Fifteen years ago, the editor-in-chief of the
Middlebury Campusresigned for portraying its upcoming commencement speaker, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as Adolf Hitler.
The Middlebury College campus newspaper redeemed itself this week, seemingly convincing the Vermont liberal arts school to consider rescinding Giuliani’s honorary law degree.
Several hours after the editorial board demanded the rescission of the degree, comparing Giuliani to convicted rapist Bill Cosby, Middlebury President Laurie Patton said the college would formally explore that option.
In a Facebook post Sunday afternoon, Patton cited “the role” that Giuliani played “in fomenting the violent uprising against our nation’s Capitol building” on Wednesday, which delayed the election certification process and ended with deaths of a Capitol Police officer and a protester. She called this an “insurrection against democracy itself.”
SD legislator John Wiik falsely blames antifa, communists for Capitol raid
State Sen. John Wiik, a Republican from Big Stone City in South Dakota, made the false claims about the Capitol siege in an email to a constituent and other legislators on the eve of the legislative session, which convenes in Pierre on Tuesday, amid a party-wide reckoning on elected officials role in perpetuating mistruths and conspiracy theories about the November presidential election. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
Members of the National Guard walk in front of the U.S. Capitol building two days after a protest against the U.S. Congress certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results, in Washington, Jan. 8, 2021. (REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo)
Presidency in Review: Which Campaign Promises Did Trump Uphold?
By Aine Givens, Stacker News
On 1/9/21 at 8:00 AM EST
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Donald Trump made numerous promises about what he would do when he reached the White House.
Stacker compiled data from PolitiFact s Trump-o-Meter, which continually tracks the promises President Donald Trump made in his 2016 campaign for president. For four years, PolitiFact s reporters kept track of the promises and researched whether each promise was kept, broken, compromised on, stalled, or in the works. Each slide provides a description of the promise, the status of the promise, a link to more information from PolitiFact s researchers on the promise, and our own research into the promise.
8 Jan 2021
Public schools across the country are quickly responding to Wednesday’s events at the U.S. Capitol by offering “emotional support” for students and teaching vocabulary words such as “insurrection” and “sedition.”
Ally Stanton, a kindergarten teacher in Needham, Massachusetts, told 25 News:
I had a lot of students coming in this morning saying things such as Mommy and Daddy were watching a lot of news, bad guys got into the White House, there were bad people that were trying to hurt others in Washington. A lot of them were really concerned because they know that people shouldn’t be breaking into buildings… that it’s just not normal for them.