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@ByMikeBaker
Sep 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I'm in Portland, where there are maybe 200 people who have gathered for a Proud Boys event. The crowd has surrounded a couple people who they believe to be Antifa, and they are chasing them away.
Some of the Proud Boys and people from the Three Percenters militia group surrounded a person with a camera. They said the man was Antifa and tried to kick him out. Then others intervened and said the videographer was OK. Others said the crowd was acting just like Antifa.
A half-dozen Portland police officers have arrived to cool things down and ask the Proud Boys to leave others alone.

Two of the police officers are wearing hats with a yellow "P" on the front. One says it's a police union hat but said people have told him "nice hat."
The Proud Boys have regrouped for their event, with maybe 300 on scene.

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Jan 30
NEW:

A preliminary FAA report says staffing in the air traffic control tower at Reagan National was "not normal" last night.

One controller was managing both helicopters in the vicinity and planes — tasks typically divided between two controllers. Image
More here:
nytimes.com/live/2025/01/2…
For those who haven't seen it, my NYT colleagues did an outstanding project looking at FAA records, air traffic control staffing, and a series of close calls in commercial aviation.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Jan 10
So, did Los Angeles cut the Fire Department budget or increase it? There are lots of people trying to score political points on that question.

If you are among the exclusive group of people who care about understanding the more complicated reality, here is a brief thread.

1/6
Last year, the mayor approved a $23 million budget cut for the fire department, including:

• Eliminating 73 civilian positions
• Reducing money available to pay firefighters’ overtime by $7.9 million

BUT…

2/6
 nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/…
When the budget was signed, the city was still negotiating a new contract with the firefighters’ union. After that was settled, more money was approved, so the total fire budget is now actually $53 million more than last year.

BUT…

3/6
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Jan 4
NEW: We have obtained more details about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, his descent into radicalization, and some of his final words as he drove toward his attack in New Orleans.

THREAD 1/8
In one of his final messages, Jabbar told his family: “I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS.”

Then, a chilling addendum: “I don’t want you to think I spared you willingly.” He described how he had considered a fake “celebration” for them.

Story:

2/8nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/…
Jabbar’s family members said his radicalization was a secret to them.

But they had noticed changes: He was stressed financially, upset about “genocide on both sides” in the Middle East, and expressing disgust of partying (something, we found, was once part of his life).

3/8
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Jan 2
We spent much of today interviewing a series of people who knew New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar, including his brother, who spoke to Jabbar recently.

“I would have never imagined him doing something like this,” he told us.

1/8
There is much more detail here in this story, thanks to reporters on the ground in New Orleans and Houston, and others digging through his history on the internet and in the military.

But I’ll also thread some of the details we learned today.



2/8nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/…
Jabbar’s brother, Abdur, tells us the two grew up Christian but that his brother converted to Islam.

A woman who used to be Jabbar’s neighbor recalled him as someone who played with his kids and was always courteous, referring to her as “ma’am.”

3/8 Image
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Jan 18, 2023
NEW: We have reviewed search warrant records in the case of Idaho killings suspect Bryan Kohberger. Among items seized from his apartment:
• a black disposable glove
• possible hair strands
• computer
• items with red or brown spots/stains
nytimes.com/article/univer…
Investigators said in one document they wanted to see if hair had transferred onto Kohberger and then back to his apartment. That included not only the hair of victims but the hair of Kaylee Goncalves’s dog.

One of the items collected was a “possible animal hair strand.”
Here is a list of the items seized by authorities during a search of Bryan Kohberger’s apartment.
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Jan 13, 2023
We reviewed hundreds of messages (spanning 10+ years) from Idaho killings suspect Bryan Kohberger. In them, he describes prolonged and sometimes deep mental health struggles, along with an interest in high-profile criminals.

Thread with screenshots. 1/10

nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/…
By 2009, at age 14, Kohberger reported struggling with a little-known neurological condition that impacts vision. He turned to a web forum for help, asking other people with the condition about feelings of hopelessness and depersonalization.

2/10
Two years later, in 2011, Kohberger described an extensive list of struggles, including a slack of emotion, constant thoughts of suicide, and a detachment from reality that made life feel like a movie.

3/10

nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/…
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