#SeditionHunters - a big arrest today! #BulgePB, who hung with the Proud Boys elite on Jan 6, is Nathaniel Tuck, a former cop from Florida, IDd by the great @ne0ndistraction. He's at R here, escorting #FashProShop to the E. side of the Capitol to meet up with Joe Biggs. 1/
#BulgePB was arrested along with his dad, also a Florida police officer, or was one til he resigned today. Weirdly for a cop, apparently texted his family “We stormed the Capitol, fought the police.” See ne0n's thread for more.. 2/ orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-…
Interestingly the wives of both #BulgePB and #FashProShop aka Arthur Jackman are ALSO police officers in Florida. Sarah Jackman just cleared for duty, says she thought Proud Boys were a nice group where "men spend time together & attend Bible studies.” 3/ clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
This triumphal video shot after leaving the Capitol shows #BulgePB's 'fash-y' haircut and two-armed salute - he's not so nice after all. 5 of this Elite 8 are now arrested, all but Ethan Nordean (#Rufio) from Central Florida; likely the others are too. 4/
Arrested Proud Boys Joe Biggs (#JoeBiggs), Arthur Jackman (#FashProShop), Paul Rae (#1776HatPB), & Nathaniel Tuck (#BulgePB) all live in the same part of Central Florida, in adjacent Volusia, Seminole, and Orange Counties. A logical place to look for more Jan 6 suspects! 5/
In general not a good day for FL law enforcement! Feds also indicted 16 members of a FL white supremacist gang who used “corrupt law enforcement officers and state employees” to try to dodge charges for murder, kidnapping..1 Capitol attacker among them. 6/ nbcnews.com/news/crime-cou…
And an update from the fabulous @OSINTyeti - it's not five but SIX of the "Elite 8" Proud Boys group that are now arrested.... because #HorizontalBlackPB is Kevin Tuck, Nathaniel Tuck's dad. Arrested marked in red here. 7/
Since today is a FL geography lesson, let's compare the arrestees from the Proud Boys "Elite 8" to the violent #MachineGunKitty crew arrested last week, who are from Polk County... What's going on in Central Florida? 8/
Kevin Tuck aka #HorizontalBlackPB also shows the ugly mixing of insurrection & religion; he's been a pastor for 15 years at the Lighthouse Church. Their FB: "Children are always looking for a word.. sons become the word." On Jan 6 he helped his son breach the U.S. Capitol. 9/
In 20 seconds of searching, can't help but notice that there's an Eddie George Jr. who is a heavily researched Proud Boy from Florida with selfies with Roger Stone and supposed connections to Turning Point U.S.A. ...11/ firestormonfash.noblogs.org/post/2020/07/0…
To remind people: #AliGPB, the potential match to Eddie George Jr., rushes up to give #BulgePB a hug during their triumphant march from W to E sides of the Capitol. That was just as the Capitol was breached & they knew the attack would succeed. 12/
Eddie George Jr. apparently arrested this AM in North Carolina! Still unclear if he's the same as the Florida PB. May be connected to what Vox calls "the most bizarre conspiracy theory you’ve never heard of", 'Frazzledrip'. Thread from @jordangreennc. 13/
Trump defers to El Salvador's sovereignty but threatens Greenland. Why? It's not strange. Trump is deferring to Silicon Valley neo-fascists. They dream of seizing Greenland, but El Salvador president Bukele is their guy. He's their test case for a crypto-powered autocracy. 1/
Bukele branded himself the tech-friendly modern dictator: yes death squads, but also Bitcoin. Shred your old financial system and pay salaries in Bitcoin? Done in El Salvador. Spend taxpayer money on a national cryptocurrency reserve? Also El Salvador. 2/ time.com/6103299/bitcoi…
Bukele's bitcoin bet isn't going well; he has to beg IMF for a loan. But some US oligarchs see him as a role model. It's no coincidence that Trump picked El Salvador as a partner in autocracy. When Bukele visits Trump on Monday, that must be reported. 3/ bbc.com/news/articles/…
The dreaded "I told you so" moment: for years this account has warned that Trump and his backers want to dictate what schools can teach, from K-12 and university. That they wanted to impose curricula. And now it's here: Trump is trying to seize Columbia, a private university. 1/
n Sep. 2022 I put it in a Twitter thread: that Trump had offered control over education as a quid pro quo for supporting his coup. Trump may not care about schools, but the people behind him do. They want to take away freedom of thought and speech. 2/
Trump and his backers copy Victor Orban, who seized universities in Hungary. Hungarian envoys are now at every major right-wing conference. CPAC went to Hungary. University leaders should have read Orban's blueprint and prepared. This is their plan. 3/ verfassungsblog.de/how-the-destro…
Trump is doing it: using the Justice Department to go after his 'enemies' and support his Big Lie. Pardoning the J6ers was just the first step. He's now using DOJ to attack those who said he lost in 2020, starting with Chris Krebs. It's full dictator mode: no law but power. 1/
Cannot emphasize enough how bad this is. A president using law enforcement to persecute those who won't repeat his lies. A pliant Attorney General who has also said she would send US citizens to foreign torture camps. All Americans must speak out or this is the end. 2/
Going to add some other reactions here - many see how bad this is. Tim Miller calls the move "Stalinesque". He says "Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it." 3/
Journalists reporting on Pete Hegseth's brother Phil seem to be missing his work in 2017-2018 - he worked for Cliff May's Foundation for the Defense of Democracies as a "social and digital media specialist", and also wrote some articles for them. 1/ web.archive.org/web/2017100314…x.com/MilitaryTimes/…
This doesn't seem like earthshaking stuff, but it's trivial to find and oddly he omits it from his LinkedIn. Phil Hegseth shows up on the FDD staff page in Feb 2017 and is gone in June 2018. Here's one of his articles, a summary of a report. 2/ web.archive.org/web/2017110221…
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies had a roster of very well known conservative voices so there's a lot of people you can call for stories about Phil Hegseth - including Michael G. Waltz, now Pete Hegseth's Signal buddy. 3/ web.archive.org/web/2017091201…
Today 19 Dem Senators helped enable both Trump's attack on science and the techbro power grab by confirming the most unqualified person ever to lead the Office of Science & Technology Policy: a non-scientist (BA in politics) who spent 8 years working for Peter Thiel. 1/
The Senate-confirmed head of OSTP has ALWAYS been a high-level scientist - this is the person who advises the president on science and technology. Why Kratsios? Because he's a Thiel protege. In 2017, Trump picked him up directly from his job at Thiel Capital - a VC guy. 2/
By now Kratisos is in AI. In Dec. Trump nominated a slew of AI-tinged science advisors. Of 4 names here, only one (the woman) has science PhD: Lynne Parker is an EE prof & NSF director. The other 3 are Thiel / Andreessen VC men, techbro nepo babies. The Pete Hegseths of tech. 3/
Mother Jones has written on this story from 2023, that our now-US-Attorney for DC brokered Michael Flynn's pardon as a quid pro quo. I can't QT Dan Friedman since he's since blocked me. But Martin's involvement in Flynn's pardon is an important story and it's worth revisiting. 1/
This paragraph in the article, which says Ali Alexander used Ed Martin to process funds for the Jan 6 rally, seems wrong, maybe got scrambled. Charlie Kirk's TPUSA handled the money, which Caroline Wren got from donor Julie Fancelli. There IS an Ed Martin connection tho... 2/
Ali Alexander's testimony shows the J6C were going after Ed Martin's involvement with busing people to DC. They ask if Martin fronted money for buses and got reimbursed by Kirk's TPUSA. Ali swears he doesn't know about logistics, just helped publicize. 3/ govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…