#SeditionHunters - the January 6 Committee now focuses on white nationalists / neo-Nazis, with subpoenas to Nick Fuentes (America First) & Patrick Casey (Identity Evropa). Fuentes spoke at all 3 DC rallies, VIP section Jan 6, brought over 200 of his Groypers to the Capitol...1/
Fuentes is deeply connected to the MAGAverse of influencers who brought people to the Capitol on January 6. The Committee's rationale includes rallies, Groypers, and strange foreign bitcoin donations... 2/
Fuentes left college after the 2016 Charlottesville march, hit it big on social media with a toxic combination of racism and religion. On Jan 6 his Groyper army invaded the Capitol with America First flags & Christian symbols (at R. they help lift the Jericho March cross). 3/
His Groypers are everywhere on Capitol grounds, moving in small clusters. You can identify them by the combination of crosses and vile language. Here are two from Nebraska, in Christian hoodies, screaming at officers: "Burn in f-ing hell! F-- the blue! Pieces of s--!" 4/
Fuentes is extreme even for the alt-right - he trolls Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA as too mainstream! - but is strangely plugged in. On Nov 7, the day the election was called for Biden, Fuentes was one of the first to know about & promote the Nov. 14 "rehearsal" DC rally. 5/
Fuentes was a fixture on the Stop the Steal circuit in the 2 months leading up to the Capitol attack, appearing frequently with Ali Alexander and Alex Jones of InfoWars, speaker at many rallies. No one blinked when he advocated killing lawmakers. 6/ splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021…
Late on Jan 6, as police restored order, other STS figures frantically Tweeted CYA: "peaceful protestors" or "It was antifa!" But Fuentes was blunt: "This nonsense that today’s events were instigated by antifa has to be the absolute stupidest boomer bullshit I’ve ever seen..." 7/
After the Capitol attack, Fuentes called it "f--ing awesome" on Twitter. In Dec. 2021, the same: "I don't know if I should say this for legal reasons, but I'm gonna anyway. The 6th was awesome, it was fucking awesome." Time to learn those legal reasons. 8/
Updated deposition schedule, from @RubyWorms. The J6 Committee groups them by theme: Feb 8 is election fraud day with the Kraken 4 (Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Ellis & Epshteyn); Feb 9 is white supremacist day with Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey. 9/
We now have the insurrection equivalent of a full house on our "9 Leaders Leading" page! DOJ has arrested all the top row, and the J6 Committee has now deposed all the bottom row. (Ali Alexander, also deposed, heads the Stop the Steal page instead.) 10/
Tracking #IamNickFuentes at the Capitol was a months-long manhunt by many #SeditionHunters - see megathread from @DianthaSol. His speech showed his intent: "We should not leave this Capitol until Donald Trump is inaugurated president!" (h/t @LCRWnews) 11/
Tracking Fuentes meant watching 100s of hours of video. The @January6thCmte also subpoenae'd Fuentes' partner in racism, Patrick Casey of Identity Evropa, citing his attorney as admitting "you were present on Capitol grounds on January 6 as well." Oh yes he was! Stay tuned. 12/
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Sure, it's funny that Fox News is now using "86" in talking about a fired reporter, when less than a month ago they demanded the FBI investigate "86" as a death threat. But the joke is on us. Performative outrage over bullshit is a test of YOU, to see if you'll accept it. 1/
You can't criticize Fox's words as hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when someone committed to the truth is inconsistent. Fox and others are post-truth: they're just making noises to see if they can get you to react. They're gaming you. 2/
All of us have a psychological need for rationality. We need to feel that words have meaning, that people mean what they say. We do understand that people lie: a lie is a meaningful but false statement, to deceive. But what Fox is doing here is worse, and harder to cope with. 3/
ABC's explanation of why they suspended correspondent Terry Moran misuses the word "objective". Moran said Stephen Miller was a "world-class hater" and "his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment". Those are objectively true statements. Miller's hatred is deeply documented. 1/
Moran ascribed to Miller an emotion: "hatred". A decade of reporting has documented, objectively, that Miller hates. In 2018, LA Mag interviewed his high school classmates and reported their stories of how Miller hated minorities. "Hate" is their word. 2/ lamag.com/politics/steph…
Terry Moran also said that for Stephen Miller, "hatred is his spiritual nourishment". That's colorful language, but also documented. Here's a high school classmate of Miller's with a story of Miller saying awful, provocative things to immigrants: "he wanted to be hated". 3/
Reminder: Trump has tried this before. It's part of his dream of control, to send in the National Guard against the will of a state or mayor. On May 29, 2020, he Tweeted the threat: "Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.." 1/
Trump has also overtly sought a Secretary of Defense willing to order the National Guard to shoot at protestors. In 2020 he fired Mark Esper and put in Chris Miller for that reason. Pete Hegseth may face a terrible test now. 2/
On Jan 6, the National Guard arrived late likely because sane heads in the Pentagon delayed them til local police had regained control, out of fear of what Trump might order. There are fewer sane heads now. Hegseth is already failing his test. 3/
Howard Lutnick, our Sec. of Commerce, shows a disconnect from material reality that will make Americans die. A weather forecast cannot be "automated" or MADE AT ALL without data. And Trump is cutting the satellites and weather stations that provide that data. 1/
Lutnick, who is in charge of NOAA and its National Weather Service, seem to think that if you say "web" and "cloud" and "computer" and "AI" then by some magic knowledge appears. But weather forecasts depend on MEASUREMENTS. Which Lutnick is cutting. 2/ kcci.com/article/propos…
The proposed NOAA budget cuts both current satellite operations and planned future satellites meant to make better predictions. Lutnick's testimony suggests: people have forgotten that not everything is a simulation, that reality exists (and bites). 3/ spacenews.com/omb-suggests-n…
Since Frank Luntz is defending Elon Musk, a recap: Luntz, like Roger Stone, was one of "Arthur's boys", mentored by Arthur Finkelstein, the dark lord of negative campaigns who (tho gay and Jewish), pushed homophobic far-right extremists - and gave us Orban, Netanyahu, & Trump. 1/
It was the Jewish Arthur Finkelstein who created the antisemitic George Soros conspiracy, to propel Victor Orban to power. Anything to get his clients elected. Everything Luntz says now is shaded by that history. 2/ buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
It was Arthur Finkelstein who brought in Roger Stone's partner Paul Manafort - who had been working for a pro-Russian politician in Ukraine - as Trump's first campaign manager. 3/
Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it is being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built up his "political project" to seize power. 1/
The NYT doesn't say HOW it was decided to give Palantir all your personal data, only that it was a no-bid contract directed by "Elon Musk's DOGE". (DOGE was always a project of Peter's too.) But Thiel had installed a protege to do just this. 2/ nytimes.com/2025/05/30/tec…
One of Trump's first actions as president was to install Greg Barbaccia, a longtime Palantir employee, as US Federal Chief Information Officer, with power to direct US software systems. This account called it: he was there to give Palantir your data. 3/