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Per CNN, the Capitol has been breached. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/index.html https://www.cnn.com/politi
by amyjess 6y ago
Per CNN, the Capitol has been breached.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/index.html https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-co...
Since their liveblog software makes it difficult to link to individual posts, I'll quote the specific post here:
> The Capitol has been breached, and the House is in recess
> From Ted Barrett, Manu Raju and CNN's Capitol Hill team
> The US Capitol has been breached during a tense situation with demonstrators, according to Capitol police officers.
> The House doors have been locked and an emergency alert from the Capitol police just transmitted the same thing:
> "Due to an INTERNAL threat in the building, take shelter in the nearest office and stay quiet."
Capitol Hill police are also blocking anyone from moving from Senate office buildings into the US Capitol building. There are underground tunnels that link the office buildings with the Capitol building that senators, staff, and journalists use to travel back and forth.
- fortran77 6y agoI'm not sure why these posts from NPR, CNN, NY Times, and other reliable sources are being flagged. Hacker News will discuss Hong Kong protests, etc.
- amyjess 6y agoHN has rules against stories that are pure politics and that don't speak to intellectual curiosity, and I'm sure people are flagging this article on those grounds. But the mods have also said that exceptions will be given to political events that are particularly historic. I'm not a mod, and I have no power here, but I'd like to think this counts as historic enough. Personally, I haven't been anywhere near this scared for the future of my country since 9/11. Not even 2016 gave me this feeling.
- burnthrow 6y agoFlagged by embarrassed Trump bitter-enders.
- Youden 6y agoOr just people who come to HN for Hacker News instead of generic US politics (though that seems increasingly unlikely these days).
- amyjess 6y agoI wouldn't consider a breach of the Capitol by armed protestors shooting into the chambers "generic US politics". People are in Nancy Pelosi's office taking pictures of her email client and posting them on Twitter. Nothing about this is normal.