#SeditionHunters - as we ring out the year & 358 days of sedition hunting it seemed time to summarize what we’ve achieved so far. The community's found so many #SeditionVIPs it’s hard to keep track, so here’s a guide: 74 Capitol attack figures as the 12 days of Christmas. 1/
We’ll count them off as:
12 Stop-the-Stealers
11 Sore Losers
10 Candidates running
9 Leaders leading
8 State legislators
7 Bikers biking
6 Arrested streamers
5 Anti-vaxxers
4 Federal pardons
3 Angry preachers
2 CNP’ers
and 1 monstrous ego who can't let go 2/
12 Stop-the-Stealers - note these are only a small part of Ali Alexander's crew of dozens on Jan 6. 3/
11 Sore Losers - sad figures who lost an election for U.S. Senate or Congress and are still fuming about it, now trying to overthrow elections instead. 4/
10 Candidates running - J6 insurrectionists now running for federal or high state offices. These are the folks who would help overturn the next election. 5/
9 Leaders leading - Nine who provided active leadership in the events of January 6 and in the attack itself. All are seen on Capitol grounds. 6/
8 State legislators - On Jan 6 eight state representatives were seen on Capitol grounds. Some like Vernon Jones were rally speakers. Some walked in with the Proud Boys (Biedermann) or came in armor (Evans). All seemed to expect that attack that occurred. 7/
7 Bikers biking - members of Bikers for Trump, Bikers for 45, and other similar groups were heavily represented on Jan 6, some providing rally security. All here are leaders or high-level figures in these organizations. 8/
6 Arrested streamers. We expect more arrests as DOJ works out their definition of "who is a journalist", but here are the most famous so far. Two from InfoWars, the rest independent. 9/
5 Anti-vaxxers. While many J6 perps are covid deniers, this group helped lead protests and rallies and have been drivers of the anti-vaxx movement. Two (Gold and Strand) have been arrested for Jan 6 already. 10/
4 Federal pardons. All these suspected J6 figures were pardoned by Trump between Nov 2020-Jan 2021. Three have been subpoenae'd by the January 6 Committtee; Manafort's company ran the Jan 6 rallies. (See justice.gov/pardon/pardons… for full list). 11/
3 Angry preachers. While many religious leaders seemed to find insurrection compatible with pastoral duties, these 3 are the angriest, loudest, and most nationally known of those who entered Capitol grounds. 12/
2 CNP'ers. The shadowy Council for National Policy, which mixes mainstream conservatives with far-right extremists, was heavily represented at the morning Ellipse rally on January 6, & at least 2 longstanding members played roles at the Capitol. (See splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016…) 13/
1 Monstrous ego who can't let go. While many figures helped produce the organized attack on January 6, and likely some more directly issued orders, it could not have happened without Trump. 14/
The 67 on the grounds here are only a subset of the backlogged #SeditionVIP list - 16 are totally new. Considered-but-rejected categories include "Grifters grifting" (too many); "Dirty tricksters", "Russian girlfriends" (too sensitive).. See jan6attack.com/individuals.htm for more. 15/
The slides are available for download in the public "Jan 6 Resources and Analysis" folder at bit.ly/Jan6Analysis. Please feel free to use, and please retweet! Happy New Year's to all, and may 2022 be better than 2021. With your help it can be. 16/
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As weird as it is to see Trump, his VP, SecDef, and SecState out in DC with hardly any security, it is weirder that it was Codepink that was protesting. Codepink is an astroturfed "women for peace" group whose "peace" means giving Putin whatever he wants. Slavishly pro-Russia. 1/
Codepink has left such a long trail of dubious actions and shadowy funding that @P_Kallioniemi, who posts about Russian influencers, needed 23 Tweets to outline it all. If they are involved, tonight's events were not a normal protest. 2/
Medea Benjamin, Codepink co-founder, is so committed to Putin's talking points that she wrote an entire book about the Russia-Ukraine war rehashing them: Ukraine provoked the invasion! 2014 in Ukraine was not the people's liberation but a US coup! Nothing about this is normal. 3/
Welcome comrades to the new free-speech university UATX, created by the co-founder of Palantir! Today after early-morning calisthenics we will discuss the writings of the Palantir CEO and also co-founder. Be ready to discuss his belief that companies must take over the state. 1/
Tomorrow's topic: how Joe Lonsdale and Alex Karp exemplify Merit and not Woke DEI! Both
* were student friends of Peter Thiel. Lonsdale edited Thiel's Stanford Review.
* spent their entire careers in companies created or funded by Thiel
Next week: "Freedom is Slavery"
-- UATX
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Comrades - building an empire of proteges is not Woke DEI but Righteous Merit! Because your friends obviously have more Merit than those, well, other people. Competitive job applications bad, hiring your friends good! - UATX. Where Speech is Free! stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/pet…
Eric Schmitt's blood-and-soil nationalism at Peter Thiel's NatCon this week is making news - but this isn't new. Schmitt's staffer Nate Hochman, posting here, was fired in 2013 from Ron DeSantis' campaign for pushing a video where the Florida flag turns into a Nazi Sonnenrad. 1/
MO Senator Eric Schmitt hired Hochman AFTER he got internationaly famous for using a Nazi symbol. That tells you a lot. Schmitt didn't mind the Sonnnerad, or Hochman's later work pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
When you listen to Eric Schmitt deny that America was founded on an idea about liberty - he says it was just meant as a homeland for white people - remember this guy is fine with Nazi Sonnenrads. And he's now in the US Senate. It can happen here. 3/
The guy who is going viral complaining that "we" have judges who aren't what "the founders intended" is... based in Italy, named his substack after a cultish Russian philosophy, and uses a profile picture of a man who grew up in Nazi Germany and became a mercenary in Africa. 1/
Note that this account isn't "captivedreamer7", the now-famous racist who is actually Canadian. This guy seems truly European from his posts and his pretentious Substack, which is very focussed on the German officer Ernst Junger (anti-Nazi at the end). 2/ web.archive.org/web/2025080301…
His profile picture is another German soldier: Rolf Steiner was too young to join the Nazis (though his father did). Like Junger he went to the French Foreign Legion, then tried to overthrown the government of France and fought in a French mercenary unit in the Biafran war. 3/
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your VP. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
No one's even trying to hide the Thiel takeover anymore. Jim O'Neill's been a key Thiel lieutenant for nearly 20 years. He ran the Thiel foundation, Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital (the one that employed JD Vance). 2/ citizen.org/article/jim-on…
Jim O'Neill's not just a Thiel lieutenant, he's a true acolyte, pushing all Peter's fruitcake ideas: building government-free floating cities. Achieving eternal life. Getting kids to drop out of college. And he says drug safety testing is for wimps. 3/ technologyreview.com/2025/06/30/111…
Trump's posts are getting really transparent. His plan for power - probably Jan 6, certainly now - is to create a violent, chaotic event and order in troops. He's saying it plainly now. He's also invoking the antisemitic Soros conspiracy created by his own political mentors. 1/
What's happening in the US makes more sense if you get that it's the same group of people doing the same things, over and over. The Soros conspiracy was created by a US political advisor - Roger Stone's mentor - to elect Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban. 2/
The US is not special, and our would-be fascist overlords - not just Trump but Silicon Valley techbros - look to Hungary as a model. Orban crashed his economy and made Hungary the poorest country in Europe, but he got power and that's what they want. 3/