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February 12, 2021 9:40 AM Associated Press
John Locher
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, a county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) The second-most powerful member of the House took the unusual step on Thursday of sending his own bill to be amended after a debate on the House floor tilted toward almost certain defeat.
Republican House Majority Leader Mike Moyle made the move on his proposed law that would make it a felony in Idaho for a third party to collect and return multiple ballots to election officials.
The fantasy-industrial complex gave us the Capitol Hill insurrection
This is America’s brain on misinformation.
Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building following a “Stop the Steal” rally.
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American insurrectionists, for the first time in the history of this country, stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. Offices were vandalized. Windows were broken. Statues toppled. A woman was shot and killed. Four others have reportedly died, including a Capitol Police officer. It was ugly, embarrassing, and seditious.
But it wasn’t surprising.
We’ve been inching, inexorably, toward this moment for years. I know this because I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time over the course of this presidency thinking and writing about what you might call the “epistemic crisis” or the “post-truth crisis” or the “misinformation crisis” it all refers more or less to the same thing.
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See the best national and international images of 2020 from the photojournalists of the Associated Press A protester carries a U.S. flag upside down as he walks past a burning building in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes.
Associated Press Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Conn., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Associated Press Walter Carter, 74, of Woodbridge, Va., who attended the original March on Washington, attends 2020s March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 2020, the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have A Dream speech. This march is a celebration anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, says Carter, and the issues are very similar even though so much time has passed.