VIDEO THREAD: On Monday, supporters of January 6 defendants held a Memorial Day march from the Capitol to DC Jail for Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force Veteran killed on J6.
"Ashli Babbitt!" chanted the crowd, which included her mother, Micki Witthoeft.
"Anarchy Princess" made fun of the mother of Robert Gieswein, a January 6 defendant that plead guilty and had a pouch that said "My Mom Thinks I’m Special" on his vest: "What a stupid book bag to wear while you insurrect the Capitol."
As the Ashli Babbitt Memorial Day march got closer to the DC Jail, Anarchy Princess shouted through the megaphone that there's "Terrorists coming through your neighborhood!"
"Go home and worry about your son," livestreamer Anarchy Princess said to Ashli Babbitt's mother Micki Witthoeft. "Go home and take care of your one baby who's not dead or in prison."
Outside the DC Jail last night, January 6 defendant supporters held signs portraying both Ashli Babbitt and USCP Officer Brian Sicknick as "Murdered by Capitol Police."
Counter-protesters stood on the other side of a blue wall apparently erected earlier by the Trump supporters.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A man on the pro-J6 side tried to offer a slice of pizza across the barrier to the counter-protest side outside the DC jail.
Counter-protesters rejected the pizza and one called him an "Uncle Tom-ass [N-word]" and "House [N-word]" a few times.
James Burton McGrew, a January 6er and Marine veteran who pleaded guilty and was recently sentenced to 78 months, called into the protest at the DC jail. "Through peace and love and compassion, we can take back our country" he said.
"[Former USCP Officer] Officer Michael Fanone lied to the J6 committee when he said he was pulled out from the Lower West Terrance Entrance Tunnel Entrance 250 feet, which is impossible" accused Tommy Tatum (who was at J6 himself), while speaking on the phone with January 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The January 6 defendant supporters closed their event outside the DC Jail last night by singing The Star-Spangled Banner in sync with the defendants inside, a tradition they do ever night.
"USA!" they chanted afterwards. "Free J6!"
Here is the full, 4K video of the pro-Ashli Babbitt march from the Capitol to the DC Jail last night, with a handful of counter-protesters along the way.
As always, all @N2Sreports video available to license.
And this is the full, 4K video summary of the Memorial Day celebration by January 6 defendant supporters and the counter-protest (on the other side of a wall) outside the DC Jail.
As always, all @N2Sreports video available to license.
Tommy Tatum played a message last night from Guy Reffitt, who is serving more than seven years for his role on January 6 and was the first such defendant who the government attempted to seek a terrorism enhancement against.
VIDEO THREAD: Hundreds gathered including several members of Congress Tuesday outside the US Treasury to protest Elon Musk's access to a federal payment system.
Rep @MaxwellFrostFL said "an unelected billionaire and his team have been given full and unfettered access to our taxpayer money and our government."
"We're going to be the opposition!" he said to cheers. "We will fight, we will provide oversight, and we will win!"
All video in thread by @wallendupraw for @N2Sreports
2) Rep @JasmineForUS tells Musk and Trump "We are gonna be in your face, we are gonna be on your asses, and we are gonna make sure you understand what democracy looks like!"
"Y'all about to find out!"
3) Senator @JeffMerkley asks "did anybody vote for a government of billionaires, for billionaires?"
VIDEO THREAD: White Nationalist group Patriot Front marched into Washington DC to hand out flyers and rally alongside the annual March for Life, their third time doing so in four years.
Thomas Rousseau, the group's founder, was among a few out of the approximately hundred who went unmasked.
He reiterated his group's belief to press that only people with "European" heritage qualify as American.
2) A man using a puppet to perform interviews criticized Patriot Front by calling them "law enforcement agents."
"If it's such a good cause, take off the mask!" he said to Rousseau through the puppet. "Take your mask off!"
3) Independent journalist @RichieMcGinniss asked Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau how he feels about Trump's FBI director nominee @Kash_Patel.
Rousseau said "I don't think Indians should be in charge of any departments of the United States, because he's a foreigner."
Pressed on why Patel is a "foreigner" despite being born here, Rousseau reiterated his platform (white nationalism) that only people with European ancestry qualify as American, regardless of birth or citizenship.
VIDEO THREAD: Activists dressed as contractors took down a banner outside the National Archives in Washington DC this morning and replaced it with their own demanding Biden publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) into the Constitution before leaving office.
The activists brought two additional banners which they had also planned to put up in the place of existing ones, but police arrived and confiscated them before the group could get those two up.
2) Kamala Lopez, founder and president of Equal Means Equal, explained that the ERA has already been ratified by 38 states, so she insists that Biden can be a "hero" by publishing it into the Constitution to be enforced.
Without doing this, she calls Biden a "zero."
3) Responding officers told the activists to sit down on the sidewalk and disputed whether their truck had been legally parked.
Additional activists arrived dressed as women from the science-fiction Dune series to advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.
VIDEO THREAD: Craig Sicknick, brother of Brian Sicknick who died of a stroke the day after fighting on January 6, 2021, spoke at a rally demanding Congress refuse to certify Trump's electoral victory on January 6, 2025.
"I came here today to urge Congress to do its job and block Mr Trump from taking office just a few short weeks from now," Sicknick said.
"They can do this by upholding their oath of office and acting under Article III of the 13th Amendment which clearly states that no person who was involved in trying to overthrow our government can hold any office, state or federal."
2) @JessicaDenson07, a 2017 campaign staffer for Trump who ultimately sued him, is an organizer of this weekend's rallies demanding Congress block him from retaking the White House.
"Donald Trump is an adjudicated insurrectionist disqualified and the only mechanism to remove that disability is by a 2/3 vote of both houses. That's it. We don't need new legislation," she said.
"It only takes 1/5 of both houses of congress... to raise an objection and a simple majority to sustain it!"
She says there was "mixed" reception as she and others lobbies for this idea to members of Congress.
3) "Congresspeople, keep us safe, Hallelujah!" sang protesters demanding Congress block Trump from the White House on January 6.
"Do your duty to the states, Hallelujah!"
"Insurrectionists can't be president!" they chanted. "Call your representatives!"
Now: Anti-Trump protesters gather at the Lincoln Memorial to demand Congress block Trump’s January 6, 2025 certification for being an “Insurrectionist” over his actions on January 6, 2021.
“Insurrectionists can’t be president, call your representatives!” chant protesters on the National Mall.
BIG THREAD: Today, I attended the preliminary/detention hearing for Brad Spafford, charged with possessing a short barrel rifle.
Federal prosecutors say more charges are coming and that his arrest yielded the "largest seizure of finished explosive devices in FBI history."
2) I first reported the case December 19 following Spafford's arrest by the feds, who used a Confidential Human Source (CHS) for two years to get the warrant to arrest Spafford for the alleged Short Barrel Rifle.
3) Rachelann Cardwell, a Suffolk Detective assigned as an officer on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, took the stand today.
She testified that the investigation into Spafford began in January 2023 when the CHS reported Spafford disfiguring his hand with a homemade explosive.