Thread by @brooklynmarie

Well thank goodness I'm not the only person saying this.

https://twitter.com/jysexton/status/1403388186911555588

This is the #TantonNetwork. It is in law enforcement, policy, schools, and churches. They have been quietly infiltrating for decades. Their lobbying groups have been pushing a white supremacist agenda using immigration as its Trojan horse, and the Trump admin gave them power.

Here is who the bulk of their funding comes from. Look at all the groups they fund and think about what they are doing. It's a coordinated power grab, just like I told you all along.

sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scai…

2011 story tinyurl.com/swfatsyh

(I had to TinyURL it because there was an apostrophe in the original URL that Twitter wouldn't allow. It's an SPLC story on some of the shit John Tanton was up to, and with whom. Check out the names, I betcha you'll find some you know!)

So, what happened was this. I got interested in the border because almost no one was covering it and I couldn't figure out why, and I had just been fired from KPCC in Los Angeles and missed the LA's energy. Tijuana is a younger city than San Diego and I found it interesting and

appealing, so I started hanging around there to check out the scene (and look for other Anglo reporters) and made a bunch of friends. They asked me why I wasn't covering the border, I said I didn't feel like it was my place. They said, we need international eyes on us!! So I said

I would, absolutely. And the more I found, the more appalling it was. The cover-ups, the cruelty, the enormous negligence. Sterilizations, forced abortions, murders, tortures. And that was just what the USA was up to. So I started trying to get the word out. I called myself a

"post-conflict reporter" on the humanitarian beat. It started to feel like people from the whole world were showing up in Tijuana, that city of last hopes. That's how I knew how destabilized the world was getting.

But no one wanted to hear the truth about the border. I would

pitch stories and no editors would answer (although the majors would run my pitches as an in-house story two to three weeks later like clockwork, as if I wouldn't fucking notice, and it would be badly done most of the time.)

I was going hungry for my work, so I started looking

for steady employment. And that's how I ended up at Snopes in November 2015. Thought I could use it to fund my border reportage, and it worked for a while. Then the disinfo attacks started. But they were all about bullshit I had already debunked at the border. I knew them already

so I knew it had to be related to the border somehow. That's how I realized who was behind this (the #TantonNetwork), who they had joined up with (the global far right), and why (resource realignment due to climate catastrophe.)

Anyway it's been a pretty stressful few years!

Although I will say this, decades of staring down Nazis and years of talking and flirting my way through military roadblocks in various countries has paid off for me well since 2016. These domestic chickenshits don't scare me. They only like soft targets.

Anyway, at some point in 2016 I realized that it was all just the same tedious dumbfucks pushing the same tedious dumbfuck shit. They would trigger the footsoldier street Nazis with stupid Facebook shit and distract everyone else from the evil shit they were doing to our country.

Seemed to me that if I could just get that story out there in time, everyone would see it for what it was. I failed -- but I'm still trying. archive.is/d97ua

Knowing all of this is what motivated me to offer these warnings starting in March 2020 (thread)

https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1242218890001666048