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Dec 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I’m in Grand Prairie, where several right-wing groups, including Protect Texas Kids and Open Carry Texas, are protesting an all-ages drag show. They’re opposed by about two dozen armed leftists with an hour to go until doors open.
Members of the white nationalist Aryan Freedom Network just showed up to protest the drag show, intensifying tensions. One of them is wearing a hat with a Schutzstaffel ruin, which is a Nazi symbol
Nov 2, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Here at Dealey Plaza, where hundreds of QAnon supporters have gathered expecting JFK Jr to reveal himself where his father was assassinated. (JFK Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.)
Crowd, including a group holding a Trump/Kennedy 2020 sign, breaks out into a rendition of the national anthem on the grassy knoll. A segment of QAnon followers believed JFK Jr — who has been dead for more than 20 years — would run on a ticket with Trump in 2020