Video of Josh Hawley Running Away From Capitol Mob Sparks Mockery and Memes

 https://www.newsweek.com/video-josh-hawley-running-capitol-mob-memes-1726994

A video of Donald Trump admitting he did not "want to say the election was over" was the real bombshell footage shown at the latest January 6 committee hearing, but another clip captured the public's attention on Thursday: one showing Sen. Josh Hawley fleeing the Capitol only hours after he cheered on the pro-Trump mob.

On January 6, 2021, Hawley was pictured backing the crowd preparing to storm the Capitol, raising his fist at them in solidarity and support.

The image, which went viral, became a form of political currency for the Republican senator among Trump supporters and an awkward testimony of his role in the riots, which he repeatedly denied inciting.

The video caused many of those in the committee room —reporters, congressional aides, security staff, and visitors— to burst into laughter.

January 6 suspects' D.C. jail complaints are hypocritical, but they're not wrong

 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/january-6-suspects-d-c-jail-complaints-are-hypocrital-they-n1287184

Some defendants who have been held in the District of Columbia jail after being suspected of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol have complained that the conditions they’re being subjected to are inhumane. But in their case, they have conservative public officials who are echoing their complaints. In December, 14 Republican members of the U.S. House sent a letter to Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, complaining that the Jan. 6 defendants are being “treated as subhuman.”

The Crisis at the D.C. Jail Began Decades Before Jan. 6 Defendants Started Raising Concerns

 https://time.com/6137882/dc-jail-conditions-january-6/

For years, advocates have raised concerns to the District of Columbia government over what they say are inhumane conditions inside the CDF, a nearly 50-year-old jail just two miles from the U.S. Capitol. Yet it was only when detainees accused of storming the Capitol building last Jan. 6 began raising complaints about the conditions of a neighboring jail facility that reform efforts gained momentum. After Jan. 6 defendants’ lawyers raised allegations of poor conditions at the Department of Corrections (DOC) facility, including a lack of access to medical care, an unannounced review of the jail by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) concluded there was “evidence of systemic failure.” USMS announced Nov. 2 that it would move 400 federal detainees out of the CDF to a federal prison in Pennsylvania.

Trump watched Fox News for hours, ‘chose’ not to act, panel hears

 https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20220722-jan-6-hearing-focuses-on-trump-s-response-on-the-day-of-the-capitol-attack

"President Trump sat at his dining table and watched the attack on television while his senior-most staff, closest advisors and family members begged him to do what is expected of any American president," said Representative Elaine Luria, a Democratic committee member.

The panel played videotaped testimony from White House aides and security staff discussing the events of the day. Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was asked question after question in the recorded testimony about whether Trump took this action or that action - did he call the secretary of defense? Did he call the U.S. attorney general? Did he call the head of Homeland Security? Cipollone answered "no" to each query.

Panel members said Trump's daughter Ivanka and son Don Jr. were among those who pleaded with him to act. The hearing, expected to be the last until September, detailed both the violence that played out as Trump supporters fought their way into the Capitol and Trump's actions in the hours after his speech in which he urged the crowd to "fight like hell" and the release of the video telling the rioters to go home.

First US case of polio in nearly a decade is an Orthodox Jewish man

 https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-712800

The first case of polio in the United States in a decade has been diagnosed in an Orthodox Jewish man in Rockland County, just north of New York City.

Local health officials announced the case Thursday and said they would begin a drive to increase vaccination against the potentially deadly virus. They said the victim was experiencing paralysis, a hallmark of the disease, and that he had not been vaccinated against it.

“He was released from the hospital,” one source told the Jewish Week on condition of anonymity. “He’s a young adult, in a wheelchair. He got married recently.”

Takeaways from the January 6 hearings day 8

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/21/politics/january-6-hearing-day-8-takeaways/index.html

The committee used Thursday's hearing to show how Trump not only failed to act, but chose not to as he watched the violent assault on the US Capitol unfold.

Several witnesses with first-hand knowledge of what was happening inside the White House on January 6 told the committee that Trump did not place a single call to any of his law enforcement or national security officials as the Capitol attack was unfolding, according to previously unseen video testimony played during Thursday's hearing.

The panel said it "confirmed in numerous interviews with senior law enforcement and military leaders, Vice President Mike Pence's staff, and DC government officials: None of them -- not one -- heard from President Trump that day," Luria said.

The committee used that testimony to make the case that Trump's refusal to intervene amounted to a dereliction of duty.

In a D.C. jail, Jan. 6 defendants awaiting trial are forming bitter factions

 https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092580753/capitol-riot-january-6-insurrection-defendants

Inside the Washington, D.C., jail, where a group of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have been held for as long as a year or more, a bitter divide is growing, current and former inmates say.

A combination of that intense proximity, the stress of criminal cases and a fight over more than a million dollars donated to support the defendants has contributed to the rift.

One inmate described the situation to NPR as "too many rats together in a small cage for too long."

Capitol rioters’ tears, remorse don’t spare them from jail

 https://thehill.com/homenews/wire/587893-capitol-rioters-tears-remorse-dont-spare-them-from-jail/

Fifty-six of the 71 pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. Most of them were sentenced to home confinement or jail terms measured in weeks or months, according to an Associated Press tally of every sentencing. But rioters who assaulted police officers have gotten years behind bars.

Eighteen judges, including four nominated by Trump, have sentenced the 71 rioters. Thirty-one defendants have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment or to jail time already served, including 22 who received sentences of three months or less, according to the AP tally. An additional 18 defendants have been sentenced to home confinement. The remaining 22 have gotten probation without house arrest.

James Murray's Trump Ties Face Scrutiny Over Deleted Secret Service Texts

 https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-james-murray-trump-ties-texts-1726581

O'Donnell said that the agency has lost "the most important text messages in their history because no one there knew that those text messages were important" and accused Murray of being a "Trump guy."

רוצה טלפון? תן גט: הסנקציה שהבהילה את הסרבן

 https://www.kan.org.il/item/?itemId=131330

סרבן גט הסכים להתגרש מאשתו אחרי שבית הדין דרש ממנו למסור את מכשיר הטלפון הנייד שלו לשבוע. הסנקציה הוטלה עליו כי המשיך הקליט את הדיונים למרות שהובהר לו שחל על כך איסור

https://vinnews.com/2022/07/21/beis-din-confiscated-cell-phone-of-get-refuser-and-he-immediately-agreed-to-give-a-get/

Beis Din Confiscated Cell Phone Of Get Refuser – And He Immediately Agreed To Give A Get

The Double Standard for Policing Capitol Rioters and BLM Protesters

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/trump-rioters-weren-t-policed-like-blm-protesters

Horrified onlookers including President-elect Joe Biden could not help but notice the striking contrast between the police response to Trump’s insurrection and the hard fist that met Black Lives Matter protests in June. During largely peaceful protests on June 1, D.C. police officers arrested 289 people, with federal officers tear-gassing demonstrators in Lafayette Square to clear the way for Trump’s infamous Bible photo-op at St. John’s Episcopal Church. By comparison, local police in Washington, D.C., who secured the Capitol grounds on Wednesday and enforced the 6 p.m. citywide curfew have made only 68 arrests as of Thursday morning.

Donald Trump's 187 Minutes of Inaction To Be Key Focus of Jan. 6 Hearing

 https://www.newsweek.com/trump-187-minutes-jan-6-hearing-thursday-1726602

The panel are hoping to suggest that Trump's inaction for more than three hours while the attack was taking place amounted to a dereliction of duty and a violation of his oath of office.

Jews and mazel

 Meiri (Shabbos 156): …. The gemora here says that in general Jews are not controlled absolutely by mazal. Don’t pay attention to the alternative view that says that Jews are in fact controlled by mazal. That view is the result of some of the sages became confused after they saw the lack of order in the manner of mankind’s reward and punishment. This confusion is also manifest in Moed Koton(28a) which states that “Lifespan, children and livelihood are not the result of merit but rather mazal.” This statement was made only because the author saw someone who was a tzadik and great scholar who was unsuccessful in these three areas.Another one of these confused sages stated in Bava Kama (80b): “A door which is locked is not readily opened” and “All those who suffer misfortune do not quickly obtain good fortune” while another one of this group said, “He will never obtain good fortune” . This statement was only made because of bad personal experience as the gemora itself concludes that it was not a general rule but he was only describing his own personal experience. All this shows that these statements asserting the importance of mazal were only made in response to their authors’ personal experiences or what they observed with others. Thus these are only exceptions to the general rule that “Jews are not governed by mazal.” In other words reward and punishment typically determines what happens to a person and not mazal. Our gemora here (Shabbos 156a) provides testimony concerning incidents predicted by astrologers such as being on the verge of death and yet nevertheless being saved through the merit of giving charity. There is no need to repeat the events described in this gemora because they are clearly stated.

Video of David Hogg Blasting Committee on Guns Viewed More Than 1M Times

 https://www.newsweek.com/video-david-hogg-blasting-committee-guns-viewed-more-1m-times-1726557

A video showing gun control activist David Hogg being escorted out of a House Judiciary Committee hearing following an outburst quickly received over 1 million views on Twitter.

Hogg, a survivor of the deadly 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, erupted at Republican Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona during the hearing on Wednesday after the congressman began speaking about an "invasion" of "illegal immigrants" coming across the U.S.-Mexico border.