The Diet and the Emperor agreed about authority regarding Luther. How could one monk be right and all the other authorities be wrong? It was much more likely any error was with Luther. But to him, authority didn't matter since 'Scripture was unambiguous.' For him, Scripture was the authority, not himself, not the Church or its ministers, or the young bearded Emperor. Luther after all was willing to be taught what was correct if anyone in the Church could explain it better for him to understand. But in his mind, he knew they could not. For their part, they did not want to try to argue any of these points and understood that because of their political office they did not need to try. The Diet was presided by the Emperor and he had the last authority here, while the Pope in Rome had already made his decision.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Luther Appears Before Diet of Worms: April 17, 1521
This is a post that could head a cluster of a dozen or more posts about what happened, how it happened, and what were the results. One of the biggest arguments Europe would have with itself was the one over Luther. The stories and meanings, the changes that came out of Worms led on this day with the appearance and reception of Martin Luther at the proceedings before the Diet. But there were several antecedents and this appearance, and his response tactically, put off his own execution or banishment, branded a heretic, cut off from his communities.
There's a lot here. Luther affirmed he had written the offensive books [ detailed elsewhere] but, called it a 'matter of faith' that he could not explain or deny them or recant without first having 'proper consideration'. He asked for an adjournment til later, and that was granted. Until the next day.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Luther Arrives at Worms, April 16, 1521
Martin Luther had left Wittenberg on the 2nd of April. He'd traveled with a small group across German lands, at the summons of Roman Emperor Charles V, in order to affirm or renounce his published beliefs before the Diet assembled in Worms to answer the charge of heresy as lain down by Pope Leo X the previous year.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
parade of daily notes in process from 07- 08 March, 2021: excerpts, and earlier
In the last hours of Sunday, March 7, 2021, I made some dinner and sat down to read. I had slept most of the day after having gone to bed near midnight the night before, i.e. the night of the 6th. This followed a busy day. Saturday I had taken care of errands and walked half way across town and back. Somehow I had turned my hips and ankles into tense ropes on these long walks and then made that worse by carrying a lot of groceries home. So, I figure my body needed the rest. But when I got up in the afternoon on Sunday I realized I needed again to get a few more things from the store. Happily I can report, I did that today and my aches are lessened, so I am more conscious of my posture etc. as I do this.
Many, many times over the years I take to writing down what I'm reading and researching. I do this in a number of ways for myself in order to keep track of what is in process. But now and then I get the urge to tell others. For this of course I have to write it down. There is always for me a wide range of materials. Longer views turn into lists as a result, by necessity, and might be interesting for no one but the far away in time. Still people ask what I'm doing and I laugh thinking what they may want or imagine is a finished product! But no, what gets the most attention is the constant process, after all.
After a normal morning routine when I think I may have cooked some pasta, and poured & drank a cup of cold coffee, it dawned on me that I wanted to finish the section in the recent Balzac novelette I was spending time with. First published in 1834 as a submitted manuscript in L'Echo de la Juene (or Young) France as "Ne touchez pas la hache (Don’t Touch the Axe)", it came a few years after the imposition of the new July Monarch of France. This was Duke Louis Phillippe from the other, 'lesser' Orleans branch of the Bourbon line.
The story though, takes place just a few years earlier when the other Bourbon line, that of the brothers of Louis XVI had wrestled for dominance after the fall and disgrace of Napoleon in 1814 and his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. A verbal contest of emotion is playing out here between a General and a Duchess. The time is the 1820's. The place for this contest is at the Hotel of the Duchess - her house - in central Paris, and near to the Palace Bourbon which lay on the south bank of the Seine. This neighborhood had for centuries been the domain of a number of noble houses close to that of the Palais Bourbon nestled in and among various churches and hospitals and charities. She is married to a Duke closely attached to the efforts of Charles X, and conveniently for the story, he was out of town on some extended mission. She had been close to the ladies in the House of Bourbon all her life.
The General is a hero from the Napoleonic wars. He had won battles and suffered much, got lost in the desert in Egypt, and had been away for so long that it took a man even with his commanding skill sets some time to return to the center of things back in Paris. When things changed in 1830 and Charles, the misruling monarch was replaced, the Duchess had already left and entered a Carmelite convent, far away, hanging off the end of Tarife at the southernmost tip of Spain. Then, Tarife was a British protectorate like Gibraltar is now and off limits for the French. The Bourbon family and entourage had also fled and spent the rest of their lives looking for safe haven.
This General had fallen for the Duchess who was inclined to let him visit her, and for some time, thus distinguishing him from other gentlemen, as her neighbors and nobles in the Court could point out. At this point in the story though they were both still in Paris. The Bourbon line and all the Houses with their deep associations still straining after decades of terror and reassemblage in the wakes of the revolutionary tumult, still felt far less than stable and it made some sense for ladies to make friends with powerful forces. These alliances and friendships however had to be carried out with a delicacy and finesse that the French fortunately had turned into an artform and which had existed for centuries. This Duchess knew very well who she was and what she would stand for and not. But, tragically for her she had never experienced real love. And this, unsurprisingly, the General still did not understand. He was a military man and she was a court lady and they both had different ideas about just what was going on. After months of his assertions based on his hopeful outlook, and her not quite denying how she felt for him, it is late, he is on his knees with his head in her lap. She runs her fingers through his curly dark locks, thinking to herself, realizing that he would kill her if he ever concluded she had been fooling him. Spurred by his expectations he meets the intransigence of her sense of self, and her appraisal of her responsibilities. The layers of proper behavior unravel where for him his endless sets of means reach out for an end that she will not abide. Because for her that end means death.
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The next thing within reach is the current NY Review of Books. In it, a brief overview of the writing career of American author Nicholson Baker is laid out alongside a new release for him called "Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act". Baker has been a regular author of fiction and sometimes essays since the late 1980's. His frustration with politics over the last twenty years in particular has led him to appeal to the US government through official channels to find out the answer to certain questions about the torture regime, drone strikes, and even the origins of COVID-19. He waits for years and time and again finds, when he does get responses, that they are so full of redaction he can't construct explicit enough answers or chronologies that could show what has actually happened. He laments that if we don't know what has happened then we don't know what is done in our name as Americans and so can't even say what we do or do not stand for.
We thereby lose a sense of who we are in these redacted intelligence files. But, in this latest book, Baker writes out these searches alongside his day to day routines, He has a pair of dogs he dearly loves and who are his constant companions. He goes to the market, he makes dinner. He washes the dogs, they sit by him when he writes or sleeps. These quotidian rounds, the freelance author Peter Baker of this review [NYRB 11Mar21] tells us, are the explicit known forms of actual known life that are most important to all of us anyway. For Nicholson Baker, he seems to tell us, they act as a solace rather, that counters the sought meanings which Baker returns to again and again in order to try to confirm for him and us what we likely already sense but know are likely beyond certain proof.
The next article from Jenny Uglow explores the beauty of an old mapbook of England published in 1815. A section on the life and career of William Smith follows. Another look at Smith's methods also show how he and the book's publication were paid out. It was a beautiful volume and still is as it sat in the archives for centuries not seeing the light of day, but it was hardly ever purchased. Mr Smith spent ten weeks as a result in debtor's prison in 1819. He would work on several projects in his time though and give birth to the study of geology on a massive scale. The title of Smith's major work was "A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland: exhibiting the colliers and mines, the marshes and fen lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of soil according to the variations in the substrata, illustrated by the most descriptive names". As the first ever geologic map of an entire country, subscribers could pay 5 guineas (in 1815!) for individual sheets or pay £12 for the whole thing which covered 8.5 feet by 6 feet. He had worked as an engineer working out problems in drainage and irrigation, he traipsed across the lands and dug up fossils, and in the beginning worked as a youthful surveyor in Somerset where he took an interest in the seams of local coal sediment. Where do we stand? How is that possible? It's not so simple!
In 1921, Six Characters In Search of an Author brought fame and a resolution of debt to Luigi Pirandello, a 53 yr old Sicilian. Pirandello's father, a wealthy owner of a sulfur mine lost it all in a major flooding in 1903, and so, 35 yr old Luigi started writing. He spent nearly twenty years at it before they caught the public eye and then he became famous for these satiric, dark stories of betrayal and vengeance. [...]
08 March
Awaking and looking briefly at the news, I get up to make some coffee and fill the water bottle. It is Monday and cool this morning but it promises to be 70F and bright, sunny with a strong wind from the south. The daffodil tops have slipped their spears above the crust of dead scrub in their little isolated clusters - first harbinger of spring I see here.
I returned to finish an interview with Toni Morrison from the summer of 1993 and published that fall in The Paris Review (no. 128), after having left off reading just a couple days ago. She had been talking about sources and inspirations and how to make plots work without detailing their central actions, leaving that til the end or for the reader's mind to work out and how understatement can work far better. She says she did this explicitly in her novel Jazz to be like the music, where the structure frames the improvisation. Where the work of endless hours, the years in countless measures, the practice polish is shown off in graceful paucity and crisp lines. Meanwhile the steady, propulsive beat is building all the while, working its underlying pulse where the melody accentuates, captures with some hovering hint, snatching and releasing from that driving undertow. Not only does she praise the understatement, she claims it as a must-be-so. The reader must never be satiated, she says. Instead they must be taught that the tune can be played again and again, but with endless variation. This can-can is a demonstration I see with a perfect number of steps, a flurry, and then it stops. A bow, the cheers, then the curtain.
Of course, because she can, a number of things rise to the surface in this interview. Asked about other structural elements in her work she tells of how migration and movement to the cities seems to have profoundly changed the course of so many lives but particularly African-Americans. The tumult, the difficulties, the density and diversity of wide-ranging populations, the grittiness and toughness of survival all proliferate new understandings and insights. Amidst all this, an individual can become themselves, can learn their own skill sets and hone them to a polish. The music and the dance and the words and the art become emblematic of self ownership. And then beyond that from that place of self-mastery, a person can become a center of one's own, of one's own circles with the ripples extending outward. The music gets heard and a person can learn of their own body, their own thoughts and then test them against so many others. Individuals stand out and an audience can hear and see - for the first time in the US - Black people aren't some indifferentiable, confused mass of inarticulate hordes. Duke Ellington is not like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis is not like Charlie Parker. You can hear anew, as Billie Holiday is not like Ella Fitzgerald or Aretha Franklin or Nina Simone. Of course, each of them, and us, have our own voices, often submerged. But we get the benefit when we witness their voices grow and change in time.
She explains how she was asked when she would write about white America. And to hear her say how she first wanted to be understood as an African-American writer gives a profound insight into her sense of place and being. And maybe the rest of us. She knows those asking that think it's a compliment that she can give her voice to the white experience, and she would, she said, if she wanted to. But primary for her was to write as an African-American woman. She defined for herself a place to write from.
She wonders that the French didn't ask Joyce when he would write about Paris. This provincial sounding nonsensical question makes her point plain.
And,
"Each subject matter demands its own form, you know."
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The pandemic has sprung new habits for us all I think. This year I've been reading as much from the huge archive of the Paris Review that extends back to 1953 as anything else. It turns out to be a treasure trove of stuff I never knew existed before and every week I find more things I feel I have to make time for. Access to the archive is open to subscribers but will lock up when the subscription ends for me in September (I think). So I have an incentive to plow thru as much as I can, in case, for whatever reason, I can't renew. Since the beginning of January I've kept the pace of an issue of that per week. Jumping around decade to decade, for variety, I alternate one issue from the earliest years and one from some other decade. It seemed important to get as many of the earlier ones read to get a sense of how they started out, hopefully showing purpose and range of their material and consistency. For this scattershot reading approach I have to make lists of what I get done or I'll get lost. There's so much here for writers and readers alike. The earlier ones are shorter but sometime in the 1960's individual issues grew in length to around 200 pages, or more! My schedule is late with the 40 year anniversary issue no. 128 of fall 1993 finished today - with that interview with Toni Morrison.
17JAN21
Sunday, March 14, 2021
rainy day - 14march21
Today is the shortest day of the year. Daylight Savings Time in the US means that the clocks are set ahead an hour in the spring. This means today is only 23 hours long while sunrise and sunset will happen about an hour later than it did yesterday. People have different ideas as to what that means and why we do it. The history of it points to federal laws borne from Department of Commerce notions from fifty years ago about daylight for farmers, getting products to market in daylight, cutting down on traffic accidents. Saving insurance money. Most folks just seem to see it as a hassle and a day or two of jostled sleep patterns, the kids will need an explanation, the pets start bugging us for food earlier than what the clocks tell us.
Of course as the earth's tilt in the northern hemisphere brings longer daylight hours, the course around the sun makes sunrise happen about a minute earlier and the sunset about a minute later every day without this clock adjustment. Until late June. Sunset does come an hour later today and in a month's time this slow accretion of minutes does add up.
But here today there is an absence of sun. It rains for the third day in a row. The daffodils have shot their spears up in alliance with their annual rhythms and today I've seen their very first yellow trumpet bell plop out. The rain makes it hang its head in dripping assent. That one will get plucked and brought in and lain out on a dry sheet of cardboard in the front room. When it dries out it will get set in a teacup on a book shelf just above eye level. A reminder. Last year's soldier will get taken out and placed with the others on a ledge in a closet where the others lie in quiet rows. Paper-thin fragile, crimpled brown testament to passing time on another scale.
An intermittent drip outside the window here counts an irregular beat. The coffeemaker's heater still clicks tho it's given off today's last heaving huff of steam. The thermostat clicks on to the right, and the drop furnace to my left with a whoosh comes alive. The low roar builds softly, the metal of the furnace creaks expanding in the heat generated. The thermostat clicks again, the furnace fire goes out. Again I hear the refrigerator has kicked on circulating it's fluid with the whirring of its motor hidden in, but making obvious, the layered blankets of white noise found everywhere these days.
The rain outside comes harder again. The drip outside the window more insistent. I hear a train horn in the distance. It's good I don't have any reason to go out. Groceries gotten yesterday, rent and bills got paid the week before. The trickle of news I see seems dumb, numb like a shuddering worn out train slowing before a weather-beaten station. The AP and Washington-Post act as though they're hand-wringing over the President's forty minute commute every other weekend to go to church and see his grandkids. If that's what they think is news they should listen to the rain dripping outside my window.
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Last year I got subscriptions on a whim to The Paris Review and The New York Review of Books. They give a good excuse for some performative discipline. If I read an article or two a day I can keep up with the relentless supply of topics fed out of the NY Review. Even though I have to stick with it this process I've allotted to myself feels easy since the topics range so far and wide feeding my parallel curiosities. More on that later.
Late last month they had a Zoom'd symposium with a number of their contributors talking about the crisis in journalism. Compiled and edited, the youtube clip of that runs just under eighty minutes. They talk about our cloistered indoor activity necessitated by the pandemic over the last year. Conversation grew around how social justice has been hampered, then exploded, then exploited over the last year and how the institutions of the media has come under simultaneous attacks, an ongoing mass delegitimization over the last several years. Also acknowledged is the hive-mind of internet-delivered social media where people tend to listen only to those like themselves, which in turn, tends to have a polarizing effect on our day to day thoughts.
But the internet also exposes us to those outside our humid silos and people react to those 'other voices' generally out of ignorance. "Because they just didn't know about that." More people feel they are being forced to reckon with all of the old wounds and old disparities and injustices as each confrontation with supposed 'new information' flares up. There's plenty of hurt to go around. It will be a real series of hard tests to make sure these don't all metastasize, or get met with harsher, overcompensating forms of stricter authority. There are people in Congress and the Senate and all over the country who feel they don't need to learn anything new, and that the answers that only they can supply is just what 'those people' need.
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On the other hand I've been reading back issues of The Paris Review. Started in 1953 by Americans wanting to present new literature to a country that hungered for it, they've managed, despite the odds, to keeping itself afloat for over 67 years delivering poetry, short stories and interviews with writers and readers from all over the world. Adjusting to its format took a little slowing simmer. Perusing the 67 year digital archive whose access comes with the subscription, it quickly became apparent that the best writers and thinkers in print of the twentieth century were represented. And also there were so many that I had never heard of! Issue number 236 just arrived the other day but I won't get to that for months probably. Instead I try to read a back issue every week. Older issues are shorter, but recent ones run over 200 pages each so that keeps me busy reading every one cover to cover. So much variety!
Last week I read inspiring 1993 interviews with Toni Morrison and Don De Lillo. That one also had a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a 'lost' Ezra Pound Canto when he was running with the fascists in Italy. This week the spring 1977 issue I see sports a long interview with Kurt Vonnegut, poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Gary Soto & Frank O'Hara, and, a short story from William S. Burroughs telling when he spent a summer in The Valley of the Rio Grande in 1949.
Next week in the queue, issue 7 from fall-winter 1954-5 has a bunch of work from writers I've never heard of but has a number of drawings from Pablo Picasso. Two weeks ago, in issue 5, there were a number of line drawings called Livres d'Or. Collected by Parisian restaurants and clubs and kept in closets for decades they show, leaf after leaf, momentary sketches from (now very famous) artists who sat for a moment in the darkened booths and, handed a pen and paper, delightful flourishes of another age's brilliance. Never having known these existed they appear before my eye like new flowers. One that really jumped out at me was by Leonor Fini who I had never heard of. This blog talks a bit about her.
edit: Oh yeah! today is Π (Pi) day: 3.14... round and round it goes. And I guess the Grammy Awards are tonight which is an especially weird thing this year since so much just didn't happen last year.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
On The Brink
Last night the House of Representatives sent a resolution to Vice-President Pence to invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment removing the 45th President from his duties. The deadline for that was passed and so the House voted on the resolution to begin debate on Articles of Impeachment against the President.
National Guard troops from several states including Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, & Delaware have begun arriving in Washington DC. Several have been assigned to the Capitol building itself. The pictures this morning feel epic, comic-tragic and banal.
I spotted the National Guard sleeping in the hallways of the Capitol as I walked in this morning. pic.twitter.com/PzVpQCo5yU
— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) January 13, 2021
Members began assembling in the Capitol for debate on Impeachment at 9AM.
The House of Representatives reconvenes to consider a second Article of Impeachment against President Trump. pic.twitter.com/hMne4bPn12
— The Hill (@thehill) January 13, 2021
What this comes down to today is a straightforward matter that has all sorts of ramifications. Do we let the 45th President create a path here for widely accepted sedition that he intends to lead to his own assertion of extra-constitutional tenure, or, do we rather punish him by impeachment for inciting insurrection in order to contest the 2020 elections? In simpler terms, do we let him become something like a king or do we hold him accountable by impeachment for this his latest, but most important, dereliction of duty.
The House of Representatives voted after a five hour debate with 231 votes to impeach the President of the United States, and 197 votes against, with ten Republicans voting with Democrats. The entirety of these actions can be viewed here, with commentary from PBS.
Two more police have died since Sunday. One from injuries sustained during last Wednesday's insurrection attempt at the Capitol. Another committed suicide.
Another tragedy suffered as a result of Wednesday’s events. I extend my deepest condolences to Officer Howard Liebengood’s family. https://t.co/agVGaZWldv
— Rep. Mikie Sherrill (@RepSherrill) January 11, 2021
Monday, January 11, 2021
US Insurrection 2021: In the Wake
Five days after the storm of the Capitol by followers of the outgoing head of the Executive in the US a few things have become widely known. Five people have died as a result of last Wednesday's attempted insurrection. Two Capitol police and three insurgents succumbed to injuries or medical related injuries. There were widespread inconsistencies regarding policy that led to much of the breakdown of security at the Capitol, reaching as far as the the Pentagon and the National Guard. The heads of the Capitol police have said they will resign.
There has not been an official explanation of what has happened with these events or this whole episode from the Executive or, from DC Security. Trump's preferred platforms for disseminating information have been cut off so he no longer has access to twitter. Parler, the platform popular with conservatives since the November 3 elections, has also shut down. This is a result of the major tech companies that supply its users the means via cell phone to access that platform having cut off access to it. The CEO of Parler announced Monday the company was suing Amazon for ending its support of the platform.
The Speaker of the House has asked the Vice-President to invoke the 25th Amendment which would remove President Trump from participating in active measures in that office. Madame Speaker has also stated that if the Vice-President will not do this by 11am today - Monday - then she is prepared to call for a voice vote in the House to approve Articles of Impeachment already drawn up against the President. When Madame Speaker called for a unanimous consent vote, a Republican member blocked the motion.
Meanwhile, it seems as though a major hack on an administrative level has occurred with Parler just prior to its shutting down, exposing the personal data of certain users on the platform. Seventy terabytes of user data including personal identifying information has reportedly been opened up which means anyone, including the Government or the FBI, now has access. Thousands of photos and video and the personal information of user data had been uploaded to the platform and other forms of social media throughout the last few months but particularly in the days around the January 6 storm of activity.
As a result, there have been reports all weekend that hundreds of criminal cases have been opened, scores of arrests made by the FBI, and a rush of deletions of said material by the insurgency participants. Apparently a number of these individuals have also been put on 'no-fly' lists as suspected domestic terrorists. Also, individual politicians have begun denying their involvement, up to and including the President, professing a need for healing, unity. Many see these as merely moves by complicit members who are seeking impunity and immunity for themselves rather than unity for the country.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
"...in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives..."
Today was the day that Congress was set to affirm the certified Electoral College votes officially recognizing the new President-elect Joseph R Biden and his running mate as Vice-President Kamala Harris. This did not happen today.
The morning broke with the news that the special election in the state of Georgia had concluded with two new Senators, Warnock and Ossoff having been elected. This was even more significant since their election as members of the Democratic party gave the Senate an entirely new tenor. Now the Senate is divided evenly with fifty members in the Republican party and fifty from the Democratic party. This is the first time in ten years the Senate will be led with a Democrat as the majority leader.
But, the counting of the electoral college votes did not begin because there were a number of objections that members had put forward to block the count. Since the November election, the current resident Donald J Trump has refused to concede the national election claiming numerous fraudulent processes, including ballot stuffing, ballot shredding, fraud inducing electoral officials, fraudulent vote counting processes and even the voting by dead people. His subordinates have taken to the courts and the airwaves and the social media platforms claiming all of the above and much more but without proof, spinning controversy and conspiracies in an environment that seems to thrive on such poisonous ignorance. There have been sixty cases that the courts have struck down or thrown out due to lack of evidence or lack of standing by the plaintiffs. This, rather than dispelling the illusions of his followers, has instead only increased their frustration.
So, today several hundred of his supporters convened in Washington DC set on disrupting this official, constitutional process of counting the electoral college votes. At the moment that objections were being heard in due order, in the separate bicameral houses brought by representatives and Senators from their respective districts and states, individuals outside the building began breaching the security perimeter. Before long scores and then hundreds of people had stormed the building claiming they were holding a revolution.
This @itvnews report shows some shocking scenes from inside the Capitol - haven’t seen this footage on any American news network pic.twitter.com/bZoZxg3Dhp
— Cyrus Sanati (@BeyondBlunt) January 7, 2021
Representatives were rushed out of chambers to secure locations.Rioters scoured the buildings looking for accomplices. One woman, a vet who had formerly been in the Air Force was shot in the Capitol building and has since died. Several instances of vandalism and graffiti occurred and Representatives offices were broken into and items stolen, but no further injuries have been reported. At least one pipe bomb had been found and taken away and defused. After a couple hours, Vice-President Pence called on the National Guard to come help. The President's twitter account after tweeting a number of incendiary remarks was shut down temporarily. The mayor of Washington DC declared a curfew in the city limits from 6PM to 6AM. And with reserves built up the Capitol police began clearing the Capitol building and complex which was completed by 6PM.
About two hours later, the buildings having been cleared and cleaned, members were told they could return and did. After a few short speeches, members began again the process where they had left off, debating the objections with votes being held on whether to sustain those objections to holding the count. At this time, none of those objections have been sustained, being resoundingly defeated, but there are a few members who voted for sustaining those objections. They are as follows.
Here they are, the 121 House members who chose Donald Trump over the American democracy: pic.twitter.com/Y04pTvvKmn
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 7, 2021
Six Senators voted to sustain the objection to Arizona's election results, despite an attempted armed coup of our Capitol today. Know their names:
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 7, 2021
Cruz, Hawley, Hyde-Smith, Marshall, Tuberville and Kennedy
NYT front page pic.twitter.com/ZBJhcY0EC7
— Sam Dolnick (@samdolnick) January 7, 2021