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The visualizer is no longer updated so some links are dead, but you can find all 41,000+ archived Jan 6 media items through the amazing media sheet (h/t the Jan6evidence team).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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Anti-vaxxer Simone Gold, who breached the Capitol on Jan 6, is back in headlines for misusing funds at America's Frontline Doctors. Now sued by Joey Gilbert. Reporters, add context! Joey is #PurpleMeathead, who called Alex Jones up the Capitol steps, then ran for NV governor...1/
Joey Gilbert has been publicly identified as #PurpleMeathead since May 2021. He and Gold were both scheduled to be speak on Jan 6 (same rally as Stewart Rhodes) but climbed the Capitol steps instead. Joey didn't go inside, but he confronted police.. 2/
Here's Joey pulling down barriers. The FBI will surely come for him, now that campaign season is over. (Joey came 2nd in the Republican primary with 28% of the vote). He's is a public figure, and his Capitol activities belong in news stories about him. 3/
Now that Adam Laxalt has gone under in the NV Senate count, is it time to post that letter he signed in 2016 along with Ali Alexander (Stop the Steal), demanding the Senate not confirm a replacement for Justice Scalia - i.e. deny Merrick Garland a seat? 1/ archive.ph/aQ02D
That letter has big names on it - Ali Alexander was in fancy company. Of the signers, 12 were directly involved in pushing the Big Lie in 2020 (yellow); 2 went on Capitol grounds on Jan 6 (bold outline). John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Jenny Beth Martin - the gang's here. 2/
5 more signers have indirect connections (green). Adam Laxalt, AG of NV at the time, was the only AG to sign besides Ed Meese who headed it. The forces behind Jan 6 have long roots. Keeping Laxalt out of the Senate is good step to making sure the rule of law holds in America. 3/
The Twitter blue check fiasco is basically covered in Dr. Seuss (1961). The sudden widespread sale of a former status symbol results in chaos, temporary profit for those selling symbols, followed by total loss of meaning. Journalists lose their status - maybe that's the point. 1/
Dr. Seuss knew that selling the blue check makes it meaningless. Of course cutting down journalists, a backbone of Twitter's value, is bad for long-term profits. So maybe the point is not to make money long-term. Maybe the point is to stick it to the "snooty old smarties". 2/
Elon has a lot of people advising him. They're not all going to miss this. You have to assume the outcome he's getting is the point - for someone.
Full video at link. Dr. Seuss thought no status markers was a positive. Twitter's case seems less benign 3/
Anyone following this months’ Twitter saga is now hearing a lot about David Sacks and the PayPal Mafia. WSJ asked who pushed Elon to buy: the top 2 were Peter Thiel & David Sacks. WaPo asked who’s advising Elon now: again, Sacks. You should worry. 🧵 1/ newrepublic.com/article/168125…
Thiel organized the influencers who later pulled crowds to the Capitol on Jan 6. His Senators (Cruz, Hawley) delayed the electoral vote. Sacks is now pushing Putin’s talking points - to Elon. The links are ugly. Here’s a try at showing some, and a review. Sources at end 2/
Thiel & Sacks had childhoods in apartheid S. Africa (like Elon); bonded over feeling ‘canceled’ at Stanford. They wrote a book (“The Diversity Myth..”) with insensitive comments on ‘multicultural rape’. There was worse stuff in their 1992 Stanford Review “Rape Issue”. 2/
As Ted Cruz mocks fired Twitter employees, let's remember that his political career was launched by Peter Thiel, the man who likely whispered in Elon Musk's ear to buy Twitter. Fun fact: the 2 senators who delayed the electoral count on Jan 6, Hawley & Cruz, are Thiel's guys. 1/
Peter Thiel's supported Ted Cruz since 2009: he paid Cruz's way to an invitation-only workshop in GA, then gave him $250K for an aborted run for TX Attorney General. In 2012 Thiel was the biggest donor for Cruz's Senate run, giving $1M to his super-PAC. 2/ texastribune.org/2012/07/03/ted…
Once the first things Ted Cruz did when he got to DC in 2013 was to show up at Ali Alexander's "Blog Bash" at CPAC. That year it honored the late Andrew Breitbart, was funded by the Mercers, but Ted Cruz gave the big speech. Here's Ali: "Ted Cruz is in the House!" 3/
The Oath Keepers trial this week is filling Jan 6 news, but remember Michael Riley's trial too. He's the Capitol Police officer charged with helping an attacker - and was the first responder to the pipe bombs & is repped by Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran. 1/ nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Very little information on the pipe bombs has come out. We know that Riley was the first responder only because his attorneys filed a motion saying so & demanding footage. One possibility: they are using Riley to get video needed for another client. 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Less than two weeks after his indictment, Michael Riley suddenly swapped out his lawyers for a high-powered team including Evan Corcoran, who handled negotiations about the documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. It was odd enough that WUSA9 wrote about it. 3/ wusa9.com/article/news/n…