#Insurrectionists

curmudgeon 🐬

jaymills

This article is worth reading for its firsthand account of the people involved in the fascist uprising, but this particular detail really struck me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists This characterizat

Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss

milleridriss

Really enjoyed helping interpret these findings, which show that nearly 60% of arrested folks from Jan 6 attacks experienced bankruptcies/bad debt/foreclosures. What does that mean? I suggest that it's a

John Livingston

jlivi2

Had the honor to take a student trip to DC as a junior in high school. We had to bring a suit and a tie for the day we toured

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

Perhaps there will be superseding indictments but I worry greatly that the insurrectionists who've been arrested so far are being undercharged. If you break into the Capitol armed (doesn't have

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

No other country in the world platforms Neo Nazis quite like Australian media. Now they're on their way to the US to apply it to an expanding white nationalist terror

David Rothschild

DavMicRot

I have had same conversation 1,000's times in last 5 years:Well-meaning academics & journalists: you should devote your time to studying disinformation from Russians on social mediaMe: you should devote

Zero

InTh3Middle

#SeditionHunters I'm going to post a long thread of virtually unseen videos of the #CapitolRiots Most of these aren't great and their only value is a potential glimpse of a

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

What struck me on day #3 of the impeachment trial was the arguments about how the Capitol rioters were duped by Trump into thinking they'd be safe. The implications for

Tori Williams Douglass 🇺🇸🧛🏽‍♀️

ToriGlass

reminder: the Q Coup is not the problem. they, like trump, are a symptom. the problem is the fact that cruz hawley and the seditionists + the cops who willingly

Lindsey Simmons

LynzforCongress

Republicans are using government communications (constituent mail, email, social media) to spread the lie that we had a peaceful transfer of power. They tell this lie so that you forget

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

Joe Biden needs to drop this reconciliation bullshit. When he and Democrats take office on the 20th, THAT DAY they need to cease negotiation with Republicans and just start ramming

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

This was an interesting read. It’s more complicated than “oh these poor people are financially insecure.” Most of them were doing just fine currently, but interestingly, had a history of

©️as Mudde 😷

CasMudde

This is what happens when you minimize importance of far right ideology in storming of Capitol. Articles suggests financial trouble caused extremism rather than vice versa. #ShortThread https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/10/cap

🆘Rev Magdalen

revmagdalen

Remember in the lead-up to J6, people said that Republicans' formal acts for the Big Lie "weren't sedition" because they weren't advocating violent overthrow?Yeah, that whole time violence was def

Christopher Mathias

letsgomathias

New: My look at why police didn't see MAGA insurrectionists as a threat ahead of the siege on the capitol. Institutionally, American police have seen pro-Trump extremists as allies, especially

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

There's now a Brian Sicknick "truth movement" on the right, which suggests Sicknick either died of natural causes or was murdered to tarnish ex-President Trump. Today this new conspiracy theory

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