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Jul 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dissent: Image Dissent: the majority “invents an atextual, ahistorical, and unjustifiable immunity that puts the President above the law.” Image
Jun 25 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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The only man known to have participated in both the News Fight in Anchorman (2004) and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol (2021) plans to plead guilty on July 8, per court docket. He doesn’t count for any “law enforcement officers who stormed the Capitol” stats, but he’s certainly played a cop a bunch! nbcnews.com/politics/justi…



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Jun 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Let’s take a look at the conduct of Jan. 6 defendants sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, shall we? Image First up there’s this guy.

Did he get 10 years for walking in the Capitol?

No, that was mostly the vicious assault, and the blatant (almost comical) lying on the stand didn’t help.

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Jun 13 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Lots of false claims about Jan. 6 grandmas on this site, so just pointing out that a J6 grandmom sentenced today got approval to take a trip to France for D-Day events right before her sentencing.

Kymberly Sylvester received probation, $500 in restitution, and no fine. On Zoom.
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Image "I had an encounter with a young man wearing a 'Coon-skin hat', who was very close to me in the crowd. He stated to me it was a good day to 'kill someone.'"

"I entered the building with pure stupidity and there is simply no excuse for that... It is hard to live with the fact that I was a part of a crowd who ultimately caused great harm to the Capitol police.Image
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Jun 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Threading some relevant content about Larry Brock.
May 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“I was a gun prosecutor — we never prosecuted addicts for lying and buying on federal forms,” Gowdy said. “So, I don’t think Hunter Biden ought to be singled out either. Go after him on taxes, go after him on corruption… “But I’d be curious how many people were prosecuted for being an addict in possession of a firearm, and I’ll bet it’s less than 10 in the last 12 months…”
May 29 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Yesterday, Michael Fanone — the former police officer who was nearly killed by Trump rioters who actually believed the former president's lies about the 2020 election — called Donald Trump an "authoritarian" with "a violence fetish."

Hours later, his mom was swatted. "This is the reality of going up against or challenging Donald Trump... These swatting calls are incredibly f---ing dangerous..."

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May 21 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
"In addition to harming the officer, I know that my actions also harmed the country..."

Jan. 6 rioter Joseph Fisher — the former Boston cop who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair and his hands — wrote this letter ahead of his sentencing Friday.

DOJ wants 3.5+ yrs.

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May 17 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
TODAY:

Heir apparent Brent Bozell IV will be sentenced for his leadership role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a terrorism sentencing enhancement, just like they did for the Proud Boys he fought alongside. Image Once again, you couldn’t write it.

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May 8 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
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Back in 2020, after Donald Trump lost the presidential election, the official account of the Arizona Republican Party started getting a little... wild.

In late night tweets, they started asking followers if they were ready to die for Trump.

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May 4 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
L. Brent Bozell Jr. and L. Brent Bozell III shaped the conservative movement in the 20th and 21st century.

Justice Department prosecutors are seeking almost 12 yrs in federal prison (and a domestic terrorism enhancement) for L. Brent Bozell IV, who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6.


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Image "There are few rioters on January 6 who were involved in as many pivotal breaches as Bozell."

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May 3 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"Donald Trump and his advisers knew that he had in fact lost the election but despite this knowledge they engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him."

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Image "Trump refused to concede. He showed himself willing to undermine confidence in the democratic process and in time, managed to convince nearly three-quarters of his supporters (to include Mr. Harkrider) that the loser was actually the winner." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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May 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So, yes, today, Ryan Nichols, Ryan Nichols was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison and given a $200K fine. "I will f---ing die for this," Nichols said on video after the Jan. 6 attack. "But before I do that, I plan on making other people die first, for their country, if it gets down to that."

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Apr 30 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
DOJ seeking nearly seven years in federal prison for Ryan Nichols, who will be sentenced on Thursday. Ryan Nichols talked about his desire to drag politicians through the streets before getting to the Capitol, assaulted law enforcement on video, then confessed on video in the third person.

This is what Donald Trump Jr. falsely claimed about his case, before Ryan Nichols pleaded.
Apr 30 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
A lawyer for Jan. 6 defendant Russell Taylor wrote in a sentencing memo today that Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Royce C. Lamberth now has "the equivalent of a PhD in the events of January 6th."

Here's what Judge Lamberth has been saying about the GOP's "preposterous" rhetoric: Image "The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong. But in my thirty-seven years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream." nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Apr 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There really are some strang moments in the Jan. 6 CCTV footage being released by House Republicans. Like here's the elusive #Individual4 revealing his face because he goes to take a swig of stolen Coke, and then here's Kevin McCarthy in the same spot hours later.
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Apr 29 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Haven't seen any Fox News coverage of John Sullivan's six year prison sentence, even though they covered his case pretty extensively at first!

(Their story from the trial in November 2023 was just taking NBC News' reporting without including a link.)



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Apr 26 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: John Sullivan sentenced to SIX YEARS in federal prison, putting him in the top tier of Jan. 6 sentences. More to come… nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Apr 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Feds seeking 7+ years in federal prison for John Sullivan, which would put him pretty high up on the list of Jan. 6 sentences.

At trial, prosectors told jurors that he came to the Capitol with the "goal of inciting the crowd," and showed evidence he bragged he wanted to "make those Trump supporters f--- s--- up."Image "Sullivan also told Sacker that his motivations were 'siding with anyone willing to rip this down and put something new in place, put something better in place. Pretty simple.'" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Apr 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Jan. 6 rioter Zachary Alam, the subject of an absurd @SharylAttkisson segment in October, is set to be sentenced tomorrow.

Sharyl didn’t actually cover Alam’s trial, but told her viewers that his indictment doesn’t “mention any evidence he’s a Trump supporter.”

In fact and reality, the press release she cited seconds later in the segment noted that he has a MAGA hat on under his fur hat, and there’s this from his mom: There's just so much deception happening in @SharylAttkisson October 2023 segment that it makes you feel like banging your head against he wall.

Take that line about the how Alam's indictment doesn't mention "any evidence he's a Trump supporter."

Well, key basic question there, is it a speaking indictment?

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Apr 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Last month, New York Times Magazine ran a feature story about Vanderpump Rules, a cultural phenomenon of which I was only vaguely aware.

I was intrigued. I started with Scandoval episode, then went back and watched all 10+ seasons, plus the new spinoff.

It was a nice break from covering Jan. 6!

Today, the wall between The Real Housewives universe and J6 came crashing down... STORY: nbcnews.com/politics/justi…