March 24, 2025 Mr. Thomas E. Austin Architect of the Capitol SB-15 U.S. Capitol U.S. Capitol Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Austin: On his first day in office, despite warnings from senior Republicans, President Trump issued a blanket pardon to the more than 1,500 people charged in the deadly January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.1 While these sentences can be erased with the stroke of a pen, the damage done that day is not so easily repaired. The Capitol complex withstood nearly millions of dollars in property damage from the insurrectionists who entered the Capitol by force and in their wake “left windows broken, doors splintered, and paintings stained with pepper spray and tear gas.”2 The total cost of the insurrection to the taxpayers is estimated to be $2.7 billion, and that does not account for the lives lost due to the violence that day.3 Thanks to President Trump’s reckless pardons, convicted rioters can not only walk freely, but they also are no longer required to pay their court-ordered restitutions, much of which was owed directly to your office.

Not the first time Trump trashed a public building. Total cost of January 6: $2.7 billion.

Hey! Comes to Newhaven this Saturday, 2-6 pm. It’s packed with good things and it’s free! #writingcommunity

Cultural healing and culture shift last night at Wembley stadium. #FreePalestine

This woman! #bravery

Yes. I’m aware.

We did it ! Hey! Festival was launched last weekend as part of Art Bomb, Doncaster. #liveliterature

Pleased to announce our inaugural Hey! Festival in collaboration with Doncaster Art Bomb. A Hard Art writer led initiative, where live lit meets activism. #Hey! #activism #wordsmatter

Thankyou ! #mermaids

The context for right-wing populist attacks on clean energy? Clean energy is poised to wipe out the power of their corporate and petrostate sponsors.

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

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MONIQUE ROFFEY Forthwrite · Episode

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Chatting about writing and about Passiontide. Thankyou @forthwrite.bsky.social #activism

Today’s State of the Climate address to Parliament from @ed-miliband.bsky.social is a welcome step – radical truth-telling is exactly what we need.

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, online early from our next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I salute these people. Brave people. #Gazagenocide

Thankyou judges, honoured! #caricon #Passiontide

Thrilled to be a finalist! #Caricon

Great evening last night @vaginamuseum.bsky.social with these two great women. Tantra teacher Jan Day and writer Marianne Power. #modernlove

Best news ever!

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

It's called Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

And you can watch it here:
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@palaction.bsky.social is not a terrorist group. #FreePalestine

"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after" Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

Perfectly expressed.

Almost sold out! Join us @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 8 July. #love #desire

Join us. I’ll be chatting to legendary tantra teacher Jan Day as well as author Marianne Power @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 8 July #tantra #women #Sexuality

£6.4 k raised in ten days. Be a founder not just a funder. #Hey! Please donate.

Thank you to @moniqueroffey.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation last night at Essex Book Festival. My mind was buzzing afterwards and I’m still thinking! Thanks to the Maldon Library staff who were fabulous hosts as usual 💕 Good luck with the crowd funding the Hey! Festival is going to be👌

Thanks for having me last night, Maldon Library. #books #femicide #protest #passiontide

Looking forward to chatting to you this evening, Emma at Maldon Library. #Passiontide

Today, children are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity.

We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen.

Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.

Donate to Hey! Festival Be a founder not just a funder, organized by Monique Roffey Hey! Festivals are a writer-led Hard Art initiative, and we are planning t… Monique Roffey needs your support for Hey! Festival Be a founder not just a funder

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Please share and donate. This is a Hard Art, writer led, initiative. We plan to pilot three pop up micro festivals this year in places festivals do not go. #feteofBritain