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10 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
This is the second big conspiracy case to be unsealed in the sprawling FBI investigation of January 6. All signs suggest there will be more to come. This one is notable for alleged coordination between a pro-Trump political group and members of a militia group, Three Percenters
For all the Republican leaders who insist January 6 was “not an insurrection,” also notable from today’s unsealed indictment: One of the charged co-conspirators disagrees with you. “Insurrection!” he declared triumphantly in a text message, according to prosecutors
3/ And remember when Trump was impeached for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection? More stark evidence of that today as well, per that same defendant: "We will be part of the large effort for the ‘Wild Rally’ that Trump has asked us all to be part of." motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
4/ See also the pile of such evidence that my MoJo colleagues @Piperamcdaniel & @AJVicens documented a month after the assault on Congress by Trump supporters motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“More than 30 people, the indictment notes, joined a Telegram group chat called ‘California Patriots-DC Brigade,’ a channel that Taylor described as being for ‘able bodied individuals that are going to DC on Jan. 6’ and are ‘ready and willing to fight.’” nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/…

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19 Mar
“Sex addiction” may be the Atlanta mass shooter’s preferred narrative, but the real story on that count is toxic masculinity. Motive in mass shootings is often complex. But given the victims he targeted, his attack was inherently both racist AND misogynist motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
Evangelical doctrine, sex addition, "purity culture"—it's baffling that coverage of the Atlanta mass shooter keeps focusing so heavily on all this. (And as if the guy had no agency!) The much bigger story: He targeted Asian women. He bought a gun same day. washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/…
To be clear, these aspects of the killer's background are worthy of reporting. But their media emphasis in the initial aftermath feels way off to me—especially after the awful comments from the Georgia sheriff, establishing a narrative about "sexual issues" and "he had a bad day"
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17 Mar
you might even say that Trumpism is terrorism wral.com/odni-releases-…
In fact, veteran national security experts do say this. The January 6 assault on Congress was part of an ongoing story, not an ending. With GOP acolytes continuing to push Trump's Big Lie, there will be more of this. Not if, but when. #StochasticTerrorism motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“The FBI and DHS have warned that the Jan. 6 riot could have lasting consequences. Some domestic violent extremists “have been emboldened in the aftermath of the breach of the US Capitol,” Jill Sanborn, head of counterterrorism at the FBI, told Congress” nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/…
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10 Feb
IMPEACHMENT THREAD: At least 13 people charged with crimes in the insurrection say that Trump incited them to act—and at least three of them were caught on video participating in violent confrontations at the Capitol motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
This man can be seen in Capitol footage striking a police officer in the head with a fire extinguisher. According to a FBI informant, the man “had followed the president’s instructions and gone to the Capitol” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
This man draped in a ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag was recorded in a mob trying to smash through the speaker’s lobby doors, just before one rioter was fatally shot by police. Traveling from Texas at Trump’s behest was “the least we can do,” he said afterward motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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9 Feb
It's fitting that Trump is down to the most incoherent, embarrassing, bottom-of-the-barrel legal defense imaginable. If anyone can make sense of this guy's word salad please enlighten me?
my god, Castor is being mugged by his own metaphors 🤡
cat videos used to break the internet but now it's gonna be this guy
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8 Feb
Trump’s impeachment trial will expose a lot of ugly evidence about his campaign of incitement that led to the siege of the Capitol. It went far beyond his speech on January 6—he also talked up a "fight to the death" and repeatedly promoted a deranged video motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Top national security experts came to see Trump, literally, as a terrorist leader.

Kori Schake called him "an arsonist of radicalization."

As @juliettekayyem put it, "He tells them where to go. He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry." motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
A particularly haunting bit about Trump from January 6:

"As his supporters marauded through the Capitol and lawmakers hid, Trump watched the chaos on TV from inside the White House. He was entertained and buoyed by it, according to multiple news reports." motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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8 Feb
NEW: More than a dozen people charged in the January 6 insurrection—including at least three involved in violence and destruction at the U.S. Capitol—say Trump incited them to act motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“President Trump said to do so”
“I was doing what he asked us to do”
“An event inspired by the President of the United States”
“Calling on us to come back to Washington”
“Await orders from our Commander in Chief”
“Trump told the crowd to go to the Capitol”
This Trump insurrectionist, draped with a "Don't Tread on Me" flag, can be seen at the center of an assault that led just moments later to a fatal shooting. He helped try to breach the doors. He'd traveled from Texas at Trump's behest—"it's the least that we can do," he said.
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