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 This gets better all the time. We knew this was going to be a great reality show right from the get-go, and I am almost out of popcorn.Sputnik InternationalGiuliani, Dershowitz Could Defend Trump If He Faces Impeachment, Report Says

United States election officials say ‘unprecedented’ spread of misinformation has eroded trust in voting system.The objective in creating doubt about elections is enhancing voter suppression, a chief tactic at least since the Civil War. This is not say there was no voter fraud in the past, or that both parties were not involved to some degree. Some Democratic-controlled cities were notorious, for instance at the same time that Jim Crow was prevalent in the former slave states. Al...

Real Progressives founder, Steve Grumbine, tested positive for Covid-19 last week. He quarantined and did the best he could to treat his symptoms at home, but was unable to keep it at bay. He is now in the hospital undergoing treatment which is likely to keep him there for 10 days. We all know that is not an inexpensive stay here in the US of A.The scariest part is that Steve is one of the millions of people in this country who are underinsured. He works as a contract employee, so he has...

Digital evidence. Probably most people didn't give this a second thought if they even gave it a first thought.The HillSenate Democrat tells Facebook to preserve digital evidence from Capitol riotCeline Castronuovo

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...