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1/10. The claim that Trump won the election is a Big Lie.

2/10. A Big Lie changes reality. To believe it, people must disbelieve their senses, distrust their fellow citizens, and live in a world of faith.

3/10. A Big Lie demands conspiracy thinking, since all who doubt it are seen as traitors.

4/10. A Big Lie undoes a society, since it divides citizens into believers and unbelievers.

5/10. A Big Lie destroys democracy, since people who are convinced that nothing is true but the utterances of their leader ignore voting and its results.

6/10. A Big Lie must bring violence, as it has.

7/10. A Big Lie can never be told just by one person. Trump is the originator of this Big Lie, but it could never have flourished without his allies on Capitol Hill.

8/10. Political futures now depend on this Big Lie. Senators Hawley and Cruz are running for president on the basis of this Big Lie.

9/10. There is a cure for the Big Lie. Our elected representatives should tell the truth, without dissimulation, about the results of the 2020 election.

10/10. Politicians who do not tell the simple truth perpetuate the Big Lie, further an alternative reality, support conspiracy theories, weaken democracy, and foment violence far worse than that of January 6, 2021.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-fbi-intelligence/2021/01/12/30d12748-546b-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

By Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky

Jan. 12, 2021 at 12:08 p.m. EST

A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s pro-Trump protest planned to do harm.

A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.

“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”

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The warning is the most stark evidence yet of the sizable intelligence failure that preceded the mayhem, during which five people died, although one law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid disciplinary action, said the failure was not one of intelligence, but of acting on the intelligence.

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349027370494255105
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Breaking: A third member of Congress has tested positive for COVID-19 after the Capitol lockdown.

Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider: "I am now in strict isolation, worried that I have risked my wife's health and angry at the selfishness and arrogance of the anti-maskers."

11:16 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/1349015834203709442
Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin

Today at 11:00 am, I will present our 25th Amendment Resolution before the Rules Committee. I hope that we will pass it out of Committee on a bipartisan basis and move it to the House Floor for a roll call vote. Watch here:

Rules Committee 117th Congress Organizational Meeting
Alternate Stream available:

10:30 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/Pervaizistan/status/1349007434665369611
Pervaiz Shallwani @Pervaizistan

NEW: Aaron Mostofsky, the son of a Brooklyn judge was arrested Tuesday morning by authorities in NYC for his connection with his alleged involvement in the insurrection at the Capitol spoke, a law enforcement official tells @brynnCNN

9:56 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/AlisynCamerota/status/1348992717657952256
Alisyn Camerota @AlisynCamerota

@sarasidnerCNN, no apology needed. We've all been struck by the grief. We appreciate the heart that you bring to this every single day.

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8:58 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/TheJessieWoo/status/1348989403222388736
Jessica Fyre 💫@TheJessieWoo

Sara Sidner has me IN TEARS 😢

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8:45 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1348979515796688896
Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett

Sheldon Adelson dead at 87, per Las Vegas Sands

Las Vegas Sands issued the following statement announcing the death of company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sheldon G. Adelson: Our founder and visionary leader, Sheldon G. Adelson, passed...

investor.sands.com

8:05 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://twitter.com/CongressmanRaja/status/1348971943526084608
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja

A startling reminder, if you need one, of the type of person President Trump is.

Alli Hedges Maser @AllisonLHedges

New details from @maggieNYT on what Trump was doing during the riot: "He was pleased... He knew what was happening... He just didn't want to do anything."

Says only thing that snapped him out of it was being told he would face legal exposure based on what he said at the rally.

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7:35 AM · Jan 12, 2021

https://www.virgin.com/branson-family/richard-branson-blog/celebrating-my-mum-eve-branson

Celebrating my mum, Eve Branson

Richard Branson

Published on 10 January 2021

I’m sorry to share that, sadly like a lot of people’s relatives and friends right now, my mum Eve has also passed away from Covid. She held on for one last victory, managing to fight off the virus, but had expended all of her energy in the process. One of my wonderful sisters, Vanessa, and nephew Louis were with her until the end, as were the wonderful nurses who she entertained with tales from her life and much laughter over glasses of whisky. Rather than mourn her loss, I want to celebrate her wonderful life, her tremendous spirit, the joy she brought to so many, and the love she gave us all.


Richard hugging his mum Eve

Mum was 96-years-old, but had the same enthusiasm and energy she had when I was a boy. As for so many of us in these days of Covid, it feels so strange that the person who has always been there for us, with such zest for life, is gone.

My sisters Lindy and Vanessa and I were so lucky to grow up with mum and dad as our parents, instilling values that have lasted a lifetime. They taught us the importance of hard work, of not taking yourself too seriously, of treating people how you wish to be treated, of entrepreneurship, and so much more. They showed us how family is the most important thing in the world, and surrounded us with love and encouragement.

My mum was a force of nature. She lived many remarkable lives. She took glider lessons disguised as a boy, enlisted in the WRENS during World War II, toured Germany as a ballet dancer after the war, acted on the West End stage and worked as a pioneering air hostess on the treacherous British South American Airways routes. When I was growing up she was always working a project; she was inventive, fearless, relentless - an entrepreneur before the word existed.

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https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1348806335027097600
Ben Collins @oneunderscore__

NEW: Twitter has suspended "more than 70,000 accounts" since Friday that were "engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to [its] propagation."

This explains prominent Republicans losing followers en masse.

An update following the riots in Washington, DC
Twitter’s work to protect the conversation following the riots in Washington, DC
blog.twitter.com

8:37 PM · Jan 11, 2021