Far-right figure blames ‘corrupt leftwing media’ for January 6 attack on US Capitol in new Trump documentary

The founder of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that played a major role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and was memorably instructed by Donald Trump to “stand back and stand by”, has told the makers of a Trump documentary: “We want to make America hate again.”

Gavin McInnes, the UK-born British Canadian citizen who co-founded Vice magazine and was influential in the New York hipster scene of the early 2000s before becoming a far-right militia figure, also claimed to the BBC that his group wasn’t responsible for what happened that day.

“It was you,” he told the makers of the documentary, which has aired on the BBC’s Panorama strand. “If anyone should apologise … it should be the corrupt leftwing media, and I’ll accept your apology now if you want to do it.”

This is the most important election of our lives. Not important enough to hire, like, one person to watch the boxes to make sure they aren't set on fire though.

Text description of Image: Twitter post by Katu News: Watch: The moment responders remove HUNDREDS of burning ballots from a Vancouver ballot box this morning. Full story... (URL I can't read). Below that, subtweeted, by Evan Bell (@evanbellKATU) The clark county elections ballot drop box at the fisher's landing transit center was lit on fire this morning. Clark Co. Augitor Greg Kimsey says hundreds of ballots were insde at the time. The last pickiup being 11am Saturday. Full story here (incomplete URL) @katunews

Below that is an image. It is a rainy evening. In the back ground police emergency tape sections off the area. In the foreground a person is wreathed in smoke as they reach for a pile of burning material that has been pulled from an open ballot drop box. The drop box has "Official Ballot Drop Box" written on that and below that a large "VOTE" decal next to an american flag. Standing behind the smoke clouded person are two first responders. One holds a camera.

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Puerto Ricans cannot vote in general elections despite being U.S. citizens, but they can exert a powerful influence with relatives on the mainland. Phones across the island of 3.2 million people were ringing minutes after the speaker derided the U.S. territory Sunday night, and they still buzzed Monday.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris is competing with Trump to win over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and other swing states. Shortly after stand-up comic Tony Hinchcliffe said that, “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny announced he was backing Harris.

After Sunday’s rally, a senior adviser for the Trump campain, Danielle Alvarez, said in a statement that Hinchcliffe’s joke did “not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Can't find artist details on this one. Probably AI generated, but I'm a sucker for a e s t h e t i c, so here we are.

Get fucked, Bezos.

And the number of signatures has gone up

I don't play good games i play the kind of stuff you'd find donated to a library 3 days after release. The kind of games a grandparent will get their grandchildren when they ask for call of duty but instead get a copy of conflict denied ops.

I am deeply passionate about bad games, after all I've played Two Worlds several times and I'm yet to even buy baldurs gate 3.

I find it enjoyable to think about the elements that make these games enjoyable and unique as well as wonder what it could have turned into if given the time to develop further.

I am also capable of the inverse and would love to do some write ups on why popular and well loved games are actually shit

What the fuck does this even mean?

The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing

By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, is surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem, and solicited a billion-dollar bribe from the oil industry

Harris may not have done enough yet and some of the language she uses about fossil fuel extraction is designed to appeal to people who still depend on oil to get to work, but the choice is very clear. Vote for Harris — and volunteer if you can

The ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon both have fire suppression systems that are designed to activate when the temperature inside reaches a certain point, coating ballots inside with a fire-suppressing powder.

For unknown reasons, the system failed to prevent the destruction of hundreds of ballots in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland.

The Linux creator is interested in AI, but the hype means he "basically ignores" it.