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  1. Around 120 U.S. military veterans from About Face: Veterans Against the War staged a protest inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., opposing the war in Iran. The demonstration included a flag-folding ceremony and banner display, with some participants expecting arrest. The protest reflects growing anti-war sentiment among veterans.
    #Veterans #Protest #handcuffed #capitol

  2. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  3. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  4. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  5. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  6. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  7. The Canon for Sale: How Congress Handed Literature to a Homeschool Company

    On March 17, 2026, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed H.R. 7661, a bill that would strip federal education funding from any public school whose libraries contain “sexually oriented material.” The bill’s formal title is the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” and it was introduced by Representative Mary Miller of Illinois on February 24, 2026, days after the State of the Union address. Eighteen Republican cosponsors signed on. No Democratic members supported the bill. The legislation now awaits a vote on the full House floor.

    The mechanism is familiar. For nearly six years, state legislatures across the country have been passing laws that pull books from school shelves, fire librarians, and defund collections that contain material certain political actors find objectionable. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, and Iowa have led this effort, and the American Library Association counted 821 separate censorship attempts targeting 2,452 individual titles in calendar year 2024 alone. What H.R. 7661 does is federalize that local machinery. It amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the primary pipeline for federal aid to disadvantaged students and Title I schools, and conditions that funding on compliance with a vague, sweeping content prohibition.

    The word “oriented” in the bill does particular work. The sponsors chose “sexually oriented material” rather than “sexually explicit material,” and the distinction matters. “Explicit” has a legal history. It has been tested in courts, defined by statutes, and bounded by precedent. “Oriented” has no such grounding. It is a word that expands rather than constrains, and the bill exploits that expansion by including within its definition any material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” A book that mentions the existence of a transgender character, without depicting a single sexual act, falls within the bill’s scope. Health textbooks discussing puberty could fall within it. Biographies of trans public figures could fall within it. The vagueness is the point of the legislation.

    Here is where the bill does something that deserves more attention than it has received. H.R. 7661 includes a carve-out for “classic” works of art and literature. On its face, this seems like a reasonable safeguard. No one wants Michelangelo’s David removed from an art history curriculum. The bill appears to acknowledge that some works containing nudity or mature themes belong in schools. What matters is who decides what qualifies as “classic.”

    The bill answers that question by hard-coding references to two specific articles published on Compass Classroom, a commercial Christian homeschool curriculum company. The articles are “Classics Every Middle Schooler Should Read” by Thomas Purifoy, Jr. and “Classics Every High Schooler Should Read” by Mary Pierson Purifoy. The Purifoys founded Compass Classroom. Their company describes its mission as teaching “a Biblical worldview and critical thinking skills.” Its history courses apply “a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs throughout history.” Its catalog includes a course called “Is Genesis History?” and another built around Francis Schaeffer’s reformed theological framework. The company operates as a sectarian enterprise selling a theological product to a specific religious market.

    A federal bill has outsourced the definition of acceptable American literature to a company that sells Bible-based homeschool videos for $39 a month.

    Consider what that means in practice. Books on the Compass Classroom lists receive protection. Everything else receives none, and could cost a school district its federal funding. The entire weight of the American literary tradition, from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin to Sandra Cisneros to Jhumpa Lahiri, is filtered through the theological preferences of a Tennessee homeschool company. The lists become the canon, and the canon becomes the law.

    This is the privatization of public literary authority. It is also the sectarianization of it. The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exists precisely to prevent the federal government from privileging one religious viewpoint over others in the administration of public institutions. When Congress defines “classic literature” by reference to a company whose stated purpose is teaching a “Biblical worldview,” Congress has made a theological judgment about which stories are acceptable in American schools. That is an establishment of religion dressed in the language of child protection.

    The bill’s supporters will argue that the lists are merely illustrative, that schools can still teach other works, that the carve-out protects educational freedom. The argument collapses under the weight of the funding mechanism. Schools do not have the luxury of testing whether their collections comply with a vague federal standard. Administrators will do what administrators always do when funding is threatened: they will remove anything that might trigger a challenge. The chilling effect is the policy. Fear is the mechanism by which censorship operates without needing a single book to be formally banned.

    National Library Week begins on April 19, 2026. The ALA’s honorary chair this year is Mychal Threets, the librarian and author who now hosts “Reading Rainbow.” The irony requires no commentary. A country celebrating its libraries while its Congress advances legislation that would gut them is a country in active contradiction with itself.

    Some legal analysts, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, have argued that H.R. 7661 is more campaign performance than viable legislation, a bill designed to generate headlines for its sponsors’ constituents rather than to survive judicial scrutiny. That assessment may be correct on the merits. The bill’s definition of “sexually oriented material” would face serious First Amendment challenges, and its Establishment Clause vulnerabilities are obvious. The danger of dismissing H.R. 7661 as political theater, however, is that political theater has a way of becoming law when no one is watching. State-level book bans followed the same trajectory: first a handful of performative bills in 2021, then coordinated legislative campaigns across twenty states by 2024. The precedent the bill sets matters even if the bill itself dies. It normalizes the idea that Congress can define acceptable literature by reference to a private, religious reading list.

    The deeper issue here extends beyond any single bill. H.R. 7661 is one expression of a broader pattern in which public institutions are hollowed out and their functions transferred to private, ideological actors. Public schools lose funding. Private alternatives gain market share. The definitions of knowledge, history, and literature are handed to commercial entities with theological commitments that a diverse democratic public does not share. This is how democratic infrastructure erodes: disassembled piece by piece, contract by contract, carve-out by carve-out, reading list by reading list.

    Authors, publishers, librarians, and citizens who care about the survival of a pluralistic literary culture need to understand what is happening in H.R. 7661. The bill reaches far past the removal of a handful of controversial titles from school libraries. It determines who gets to define what literature is, and the answer this bill provides is: a company in Tennessee that sells Bible-based curriculum to homeschooling families. If that answer becomes federal law, the consequences will be measured in decades and in the silences where stories used to be.

    The ALA urges citizens to call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask their representatives to oppose H.R. 7661 and to support the Right to Read Act (H.R. 6440 / S. 3365), which would fund well-resourced and well-staffed school libraries rather than threatening them.

    #art #books #canon #capitol #censorship #classics #congress #federal #homeschool #library #libraryWeek #literature #middleSchool #profit #reading #school #usa
  8. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wants Utah to become a nuclear ecosystem for the nation

    Key takeaways from Utah’s application to mine, store, recycle, enrich and burn nuclear material. (Francisco Kjolseth | The…
    #Nuclear #2025 #capitol #cat:pj #nuclear #SaltLakeCity #slt #USA #Utah
    europesays.com/2893075/

  9. LIVE: Walk for Peace monks visit the Peace Monument

    Buddhist monks on a Walk for Peace between Texas and Washington, D.C., visit the Peace Monument near the US Capitol. #USA #Monks #Peace #WalkofPeace #Capitol #Washington #Texas #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

    fllics.com/en/video/live-walk-

  10. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson, a Louisiana #Republican [& #Trump lackey], has yet to formally unveil the plaque. And the Trump admin’s #DOJ is seeking to #dismiss a #police officers’ lawsuit asking that it be displayed as intended. The #Architect of the #Capitol, which was responsible for obtaining & displaying the plaque, said in light of the federal litigation, it cannot comment.

    #Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #PeacefulTransitionOfPower

  11. @assignedmale.bsky.social
    For those in doubt, here's a real world example

    "Oregon Capitol gains gender neutral bathrooms"

    gift link = oregonlive.com/politics/2025/1

    "In two newly-opened halls hugging the rotunda of Oregon’s Capitol, tall wooden doors stand side by side. Mirrors with sinks and bright lights radiate nearby and a sign reads: 'This is a multi-stall, all-user restroom.' ”

    #Oregon #Capitol #Bathrooms #Restrooms #LGBTQ

  12. After nearly five years of investigations, the FBI has arrested a suspect in its probe into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Read more from @NBCNews
    flip.it/_Q8fYi
    #FBI #Capitol #Insurrection #Bomb #PipeBomb #DC #Washington

  13. @bulwark A new House subcommittee has been established to finally, at long last, give the #January6th attack on #US #Capitol the investigation #DonaldTrump "thinks it deserves." The new subcommittee’s #Republican members, appointed by #HouseSpeaker #MikeJohnson, have all held #conspiratorial views about what transpired at Capitol that day...#pardons #trump #democracy #lies #history #insurrection #Facts not #lies #fascism #autocracy #trump #rewriting #history to align with his demands. #congress

  14. Recently surfaced 9/11 evidence was not shared with FBI field agents or top intelligence officials – CBS News

    From article…

    60 Minutes – Newsmakers

    Recently surfaced 9/11 evidence was not shared with FBI field agents or top intelligence officials

    By Cecilia Vega, August 24, 2025 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News

    This is an updated version of a story first published on April 27, 2025. The original video can be viewed here

    Evidence has emerged that could change our understanding of the 9/11 terrorist attacks nearly 24 years ago. 

    The evidence was turned over to the FBI in the weeks after 9/11, but, as we first reported in April, it was never shared with the bureau’s own field agents or top intelligence officials. Why after all these years did this crucial information just surface? 

    The evidence came to light as part of a long-running lawsuit against the Saudi government by the families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks, and it includes a chilling video of a Saudi national filming the U.S. Capitol.

    A voice on the video says in Arabic, “I am transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the American capital, Washington.”

    This video, recorded in the summer of 1999, was unsealed in federal court last year as part of the 9/11 families lawsuit accusing Saudi Arabia of providing crucial support to the hijackers.

    Exhibit A in their case: the man who made the video, Omar al-Bayoumi – who asked a bystander to film him in front of the Capitol.

    The FBI says Bayoumi was living in the United States on a student visa and being paid by a Saudi aviation company in California – despite not showing up for classes or work. Investigators say, in fact, Bayoumi was an operative of the Saudi intelligence service and had close ties to two of the hijackers. 

    The video was filmed over several days.

    Bayoumi recorded entrances and exits of the Capitol, security posts, a model of the building, and nearby landmarks.

    Bayoumi points out the Washington monument and says, “I will get over there,” and “report to you in detail what is there.” 

    He also notes the airport is not far away.

    Richard Lambert: What I see Bayoumi doing is going out and making a detailed video record of the Capitol from all its sides, and then conducting that 360 degree panoramic view.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Recently surfaced 9/11 evidence was not shared with FBI field agents or top intelligence officials – CBS News

    #2025 #911 #America #Arabic #Capitol #CBS #CBSNews #DC #DonaldTrump #FBI #History #Politics #Resistance #SaudiArabia #Saudis #Technology #TerroristAttacks #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #Videos #WashingtonDC

  15. 2️⃣ | „Er ist darin verwickelt“: Selbst der #QAnon-#Schamane will von #Trump nichts mehr wissen

    Der QAnon-Schamane Jacob Chansley ist eines der bekannteten Gesichter der Verschwörungsbewegung und des Sturms auf das #Kapitol geworden. Trump hat ihn begnadigt und doch will Chansley jetzt wohl nichts mehr von ihm wissen. Warum? Wie es zum Riss in der #MAGA-Sphere kam, lest ihr hier:

    skeptix.org/2025/08/01/er-ist-

    #Capitol #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

  16. 📰 | Neues im #SkeptixBlog!

    Ein regnerischer Sonntag? Kein Problem! Bernd hat eine Menge Lesestoff für euch. Schaut vorbei und holt euch die neuesten Infos über den Fall Peter #Fitzek, die Zersplitterung der #MAGA-Szene durch die #Epstein-Files und die Ermittlungen gegen die Fake-„#Schamanin“ Mariana M..
    👇👇👇

    #KRD #Reichsbüger #mdr #Podcast #Trump #Kapitol #Capitol #Qanon #Schamane #EpsteinFiles #Österreich #Betrug

  17. Over seventy percent of the #GOP wants to see the #white #supremacist #terrorists #pardoned, for shitting in the #Capitol and spreading it on the walls, for parading a #confederate #flag there for the first time, for trying to #kill the #vice #president and trying to #overthrow the #government in a #violent coup. Zero #evidence, lost over sixty cases, no #proof yet they lie still.
    They were terrorists, not rioters (#rioters have legit grievances).
    #never #forget #Jan6
    cbsnews.com/news/poll-analysis

  18. #QueerNation #ActUp #activism #Campaign idea

    instead of kiss-ins, there should be piss-ins.

    in every rotunda of every #capitol building in every #state with a #BathroomBill

    piss on every federal monument.

    piss on the floor during a white house tour.

    pissed off, or pissed on?

    #BeGayDoCrime

    we are criminalized after all

    so, #trans are not allowed in a bathroom? …oookay…

    #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #protest #stonewall #2024 #HumanRights #CivilRights