#U.S. Capitol

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Tarrio was released from prison last month after President Donald Trump cut short his 22-year sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Feb. 21, 2025, 2:06 PM MST / Updated Feb. 21, 2025, 4:38 PM MST

By Owen Hayes, Ryan J. Reilly, Frank Thorp V and Dareh Gregorian

Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by President Donald Trump last month, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday and charged with assaulting a female protester.

Tarrio was handcuffed, searched and put in a police van by U.S. Capitol Police after he appeared on Capitol Hill with several other members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for a "press conference." The police said he was charged with assault.

Capitol Police said in a statement that the incident happened around 2:30 p.m. ET when "our officers witnessed a woman (a counter protester) put a cell phone close to a man’s face" while they were both walking. "Then the officers witnessed the man strike the woman’s phone and arm," the statement said.

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Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861

Photograph taken by John Wood

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Hypothetically what do you think would have happened if the january 6 rioters had gotten to pence or pelosi before they got safe?

At this point, I almost dread answering questions like this anymore because I know the kind of hate mail it will unleash for the next few days, but it's important to keep talking about what happened on January 6, 2021 since so many people are trying to normalize it. That includes many people whose lives were in danger that day, as well as the former President who tried to hold on to power by encouraging his supporters to launch a violent insurrection and is now referring to those who have been brought to justice for attempting a coup as "patriots" and "hostages".

I genuinely believe that there were people in that crowd who would have killed Vice President Pence, Speaker Pelosi, and certain Congressional leaders if they had reached them on January 6th. I think there are people in that crowd who were ready to hold lawmakers hostage. Why else did they have handcuffs and zip ties? To help the Capitol Police maintain order? (Oh yeah...that's right, thanks for reminding me: they violently attacked the police -- some even beat police officers with the "Blue Lives Matter" flags that they brought with them.) Now, I do not think that everybody who was at the Capitol on January 6th -- or even the majority of those who took part in the insurrection -- were willing to go that far. I think a lot of them got swept up in what was happening and went with the flow. That doesn't excuse what they did. The flow that they got swept up in was still a fucking insurrection, and anyone who took part in that deserves to be held accountable. But I think there were certain elements embedded throughout that crowd that were much more organized and prepared to fully execute their plans for a coup after disrupting the certification of the Electoral College votes.

I actually think Vice President Pence was probably in more danger than even Speaker Pelosi or some of the Democratic leaders because Trump was so actively calling him out in the days and hours before the insurrection. I think that's why Pence is so adamant now about not supporting Trump. I mean, think about how disgustingly loyal and subservient Pence was to Trump throughout those four years until basically the first few days of January 2021. But even as other Republican leaders are crumbling and offering their allegiance to Trump again in 2024, Pence is standing by his decision not to endorse or support Trump, and I think that's because he realizes that Trump absolutely almost got him (and his family, who were with him in the Capitol on that day) killed on January 6th. Shit, even Mitch McConnell has folded and endorsed Trump again despite the fact that Trump has spent the last three years not only insulting him but also making racist attacks and questioning McConnell's wife's loyalty to the United States all because Elaine Chao had the audacity to resign from Trump's Cabinet in the wake of the insurrection. Yet Mike Pence -- who spent the better part of four years following Trump around like Paul Heyman follows Roman Reigns...

...THAT same Mike Pence is steadfastly refusing to endorse Trump because he has personal experience about how real of an existential threat Trump is. Some of those people at the Capitol were very serious about following through on their chants to "Hang Mike Pence", and not only does Pence realize that, but he also knows now that Trump -- who refused to take actions that would have helped clear the Capitol more quickly -- said "he deserves it" when hearing about those chants.

That's what is so scary about the insurrection, its aftermath, and the Trump Republican Party's redefinition of what happened that day. It almost worked. They stormed the United States Capitol and invaded both chambers of Congress. They carried Confederate flags into the United States Capitol -- even the fucking Confederate States of America didn't successfully invade Washington, D.C. and plant their flag in the Capitol. They were willing to hurt and probably kill some of America's elected leaders. And the people who helped plan and instigate the events of January 6th have spent the three-plus years since then learning from their mistakes and figuring out how to be successful next time. And guess what? "Next time" is only a few months away.

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Overflight of the U.S. Capitol building by Germany’s Graf Zeppelin - 1931.

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Blackhawk (Volume 3) #2

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Change, Not Charity: The Americans With Disabilities Act | Article: The Iconic Civil Rights Protest You Don't Know! Meet The Protesters Who Crawled Their Way Into History—and Changed How All Americans Live

— March 11, 2025 | PBS | American Experience

One of the Capitol Crawl’s youngest participants was eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan, whose mother congratulated her when she reached the top. Photo by Tom Olin.

Imagine climbing up 83 steps. Perhaps that doesn’t seem like such a big deal—but that’s likely because you’d be walking. What would you do, though, if you couldn’t?

That was the premise behind the Capitol Crawl, a now-iconic protest to demand the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA was a landmark civil rights bill aimed at providing basic amenities and protections to some 40 million mentally and physically disabled citizens. Today we take many of the ADA’s changes to society—curb cuts in sidewalks and closed captioning on entertainment, to name just two examples—for granted. But the act’s passage, in 1990, was anything but guaranteed.

By spring of that year, the ADA had been trapped in legislative limbo for months. Despite the strong support of then-President George H.W. Bush, the act was languishing in Congress, caught in the deliberations of House subcommittees. Many U.S. Representatives balked at the expense and complication posed by the ADA’s requirements.

A stream of protestors make their way from the White House to the U.S. Capitol during the ADAPT-led protest on March 12, 1990. Photo by Tom Olin.

Enter ADAPT—American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit—a grassroots disability rights organization that had been staging protests across the country even before its official founding in 1983. On March 12, 1990, ADAPT led a procession of more than 500 marchers, including other disability activists and lobbyists, from the White House to the west side of the U.S. Capitol. There, in the kind of guerrilla civic action for which the organization had become known, scores of marchers dropped to the ground and began the long journey up the hard marble stairs leading to the “People’s House.” They climbed backwards or on their hands and knees, step-by-painstaking-step. “As I’m seeing the people around me,” recalled Anita Cameron, one of the ADAPT activists who made her way up that day, “I'm like, ‘whoa, we are doing it. We are really doing it. We’re, like, crawling into history.’”

Though the temperature during the Capitol Crawl was in the 80s, protestors sweated their way to the top. Photo by Tom Olin.

Rolled up in their pockets, protestors carried copies of the Declaration of Independence. Once they finally summitted the stairs, ADAPT reps delivered those scrolls to members of Congress as a reminder of the ADA’s importance. And while media coverage of the event wasn’t extensive, but the publicity that was garnered by the Crawl was impactful. “The pictures were striking,” said The New York Times several days later, “just as they were intended to be: Children paralyzed from the waist down crawling up the steps of the Capitol.” Six months later, following the bill’s now-remarkably swift passage through the House, President George H. W. Bush signed the ADA into law.

Protestors ascend the steps of the U.S. Capitol during the now-iconic Capitol Crawl protest on March 12, 1990. Photo by Tom Olin.

“We did it to show that we disabled people, as second class citizens, needed change. And the vehicle for how it was going to change was the ADA,” Cameron told American Experience, reflecting on the Capitol Crawl’s significance. “But I think a lot of people forget that the ADA was the floor. It was not the ceiling. So it was the beginning of rights for us, but it was not the end.”

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Summer getaways

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FBI Employees Ordered to Disclose Jan. 6 Investigation Roles by Monday

WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has directed its employees to disclose any involvement in criminal investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The directive, issued via an internal memo on Sunday, has sparked concerns over potential firings within the agency. According to the memo reviewed by Reuters, employees must provide their job title, detail…

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📈 Exclusion of Donald Trump from future ballots under Fourteenth Amendment hit 2,000 signers! https://resist.bot/petitions/PGOQGM

The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, specifically Section 3, disqualifies individuals who engage in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution from holding office. This provision is applicable to former President Donald Trump due to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the subsequent attack on the U.S. Capitol. This disqualification operates independently of criminal proceedings, impeachment, or legislation. Legal scholars William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen support this interpretation. It's crucial to uphold the Constitution faithfully, even if it may lead to social unrest. Therefore, it is requested that the name of Donald Trump be excluded from future ballots in accordance with the Fourteenth Amendment. This action will demonstrate a commitment to protecting our constitutional democracy.

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McConnell, who made headlines for a similar fall at the Capitol in December, reportedly tumbled on Senate steps on Feb. 5 following the confirmation of new HUD Secretary Scott Turner

Moments after Mitch McConnell voted to confirm President Donald Trump's pick for HUD secretary, the 82-year-old Kentucky senator fell down the stairs, according to multiple reports.

"Sen. McConnell slipped and fell walking out of the Senate chamber just now," wrote Alexander Bolton, a journalist for The Hill, on X on Feb. 5., "but he was immediately helped to his feet by security and colleagues, including Sens. Steve Daines and Markwayne Mullin. McConnell then walked to Mansfield Room without help."

Chad Pergram, senior congressional correspondent for FOX News Channel, also confirmed the news on X that McConnell was helped up by his colleagues after falling down Senate stairs. Pergram said he had just voted to confirm Scott Turner to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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The Discovery of America statue on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building by Luigi Persico

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Has every president laid (?) in state at the capitol?

No. While every President is eligible to have a state funeral with full military honors (as former Commanders-in-Chief of U.S. Armed Forces), many Presidents have chosen to have less elaborate funerals. Planning for a President's funeral begins almost immediately after they are elected, and the President and his family intricately plan out what they wish to happen, in conjunction with the Military District of Washington, which organizes and executes those plans. Those plans are updated (and rehearsed by the military) throughout the lives of Presidents, up until the time of a President's death.

Jimmy Carter will be just the 13th President to lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Here are the previous Presidents who choose to receive that honor: •Abraham Lincoln (1865) •James Garfield (1881) •William McKinley (1901) •Warren G. Harding (1923) •William Howard Taft (1930) •John F. Kennedy (1963) •Herbert Hoover (1964) •Dwight D. Eisenhower (1969) •Lyndon B. Johnson (1973) •Ronald Reagan (2004) •Gerald Ford (2006-2007) •George H.W. Bush (2018) •Jimmy Carter (2025) Two Vice Presidents (in addition to former Vice Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush) have also lain in state: Henry Wilson, who died in office in 1875, and Hubert H. Humphrey in 1978.

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The U.S. Capitol building.

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Wonder Woman #5