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Very sad for your friend. It must be difficult to watch them go through this stress. Today is another one for the history books. The road is arduous but the patriots must stick to their fervent dedication to keeping our democracy alive. It is incumbent on all of us but a special hat tip to those who return to the Capitol in the aftermath of the Trump era & the insurrection. We will not know for years the long lasting impact it has had on the dedicated public servants. May justice prevail.

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I worked on that article until 2AM - as evident by the typos -I’m too tired to go back and fix them. I just published a midday summary of today’s hearing but I genuinely mean this, people should pace themselves because this is a marathon

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Jul 27, 2021Liked by File411

THANK YOU! Yes, I will listen to their testimony. I know it will not be easy for them.

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It was brutal to listen to what each of them went through - I went ahead and published a midday review - I had a couple of minutes before my 3:15PM meeting

https://file411.substack.com/p/the-future-of-self-governance-is

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Thanks for this, Mic.

I look forward to reading your thoughts as testimony grinds the falsehoods down.

I am sorry about your friend.

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I just published a midday update -I’m having difficulty finding the MPD Officers written statements but when I do - I’ll update this article

https://file411.substack.com/p/the-future-of-self-governance-is

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Their testimony was heart breaking and clearly had an effect on the Jan 6 panel. Prayers that your friend may find the help and support they need.

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Officer Hodges reading into the record the definition of a domestic terrorist to support his label of the insurrectionist terrorists as such was brilliant. I look at faces and eyes in my job, the officers testifying today are suffering emotionally and physically and

yet again were profiles in courage: they compartmentalized their suffering and showed up to go on the record with facts previously supported by first-person accounts and videos yet have been gas-lit by right-wing media and the Maga Qnon Republicans to deny and deny their validity. The video introduced at the hearing had a few clips I had not seen before and I spent most of my morning crying over all of this and praying for the survival of all of the victims because PTSD can be a creeper and linger with victims long after the actual traumatic event(s ). I have one takeaway question at this point I'm sure I'll have more but what I really question and resent is why the mainstream media whether left right or middle refused initially to show the gallows the hanging ropes that were present that day or show video clips of insurrectionist terrorists calling for the hangings of members of Congress. I don't want my news sanitize like that and I'm grateful that today was the first time we heard the brutal reality of those lynching or hanging comments juxtapositioned with pictures of the actual hanging rope gallows CONSTRUCTED BY THE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. Sorry, I felt like yelling, all good now. Thank u Filey.

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Thank you as always! Testimony is gut wrenching...

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Always and I mean always happy to help

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I watched the witnesses read their statements this morning. It was gut wrenching, to say the least. We are forever grateful to the brave men and women that defended the capitol on January 6th. I can't believe I'm quoting a member of the GOP without sarcasm but, it's the truth...

‘You Guys Won, You Guys Held,’ Adam Kinzinger 07/27/2021

Filey, I cannot thank you enough for pointing out The Program on Extremism at George Washington University. The amount of information they've dissected here is incredible. It's going to take forever to digest some of it, but I will keep chewing...

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my brain watching what people say and how they explain things: MSM -2+2=4, online ppl scream FOUR, Republicans )Qanon) - it's 5, Filey - 2 is a fictitious number set to give us a parameter for defining space between known elements of time and numbers. When in all actuality 2 doesn't exist because we can never actually get from 0 to 1 when taking in the components of infinity, so for purposes of understanding what is meant by adding a determined amount of 2 with another determined amount of 2 they arrive at 4. - SNORT

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