“A Twitter account claiming to belong to a national ‘antifa’ organization j pushing violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests has been linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, according to a Twitter spokesperson.” 6/1/20 by Ben Collins 1/ nbcnews.com/tech/security/…
6/ Reminds me of this: “Boogaloo Boi’ charged in fire of Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protest” - 10/23/20 theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…
8/ Also from the Summer of 2020. A single Bible (maybe 2) thrown into a fire as kindling became Portland lefties burn “stacks of Bibles.” archive.ph/2020.08.13-202…
10/ “Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police
The suspect wore a mask and carried an umbrella, police said.”
7/29/20 abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-…
21/ Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec pushed hoax about pipe bombs having been planted at the Korean War Memorial during the George Floyd protests. June 2020 #chaosagent#disinformationarchive.ph/2021.12.03-042…
22/ “The pipe bomb story was the brainchild of Jack Posobiec, a right-wing personality who’s regularly retweeted by Donald Trump and who works for fledgling Trump cable network One America News. And it came like a five-alarm fire.”
23/ “As of Wednesday afternoon, Posobiec’s tweet had garnered more than 29,000 retweets and 60,000 favorites. *** By Wednesday, Posobiec’s supposed pipe bombs were being cited as fact on a conservative Boston talk radio station. But the pipe bombs were totally made up.”
24/ “U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. Eduardo Delgado told The Daily Beast in an email that the Park Police never discovered any pipe bombs near the memorial. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department also had no reports of pipe bombs at the memorial, a spokesperson said Tues.”
25/ “Instead, it appears Posobiec either concocted the claim entirely or, at best, relied on information from deeply flawed sources. Worse, his tweet appears to have wasted law enforcement resources at a crucial time, as … officers scrambled to find the nonexistent pipe bombs.”
26/ “Posobiec and OAN president Charles Herring didn’t respond to a request for comment. The episode shows how fast hoaxes continue to spread online and how real world crises remain the perfect breeding ground for disinformation.“
27/ I haven’t read this yet. The linked report seemed kind of impenetrable at first glance. news.yahoo.com/homeland-secur…
28/ “Ron Wyden … is calling for the FBI to explain how it came to recruit a violent felon as an informant who allegedly infiltrated BLM protests & “encouraged protesters to engage in increasingly violent demonstrations…” 2/14/23 WTF??? theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f…
29/ “The FBI’s infiltration of Black Lives Matter in Denver ‘appears to show another instance of the Trump administration trampling on the rights of Americans in order to divide our country and gain a political advantage’, Wyden said.”
30/ “The FBI owes the public a full accounting of its actions, including how anyone responsible for attempting to entrap and discredit racial justice activists will be held accountable.”
31/ “The actions of the FBI informant, Michael Windecker, or Mickey, as he was known, are revealed in a new 10-episode podcast by the investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson.”
WTAF?!!! “The FBI informant who infiltrated the George Floyd protests (during the Trump regime) “told one BLM leader: ‘I can teach you how to shoot a gun, to hand-to-hand combat, all the way up to like blowing up fucking buildings & guerrilla warfare tactics and sabotage.’” 32/
44/ “Most charges against George Floyd protesters dropped, analysis shows,” suggesting the charges were bogus. “Some prosecutors and law enforcement observers say departments carried out mass arrests as crowd control tactic” theguardian.com/us-news/2021/a…
48/ I don’t know this guy’s political leanings, if any, but he’s obviously a white dude. archive.ph/2023.02.27-190…
49/ Seems he’s a Trump supporter who used the N-word hatefully on social media, but his brother & sister claimed he was upset by George Floyd’s murder. In any event, he was neither BLM nor Antifa bc of course he wasn’t. chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2020/6…
55/ “Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media,” 7/4/20 (Very interesting read.) washingtonpost.com/investigations…
56/ Same guy from post 6.
57/ Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec promoted the fake claim that “Antifa” planned to attack Gettysburg in the Summer of 2020. Naturally. mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/b…
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WTF? The right wing SCOTUS majority held that Trump is immune re: claims that he directed the DOJ to conduct knowingly sham investigations b4 admitting that, “TRUE THERE IS NO PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY CLAUSE IN THE CONSTITUTION…” (See pp. 37-38) Remember how they reversed Roe v Wade, emphasizing that the constitution includes no explicit reference to abortion? 1/ supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…
2/ From pp. 37-38
3/ What further blows my mind is that the right wing SCOTUS majority even manufactured a three prong test for this manufactured right to presidential immunity. Remember how right wingers complained incessantly about Roe v Wade’s three trimester approach for abortion rights?
Holy astroturf. The fundamentalist Christian takeover of the Carroll ISD school board in Southlake, TX included Hannah Smith —an alum of the Becket Fund (whose board includes Leonard Leo), protege of Leo ally Robert George, & former clerk of Leo pals Clarence Thomas & Alito. 1/
2/ The Daily Signal is the Heritage Foundation’s media arm. Heritage’s board includes Leonard Leo ally Robert George. dailysignal.com/2021/06/10/she…
Oh look. The Center for Baptist Leadership founded by Trump/Heritage alum William Wolfe follows SBC Pastor Jonathan Elwing who has been arrested for possessing images of himself molesting a 2 year old. Wolfe recently said that the SBC has no sex abuse crisis. FFS. 1/
😳 Florida SBC Pastor Jonathan Elwing Charged With Child Molestation. Elwing recently belonged to the Conservative Baptist Network co-founded by Florida-based Christian investor Rod Martin, a protege of the late Paul Pressler who allegedly molested underage boys. 1/ churchleaders.com/news/488534-14…
2/ “Rod Martin … is a co-founder … of the Conservative Baptist Network, two-term member of the executive committee of the Florida Baptist Convention State Board of Missions, and a former officer of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination.” rodmartin.org/about-rod/
3/ “Conservative Baptist Network Report Downplays SBC Sex Abuse Crisis, Raises Alarms About CRT, Feminism, LGBTQ+” churchleaders.com/news/442997-co…
Trump snapped and claimed that the 2020 election had been rigged against him, even though he & his Republican allies in Congress had blocked election-security bills before the election and Trump had out-performed the polls during the election. #TrumpIsAWhiner 1/
OK School Superintendent Ryan Walters is no lone wolf. He’s part of the Christian Right’s well oiled machine, as shown by his speaking gig at the Family Research Council’s (FRC) summit, where he referred to church-state separation as a myth. FRC targets schools nationwide. 1/
2/ Here’s the link. As you can see, Sonja Shaw spoke on the same Family Research panel as Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters. Shaw is the President of the Board of Education of The Chino Valley Unified School District in California. This is a national effort.
3/ The Family Research Council’s president, Tony Perkins, is the immediate past president of the Council for National Policy, the Christian Right’s umbrella organization.