Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 14. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:37 PM for 9h 11m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 18.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and the Whitewater Fire Department holds a board and…
Insurrection
Daily Bread, Insurrection
Daily Bread for 12.26.21: Protecting the Capitol One Year After January 6
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 39. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:27 PM for 9h 02m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 55.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1776, at the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and…
City, Constitution, Daily Bread, Education, Ethics, History, Insurrection, Politics, Right-wing Populism, School District, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 10.4.21: The Basis of a Civics Syllabus for Whitewater’s Schools
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 68. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 6:29 PM for 11h 32m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 5.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the…
America, Crime, Insurrection, Justice, Law, Sen. Ron Johnson
Country Over Party
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
America, Crime, Documentary, History, Insurrection
Inside the January 6th Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Over the last year, Trumpism has advanced three grand lies: against the significance of the pandemic, against Biden’s clear win in the presidential election, and against the fact of a violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. In response to that third lie – that there was no violent insurrection – there is ample…
Business, Insurrection, Politics
The Sedition Caucus Gets Paid
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reports This sedition is brought to you by… In the wake of the Capitol insurrection on January 6th, nearly two hundred corporations and industry groups said they would pause or altogether stop making political contributions to the 147 members of Congress who voted against certifying the election and…
Documentary, Film, Insurrection
Frontline: American Insurrection
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Not so long ago — Full film available at PBS’s Frontline website or via YouTube.
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Insurrection, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Reads Lies about the Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction…
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Crime, Disinformation, Fellow Traveler, Insurrection, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…
America, Congress, Crime, Disinformation, Insurrection, Medicine, Republicans, Trump, Trumpism
Eyes Averted
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
As video of Capitol riot played, some GOP senators turned away: Almost every senatorial eye in the chamber was glued to the screens as lead House manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) played a 13-minute video depicting the events of Jan. 6 to introduce the impeachment case against Trump — with a few notable exceptions. While the…
Alt-Right, Crime, Horde, Insurrection, Trump, Trumpism, Video, Violence
A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Luke Mogelson [of The New Yorker] followed Trump supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. Read Luke Mogelson’s original report, Among the Insurrectionists. See also Transcript of Rioters’ Remarks.