1/ The pink-hatted Capitol rioter known as #BullhornLady, who shouted detailed instruction to others as they invaded the building, is now among the FBI’s Most Wanted, but her identity is still not publicly known...
2/ Here are some additional images of #BullhornLady that we’ve pulled from various videos taken during the Jan. 6 insurrection:
3/ This video from outside the Capitol looks to be taken before she acquired the bullhorn. At around 1:50 in the clip, you can see her spryly climb up and into a recently shattered window.
4/ It’s possible that this early entry into the building is where she got the lay of the land that she would later use when shouting instructions to those inside the building.
5/ In this short clip, you can see a woman that appears to be #BullhornLady approaching the shattered window on the left and being handed the bullhorn:
6/ Then, in the following video taken by @JLeeQuinn, you can see from inside the building as this same woman uses the bullhorn to give instructions:
7/ Some have theorized that Bullhorn Lady is the mother of first-year Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. When I asked Boebert about this rumor, she flatly denied it, noting her mom was with her in her office during the siege:
9/ I’ve been trying to identify #BullhornLady since the riot. If you have any information about the mystery woman, email me directly at david.mcswane@propublica.org
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1/ A nurse at a company central to Trump's COVID plasma therapy push said workers were in danger. @CSLPlasma gave unsafe masks, she alleged, as it recruited once-infected donors w/ cash bonuses.
This reporting journey ends w/ a document somebody forged & unanswered questions …
2/ @HSteadman_RN said workers' fears began in March, when CSL still wasn’t supplying and mandating masks. In fairness this was around the same time this famous Tweet made the rounds…
3/ In April, Steadman learned @CSLPlasma wanted her and colleagues to examine & work w/ donors who had survived the virus. Their plasma contains antibodies that health officials hope can be turned into medicine to help severely ill patients recover.
1/ A TaskRabbit contractor in San Antonio told me he stumbled onto a warehouse where people were repackaging non-medical Chinese masks so they could pass for medical use and be sold to Texas.
So began my latest journey into the world of COVID profiteers ..
2/ His name was Lucas Rensko and he showed up in a warehouse where there were other “Taskers” earning about $20/hr ripping Chinese masks out of plastic bags and stuffing them into new ones that were identical but for one potentially deadly difference …
3/ The old packages were labeled in all caps “MEDICAL USE PROHIBITED.” The new bags didn’t have that warning.
1/ This company got a $10 million contract for test tubes & gave the gov’t mini soda bottles instead.
The owner shouted at me and slapped my notebook when I asked about it.
Just the latest absurdity we’ve found looking at who the gov’t is paying for #coronavirus supplies ...
2/ We heard from states & Fillakit workers that the company wasn’t actually selling test tubes.
It was selling oddly shaped plastic “preforms” better suited for, say, The Coca-Cola Company. They’re basically mini soda bottles that blow up with heat and air into 2L soda bottles.
3/ They’re too large to be used by standard lab machinery. So states can’t use them.
Even if they were the right size, they’re likely not sterile and could yield false test results.
I've received a ton of strange messages from mask brokers — on twitter, in email, through encrypted apps…
An unregulated mask market has spread like wildfire, attracting middlemen, grifters, billionaires etc. Our government fanned the flames.
Let’s go inside this world…
2/ At 10 p.m. one night, I got a call from a guy named Tim Zelonka. He heard through the grapevine I’d asked questions about a California mask supplier.
I was on the right track, he said…
3/ Only a few hours earlier I talked to the owner of VPL Medical LLC, which had just been awarded ~ $20 million by the federal government … the very same week the company was formed.