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Your Week in Review | Common Dreams Jan. 16, 2021

Your Week in Review


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stands in the House Chamber during a reconvening of a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Members of Congress returned to the House Chamber after being evacuated when protesters stormed the Capitol and disrupted a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer 
"In his effort to appease Donald Trump and his supporters, Senator Cruz encouraged these terrorists to wage armed insurrection against America." 



The mob can hide behind the First Amendment and use the foil of BLM marches all it wants. It’s  piling chicanery on top of lies. (Photo: Flickr/CC)

by Pierre Tristam 
The right to protest is not in dispute. If that's all the mob had done, its rights would certainly be defensible and protected. 



Carrying plastic restraints, a member of the pro-Trump insurrectionist mob is seen inside the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer 
"I can say with 100% confidence I didn't give any Capitol tours to anyone last week," said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on Friday. "Any Republicans out there who want to join us in answering this question?" 



President Donald Trump delivering the speech that spurred a mob to overrun the U.S. Capitol at a rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader 
Congressional Republicans have aided and abetted, for four years, Trump's assertion that "With Article II, I can do whatever I want as president." Dangerous Donald did just that. 



"The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday," reports the Washington Post, "highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites—reinforcing and amplifying each other—and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference." (Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)

by Jon Queally, staff writer 
After Trump's lies disappeared from Twitter and Facebook, the dissemination of falsehoods and the conversations based on them fell dramatically. 



Police officers gather to remove activists during an anti-death penalty protest in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer 
"This is not justice," said the liberal Justice after the state murder of Dustin John Higgs as she excoriated the court's conservative majority for essentially rubber-stamping the administration's rushed death penalties. 



Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) looked on before then-Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke at IBEW Local Union 58 on October 25, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer 
"Stop compromising the working class, and our most vulnerable neighbors," said the Michigan congresswoman. 



A Honduran child taken from his father after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border together in June 2018. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer 
"Just when you think the Trump administration can't sink any lower, it does." 



A malnourished child receives medical treatment at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on December 13, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer 
"It literally is going to be a death sentence," said the World Food Programme chief about the U.S. Secretary of State's decision to label the Houthis a terrorist organization. 



A firefighter surveys the Bond Fire—started by a structure fire that extended into nearby vegetation—on December 3, 2020 in Silverado, California. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer 
"We aim to provide leaders with a realistic 'cold shower' of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future."

In Pictures: Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol Building | Common Dreams News

In Pictures: Pro-Trump Mob Storms US Capitol Building | Common Dreams News: "They're in the chamber. One is up on the dais yelling 'Trump won that election!' This is insane."

Photojournalists and social media users witnessing the events inside the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday shared shocking pictures and video footage of the mob of fascist pro-Trump supporters who stormed the legislative offices shortly after an inflammatory speech delivered by President Donald Trump at a rally focused claiming that the results of the 2020 election—in which he was soundly defeated—are fraudulent…


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Protesters gather inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer 
"He shouldn't just be impeached or removed from office. He should be in jail." 

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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer 
"I've been reporting from the capitol for 11 years, nearly every working day. Never seen it like this." 



U.S. Capitol police officers point their guns at a door that was vandalized in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Common Dreams staff 
"They're in the chamber. One is up on the dais yelling 'Trump won that election!' This is insane." 



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence prepare to preside over Congress' certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Erin Schaff/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer 
A desperate attempt at a coup is about to begin -- But let’s be clear: the results of the 2020 election will not be overturned.  




by Jake Johnson, staff writer 
The lame-duck president's unhinged speech came as members of Congress met to officially certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory. 



Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks to the Senate chambers December 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer 
"Mitch McConnell absolutely should not have a veto." 



The "exclusion of undocumented workers in Nebraska from receiving vaccines is hypocritical, racist, cruel, and only helps spread Covid-19," said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). (Photo: Natalie Behring/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer 
"Everyone deserves to be vaccinated, especially the workers who feed us—and essential workers have earned a fast-track to citizenship." 




by Julia Conley, staff writer 
"In almost every respect, the campaigns that Warnock and Ossoff ran were closer to what progressives counseled than what moderates have counseled." 



People listen to Georgia Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speak at his Labor Canvass Launch at IBEW Local 613 on January 5, 2021 in Marietta, Georgia.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer 
"Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed healthcare, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, reproductive justice, education, and much more. It can't wait!" 



<p>Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/5124077710/in/photolist-8NNeMq-45Xbx-24J8KM-8Cmoh-98yHK-8Dpxb-24Nvsh">USFWS</a>/Flickr/cc)</p>

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer 
"Trump's last-ditch effort to extract fossil fuels in this sacred region is a direct assault on Indigenous sovereignty, our climate, and communities."

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