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Apr 26, 2019 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
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I do these super-long threads intended to be informational/educational that then get buried and people keep looking for them afterward. So here's a one-stop shop for most of my best threads. They will be in reverse chronology, with the oldest first.

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Feb 1
I had a terrific interview with @That_Girl_Tasha yesterday exploring the inside history of the Oath Keepers, in which she revealed the truth behind so many of Stewart Rhodes’ lies and the travesty his organization became.

dailykos.com/story/2022/2/1…
Some nuggets worth noting:

— Rhodes embraced the 1999 “Y2K Apocalypse” panic.
—Oath Keepers were his scheme to escape poverty.
—He brazenly lied about his ties to Charles Dyer.
—He wears an eyepatch now because bad hygiene caused him to lose his eye prosthetic.
Most of all, she thinks it’s unlikely that Rhodes would have green-lighted the coordinated attack on the Capitol unless he had received assurances that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act.
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Jan 2
The #TodaysBeauty feature is intended as an antidote to the ugly world I report on. I hope it's helped.

Here's a thread of my Top 20 shots from 2021. 1/ J Pod coming past Lime Kiln on Sept. 12.
2/ Eagles are common on San Juan Island, so everyone with a camera gets shots of them here. But getting the right combination of light and pose is always special.
3/ This black oystercatcher on the rocks at Lime Kiln was unperturbed by my presence. I was shooting orcas but this was my best pic that day.
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Dec 31, 2021
The second part of my deep dive into the fresh hopes for getting Tokitae/Sk'aliCh'ech-tenaut out of that crumbling pit in Miami.
dailykos.com/stories/2021/1…
Here's their GoFundMe page.
gofundme.com/f/tokitae
Many thanks to @Whale_Sanctuary and @frdolphinPOV
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Dec 2, 2021
Carlson is mocked, too, for gaslighting us so hamhandedly. We've all seen Jones in action. Here are a couple of videos of this "guide to reality." /1
Here he is telling his audience of millions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a "false flag," and the children who died there were "crisis actors." /2
And this is Jones' mid-2016 rant claiming that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are demons who smell like sulfur. He appears on the verge of an aneurysm: 'We're gonna have President Linda Blair, people, and I'm not gonna go along with it!!!!' /3
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Nov 28, 2021
When writing my tribute to Bill Morlin this week, I dove back into the period when we first worked together in 1996, notably the tale of the Phineas Priesthood terror gang that targeted him. It’s a great story that speaks to our present. So here's another absurdly long thread. /1 Image
This story begins in fall 1995, when Morlin was contacted by a secretive militia group that offered to let him and a photographer attend a training session in the northern Idaho woods. Morlin and photog Dan McComb were both blindfolded and taken to the training area. /2
When the blindfolds were removed, Morlin and McComb found themselves surrounded by a group of armed men with ski masks, who proceeded to conduct military-style exercises and plunk at silhouette targets in the shape of Hillary Clinton and federal agents. /3
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Nov 21, 2021
I am heartbroken at this news. Bill was one of my best friends in this business and my model for covering right-wing extremists. We met in 1996 covering the Montana Freemen standoff, and were partners in crime for the SPLC for six years.
No one had better stories to tell than Bill. An evening with him was always an amazing river of anecdotes. And as Leah says, he was a deeply kind and generous man.

Here’s Bill when we visited the Viola Liuzzo memorial near Selma.
Bill was already a legend among PNW journalists by the time I met him. He covered the Weaver standoff before it was a standoff; he was the first reporter to type the words “Ruby Ridge.” (He told me he looked it up on a Forest Service map.) RWers blamed Bill for the standoff.
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