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    1. The Justice Department has removed press releases detailing the charges against hundreds of individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from its website, the department confirmed Friday.

      Nothing ‘quiet’ about it,” the DOJ Rapid Response X account said in a post replying to allegations that the Justice Department had deleted press releases related to Jan. 6.

      “We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration,” the post continued. “We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”

      A review by NBC News found that the vast majority of press releases pertaining to Jan. 6 defendants have been removed from the DOJ website as of Friday evening.

    2. OilInternational2566 on

      ‘MERICA!!!

      …or Russia? Almost can’t tell the difference anymore.

    3. Anyone know where backups of them can be found? Other than maybe the internet archive?

    4. Just some facts that I found particularly interesting:

      1. ⁠⁠During the Reign of Terror, execution schedules became so packed that people allegedly complained more about waiting in line than about the blade itself. Nothing says “bureaucracy” like industrialized mortality.
      2. ⁠⁠The guillotine was considered progressive technology. In other words, Europe once looked at a machine that rapidly removed heads and said, “Finally, innovation.”
      3. ⁠⁠Some aristocrats reportedly dressed elegantly for their executions, treating the walk to the scaffold like one final public appearance. The original “die with style” philosophy was considerably more literal.
      4. ⁠⁠Families sometimes sat in the front row to watch executions. In modern times, people binge true crime documentaries; in 1793, France preferred premium live seating.
      5. ⁠⁠Executioners occasionally had assistants whose entire job was to hold bodies steady and clear away remains quickly so the next person could step up. Essentially: the first high-speed turnover management system.
      6. ⁠⁠The blade itself weighed around 80 pounds. Imagine waking up every morning knowing your career success depended entirely on gravity maintaining peak performance.
      7. ⁠⁠Some condemned prisoners joked on the way to the scaffold. Gallows humor existed because, at that point, the review period for life had already concluded.
      8. ⁠⁠There were reports of people dipping handkerchiefs in the blood of executed prisoners as souvenirs. Humanity has always managed to find a way to make things worse.
      9. ⁠⁠The guillotine was supposed to make death equal for all classes, but wealthy prisoners could still sometimes buy more comfortable final days beforehand. Even in death, premium subscriptions existed.
      10. ⁠⁠France’s last guillotine execution happened in 1977, the same year the first Star Wars movie was released. Somewhere on Earth, audiences were cheering lightsabers while elsewhere, officials were still using what amounted to an extremely committed paper cutter.
      11. ⁠⁠A dark joke from the era claimed the guillotine cured all illnesses instantly. Revolutionary France may have pioneered both modern execution methods and catastrophic customer service.
      12. ⁠⁠Some scientists allegedly tried observing severed heads for signs of consciousness by calling the person’s name after execution. Imagine surviving history only to become part of the world’s worst reaction-time experiment.
      13. ⁠⁠Children owned toy guillotines during the revolutionary period. Historians believe some were used on dolls, rats, and, occasionally, on unfortunate pets. Nothing develops motor skills quite like tiny mechanized terror.
      14. ⁠⁠The machine was praised because it reduced the skill required for execution. Translation: management successfully automated another profession.
      15. ⁠⁠Relatively cheap and easy to make and transport.

    5. I am honestly tired of hearing about January 6, Trump managed to rewrite history in a way because nobody had the balls to prosecute a former president for a clear as day crime. Trump won

    6. permanent_pixel on

      Can they even legally do this? Yet the American people are just like, “Yeah, I’m fine with a corrupted justice department.”

    7. Too bad it’s all on the Internet and will be around forever. Can’t rewrite history like you used to be able to, the world is too connected now.

    8. this_my_sportsreddit on

      america saw fascism or a black woman for president, and really chose fascism.

    9. Affectionate_Sir9020 on

      They can try and delete or scrub away whatever they want. The internet is forever and there will always be traces left somewhere.

    10. Criminals supporting criminals on the back of the average person. Historically this does not end well for the crooks at the top.

    11. Desperate-Spend377 on

      Justice Department is a disgrace. Actual police officers died from that riot and they’re actual erasing it wow.

    12. AlertThinker on

      You cannot rewrite history. We all know and remember what happened that day. Traitors. All of them.

    13. I_heart_cancer on

      They were not “rioters” – they were **violent insurrectionists**.

    14. At this point any person working for the US government in any capacity is MAGA and should forever be treated as such.

    15. Current_Ranger_7954 on

      Don’t worry USA, the internet doesn’t forget, and the US can’t reach outside your jurisdiction