I hope the backlash from this riot breaks the power of the cult. The casualties are still bearable (not to their loved ones, of course), but it has to STOP!

I'm sure this doesn't enrage Trump at all

AWS is terminating Parler's account by the end of tomorrow

That's that, then.

@Jolenealaska Not sure the rioters are dissuaded; they probably consider it a successful operation.

@TimStone Fantastic

> Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control

So a black officer probably saved lives because insurrectionists were too busy being racist toward him to continue into the Senate chamber right away, and the FBI tactical response team wasn't called in by the people who should have called it but because one of McConnell's aides had the number of a Barr's Chief of Staff who had the number of the FBI Deputy Director

lol people on Parler are talking about blowing up AWS data centers

I think one of the US East ones has a literal moat

Apparently some visa data center does

Oh, maybe I'm misremembering and that's what I'm thinking of

Okay now we absolutely have to have impeachment, like even if you're a dumb unity centrist or whatever having Rudy and Dersh simultaneously tanking the President's defense is too much to pass up

Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment, source says

> Trump and Pence still have not spoken since the Wednesday incursion at the US Capitol that left five people dead

The Washington Post has a down to the minute report on what happened inside the Capitol washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/…

Literally pure happenstance the rioters didn’t actually reach any of the Senators

Mike Pence was evacuated at 2.11pm, the Senate was sealed at 2.15pm, and by 2.16pm the rioters have reached outside the Senate door

@tchrist If I was pence, I'd be fairly upset that Trump sent a violent mob to execute me. Not sure if he has any spine at all though.

@PrivatePansy Holy crap. We came even closer to complete disaster than I realized.

Pakistan experiences massive blackout following breakdown in the national power grid

> Plz save your energy and water. No need to panic. Some technical fault in the Transmission system. Might take a couple of hours to normalize. Don't believe in conspiracies. We are on duty to keep the city safe

> Multiple cities across Pakistan are experiencing a blackout. Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Hamza Shafqaat said that the National Transmission Despatch Company’s lines tripped, causing the outage. He also said that it would likely take hours before power is restored.

> Ted Lieu and Mondaire Jones sent a letter to the New York State Bar Association requesting an investigation into Rudy Giuliani and his involvement in the violent insurrection at the Capitol in which five people died, including a U.S. Capitol Police Officer

Alt title: GOP continues to prove they're morally bankrupt

> “I’ll be leading with it on a lot of my messaging, at least in my races, for the next few months,” said John Thomas, a Republican strategist who works on House campaigns across the country. “It shifts the news story — the narrative of the moment — and it refocuses it on a larger, more existential threat for the future of the country.”

"Like yeah white supremacy supported and encouraged by the GOP just tried to overthrow democracy, but that's bad for my re-election, so we gotta sweep that under the rug"

> “You’re basically cutting off 50 percent of the voice of the American people,” he said. “That’s huge.”

If 50% of the American people are Nazis than maybe that's a problem, I dunno

> “This is the battle of our time,” the talk show host Dave Rubin said on Fox. “There is a war on reality. We are in an information war.”

Like holy fuck. Wealth inequality is larger than ever, global warming is killing the planet, the issue of policy brutally against marginalized groups is more apparent than ever... And Republicans are concerned with ensuring Nazis have a platform.

@user85795 He would use emacs. Bloody emacs users.

VIM all the way

:-D

US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs, thanks to the Covid-19 relief and spending bill cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-relief-bill-trnd/…

Second U.S. Capitol Police officer dies

@tchrist So death total is 6 and counting.

The police department sent black officers to the riots

Man With Assault Rifle Charged With Threatening Pelosi, Officials Say nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/…

Months ahead of Capitol riot, DHS threat assessment group was gutted: Officials abcnews.go.com/US/…

Golly gee. Sure is strange how many confederate flags there are at the riots. So strange!

That video was areally good. Worth watching.

Have you seen all the comparisons of this riot to the BLM protest of George Floyd's death at the Capitol?

FBI: No evidence antifa involved in Capitol riot thehill.com/policy/national-security/…

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

@Wipqozn The true tally and terrible toll of tales this tragic always take longer to settle out than the merely physical dust of the siege and assault ever does.

> In a statement issued Sunday morning, U.S. Capitol Police did not link Howard Liebengood’s death while off duty to Wednesday’s deadly insurrection on Capitol Hill.

Pre-Nazi Germany tells us the fight to save American democracy is just beginning washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/09/…

@murgatroid99 Yeah read that after I replied.

"Far-right groups on the rise in N.B. and across Atlantic Canada, researcher says" cbc.ca/amp/1.5866689

> 'This is a global phenomenon, where world leaders have legitimized these types of views'

> In the past five years, Hofmann said, the number of active extremist groups in Atlantic Canada has surged from about eight groups with four or five very active members in 2015 to about 30 groups with about 150 active members in 2020.

Mr. Schwarzenegger linked the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol to Kristallnacht, describing the attacks against Jews more than 80 years ago as carried out by “the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys.”

@tchrist I just saw his video. That man is an inspiration

Canada looking at declaring Proud Boys a terrorist organization in wake of U.S. rioting ctvnews.ca/politics/…

> Adding Proud Boys or other extremist organizations to the list would see them named alongside Al Qaida, Boko Haram, and the Taliban, among many others. It would also open up a range of criminal sanctions the organization could face.

> “What we witnessed this week, an assault on one of the most important democratic institutions in the world, not just in the United States, and clearly motivated by extremism and hatred… I think that meets all of the criteria for terrorism,” he said.

Two years of hemming and hawing later, the PGA drops Trump, putting a permanent ban on holding events at his courses

They've also arrested zip tie guy #1 & #2

Their permanent ban on funneling money into his golf courses may well sting worse than many another measure.

@TimStone Awesome

@TimStone More awesome

@TimStone Ooooh, you know that one's just killing him! heehee :D

> However, Hogan said they were repeatedly denied permission to cross over the border and aid D.C. officials who were swarmed by the mob of rioters.

> Rep. Jason Crow says that Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy has opened at least 25 domestic terrorism cases as a result of the assault on the Capitol

😬

> In television news interview, CEO of Parler says attorneys representing the company have dropped them as a client

lol

@TimStone Awesome

@TimStone in the linked tweet of the second tweet

> Parler CEO admits his comment yesterday about "many competing for our business" was wrong, says no one wants to host website after being dropped by Amazon.

did anyone really believe Parler had a line of hosts begging for their business?

like it's the kind of comment Trump would make

@Memor-X I don't think he's doing that any longer. Haven't heard hide nor herr of him in days.

@tchrist i was more thinking of past comments like how Trump would say everyone was calling him up or many people are thanking him

without Twitter Trump has been quiet

or maybe the media is filtering his insanity for us

@Memor-X If there is no one to hear a scream fall into the abyss, did it make a sound?

Trump's demoralized staff count down the final days reut.rs/35p7ZPx

> While Democrats plan to introduce an article of impeachment against Trump on Monday, many White House staff members are upset and embarrassed by the turn of events, and are eager to move on. They said they have faced criticism from peers and are worried about damage to their reputations and job prospects.

lol oh no. Your poor babies. You helped a dictator subvert democracy for 4 and might face consequences for it? What a shame.