thing which you do not understand — which you cannot understand — is that you’ve already lost. You cannot know exactly what — that’s the nature of chaos — but know this. You will lose more than you can bear." https://indica.medium.com/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-having-one-now-437934b1dac3
