Now that everyone's talking about how Kenneth Chesebro, architect of Trump's fake electors plot, was at the Capitol with Alex Jones on Jan 6, let's think about how bad that is. Because Jones was used for a strategic purpose in the Capitol attack. And Chesebro was watching. 1/
It is clear that Alex's movements serve the Capitol attack. The crowd was too thin; the MPD arrive and stall the attack. Alex then gets a call to come to the Capitol. Once there he helps move the mob where they need to be to help in breaches. Chesebro was with him, filming. 2/
Chesebro isn't with Alex in the morning; he connects up with Alex only on Capitol grounds. Once Alex arrives, the NW Scaffolds are taken in a rush. Alex then urges the crowd to move East, where the next breaches will soon happen. From this point on, Chesebro stays with him. 3/
Much of their journey is covered in the CNN article. But, it's important to emphasize: Chesebro is not just a tourist, or an Alex Jones fan. He keeps his camera pinned on Alex's group almost the entire time, dropping it only for a few key moments. 4/ cnn.com/2023/08/18/pol…
Chesebro drops his camera to check his phone, or to lift his hat - could be nothing, but it's a gesture we see used at the Capitol to signal. As he walks up across the NW path, leading the Jones group, he lifts his hat just as the first flag goes up on the NW Scaffolds. 5/
Jones' group round the corner of the Capitol onto the E. Plaza at 2:02 PM, 5 minutes after a group including Proud Boys tore down the barriers. (Remember Joe Biggs, one of the Proud Boys leaders, is Alex Jones' former employee). Once there, they wait. This is 2:05:33 PM. 6/
At 2:05:56 PM (to +/- a few s), Chesebro gets some kind of text on his phone, lifts his hat again, looks around the E. Plaza, and then looks back down at his phone. It is now 2:06:04 PM. Seconds later, the crowds break the police lines on the East steps. 7/
At that point the entire Jones group moves forward partway down the E. Plaza, then abruptly halt again. Chesebro is in the lead, but angles his camera to catch Jones. The stop-start progress of Jones' group is striking on Jan 6. Tim Enlow, Jones' right-hand man, steers him. 8/
What Chesebro is doing at the Capitol is fundamentally tied to what Alex Jones is doing there. We know Jones was paid to come, that Tim Enlow arranged it, that Alex waffles and fudges, and yet that he is always in the right place, on time, matching events at the Capitol. 9/
Chesebro watches while Alex goes up the E. Steps at 2:17 PM. Other VIPs run over to join Alex's group; Alex gives a half-hearted speech, stopping and starting, then says "lets go down". Two minutes after Alex descends, the Columbus Doors are thrown open for the first time. 10/
Alex stops at the back of the E. Plaza for 15 minutes, blaming Antifa and provocateurs to his InfoWars listeners. He is the most reluctant revolutionary you can imagine. At 2:38 PM, as the Columbus Doors are opened for a 2nd time, he bugs out. 11/
Chesebro stays with Alex as they leave the Capitol, taking an odd path. InfoWars had rented a rooftop at 101 Constitution overlooking the W Capitol, but the group head EAST instead, around the Russell Senate Office building. Flagged by volunteers in 2022; no-one knows why. 12/
By 3:26 PM they are at 101 Constitution, since Michael Coudrey sends a text: "We are across from the Capitol on the rooftop". Jones and Shroyer blame Antifa even as fighting at the tunnel and the North Doors rages behind them, for over an hour more. 13/
Alex Jones' importance was clear from the start. He moved strategically; the Proud Boys openly coordinate with those movements. The J6C showed us Alex was paid, and that he was tied to very high levels. Now Chesebro shows he was watched on Jan 6. 14/
Alex Jones was one of the first J6 figures to get a 'reel' of his movements, with footage found by #SeditionHunters. @StevieG54099097 has now made an updated version, 25 minutes long. Use it to understand: Alex is central to the attack that day. 15/ rumble.com/v38vfg6-alex-j…
New resource for journalists: a slightly longer version of the Alex Jones reel, 33 minutes. All primary sources are listed in the notes field, with links to live or archived versions of videos. Watch it, use it. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. 16/ rumble.com/v38ynrq-alex-j…
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Ed Martin just got named Trump's "Pardon Attorney" (plus Associate Deputy AG). He does know the subject - in 2020, Martin brokered a pardon for Michael Flynn in exchange for Flynn's speaking at Stop the Steal rallies. Martin knows how to cut a pardon deal. 1/
This 2023 thread covers the story. Nov. 4, the day after the election, Ali Alexander spun up Stop the Steal with Ed Martin as a top recruit. Nov. 7, Martin reaches out to the White House with a deal: pardon Flynn and he'll help with "base-rallying". 2/
People like to think of Michael Flynn as a villain but in 2020, it was Ed Martin leading. Flynn would do nothing til he got that pardon - a straight quid pro quo. But Ed Martin was all-in from the start, busily working to overthrow the rule of law. 3/
Trump just declared Harvard ineligible for all grants and the NYT botches the story. It's not that "Harvard.. relies on federal money..[for] its projects". It's the federal government that relies on Harvard for its projects. Harvard provides services for you, the taxpayer. 1/
The NYT's phrasing is as dumb as saying gosh, your plumber relies on your money for HIS plumbing projects! What happens is the federal government puts out a call for research in some area, on YOUR behalf. Individuals then submit proposals to do that work. Just like plumbers. 2/
The NYT article is astoundingly backwards. You'd think @alanblinder, an education reporter, would know better, if he'd ever lifted his head beyond admissions grievances and culture wars to consider what universities actually do. Unpaywalled link. 2/ archive.is/Mcwtc#selectio…
Reporters: yes, alt-right gadfly Ivan Raiklin says crazy stuff, but what's most interesting about him is the backstory, how he was groomed to be an influencer. Because Raiklin is of Russian origin: parents are Russian emigres, brother a Russian scholar, wife a Russian teacher. 1/
Ivan Raiklin could have been on a list since his summer in Moscow in 2002. His brother Ben would be known from his PhD ("Stalin’s Documentary Filmmaking Industry, 1926-1946"). And Ben's insecure little brother, an officer in the National Guard, would be such a tempting target. 2/
We have to stop pretending far-right influencers appear spontaneously. They have histories: normal childhoods, then they're recruited into the game. It's rarely natural. Always ask: how did this person become known, who set them onto this new path? That's the bigger story. 3/
Stephen Miller confirms what anyone who studies Jan 6 knows: Trump's government wants to control education and impose a national 'patriotic' curriculum. It was OBVIOUS this was coming: Trump promised this in 2020 in exchange for support for his coup. But pundits ignored it. 1/
This account first called it in 2022. THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION Trump set up a commission on patriotic education. The people who led it - from Hillsdale & Claremont - then wrote his election-fraud lawsuits, arranged fake electors. They met on Jan 5. 2/
Education was Trump's barter with the religious right: public funds for private religious schools and a national 'patriotic' curriculum. It could have been stopped: Michigan should have indicted Larry Arnn, Hillsdale president, 176 Commission leader. 3/
Our new Navy Director of Communications watched the action at the Capitol on Jan 6 for Breitbart News. Her worst post might be this one: she flippantly captioned a video of people attacking the North Doors: "Things got a lil sporty here". To her it was a joke. Video tk. 1/
Here's Wong's video of the attack on the North Doors. She can claim she was just a reporter, but her caption shows that she thinks an attack on our Capitol and officers is funny. @SECNAV: is this the message you want to send to the troops, who swear to uphold the Constitution? 2/
Actual reporters, not Breitbart hacks, should ask @SecNav John Phelan: why was Kristina Wong picked? Is this the right message to send the US Navy? That attacking our own Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power is just "a lil sporty"? 3/
It's clear by now: we WILL lose US democracy without a civil society pushback. Today the universities finally rose up, bluntly denouncing "undue government intrusion". The coalition is is now top-heavy with establishment heavyweights. Summary follows. 1/ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
Who signed? Let's start with the Ivies. Status-worship is gross, but it matters that they're nearly all leading now:
* Ivy: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Penn, Brown
NOT Columbia, Dartmouth
* Ivy-plus: MIT, Duke
NOT Stanford, Univ. of Chicago
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continuing... universities with big research arms:
* Other elite tech:
NOT Caltech, Rice, Georgia Tech
* Big state R1s: Rutgers, U WA, U MD, U WI Madison, U HI, UC Riverside, Stony Brook
NOT U MI, UIUC, other UCs, UT, etc.
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