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Armed January 6 Suspect Arrested Approaching Obama Home

A man armed with weapons who is wanted on an active outstanding warrant related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was stopped yesterday after he was found running toward the Washington, D.C. home of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The man was arrested, CBS News reports.

“Secret Service spotted the man within blocks of the Obama’s home, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the matter. The man fled, and Secret Service chased him. He was running toward the Obama home but was apprehended before he reached it,” CBS adds.

The man, whose name has not been released, was known to both the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI, and allegedly “had previously made disturbing social media threats against a public figure.”

No one was reported injured.

The unnamed suspect’s motives are also unknown.

According to a subsequent NBC News report citing a law enforcement official, the man is a “conspiracy minded Donald Trump supporter who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6.”

His last post on Telegram, NBC News says, “was a link to a website touting conspiracy theories about the Obama’s home.”

This article has been updated with reporting from NBC News.

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

Wing-Nuts Hilariously Triggered By Jill Biden’s Vogue Cover

Wing-Nuts Hilariously Triggered By Jill Biden’s Vogue Cover

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

Dr. Jill Biden, the First Lady, appears on the cover of the new issue of VOGUE and conservatives are furious.

As First Lady, Melania Trump was never given the same honor, although she did appear on a VOGUE cover in 2005 in her $100,000 bridal gown. First Lady Michelle Obama graced VOGUE's cover three times, and as First Lady Hillary Clinton did once.

So did First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Laura Bush.

On Christmas Day 2020 then-President Donald Trump expressed outrage that Melania Trump, as First Lady, had never been featured on the cover of any of the big four fashion magazines.

But that was, at least in part, her doing.

"To be on the cover of Vogue doesn't define Mrs. Trump," then-First Lady Melania Trump's spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, said in 2019, "she's been there, done that long before she was first lady. Her role as first lady of the United States and all that she does is much more important than some superficial photo shoot and cover."

InStyle reported that "Grisham added that Melania wouldn't be available for a second cover, even if the invitation was presented to her. Instead, she's focusing on her Be Best campaign."

Here's how some on the right are responding.

Twitter ban

Trump And Allies Enraged As Social Media Ban Expands

Steve Cortes, a senior adviser with Donald Trump's election campaign, took to Twitter to complain that Trump and his "movement" were being censored by "Big Tech" as a number of social media platforms suspended the accounts of the White House occupant and his supporters after Wednesday's deadly attack on the Capitol.

"I'm on Bannon's War Room soon discussing Big Tech/Big Brother suppressing the speech of the president and our movement - including Michelle Obama's shameful call for a permanent de-platforming," tweeted Cortes.

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#EndorseThis: Legendary West Wing Cast Reunites For HBO Special

#EndorseThis: Legendary West Wing Cast Reunites For HBO Special

After 14 long years – and for one show only – the legendary cast of The West Wing will appear together tonight for an HBO special, staged at a theatre in Los Angeles. Watch this trailer and see whether you can resist the pull of President Jed Bartlet and his idealistic, quirky, conflicted but ultimately noble and patriotic staff.

With some new material by series creator Aaron Sorkin, this production of the Season Three episode titled "Hartsfield's Landing" will benefit Michelle Obama's nonpartisan nonprofit, When We All Vote. The special includes cameo appearances by the former First Lady herself, former President Bill Clinton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Samuel L. Jackson.

The point is to encourage everybody to vote, but you're already going to do that, right? Maybe you voted early, or voted absentee, or at least you have a plan. Of course you do! So just enjoy -- and remember when we expected decency instead of criminality in the White House.