Yay! Biden/Harris WIN

[Cristiano]

Police Officer Who Faced MAGA Mob Escorted Kamala Harris At Inauguration

Eugene Goodman accompanied the incoming vice president Wednesday as part of his new role as acting deputy Senate sergeant-at-arms.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Motorcade is arriving!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

First time in history the states have a second gentleman - Douglas Emhoff:

https://twitter.com/SecondGentleman

 

[danielravennest]

Her and Biden’s words were wonderful, very healing.

I’d forgotten how religious everything tends to be, though.

I think that is partly to show the religious right that he's not a commie socialist atheist. The worst they can say about him is he's Catholic.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I Wrote President Obama’s Ethics Plan—Biden’s Is Better

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[danielravennest]

Even when they don't explucitly pray, everything in DC has a religious feel to it. The national mall and the capitol complex feels more like a temple than a government. Last time I took a tour if the capitol with my sister she was kinda freaked out by the way it feels like there is a government religion. There is no government religion, of course, but they certainly decorate as if there is.

It's no coincidence that much of the official architecture is based on the Parthenon, which was the Temple of Athena. Democracy was born in Athens. The white columns and triangular pediment above them are the specific features borrowed from that building.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Huh that's interesting. Harris and her husband have been escorted to the OEOB, where her new office is, rather than to the Navy Yard where her home is. I guess that's normal and makes sense since the OEOB is next to the White House but I never realized that about the whole inaugural motorcade thing.

 

[danielravennest]

In Trump's case they got to work as soon as he boarded his helicopter for the last time. They're good at what they do; when Biden gets to the White House his own bed will already be made up.

Melania started packing up and shipping stuff to storage or Mar-a-Lago behind Trump's back several weeks ago. He was too busy fomenting insurrection to notice. So they had less than normal amounts of personal items to take out. A lot of the White House Archive items (artwork and such) were being removed last week. On the other hand, they hired extra contractors to do deep cleaning and disinfecting.

 

[danielravennest]

I Wrote President Obama’s Ethics Plan—Biden’s Is Better

Trump released all his appointees from the ethics rules yesterday. Those rules were set up at the start of his term as part of the "drain the swamp" lie. It's stuff like not immediately going to work as a lobbyist after leaving office.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Beebo Brink]

I've been happy but dry-eyed all day long. This photo, however, got me. I'm tearing up now.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Eunoli]

I don't know about y'all. But, I think I might finally sleep through the night tonight for the first time in quite a while.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It's no coincidence that much of the official architecture is based on the Parthenon, which was the Temple of Athena. Democracy was born in Athens. The white columns and triangular pediment above them are the specific features borrowed from that building.

Athenian democracy was pretty weird.

Everyone got a vote, so long as they were male, born not only of parents who were Athenian citizens (maybe one of them -- dunno) but also born in Attica, not a slave, and able to spare the time to attend the assembly rather than make a living, either in Athens or on your farm.

And there wasn't really much of a state apparatus, either -- if someone wanted the city to build a temple, or annex another city state, or declare war on Sparta or Persia, then if he could get the assembly to support him, they'd tell him, OK, go off and organise it and raise an army and equip it, or find some builders or whatever it is.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]