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VIDEO THREAD: Gun owners - many visibly armed - rallied in old Town Albuquerque today to openly defy the New Mexico Governor's Executive Order banning the open and concealed carry of firearms there as a one-month "emergency."
Police did not intervene or enforce the order.
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Secret Service with long duffle bags and badges marked “United States Secret Service Special Operations Counter Sniper Team” heading into the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute building a block north of White House.
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New bodycam footage shows Okaloosa County, FL Deputy Jesse Hernandez declaring "shots fired!" and "I'm hit!" and shooting at the handcuffed, unarmed suspect inside of his police car.
He had not been shot, rather, it was determined that he heard an acorn drop onto the car.
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The LAPD is tweeting that they responded to a call about a possibly suicidal person by showing up, shooting the person’s dog, and then shooting eachother.
Upon arrival officers made contact with the subject and a Rottweiler. During the encounter an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred and an officer was struck by gunfire. The officer’s injuries appear to be non-life threatening.
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THREAD: I have discovered something online that *could* be relevant to the Nashville explosion, but I want to be extremely clear that I don't know what - if anything - to infer from it.
I'm hoping appropriate experts and authorities can take a look.
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The IRS is hiring new special agents!
Requirements include working min “50 hours per week, which may include irregular hours, and be on-call 24/7, including holidays and weekends” and “Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”
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Thread: After a fresh, close look at my January 6 footage, I discovered something in the chaos I didn't know I captured:
On the Capitol East side, Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Khalid Johnson is in my footage wearing a MAGA hat and shouting into a bullhorn.
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VIDEO THREAD: Climate activists blocked the GW Parkway into DC on Wednesday morning during rush hour to demand President Biden declare a "climate emergency" and cancel new fossil fuel drilling.
"I have an interview today, are you serious?" yelled one angry driver, who said she's…
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Joe Biden’s new anti-terrorism initiative classifies “anarchist violent extremists” that “oppose all forms of capitalism, corporate globalization, and governing institutions, which are perceived as harmful to society” as “domestic violent extremists.”
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This is giant. Hundreds of Proud Boys and supporters marching on the streets of DC chanting “FUCK ANTIFA” two hours ahead of the
#MillionMAGAMarch
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Today armed Black Lives Matter and "boogaloo" protesters joined forces for an open carry rally against police violence and government overreach. I'll have HD video up ASAP, but here are some photos I snapped today.
Betcha didn't see this on cable news today.
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I am a journalist, verified on Facebook. Today I spent the entire day covering various armed groups throughout Louisville.
As I just finished a livestream, I tried to log in and it appears
@Facebook
deleted my account.
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Within minutes of
@YouTube
's announcement of a new purge it appears they caught my outlet, which documents activism and extremism, in the crossfire.
I was just notified my entire channel has been demonetized. I am a journalist whose work there is used in dozens of documentaries.
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There’s a feeling that a lot of corporate journalists are probably having right now: “What if this giant tech company I rely on bans me next? Would I even know why? Would I have any recourse?”
That fear has been this platform for everyone else for years.
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VIDEO THREAD: Yesterday, July 4, activists demanding Joe Biden declare a "Climate Emergency" blocked traffic on he beltway in Maryland, just outside DC.
One agitated driver got physical with them while saying that he's on parole and could return to prison if late for his job.
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An Illinois police union unanimously voted to oust an officer after he received criminal charges for a video of cops slapping and cursing a handcuffed man dying of drug overdose.
The officer is the one who released the video, not an officer in the video.
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Sgt Beth Roberts responded quickly to Deputy Hernandez erroneously calling "shots fired" in response to an acorn dropping from a tree.
"Where? Right there?" Roberts asked before also firing at the handcuffed, unarmed man in their car.
Luckily, both cops missed every shot.
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YouTube is probably over.
It’s been a lot of small steps, but this is the end.
As of December 10th, Youtube will delete channels that are “no longer commercially viable.”
How could a channel that’s demonetized be “commercially viable”?
“Broadcast yourself” is finished.
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“Remove Trump” and “Trump lies all the time” read two banners being waved at the White House.
I’m going to walk around a bit more before trying to livestream.
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@newscientist
‘Be not afraid of the living, controllable robot glob that can slither into your body. The glob is your friend. The glob only wants to help.’
A robot made of magnetic slime could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as retrieving objects swallowed by accident.
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Guido, still on top of the arch over the Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge, releases a green smoke bomb or something similar.
In an interview with me a couple weeks ago, he described how the color green signifies abortion rights in South American protest movements.
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I can’t overstate how bizarre it is to be learning this detail a year and a half later (half way into the article).
The United States Capitol Police officer who is on trial for allegedly tipping off a J6 participant to delete evidence was the first to respond to the pipe bombs.
“Jurors heard Tuesday that Riley was the first officer to respond to the scene when pipe bombs were discovered at the RNC and DNC headquarters near the Capitol.”
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Right now: Black Second Amendment groups led by
@EGPGunClub
prepare to march in Austin, Texas.
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BREAKING VIDEO: Former President Trump spoke tonight on the phone to Micki Witthoeft, mother of Ashli Babbitt, as she rallied for January 6 defendants outside DC jail.
"We're with you. We're working with a lot of different people on this," Trump said. "We can't let this happen."
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VIDEO THREAD: Pro-Palestine activists burned an Israeli Flag outside the Israeli Embassy tonight while playing the audio of U.S. airman Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation here from just one day ago.
"This is in solidarity with Aaron, who burned his body. At the very least, we can…
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Number of people at White House has made livestreaming impossible, but this giant Trump rat just arrived.
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Bus load of soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard get out at intersection of E and Penn, just east of the White House.
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Sgt. Javier Esqueda, a 27-year veteran of the Joliet Police Department, faces 20 years in prison for *revealing* that his fellow officers “slapped Eric Lurry, restricted his airway and shoved a baton in his mouth hours before his death.”
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AOC’s suggestion that the Biden administration ignore a federal judge’s abortion pill ruling is getting a lot of attention but is not unprecedented. Some history:
Vice President Harris has experience in this area from when she was fighting to keep prisons overcrowded. As…
"I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling": Rep.
@AOC
reacts to Texas judge's abortion pill ruling
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As the police dispersed, the right wingers took turns stepping on the thin blue line flag they had originally brought to support the cops.
"You have been declared to be treasonists," one yelled at officers leaving. "Only one punishment for treason."
"Fuck the blue!"
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Right now: Hundreds are gathered in Washington DC for a “Police Lives Matter” event hosted by conservative activist Candace Owens.
“Expose BLM. INC.” it says on the screen.
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The cops in his union expelled Esqueda for “reprehensible” conduct 35-1, and he’s charged with official misconduct (20 years prison), for *revealing* that an officer slapped a dying man and called him “a bitch.”
The slapper cop caught a 6-day suspension.
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VIDEO THREAD: "Protect our children!" Today a Muslim-led coalition rallied outside the Montgomery County Maryland School Board against the removal of an "opt-out" option from human sexuality related material.
Pro-LGBT activists counter-protested, chanting "secular schools!"
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@PicturesFoIder
This is a sloppily written equation.
The parentheses are certainly resolved before anything else, so it’s “6/2(3)”
I think this should be understood as 6 / (2*3) = 1
But if someone wanted to interpret it as (6/2)*(2*3) = 9, they also could.
It’s just badly written.
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Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters outside United States Capitol right now as hundreds gather inside, being arrested.
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An officer informed the climate activists that because they were on the Virginia side of the border near DC, they could face a class A misdemeanor with $2500 and a year in jail for blocking the roads.
Three ultimately refused to leave and were arrested, re-opening traffic after…
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An interesting contrast in the document is that militia groups are only classified by Biden as domestic violent extremists if they “take overt steps” to fight government.
Some militias wouldn’t be DVEs to Biden.
Meanwhile, anarchists need only oppose capitalism without steps.
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Violence broke out a couple times today between anti-drag protesters and activists defending the event in Wadsworth, Ohio.
In this scuffle, a drag supporter deployed mace, momentarily blinding a man wearing a full chain mail crusader outfit.
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Posted that video as they went into the front door, but I can confirm they went inside.
Assuming the hardware in long duffle bags carried by the “counter sniper team” is what we think it is, Secret Service has four riflemen on rooftop above action.
Secret Service with long duffle bags and badges marked “United States Secret Service Special Operations Counter Sniper Team” heading into the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute building a block north of White House.
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A Columbus police officer who was arrested by Ohio State Police for allegedly drag racing at 100MPH while drunk (failing a sobriety test) has resolved her charges with a plea to only speeding and a $150 fine.
There is “no impact on her driver’s license.”
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The reason I reference this is that as Congress and Biden expand policing power and budgets, the media’s framing largely pertains to right-wing extremism.
Biden is making no secret of the fact that his administration puts the Antifascist movement officially in the same boat.
Joe Biden’s new anti-terrorism initiative classifies “anarchist violent extremists” that “oppose all forms of capitalism, corporate globalization, and governing institutions, which are perceived as harmful to society” as “domestic violent extremists.”
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@historyinmemes
Her Wikipedia data goes hard.
“Deaths: 2
Injured: 9
Perp: Brenda Spencer
Motive: Dislike for Mondays”
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Now: Amidst a National Guard activation and fence erection around the Capitol ahead of expected trucker protests at State of the Union, the “Stage of Freedom” is set up on the National Mall.
Permit says 500 expected, but the event starting in 10 mins has nearly only media here.
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Florida politics just hit different.
Image description: A man wears a shirt reading "Trump was robbed" while carrying a hybrid LGBT pride / Confederate Battle-flag.
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In the clip before he is seen with MAGA cap, USCP Lieutenant Johnson can be seen entering with officers tailed by several Oath Keepers.
Footage by YouTuber Rico La Starza () shows Johnson wearing the cap and asking for Oathkeepers' help moments earlier.
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Just got off the Metro at Metro Center, the closest stop to the meetup spot for the
#MillionMAGAMarch
. A lot of red ball caps on the train; virtually all the traffic is on their way to the event.
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Candace Owens Leads “Police Lives Matter” Rally In DC
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By the same token, Biden is apparently concerned about *both* pro-life and pro-choice domestic violent extremists.
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Good morning from Louisville, Kentucky.
Today an all-black militia group called the “Not Fucking Around Coalition”
#NFAC
is holding an armed rally for
#BreonnaTalyor
, expected at noon.
Conservative militias are already gathering to to counter it.
I’ll be covering all day.
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Today as masked and uniformed white nationalist group Patriot Front left their protest of an 18+ drag show in Ohio, I asked how many of them are federal informants or snitches.
They weren't interested in answering that.
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2. One participant in the pride event confronted the Nazis, explaining that "It just makes me so happy that I get to wake up every day and just love who I want without fear of judgement or fucking Nazis apparently."
The Nazis left shortly after I interviewed that participant.
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Spotted outside a bar near the site of today’s anti-drag protests in Wadsworth, Ohio.
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Both Deputy Hernandez and Sergeant Roberts were cleared of criminal wrongdoing after the shooting prompted by an acorn falling on their police car.
Hernandez, whoever, who erroneously said "I'm hit," resigned from the sheriff's department.
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@economics
@tghilarducci
@bopinion
This tweet, and really the entire story, reads like an Onion Op-Ed.
“High gas prices? Inflation? We know it’s reducing your quality of life if you make under $300,00. Have you tried not having a car and letting your dog die” is beyond parody.
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THREAD: Yesterday following a pro-Trump/anti-lockdown protest in Salem, OR, riot police fired sting balls at conservatives and Proud Boys who refused to step back while trying to confront counter-protesters.
Filmed by
@MaranieRae
for
@N2Sreports
. Contact me for licensing.
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2) One speaker at the armed rally in Albuquerque defying the gun carrying ban told the crowd that they need to go out and do this every day, or else it wouldn't have an impact.
While the police didn't enforce the order, it includes a $5000 fine for violators.
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Good morning! This may sound like an odd project, but here in Tulsa I’m taking a look at the billboard space people have bought up ahead of the
#TrumpRallyTulsa
.
At this billboard, multiple electronic panels condemn Trump over COVID response, and one says
#BlackLivesMatter
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On the way home from Ohio, passed this house in Maryland.
This is not your everyday MAGA. This is advanced MAGA!
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"You think you're the only one with a fucking gun around here?" asked an anti-drag activist as he and others followed the drag supporter who deployed mace earlier, as they were escorted by police.
"I would love to fuck you up," one anti-drag protester said.
"Do it in front of…
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An ex-police chief in Ohio has been sentenced to 3 years PROBATION, 6 months home confinement and no prison for fraudulently using his position to buy 200 machine guns and illegally resell them.
Illegal (single) machine gun possession is a 10 year felony.
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As the Proud Boys walked, one officer with
@DCPoliceDept
held up a first to "Pound it" with a cigar in his mouth.
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Youtube is providing cover for the very people they claim to be combatting when they cast a wide net that removes every kind of content creator.
When Youtube demonetizes
@scrowder
and I in the same purge, they create a false equivalence.
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@Julio_Rosas11
Hey
@VICE
, what the absolute f**k?
This guy just pointed a firearm at his camera person and pulled the trigger.
3 rules:
Never point a gun at something you aren’t willing to destroy. Finger off trigger until ready to fire. Treat every gun like it’s loaded.
Broke all 3.
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3) One apparent anti-gun protester was yelled at, but then invited by the speaker to say his piece on the stage.
The crowd yelled at him for wearing a mask and applauded him when he took it off.
He expressed concern about gun violence in schools, which the speaker and crowd…
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VIDEO THREAD: "We ain't saying 'hands up.' We're saying we're gripped up! And we dare you to shoot."
Black Live Matter of Greater New York Founder
@IamHawkNewsome
spoke out today armed in Gulfport, MS at a rally for Jaheim McMillan, a teen shot dead by police last month.
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In my subsequent shot, Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Khalid Johnson can be seen wearing a MAGA cap and yelling into a bullhorn while leading several officers out of the building, followed by protesters.
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BIG THREAD: Today hundreds of members of the all-Black "Not Fucking Around Coalition" (
#NFAC
) marched through
#Lafayette
, Louisiana.
The group was protesting threats directed at them by U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins on Facebook, and the police shooting of Trayford Pellerin.
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Pro-Trump activist
@BrandonStraka
, who leads the
#WalkAway
movement, says he has filed a $25 million lawsuit against
@chrislhayes
&
@AriMelber
for defamation and false light invasion of privacy in their reporting on his misdemeanor January 6 guilty plea.
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Included in Biden’s broad definition of “anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists” are DVE’s who oppose perceived “economic, social, or racial hierarchies.”
In activist discourse, this is referring to those who identify as anti-capitalist / anti-fascist / anti-racist.
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VIDEO THREAD: Tonight, fans of Nick Fuentes (who was kicked out of
#CPAC
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The men yelled "Groyper! Groyper!" inside the…
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VIDEO THREAD: On Tuesday, Rep
@mattgaetz
held a field hearing about January 6 at the Capitol to scrutinize the day's investigation and aftermath.
"So much of our work has uncovered things that initially were deemed conspiracy theories but we now have sworn evidence to prove."
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This morning at the Rod of Iron Ministries' annual festival in Northern Pennsylvania, a Japanese Choir performed.
They held Trump 2024 flags and wore "Trump 2024: I'll be back" red ball caps as they sang.
The crowd excitedly praised them, one even pointing a rifle into the air.
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VIDEO THREAD: Police stood back tonight at Penn State as a right-winger pulled a canister of mace out and pointed it at a crowd of anti-Proud Boy protesters surrounding him and his friends.
Officers continued to stand by as he sprayed the crowd, including myself, and ran away.
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Breonna Taylor was killed during a botched raid at her Louisville home on March 13.
Activists have been asking for answers and justice for months.
Louisville police just released the incident report.
It's basically blank.
#BreonnaTaylor
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Some online are pointing out this moment from the fight earlier.
I cannot confirm definitively what this object pointed at the crowd was, but feel free to see for yourself (cropped, slow motion).
As you'll see in next tweet, he was later arrested.
Violence broke out a couple times today between anti-drag protesters and activists defending the event in Wadsworth, Ohio.
In this scuffle, a drag supporter deployed mace, momentarily blinding a man wearing a full chain mail crusader outfit.
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BREAKING: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has just turned himself in to the DC jail to begin serving a 155 day sentence for his role in burning a Black Lives Matter banner his group took from a church in December.
4K video on the way as well.
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TWITTER IS MARKING MY TWEET SHOWING PROTESTERS PEACEFULLY RAISE THEIR FISTS IN DC AS “SENSITIVE MATERIAL.”
@jack
@Twitter
@TwitterComms
please explain why peaceful protest should be filtered.
(While you’re at it, make me
@verified
.)
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I just attempted to submit this appeal with my driver’s license.
Again, I am a JOURNALIST who Facebook completely inexplicably just deleted as I covered protests in Lousiville, Kentucky.
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Right now: Demonstrators arrested demanding Israeli ceasefire inside U.S. Capitol.
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The masked man claimed “I’m just here” when asked if he’s undercover as he presented a badge to justify the gun he was apparently wearing, before being pulled out.
Other than undercover, he could have hypothetically been simply masked & off duty with his badge and gun concealed.
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A girl just asked for a selfie with Jacob Wohl and he said yes “only because she’s a cute blonde.”
After taking the photo she said “by the way, you thought I was cute, I’m seventeen.”
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VIDEO THREAD: On Saturday morning,
@DecEmergency
climate activists blocked a street in Washington DC again, their third time this week.
This time, several drivers got out of their cars yelling "I wanna go to work!" and grabbing their banners out of their hands. 🎥:
@wallendupraw
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A man armed with a rifle patrolled around the event told me he is "just providing security for Black Lives Matter movement, leaders of Kenosha."
"I do this for any group out here that wants to protest peacefully."
"That's what the Second Amendment is for, to protect the first!"
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Nick Fuentes speaks to a crowd of Trump supporters and gets them chanting “destroy the GOP!” for failing to protect Trump from not getting a second term.
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The
#MillionMAGAMarch
is officially starting in about half an hour, but violence has already broken out.
I’ll have a complete recording up later, but
@RefuseFascism
came to protest and was physically pushed out by Trump supporters. Some fighting ensued.
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So I’m leaving the
#StoneMountainGA
and there’s at least a dozen vehicles marked “Military Police” that were on standby as the fighting took place.
I was looking at the police who were involved, some were marked “Crime Unit” and “Sheriff’s Office,” but I don’t think military.
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