Kansas City Star: “If Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had shown any evidence that there’s a conscience in there somewhere, underneath the ambition and the artifice and the uncommon combo of striving and laziness that he’s somehow made work for him, then we wouldn’t be where we are right now.”

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Oh, the joys of the Hive blockchain. Where else would I have had a flat earther try to convince me that there had been no Trumpist sedition at the Capitol, that it had really been Antifa and paid actors?

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi calls for the 25th Amendment to be invoked by Mike Pence to remove Donald Trump from office.

She says Congress is prepared to proceed with impeachment if it is not https://t.co/FSUmVKeupb pic.twitter.com/Tu8lKEiHmw

— Bloomberg (@business) January 7, 2021

Top Trump advisers discuss need to resist dangerous, unlawful orders

Capitol Hill Police Offer First Account Of Failure To Protect Congress

Trump Pulls Chad Wolf’s Nomination

So Who Actually Participated In The Siege Of The Capitol?

Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege

Aide Says Trump Was a ‘Monster’ During Capitol Siege

Said one official: “He didn’t want to condemn his people… He was a total monster today.”
Another said the situation was “insane” and “beyond the pale.”

Facebook will block Trump from posting at least for the remainder of his term

Bill Barr Says Trump Betrayed His Office

Former Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump’s conduct as a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol was a “betrayal of his office and supporters.”
In a statement to The Associated Press, Barr said Thursday that “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable.”

DC police release photos of suspects in US Capitol siege

Trump, Hawley and Cruz will each wear the scarlet ‘S’ of a seditionist

The Trump-Hawley-Cruz insurrection against constitutional government will be an indelible stain on the nation. They, however, will not be so permanent. In 14 days, one of them will be removed from office by the constitutional processes he neither fathoms nor favors. It will take longer to scrub the other two from public life. Until that hygienic outcome is accomplished, from this day forward, everything they say or do or advocate should be disregarded as patent attempts to distract attention from the lurid fact of what they have become. Each will wear a scarlet “S” as a seditionist.

This could all have been prevented: How mental health experts were silenced

Well at least somebody has issued an arrest warrant for Donald J. Trump. The first of many?

Serendipity:

Identical twins aren’t perfect clones

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