NEW: Luke Mogelson’s remarkable video footage of the Capitol invasion, from breaching the first barricades to rummaging through desks on the Senate floor. Stunning, frightening, revolting. https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege
“Is this the Senate?”
“Where the f—- are they?”
“Where the f—- are they?”
“While we’re here, we might as well set up a government.”
“Where the f—— is Nancy?”
“Where the f—— is Nancy?”
“Jesus Christ, we invoke your name.”
“Let’s all say a prayer in this sacred space.”
“Thank you, Heavenly Father, for gracing us with this opportunity.”
“Let’s all say a prayer in this sacred space.”
“Thank you, Heavenly Father, for gracing us with this opportunity.”
“There you go, you won’t report the media; now you can’t.”
“Start making a list. Put all those names down, and we start hunting them down, one by one.”
“Start making a list. Put all those names down, and we start hunting them down, one by one.”
Reading Mogelson’s riveting account in full here. Masterful writing; the bravest of reporting. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists
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