Something Where There Was Nothing or The Timeline So Far .

May 15, 2020

Something Where There Was Nothing or The Timeline So Far .

I haven’t written in years, I haven’t had anything to say but the world is a crazy place these days and nobody knows what’s gonna happen so what the hell? Right?
In the last couple months I’ve really lost track of time; everything seems to blend together but the weather is getting better so that’s a plus. My chain of events starts before winter really hit so how the world has changed is just as much a reflection of how my life has changed and vice versa.
In an effort to wrap my brain around how this has all gone down I’ve decided I’d put together a timeline, some version of how life has gone and what changes have been made. Maybe I’ll remember where I am finally.

Sept 2019
Australia has what would be called “Black Summer”. 46,050,750 approx acres burned with over 1,000,000 animal deaths and injuries. Countries all over the world bust out their sewing machines and start making insides for koala bears who’ve lost their fur and have burns that need covering.

Oct 2019
Went to a hot spring with my friend T, slipped very slowly and dramatically, catching myself by slamming my big toe into a shower basin and breaking my foot. I was promptly out of work.

Nov 2019
I hobble my happy ass around Vegas on a broken foot, with a badass cane and S. We spend Thanksgiving going to a Tim Burton exhibit and marveling all week long about how empty the city is. I also get to meet a long time internet friend and I get nervous and over excitedly talk while she feeds me and takes care of her new child, sick husband and barking dog (who is adorable but very protective over the baby so, doing her job)

Dec 31, 2019
G and I spend the evening on the couch watching Anderson Cooper get drunk. Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announces a cluster of pneumonia cases (a novel Coronavirus was eventually identified)

Jan 3, 2020
US kills Irans top general and almost sets into motion WW3.

Jan 4, 2020
World Health Organization reported on social media that there was a cluster breakout of pneumonia in Wuhan but there had been no deaths.

Jan 12, 2020
China shares the genetic sequins of Covid-19 with the world.

Jan 13ish, 2020
The first reported case of Covid outside of China is in Thailand. Within a week or 2 there are rumblings of Covid-19 on the news.

Feb 19, 2020
I go to the store and stock up on toilet paper and paper towel because we’re leaving town and I want my house sitters to have everything they need and I can avoid the store for awhile. This turns out to be an accidentally good idea.

Feb 20, 2020
Myself, G and all the not-laws get on a plane to Disney, Florida for a week long celebration in regards to the nephew not-law. Upon arriving in Florida we discover the brother-not-law was sick so he would be hiding out for a day or 2 while he figures out a doctors prescription.

Feb 21/22, 2020
G and I are getting on a monorail and I see a child lick the handrail. It’s in that moment I realize, everything here has been licked...EVERYTHING and I buy hand sanitizer for G and I because I’m not gonna collect germs from all the little mongrels running around. This turns out to be another accidentally good idea.

Feb 23, 2020
I feel a tickle in the back of my throat.

Feb 24, 2020
I wake up sick as hell and we get on a plane and travel back to Denver. The entire flight I try to keep my face covered with my coat so I don’t get everyone around me sick.

March 1, 2020
The first case of Covid-19 is discovered in New York City

March 6, 2020
Unable to get over my sickness and with wide spread news of Covid-19, I was nervous so I went to the clinic to get checked out. After talking to me, taking my temperature and getting a chest X-ray the doc happily walked back into the room I was in and said, “Nope! You’ve got rhinovirus, which everyone gets and is super common. You’ll get over it in a week or 2.”

March 9, 2020 Monday
G’s first day at the New York Times in the New York Times building. We are in touch and talking about safety. He’s staying in his hotel and going to work and nothing else...except one dinner on Thursday night with his friend C.

March 11, 2020
G calls me to let me know that someone who was exposed to the virus has walked through the building and they’re shutting down in order to do a deep cleaning. They ask if he wants to come home. We decide that if he’s really careful he can get on a plane Friday, first thing and be home by the afternoon which gives him the chance to still see his friend. We would learn later that night that Covid-19 has been classified as a pandemic.

March 13, 2020
Guy gets home, we sterilize everything, he showers, we launder all his clothes, I’ve got Clorox wipes and I’m hitting anything that I can’t scrub. We talk about safety and space and watch the news.

March 14, 2020
We cancel brunch with mom-not-law because we decide a buffet isn’t really the place to be at the moment.

March 15, 16, 17, 2020
Photos pop up of airports crammed with thousands of people trying to get home from wherever they are. People are advised to not travel if they don’t have to and to stay at home if they can.

March 26, 2020
Colorado puts in place a “stay at home” order.

April 7, 2020
Gas is $1.99 a gallon, isles at the grocery store have become 1 way with markings on the floor to help you distance, free patterns for face masks are all over on-line and people are busting out their sewing machines to make them by the hundreds, hospitals are overrun, there are so many beds taken up by Covid patients that the military brings ships up to the coasts in California and New York in order to help people who don’t have Covid, Playgrounds are closed, concerts and festivals have been cancelled, Panic buying is a problem, you can’t buy toilet paper of paper towel anywhere, meat is getting harder to find, Boarders are closed and all non-essential travel, they are reemploying NORAD staff, Essential workers are most of the minimum wage employees cashiers, warehouse employees, truck drivers, Budtender’s, liquor store employees etc etc, a lot of people who are already working remotely keep their jobs, some jobs become remote, there are cooling trucks outside hospitals in New York and other cities because they are out of room in the morgues, the brown cloud over Denver is gone, the water in Venice is clear, animals are taking over towns all over the world.

April 25, 2020
Beastie Boys documentary is released, Colorado has extended it’s stay at home order, for Denver, People all over the country are protesting at capitals because they believe that their civil rights are being infringed upon by governors that are trying to keep their population alive the best way they know how, Trump is announcing that he wants us to all go back to normal but headlines are warning that his base is actually dying off and that alone may hurt him in the next election, there’s a mass shooting in Canada, there are massive fights going on in inner cities, ministers and preachers are holding church services against the recommendation of the local governments, gas is ranging from $1.09 - $1.69 a gallon, I virtually quit watching the news because I don’t have the mental capacity to handle the amount of terribleness that’s happening all at one time right now.

May 5, 2020
Georgia partially reopens and we wait to see how it goes, murder hornets from Asia have been spotted in Washington and some people claim they’ve been here forever; that they’re called cicada killers, video surfaces of a black man named Ahmaud Arbery jogging through a suburban neighborhood in Georgia, there are 2 white men in a truck yelling at him to “stop!” with rifles in their hands, he obviously doesn’t because rifles and they shoot him in his side as he tries to escape. We learn that this happened in February but there had been no arrests made in the case until that video surfaced and there was a huge public outcry.

May 9, 2020
9 Secret Service agents test positive for Covid as does the personal valet to Trump, I wonder if I should but ultimately decide I’m not going to add the list of people I’ve lost directly and indirectly in this post because the weight of that is so heavy I can’t lift my fingers to type

May 10, 2020
I’m sure time is a semi-real constraint that we’ve all agreed upon to get us where we need/want to go at any given moment but really...I’ve lost the concept. The knowledge of Ahmaud feels like it’s been common for months but a week ago most of the country didn’t know his name. People are cruel, they are willfully and stubbornly ignorant, they hate...like true hate, the kind that, that old lady in your youth told you that you didn’t mean, they mean it. There’s a thick layer of tension that sits on top of humanity right now and honestly, I’m glad I get to sit out most of it.

May 15, 2020
Another childhood friend died; that makes 11.
I have no more words for this.

May 25, 2020
George Floyd was killed by 3 cops, on camera while 1 police officer stood by and guarded the situation from bystanders. It was recorded on video from both the front perspective where you could see the officer who was on his neck and the officer guarding the situation and from the other side of the car or the back of the situation where 2 other cops sat on George and held him down so the first officer could kneel on him until he died and still for a couple minutes after.

May 26, 2020
Protests start in Minneapolis, Minnesota. All 4 police are fired, there are no arrests.

May 27, 2020
Protests go national

May 30, 2020
I can’t go out and protest because Covid...which seems to be virtually forgotten with the exception of masks. Masks are prevalent and there’s little shame about it. New York cops smash their cars into the crowd, tear gas covers most major city streets, cops are proving to be dangerous folks. White people are starting to see why there are huge communities of people who hate and fear the police. I’ve seen more white people on my FB feed open up about how little they know about black history and how little they know about the struggle of people with brown skin. I’ve seen so many people try to stretch themselves and learn more about themselves and the country we live in. I’ve decided I’m going out in the morning to photograph some of the aftermath. I can’t protest but I can at least go out and check things out before everyone returns in the evening for the next round.

May 31, 2020
I went out to shoot this morning. The city had been pretty well coated with a layer of spray paint. There were crews out cleaning power washing major building and around the park were volunteers cleaning signs and gathering trash.

June 1, 2020
Watching CNN as they’re covering the DC protests and they announce that Trump is going to speak in the rose garden. The police in DC group up and start charging a peaceful crowd, gas and rubber bullets fly everywhere. They push the protestors away from anywhere Trump is going to be. He announces that the protests will end tonight, he announces he will enforce this, he declares he will have military in the streets of every major city if the governors and mayors don’t comply. That’s pretty much all I’ve got. I watched more subtly racism happen this morning on a video a friend sent me. He was taking his morning walk, and some old white guy who had been getting out of his car quickly pulled himself back into his car until my friends passed. That’s when my friend noticed a cop sitting in the same parking lot in the opposite corner panic set in and he headed straight home. He spent the day on the couch sad and trying to relax.
Today was the first day you could go to the record store. Boner and I were in the third group allowed in. I didn’t even need anything. The one album I want doesn’t come out for a month. I just grabbed something I knew would be good and a tshirt. I just wanted to be there.
Denver estates curfew of 9pm and Denver cops are bringing out the SWAT team and all the trucks and vans and will be going after protestors.

June 2, 2020
The heads of the church Trump stood in front of came out and disapprove of him using their church for his photo op. Department of Defense adviser James Miller Jr resigns due to the secretary of defense not opposing the mass tear gassing for a photo op. Colin Powell comes out in support of Bidden and denounces Trump. Polis announces free Covid tests at the Pepsi Center.

June 3, 2020
Police across the nation are arresting people and then taking a knee for the camera. Politicians and chiefs of police are taking a knee for the cameras. I start work learning about grants. I have the great idea to do some hard work with a couple of my friends and I’m in over my head. Every time I learn something new I learn how much more I need to know. This is hard.

June 4, 2020
The entire country learns about police unions and qualified immunity because many officers around the country are getting their jobs back.

June 5, 2020
I’ve been talking to a friend. I had an idea to do a civil rights project and mentioned that I wanted to go to Selma, Al and she informed me she’s got family and history there. The more we spoke the more I realized she had a story to tell which became clear by her spending 3 days talking about a childhood that we barely scratched the surface of. I’ve decided she should tell it out loud and offered to help. I’m now learning about grants. I found out today that she has a background in photojournalism so I know she can document and I know she can make pictures that she will be happy with so I’m just hoping to get both of us to a point where we both feel confident asking for money and writing proposals. The mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser kicks National Guard out of a hotel that was originally set up for health care workers because they were breaking the 3rd Amendment. She has also renamed Pennsylvania Ave to Black Lives Matter Ave and the park across from the White House, Black Lives Matter Plaza.

June 7, 2020
I’m in so far over my head I can’t even see straight. What the hell was I thinking! “Oh, we should make a book! But we should also get people to give us money to do it! BRILLIANT!”
Yeah...not brilliant, everytime I learn something new I learn that I have to learn something else first in order to make sense of what I just learned. I’m so confused and tired and confused. The wheels have definitely fallen off the cart.

June 9, 2020
I took a couple days off and just started working on checking in on everyone and making the general weekly rounds. I’ve heard some sad, funny, awful, crazy stories. It’s been so wonderful to hear people talking. It’s been so great to hear people share. Communication is so important and so essential to making progress. Colorado passed bill 217 through the senate (32-1 Sen Jerry Sonnenberg held out) that would remove “qualified immunity”, make choke holds illegal, give all officers in the state body cams by 2023 and limit when they are allowed to shoot people who are running away. There is also a campaign going around the country that’s actually gaining traction all over to defund the police. As a country we are deciding that cops shouldn’t have all the freedoms they do and that we’ve given them way too much money.

June 10, 2020
So many conversations, so many scared, lonely and frustrated people, so much to do.

June 11, 2020

They asked me to be a member of their club again today but still haven’t sent me any information really about what they aspire to do, they just keep telling me to go to the website but I’m not interested in their fluff. All I’ve seen them do is hold sales pitch style gatherings with terrible food, while they sit around and complain. They also asked me to be a part of their book club and I told them I didn’t have the emotional wherewithal to read books with them at the moment and I don’t. My energy is far better spent helping people find their voices. At the end of it all P was inspired to help me with the grant writing and I feel like it’s definitely going to happen now.

June 12, 2020

I’ve been following a bill that’s going through the house. We have one guy who wants to keep qualified immunity on the books. He has potential to ruin this whole thing. I rallied everyone I knew to call this fucker. I don’t know if they called their friends but I hope they passed it through the lines of communication. We’re also building this project...like for real.

June 25, 2020

So much has happened and nothing at all. Everything is slowly opening and then closing again. The awakening of white people is exhausting. My friends and my family are exhausting. I’ve been super focused on this project because even though that’s exhausting too at least it’s moving forward. President has decided he’s not funding Covid testing anymore, something about being convinced that if we don’t test the numbers won’t rise? I don’t know, he makes my head hurt. This is the dumbest our country has been in my lifetime. I’m so glad my mother is dead and I don’t have to listen to whatever her take on all of this would be.

August 9, 2020

They say that if you know how to do something you can turn it back on in your brain. I’m trying and it’s a bear of a thing to do. My birthday was a few days ago and he worked through it and hasn’t stopped since. He keeps saying he wants to change things but then he doesn’t. Somehow the idea that I need him to actually do something instead of just saying shit is lost on him. I ordered my own cake and when this next week is all said and done I’m gonna have to plan anything else I want to do for my birthday. He did get a timed cat feeder to try to make it so we don’t have to be here to feed the big one. I guess that should be enough. My friend asked me if I had gotten any “birthday nookie” and I just laughed...I think he was serious. He hasn’t wanted to touch me in 4 or 5 years and successfully has not in 2. I don’t even know what that would be like at this point.

It’s been a strange time. I’ve accepted my first gig since Covid. I can’t say where it is or what it’s for and we can’t take any social media photos although I’ve been asked to bring my camera so I guess I’ll get photos regardless. It’s an hour and a half from where I live so it’ll be a long day for sure, at least their paying for mileage.

Our president is insane. There are military police all over the country just randomly grabbing people off the street in protests and putting them in unmarked vehicles. The HMFIC has floated the idea of not having an election and he’s now making people paranoid about mail in ballots. The amount of hypocrisy is unfathomable. I really thought it would be funny watching an entire country get gaslit but it’s just sad. Not that I wasted my vote on this idiot but enough people did. There are all these conspiracy theories but the truth is we really are this dumb, this hateful, this ignorant and we really don’t pay that much attention. I wonder how the hell we’ve managed to convince the rest of the world that we’re so powerful and honestly I’ve been wondering that my entire life. Maybe we have a dictator now.

August 16. 2020

I’m a little behind which, if you’ve been paying attention, is super easy to do in the Trump era. He’s decided that mail in voting is too helpful in getting him out of office and since he’s friends with the post master general they’re locking up or removing public mail boxes all over the country. 671 sorting machines have been removed from post offices, these machines on average sort 35,000 pieces of mail per hour. People are worried that they’re votes won’t get to where they need to be on time so they know they’re gonna need to drop their ballots off but they’re also worried that this is the death of the post office so either way it’s a win win to the powers that be. I’ve been suggesting that the way to counter that fear is to drop off your ballot in person but then buy a sheet of stamps and send 2 or 3 letters, postcards or pieces of art to people. Which reminds me that I have to do that.

There is a protest in Belarus due to a rigged elections which will surely have a military consequence. It’s interesting how people can watch fascism happen and honestly not see it. I was talking to G’s mom this morning about the mailboxes and the machines and all she said was, “they’ve always been able to rig the elections.” It’s totally fine to these people as long as it’s their side. They really can’t see past their fucking noses. It’s not even willful ignorance it’s outright denial.

September 13, 2020

It’s interesting how a single loss can feel like nothing when you’ve been surrounded by lots and lots of loss over the course of a very short time.

September 18, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at her home in Washington DC of metastatic pancreatic cancers at the age of 87.

We’re so fucked.

September 23, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was laid to rest today in Washington DC. The president is rushing to get a new justice sworn in. The verdict for Breonna Taylor came back today. Brett Hankison was charged firing into a neighbors apartment. The other 2 officers have not been charged. 2 officers have been shot at the protest tonight in Louisville Ky.

September 30, 2020

The worst presidential debate ever in the history of this country, that’s what they’re calling it. Trump yelled, lied and threw a fit. It was so so so unreal.

October 1, 2020

I released my horror list from the last 2 months so I could start clean for October. We finally had to suck it up and get our own Netflix account because after 5 years G’s mom doesn’t want to pay for it anymore. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend lost their baby after having a live birth. Donald and Melanie Trump have both tested positive for Covid 19 and have tweeted that they will be quarantined. The interwebz do not believe that he has it, they think he’s just saying he does. This timeline is fucked, I’m sure on another somewhere else on another plane of existence I’m actually on a beach having a drink of course that also means I’m being eaten by a cannibal tribe in another.

As of today it’s been 15 days since I last had nicotine, the longest time I’ve gone without even when I was sick since I was 10. I’m about 6 weeks out from my surgery starting. I have a tickle in the back of my throat today and I don’t want that to be real. I’m also not entirely sure how anything could have been introduced into my body. The amount of hand washing and disinfecting I do is insane.

October 8, 2020

The FBI stopped Gov Whitmer from being kidnapped by some rednecks in Wixom, Mi. Trump didn’t support her back her.

October 9, 2020

The FBI charged 13 men with attempted kidnapping of the Michigan governor. Trump is refusing to allow the CDC to put face mask restrictions on flights, trains, buses and transportation hubs. The presidential debate gets canceled in Miami for the 18th because Trump refuses to have a virtual debate. The Texas governor is trying to limit the amount of ballot drop off locations in the state but a judge stopped him and Whitey Ford died. The numbers of COVID are rising, #StopSARS is trending on American Twitter. There’s been some talk about a civil war among the people but “the people” are pretty fucking passive so unless some drunk rednecks manage to organize and actually make 1 army instead of hundreds of tiny militias I’d say we’re pretty safe. Judge Robert Pittman ruled that counties in Texas can have multiple drop off locations for ballots. Fucking Texas is so great if they’d just stop being so freaking Texas.

October 16, 2020

About a month ago Amy Coney Barrett was tapped for Supreme Court justice. She’s a far right “handmaids tale” living Catholic. Today they are rushing her nomination. Trump is pretty aware that he’s gonna have issues in this election or at the very least after the next one so he’s padding the Supreme Court in the interest of ensuring his own pardon when this is all said and done. It might work, she’s a nightmare, the Dems are absolutely going to add more judges to the Supreme Court as soon as they have the opportunity. I think I spent an entire other post on this but it’s shocking to me that a person with this background can keep getting elected in a way that would even allow these people to find her.

October 20, 2020

The pope wore a mask for the first time since the Vatican put a regulation in place for masks on the 9th (I think). I’m led to the parable about the flood.

A man was caught in a flood and ends up on the roof of his house. A boat comes by and the person on the boat says, “Hey, get in the boat I’ll get us to safety.” The guy on the roof shakes his head, “No, no, I’ll be fine. God has my back.”. The water rises a few feet and the space the man is able to sit on becomes higher and smaller when another boat goes by. The person in the boat rows up to the man and says, “Hey! Get in the boat and I’ll get us to safety.” The man on the roof shakes his head, “No, no, God will save me. He’s got my back.” The person in the boat shrugged and rowed away. Eventually the flood overtook everything and the man on the roof drowned. When the man reached heaven he was offered the opportunity to ask God one question so he asked, “God, why did you let me drowned? I thought you would always help me.”

God simply looked at the man and said, “I sent you 2 boats.”

October 26, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in with a 52 to 48 vote in a late night session just in case the world wasn’t watching.

October 31, 2020

Saturday night, Full, Blue, Hunter’s Moon. Halloween. Pandemic. What?

So we got 7x7 bags and filled them with 2 full size pieces of candy, a bottle of hand sanitizer and a bunch of bite sized pieces of candy (chocolate and only good tradable candy) and hung them off the rod iron gate. The porch light only reaches the fence so as the night went on I couldn’t see the costumes or the kids but I could see these hands and little fingers reaching over the gate to lift the bags over the top. It was lovely. I don’t really know how it went for most kids but I think if people took their kids trick or treating, they probably got a great load of goodies. I watched horror all day and had food delivered, it was perfect.

November 1, 2020

All focus on the election.

November 3, 2020

Election Day.

Still not a holiday, still on a Tuesday.

Then we wait.

November 4, 2020

They count, we wait.

November 5, 2020

They count, we wait. Trump declares he wins even though we’re waiting on Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada. I went down to Colfax tonight and found it’s been ungentrified. The people down there are the people who hold it down every day over there and it’s beautiful. I need to spend more time down there. I can get better parking spots than I did tonight but I need to start shooting at night again for real. I forgot to change my ISO (like a fucking moron) and nothing turned out. Yeah, I’m really gonna see it’s ability to shoot at a higher ISO by not using it.

Idiot.

November 6, 2020

Trump declares victory over all 4 states that haven’t been called. He starts clamoring about how the numbers are changing and can’t seem to figure out that he convinced his people to vote the day of the election so in theory those votes would be counted first and then mail in and drop box ballots would be counted after...making the numbers change. He decided in some states he wanted to sue to get them to stop counting, some to get them to recount, some to stop counting, etc. Ultimately, you’ve got to have viable proof that something went wrong or was corrupt or the judges throw your case out, like they did in Michigan and Georgia. People are nervous about a civil war. Everyone is blaming everyone else for violence but everyone is guilty of it. People aren’t listening and don’t care. We rage against apathy but don’t give each other a reason not to be apathetic. We rage against ignorance and then vote and defund education. We’re the worst.

November 7, 2020

Biden/Harris won. Trump has said he would have to be removed from the WH kicking and screaming. He’s said he hopes the Supreme Court works. Kushner apparently has been suggesting Donald just concede but he won’t and it’s hilarious. I know there were more votes this time than ever before in history and I know that with all the new voting by mail it was going to take longer just to work out the details but I almost wonder if that helped prevent the civil war we’ve all been waiting for.

November 8, 2020

After all is said and done tomorrow I start looking into who’s trying to get kids out of cages and I hound everyone under the sun until something is done about that.

November 13, 2020

1 million people in Texas have Covid 19. Texas has 1/10th of the countries cases.

November 15, 2020

Another million in 2 days.

I’ve stopped watching the news every day. I just can’t subject myself to whatever nonsense tRump is spouting. He’s convincing millions of people that he didn’t lose. There are lawsuits all over the placed because he’s claiming fraud in multiple states. If he doesn’t concede he can continue to bilk his followers for money. These poor folks don’t know that the call is coming from inside the house. They may never know.

November 16, 2020

The Boy Scouts of America has 82,663 claims of sexual abuse against them at this point and growing. After years and years of boys coming out and talking about this they are finally being believed. The organization is setting up a victims compensation fund. They have over a billion dollars in assets including actual camps. Look for actual summer camps to be up for sale in the next couple years as they liquidate.

Still won’t concede.

November 20, 2020

New York shut down yesterday and today the US hit 250,000 deaths from Covid-19. People are still posting things about it not being that serious but it’s soon to be the number one cause of death in the US.

November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving!

The turkey has been brining for 2 days. I would have done it for 3 if I’d have gotten the bird sooner. Next year maybe we get the box of Thanksgiving from GH and then also buy a turkey early enough for me to do what I really want to do. I did declare this year that I’m not doing this again. I feel very much like I did so much of this without any help for one person to feel lukewarm about it. He said later he thought it was awesome and he did start helping at some point but it was just so much aggravation. Now that he’[s put me on the payroll he really does treat me like the maid most of the time. He just chucks shit on the floor and spills food and nonsense everywhere and just walks away.

December 7, 2020

The house based the MORE act but it prob ably won’t pass the Senate. Some weird illness has hospitalized 300 people in India with one death. All patients have tested negative for Covid 19. They are having seizures, loss of consciousness and some nausea. This is the kind of news that makes me grateful that we voted Biden in. I know T is denying he lost and he might until the secret service or military goes in and removes him from the building but he can’t handle another pandemic. He would be our last president at that point because he’d kill so many people that none of it would matter anymore anyway.

December 9, 2020

He says, “I’m starting to understand that my mom isn’t that smart. I can’t even talk to her about the election because if she believes that it was rigged or stollen or whatever I’m gonna have to say something about it.” Those are big words for a person who is so attached to the idea of what their parent is. I’m sort of proud of him.

December 12, 2020

The FDA approves emergency use of the vaccine from Pfizer.

December 13, 2020

The first trucks go out with vaccine and are sent around the country. Every state has been allotted a certain amount of shots, each person getting it has to get 2 doses, so whatever number they’re saying is actually only half of that. 180k shots = 90k people vaccinated (depending on how they distribute it).

December 14, 2020

I’ve sort of given up on Christmas at all this year. The day we were suppose to go get Christmas stuff he was acting like an asshole so I didn’t want to go anywhere with him. I figure if he wants it bad enough he’ll do it himself the way he made me do Halloween by myself. So far he’s done nothing but bring the box inside with the lights that I said I’d put up in he brought the box inside. He also said at Thanksgiving he was going to do Christmas dinner and hasn’t even thought about it as far as I know. I’m not suppose to care but FUCK! I really do.

The electoral college has fully counted all the votes. There is no disputing it at this point (although these fucking morons are still disputing it). I’m not even sure if he legally can ask his followers for money anymore.

I can’t believe Kobe just died this year.

I can’t believe this year.

Next will be better but not until the summer...maybe.

December 23, 2020

We fought all day

December 24, 2020

We fight all day and I take myself on a date. I went to get a coffee, look at Christmas lights, listened to MT read a Christmas story to the T family and ended up getting stuck at this awful light that wouldn’t change and then trapped in a parking lot. After being on the road top long I found myself a super dark spot in the back of a lot that must have been a half mile long I took a very long piss and headed home. It’s been a long day and I cannot wait for Christmas to be over because holy shit THIS HAS SUCKED!

December 25, 2020

He fights with me for 3 straight days and blames me for him needing to take extra Adderall to get through the week. This morning he slept until 11:30 and then was shocked that I didn’t care about opening presents or Christmas breakfast or dinner or anything. This whole season had been a shit show and I really just am over it.

December 26, 2020

Woke up, got bitched at before he went for a bike ride. By the time he was back I had all of Christmas packed up in a box and the house clean. I was sitting in my room by the time he came home so we’re done for the day.

December 27, 2020

We had the conversation that I’ve been avoiding because I didn’t want to take on one more thing that he is suppose to be responsible for (I am not his mother) but he’s worth it, right? He’s worth taking responsibility for the pills and doling them out to him for each day...right? This won’t make me insane in the end and I won’t be resentful?

January 1, 2021

New Year Day

We’ve been getting along for a couple days and it’s been great. Tonight though...ugh. He held my hands and made his New Years resolution about being a better partner and now I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.

January 5, 2021

Trump gets caught on tape threatening the Georgia electors to find enough votes that would put him over the edge to have won the state.

January 6, 2021

While driving down the street I happen to look over my shoulder just in time to catch Kate McKinnon running out of a gas station doing an impersonation of Trump having a fit. Just as she arrives at the curb Trump comes out of the gas station throwing a fit...I wake up laughing.

Wow...just wow...

Today is the day that the electoral college vote counted and certified. Historically this has been a pretty simple and peaceful day. Today though Trump had a rally for himself the spilled over into the beginning of the count (legally it must start at 1pm EST). He finished his speech by telling his followers, “after this we will march down to the capitol because you can’t win the country back with weakness.”

Promptly the crowd headed down the road heading toward the Capitol to interfere with the count. By the time the Senate got to Arizona (the first state to contest the electoral votes) the mob had breached a couple layers of security and were on the second level of the building breaking through the the windows. People broke the windows downstairs as well. There was a standoff between secret service and the rioters at the doors of the senate floor. The politicos got shuffled out of the room, filled with fear not even realizing that the people they lead feel that everyday. They eventually called in the National Guard from Maryland, Virginia and DC who came in and in the most peaceful course of action I’ve ever seen they slowly started sweeping the building and property removing people and pushing them into the street. The mayor of DC announced a curfew of 6pm. After the floor was taken over by a man called The Maga Shaman and other random Trumpets Trump finally stood in the Rose Garden and made a little speech about how he knows everyone is hurt because the election was in fact stolen but to please go home peacefully...and they did. He repeatedly tweeted about the election results in Georgia being rigged and other various election lies so Twitter finally banned him for 12hrs (i.e. 7am). Now I can’t stop picturing Trump stomping back and forth alone in the White House yelling and throwing a fit because he can’t tweet...maybe my dream was fortuitous...

Matt Pottinger, National security advisor resigned today in response to Trumps response to the mob breaching capitol. There will be more resignations tomorrow but it’s 2 weeks before Biden takes over so resigning now doesn’t even really even save face.

We fight every time we encounter each other. He can’t stop himself just needs to dig right in while he needs my help. I explained when I got back with the products he needs that I wasn’t doing this anymore and he was going to have to figure it out. I told him when I got back from Walgreens and the dude ran into me explaining that he needed a Covid test before he could go back to work that I wasn’t running his errands anymore. I know he wouldn’t do that shit for me, that he didn’t ever do runs for anything for me and that I was done.

Whatever. I’m exhausted but glad I got this done tonight because what a day.

January 9, 2021

“Destruction and creation are direct causes of contentment” and I would argue to say vice versa. He’s writing so fast I can’t keep up. It’s like he’s completely unaware or unaffected by everything that’s burning in the world tonight. I want so much to be able to handle all of this but my brain...oh my poor rotting, sludge filled brain, it doesn’t even understand where it is or what it’s been tasked with.

Today is Saturday, by Monday there should be and article of impeachment on someone’s desk. The want to call into affect amendment 25 article 4 of the constitution which states basically that if the Vice President doesn’t think the president is mentally stable enough to be president anymore he can commandeer the position. Obviously he has to get approval from both the senate and the house but he (Pence) could at this point. A right wing “freedom of speech” social network was allowing death threats the the Vice President and it has been dropped by app stores which I’m sure is just adding those companies to the proverbial list.

January 10, 2021

It makes me feel like an idiot when I’m so easily distracted by the simplest things.

January 11, 2021

A poet is likely the kind of romantic that will write about another person while mourning them through you. This is business because there is no space and time for anything personal I need you to do a thing or I won’t be able to move past this.

Do you wanna play a game?

January 20, 2021

Amazingly enough we made it through the inauguration without a full on civil war. The first National Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman did a piece, Michelle owned every place she walked, Gaga and JLo sang and Kwame Kilpatrick was pardoned. While Biden’s hand was on a bible for his swearing in Fox News was asking why he wasn’t already getting to work.

Have no fear, he’ll be signing executive orders as soon as he can.

+++++++++

12 signatures later and we’re part of the Paris Climate Agreement again, there is Covid relief coming, we get the “Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense” back and we’ve rejoined WHO. It’s like there’s an adult in office again.

February 14, 2021

We didn’t talk about Valentine’s Day, we didn’t celebrate, we did nothing.

March 27, 2021

Yesterday they took 28 teeth, cut the tooth out of the roof of my mouth, placed soft tissue and a cadaver bone in the hole that was left, did grafting in my nostrils because the tooth removal made holes, placed 6 plates in my bottom gums and 5 in my top gums and they discovered I have sleep apnea on the table because I stopped breathing twice on the table. So I guess...I almost died?

April 5, 2021

Today is the first day without pain. I’m sore and will probably be on top of my pain meds but I’m not in actual pain. I haven’t taken anything other than Ibuprofen and Tylenol the entire time.

April 23, 2021

I found her! I never thought I would and I’m not even sure how it was possible. She has websites now and she’s on social media although I’ve been nervous to reach out. She’s gone through a lot and “they” seem to have gotten to her.

April 24, 2021

I’ve learned her story and it’s devastating.

January 6 2022 (everything beyond this point for this date is directly copied from Wiki)

Attack on the Capitol

At noon, Trump began an over one-hour speech encouraging protesters to march to the U.S. Capitol. At 12:49 p.m., Capitol Police responded to reports of an explosive device, later identified as a pipe bomb. At 12:53 p.m., nineteen minutes before Trump ended his speech, rioters overran the perimeter of the Capitol building, and at 2:06 p.m. they entered the building through the Columbus Doors.

Trump's tweet requesting the crowd to "stay peaceful" is sent roughly half an hour later, at 2:38 p.m. However, at 2:44 p.m., a Capitol Police officer inside the Speaker's Lobby adjacent to the House chambers shot and fatally wounded rioter Ashli Babbitt as she climbed through a broken window of a barricaded door. Minutes later, Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam activated all available assets of the State of Virginia including the Virginia National Guard to aid the U.S. Capitol, although the Department of Defense still had not authorized it. By 3:15 p.m., assets from Virginia began rolling into D.C.

An hour later, at 4:17 p.m, a video of Trump was uploaded to Twitter in which he instructed "you have to go home now". Fifteen minutes later, Secretary Miller authorized the D.C. National Guard to actually deploy.

Early morning (before 9:00 a.m.)

1:00 a.m.: Trump tweets: "If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency."
1:13 a.m.: Ali Alexander, Stop the Steal organizer, tweets "First official day of the rebellion."
3:23 a.m.: Ron Watkins, imageboard administrator and prominent QAnon figure, posts a tweet accusing Vice President Mike Pence of orchestrating a coup against Trump. He also linked to a blog post which called for "the immediate arrest of [Pence], for treason."
6 a.m. hour: Unidentified individuals construct a gallows outside the Capitol, leaving off crossbeam and noose.
6:29 a.m.: Stewart Rhodes reminds the Oath Keepers that blades over "3 inches" are illegal in the city. He tells them to "[k]eep [the knives] low profile."
7:25 a.m.: The National Park Service observes that people are hiding bags in trees to bypass inspection.
7:29 a.m.: Courtney Holland, who later became communications director for the Republican Senate nominee in Nevada, tweets that she is walking to the Stop the Steal rally with Scott Presler, Megan Barth, and Rose Tennent. Those three people are scheduled to speak later at a different rally at the Capitol.
7:30 a.m.: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows texts Representative Jim Jordan "I have pushed for this" but is "not sure it is going to happen," referring to Pence overturning the election results.
8:06 a.m.: Trump tweets a false allegation of election fraud.
8:07 a.m.: Secret Service countersurveillance agents reported that “members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets, body armor and carrying radio equipment and military grade backpacks.”
8:17 a.m.: Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud and asks Pence to delay the electoral count:
States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!"
8:22 a.m.: Trump tweets a request for Republican party officials to delay the electoral count.
Rallies
9:00 a.m.
- 9:00 a.m.: At start time on permit for First Amendment rally "March for Trump" speeches, the "Save America" rally (or "March to Save America") begins. Above the podium at The Ellipse are banners for "Save America March". Rep. Mo Brooks (R–AL) makes a speech about "kicking ass", asking "Will you fight for America?"
- 9:02 a.m.: Trump asks the switchboard operator to call Pence, who doesn't answer.
- 9:24 a.m.: Trump has an approximately 10-minute phone call with Representative Jim Jordan. (As of late 2023, Jordan has not said what the call was about.)
- 9:45 a.m.: A Federal Protective Service liaison officer informs the Capitol Police that more than the permitted 30,000 protesters are expected at the Ellipse, the Freedom Plaza permit was increased from 5,000 to 30,000, and the protest outside the Sylven Theater is permitted for 15,000. According to Newsweek, "Six times as many protestors—as many as 120,000—would show up on the Mall on January 6, according to classified numbers still not released by the Secret Service and the FBI but seen by Newsweek."
- 9:52 a.m.: Trump has a 26-minute phone call with speechwriter Stephen Miller about his planned speech for the Save America Rally later that day.
- 10:00 a.m.: Before this time, White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato informs Trump that authorities have spotted armed individuals at the crowd gathering at the Ellipse. Ornato explained to Trump that some of his supporters "have weapons that they don’t want confiscated by the Secret Service” and thus they refused to pass through the magnetometers and had not drawn close to the Ellipse where Trump was scheduled to speak at 11 a.m.
- 10:15 a.m.: Around this time, Tony Ornato, along with Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to Mark Meadows, inform Meadows about the armed Trump supporters.
- 10:30 a.m.: Benjamin Philips splits from his group to park, not reuniting but later dying from a stroke at George Washington University Hospital.
- 10:30 a.m.: 200–300 Proud Boys started their march down the National Mall towards the U.S. Capitol.
- 10:47 a.m.: Rudy Giuliani begins a speech in which he calls for "trial by combat".
- 10:58 a.m.: A Proud Boys contingent leaves the rally and marches toward the Capitol Building. (According to later testimony. a "couple of hundred" Proud Boys began walking east, "down the Mall...towards the Capitol" at approximately 10:30 a.m.)
11:00 a.m.
- 11:00 a.m.: The Ellipse, located south of the White House, is filled with Trump supporters.
- 11:06 a.m.: "There is no official record of President Trump receiving or placing a call between 11:06 a.m. and 6:54 p.m.," Representative Elaine Luria stated at a public hearing a year later. (The start time of the absence has also been reported as 11:17 a.m.) However, still later, prosecutors said they had obtained data from a cell phone Trump was using on the day of the attack, including when he was using Twitter and what other websites he visited.
- 11:23 a.m.: According to the final report of the House committee: "Three men in fatigues from Broward County, Florida brandished AR-15s in front of MPD officers on 14th Street and Independence Avenue. MPD advised over the radio that one individual was possibly armed with a 'Glock' at Fourteenth Street and Constitution Avenue, and another was possibly armed with a 'rifle' at Fifteenth Street and Constitution Avenue around 11:23 a.m."
- 11:30 a.m.:
  - Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller participates in a tabletop exercise on Department of Defense contingency response options for the D.C. protests.
  - The motorcade of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrived at DNC headquarters. (Law enforcement would discover a pipe bomb at 1:07 p.m., only several yards away from where her motorcade had passed through the garage of DNC headquarters, and they would evacuate Harris seven minutes after that.)
- 11:46 a.m.: Some Proud Boys, including Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean, are gathered where Trump is about to speak.
- 11:50 a.m. (approximately): From backstage at the Ellipse, Trump could see that TV viewers would perceive the venue as not filled to capacity. That was because about half of his 53,000 supporters refused to be screened for weapons by passing through the magnetometers and thus had not entered the area. Trump yelled (as Cassidy Hutchinson would later testify): “I don’t [fucking] care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the [fucking] mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Take the [fucking] mags away.”
- 11:57 a.m.: President Trump begins his over one-hour speech. He repeats allegations that the election was stolen, criticizes Vice President Mike Pence by name a half-dozen times (though this wasn't part of his prepared remarks), accuses fellow Republicans of not doing enough to back up his allegations, and states that he will walk with the crowd to the Capitol.

12:49 p.m.:
- Capitol Police respond to a report of a possible explosive device at the Republican National Committee Headquarters, which is later identified as a pipe bomb. A second pipe bomb at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee would be found at 1:07 p.m. Buildings next to these headquarters are evacuated. Authorities later described the pipe bombs as "viable", but they never detonated.
- A police sweep of the area identifies a vehicle which held one handgun, an M4 Carbine assault rifle with loaded magazine, and components for 11 Molotov cocktails with homemade napalm. Around 6:30 p.m, the driver was apprehended carrying two unregistered handguns as he returned to the vehicle. He is not suspected of planting the pipe bombs. As of 2024, it remains unknown who planted them.
- Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean, again, are caught on video in the crowd outside the Capitol.
12:52 p.m.: Some Oath Keepers, including Jessica Watkins, leave the Ellipse.
12:53 p.m.: Rioters overwhelm police along the outer perimeter west of the Capitol building, pushing aside temporary fencing. Notably, Ryan Samsel (convicted in 2024) "took off his jean jacket, flipped his 'Make America Great Again' hat backwards, and began ripping down the bike racks that were used to form a line of defense," as reported by NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. This threw Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards backwards; she was briefly knocked unconscious. Some protesters immediately follow toward the Capitol, while others, at least initially, remain behind and admonish the others: "Don't do it. You're breaking the law."
12:57 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report that the Capitol Police barricade on the west side of the Capitol building has been breached by a large group. By 1:03 p.m., a vanguard of rioters have overrun three layers of barricades and have forced police officers to the base of the west Capitol steps.

12:58 p.m.: Chief Sund asks House Sergeant at Arms Paul D. Irving and Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael C. Stenger to declare an emergency and call for deployment of the National Guard. Irving and Stenger state that they will forward the request up their chains of command. Soon afterwards, aides to Congressional leaders arrive in Stenger's office and are outraged to learn that he has not yet called for any reinforcement. Phone records obtained at the Senate Hearings reflect that Sund first reached out to Irving to request the National Guard at 12:58 p.m. on the day of the attack. Sund then called the Senate sergeant-at-arms at the time, Michael Stenger, at 1:05 p.m. Sund repeated his request in a call at 1:28 p.m. and then again at 1:34 p.m., 1:39 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. that day. The Capitol Police Board consisting of the Architect of the Capitol, the House Sergeant at Arms, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms have the authority to request the national guard to the Capitol, but had made the decision three days earlier not to do so.

1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m.:
- Senators and Vice President Pence walk to the House chamber.
- US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sundcalls D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Contee, who deploys 100 officers to the Capitol complex, the earliest arriving within 10 minutes.
1:02 p.m.: Pence refuses to go along with Trump's plan to pick and choose electors, and tweets a letter stating in part,
It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.
Pence had not shown it to the White House Counsel in advance.
1:05 p.m.:
- Congress meets in joint session to confirm Joe Biden's electoral victory.
- Acting Secretary of Defense Miller receives open-source intelligence reports of demonstrators moving towards the U.S. Capitol.
1:07 p.m.: Authorities respond to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, following discovery of the second pipe bomb. When police arrive, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is inside. She has been in the building for over an hour and a half and must now be evacuated.
1:10 p.m.: Trump ends his speech by urging his supporters to march upon the Capitol Building:
If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore....We're going to try and give them [Republicans] the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country...The Democrats are hopeless—they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

1:11 p.m.: First MPD officers arrive at lower west plaza to confront rioters approaching the Capitol
1:12 p.m.: Rep. Paul Gosar (R–AZ) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R–TX) object to certifying the votes made in the 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona. The joint session separates into House and Senate chambers to debate the objection.
1:14 p.m.: Due to the pipe bomb (see 1:07 p.m.), Vice President-elect Harris is evacuated from DNC Headquarters.
1:17 p.m.: Trump's motorcade leaves the Ellipse. As Trump later recalled for journalist Jonathan Karl: "I was going to [go to the Capitol] and then the Secret Service said, 'You can't.'" The Secret Service drives him back to the White House against his wishes. Upon being denied transportation to the Capitol, Trump behaved angrily, according to multiple witnesses who testified for the House committee. However, according to the driver (in his testimony nearly two years later), Trump "never grabbed the steering wheel. I didn’t see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.”
1:19 p.m.: Trump's motorcade arrives at the White House.
1:21 p.m.:
- Trump enters the White House.
- "The Presidential Daily Diary...contains no information for the period between 1:21 p.m. and 4:03 p.m.," Rep. Elaine Luria stated at a public hearing a year later. "The chief White House photographer wanted to take pictures because it was, in her words, 'very important for his archives and for history.' But she was told, 'no photographs.'"

Trump watches TV (1:25–4:03 p.m.)

A White House employee breaks the news to Trump that a TV network did not broadcast the entirety of his speech in favor of footage of the Capitol riot. When the employee tells him (roughly) “they’re rioting down there at the Capitol,” Trump says (roughly) “Oh, really?” and asks to see it on TV. As they walk to the Oval Dining Room, the employee takes off Trump’s “outer coat,” brings the TV into the dining room, rewinds it to the beginning of Trump’s speech rather than the live coverage, and hands Trump the remote. The employee leaves briefly and returns with a Diet Coke, at which time Trump is still watching the TV coverage. (As told by the White House employee when interviewed by the January 6 House select committee.)

According to the final report of the January 6 House select committee:

"Here’s what President Trump did during the 187 minutes between the end of his speech and when he finally told rioters to go home: For hours, he watched the attack from his TV screen. His channel of choice was Fox News. He issued a few tweets, some on his own inclination and some only at the repeated behest of his daughter and other trusted advisors. He made several phone calls, some to his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, some to Members of Congress about continuing their objections to the electoral certification, even though the attack was well underway. Here’s what President Trump did not do: He did not call any relevant law enforcement agency to ensure they were working to quell the violence. He did not call the Secretary of Defense; he did not call the Attorney General; he did not call the Secretary of Homeland Security. And for hours on end, he refused the repeated requests—from nearly everyone who talked to him—to simply tell the mob to go home.

Trump's aides confirmed that he watched the television coverage, but Trump himself has refused to admit doing so. Two months after the attack on the Capitol, he told journalist Jonathan Karl: "When I get back [to the White House], I saw—I wanted to go back [to the Capitol]. I was thinking about going back during the problem to stop the problem, doing it myself. Secret Service didn't like that idea too much."

1:25 p.m.:
- Trump enters the Oval Office private dining room and stays there, watching Fox News, until after 4 p.m. (Three months later, Trump acknowledged to a journalist that the Capitol police "did lose control" of the mob, but he claimed he did not hear of the attack while in meetings with his chief of staff and instead learned of it "afterwards, and ... on the late side" upon turning on the television.)
- White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham texts First Lady Melania Trump: "Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness and violence?" She immediately responds: "No". (Melania Trump didn't tweet at all on the day of the attack, and did not tweet to condemn the violence until five days later.
- 1:26 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police order evacuation of at least two buildings in the Capitol complex, including the Cannon House Office Building and the Madison Building of the Library of Congress.
1:30 p.m.:
- Capitol Police are overwhelmed and retreat up the steps of the Capitol. Lawmakers see the police in the halls.
- Large numbers of Trump supporters march from the Ellipse 1.5 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol. Lawmakers watch their approach on online videos.
1:34 p.m.: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requests via phone that Army SecretaryRyan D. McCarthy provide an unspecified number of additional forces.
1:35 p.m.: In Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R–KY) warns that refusing to certify the election results under false pretenses would push American democracy into a "death spiral".
1:39 p.m.: The White House switchboard connects with Rudy Giuliani for 3 minutes and 53 seconds.
1:49 p.m.:
- Capitol Police Chief Sund requests immediate assistance from District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) Commander Major General William J. Walker. Major General Walker loads guardsmen onto buses in anticipation of receiving permission from the Secretary of the Army to deploy.
- Trump tweets a video replay of the Ellipse rally where he'd wrapped up his speech a half-hour earlier.
1:50 p.m.: D.C. Metropolitan Police on-scene incident commander Robert Glover declares a riot.

1:51 p.m.:
- Trump supporter Alex Jones speaks from a bullhorn to the crowd on west side exhorting them to remain peaceful and to "not fight the police". He directs them to "the other [East] side" where he claims they have a permit and a stage.
- Radio talk show host and former FEMA director Michael D. Brown tweets the baseless claim that the people breaching Capitol security are likely antifa, Black Lives Matter protestors, or other insurgents disguised as Trump supporters, and suggests the attack could be a psychological warfareoperation.
1:54 p.m.: Todd Herman, guest hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show, informs his large national radio audience of Brown's claim that the people breaching security are not Trump supporters.
1:55 p.m.: Secret Service notified they are not going to the Capitol, after holding the motorcade at the White House for possibly doing so.
1:58 p.m.: Along the east side of the Capitol, a much smaller police presence retreats from a different mob, removing a barrier along the northeast corner of the building. Oath Keepers Kenneth Harrelson (later charged with sedition) and Jason Dolan had arrived at the east side of the Capitol "shortly before 2 p.m."
1:59 p.m.: Chief Sund receives the first reports that rioters had reached the Capitol's doors and windows and were trying to break in.
1 p.m. hour: Crossbar and noose added to gallows.

2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.:
- The mob removes the last barrier protecting the east side of the Capitol.
- Alex Jones, rounding the north side of the Capitol, moves from the west side to the east side.
2:03 p.m.: The White House switchboard connects with Rudy Giuliani for 8 minutes.
2:05 p.m.: Kevin Greeson is declared dead after suffering a heart attack outdoors on the Capitol grounds.
2:06 p.m. Rioters breach the new police line on the east side of the Capitol and go upstairs to the Columbus Doors, aka Rotunda Doors. Jones’s camera crew negotiates with USCP officers.
2:10 p.m.:
- The mob west of the Capitol chase police up the steps, breaching the final barricade and approach an entrance directly below the Senate chamber.
- House Sergeant at Arms Irving calls Chief Sund with formal approval to request assistance from the National Guard.

2:11 p.m.: Rioter Dominic Pezzola, using a stolen plastic police riot shield, breaks a window on the northwest side of the Capitol in the Senate wing of the building.
2:12 p.m.:
- Michael Sparks, wearing a tactical vest, climbs through the window Pezzola broke (though other rioters yell at him not to do so), becoming the first rioter to enter the Capitol. A police officer pepper sprays him in the face, but this does not stop him. Once inside, Sparks opens a door for others.
- Police begin dismantling a pipe bomb outside DNC headquarters.
2:13 p.m.:
- Entries in a National Security Council chat convey that "2 windows have been kicked in" and "Capitol is breached".
- Vice President Pence is removed from the Senate chamber by his lead Secret Service agent, Tim Giebels, who brings him to a nearby office about 100 feet from the landing.
- The Senate is gaveled into recess.

2:14 p.m.:
- Sparks and other rioters chase a lone Capitol Police officer, Eugene Goodman, up northwest stairs, where there are doors to the Senate chamber in both directions, as police inside the chamber attempt to lock doors. The mob gets within 40 feet of Vice President Pence's hiding place (to which he escaped one minute earlier) but does not catch sight of him. Officer Goodman leads the mob to backup in front of a set of Senate doors while senators inside attempt to evacuate.
- Proud Boy Joe Biggs enters the Capitol building.
- Representative Gosar speaks to the House against certifying Arizona's electoral votes.
- Federal Protective Service officers report that the Capitol has been breached.
2:15 p.m.: Rioters use a hammer to break and open a door.
2:16 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report that the House and Senate are being locked down.
2:18 p.m.:
- An official warns in a National Security Council chat that "VP may be stuck at the Capitol" if security doesn't reach a decision to move him within 2–3 minutes.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) is removed from the chamber by her protective detail. Representative Gosar continues addressing the House, despite the confusion, while ranking member Jim McGovern (D-CA) steps in as Speaker.
- The House recesses.
2:20 p.m.: The National Security Council chat reports the breach of "Second Floor" and "Senate Door".
2:22 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Mayor Bowser, D.C. Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio, Director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Christopher Rodriguez, and leadership of the Metropolitan Police in which additional DCNG support is requested.
2:23 p.m.:
- Rioters attempt to breach the police line formed by barricades of bicycle racks. As a police lieutenant sprays the crowd with a chemical substance, rioter Julian Elie Khater raises his arm above the mob and sprays a chemical substance toward United States Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who dies the following day from a stroke.
- A conversation over Washington's Metropolitan Police Department radio: "We're starting to get surrounded. They're taking the North Front scaffolding", someone says. Another voice on the radio warns: "Unless we're getting more munitions, we're not going to be able to hold." A reply: "A door has been breached, and people are gaining access into the Capitol.”
- Nancy Pelosi walks through the complex, speaking on a phone. She says that if Congress can't "finish the proceedings", the insurrectionists "will have had a complete victory."

2:24 p.m.:
Entries in a National Security Council chat convey that there are "explosions on the rotunda steps" and "Service at the capitol does not sound good right now". The official who wrote this, when later interviewed by the January 6 House committee, explained the second comment: "The members of the VP detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives...we came very close to either Service having to use lethal options or worse....they're screaming and saying things like 'say goodbye to the family'." (The committee did not reveal the official's name.)
- Cassidy Hutchinson overhears Trump repeatedly use the word "hang" in a conversation with Mark Meadows prior to his tweet about Pence.
- President Trump tweets "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!" When Twitter reinstated Trump's account in November 2022, this tweet was gone. The U.S. House select committee investigating January 6 wrote that this tweet "inflamed and exacerbated the mob violence"; this assessment was part of the committee's criminal referral of Trump for insurrection. Similarly, the committee wrote in its final report: "Immediately after this tweet, the crowds both inside and outside of the Capitol building violently surged forward. Outside the building, within ten minutes thousands of rioters overran the line on the west side of the Capitol that was being held by the Metropolitan Police Force’s Civil Disturbance Unit, the first time in history of the DC Metro Police that such a security line had ever been broken." Within an hour after this tweet, Pat Cipollone complained to Mark Meadows that "we need to do something more. They’re literally calling for the Vice President to be [fucking] hung." Meadows suggested that there was nothing to do, given that Trump "thinks Mike deserves it." At some point, Nick Luna, an aide, comes into the dining room and informs Trump that Pence has been moved for his safety. Luna later tells the House select committee that he did not recall how Trump responded, and he tells federal investigators that Trump responded: "So what?"
2:25 p.m.:
- Army Secretary McCarthy ordered staff to prepare movement of the emergency reaction force, which could be ready in 20 minutes, to the Capitol.
- Over the next three minutes, "rioters breached the East Rotunda doors, other rioters breached the police line in the Capitol Crypt, Vice President Pence had to be evacuated from his Senate office, and Rep. McCarthy was evacuated from his Capitol office", according to the U.S. House select committee on January 6 in the introduction to its final report.

2:26 p.m.: D.C.'s homeland security director Chris Rodriquez coordinates a conference call with Mayor Bowser, the chiefs of the Capitol Police (Sund) and Metropolitan Police (Contee), and DCNG Maj. Gen. Walker. As the DCNG does not report to a governor, but to the President, Maj. Gen. Walker patched in the Office of the Secretary of the Army, noting that he would need Pentagon authorization to deploy. Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, director of the Army Staff, noted that the Pentagon needed Capitol Police authorization to step onto Capitol grounds. Sund began describing the breach by rioters but the call became unintelligible as multiple people began asking questions at the same time. Metro Police Chief Robert Congee asked for clarification from Capitol Police Chief Sund: "Steve, are you requesting National Guard assistance at the Capitol?" to which Chief Sund replied, "I am making urgent, urgent, immediate request for National Guard assistance." According to Sund, Lt. Gen. Piatt said, "I don't like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background", and that he prefer that the Guard relieve police posts around D.C. to allow police to deploy to the Capitol. Sund pleaded with Lt. Gen. Piatt to send the Guard, but Lt. Gen. Piatt said only Army Secretary McCarthy had the authority to approve such a request and he could not recommend that Secretary McCarthy approve the request for assistance directly to the Capitol. The D.C. officials were subsequently described as "flabbergasted" at this message. McCarthy would later state that he was not in this conference call because he was already entering a meeting with senior Department leadership. Piatt contests this description of the call, denying that he talked about visuals and stating that he stayed on the conference call while senior Defense Department officials were meeting. The Army falsely denied for two weeks that Lt. Gen. Charles A. Flynn—the Army deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and training—was in this call. His brother Michael Flynn, a retired Trump National Security Advisor, had pledged an oath to the QAnon conspiracy theory, though there are no indications that Lt. Gen. Flynn shares his brother's beliefs.
2:26 p.m.:
- Trump calls Senator Mike Lee (R–UT), having misdialed Senator Tommy Tuberville (R–AL). Lee passes his phone to Tuberville, who informs Trump that Pence had just been evacuated from the Senate chamber. "I said 'Mr President, they've taken the Vice President out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go'," he recounted to reporters of his call.
- After receipt of a call from D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser indicating that DoD had refused to send assistance to the U.S. Capitol, the Public Safety Secretary of Virginia, Brian Moran, dispatches the Virginia State Police to the Capitol as permitted by mutual aid agreement with D.C.
- Nancy Pelosi's motorcade, heading to Fort McNair, comes within a few hundred feet of the pipe bomb outside DNC headquarters while police are still dismantling it.
- Security video shows Secret Service moving the Vice President and his family to a new secure location.
- The House is briefly called back into session.

2:28 p.m.:
- One of Nancy Pelosi's staffers whispered: "They're with...we need Capitol Police, I think—come into the hallway. They're pounding on doors trying to find her."
- Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reiterates his request for National Guard support to help shore up the perimeter of the Capitol.
2:29 p.m.: The House goes into recess again.
2:30 p.m.:
- Secretary Miller, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and Army Secretary McCarthy meet to discuss Capitol Police and D.C. government requests.
- Shortly before this time, The Washington Times publishes a story by Rowan Scarborough falsely claiming facial recognition company XRVision identified antifa members among the crowd at the Capitol. The Times corrects the story the next day after BuzzFeed News reports that XRVision threatened the Times with legal action over the story. Before the correction, the story amasses 360,000 shares and likes on Facebook.
2:31 p.m. Police finish dismantling the pipe bomb outside DNC headquarters.
2:32 p.m. Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham tweets Chief of Staff Meadows: "Hey Mark, The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home."
2:38 p.m.: President Trump tweets
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

2:41 p.m.: Tristan Chandler Stevens, Patrick McCaughey III, and David Mehaffie, having scaled the Southwest scaffolding and staircase several minutes earlier, fight alongside the mob at the Lower West Terrace. They try until 3:19 p.m. to enter the building. (They later stood trial together and were each convicted and sentenced to prison.)
2:42 p.m.:
- Rioters carrying flags walk down the hallways, kicking at office doors, chanting "Defend the Constitution! Defend your liberty!" and "1776!"
- The Senate Chamber is breached by rioters.
- By this time, Senator Chuck Schumer is in "a secure location", and the Senate is locked down.
- In a "secure undisclosed location"—a small auditorium with about 50 chairs—Pelosi stands at the front of the room and asks how to maintain the impression of "some security or some confidence that government can function and that you can elect the President of the United States. Did we go back into session?" Someone replies: "We did go back into session, but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on tear gas masks to prepare for a breach." Pelosi, seeming not to have understood a key phrase, asks the person to repeat it. The person reiterates: "Tear gas masks." Pelosi turns and says to someone else: "Do you believe this?"
- Capitol Police radio: "We need an area for the House members. They're all walking over now through the tunnels."
2:44 p.m.:
- Rioter Ashli Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police while attempting to force entry into the Speaker's Lobby adjacent to the House chambers by climbing through a window that led to the House floor.
- At approximately the same time as Babbitt is shot, Representatives Markwayne Mullin and Troy Nehls are in the House chamber. The politicians, together with an armed officer, look through a door with a broken glass window and speak to rioters. One of those rioters, Damon Beckley, records video. (Beckley is later convicted, and his video is made public on the third anniversary of the attack.)
2:45 p.m.:
- Federal Protective Service officers report, "Shots fired 2nd floor house side inside the capitol."
- Jessica Watkins, later acquitted of seditious conspiracy, and Donovan Crowl, later convicted of conspiracy, enter the Capitol building.
- Shortly after this time, some people break into Nancy Pelosi's office and scrawl a message for her: "WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN".

2:47 p.m.: A large group of people presses against an outer door. One says: "Here we go. Here's the next rush! There's a push inside, with resistance!"
2:49 p.m.:
- After discussion with his chief of staff, Clark Mercer, the Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, activates all available assets of the State of Virginia including the Virginia National Guard to aid the US Capitol. Authorization from DoD required for legal deployment of Virginia National Guard in D.C. was not granted.
- Trump aide Robert Gabriel texts: “Potus im sure is loving this.”
2:53 p.m. Donald Trump Jr. tweets to Meadows: "He's got to condem [sic] this shit. Asap.The captiol [sic] police tweet is not enough. "
2:57 p.m.: A rioter, inches away from a Metropolitan police officer, yells: "Bring her out. Bring her out here. We're coming in if you don't bring her out." (This video was presented by prosecutors during the public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack)

3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m.: Chuck Schumer, seated with Nancy Pelosi, tells her: "I'm gonna call up the effin' Secretary of DoD." Then, speaking on the phone to Christopher Miller, acting Secretary of Defense, he says: "We have some Senators who are still in their hideaways. They need massive personnel now. Can you get the Maryland National Guard to come too?" Nancy Pelosi then speaks into Schumer's phone, telling Miller she plans to call the DC mayor to learn what other backup may have already been called. (She credits House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, standing behind her, for that advice.)
3:04 p.m.: Secretary Miller, with advice from senior Defense leadership, formally approves "activation" of the 1,100 soldiers in the DCNG. Army Secretary McCarthy orders the DCNG to begin full "mobilization". (However, it will be another hour and a half before Miller approves an "operational plan" for the DCNG's deployment to the Capitol.)

Video posted by Senator Bill Cassidy (R–LA) to Twitter at 3:10 p.m.

3:05 p.m.: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy(R–CA) started a phone-in interview on live TV with WUSA. McCarthy said he had called the president to urge him to "calm people down" and in reply the president had sent out a tweet. Months later, McCarthy would claim to police that, based on his phone call with Trump, it wasn't obvious to him that Trump was aware of the violence inside the Capitol at the time.
3:08 p.m: Anton Lunyk, Francis Connor, Antonio Ferrigno—three friends who traveled from Brooklyn—enter the Capitol through the Senate Wing Door. They enter Senator Jeff Merkley's office. (Though they have no known ties to the White House, someone at the White House will call Lunyk an hour later.)
3:09 p.m.: A rioter walks through the halls, singing: "Nancy Pelosi! Where you at, Nancy? Nancy! Where are you, Nancy? We're looking for you!" (Someone responds: "She's in jail!") The rioter resumes: "Nancy, oh Nancy! Nancy! Nancy! Where are you, Nancy? We're looking for you, Nancy!" (This video was presented by prosecutors at the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.)
3:09 p.m. former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to current CoS Meadows: "TELL THEM TO GO HOME !!!"
3:10 p.m.: Fairfax County, Virginia, deputy county executive Dave Rohrer informs county officials that county police are being dispatched to assist Capitol Police in response to a mutual aid request.
3:12 p.m. Lunyk, Connor, and Ferrigno walk through the Capitol crypt and exit by climbing out a window.
3:13 p.m.: President Trump tweets: "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"
3:15 p.m.:
- House Speaker Pelosi calls the Governor of Virginia. The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, confirms to House Speaker Pelosi that all assets of the State of Virginia including the National Guard are being sent to aid the U.S. Capitol.
- First assets from Virginia begin rolling into D.C.
3:19 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Senator Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi about Mayor Bowser's request. McCarthy explains that a full DCNG mobilization has been approved.
3:21 p.m.: Albuquerque Cosper Head pulls Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd, where Daniel Rodriguez tases Fanone in the neck. (In 2022, Head and Rodriguez are sentenced to prison for this.) Fanone is carried unconscious back into the tunnel.
3:22 p.m.:
- Nancy Pelosi calls Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and asks if he's discussed sending the Virginia National Guard, noting that Steny Hoyer has already spoken to Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan and that Northam may need federal approval to send troops to "another jurisdiction". When the call ends, someone in the room tells Pelosi that the Virginia National Guard has been called in, and Pelosi confirms that Northam just told her "they sent 200 of state police and a unit of the National Guard."
- Rohrer informs Fairfax County officials that the county is suspending fire, rescue, or emergency transportation to D.C. hospitals and "upgrading response and command structure."
3:25 p.m.: Pelosi and Schumer sit together holding a phone and speak to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen. Pelosi acknowledges that rioters are "ransacking our offices" but says she is primarily concerned about "personal harm." Schumer suggests that Rosen, "in your law enforcement responsibility," persuade Trump to make a "public statement" to tell his supporters "to leave the Capitol."
3:26 p.m.: McCarthy has a phone call with Mayor Bowser and Metro Police Chief Contee conveying that their request was not denied and that Secretary Miller has approved full activation of the DCNG.
3:32 p.m.: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam orders mobilization of Virginia National Guard forces in anticipation of a request for support according to Secretary of Defense timeline. Note inconsistency with statements of Virginia Governor. Statements of Virginia Governor indicate: 1) he authorized all forces under his command to help Capitol before DoD, and 2) DoD only followed after dissemination of his mobilization.
3:36 p.m.: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweets that National Guard and other Federal forces are headed to the Capitol.
3:37 p.m.: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan orders mobilization of Maryland National Guard forces in anticipation of a request for support.
3:39 p.m.: Arlington County, Virginia, acting police chief Andy Penn informs county officials that Arlington officers are responding to the attack and have been absorbed into the Capitol Police response.
3:39 p.m.: Senator Schumer implores Pentagon officials, "Tell POTUS to tweet everyone should leave." House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D–MD, wondered about calling up active duty military.
3:46 p.m.:
- Leaders from both parties, including Steny Hoyer and Republican leaders Mitch McConnell, Steve Scalise, and John Thune, huddle around a single phone, appealing to the Department of Defense to send troops with a sense of urgency. The person on the other end says they cannot give a timeline for when the Capitol will be secured.
- Chief of the National Guard Bureau Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson has a phone call with Virginia Adjutant General Timothy P. Williams to discuss support to Washington, D.C., and is informed that Virginia National Guard forces have already been mobilized.
- 3:48 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy leaves the Pentagon for Metro Police Department Headquarters in the Henry Daly Building.
- 3:55 p.m.: Gen. Hokanson has a phone call with Maryland Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen to discuss support to Washington, D.C., and is informed that Maryland National Guard forces have already been mobilized.

4:00 p.m.

4:03 p.m.: On the suggestion of Mark Meadows, Trump goes outside to the Rose Garden so his staff can make a video of him calling for an end to the violence. He refuses the script they give him and performs three unscripted takes of a short speech, which his aides record (rather than broadcast live).
4:05 p.m.: President-elect Biden addresses the nation, calling on President Trump to "demand an end to this siege".
4:08 p.m.: From a secure location, Vice President Pence phoned Christopher Miller, the acting defense secretary, to confirm the Capitol was not secure and ask military leaders for a deadline for securing the building while demanding that the Capitol be cleared.
4:10 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy arrives at D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters.
4:14 p.m.: Hope Hicks texts Julie Radford (Ivanka Trump's aide): “In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boys chapter / And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed / I’m so mad and upset / We all look like domestic terrorists now.” (In actuality, Trump would be reelected President in 2024).
Trump speaks (4:17 p.m.)

4:17 p.m.: Trump uploads an unscripted video to his Twitter denouncing the riot but maintaining the false claim that the election was stolen. Of the three takes he gave, White House aides chose this one as the "most palatable option" for distribution. In the video, Trump says:

I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt. It's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us—from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.

Riot continues

4:17 p.m.: According to the House committee's final report: "Giuliani began frantically calling the White House line the very minute that the President’s video went up on Twitter. Failing to get through, he called back, once every minute—4:17 p.m., 4:18 p.m., 4:19 p.m., 4:20 p.m. He managed to get through, briefly, to Mark Meadows at 4:21 p.m., and then kept calling the White House line: at 4:22 p.m., three times on two different phones at 4:23 p.m., 4:24 p.m., and once more at 5:05 p.m."
4:18 p.m.: Secretary Miller, Gen. Milley, Army Secretary McCarthy, and Gen. Hokanson discuss availability of National Guard forces located outside of the immediate D.C. Metro area. Secretary Miller verbally authorizes mustering and deployment of out-of-State National Guard forces to D.C.

4:22 p.m.: Pelosi speaks to Pence on the phone about how to move forward with the election certification. She wonders if the Republicans could "confine it to just one complaint, Arizona, and then we could vote and...move forward with the rest of the states." She suspects it may be "days" before it is possible to enter the Capitol again.
4:26 p.m.: Rosanne Boyland, as shown in bodycam video, collapses and is taken to the hospital where she is later pronounced dead of an amphetamine overdose.
4:32 p.m.: Secretary Miller authorizes DCNG to actually deploy in support of the U.S. Capitol Police.
4:34 p.m.: A White House landline places a call to the cell phone of Anton Lunyk, a rioter who had entered the Capitol an hour earlier. The call lasts nine seconds. (The call was first publicly disclosed in September 2022 and is the only known call between the White House and a rioter that day.)
4:40 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Maryland Governor Hogan in which the Governor agrees to send Maryland NG forces to D.C., expected the next day.
4:57 p.m.: CNN reports that congressional leaders are being evacuated to Fort McNair, a nearby Army base. Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, films her mother leaving the Capitol. Nancy Pelosi complains that the National Guard was not on the scene: "How many times did the members ask, 'Are we prepared? Are we prepared?' We're not prepared for the worst. We're calling the National Guard — now? It should have been here to start out." The congressional leaders consider reconvening the Electoral College proceedings at Fort McNair. While at Fort McNair, Senator Chuck Schumer speaks to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy by phone, telling him:
"D.C. has requested the National Guard, and it’s been denied by DOD. I’d like to know a good fucking reason why it’s been denied. We need them fast. We’ve all had to— I’ve never seen anything like this."

5:00 p.m.

At some point during the "afternoon", Trump tried to call into Lou Dobbs Tonight, which aired every weekday at 5 p.m., but Fox executives decided it would be "irresponsible" to allow him on the air.

5:07 p.m.: Giuliani reaches Trump by phone after 50 minutes of failed attempts. They speak for almost 12 minutes. (Over the next three hours until Congress reconvenes, Giuliani calls Senators Marsha Blackburn, Mike Lee, Bill Hagerty, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Dan Sullivan, as well as Representative Jim Jordan. On Senator Lee's phone, he leaves a voicemail intended for Senator Tommy Tuberville, asking him to "raise issues", "object to every State", and "get a hearing for every State" for the purpose of delaying the process "ideally until the end of tomorrow.")
5:08 p.m.: Army senior leaders relay to Major General Walker the Secretary of Defense's permission to deploy the DCNG to the Capitol.
5:20 p.m.: The first contingent of 155 Guard members, dressed in riot gear, began arriving at the Capitol.
5:40 p.m.: 154 DCNG soldiers arrive at the Capitol Complex, swear in with the Capitol Police, and begin support operations, having departed the D.C. Armory at 5:02 p.m.
Around 5:40 p.m.: As the interior of the Capitol is cleared of rioters, leaders of Congress state that they will continue tallying electoral votes.
5:45 p.m.: Secretary Miller signs formal authorization for out-of-State National Guard to muster and deploy in support of U.S. Capitol Police.

Around 5:45 p.m.: Police announce that Ashli Babbitt, the rioter shot inside the Capitol, has died.
5:58 p.m.: Pence—calling from the basement of the Capitol, where he is standing with the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, Steven Sund—talks to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi by phone. He says that Sund "just informed me what you will hear through official channels": that the police expect to secure the Capitol soon, and thus Pelosi can expect to hear from Paul Irving, the Sergeant-at-Arms, who is "your point of contact on security in the House", about "the process for reentering" the building so that the leaders can reconvene the House and the Senate in about an hour. Pence says he also plans to speak to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Pelosi passes the phone to him. Pence repeats the message and tells Schumer he wants to give him a "heads up," although Pence said he's already informed the Senate and that Schumer can expect to hear directly from the Sergeant-at-Arms. "I hope that's helpful. I'll let you talk through regular channels", Pence says.
Shortly before 6 p.m.: Trump shows Nick Luna a draft tweet that begins: "These are the things and events that happen..." Luna tells Trump that it makes him sound as though he directed the violence. Trump sends it anyway a few minutes later.

6:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m.: D.C. curfew comes into effect.
6:01 p.m.: President Trump tweets
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!
When Twitter reinstated Trump's account in November 2022, this tweet was gone. Trump "knew exactly what he was doing" in making this tweet—the U.S. House select committee on January 6 alleged when criminally referring him for insurrection—especially as a White House staffer, Nick Luna, had warned him not to tweet it since it would imply his complicity in the Capitol riot, yet "he tweeted it anyway."
6:09 p.m.: Rosanne Boyland is pronounced dead at a local hospital after collapsing near a tunnel entrance on the west side of the Capitol.
6:14 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police, D.C. Metropolitan Police, and DCNG successfully establish a perimeter on the west side of the U.S. Capitol.
6:30 p.m.: Chief Sund briefs Pence, Pelosi, Schumer and other members of congressional leadership on the security situation, advising that both chambers could reopen by 7:30 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.: Facebook, Inc. removes President Trump's posts from Facebook and Instagram for "contribut[ing] to, rather than diminish[ing], the risk of ongoing violence."
7:02 p.m.: Twitter removes Trump's tweets and suspends his account for twelve hours for "repeated and severe violations of [its] Civic Integrity policy".
7:04 p.m.: Keith Kellogg emails Marc Short, saying: "finish the Electoral College issue TONIGHT." Short replies 10 minutes later: "That's our plan".
7:13 p.m.: Members of Congress return to the Capitol.
7:21 p.m.: Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale texts Katrina Pierson, saying the riot was the result of a "sitting president asking for civil war ... I feel guilty for helping him win ... a woman is dead ... If I was trump [sic] and knew my rhetoric killed someone". Pierson replied: "It wasn’t the rhetoric". Parscale insisted: "Yes it was."
7:59 p.m.: Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff to Melania Trump and former White House press secretary, tweets her resignation, becoming the first official to resign post-attack.

Congress reconvenes (8:00 p.m.)

8:00 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police declare the Capitol building to be secure.
8:06 p.m.: The Senate reconvenes, with Vice President Pence presiding, to continue debating the objection to the Arizona electoral count.
8:31 p.m.: The Federal Protective Service issues a memo warning that an armed militia group is reportedly traveling from West Virginia to D.C.
8:36 p.m.: Facebook blocks Trump's page for 24 hours.
8:39 p.m.: Giuliani calls Trump and they speak for 9 minutes.
9:00 p.m.: Speaker Pelosi reopens the House debate.
10:00 p.m.: Officer Brian Sicknick collapses while still on duty at Capitol building.
10:15 p.m.: The Senate votes 93–6 against the objection raised by a handful of Republican senators against the counting of Arizona's electoral votes.
11:30 p.m.: The House votes 303–121 to reject the Republican objection to the counting of Arizona's electoral votes.

Also

(time unspecified): A tactical team of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team was one of the first outside federal agencies to enter the Capitol (see "National Mission Force", Jan 3 above)
(time unspecified): Donald Trump's allies planned for him to give another speech the following day to disavow the violence. Trump rejected several lines from the script and crossed them out. The rejected lines included: "I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message—not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm. ... I want to be very clear: you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement." Ivanka Trump testified to the House committee: "I'm not sure when those conversations began, because they could have started early the next morning [the 7th], but I believe...they started...the evening of the 6th."

February 24, 2022

Vladimir Putin makes an address to the national and within minutes Russia was invading Ukraine.

April 21, 2022

The Heritage Foundation publishes Project 2025; the 9th iteration of the Mandate of Leadership series, started in 1981

June 24, 2022

Roe v Wade has been over turned.

June 28, 2024

US Supreme Court issues a decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. National Resources Defense Council and the federal judiciary’s 40 yr old practice of deferring to agencies reasonable interpretations of ambiguous laws. Meaning judges are now considered experts on anything that needs legal interpretation.

(There will be an uptick in food poisoning, farm poisoning and water poisoning due to this decision. There will be many diseases and viruses that spread and so many needless deaths)

July 21, 2024

Joe Biden announces he’ll be dropping out of the raced and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would be taking his place as the democratic nominees.

November 5, 2024

Donald J Trump is elected 47th president of the United States.

November 13, 2024

It’s been announced that John Thune, ex senator of SD, will replace Mitch McConnell as Senate Republican leader. He won a secret ballot defeating Rick Scott in the first round. He’s quoted at saying “united behind President Trumps agenda.”

December 3, 2024

Trump refers to Canada as the 51st state.

December 4, 2024

6:44am Brian Thompson is shot from behind multiple times. Three pieces of ammunition recovered at the scene had, “deny”, “delay” and “depose” written on them in marker. It is reported that shareholders started the meeting Thompson was headed to, right on time.

December 5, 2024

French government collapses.

December 8, 2024

Syrian government collapses.

December 9, 2025

Luigi Mangione was arrested after being spotted in a McDonalds in Altoona. PA

December 16, 2024

The German government collapses.

December 20, 2024

Luigi Mangione is charged in killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

December 29, 2024

Former president Jimmy Carter dies at 100yrs old.

December 31, 2024

New Year

January 1, 2025

At approximately 8:39 am a Cybertruck explode with fireworks inside of it under the awning of Trump International Hotel in Paradise Nevada. 7 injured and Matthew Livesberger

January 4, 2025

Aubry Plaza’s husband killed himself.

The chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer announces he’ll be resigning in the coming days because talks between the conservative, People's Party and the Social Democrats failed to agree on key issues.

January 6, 2025

Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, resigns. He says he will step down as soon as Canada has chosen someone to take his place.

The election will be certified today. Kamala Harris released her statement (also today) about how she will uphold the will of the people. A peaceful transfer of power is expected.

There was indeed a peaceful transfer.

TMZ has confirmed that Zendaya and Tom Holland are in fact engaged.

January 7, 2025

Today the Biden administration took medical records off of credit reports, upping the credit score of millions of people almost immediately. This makes it possible for many more people to have access to housing and housing loans among other things.

Donald Trump refuses to rule out military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal. He says he wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

At 10:30am pacific time a fire broke out in Los Angelous (Palisades Fire). As of 8:30pm mountain time it has spread to over 500 acres and is taking out homes at this point.

Mark Zuckerberg announces the removal of fact checkers on Meta due to the election. He feels like it was a “cultural tipping point”.

January 10, 2025

TikTok users flood an app called little Xiaohongshu (aka Little Red Book) Americans think it’s a Chinese TikTok but it’s more like a mashup between TikTok and Pinterest. It’s a mostly woman and girl led app.

January 11, 2025

The members of Xiaohongshu have stated accepting Americans with open arms and have started going live teaching Mandarin and sharing culture. Some Americans are getting hit with violations because everything is written in Mandarin and they’ve been unable to read the TOS or any of the buttons or anything really.

January 13, 2025

Beyonce postponed her announcement due to the wild fires.

January 15, 2025

Trump reaffirmed that there would be a 25% tariff on everything coming in from Mexico and Canada and a 35% tariff on anything coming in from China

Early in the day today there was word that there would be a black screen on TikTok on Sunday. They were about to announce that they were going to voluntarily shut down in America but as of this evening Biden is looking for a way to keep it live.

At midnight fit was announced that the CEO of TikTok is expected to attend Donald Trumps inauguration, sit at the dias right behind Trump while he’s being sworn in.

Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing for defense secretary wrapped up today

January 16, 2025

Biden has decided he’s not enforcing the ban on TikTok, instead he’ll leave that up to the next administration. Americans are learning in real time that people in china aren’t some scary evil entity, that they can afford to eat, buy homes, work less than r-hrs a week, have socialized healthcare and are genuinely confused at why we have to pay for an ambulance.

David Lynch died today.

January 17, 2025

Snoop Dogg played for the GOP at the Bitcoin ball tonight. In 2022 he said on instagram that, “which of you jiggaboo, ass, n-s is gonna be the first to play for trump. I’mma roast your ass…”

Biden commutes the sentences of nearly 2500 convicted non-violent drug offenses.

January 18, 2025

Joe Biden lobbed a softball for trump by leaving TikTok up to him to decide what to do with. At approximately 8pm est TikTok went dark. They left a message that said, “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that president trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned! In the meantime you can login and download your data.”

January 19, 2025

There has been a cease fire agreement between Gaza and Israel. 3 hostages have been released into Israeli hospitals right now.

Trump puts the wreath on the Unknown Soldiers grave.

At about 11:30am TikTok was reinstated, “Welcome back! Thanks for you patience and support. At a result off Presidents Trump efforts, TikTok is back in the US! You can continue to create, share and discover all the things you love on TikTok.

DACA has been declared illegal and unconstitutional. Biden Codified DACA but the 5th circuit ruled that that codification was in violation of immigration law and therefore was unconstitutional.

It’s been announced the mass deportation will happen in more than just Chicago. Boston, DC, Miami, NYC, Denver and San Antonio. The raids will start as soon as Tuesday. They can’t estimate the size of the raids because the federal; government doesn’t have enough resources to handle what this would entail. It will begin on businesses, public areas and more. A national emergency will be declared shortly thereafter.

The inauguration has been moved indoors. They say it’s because of the cold but it seems to be more about security. It’s rumored that Mike Flynn asked trump to cancel the inauguration due to concerns about violence. He’s concerned that the MAGA crew will start fights amongst themselves.

Trump has said that he will issue pardons on day 1 to people who were sentenced for the January 6th insurrection.

January 20, 2025

Now starts the era of information overload in the interest of confusion.

Martin Luther King Jr Day

Inauguration day.

Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Rep Liz Cheney, James and Sara Biden, Valerie and John Owens (his sister and her husband), Francis Biden, Rep Bennie Thompson D-Miss, Markus Garvey, founder of the black nationalist movement in the US, Darryl Chambers, convicted of a non-violent drug offense in the 90’s, Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, immigrant advocate who was convicted of a nonviolent crime in 2001, Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott convicted of a nonviolent crime in-violent drug offense in 1994, Kamba Smith Prada, a criminal justice advocate in 1994 what was convicted of a nonviolent crime-violent drug offense in 1994 and had her sentence commuted by Clinton, Hunter Biden. Biden commuted Leonard Peltiers sentence

As the inauguration went on today Trump pronounced that there are only 2 genders, he was a president of peace and that prices would start going down. Elon Musk spoke but and did Roman salute on stage aka the nazi salute…twice.

Donald J Trump has been signed in as the 47th president of the United States of America, immediately withdraws from the Paris climate agreement. He also proceeds to start signing a ton of executive orders. DT said he wants to repeal birthright citizenship

I’ll update those when the fury ends.

DT didn’t put his hand on the Bible.

I keep forgetting JD Vance is the

Sitting in the first row behind the new president was Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Shou Zi Chew, Sundar Pichai

DT declared a state of emergency over the boarder and has closed it.
Executive Orders signed on his first day in office.
Guaranteeing The States Protection Against Invasion
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Reforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Establishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency”
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
America First Policy Directive To The Secretary Of State
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Protecting The United States From Foreign Terrorists And Other National Security And Public Safety Threats
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal (Global Tax Deal)
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign Aid
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Declaring a National Energy Emergency
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025
Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California
Presidential Actions
January 20, 2025

Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Unleashing American Energy
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Clarifying The Military’s Role In Protecting The Territorial Integrity Of The United States
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
America First Trade Policy
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Declaring A National Emergency At The Southern Border Of The United States
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Holding Former Government Officials Accountable For Election Interference And Improper Disclosure Of Sensitive Governmental Information
Presidential Actions

January 20, 2025
Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing
Presidential Actions January 20, 2025
Positions Within the Federal Workforce
Presidential Actions January 20, 2025
Protecting The American People Against Invasion
Presidential Actions January 20, 2025
- Securing Our Borders
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  January 20, 2025
  Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Hiring Freeze
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Return to In-Person Work
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  Flying The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff On Inauguration Day
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  President Trump Designates Chairmen and Acting Chairmen
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  President Trump Announces Acting Cabinet and Cabinet-Level Positions
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  President Trump Announces Sub-Cabinet Appointments
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025
  President Trump Announces Cabinet and Cabinet Level Appointments
  Presidential Actions
  January 20, 2025

January 21, 2025

It’s been announced that the US will be investing $500B into AI infrastructure, Stargate, creating 100,000 new jobs almost immediately. (Company town)

DT pulls secret service detail from John Bolton Former National Security Adviser whom has had a credible threat to his life from Iran.

Energy Transfer the oil company responsible for Dakota Access Pipeline is suing Greenpeace USA. If Energy transfer wins it will set a major precedent about suing environmental groups who criticize polluters and would undermine the first amendment rights of all citizens and affect the way we are able to protest in this country.

DEI rolls will have to be put on paid leave by 5pm tomorrow.

Bishop Mariann Budde did the national prayer service:

Joined by many across the country, we have gathered this morning to pray for unity as a nation – not for agreement, political or otherwise, but for the kind of unity that fosters community across diversity and division, a unity that serves the common good. Unity, in this sense, is the threshold requirement for people to live together in a free society, it is the solid rock, as Jesus said, in this case upon which to build a nation. It is not conformity. It is not a victory of one over another. It is not weary politeness nor passivity born of exhaustion. Unity is not partisan.

Rather, unity is a way of being with one another that encompasses and respects differences, that teaches us to hold multiple perspectives and life experiences as valid and worthy of respect; that enables us, in our communities and in the halls of power, to genuinely care for one another even when we disagree. Those across our country who dedicate their lives, or who volunteer, to help others in times of natural disaster, often at great risk to themselves, never ask those they are helping for whom they voted in the past election or what positions they hold on a particular issue. We are at our best when we follow their example.

Unity at times, is sacrificial, in the way that love is sacrificial, a giving of ourselves for the sake of another. Jesus of Nazareth, in his Sermon on the Mount, exhorts us to love not only our neighbors, but to love our enemies, and to pray for those who persecute us; to be merciful, as our God is merciful, and to forgive others, as God forgives us. Jesus went out of his way to welcome those whom his society deemed as outcasts.

Now I grant you that unity, in this broad, expansive sense, is aspirational, and it’s a lot to pray for – a big ask of our God, worthy of the best of who we are and can be. But there isn’t much to be gained by our prayers if we act in ways that further deepen and exploit the divisions among us. Our Scriptures are quite clear that God is never impressed with prayers when actions are not informed by them. Nor does God spare us from the consequences of our deeds, which, in the end, matter more than the words we pray.

Those of us gathered here in this Cathedral are not naive about the realities of politics. When power, wealth and competing interests are at stake; when views of what America should be are in conflict; when there are strong opinions across a spectrum of possibilities and starkly different understandings of what the right course of action is, there will be winners and losers when votes are cast or decisions made that set the course of public policy and the prioritization of resources. It goes without saying that in a democracy, not everyone’s particular hopes and dreams will be realized in a given legislative session or a presidential term or even a generation. Not everyone’s specific prayers – for those of us who are people of prayer – will be answered as we would like. But for some, the loss of their hopes and dreams will be far more than political defeat, but instead a loss of equality, dignity, and livelihood.

Given this, is true unity among us even possible? And why should we care about it?

Well, I hope that we care, because the culture of contempt that has become normalized in our country threatens to destroy us. We are all bombarded daily with messages from what sociologists now call “the outrage industrial complex”, some of it driven by external forces whose interests are furthered by a polarized America. Contempt fuels our political campaigns and social media, and many profit from it. But it’s a dangerous way to lead a country.

I am a person of faith, and with God’s help I believe that unity in this country is possible – not perfectly, for we are imperfect people and an imperfect union – but sufficient enough to keep us believing in and working to realize the ideals of the United States of America – ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with its assertion of innate human equality and dignity.

And we are right to pray for God’s help as we seek unity, for we need God’s help, but only if we ourselves are willing to tend to the foundations upon which unity depends. Like Jesus’ analogy of building a house of faith on the rock of his teachings, as opposed to building a house on sand, the foundations we need for unity must be sturdy enough to withstand the many storms that threaten it.

What are the foundations of unity? Drawing from our sacred traditions and texts, let me suggest that there are at least three.

The first foundation for unity is honoring the inherent dignity of every human being, which is, as all faiths represented here affirm, the birthright of all people as children of the One God. In public discourse, honoring each other’s dignity means refusing to mock, discount, or demonize those with whom we differ, choosing instead to respectfully debate across our differences, and whenever possible, to seek common ground. If common ground is not possible, dignity demands that we remain true to our convictions without contempt for those who hold convictions of their own.

A second foundation for unity is honesty in both private conversation and public discourse. If we aren’t willing to be honest, there is no use in praying for unity, because our actions work against the prayers themselves. We might, for a time, experience a false sense of unity among some, but not the sturdier, broader unity that we need to address the challenges we face.

Now to be fair, we don’t always know where the truth lies, and there is a lot working against the truth now, staggeringly so. But when we do know what is true, it’s incumbent upon us to speak the truth, even when – and especially when – it costs us.

A third foundation for unity is humility, which we all need, because we are all fallible human beings. We make mistakes. We say and do things that we regret. We have our blind spots and biases, and we are perhaps the most dangerous to ourselves and others when we are persuaded, without a doubt, that we are absolutely right and someone else is absolutely wrong. Because then we are just a few steps away from labeling ourselves as the good people, versus the bad people.

The truth is that we are all people, capable of both good and bad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn astutely observed that “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties, but right through every human heart and through all human hearts.” The more we realize this, the more room we have within ourselves for humility, and openness to one another across our differences, because in fact, we are more like one another than we realize, and we need each other.

Unity is relatively easy to pray for on occasions of solemnity. It’s a lot harder to realize when we’re dealing with real differences in the public arena. But without unity, we are building our nation’s house on sand.

With a commitment to unity that incorporates diversity and transcends disagreement, and the solid foundations of dignity, honesty, and humility that such unity requires, we can do our part, in our time, to help realize the ideals and the dream of America.

Let me make one final plea, Mr President. Millions have put their trust in you. As you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families who fear for their lives.

And the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in our poultry farms and meat-packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shift in hospitals – they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes, and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches, mosques and synagogues, gurdwara, and temples.

Have mercy, Mr President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. Help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were once strangers in this land.

May God grant us all the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, speak the truth in love, and walk humbly with one another and our God, for the good of all the people of this nation and the world.

January 22, 2025

Today is the 52nd anniversary of Roe v Wade.

The largest police union in the US, who endorsed DT blast him for releasing the Insurrectionists. The Fraternal Order of the Police say that these pardons send a dangerous message. (Biden commuted the sentences but DT actually pardoned them)

The administrations orders a communications blackout for health agencies FDA, Center for Disease Control, NIH and the Dept of Health and Human Services. They cannot publish any scientific reports or any websites during this blackout. This comes shortly after Trump signed an executive order that he’s pulling the US out of the World Health Organization.

DT has officially revoked executive order 11246: the Equal Employment Opportunity Executive Order signed by LBJ in 1965. It gave the secretary of the labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractor, recruitment, hiring, training and other employment practices. Ultimately, it ensured that there were fair hiring practices inside the federal government.

Daniel Ball, previously indicted on charges throwing an explosive into the US Capital Tunnel filled with law enforcement, has been rearrested 2 days after his pardon for a felony gun charge on a gun charge from 2 years ago.

Nashville school shooting. 2 kids wounded and then the gunman shot himself.

More than 1000 troops are headed to the boarder to secure it following DT national emergency declaration. The US Dept of Justice has issued a memo ordering prosecutors to investigate local and state officials who interfere with DT’s immigration enforcement for possible criminal offenses.

DT signs executive order to suspend entry of migrants across southern border.

Frank McCourt is now saying that Mr Beast is in talks to join his $20bill TikTok bid to purchase the US arm of the company. Frank McCourt through Project Liberty raised the first $20bill he’s also working with Kevin O’Leary. When asked if they would be working with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison or Elon Musk, McCourt responded, “if there was an agreement on the values and the principles.” It’s unclear if this bid is something Bitedance would even consider. It’s not the 50% joint venture the DT expressed excitement about.

There are emails being sent out to government offices encouraging them to “out” other employees and programs that could relate to DEI.

DT has said he may want to see FEMA defunded. in. Han it’s Interviewing he was quoted as saying, “FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problem.”

January 23, 2025

The UK will not recognize the name change of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

DT administration has frozen the Civil Rights Division of the US Dept of Justice. The Dept of Justice has ordered that all attorneys in the civil rights divisions are not allowed to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or others certain papers until further notice. The Civil Rights Division may now reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration, the CRD cannot pursue civil rights violations in the US. This freeze may damage ongoing civil rights cases. It’s unclear how long the freeze will last but it could last until Harmey Dillon is confirmed as the Attorney General of The Civil Rights Division.

Costco is ten toes down on keeping their DEI policies.

DT wants to potentially press charges against Biden because he didn’t pardon himself on his way out of office.

ACLU sues DT again over fast track deportation policy. The lawsuit was filed on DC. The ACLU argues that this policy violates the 5th Amendment’s due process clause because it nearly erases full court hearings entitled to immigrants.

A judge blocked DT’s executive order to deport birthright citizens from being deported. The executive order was written with under the idea that entire families would be deported together.

January 24, 2025

DT has fired 12 Inspector Generals. Mexico refuses a deportation flight. The flight that was suppose to go never took off. A depletion flight was meant to take off.

KKK is distributing pamphlets around northern Kentucky that is telling immigrants to “leave now”. The flier gives a phone number and an invitation to join the Klan.

Tennessee women’s group is citing Hitler and while promoting its reading list. Quoted from their news letter, “Hitler and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the way to change a country of through it’s youth the get them while they’re young.”

A new statement from the Massachusetts attorney general along with California, New York, Colorado Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Minnesota and Washington will not let the DOJ use their local law enforcement resources to deport undocumented migrants.

DT has confirmed that he will be signing an executive order to reform or totally get rid of FEMA. “I think frankly FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this I think you want to go and I think and whether it’s a democrat or republican governor you want to use your state to fix it and not waste your time waiting for FEMA.”

The first deportation flights have started. 2 flights have been sent to Guatemala.

DT disbanded a school safety board that he created in his first term. It’s called the Federal School Safety at Clearinghouse External Advisory Board. The purpose of this was to help share best practices in the safety of children during school shootings.

ICE was denied entry to Hamlin Elementary School on the south side of Chicago this morning.CPS has come out and said they will stand in alignment with the Illinois trust act and Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance. ICE’s denying it and are suggesting it wasn’t an ICE raid.

Mexico has denied a US military deportation flight.

It’s said that DT had an intense phone call with the prime minister of Denmark over the take over of Greenland. There is potentially some chaos amongst the Denmark government now.

Pete Hegseth had been confirmed as the Secretary of Defense . Three republicans came out against him, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell. Hegsmith has allegations against him for financial and sexual crimes and also allegations that he’s a BIG’OLE drunk. He did promise that if he was confirmed he’d quit drinking though so we should be fine.

January 25, 2025

DT signed an executive order that proclaimed there are only 2 genders.

Hannibal Ware, the inspectors general of small business administration is calling out the Trump administration for illegally firing the Inspectors General

A top senate republican Chuck Grassley, the leader of the senate judiciary committee, has confirmed that it was in fact, illegal to fire the Inspectors Generals without 30 days notice and he wants to know why Trump did it.

The update on the Chicago school ICE raid is that is was’t ICE, it was the Secret Service. They went to Hamlin Public School to interview an 11 yr old because it of an anti-trump video he posted. Agents had visited a home and were told the person who posted it was a student at Hamlin Elementary School.

Elon Musk speaks at an AfD (the rising far right German party, up for election in February) and says, “I think there is too much focus on past guilt of Germany and we need to move beyond that. Children should never feel guilty for sins of their parents, their great-grandparent even.”

The Air Force will no longer be teaching in about women WW2 pilots and the Tuskegee Airmen.

DT freezes almost all foreign aid for 90 days. The State Department does supply a waiver for 2 countries emergency food assistance as well as foreign military financing for Israel and Egypt. Notably, this does not include Ukraine of Taiwan. Taiwan is currently possibly facing invasion by China and Ukraine is at war with Russia. Humanitarian officials are extremely concerned right now because the US provides billions in aid around the world.

January 27, 2025

DT has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America and to rename Denali to Mt McKinley. Google maps has decided to abide with the name of the gulf.

DT will sign an executive order today banning all trans members from the military, it will also gut the military’s DEI programs and it will reinstate service members who were previously discharged for refusing the vaccine. We’re waiting to see if there will be any exceptions to the trans ruling.

Arabica beans have reached an all time high. There has been a bit of a scuffle between Trump and Columbia so in anticipation of tariffs the price rose to $3.50 lbs. Trump said he will not impose the tariffs.

The US has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 in poultry. It has shown up on a duck farm in California. This is the beginning of the cost of good will be going up. The birds infected will have to be culled.

The California farm bureau is now saying that the Central Valley citrus harvest has virtually halted because migrants are afraid to show up to work. It’s peak harvest season but there is nobody there to pick the fruit.

Bill Gates is calling out Elon Musk in an article in The Times of London, for putting money into and destabilizing elections around the world. The billionaires are fighting.

The US has officially ordered its public health officials to stop working at the World Health Organization days after DT signed an executive order pulling the US out of WHO. According to the AP a senior official at the US CDC sent a memo to9 all senior staff telling them that any anger y staff that works with WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and, “wait for their guidance. The stop work policy applies to all the CDC staff engaging with the WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements in person or virtually.”

There has been a DT appointed prosecutor that has officially begun an investigation into the prosecutions who prosecuted the January 6th insurrectionists.

The DOJ has fired more than a dozen officials who’ve worked with Jack Smith. The reason for there termination is that the acting attorney general could not believe that these individuals would work to further DT’s agenda. The DOJ is suppose to be separate from the president but it looks like they will be conflated here.

The Quakers have filed a lawsuit in Maryland against the Dept of Homeland Security for changing a longstanding policy that previously prevented ICE from raiding houses of worship.

The Idaho House of Reps have just passed a resolution that asks the US Supreme Court to overturn the Obergefell same sex marriage decision, which protected same sex marriage in the US. It passed by a vote of 46 to 24. 15 republicans joined democrats in opposition. The resolution will now head to the Idaho Senate, which is also expected to pass it.

Trump has confirmed that Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok.

The Whitehouse is putting a freeze on all federal loan disbursements starting tomorrow. In a new memo disbursed to the agencies, all federal grants and loans have been frozen. It shouldn’t impact Social Security, Medicare along with federal financial assistance that go directly to individuals. Programs like Head Start which goes to childcare facilities instead of directly to people could be construed in this memo as part of the freeze. Not sure if this is legal.

January 28, 2025

February 1, 2025,

100,000 eggs were stolen off the back of a truck in Greencastle PA.

February 2, 2025

February 5, 2025

There are protests in all 50 states today.

February 6, 2025

A Ronald Reagan appointed federal judge in Seattle Washington has blocked DT’s order modifying birthright citizenship. He wrote, “citizenship by birthright is an unequivocal constitutional right. It is one of the precious principals that makes the US the great nation that it is. The president cannot change, limit or qualify this executive order.”. He then implemented a nationwide preliminary injunction in joining any state from complying with DT’s executive order.

A passenger plane broke out in flames, nobody hurt.

Russ Vought, the architect of Project 2025, has been confirmed to serve as the next Director of the Management and Budget. His nomination is perceived as so dangerous that Senetate Democrats spent 30hrs filibustering his nomination overnight but he has received enough votes to become the head of that department.

23 yr old DOGE employee has been granted access to the Energy Dept IT systems by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Objections were raised due to the access of info about nuclear weapons.

DOJ filed a lawsuit against Illinois and Chicago today over their sanctuary laws. The suit named the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago.

February 7, 2025

Andrew Taq, a pardoned January 6th insurrectionist, was rearrested for an old warrant issued for his trying to solicit a minor online.

An Alaskan flight went missing over night.

February 10, 2025

Musk offered over $90 bill to buy Open AI, in response Sam Altman said, “No thanks but we will buy twitter for $9.74 bill if you want”. Sam Altman and Elon Musk have a history of not really liking each other.

Edward Coristine, a 19yr old protege of Elon Musk who is part of DOGE, has been named a senior advisor in the US State Department. Previously fired from an internship from one company for leaking privileged information to another company, also known online as Big Balls, his entrance into the regime is setting off alarms.

A possible pipe home was found outside a Walmart in Fresno

February 11, 2025

The AP was barred from the Oval Office today for the executive order signing session because they won‘t call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.

The pope has sent a nasty letter to United States bishops about DT mass deportation policies. He’s asking Catholics to support migrants.

As DT dismantles the USAID, China has pounced to pick up the slack in some countries such as Cambodia, Napal, they’ve also said they’ll fill the void in Columbia and the Cook Islands which is a strategic island chain in the Indo Pacific region. Diplomacy seems to be beyond the US at this point.

Legislation has been introduced by Earl Buddy Carter to purchase Greenland and rename it Red, White and Blue Land.

A federal judge has ordered that the administration restore the public health websites they deleted last month. Doctors for America sued demanding that the Trump administration restore the pages to their websites.

Paper straws have been banned in government buildings in DC and he wants this to be the beginning of a national ban on paper straws so he can promote the plastics industries.

DT fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics, David Hutima and replaced him with the current Secretary of the VA, Doug Collins.

DT is personally going after federal judges that are trying to block this administrations policies.

“Some of the things I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody’s gonna bat 1,000. I mean…any… We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.” Elon said after being called out for claiming that condoms were being sent to Hamas in Gaza. In reality the are being dent to Gaza in Mozambique to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS.

DT fires the USAID Inspector General, Paul Martin, the day after he released a scathing report that there was $489 million in food assistance at risk of spoilage or diversion due to DT’s cuts.

February 12, 2025

Apple changes name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

According to Military.com the US Army and other service branches will not be recruiting this year at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards due to DT’s recent anti-DEI executive order.

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of defense, is has now ruled out NATO membership to Ukraine and has said that Ukraines security is Europes priority now and we’re going to go back to securing our own boarders. Hegseth said the war between Russia and Ukraine must end; that going back to pre-2014 borders for Ukraine is unrealistic and the US doesn’t believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome, any security guarantees offered must be backed by a capable European and non-European troops, US troops will not be deployed to Ukraine and the US will be focusing on it’s relationship with China going forward.

US has now started sending low risk migrants, non-violent to Guantanamo Bay.

Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the next Director of National Intelligence (refused to call Snowden a traitor to congress, met with Bashar al Assad in Syria and refused to call him a war criminal, spreads Russian propaganda), every Democrat voted against her but she received enough republicans support.

First loss to the defunding of USAID. A 71 yr old woman from Myanmar couldn’t get oxygen from the USAID healthcare facility that supplied it due to a stop work order.

Fighter Jet crashed into San Diego Harbor. Both pilots are safe.

Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, has announced that the DOJ is suing New York along with Kathy Holcklo, governor, Latisha James, the attorney general, and the head of the DMV in NY over what they believe in NY putting undocumented people before New Yorkers. Pam Bondi said she is announcing “charges” against Hockle, James and other is in New York leadership. These charges are not criminal, they’re civil. She said Illiions was targeted first and now she’s going after NY. She said it’s a new day at the DOJ under her leadership, one that will be different than that under Merrick Garland. It is clear that this DOJ is going after states that don’t comply with DT’s deportation stand.

DT clawed back $80 million from NYC in congressionally appropriated funds from FEMA because they were, “housing migrants in 5 star hotels.”. This move is likely illegal but we’ll see how this shakes out. NY is likely going to have to cut services in another way in order to find the money they’ve already spent on housing migrants.

February 13, 2025

Shonda Rhimes has resigned from her position at the Kennedy Center after Donald Trump was elected the new chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center. Issa Rae has cancelled her sold out show at the Kennedy Center.

RFK jr has officially been confirmed as the next secretary of health and human services with a vote of 52 republicans for him and 47 democrats and 1 republican against him.

Mexico is threatening to sue google for renaming the entire gulf the Gulf of Mexico because according to Sheinbomb specifically started this because according to her DT is only able to name 22 nautical miles out from the coast.

Twitter has agreed to pay DT $10 million in a settlement about DT’s suspension following the January 6th insurrection which will likely go to paying for the Presidential Library Fund. That comes on the heels of META offering to pay a greater amount concerning DT’s accounts on Insta and Facebook. DT’s claims had been dismissed before the lawsuit was filed”settled”.

February 16, 2025

Single engine plane went down, 2 dead.

DOGE lays off nearly half of the “disease detectives” in the CDC. It’s now somewhere around 1200 employees in the CDC that have been laid off.

Kier Starmer, the prime minister of the UK, has said he’s willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine to enforce any peace deal.

February 25, 2025

The White House Press secretary has announced there will be an overhaul to the White House press pool.The Correspoondence Association will no longer make the call on who’s in the room with the president at press events now it will be up to Caroline Levvit and the White House Press Office.