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Video of her leaving the Capital building while everyone was still going in: https://twitter.com/dudgedudy/status/1351178713111662593

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Wow. Sometimes you'll see a think piece about how a director will call attention to certain parts of the frame (dressing the main character in vibrant clothing and extras in drab clothing for a New York sidewalk scene, for example). This is like that. No question about who the main character is in that shot.

amateur cinematography thoughts here, you've got a few things that make her stand out... First, the other guys are just standing around static. Second, there's three other people all going the opposite direction. Third, she's the only movement or person going away from the capitol in the shot. Additionally, in a crowd mostly composed of men who generally resemble the guys standing around, she's the only person in a skirt. The zebra print bag is also unusual for the environment.

Just all around wonderful framing, blocking, and wardrobe chefs kiss

And, she is moving in a hurry. Like if you showed that to me without context and asked "what do you think she's doing?" I would likely think she is trying to carry something away by how she's holding the bag close to her midsection. Is the correct term for this "conspicuous af"?

It’d be very easy for a foreign agent to sneak in with the crowd. In one of the latter videos on that thread, it looked like she was directing/encouraging people to push forward.

Twitter tells me: "This is not available to you."

Anyone know why? Was it deleted? Suspended? Region locked (I'm in Canada).

With my ad and tracking blocking, I get that all the time.

Try refreshing the page when you see that message.

Always goes away the second time for me.

So, this is going to sound really weird, but:

Open the web inspector, switch to the Application tab, click "Service Workers" in the left sidebar, and unregister everything that shows up.

My understanding is that this behavior is caused by an old version of their service worker which they've had a hard time getting rid of.

I read a comment/tweet somewhere akin to, "if you run a foreign intelligence agency and did not have agents inside during this, you should be fired."

Sounds like a good way to blow your cover. Much better to play it cool and get hired into the target agencies/offices directly.

I there ever was a time to blow your cover for a literal smash-n-grab, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one.

With everyone filming everything all the time, I've always wondered just how fully we can capture all that is happening in a given place. Capitol events shows that in a situation like that, you can almost pick any person, and with enough effort, perhaps find everything that happened to them at any given time.

Why bother with CCTV when everyone is filming themselves.

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