Some #SeditionHunters reassurances: 1) the effort can go on even if Twitter fails 2) a report on the physical Jan 6 attack will be written even if the J6C doesn't.
Review of progress & resources: sync video is now timed to 1s on both sides of the Capitol (L: East, R: West)..1/
..letting us see how the Capitol attack was paced. In Tweet 1 video, the #BigMediaTowerFlag is dipped on the W just as Alex Jones climbs the E steps.
Release of security cam has let us build syncs over 3 hours long on both East and West sides of the Capitol. The channel also has some short highlighted clips showing the 'little signals' that mark the breaches. 3/
Maps and timelines of the Capitol attack are at bit.ly/Jan6Analysis. The attack is broken down into phases; each is described and has its own map showing major movements and breaches. 4/
The stages of the attack are described in the "Phases" timeline, see docs.google.com/document/d/1jx…. Phases were defined in Oct. 2021 and the framework has held up. (Only 1 real change: the end of Phase 4 was moved back 7 minutes to 2:48 PM when we learned of one additional breach.) 5/
The "Timelines" folder holds multiple timeline versions that describe the attack. Some have clickable video links (L). The "Big Timeline" (R) has the most detailed accounting of events on Jan 6, including the movements of the major influencers. 6/ drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
The #SeditionHunters video archiving effort, led by @justhelpingout6, is now over 41,000 items (>5 TB), w/
4,888 Facebook accounts
1,476 Twitter
1,367 YouTube
882 Tiktok
636 Instagram
146 Rumble
+ Gab, Gettr, Telegram, Periscope, Snapchat, BitChute, Odysee, Twitch, DLive, etc..7/
All video is publicly available on archive.org. The easiest way to start is through Jan6evidence.com: you can search ~3000 videos by time, location, and hashtag. For example, anyone searching for Ray Epps (#BigMagaCamo) can quickly find 30 sightings... 8/
The visualizer is no longer updated so some links are dead, but you can find all 41,000+ archived Jan 6 media items through the amazing media sheet (h/t the Jan6evidence team). No hashtag match but you can search by title, video ID, account, etc. 9/ jan6evidence.com/#/media-items
The media list doesn't include Parler videos, but those with location and timestamps are available on the ProPublica website, and others are hand-annotated with time, location, and suspect hashtags on jan6attack.com/videos.htm 10/
Of the ~15K invaders at the Capitol, over 1000 are fully hashtagged & over 3000 numbered. jan6attack.com/individuals.ht… allows search by hashtag, appearance, or affiliation; click for more photos, videos, & descriptions. Below are some of the over 250 Proud Boys at the Capitol. 11/
A full set of tags, including all 3000+ numbered "insiders" who entered the Capitol, is at seditionhunters.org/perpsheet/. This site is less searchable but more complete. 12/
For arrested suspects, you can find all court documents, as well as photos and description, at seditiontracker.com, built by @seditiontrack. 13/
The 'Agency Response Timeline', in the bit.ly/Jan6Analysis "Timelines" folder, compares all reports by responding law enforcement agencies to known events, showing their discrepancies. It also provides a compact graph that captures the attack. 14/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
This is only a partial list of the open-access resources that have been assembled. All are listed and linked in the Jan6Analysis "Resources" document. Downloading this document will give you a reference guide to use in the event that Twitter goes down. 15/ docs.google.com/document/d/1zB…
Losing Twitter would be painful, as it holds nearly 2 years of work by the #SeditionHunters community - contributions by hundreds of volunteers who used Twitter as a shareable 'notebook'. But it's not fatal and the work of synthesizing what's been learned is well underway. 16/
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Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/
On Jan 6, Ed Martin, as a founding member of Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal team, had a better seat than George Santos, a lesser figure. Brandon Straka, the man who first got Santos into politics, sat in the front row center; Ed two rows back; Santos deeper in the crowd. 2/
Santos, who rocketed from a minor part of Brandon Straka's WalkAway operation to a member of Congress, was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for wire fraud and identity theft. Today Trump let him out. Ed Martin says he was "honored" to help "make clemency great again". 3/
Trump's move this week revoking 6 visas for posting about Charlie Kirk is a wake-up call. These weren't random. They were all prominent people in the arts, with business visas. One is German filmmaker Mario Sixtus, whose new documentary criticizes AI and US tech firms. 1/
Sixtus' documentary examines how AI slop is infecting the internet, making it a "dumping ground for machine-generated nonsense". He's based in Berlin, but interviews famed US AI researcher Melanie Mitchell. Now he can't come to the US to promote it. 2/ arte.tv/de/videos/1221…
These six are not random. Another revokee, music exec Nota Baloyi from South Africa, has said he was targeted and wonders if South African right-wingers sent in a tip. US journalists need to ask how these six were chosen. Whose speech is being barred? 3/ news24.com/southafrica/ne…
A big caution here: we have to take seriously that GOP has coordinated talking points that No Kings will involve an act of terrorism. We have to ask seriously whether someone has planned such an act. It wouldn't be provoking people in frog costumes. It would be worse 1/
The last time we heard so much talk about "Antifa" as a terrorist threat was Jan 2021, just before the Capitol attack. The 200+ Proud Boys who kicked it off didn't wear "colors"; they came "dressed as Antifa". They talked about it repeatedly. That instruction came from above. 2/
Remember: in 1999, a month after he was made Prime Minister, Putin solidified his power using explosions that killed hundreds. He blamed Chechen terrorists as a pretext for a crackdown. Regardless of who planted the bombs, Putin found a use for them. 3/ henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/upl…
Jan 6 is in the news again as GOP Senators reveal that FBI searched their phone records in 2023. A totally reasonable action, but what's surprising is the list. The FBI left off Ted Cruz, by far the Senator with the most known ties to Jan 6! And they added some surprises 1/
The article by @etuckerAP & @stephengroves gives the basics, but not why this information was released now or why these Senators were chosen. Before Jan 6, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz were talked of as a team plotting something - so why isn't Cruz here? 2/ apnews.com/article/fbi-ja…
The FBI has private sources of information, but the list is still baffling. (Why Dan Sullivan of AK?) The Congressional Insurrection Scores rank lawmakers by publicly known actions around Jan 6. In this metric, Sens Cruz, Hawley, & Tuberville stand out. 3/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists. Jack Posobiec, a Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Of Pizzagate. Of election-fraud claims in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/
Slate picked up this article (kudos!) but both journos are independent.
Poso was one of the first people tapped for Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal. He pushed election-fraud claims to 1M followers, watched the J6 attack from Alex Jones' rented rooftop. 2/ slate.com/news-and-polit…
How is it that with all the resources of mainstream media his own voter fraud gets uncovered only now? How did CBS cover Poso, a major propagandist and a vector for foreign influence? They interviewed him about "the death of his friend Charlie Kirk". 3/
Dear god, our politicians have learned nothing. DO NOT LET YOUR OPPONENT SET THE NARRATIVE. Offense, not defense. The answer to "you are shutting the government down to give illegal immigrants healthcare" is "The GOP shut down the government to give handouts to billionaires." 1/
Never, never, use their framing. It does not work to try to avoid a fight by saying "we all agree", if your opponent is determined to fight. It just concedes territory. It makes their framing the topic Don't defend against a bad-faith argument. Attack and move forward. 2/
If someone insists on fighting you, you have to fight back. DO NOT ANSWER A BAD-FAITH QUESTION. Do not cede that authority. Just say the question is bs - attack their motivation - and move on to say what you think is true. Be the boss, set the terms of the debate. 3/