Bellingcat breaks stories that newsrooms envy — using methods newsrooms avoid
She tackled a teen over a lost phone. Her bizarre apology interview was a mistake, lawyer says.
Journalists were attacked, threatened and detained during the Capitol siege
At party retreat far from D.C. turmoil, Republicans still sing praises of Trump
Biden, who ran on unity, now leads a party furious at GOP
‘The storm is here’: Ashli Babbitt’s journey from capital ‘guardian’ to invader
Dominion sues pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, seeking more than $1.3 billion
I never want to hear again about Trump voters needing to 'feel heard.' They were heard when they voted. They lost. - "Sen. Ted Cruz, who scrambled to object to the electoral count after Hawley announced his own objection, warned Democrats in a Senate speech on Wednesday — before the Capitol was overtaken by 'unheard' rioters — that they needed to consider the lived experiences of election-theft-believing Americans instead of erasing their truth.
"'I would urge to both sides perhaps a bit less certitude, and a bit more recognition that we are gathered at a time when democracy is in crisis,' he said, like a killer who murders his parents and then demands sympathy because he's an orphan. 'Recent polling shows that 39% of Americans believe the election that just occurred, 'was rigged.' You may not agree with that assessment. But it is nonetheless a reality for nearly half the country.'
"No, it's not a damn reality. It's a lie, and it's a lie that people believe because politicians like Cruz have for months made irresponsible statements and pushed conspiracy theories. Just because a group of people bought those lies does not make them into a reality. The right's embrace of relativism and politics-as-therapy is pathetic. What happened to 'facts don't care about your feelings'?"
GOP senator: Trump was 'delighted' with Capitol attack
U.S. Capitol Police officer dies after engaging rioters
Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
Believe what you saw. With all this country’s white grievance, it was inevitable.
Trump Insurrectionists Lodge At D.C. Airbnbs — Much To Washingtonians’ Distress
The pro-Trump media world peddled the lies that fueled the Capitol mob. Fox News led the way.
Georgia woman trampled to death in Capitol riot was obsessed with pro-Trump conspiracies
As riot raged at Capitol, Trump tried to call senators to overturn election
Meet the Americans who believe Trump's election fraud lies
Man who posed at Pelosi desk said in Facebook post that he is prepared for violent death
Assault on democracy: Sen. Josh Hawley has blood on his hands in Capitol coup attempt
Video Shows Newly Elected W.Va. Lawmaker Among Mob That Stormed The U.S. Capitol
4 Dead, Police Injured, Dozens Arrested After Siege At The U.S. Capitol
Capitol breach prompts urgent questions about security failures
Trump’s remarks before Capitol riot may be investigated, says acting U.S. attorney in D.C.
FBI, Homeland Security Intelligence Unit Didn’t Issue a Risk Assessment for Pro-Trump Protests
Boise man who stormed U.S. Capitol building: 'I got caught up in the moment'
‘Sit down!’ ‘No, you sit down!’ Democrat’s speech nearly triggers fistfight on House floor
Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age - "To knowingly pretend a lie is true is, simply put, to lie. Doing that carefully enough to let you claim you’re only raising questions only makes it even clearer that you know you’re lying. Lying to people is no way to speak for them or represent them. It is a way of showing contempt for them, and of using them rather than being useful to them. This is what too many Republican politicians have chosen to do in the wake of the election. They have decided to feign anger at a problem that cannot be solved because it does not exist, and this cannot help but make them less capable of taking up real problems on behalf of their voters. And in any case, it makes them cynical liars."
Worse Than Treason: No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election. - "The only shame in Trump world lies in admitting defeat. And so Trump doubled down, as anyone who had watched him for more than 10 minutes knew he would. And then he tripled, quadrupled, quintupled down. And just as they have done for the past four years, elected Republicans tried to convince themselves that if they supported this outrage, it would be the last time they would be required to surrender their dignity; that this betrayal of the Constitution would be the last treachery demanded of them. That if they complied one more time, they would be allowed to go back to their privileged lives far from the districts they claim to represent—places few of them really want to live after tasting life in the Emerald City."
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"People of goodwill across the United States want some sort of road map to oppose this cold-blooded attack on the Constitution, but none exists. As James Madison warned us, without a virtuous people, no system of checks and balances will work. The Republicans have gone from being a party that touted virtue to being the most squalid and grubby expression of institutionalized self-interest in the modern history of the American republic."
Sen. Josh Hawley pretends his lack of a real Missouri address is an elitist attack
Georgia elections board member calls for probe into Trump’s call seeking to pressure Raffensperger
No fraud: Georgia audit confirms authenticity of absentee ballots
Here’s Why Distribution of the Vaccine Is Taking Longer Than Expected: Health officials and hospitals are struggling with a lack of resources. Holiday staffing and saving doses for nursing homes are also contributing to delays. - "And critically, public health experts say, federal officials have left many of the details of the final stage of the vaccine distribution process, such as scheduling and staffing, to overstretched local health officials and hospitals.
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"'We’ve taken the people with the least amount of resources and capacity and asked them to do the hardest part of the vaccination — which is actually getting the vaccines administered into people’s arms,' said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health."
