What I'm Reading: Primer on J6 Hearings for Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Would Seeing Photos of Mass Shootings Matter?, Texas Deports Haitians in Chains, Southern Baptist Apocalypse, & A love Letter to Roe
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Primer on the Hearings of the January 6th Select Committee
Critically, “January 6th” has, like “Watergate,” become a useful shorthand. But as with Watergate, January 6th represents neither a single nor isolated event, but instead a much broader and more multifaceted effort to stop the transfer of power. We hope this resource is useful in distilling those components and what we critically know — and don’t yet know — about each. This resource was produced as a collaboration between Just Security and Protect Democracy.
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Would seeing photos of mass shootings make a difference?
The country will do what it always does: argue over gun laws, send ‘thoughts and prayers’ and move on. Would photos change that status quo?
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Title 42’s Long Tail of Pain
The U.S. government has used Title 42 to expel more than 1.8 million immigrants—including asylum-seekers—originating from countries with high levels of COVID infection in the past two years. Since September, more than 20,000 Haitians have been flown to Haiti from the Laredo airport alone, often in chains, according to Witness at the Border’s flight tracker.
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This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse
Allegations of sexual violence and assault were placed, the report concludes, in a secret file in the SBC Nashville headquarters. It held over 700 cases. Not only was nothing done to stop these predators from continuing their hellish crimes, staff members were reportedly told not to even engage those asking about how to stop their child from being sexually violated by a minister. Rather than a database to protect sexual abuse victims, the report reveals that these leaders had a database to protect themselves.
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A love letter to Roe and my first pregnancy
Bucks County’s Anusha Viswanathan writes about how she has always been pro-choice, but is more fiercely so now.