The F.B.I. said on Thursday that it had arrested a former State Department aide on charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including unlawful entry, violent and disorderly conduct, obstructing Congress and law enforcement, and assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon.
The former midlevel aide, Federico G. Klein, who federal investigators said in court documents was seen in videos of the riot resisting officers and assaulting them with a stolen riot shield, is the first member of the Trump administration to face criminal charges in connection with the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
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The F.B.I. said in a court document that it received a tip about Mr. Klein in January, on the day after it included his image in a poster seeking information about several people seen in the crowd that had stormed the Capitol. A tipster provided investigators with Mr. Klein’s Facebook account, and a different witness later contacted them to say that he knew the man in the poster as “Freddie Klein,” according to the document.
Based on this information, the F.B.I. determined that when Mr. Klein allegedly attacked Congress on Jan. 6 to help Mr. Trump unlawfully maintain power, he was still employed by the State Department and possessed a Top Secret security clearance, the bureau said in the document.
Given how we're going with discourse in American politics I expect one day a Senator will just go up and give the DX "Suck It" as their voting intention.
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I'm honestly confused by your take there. I mean I agree, but is this just opportunism on your part - identity politics is fine as long as it serves your agenda and the people promoting it - or have you changed your outlook on these things?
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I'm honestly confused by your take there. I mean I agree, but is this just opportunism on your part - identity politics is fine as long as it serves your agenda and the people promoting it - or have you changed your outlook on these things?
I'm definitely trying to do better at focusing on actual systemic issues related to racism, sexism, etc., rather than self-serving culture war nonsense like this.
I think it's been a while since I pounded a drum resembling anything close to that statement, but feel free to call me out on it if you catch me doing it.
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Senate passes Covid relief bill after the Dems finally convinced Manchin to get on board. It's amazing how much power that dude currently wields. Basically anything the Dems try to pass over the next few years will have to go through him, and no doubt he'll get his way every single time.
As expected, no Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
The final vote was 50-49 along party lines, with every Republican voting "no." It came after Democrats voted down a swath of Republican amendments on repeated votes of 50-49 to avoid disrupting the delicate agreement between progressive and moderate senators.
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The Senate appeared ready to begin the lengthy process, known as a vote-a-rama, on Friday morning. But then Democratic leadership hit pause to sort out a last-minute dispute over jobless benefits and keep Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on board, after he appeared ready to side with Republicans and change that provision, a move that would have alienated progressives.
As a result, Democrats dragged out the first vote of the day for 11 hours and 50 minutes, setting a new record for the longest Senate vote.
In the end, Manchin agreed to support a provision backed by other Democrats that also allows the first $10,200 of the jobless benefits to be non-taxable for incomes up to $150,000.
