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helping organize crowdsourced information about the 1/6 Capitol attack. mostly now at: @capitolhunters.bsky.social also: @capitolhunters@mastodon.social
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Nov 1 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The techbro plot they talk of openly, to seize power by dominating the global weapons industry is luckily so far stymied by their products not working.

Peter Thiel's Stark drones flopped in trial. Big dreams are a start, but you have to execute too. 1/ Even if the techbros fail at their hoped-for military surveillance state, their bad products can still weaken the U.S. Trump and Hegseth are shoveling weapons contracts to Silicon Valley startups. Here's $642M for the Peter Thiel-backed Anduril. 2/
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Oct 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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/ Image
Image 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/ Image
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Oct 16 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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/ Image 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/
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Oct 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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/ Image
Oct 7 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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/ Image 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/
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Oct 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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/ Image 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…
Oct 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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/
Oct 2 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Trump's push to take over universities ratchets up: having failed to bully Harvard, he's now trying to bribe turncoats, offering "priority for federal grants" if they obey orders and teach right-wing views. It's compelled speech: a flagrant violation of the 1st Amendment. 1/ Image The WSJ, which first reported on the offer, buried the lede here. What's demanded of the 9 universities if they accept Premier Status is that they make 'governance changes' and abolish departments seen as 'belittling' 'conservative ideas'. Bribed speech is compelled speech. 2/ Image
Oct 2 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Howard Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein's next-door neighbor, seems to be on a pre-emptive damage control tour. Like Elon Musk, he says he visited Epstein's house, but only once: "I was one and done with the guy". Sure are an awful lot of Epstein ties in Trump's advisors. Here's 7... 1/ Alex Acosta, the Florida AG who gave Epstein a sweet (and secret) plea deal, got named as Trump's Secretary of Labor. Pam Bondi, the Florida AG who declined to support lawsuits by Epstein's victims, is now the US Attorney General. 2/
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Sep 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pete Hegseth has recalled America's top military leaders from around the world for a meeting that's livestreamed on Fox. It truly could have been a Zoom call.

People were speculating whether this is nefarious vs. stupid. It looks like Team Stupid wins. This is just gay panic on a national stage. Never has America so much needed gender studies departments to explain the psychopathologies haunting our leaders.
Sep 29 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
It's unclear who is leaking parts of the FBI's pipe bomb investigation to Just the News, but this witness interview confirms something long suspected: the RNC bomb was placed or moved on Jan 6. It was in too prominent a place to be missed, and found at too convenient a time. 1/ Image It is not a coincidence that the RNC & DNC bombs were discovered each within 15 minutes of the Capitol attack. For the RNC bomb, we know the finder, but don't see it dropped. For the DNC device, we see the drop on Jan 5, but never got the name of "an officer" who found it. 2/
Sep 27 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Stephen Miller is posting on a Friday night about mysterious ongoing terrorist acts like he's announcing from the Situation Room. Remind us again who is running our country? Miller's not even Trump's Chief of Staff - he's the DEPUTY Chief of Staff. 1/ Image When in history has the president's Deputy Chief of Staff made a solo public announcement about urgent responses to ongoing terrorist attacks?

Never. Which means, probably, that this is just bs. But also: why has no one in the actual line of succession reined Miller in? 2/
Sep 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A warning shot: House Dems are releasing Epstein documents showing ties to Silicon Valley's tech elite. We already knew Peter Thiel was connected to Epstein by 2016. But believe this is the first hint that Elon Musk was. He was to fly to Epstein's island in December 2014. 1/ Image The new documents posted show a 2017 lunch with Peter Thiel. But Thiel knew Epstein already by Fall 2016. At that time Thiel had endorsed Trump and was pushing dirty tricks for him. Epstein then introduced Thiel to the Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin. 2/
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Sep 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Timely news: people are talking today about Ric Grenell's racism. Now we can talk about his ethics too: Grenell's former client, Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, has been arrested. Grenell did Plahotniuc's PR - working for Arthur Finkelstein, mentor to Roger Stone. 1/ Arthur Finkelstein is the man who gave us Orban, Netanyahu, and Trump. A gay, Jewish man, he specialized in homophobic, antisemitic hate political campaigns. For the corrupt but fairly minor Plahotniuc, he hired the younger Ric Grenell to do the work. 2/
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Sep 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This latest Kennedy Center craziness - the interim president gave his buddies free tickets so they could heckle a Black performer - highlights an awkward fact. Ric Grenell and his pals are gay men, a key part of the alt-right since the 1970s, when Roy Cohn helped launch Trump. 1/ Image The NYT wrote a bit about gay MAGA, but it was pretty thin. Donald Trump was first pushed to run for president in 2011 by Chris Barron of GOProud. In 2016, the key RNC event was the Gays for Trump party thrown by Barron, Jim Hoft, and a Peter Thiel guy. 2/
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Sep 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Things are slipping: the canonization of Kirk is failing, Trump is getting more incoherent, the economic forecast is grim, adult Disney fans are reading On Tyranny and canceling their vacations. The only way out is to escalate and the most common escalation is starting a war. 1/ If Stephen Miller is raving about a battle of good vs. evil then things are not going well. The Trump administration has long since crossed the line where they can't back off - it's authoritarianism or jail. So they'll take the next step. They have to. 2/
Sep 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here it is: Stephen Miller says the government will now control what is taught in America. That's always been a key goal. No one should be surprised. In 2020, Trump gave the religious right the '1776 Commission' - control over education bartered for support for his coup. 1/ This account has been saying this, urgently, since 2022. Trump's plan to seize power on Jan 6 was entirely serious. And he offered seriously, to let his backers police American thought and education. It was a four-alarm fire - but we failed to act. 2/
Sep 18 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
To honor Charlie Kirk, a thread on his words about Jan 6. Let us cherish and remember them - which is easy since 41 of his sentences are "I'm invoking my Fifth Amendment right not to testify". That is, Kirk thought his words could be used in a criminal prosecution. 1/ Image Charlie Kirk's deposition, with all his evasions, is a public document for anyone to read; this thread will hit some of the highlights. 2/
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Sep 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If Trump is once again declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, that's not a good sign. The last time he did that was on Jan 5, 2021. The next day the Proud Boys "dressed as Antifa" when they set off the attack on the US Capitol. 1/ Trump started talking about "Antifa terrorists" in May 2020, during the George Floyd protests (when he also mused about shooting protestors). After he lost the election, he swapped his Secretary of Defense, then on Jan 5 issued a declaration on Antifa. 2/
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Sep 10 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
As weird as it is to see Trump, his VP, SecDef, and SecState out in DC with hardly any security, it is weirder that it was Codepink that was protesting. Codepink is an astroturfed "women for peace" group whose "peace" means giving Putin whatever he wants. Slavishly pro-Russia. 1/ Codepink has left such a long trail of dubious actions and shadowy funding that @P_Kallioniemi, who posts about Russian influencers, needed 23 Tweets to outline it all. If they are involved, tonight's events were not a normal protest. 2/
Sep 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome comrades to the new free-speech university UATX, created by the co-founder of Palantir! Today after early-morning calisthenics we will discuss the writings of the Palantir CEO and also co-founder. Be ready to discuss his belief that companies must take over the state. 1/ Image Tomorrow's topic: how Joe Lonsdale and Alex Karp exemplify Merit and not Woke DEI! Both
* were student friends of Peter Thiel. Lonsdale edited Thiel's Stanford Review.
* spent their entire careers in companies created or funded by Thiel
Next week: "Freedom is Slavery"
-- UATX
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