#Insurrectionists

Appalled as we are about events in Washington on Wednesday, let’s keep an eye on the bigger picture. Rather than resurrecting Trumpism, as they’d hoped, the insurrectionists have ensured its
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1300 - Joint session of Congress begins to tally electoral votes. Pence and the entire US Congress are in the Capitol building. 1311 - Trump’s speech to his supporters concludes,
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There's probably an urgent piece to be written on this as insurrection vs terrorism, and especially the legal implications of both, but the terminology debate obscures the greater problem: police
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Hmmm....You might be able to hit a handful with this. But the precedent from e.g the "Crittenden Compromise" is that even flagrantly unconstitutional legislative votes deeply hostile to the union
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This is actually evidence that the majority of the insurrectionists picked the wrong side to protect whiteness. They literally chose the side of their own economic oppression because they believed
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Let’s be real about the biblical quotes being thrown out by Qliticians right now. Regardless of your belief; in their historical contexts, the passages they quote are antithetical to what
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The Alabama duo—Mo Brooks and Tommy Tuberville—is one I suspect the FBI will want to investigate. At all stages of the insurrection it seems Trump was working with two Alabama
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"It's been three weeks since the Capitol was attacked, and we already have cries to move on and make nice. We have the FBI, DOJ and others reluctant to press
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The real news: The BCA is investigating whether speakers and organizers made terroristic threats or other crimes at the Jan. 5 “Storm the Capitol” rally in St. Paul. The 2+
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A thread on the #MAGA #insurrection, white #Evangelicals, and the calls for #unity coming from Trump's craven enablers in the #GOP. On TV today @PatToomey & @MickMulvaney pretended they didn’t
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Unifying with those seeking white supremacy, voter suppression & government overthrow seems like madness. Unity is what oppressors always call for when they seek amnesty for their actions. The calls
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Amazingly, I went to bed early last night and managed to sleep well. But I can't get this out of my mind: insurrectionists at the Capitol bearing all manner of
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Civil War heroes Lew Wallace and Oliver P. Morton represent Indiana in the U.S. Capitol--Wallace in Statuary Hall and Morton in the Hall of Columns. They know insurrectionists when they
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Three thoughts recurred reading this.1. The theory that ex-presidents can’t be tried by the Senate is fake, conjured in bad faith to give GOP sens cover to acquit without stating
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In the Summer of '19 @mastersonmv and the @CISAgov elections team started the #WarOnPineapple to raise awareness about how #disinfo campaigns work. Step 5, "Taking the Conversation into the Real
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Long thread: Because I couldn’t find anything comprehensive, I’m just going to post everything I’ve seen in the news/Twitter about Trump’s activities related to the Jan 6th insurrection. I think
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