Morning Briefing: January 6th Committee Prepares Final Report
Morning Briefing: January 6th Committee Prepares Final Report
U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is “wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection,' and preparing to issue the Committee's final report.
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Morning Briefing: The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is “wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection, with lawmakers expected to cap one of the most exhaustive and aggressive congressional probes in memory with an extraordinary recommendation: The Justice Department should consider criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.”
Watch the Committee’s final public hearing today at 1:00pm EST.
Edward Kelley, a Tennessee man previous arrested in connection to the Capitol Riot, allegedly “conspired with another person in a failed attempt to kill dozens of federal agents involved in the investigation.” According to federal prosecutors, Kelley and Austin Carter have been “charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal officer, interstate threats and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.
Jury selection begins today in the trial of five members of the Proud Boys, the far right violent extremists street gang, that prosecutors allege “turned the mob into a weapon on Jan. 6 and pointed it at the Capitol, where lawmakers had gathered to certify the results of the 2020 election.” The lawyer for Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, “declined to say whether he would testify at his trial.”
River William Smith “allegedly sympathized with mass shooters and expressed violent racist, homophobic, antisemitic and anti-police views was arrested… after trying to buy grenades and components to convert his firearms into automatic weapons.”
Larry Foxworth “pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime and a firearms violation after he fired into two local convenience stores in an attempt to kill those inside because of their race and ethnicity.”
Frank Pavone, a ultraconservative Catholic priest and radical anti-abortion activists that embraced former President Donald Trump and promoted conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 election, was stripped of his priesthood by the Vatican and censored for “blasphemous communications on social media, and of persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.”
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Kathleen Belew reports that “on Twitter and TikTok over the past few weeks, scores of users have become alarmed about the uncomfortable coziness between the natural-food-and-body community and white-power and militant-right online spaces—the ‘crunchy-to-alt-right pipeline.’ Crunchy, coined as a pop-culture reference to granola, has come to refer to a wide variety of cultural practices, including avoiding additives and food dyes, declining or spacing out childhood vaccinations beyond what pediatricians recommend, and more extreme actions in pursuit of health, independence, and purity.” [The Atlantic]
Jonathan Freedland writes that the “danger may incubate on screens, but it doesn’t stay there. That much has been clear for a while. Recall the massacre of 92 mostly young Norwegians in 2011. Or the slaughter of 49 at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. Or the mass killing at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh six months earlier. Or the gunning down of 10 Black shoppers and workers in a supermarket in Buffalo by a white teenagerMay this year. These horrors follow a pattern in which the killer seeks not only to murder but to livestream his butchery, accompanying it with the release of a supposed manifesto, a long screed identifying all the same enemies: Black people, LGBT people, Jewish people.” [The Guardian]
Kiera Butler explains how environmental, social, and governance principles (ESG) “became a favorite bogeyman of both Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. In roughly the last year, 13 states (all Republican-controlled) have passed anti-ESG legislation, which either prohibits state authorities from doing business with banks that have divested from fossil fuels or forbids them from investing state funds in any causes that fall under the umbrella of ESG goals. The controversy around ESG has created something of a witch-hunt atmosphere. Last week, financial gadflies speculated that the sudden withdrawal of the financial management behemoth Vanguard from an alliance of companies committed to emissions reduction was actually meant to appease ESG opponents.” [Mother Jones]
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