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Yes, it now seems clear that this was a (clumsy) putsch attempt and should be treated as such. Peter Dorman offers some advice on how to treat it.EconospeakPost-Putsch: Why There Should Be Consequences for Enablers of the Capitol InvasionGetting the Shakespearean Part RightPeter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College

Preliminary report.Just being inside the Capitol building after it was breached would be sufficient grounds for a federal criminal charge. Apparently few thought about that.EXPLAINER: Who has been charged in the deadly Capitol riot?Associated Press

Trump and his advisors had already been concerned about the possibility of Twitter ban a year ago. So far, there is no alternative with a similar reach.Donald Trump was meeting then-campaign manager Brad Parscale and other political aides in the White House Cabinet Room early last year when the president made a demand: Find me a social media platform to use other than Twitter.Someone in the meeting had piped up with concern that Twitter — Trump’s primary outlet for communicating with his...

This was a false flag operation, you see. Really Antifa. This is just a sampling of the counter-narrative.American ThinkerThe Capitol: So Much Suspicious EvidenceWilliam L. GensertSee alsoNot to put too fine a point on it, Righties have a weakness for believing stupid shit.We’re not the only ones — Louise Mensch racked up countless retweets for her breathless announcement in 2017 that Steve Bannon was being considered for the death penalty for espionage, and a prank Resistance Twitter...

It will interesting to see if this puts anyone in legal jeopardy now that "insurrection" is on the table.The HillTrump supporters organized the Capitol riot onlineRebecca Klar

“This is not who we are,” leaders from across the political spectrum resolutely affirmed this week, when a mob — incited by President Donald Trump and his congressional enablers — crashed through the doors of the Capitol. It’s been called terrorism. Anarchy. An insurrection. But cooler heads agree it was “un-American” — an aberration — and, fundamentally, not who we are as a country.But what if it is?"It can't happen here."It just did.PoliticoWake Up, America. This Is Who We Are.Joshua...

Breach of 1.7T level looks interesting back in February and 3.2T and holding steady level looks interesting currently...This CLO another interesting index that seems to move inversely pretty well correlated in time domain... (h/t Ryan):

"Canceled" is the new meme. This gives it new meaning.AxiosTrump is being cancelledSara Fische

Maybe so. But politics is all about, well, politics. Get used to it. There's too much on the table for statesmanship.Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The Failure of Biden To Denounce This Impeachment Is A Missed Presidential OpportunityJonathan Turley

I remember a newspaper article from 30 years ago about a young lad at court. The judge gave out the sentence and then asked him if he had anything to say. He got a lighter out of his pocket, held them to his face, and then said, beam me up, Scotty!In a study published in Physical Review Letters, a team led by academician Guo Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has made progress in high dimensional quantum...