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Tweets about the attack on the Capitol

Twitter is an ephemeral medium. You scroll through tweets just fast enough for them to register in your head, and then they’re gone forever. If you want to find something again, you can go to somebody’s profile and scroll through, one tweet at a time, until you find what you wanted.

This is a lousy way of capturing history. That’s not great, because Twitter does such a good job of capturing important moments, as they happen. If you want to save that moment, though, what can you do? What do you do if you think a day’s tweets are important? Print them out?

Well, I did. Here is what I tweeted and retweeted, on a page. Tactile. To be read.

(edit 2021-01-11: added a few more tweets in here)

What would we do without the police?§

There are two Americas.§

Trump incited it§

JANUARY SIXTH, SEE YOU IN DC!

This shouldn’t surprise you.§

Rewriting history in real time§

The Undesirables§

tech companies§

Impact§

Unsorted§

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