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‘Relishing prospect of martyrdom’: Steve Bannon accused of treating trial as theatre arriving for court in three shirts

One Twitter user suggested the shirts are part of Bannon’s ‘summer look’

The Independent UK

AOC, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush’s offices among the first to unionise on Capitol Hill

Notably, Congress voted to allow unionisation in May.

The Independent UK

Steve Bannon’s ‘misdemeanor from hell’ on Jan. 6 charges goes to trial

Steve Bannon’s trial on contempt charges for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 panel got underway in federal court with jury selection, and a new defense effort to bar evidence unless committee Chair Bennie Thompson testifies.

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Steve Bannon’s ‘misdemeanor from hell’ on Jan. 6 charges goes to trial

Steve Bannon stood outside of a Washington courthouse eight months ago and declared that charging him for failing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee would be “the misdemeanor from hell” for top Democrats.

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 committee to make case for Trump crimes

The committee is focusing on Trump and anything he may have done to encourage or prolong the attack on the Capitol.

Axios

Steve Bannon goes on trial for defying Jan. 6 panel subpoena

The former Trump adviser faces two counts of contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

WEKU

Reps. Kinzinger, Luria: Vets to lead Jan. 6 hearing accusing Trump of ‘dereliction of duty’

The Thursday session highlighting how Trump did nothing to stop the Capitol attack will be led by Air Force vet Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Navy vet Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va.

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Secret Service’s January 6 text messages story has shifted several times, panel told

Explanation for how the messages from 5 and 6 January 2021 were deleted has gone from software upgrades to device replacements

The Guardian - US

Trump, battered by January 6 testimony, mulls 2024 run – and not all Republicans are happy

Republicans are odds-on to take back the House and Senate in November, and the last thing the party needs, experts say, is a Trump distraction

The Guardian - US

New book claims Steve Bannon admitted Trump ‘would lie about anything’

Bannon, according to sources in Jonathan Lemire’s Big Lie, said Trump lies ‘to win whatever exchange he [is] having at that moment’

The Guardian - US

Cop confirms Hutchinson's testimony

A Washington police officer who was in Trump's motorcade on Jan. 6 has corroborated details of Trump's Jan. 6

Salon

Jan 6 panel weighs seeking testimony from Donald Trump and Mike Pence

The committee may request a written interview from the former vice president

The Independent UK

Ex-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly condemns right-wing troll who sexually harassed AOC at US Capitol

Right-wing troll Alex Stein shouted lewd and derogatory comments at the New York Democrat on the steps of the Capitol

The Independent UK

Commentary: Liz Cheney should be heralded for her Jan. 6 committee work

These days, many proud progressives find themselves doing the once-unthinkable: heralding the work of staunch conservative Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Cheney’s bipartisan co-leadership of the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol illustrates the importance of a politically diverse alliance to protect future elections…

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The Independent UK

Iwo Jima veteran and last WWII Medal of Honor recipient gets final salute in Capitol after dying at 98

Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams became just seventh private citizen to lay in Capitol Rotunda

The Independent UK

AOC asks ‘good men’ for their advice to men who want to stand up to ‘abusers and harassers’

‘The world needs more good men,’ congresswoman says after experience with sexual harassment on Capitol steps

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Biden battered by inflation and low approval ratings

The economy, energy prices and upcoming midterms weigh heavily on the president during his Middle East trip. Plus, House committee argues Capitol attack was premeditated

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next

Through seven hearings this summer, the House Jan. 6 panel has maintained consistent themes: Donald Trump’s stubborn resistance to advisers who told him that Joe Biden won the election, and the former president’s role in inciting the Capitol insurrection

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Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearing put spotlight on power of Trump’s words over his supporters

WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot showed Tuesday the pull Donald Trump’s words had on his supporters, using the vivid personal account of Stephen Ayres, who illegally breached the building that day, to drive home its point.

The Independent UK

How conservatives turned Ray Epps into a Capitol riot scapegoat

Epps described his treatment following the Jan 6 Capitol riot by fellow conservatives as ‘criminal’. Graig Graziosi explains how he got here

The Independent UK

Trump watching each January 6 hearing live and constantly asking when they’ll end: report

Next hearing planned for Thursday

The Independent UK

Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune honored in Statuary Hall

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune has became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall

Salon

MAGA cultists aren't innocent dupes

Trump is a "man, not an impressionable child" — but his followers aren't naive children, either

Tribune News Service

South Carolina couple going to prison for storming Capitol on Jan. 6

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina husband and wife who believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen and who smoked a joint inside the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021, were each sentenced to prison Tuesday.

Salon

Dems call on Garland to do something

"All of it points to the urgent need for DOJ to prosecute Donald Trump," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

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