#US Capitol

[motherofplatypus]

With each passing days, there's even less difference between the nazi and the zionist. The only reason the zionist don't use gas chambers is because their US government lapdogs supply them with infinite bullets for fun.

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Every day I remember they hung fanart of the gay cannibals in the U.S. Capitol building without knowing they were gay cannibals and I go a little more insane

[thoughtportal]

BREAKING: Antiwar veterans break through the Capitol barricades to protest Trump’s military parade. Police have made dozens of arrests.

Greg Stoker says the “authoritarian-esque” parade shows “the veneer of democracy is fading away.”

[todaysdocument]

Washington, DC, November 11, 2004 -- The Capitol Building on a crisp fall day from the National Mall. Bill Koplitz/FEMA

Record Group 311: Records of the Federal Emergency Management AgencySeries: Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

This color photograph shows the US Capitol building on a bright fall day.  The photograph was taken from the Mall, which is lined with trees and lamp posts and has many people strolling.

[dynamicity-keysmash]

Regarding that twink getting railed in the Senate hearing room:

I can't be super happy because it's going to lead to various degrees of even more "they're sickly, sex-crazed vermin" discourse about gay men from both conservative politicians and just regular people. And OF COURSE it should not be his job to represent gay guys, as that is a role unfairly forced upon him by the marginalization of gay men...but it is a role he is in as a gay man working fairly high up in government, and he acted pretty grossly. Sex at work on someone else's desk is, generally, very bad.

On the other hand though he is an icon, a legend, and he is the moment. Having gay sex in the Senate is nothing short of an incredible and hilarious act of defiance, even if not intended as such. He got SPLIT OPEN right where RBG got confirmed to the supreme court, just like she would've wanted.

[appalachianbacchus]

Day two of my long weekend trip to DC with @lizadomuch was less clear and rainy, but we were still enveloped by the fully bloomed cherry blossom trees.

We started early at the Washington Monument with only a few people nearby and began our loop by the Floral Park, walking South along the Tidal Basin. We crossed the Outlet Bridge, and visited the swelled waters by the Bathing Beach. The weather beforehand had been very rainy with a lone clear day just before.

Our next stop was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, followed by the Ohio Bridge and the stretch into the Japanese Pagoda just before the Eleanor Roosevelt Statue and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. I loved the red stones used (Carnelian, a variety of chalcedony and is a microcrystalline quartz, if you're curious), and felt they held a lot of character. We noticed the visitors were increasing in number.

As we looped around and started heading North again, we passed the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial into the area with the Japanese Lantern and the site of the original cherry trees.

It had started raining by this time and the basin path had grown very busy. We quickly crossed the Kutz Bridge and headed toward the Washington Monument.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove at Our Moral Moment:

In the rotunda of the US Capitol yesterday, while praying in front of the monument that honors the founders of the women’s suffrage movement, we were arrested by Capitol police. We have been released from custody; thank you to everyone who has reached out to ask about us. We are OK, but all is not well. We were in Washington, DC, yesterday to launch Moral Mondays with fellow clergy, moral leaders, and scores of people who will be directly impacted by the disastrous budget that Congress has just come back into session to work on. Every illegal attempt to slash federal programs that Elon Musk tried to force through DOGE over the past 100 days is now being proposed as law by the leadership of this Congress. Though the mainstream media has not yet focused on the details of this budget, the facts are clear. Numbers do not lie. You cannot cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget without slashing Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, Head Start, Section 8, and other life-saving and life-sustaining programs that millions of Americans rely on and the vast majority of people support. This is why 12 Republican members of Congress have already written to House Speaker Johnson to challenge the proposed cuts to Medicaid. This is not a Republican versus Democrat debate. It's a life or death decision. We are Christian preachers. When we made a vow to preach the good news to all people, in season and out of season, we committed to address life or death issues. This is often intimate and deeply work. We bless babies when they are born, we visit the sick, we welcome strangers to our dinner tables, and we pray with people when they are dying. But life and death work is also public work. As Christian preachers, we are also public theologians. When someone dies from poverty and a lack of healthcare, we cannot lie and say, “God called them home.” We have to tell the truth. They died because we live in a society that has chosen not to care for them.

[...] When our foremothers and forefathers gathered in Southern churches to cry out to God during the freedom movement, they prayed and sang and anchored themselves in faith. But they did not stay in the church house. They marched out into the streets and nonviolently confronted injustice. This is why we could not abdicate the obligations of our vocation when someone asked us to be quiet. We appreciate the Capitol police and have prayed with them and for them as they have dealt with the trauma of being assaulted during the insurrection on January 6th. We thank them for their service and have reassured them that our objection is not to them doing their job. Our insistence on prayer at this moment and in this space is about whether America’s elected representatives will do the job they swore to do when they put their hands on Bibles, the Quran, other sacred texts, and the US Constitution, promising to “establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings of liberty.” We know legislators cannot do this work alone. They are representatives of the people, and the people must help them to do what is right.

We came to the Capitol rotunda to pray for representatives who currently support this immoral budget to see the danger of policy that kills and choose life. We came believing that God can take out a heart of stone and give anyone a heart of flesh. And we came knowing that, whatever their choice, we must nonviolently embody our prayer. As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, we must “pray with our feet.” We must trust that, when we align ourselves with the truth at the heart of the universe, our action can unleash power beyond us, setting others free to act and respond in their own way to the moral urgency of this moment. Now is the time for each of us to stand up and speak up. We willingly and nonviolently submitted to arrest rather than cease our prayer not because we wanted to be arrested, but because we know that now is the time to arrest the attention of this nation. Now is not the time to shrink back in fear. Now is the time to courageously join our voices in a general lament for the cruelty we are witnessing in the hope that a new movement of love and justice and truth is already rising to overcome it. No one would be fighting this hard to pass a budget that is so extreme if they were not afraid. The extreme minority of elites promoting this disastrous budget understand the potential power of a coalition of people coming together across race and region, across faiths and family traditions, to build an America that works for all of us. In fact, they may understand better than many of us do how much power we have.

Rev. William Barber is saying what we’re thinking: the MAGA regime is an immoral insult to America and to Godly teachings.

[bearfoottruck]

THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS: THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF ANOTHER DAY OF INFAMY

OK, so it's been four years since the January 6 invasion of the US Capitol, and I wonder: why haven't people started mass riots as revenge for what the Trumpists did to America? Is it because we as Americans have decided that we're accustomed to letting fascist politicians have their way with us? Or was today too obvious a date and anyone who's planning to stir up some real shit have simply picked another day to start mass chaos?

[ivygorgon]

WHO KNOCKED OVER MY Capitol insurrection arrests per million people by state *Grabs Montana* YOU

💘 Q'u lach' shughu deshni da. 🏹 "What I say is true" in Dena'ina Qenaga

[motherofplatypus]

[andallshallbewell]

[hyper-coasters]

Fluorite - CaF2; From the Spar Mountain Mine in Rock, Illinois.

Pure Fluorite is actually clear, and it is impurities within the mineral makeup of the crystals that causes the colors. Most common colors are yellow, green, blue, and purple, whereas more rare or less common colors are red, brown, black, and white.

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[eopederson]

Lamp.US Capitol Grounds, Washington. DC 2014.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

Afraid of a little cold weather, Donald Trump will break with years of tradition to move his inauguration ceremony indoors. He will deliver his address inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda before joining supporters at the nearby Capital One Arena. “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way. It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th (In any event, if you decide to come, dress warmly!),” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. 

Apparently, now he cares about the safety of law enforcement at the Capitol, unlike four years ago, when he allowed those law enforcement officers to be brutally beaten by his supporters who were, at his behest, trying to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Trump’s swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for 12 PM ET on Monday, when the temperature in Washington, D.C., is expected to be 22 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, with the wind chill around 8 degrees. That puts it close to the 28 degree temperature and mid-teens wind chill during Barack Obama's first inauguration, in 2009, according to historical data from the National Weather Service. And Obama didn't chicken out and move the ceremony inside.  [...] Holding the event indoors will make it so that Trump won't get to look out at a crowd of supporters as he delivers his inaugural address, which will probably be insanely dark and xenophobic. [...] Trump is infamously obsessed with crowd sizes. He often lies about the number of people who attend his campaign rallies to say that more people showed up than actually did. And no one can forget the rage he felt when his 2017 inaugural crowd was significantly smaller than Obama’s in 2009. He was so mad he forced the National Park Service to provide images that made his crowd look as big as the ones Obama had.

Monday’s inauguration will be cold, but not the coldest one in history, as Donald Trump’s 2nd inauguration ceremony has been moved indoors for the first time since 1985 (Reagan’s 2nd inauguration) purportedly due to the cold, apparently to avoid being clowned for having a smaller crowd than even his first one, let alone Obama’s or JFK’s.

JFK had his in the snow, and Obama’s first one was also under cold temperatures, yet they didn’t chicken out of hosting one outdoors.

See Also:

HuffPost: Trump's Inauguration To Be Moved Indoors As Freezing Temps Move In

The Guardian: Donald Trump moves inauguration indoors due to severely cold weather