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Sep 28, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Right now: @DCMJ2014 are inflating a gigantic “joint” on Capitol Hill.

They plan to hold a protest advocating federal cannabis legalization today until 4:20pm, when a “direct action” is expected to take place.
Legalization advocate @aeidinger tells congress to vote on marijuana legalization or we will “vote and weed you out!”
The #Cannabis activists are now marching with the joint in front of the congressional offices.

A “joint session” so-to-speak.
“Lift the rider!” The @DCMJ2014 activists call out senators on Appropriations Committee for allowing a federal budget rider that prevents DC from setting its own drug laws.
I spoke with @aeidinger following today's #CannabisCommunity rally for legalization at congress.

He explains "strategic decision not to smoke" at Capitol, and describes how police have been "traumatized this year" and how that's affected the culture of protest.
Something fascinating that came up was how vaccines have become a point of disagreement among the marijuana community.

@aeidinger wants to put "cannabis activism squarely with the vaccine" as opposed to voices that are anti-vax among cannabis activists.
Adam @aeidinger was behind the "joints for jabs" event that gave weed to people who got the vax.

He describes that a prominent cannabis activist actually donated product to that, but didn't actually get vaxxed.

Apparently, he's recovering following a 3-month coma from COVID.
Raw @N2Sreports footage from today's @DCMJ2014 protest as well as the entirety of my interview with @aeidinger here.

As always, all footage is available for licensing!

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Mar 15
VIDEO THREAD: Protesters assembled Friday afternoon on the National Mall to demand Congress invoke the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from office as an "insurrectionist."

"It's not exaggeration, and it's not melodrama," said the program's MC Cliff Cash. "Donald Trump is a Russian asset."

"Traitor! Traitor!" yelled the crowd, who held a variety of signs condemning Trump as well as Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance.

"Serve no kings," read one banner with a guillotine drawn on it.
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"The last time I saw everybody like this, they were beating the s*** out of me and my coworkers at the Capitol," he said, to which the crowd yelled "traitors!"

"November 5th, we had an opportunity," he added. "We f***ed it up!"

"They cheated" an audience member yelled, to which Mr. Dunn replied "maybe."

He says some people with "backbone" need to use the 14th Amendment, Section 3, to get Trump out of office.
3) I spoke to a man wearing a "weed-based ghillie suit."

He says conservatives "need to smoke more weed."

"This whole thing about not smoking weed in the government, they've gotta get over that," the weed man said.
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VIDEO THREAD: Hundreds participated today in the Transgender Unity Rally and march from the United States Capitol to the White House.

"Protect trans kids!" they chanted. "Out of the closet, into the streets!"

"Trans rights are human rights!"
2) Bree Taylor, Executive Director of the Trans Unity Coalition, described inviting members of Congress to the rally, but none showed up.

"Where are they?" the crowd asked.

Senator Chris Van Hollen sent a letter which was read out loud: "One of the most despicable things about Donald Trump is that he goes after the most vulnerable members of our society."

"We are all Americans, and we all have the right to live as our true, free selves."

"These are wonderful words, and only that. Where the f*** are you?" asked Taylor, who called him hypocritical over a prior vote on an NDAA amendment defunding trans affirming care for minors.

"We cannot rely on those who have nothing but empty, hollow words," Taylor added.
3) "Hey hey, ho ho, transphobia's got to go!" chanted protesters as they arrived at the White House. "What do we want? Trans rights! When do we want them? Now!"

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All were granted pardons or commutations by Trump following decade+ prison sentences.

"Whose house?" they chanted as they posed for a photo. "Our house!"

"Whose desk?" yelled Richard "Bigo" Barnett, who was photographed with his feet on Rep Pelosi's desk on January 6.
2) Tarrio calls the Proud Boys chapters not recognized on his website (such as those that marched on Inauguration Day) "not legitimate."

"They've created their own faction," he explains. "Those are not Proud Boys."

He wouldn't answer say if he's the National Chairman again.
3) As Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes walked around the Capitol, they joked "tactical formation, look out!"

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VIDEO THREAD: Hundreds gathered including several members of Congress Tuesday outside the US Treasury to protest Elon Musk's access to a federal payment system.

Rep @MaxwellFrostFL said "an unelected billionaire and his team have been given full and unfettered access to our taxpayer money and our government."

"We're going to be the opposition!" he said to cheers. "We will fight, we will provide oversight, and we will win!"

All video in thread by @wallendupraw for @N2Sreports
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"Y'all about to find out!"
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Crowd: "No!"

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CW: Racism, language

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"If it's such a good cause, take off the mask!" he said to Rousseau through the puppet. "Take your mask off!"
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