(🔐) NEW at PROOF: A massive report on Ali Alexander and the Proud Boys that will forever change how you think about January 6. When you find out what their real plan was for that terrible day, I hope you’ll share this report as widely as you possibly can. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…
Kill lists, a provisional government, a tent city holding “millions and millions and millions and millions,” sanctioned looting and riots, a refusal to evacuate without presidential proclamation, impromptu kangaroo court trials, a theocratic governing committee—you’ll be stunned.
And when you realize that Donald Trump *handpicked* Ali Alexander—a convicted felon and known Christofascist—to not only lead the march on the Capitol but do so in simultaneous constant contact with the Trump campaign and far-right extremist paramilitary soldiers...it’s ballgame.
What Ali Alexander, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and GOP state legislators did in 21 days of planning was terrifyingly extraordinary. Keep that in mind when you consider that they now have four years to prepare for the 2024 election and another—far more complex—coup attempt.
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(📢) UNREDACTED: The Historic January 6 Filing From the Department of Justice
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Everything you could want in one place: all redactions unredacted; identification of the key DOJ witnesses and turncoats; an alphabetized master list; and more.
1/ We need to understand what we are looking at here: the witness list for the most significant trial in the history of the United States, which will begin in 2025 or (at the latest) early 2026, but may be placed on indefinite hold if the insurrectionist Trump wins this November.
2/ It is for this reason that I spent 11 hours—so far—working with this document, and why creating it required literally hours spent pouring through House January 6 Committee congressional witness transcripts (which are all available, contrary to the false claims made by Trump).
(📢) LIVE PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Unredacting the Historic 165-Page January 6 Filing From the Department of Justice
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This is happening right now, in real time. This first-ever live PROOF report will unfold over the next 6-7 hours. There’s so much work to do. sethabramson.substack.com/p/live-unredac…
(PS) We are really cooking with gas here. Tons of names already revealed and confirmed. See the link above.
(UPDATE) You will be astounded at how big and already-filled-in this report is.
Iran has a history of firing missiles in ways that ensure there are virtually no—or no—casualties. That appears to have happened here. At this moment, this reads like a gesture, not a serious attack. Netanyahu will treat it as something else for his own purposes.
It's asinine to think a nation of the size and sophistication of Iran is unaware of how Iron Dome works. It understands what sort of missile barrage will/can have an effect and what will not. By the same token, when Netanyahu overreacts to this he'll know exactly what he's doing.
It's also worth noting that Israel keeps using assassination as a tool of war—sometimes directly, sometimes via proxies—despite knowing it is (usually) illegal. So many of the attacks on Israel we have seen, though certainly not all, are *retaliations* for illegal assassinations.
(🧵) THREAD: Should journalists publish hacked materials?
Different journalists have different understandings of the profession. Mine is admittedly idiosyncratic. But after 30 years as a journalist and six as a journalism prof, I can say that I wouldn’t publish hacked materials.
1/ Today I saw an article from one of the heads of Substack—where Ken Klippenstein, now banned from Twitter, published the Vance dossier Team Trump built pre-selection—and the claim Hamish McKenzie made was that publishing criminally acquired materials is not just fine but good.
2/ His argument was that journalism is about the public interest, so journalists should publish anything that is in the public interest.
But that’s actually not what journalism is, not how journalism is taught to future journalists, and not how we should think of the profession.
Trying to figure out why I would obsess over the foreign convictions of a demographic of people in the U.S. who provably according to every study ever done on the subject commit markedly fewer crimes than U.S. citizens
Make that make sense to me beyond straight-up fear-mongering
I'd also say as a criminal justice expert that watching MAGAs try to break down crime data they lack the capacity to understand or speak of coherently (did you know homicide and murder aren't interchangeable terms?) is like watching someone try to make a pizza out of dry cleaning
For that matter, if you take one of the countries America receives undocumented migrants from, El Salvador—which is fun by a far-right dictator MAGAs love—convictions there mean nothing now, because there is no due process and arrests are just used to sweep people off the streets
(📢) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: The Real Reason Iran Wants to Kill Trump Is Not What He Says or What You May Think
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If America is about to end up in another war of Trump’s making, it’s reasonable for us to ask why. The short version—*he* created this nightmare. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
1/ We have come to a time in American history when even recent American history is treated as ancient history.
The events discussed in this report were confirmed true in 2020, and this report is fully sourced.
They are not even seriously contested anymore by anyone who matters.
2/ A threat now being mislabeled as being against Trump exclusively (it is not) and as part of an Iranian desire to sow chaos/destabilize America (it is not) and as related to the election (it is not) was *widely discussed on U.S. major media in January 2020*. We know what it is.