VIDEO THREAD: Tonight, climate activists attempted to blockade the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. One government vehicle attempted to drive through the protesters, pausing right in front of them and then hitting the gas again, pushing into them, but then switched into reverse and retreated. The protesters chastised police... for not stopping the driver, whose flashing lights indicated they were also law enforcement.show more

"The planet is dying!" chanted protesters as John Legend and Chrissy Teigen arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight. "Yes Chrissy!" yelled one activist. "She doesn't have fossil fuelss in her stock portfoio! No she doesn't!"

Climate scientist Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman spoke out at the blockade, telling the activists "you guys are on the right side of history." "President Biden is on the wrong side of history," he says for "expanding the fossil fuels during a climate emergency."

"Let Ro Khanna through!" Some of the climate activists at the blockade were excited to see Democratic Rep Ro Khanna as he arrived at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "Thank you for being out here," he told participants. "He [Biden] said he wasn't gonna drill, and he's drilling," one activist told him, receiving no response. @medeabenjamin of @codepink advocated "we need peace talks in Ukraine, not more war!" "War kills the planet!"

Formerly ousted Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones @brotherjones_ showed up to White House Correspondents' Dinner, but was handed a microphone and spoke to the climate activists outside. "We're fighting fascism," he said. "We're fighting a system that is trying to put the profits of the gun industry, the profits of the fossil fuel industry, the profits of for-profit healthcare over the lives of our people!"

Also formerly ousted Tennessee State Rep. @Justinjpearson spoke to climate protesters outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "What we must do is never quit," he said. "Because if we never quit, we can never lose!"

Justin Blake, uncle of Jacob Blake, called out Biden for breaking promise not to dig for new oil. "If he can't do what we need to do for the people, then we need to find somebody that will." "We're not talking about age sir, we're talking about you not keeping your promise."

No arrests were made, but the blockade outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner had some tense moments like this one where someone trying to get into the hotel was accused of pushing into activists, who demanded his arrest. "That's assault!" "Do your job!" "Arrest him!"

Here is my full @N2Sreports video of the climate activists’s blockade of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. As always, all footage available to license.

I made a mini-documentary about the @ClimateDefiance blockade of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, featuring footage of mine and @Paulisconi. Watch it here on @mtaibbi's The Racket:

What on earth is wrong with those people. What cult did they join?