by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines
Days after a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, dozens of heavily armed people gathered outside the Kentucky Capitol building today to rail against socialism, communism, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Gov. Andy Beshear. LHL: ...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines
Before she died in Wednesday’s siege at the U.S. Capitol, Rosanne Boyland was a recovering drug addict who wanted to become a sobriety counselor. But she also believed, wrongly, that Donald Trump won the November election, and she’d begun following a dark conspiracy...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines, QAnon, Social Media
Parler, a social network that pitches itself as a “free speech” alternative to Twitter and Facebook, is suffering from whiplash. NYT: Over the past several months, Parler has become one of the fastest-growing apps in the United States. Millions of President Trump’s...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Congress, GOP, Headlines
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) joined calls on Saturday for Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) to resign after they supported objections to the 2020 Electoral College results on Wednesday. Brown referred to the senators’ support of objections...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
A Reuters’ photographer covering Wednesday’s riot on the U.S. Capitol has claimed he heard at least three Trump supporters speak about hanging Vice President Mike Pence from a tree as a ‘traitor’. As the attack unfolded, Donald Trump took to...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
Twitter’s extraordinary action against President Trump on Friday night was driven both by the violent rampage of his supporters in Washington and what the company said was a looming “secondary attack” on the U.S. Capitol and state government facilities next weekend —...
