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Sister of murdered Kent State protester Allison Krause speaks out against use of militarized police responses on college campuses amidst nation-wide pro-Palestine protests.
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For a failed urine test Meek Mill was sentenced to more jail time than:
Darren Wilson - Michael Brown's killer
Timothy Loehmann - Tamir Rice's killer
Daniel Pantaleo - Eric Garner's killer
Sean Williams - John Crawford's killer
Michael Slager - Walter Scott's killer
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Militarized Federal Agents from a patchwork of outside agencies have begun policing Portland (in rented minivans vans) without the explicit approval of the mayor, the state, or local municipalities. This is what that looks like in practice:
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“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.”
A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.
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Welp. I just received a letter from Twitter's legal team notifying me that Devin Nunes' attorney Steven S. Biss has subpoenaed Twitter for my DMs.
If any attorneys out there want to help me file a motion to quash I'll buy you a vegan doughnut.
How's your Friday going?
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The young woman, who chooses to remain anonymous, says Gerber was driving when she saw her walking by in a keffiyeh, and got out of her car to follow her.
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“Mr. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on January 6th” - Liz Cheney
While details are thin surrounding who was actually at the Willard Hotel "War Room" a few photos have emerged.
Among those in attendance: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and OANN's Christina Bobb...
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The student felt compelled to share this video after the horrific shooting of three Palestinian students, Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani in Burlington, VT.
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A sobering reminder that while Paul Manafort serves his prison sentence from home and Roger Stone has his sentence commuted, Reality Winner, who revealed to reporters a 2016 attempt by foreign state actors to subvert voter software, remains in a federal prison overrun by Covid19.
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A sobering reminder that the 12 Russians indicted today may never see a day of incarceration for attempting to interfere with the 2016 election. While Reality Winner, who revealed to reporters their 2016 attempt to subvert voter software, has remained in jail ever since.
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Gerber: “Hi, camera! Thank you for walking through neighborhoods and making families feel unsafe with your terrorist scarf.”
Student: “Palestinians felt pretty unsafe when Israelis occupied their country, you know.”
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She hopes that through sharing this incident, light can be shed on the harmful biases that lead to Islamophobia and the devaluing of Palestinian lives. Despite this being reported, no action was taken by Harvard.
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Now combine these tactics with cities/regions known for Trump-emboldened vigilantes wearing similar gear and you have a very dangerous and unpredictable cocktail.
Clear identification is key to de-escalation.
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Hitler did a "MAGA Night" too, he called his Kristallnacht.
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Gerber: “I’m glad you’re so proud of the slaughtering of civilians.”
Student: “I’m not.”
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In summary the irony is not lost on the fact that it was Eric Munchel's expensive-ass camouflage and tactical larp-flare that helped identify him in the crowd. 🧐🤦🏽
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After many contributions from people following this thread we now have confirmation that zip-tie guy is Eric Munchel, of Nashville, TN.
Eric is currently a bartender at Bartender at Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille.
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UPDATE: Several attempts were made by this mixed bag of federal officers (Marshals, Border Patrol, HSI) to grab people out of dwindling crowds. At least two people were detained in this manner and both may be released as of this time. Working to confirm.
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Reality Winner has been released from prison to a halfway house.
Albeit 4 years overdue this is wonderful news and we wish Reality and her family unbridled health, healing, and happiness.
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For folks asking "who are these guys?":
Four federal law enforcement agencies including U.S. Marshals, Federal Protective Service, Customs & Border Protection & Homeland Security Investigations have rotated officers through Portland since early July.
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Video has surfaced of the zip-tie guy and the woman accompanying him in a hotel lobby shortly after the attack on the Capitol.
In the bizarre clip he explains how he is "concerned for the country"
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Additionally at the Willard Hotel, InfoWars and Roger Stone both booked suites with large common rooms. Both of these photos are from the suites they booked on January 5th and 6th.
In attendance: Michael Flynn, Owen Shroyer, Roger Stone, among others.
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As I look at photos of the "zip tie guy" I noticed a few details that may be easy to overlook when your eye is clearly drawn towards the zip ties.
Some of these details may be indicators of where he is from and possible group affiliation.
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The only thing I can say with any certainty is this election was an indictment of who we are as a Nation.
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BREAKING: Agency Payments to Mar-A-Lago & Trump Hotels Provide Strong New Evidence for Impeachment
#Op45
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Thanks to a follower's keen eye we now know that zip tie guy and the woman accompanying him stayed at the
@GrandHyattDC
the night of January 6.
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It's also worth noting that Senator
@RonWyden
is among the many local officials who have asked them to leave.
This weekend a peaceful protestor was shot in the head with a potentially deadly crowd control munition after Donald Trump deployed fed’l law enforcement to Portland. Trump thinks he can treat law enforcement as his personal occupying army. Not on my watch. I’m demanding answers:
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A retired Federal agent from Texas was one of 6 people in regular communication with the white supremacist Buffalo murderer. 30mins prior to the attack the shooter invited the former agent to review his attack plans and watch his live stream.
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Bishop Budde: “Let me be clear, the President Just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition & one of the churches of my diocese without my permission as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teaches of Jesus & everything our churches stand for...
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Today far-right Polish Nationalists attempted to set fire to the homes of women's rights advocates in Poland.
There is always a bitter seed of anti-woman animus at the core of fascist movements.
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When Laura Lommer shows you who they are, believe them.
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Matt Taibbi is either woefully misinformed about this or cynically lying.
How do I know?
Because I attended two meetings with Twitter representatives in July and August 2020 wherein the Hunter Biden story was discussed within the larger framework of election integrity.
22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
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Eric Munchel, the zip-tie guy from Wednesday's cosplay coup d'état at the Capitol apparently had a crush on Tomi Lahren.
Eric may have had his Facebook page disabled but not before a concern citizen gleaned this gem.
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H/T to
@No_Nazis_Please
for these higher quality images of zip-tie guy and the woman he was with.
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For folks asking me to share a copy of the subpoena:
There are 21 users/accounts mentioned in the subpoena beyond myself — I wound not want to share my copy of the subpoena before those users have been given the time to be made aware of this.
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Obfuscating license plates with "blue tape" lines has become a pattern among the police-enabled pro-Trump vehicle caravans. This functions as both a signal to police and an attempt to avoid accountability for when they engage in hazardous or violent behavior.
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Elon is lying about the ADL to distract away from his mismanagement of X.
Antisemitism and hate content have proliferated exponentially under Musk's management.
From X's API: Tweets invoking "The Jewish Question" have increased 3X when comparing August 2023 to August 2022.
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Hapless spy turned Roger Stone wannabe Robert Hyde was also in the room. We only have these photos because Hyde posted them on his instagram.
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CONFIRMED: Similarly to that of the violent 'call to arms' in Kenosha WI, this evening's confrontational "Trump Caravan" utilized a Facebook event page to market their event and create space for violent inspiration in their discussion tab.
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Michael Benz, a consultant who provided analysis to "Twitter Files" bloggers, advised Jim Jordan's "Weaponization Committee," and had the ear of
@ElonMusk
and Donald Trump, also lived a double life as the alt-right live-streamer "Frame Game."
His frame is hate, his game is lies.
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UPDATE: Eric Munchel may have taken a job at "Kid Rock's Big Ass Honkey Tonk" bar in Nashville, TN. This photograph from August 18, 2020 can be found on the bar's instagram account.
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Last year I met with a source to learn more about how the alt-right was financed. What they explained was a shell game wherein Peter Theil would take a meeting and then later Jeff Giesea would work with them to set up an LLC "production company" that would receive Theil capital.
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Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille, Eric Munchel's former employer posted this on facebook moments ago.
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Russ Ramsland Jr. who has been central to the dissemination of election fraud claims in multiple states was also in attendance.
More on Ramsland here:
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There is one small, particularly organized group I have been keeping my eye on since April, and perhaps by complete coincidence their entire core team wears this exact top-bottom kit.
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Video footage appears to show the zip-tie guy entering the capitol at approximately ~0:19" in this clip. Capitol Police can be overheard telling the group he is with "we disagree but we respect you"
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Up until recently reverse DNS records from Elon Musk's x[.]com pinged from an IP in Khabarovsk, Russia.
Connected to these records are a Chinese national known for his development of lithium ion batteries, and a company with servers in Russia called Fishnet Communications.
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UPDATE: For folks asking for additional info, I would highly recommend reading
@conradjwilson
and
@_jlevinson
impeccable reporting on these dangerously irregular federal detentions for Oregon Public Broadcasting
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Today the Sparrow Project joined over 100 organizations in calling for Reps Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn to be barred from congressional committee assignments due to their support of QAnon and white supremacist ideologies.
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St. Louis is lucky to have Taurean Russell. In countless scenes Taurean can be seen deescalating rightfully outraged protesters as a deranged Patricia McCloskey brandishes her weapon itching for an excuse to shoot them.
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For the folks sending me photos ID'ng who this pair may be, I see you and I am grateful, but I won't post until I am able to 100% confirm.
If accurate this story is about to take a really bizarre turn.
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When I hear Paul Manafort has been granted bail and relieved of house arrest all I can think about is how Reality Winner, who stands accused of sharing information w/ journalists detailing an attempt to subvert our democracy, is denied bail and isolated in pre-trial detention.
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DEVELOPING: A protestor was just shot in Portland near the Justice Center, reports of multiple shots fired, situation fluid.
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IMPORTANT CONTEXT regarding the John Sullivan narrative the far right is presently pushing.
John was repeatedly expelled from civil rights groups and protest movements for being a violent accelerationist and apolitical opportunist.
Thread from LAST YEAR👇🏽
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NYPD, once again making a case the NYPD should be abolished.
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Here is a closer look at the various Kryptek kits worn by the "Iron City Civil Defense Unit" a small, extremely organized, militia group out of Pittsburgh, PA who has adopted Norse iconography recently coopted by Neo-Nazi groups like Atomwaffen division.
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Here is another photo of the zip-tie guy and the woman he accompanied up the stairs to the rotunda.
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BREAKING: Chelsea Manning released from Alexandria Detention Center after Grand Jury lapses. Chelsea has been subpoenaed to appear before another Grand Jury May 16, 2019.
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"People like you are who the 2nd Amendment is for."
Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt says his office has received death threats for simply counting the remaining votes.
Trump incited this.
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Jesus couldn't give a fuck if church is filled on Easter, however Jesus would care about how we treat our most vulnerable.
Either these people are not Christians or I'm not.
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Matt Taibbi's analysis has myriad problems but the biggest problem is his failure to underscore what initially prompted twitter staff to designate the content in the Post story as "stolen" or "hacked" material.
This came from conversations with law enforcement in summer of 2020
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Donald Trump all but confirms the NYT's reporting that US Marshals did not make any effort to arrest Michael Reinoehl but instead, upon his orders, engaged in extrajudicial murder.
Every accomplice who carried out this order should be criminally charged.
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Profound appreciation for
@JacobSoboroff
holding Richard Grenell accountable for making baseless and incendiary claims of voter fraud in Nevada. There are Republican and Democratic observers inside yet the Trump team wants some to believe otherwise.
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Many thanks to the myriad anonymous contributors who DM'd me content throughout the day, and to the people who advanced this story well beyond what I was able to digest.
Specifically:
@reginamorales
,
@OpossumPress
,
@No_Nazis_Please
,
@jsrailton
,
@dani3l_thomas
, and
@HansSchollo
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At least one person has been stabbed and over a dozen others injured by Enrique's "Proud Boys" after he made this post on Parler.
At this moment a roving mob of about 100 Neo-Fascists, Neo-Nazis, and various "MAGA"-types are looking to accelerate violence in downtown DC.
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A woman draped in a "Qanon" flag screaming at a reporter to take his mask off feels like peak 2020. The cough heard at the end of the video is the chef's kiss.
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PERSONAL NOTE: I believe in revolutionary antifascist resistance to our current crisis, but I also believe we should never relish when one of our opposition loses their life.
We should strive to heal the wounds caused by this administration, not rub salt in them.
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Major credit to
@AndrewLSeidel
for spotting that the man in the foreground of the photo with Roger Stone is Pastor Mark Burns, who on January 6th took to periscope to advance a false narrative attributing the riot at the Capitol to AntiFa
@sparrowmedia
That's Pastor Mark Burns sitting in the chair in the foreground. He preached at the J5 rallies.
More Christian nationalism at the insurrection.
#capitolsiegereligion
.
Here he is day of in same suit and tie:
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UPDATE: Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf issued a statement in defense of the use of these Federal officers on the streets of Portand.
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Tweets have consequences you fucking societal arsonist.
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"Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor."
Ecclesiastes 10:1
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1,119,700 Americans contracted Coronavirus this week while their president retweeted "CatTurd2"
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I want to correct a supposition I made earlier in the day regarding Eric's Tennessee patch fixed to his plate holder. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was skilled and being evasive —everything we have unearthed today indicates otherwise.
But I must underscore that people consider the intention behind the patches and symbols that were visible on the zip-tie guy's plate carrier and consider whether or not they are part of an effort to obfuscate where the perpetrator is actually from.
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This then brings me to the Tennessee "blue line" patch affixed to the center of his plate holder.
His balaclava under the baseball cap is clearly worn to obfuscate his hair and facial features and evade detection.
Why narrow down who you are by wearing a state-specific patch?
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Interesting editorial choice of the New York Post to assign their Hunter Biden "exclusive" to self-described "Macedonian content farmer," Emma-Jo Morris.
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But I must underscore that people consider the intention behind the patches and symbols that were visible on the zip-tie guy's plate carrier and consider whether or not they are part of an effort to obfuscate where the perpetrator is actually from.
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1.) The Odal rune (Thor's Hammer) on his abdomen has been adopted by many (often white supremacist) Odenist groups.
2.) The Norse Valknut (three triangles) on his chest has been coopted by US white nationalist groups and was prominent at the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally.
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BREAKING: Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd has been arrested. A decision regarding what charges he will face has not yet been made.
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The Counselor to the President of the United States took a selfie this weekend with a young man wearing a "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong" t-shirt.
Pinochet executed as many as 3,200 leftists and interned and tortured 80,000 more.
Photo h/t
@Z_Everson
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UPDATE: A leaked DHS briefing memo highlights that the recent deployments of a multi-agency federal "police" force to Portland stems directly from Donald Trump's June 26 Executive Order "Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Activity"
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Barr on Roger Stone: "Do you think it is fair for a 67-year-old man to be sent to prison for 7-9 years?"
Ghassan Elashi is a 67-year-old Texan serving a 65 year sentence for fundraising for Palestinian humanitarian relief.
Mr. Barr, will you be showing him similar compassion?
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Renaming military bases to remove confederate names is not a victory, especially when it comes with a $740 billion dollar budget to murder and terrorize communities of color and further enable the Saudi genocide in Yemen.
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The shirt and pants are notably expensive, and uniquely identifiable. Specifically they are the "combat field shirt" and "stalker pant" made by Kryptek. Both are in the "Typhon" urban camouflage color way.
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A matching tactical kit is hardly enough evidence to allege this group was somehow associated with the zip-tie situation at the Capitol, but it may be worth seeing which groups and individuals may have purchased this uniquely identifiable kit and as a parameter to narrow a search
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Refreshing to see fascist collaborator
@MrAndyNgo
lose his instagram account. Here's hoping that Twitter
@Policy
and Facebook will soon follow.
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If the started January 6th with an intention to do crimes it is worth considering that they stripped off all of the patches they usually proudly adorn themselves with and instead wore ambiguous patches or patches that would lead investigators to look in another state.
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Point of clarification**
Eric Munchel may no longer work at Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille in Ft Meyers, FL
Eric's social footprint seems to indicate he has spent the majority of the past 6 months in Nashville, TN.
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Another Nazi participant in this afternoon's cosplay coup d'état can be seen wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" pullover.
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Lightweight combat tops are popular among militia groups because of the velcro adornments on the shoulders, elbows, and chest, that allow them to affix their groups' identifying patches and similar flare.
Is it significant that this individual is not wearing his group's patches?
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George Floyd's partner was Daunte Wright's teacher.
US Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario's uncle was Eric Garner.
Fred Hampton's mother babysat Emmitt Till.
The trauma police inflict on communities of color is layered, pervasive, familial and must be eradicated as the cancer it is.
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I did not publish this info because I never had receipts to back up what the source was telling me. Today,
@RosieGray
and
@RMac18
produced a laundry list of damning receipts that put Peter Theil at the table of an ambitious Nazi "Right Wing Dinner Squad"
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As he attempts to strong arm the House Committee on Intelligence, I thought folks should know Acting Director of National Intelligence,
@RichardGrenell
is a member of a private dm group filled w/ alt-light grifters, qanon proponents, snake oil peddlers, and Fox News contributors.
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Another alt-right fascist and Charlottesville keynote speaker Tim Gionet, aka "Baked Alaska," was among those who broke into Capitol offices and streamed himself pilfering though a senate phone directory.
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