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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I'm often skeptical of Russian interference stuff, but this @Hatewatch story is insane. Something very very strange is happening in Pennsylvania.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
A vile neo-Nazi suddenly relocates to PA from Texas & starts a Lancaster-focused blog that's linked to a pro-Kremlin site run by a man — closely tied to a Russian oligarch —who recently bought a $440K house in Lancaster without evidence he has any income.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
Then that Nazi blogger in Lancaster produces a bunch of bull shit propaganda about anti-racist protests that gets picked up by Fox News and promoted by MAGA propagandists like Ian Miles Cheong.

splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
It's all VERY strange!!! Just incredible reporting as always from @MichaelEHayden splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…

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9 Oct
New: One of the men arrested in a militia plot to kidnap the Michigan governor appeared on stage earlier this year with Sheriff Dar Leaf.

Leaf is part of the far-right "constitutional sheriff" movement, which works with & seeks to legitimize militias. huffpost.com/entry/michigan…
.@FOX17 first reported that William Nulls appeared alongside Sheriff Leaf at the anti-lockdown rally in May.

Interviewed last night, Leaf appeared to defend the militiaman, who he says he knows, and then argued it'd be legal to arrest Gov. Whitmer.
What Leaf didn't acknowledge in that interview is that he attended the 2019 conference of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which is closely tied to this country's anti-government patriot movement, which includes militias. huffpost.com/entry/michigan…
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4 Sep
NEW: Unidentified cops tossed a protester into an unmarked van in Spokane.

The arrest of Jeremy Logan — co-chair of his local @DemSocialists — appears politically-motivated, by a sheriff hostile to "antifa."

In jail, feds tried to interview Jeremy. huffpost.com/entry/jeremy-l…
Jeremy was on his way to protest. 2 friends witnessed the arrest & confirmed Jeremy's story to @HuffPost.

6 or so officers, most in plainclothes, some armed, refused to name their law enforcement agency.

They told Jeremy he had an outstanding warrant. huffpost.com/entry/jeremy-l…
Jeremy admits he has a 2013 warrant for unpaid fines in another county.

@HuffPost confirmed the officers belonged to Spokane County Sheriff's Office, which would not explain why it felt suddenly compelled to arrest Jeremy on an old out-of-county warrant huffpost.com/entry/jeremy-l…
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28 Aug
New: Data shows right-wing vigilantes & paramilitaries have confronted or attacked anti-racist protesters about 500 times since cops killed George Floyd in May. This includes at least:

64 assaults
38 attacks by car
9 shootings
3 deaths

huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…

#Kenosha
The data, collected by @areidross, a doctoral fellow at the @C4ARR, includes 387 incidents of intimidation, such as vigilantes appearing at protests and using racial slurs, making threats, brandishing guns...

huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…
“There just isn’t anything else to compare it to,” @areidross said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.”

Ross said the data includes abt 2 dozen instances of cops supporting or collaborating with right-wing vigilantes & paramilitaries. huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…
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24 Apr
NEW: There's been a big proliferation of Facebook groups devoted to the "boogaloo," a term for civil war, during the pandemic.

Thousands of armed right-wing militants, mad at lockdown measures, are plotting & preparing for violence against the government huffpost.com/entry/boogaloo…
A new @TTP_updates report has identified 125 Facebook groups devoted to boogaloo.

Over 60% of the groups were created in just the last three months, according to the report. The 125 groups have tens of thousands of members. huffpost.com/entry/boogaloo…
The potential for real-world violence by these Facebook groups came into focus earlier this week, when an boogaloo enthusiast live-streamed himself on Facebook driving around Texarkana, Texas, allegedly looking for a police officer to shoot and kill. buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanu…
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12 Feb
I spoke to legal experts and NYC activists about why this statement from Bloomberg is horseshit.

If you're considering supporting Bloomberg, I'd please recommend that you read this story. huffpost.com/entry/bloomber…
I pressed Bloomberg's campaign on how exactly it calculated that he "cut" stop and frisks by "95 percent" as mayor. A spokesperson sent me some numbers that didn't answer my question.

A Columbia University criminologist called the 95% figure "nonsense" huffpost.com/entry/bloomber…
.@alyssaguilera, a spokesperson for @CPRAction, told me: “The nation is just now starting to learn what Black, Latinx and other New Yorkers know intimately ― Bloomberg’s legacy in NYC was 12 years of racist policing and criminalizing poverty." huffpost.com/entry/bloomber…
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15 Jan
Starting a thread of my reporting from Trump rallies because I think my reporting from Trump rallies is good. I'll continue to update through 2020. In no particular order, starting with that rally in Greenville.

huffpost.com/entry/fascist-…
Including CPAC in this thread because CPAC was basically one big long Trump rally huffpost.com/entry/cpac-whi…
Orlando, where I ran into some Proud Boys: huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…
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