Antonia Hitchens

1 month ago | lrb.co.uk | Antonia Hitchens

Two weeks before​ Donald Trump’s inauguration, I ran into a man who calls himself the Retribution Pastor by the swimming pool at Mar-a-Lago. Joel Tenney, who comes from the largest family in Iowa, had worked to turn out voters for the caucuses last January, and occasionally led the crowds at Trump rallies in prayer. ‘Retribution means justice,’ he liked to tell them.

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Antonia Hitchens

“I’m getting really tired of winning,” a consultant said to me the weekend after Trump was sworn in. He had convened a mixer for aspiring Administration workers and D.C. newcomers; many in the room were hungover and sniffling, in the early stages of a post-Inauguration flu. A political strategist who attended one of the inaugural balls referred to half-joking speculation, stoked by the podcaster Shawn Ryan, that China had released a “brain-fog bioweapon” into the ballroom.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

It seemed as if the inaugural festivities had barely ended by the time the first articles of impeachment were introduced. Al Green, a congressman from Texas, brought them “for dastardly deeds proposed and dastardly deeds done.” (“They are still a work in progress,” Green’s press secretary added.) Donald Trump had been President for two weeks, and Washington was flailing to respond to the new Administration’s tactics, which were to “flood the zone with shit,” as Steve Bannon once put it.

2 months ago | rsn.org | Antonia Hitchens

More than fifteen hundred of the January 6th rioters were pardoned by the President. What will they do next? The D.C. Central Detention Facility is two miles east of the U.S. Capitol, and about half a mile down the Anacostia River from the defunct R.F.K. Stadium. Execution by electric chair, and hangings before that, were once carried out in the corners of its dining rooms.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Antonia Hitchens

The D.C. Central Detention Facility is two miles east of the U.S. Capitol, and about half a mile down the Anacostia River from the defunct R.F.K. Stadium. Execution by electric chair, and hangings before that, were once carried out in the corners of its dining rooms. Many of those convicted or awaiting trial for breaching the Capitol building on January 6th have been held there for the past several years.