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State of emergency declared for Washington, DC
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/11/donal...uguration/

EXCERPTS: President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency for the nation’s capital Monday ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

[...] The FBI has received reports that “armed protests” are being planned across the nation at each state capitol and the U.S. Capitol in D.C. in the days leading up to Biden’s inauguration, according to CNN. ... The bulletin reportedly notes that there are also threats of an “uprising” should Trump be removed from office through the 25th amendment.

[...] Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser extended a city-wide public emergency that would last 15 days– well past Trump’s last days in office. ... Bowser said due to the unrest, which she blamed on Trump, the city would be under a state of emergency going forward.

There will also be “at least” 10,000 troops deployed to the capitol by Saturday to prepare for the inauguration, according to the Associated Press... (MORE - details)


Early warning signs emerge for GOP
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020...c6c807f6fd

EXCERPT: In the 36 hours after last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, 112 Republicans reached out to the election office in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to change their party registration. ... Officials are seeing similar scenes unfold elsewhere. [...] The party switching pales in comparison to the more than 74 million people who voted for President Donald Trump in November. And it’s unclear whether they’re united in their motivations. Some may be rejecting politics altogether while others may be leaving a Republican Party they fear will be less loyal to Trump.

But they offer an early sign of the volatility ahead for the GOP as the party braces for political fallout of the riots that Trump incited. “I do think there’s a palpable shift, from knee-jerk defense of the president to ‘wow, that was a bridge too far,’” said Kirk Adams, the former Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives.

Adams said he knew several people, including once-solid Trump supporters, who are switching their registrations. He said it may be weeks or months before the full impact of the insurrection is clear. “Minds are being changed,” he said. “But you can’t go overnight from ‘I think the president’s right and the election is being stolen’ to ‘I guess he was wrong about everything.’”

Party registration doesn’t always preview how voters will actually cast their ballots, especially when the next major national elections are nearly two years away. But party leaders across the country are expressing concern that the riots could have a lasting impact... (MORE - details)


Even Angela Merkel is worried about Trump’s Twitter ban
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/11...itter-ban/

INTRO: The social-media silencing of Donald Trump has set a terrifying new precedent – so terrifying that even Angela Merkel, hardly known for her commitment to free speech, is uncomfortable with it. Commenting on Twitter’s Trump ban, Merkel’s chief spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said, ‘the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the US president have now been permanently blocked’.

He explained that Merkel thinks parliaments should decide the rules for social-media platforms, rather than the tech firms themselves. He said that freedom of opinion is a right of ‘elementary importance’, adding that it ‘can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators – not according to a decision by the management of social-media platforms’.

‘Problematic’ is an incredibly tame way to describe Silicon Valley’s blatant censorship of the US president. And the idea that freedom of opinion can be legitimately ‘intervened in’ should also concern us (Seibert said tech firms ‘bear great responsibility for political communication not being poisoned by hatred, by lies and by incitement to violence’). But in opposing the Trump ban, Merkel is, for once, on the right side of a free-speech question.

She has been no friend of free expression during her time in office. In 2019, she proclaimed that free speech must ‘have its limits’ and drew a distinction between ‘extreme speech’ and free speech... (MORE - details)
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