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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said his raucous speech at a January 3 rally had nothing to do with an assault on the U.S. Capitol three days later by supporters of President Donald Trump. Cruz explained that most people, disgusted by his whiny voice and arrogant demeanor, tuned out his firebrand schtick years ago.
US President Donald Trump, already facing mounting calls to step down or risk impeachment, on Friday suffered further ignominy when Twitter permanently suspended his account, saying the US leader is too dangerous to use the platform.
After a “close review” of tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account, “we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.
The unprecedented move, which severs Trump from his 88.7 million followers, is an astounding setback for the president in the chaotic waning days of his administration.
It could also prove an insurmountable hurdle should the brash Republican choose to mount
A printing company in Maryland on Wednesday night saw the photo on Twitter: an employee roaming the halls of the US Capitol with a company badge around his neck. He was fired the next day.
Others are facing similar repercussions at work for their participation in Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol.
Some business owners are being trashed on social media and their establishments boycotted, while rank-and-file employees at other businesses have been fired.
The printing company, Navistar Direct Marketing, declined to name the worker, but said it cannot offer employment to people “demonstrating dangerous conduct that endangers the health and safety of
Some of them saw the violence and just got scared.
Many local educators chose to include the chaos in the Capitol in lessons on Thursday. We re all feeling anxious and stressed as it relates to this, said Dr. William Hite, the superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia.
Dr. Hite encouraged all the teachers to have a discussion with their students. We have two judicial systems. We have two systems for policing. You have a system for Black folk and a system for whites, Custis said. Not just hearing the thoughts of adults, but really expressing how do you feel as a result of this, and let s talk through that, and that s one of the most important things we can do as educators, said Hite.
The Globe and Mail Published January 7, 2021
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. He lives in Portland, Ore.
It is difficult to watch a day such as Jan. 6, 2021, unfold – the pathetic spectacle and madness of it – and not retreat to the comforting perch of objective truth. An empire brought low not by a rival empire, not by some unpreventable natural calamity, but by a gaggle of proudly uninformed, bilious racists role-playing as freedom fighters. Surely, one day we will make sense of all this, assign to it the authoritative, damning narrative it deserves.
But what was irreparably fractured this week was the American narrative itself. Beyond the fault lines that have always run beneath the social ground of this country, there is a sense that the United States as a civic entity has no more interest in anything resembling a shared reality – if it ever did. The men and women who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday – who climbed smirking through the shattered windows and turned the Hous