BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
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As I couldn't understand the same on nazi Germany in 1930s
Gop are nazis
The AI is also pretty fast to follow the administration agenda:
https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/we-must-arrest-the-attention-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4608222&post_id=162417009&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=464rh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Thomas_Manger
If they're not doing anything wrong, why do it behind closed doors?
#ShameOnThemAll
A cop even asked me what I was going to pray about.
This is chilling! What a Moral Monday in America!
https://youtu.be/D_OlbjN7_fQ?si=eYaF-f9NOQG0begZ
Arrest anyone leading prayers on the house & senate floor, then. The vast majority of those are performances not faith
--Not feeding the hungry is violence
--Not caring for immigrants is violence
--taking rights away from seniors is violence
--taking medicine from the sick is violence
I hope @booker.senate.gov filibuster is being transcribed -
These are rally cry opportunities to garner support from the 'passive' dems and uncommitted.
These are our generation's letters from Birmingham jail..!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJABvSYRkHv/
But what really filled the Rotunda was mercy — still, stubborn, rising like breath.
I wrote about Rev. Barber’s arrest, and the cost of sacred defiance.
When Mercy Is Named a Crime
https://www.brittleviews.com/p/when-mercy-is-named-a-crime
Fuck Trump!
FBI?
Either way Orange has created a Gestapo.
Crazy Cash Patel and AG Blonde Bimbo are poster children of horror and proof
would make it a more tolerable night.
It didn’t.
He should drop out. His run is over.
I hear the farmers are hiring.
Do be careful to notice the silent “white evangelical Nazi” in the pronunciation. It’s easy to miss.
Trump is starting a war on Christians, that don't worship him.
That doesn’t make them fake Christians. The bar for membership is quite low.
That's why it's important to point out the hypocrisy, and show how they are not true to their religion.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJABvSYRkHv/
Otoh, if the police have arrested him before, why would they boot out everyone, and in particular, the press? Also, why am I unable to find anything current online from 1/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/william-barber-trump-christian-task-force-b2741146.html
https://religionnews.com/2025/04/28/william-barber-arrested-in-capitol-rotunda-after-prayer-challenging-republican-budget/
Okay, here's Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/activist-pastor-criticized-trump-arrested-225146982.html
But - CNN? NPR? AP?
Of real Peace and Love
You can smear 💩
But not pray
I thought theDonald was deeply religious now 🤷🏼
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DJABvSYRkHv/
But what really filled the Rotunda was mercy — still, stubborn, rising like breath.
I wrote about Rev. Barber’s arrest, and the cost of sacred defiance.
When Mercy Is Named a Crime
🔗 https://www.brittleviews.com/p/when-mercy-is-named-a-crime
https://www.uscp.gov/sites/evo-subsites/www.uscp.gov/files/documents/Guidelines%20For%20Conducting%20an%20Event%20on%20United%20States%20Capitol%20Grounds%201.9.24.pdf
I’ll show my old ass self out!
Rev. Barber did nothing but pray in the Capitol.
In our public space, in the People's House, he was arrested for expressing his free will to worship anywhere on God's green Earth.'
Sorry to say I think this will not get the press coverage it deserves.
The NY Times hasn't picked it up. Doubt I'll see it anywhere else, either.
https://religionnews.com/2025/04/28/william-barber-arrested-in-capitol-rotunda-after-prayer-challenging-republican-budget/
Not exactly a mainstream news source, but better than nothin'!
:: faints ::
Barber deserves far better than this
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/william-barber-trump-christian-task-force-b2741146.html
That we're not seeing much suggests the Right-wing control of major media sources has clamped down here.
As I wrote earlier, Barber is extremely well-organized. I, personally, had no idea this was happening, but, then, I'm not a faith leader.
A good friend, someone I've known for over 50 years, has worked with Barber in the past. I'll check with him and see if he knew anything about this
"That we're not seeing much suggests the Right-wing control of major media sources has clamped down here." If MSM refuses to report about this then how are all those 'millions of Americans' going to be reached? That was my point.
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Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Email them through their websites.
Tell them this:
1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily.
2. Go see your constituents in the concentration camps in El Salvador.
Or don’t ask for money…
(Please repost)
It's ALWAYS okay when Republicans do it.
It’s practically a reflex. I would trade it for feet with decent arches in a heartbeat.
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No justice, no peace ☮️
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This will determine how many innocents survive the administration. People are going to deathcamps, right now.
Someone praying?
prayer? Oh, my God, please save your faithful from this evil.
The clergy protesting Trump are in the right. You’re engaging in antisemitism, as Trump does.
Here’s a much more in depth explanation.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/
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now you're going to see a million people show ... all kinds of Americans...
-The Late Great Congressman John Lewis forever!
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FIGHT POVERTY NOT THE POOR!!
This is why I refer to the US as Trumpistan, now.
America is a Russian territory under Trumpism.
https://youtu.be/gmoPD6v__pM?si=1uVkyBtRvJt89Mxh
Don will simply ‘Hereby Pardon’ the good Pastor, just like he pardoned all those 1/6/21 tourists who shit on the floor, toked joints, & paraded the traitorous Confederate battle flag through the hallways after they beat Capitol Police with the same flagpoles that they were parading.
https://youtu.be/KctVsDckEF4?si=uOyvWgy4llhpg_UA
Nazis build chapels in every murder factory so the staff’s needs would be met.
Christian is not a synonym for good person. Some are. Some are inhuman monsters. But if they profess belief in that guy, then they’re in.
It’s not my fault the bar is so low.