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january 6 Gina. Rosanne. Guy.

january 6 Gina. Rosanne. Guy. Share Tweet Pin It 33 january 6 8:00 A.M. Gina. Rosanne. Guy. What do you do the day after you storm the Capitol? By Kerry Howley From top, Gina Bisignano, Rosanne Boyland, and Guy Reffitt. Photo-Illustration: John Ritter They can’t arrest us all,’’ a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on earth writes its rules. The worry set in later, when the swarm resolved into 9,000 separate bodies in separate homes in separate beds. At first it was just a feeling, watching the news, as the word rally gave way to the word riot, that the mood of the day had not carried onward into the present. The FBI was at the airport, someone heard. A friend had been arrested. One hundred arrests in the first two weeks. There were photographs on the FBI’s web page and online sleuths trawling for clues. There

It Wasn't a Hoax

It Wasn’t a Hoax People with scant illusions about Trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his Big Lies. By David Frum Donald Trump in silhouette, backlit by a single circle of light Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty November 25, 2021 About the author: David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy (2020). In 2001 and 2002, he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. If Donald Trump had been supported only by people who affirmatively liked him, his attack on American democracy would never have gotten as far as it did. Instead, at almost every turn, Trump was helped by people who had little liking for him as a human being or politician, but assessed that he could be useful for purposes of their own. The latest example: the suddenly red-hot media campaign to endorse Trump’s fantasy that he was the victim of a “Russia hoax.” Franklin Foer: Russiagate was not a hoax The usual suspects in the pro-Trump media

How Africa will become the center of the world’s urban future

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/africa-cities/ How Africa will become the center of the world’s urban future By Max Bearak , Dylan Moriarty and Júlia Ledur Nov. 19, 2021 Growing at unprecedented rates, and shaped by forces both familiar and new, dozens of African cities will join the ranks of humanity’s biggest megalopolises between now and 2100. Several recent studies project that by the end of this century, Africa will be the only continent experiencing population growth. Thirteen of the world’s 20 biggest urban areas will be in Africa — up from just two today — as will more than a third of the world’s population. 2025 Population predictions for the world's 100 most populous cities LagosKinshasaKhartoumAbidjanMombasaLagosKinshasaKhartoumAbidjanMombasaCityPopulation80M0 DelhiDhakaTokyoShanghaiDelhiDhakaTokyoShanghai In 2025, as today, most of the world’s biggest cities will be in Asia. By 2100, the world’s biggest cities will be concentrated in Africa.