#us capitol

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Every day I remember they hung fanart of the gay cannibals in the U.S. Capitol building without knowing they were gay cannibals and I go a little more insane

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Washington, DC, November 11, 2004 -- The Capitol Building on a crisp fall day from the National Mall. Bill Koplitz/FEMA

Record Group 311: Records of the Federal Emergency Management AgencySeries: Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

This color photograph shows the US Capitol building on a bright fall day.  The photograph was taken from the Mall, which is lined with trees and lamp posts and has many people strolling.

[dynamicity-keysmash]

Regarding that twink getting railed in the Senate hearing room:

I can't be super happy because it's going to lead to various degrees of even more "they're sickly, sex-crazed vermin" discourse about gay men from both conservative politicians and just regular people. And OF COURSE it should not be his job to represent gay guys, as that is a role unfairly forced upon him by the marginalization of gay men...but it is a role he is in as a gay man working fairly high up in government, and he acted pretty grossly. Sex at work on someone else's desk is, generally, very bad.

On the other hand though he is an icon, a legend, and he is the moment. Having gay sex in the Senate is nothing short of an incredible and hilarious act of defiance, even if not intended as such. He got SPLIT OPEN right where RBG got confirmed to the supreme court, just like she would've wanted.

[motherofplatypus]

Where the US put their own people compared to Assrael

This post has been compiled in Record of Genocide.

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Fluorite - CaF2; From the Spar Mountain Mine in Rock, Illinois.

Pure Fluorite is actually clear, and it is impurities within the mineral makeup of the crystals that causes the colors. Most common colors are yellow, green, blue, and purple, whereas more rare or less common colors are red, brown, black, and white.

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[ivygorgon]

WHO KNOCKED OVER MY Capitol insurrection arrests per million people by state *Grabs Montana* YOU

💘 Q'u lach' shughu deshni da. 🏹 "What I say is true" in Dena'ina Qenaga

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“January 6th is not Facebook ads!”

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Lamp.US Capitol Grounds, Washington. DC 2014.

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inside the us capitol building, washington dc

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National Museum of the Indian American

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sarah Szilagy at Mother Jones:

Protesters took to the US Capitol bathrooms across from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office on Thursday to protest the recently enacted policy banning trans people from accessing bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Just a day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that may upend gender-affirming care for children and adults across the United States, dozens of trans people and their allies raised banners demanding Congress “stop pissing on our rights” and urging supporters to “flush bathroom bigotry.” “It was important to show up in a radically defiant way and let the world know, and let our electeds know, that we are not going to allow this disrespect and this disregard for our lives,” Raquel Willis, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement and one of the organizers of the demonstration, told Mother Jones. “Trans folks deserve access to the restroom like anyone else.”

The demonstration, which Willis said was inspired by civil rights sit-ins of the past, was in response to the efforts spearheaded by Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican who, weeks after the election, vowed to propose a trans bathroom ban to target the first openly trans person elected to Congress, Democrat Sarah McBride from Delaware. After Speaker Johnson announced that bathroom access would be restricted—which he did on the Trans Day of Remembrance—Mace went still further, announcing that the ban she proposed would be extended to include all federal property, including museums and national parks. “Oh you thought threatening me would silence me?” Mace wrote in a post on X. “No. I just doubled down and filed a new bill to protect women and girls across the entire country on all federal property everywhere.”

After the protest, Mace called protesters an anti-trans slur in an X post.

[...] Proponents of the bans, including Mace, argue that they’re necessary to protect the safety of women and girls from would-be assaulters. Researchers, however, have found no link between trans-inclusive bathroom policies and safety risks. In fact, research shows that trans people face greater risk of sexual harassment and assault when restrictive bathroom policies are in place. Even without such bans, trans people already face a disproportionate risk of violence, particularly sexual violence.

Yesterday, pro-trans activists went to the US Capitol bathrooms across from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)’s office to protest the US House’s recently enacted anti-trans policy banning trans people from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity. About 15, including Chelsea Manning, were arrested for “crowding and obstructing”.

See Also:

The Advocate: Chelsea Manning and Raquel Willis among 15 arrested at U.S. Capitol during bathroom sit-in

HuffPost: Trans Rights Activists Stage Protest In Bathroom Next To Mike Johnson’s Office

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Fireworks over the US Capitol, Washington, DC

[motherofplatypus]

How US's "best ally" treat the US.

[To Read. To Read.]

This post has been compiled in Record of Genocide.

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Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

United States Capitol, Washington DC Photograph by C.O. Buckingham, ca. 1920

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Capitol rioter charged after tweeting death threat to AOC