Joe Flood

1 month ago | joeflood.com | Joe Flood

Our long local nightmare is over: the Nazi Nest has left Eckington. This was a house of January 6th supporters paid for by the Overstock guy, Patrick Byrne. Their mission was to advocate for a pardon of January 6th rioters through their nightly Freedom Corner vigil outside the DC Jail and by making a nuisance of themselves at court houses, hearing rooms and bars around town. Calling it the Nazi Nest was not hyperbole.

2 months ago | joeflood.com | Joe Flood

A bike ride around Washington, DC, illustrates the state of the city, and the nation, in our dystopian year of 2025. People who bike are close observers. Since we’re not encased in a rolling living room, we notice things that driverists miss. This is what I saw on a cold Saturday bike ride around DC. The GW FenceOn my way to get a bagel, I saw that the University Yard at George Washington University now has a black mesh fence around it. This was the site of protests against the war on Gaza last year.

2 months ago | joeflood.com | Joe Flood

What a long, strange grift it has been. After more than 900 days on a dead-end street next to a cemetery, the so-called Freedom Corner vigil came to an end. This nightly insurrectionist meetup had provided thousands of hours of entertainment to trolls and fans  alike. With the Trump pardons of J6 rioters, Freedom Corner is no longer necessary. They won.

Jan 15, 2025 | joeflood.com | Joe Flood

The ice had holes in it where people had fallen through. Big cracks were visible. Even a couple sections of open water. Despite this, Americans walked on it anyway. This isn’t a very subtle metaphor, I thought to myself, as I watched families step on the thin ice of the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They gleefully danced around and posed for selfies, heedless the danger. Americans made another dangerous choice last November when they elected Donald Trump as President.

Jan 8, 2025 | joeflood.com | Joe Flood

January 6th was going to be their big day. Four years after the attack on the Capitol, the chuds of Freedom Corner would get mainstream media attention as they laid flowers for Ashli Babbitt and demanded the release of J6 insurrectionists. With Trump vaguely promising pardons for the rioters, it was a topic much in the news. CNN and others filmed the chuds as they chanted the name of their martyr: Ashli Babbitt, Ashli Babbitt, Ashli Babbitt.