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1/THREAD ON CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO FBI WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGATIONS
Both DEMS & media need to stop describing individuals as "alleged", "self-styled" or other challenging term re: #whistleblower status.
They meet definition of being #WBer.
cnn.com/2023/05/18/pol…
Both DEMS & media need to stop describing individuals as "alleged", "self-styled" or other challenging term re: #whistleblower status.
They meet definition of being #WBer.
cnn.com/2023/05/18/pol…
2/If individuals made protected disclosure to supervisor in employee’s direct chain of command, an OIG or appropriate congressional committee or its members, they are protected #whistleblowers.
Doesn't mean they are credible or accurate, but attacking status undermines system.
Doesn't mean they are credible or accurate, but attacking status undermines system.
3/I served as co-counsel to IC #whistleblowers whose complaint led to Trump's 1st impeachment (not our objective). Cong. Jordan was hypocritically a key attacker of WBer's lawful & legitimate status. It was wrong then, it is wrong now.
rollcall.com/2019/11/19/rep…
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𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: Proof That January 6, 2021 Was The Most Dangerous Insurrection In American History.
20 FBI and ATF join J6th.
The FBI and the Department of Injustice continue to politically persecute and frighten American citizens
A whistleblower revealed a plethora of documents and text messages, some labeled "Highly Sensitive," to the Gateway Pundit.
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The FBI and the Department of Injustice continue to politically persecute and frighten American citizens
A whistleblower revealed a plethora of documents and text messages, some labeled "Highly Sensitive," to the Gateway Pundit.
dropbox.com/s/mdcr198jrp4t…
The informant further testifies to the FBI that Proud Boys intended to travel to Washington DC to risk their own safety to shield normal Trump Supporters from Antifa violence so MAGA people could enjoy the day and "go back to their hotels safely"
1/Where is rest of #January6thReport?
Trump & his fellow insurrectionist leaders deserved condemnation & criminal referral for their actions/inactions that led to #January6th riots.
But we expected this Committee to evaluate everything that contributed to that undemocratic day.
Trump & his fellow insurrectionist leaders deserved condemnation & criminal referral for their actions/inactions that led to #January6th riots.
But we expected this Committee to evaluate everything that contributed to that undemocratic day.
2/@January6thCmte had daunting task. Attacked relentlessly bc of politics. @HouseGOP declined involvement to its discredit. Two @GOP Members @RepLizCheney @RepKinzinger served to their credit & political downfall (short-term at least).
Entire effort should have been nonpartisan.
Entire effort should have been nonpartisan.
3/But we - Americans - deserved to also learn abt federal govt shortcomings & why we were not better prepared for events like #January6th. This was weak link in armor & democracy is only as strong as weakest link.
Where does blame lie all around?
Where does blame lie all around?
🧵#Jan6 meeting today
Note:
"Unlike previous hearings, the final Jan. 6 committee meeting began Monday with few in attendance in what has now been renamed the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Caucus Room." — via @MariannaReports:
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"Unlike previous hearings, the final Jan. 6 committee meeting began Monday with few in attendance in what has now been renamed the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Caucus Room." — via @MariannaReports:
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
No matter how hard conservative culture-war cannon-fodder love big business, it will never love them back. Take network policy, where rural turkeys in Red State America keep on voting for Christmas, then profess outrage when Old Farmer Comcast gets to sharpening his ax. 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/use… 2/
pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/use… 2/
For two years, the @FCC has been hamstrung because MAGA Senators refuse to confirm @gigibsohn, leaving the Commission with only four commissioners. What do the GOP have against Sohn? 3/
1/8 I’m grateful for the opportunity to testify before the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties this morning on the threat of #ChristianNationalism. I will discuss how this ideology overlaps with and provides cover for white supremacy.
2/8 This is the seventh and final hearing in the Subcommittee's series on “Confronting White Supremacy,” chaired by @RepRaskin. This hearing will address “The Evolution of Anti-Democratic Extremist Groups and the Ongoing Threat to Democracy.”
@RepRaskin 3/8 I'm excited to hear from fellow witnesses @Esqueer_ of @cyberlawclinic, @BulldogShadow of @WStatesCenter, Mary McCord of @GeorgetownICAP, and @orensegal of @ADL.
The Awful Truth:
♠️Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute.
♠️ #PaulPelosi had an unidentified passenger on his recent DD arrest.
♠️Both occurred roughly at 2:30am. Both are being covered up.
🤞🏼Let’s hope David Depape doesn’t get Epsteined
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♠️Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute.
♠️ #PaulPelosi had an unidentified passenger on his recent DD arrest.
♠️Both occurred roughly at 2:30am. Both are being covered up.
🤞🏼Let’s hope David Depape doesn’t get Epsteined
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How would Depape have been able to break a window without triggering an alarm?
There was only one hammer, and it belonged to Pelosi. And only ONE cop quoted the perpetrator saying,
"Where's Nancy?" None of the other sources said that happened."
smobserved.com/story/2022/10/…
How would Depape have been able to break a window without triggering an alarm?
There was only one hammer, and it belonged to Pelosi. And only ONE cop quoted the perpetrator saying,
"Where's Nancy?" None of the other sources said that happened."
smobserved.com/story/2022/10/…
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Remember the recent Drunk driving incident,
CA D.A. Is withholding dash cam and police refused to confirm or deny that there was anyone in the car with #PaulPelosi
As the “story” continues to shift & change, we’ll never see body cam evidence #PaulPelosiIsGay #January6
Remember the recent Drunk driving incident,
CA D.A. Is withholding dash cam and police refused to confirm or deny that there was anyone in the car with #PaulPelosi
As the “story” continues to shift & change, we’ll never see body cam evidence #PaulPelosiIsGay #January6
Trump didn't care if Mike Pence lived or died on January 6th.
Despite that, every single day since, @Mike_Pence has embraced Trump's and the GOP's lawlessness, marching alongside violence-inciting Ultra MAGA Republicans on the path toward fascism. thedailyedge.substack.com/p/mike-pence-b… (1/x)
Despite that, every single day since, @Mike_Pence has embraced Trump's and the GOP's lawlessness, marching alongside violence-inciting Ultra MAGA Republicans on the path toward fascism. thedailyedge.substack.com/p/mike-pence-b… (1/x)
On January 7th, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called on Mike Pence to invoke to #25thAmendment: “If the vice president and Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment,” said Pelosi. (2/x)
Pence Didn’t Act. But Trump Did
On January 13th, Trump began unleashing new waves of pardons and commutations—handing out nearly 200 more get-out-of-jail-free cards to a rogues’ gallery of accomplices, friends, donors, traitors, spies and assorted ne’er-do-wells. (3/x)
On January 13th, Trump began unleashing new waves of pardons and commutations—handing out nearly 200 more get-out-of-jail-free cards to a rogues’ gallery of accomplices, friends, donors, traitors, spies and assorted ne’er-do-wells. (3/x)
I gave this report to the @SEP_US 7th Congress on August 1. It reviews the historical background the #COVID19 pandemic, the implications of the “forever COVID” policy & the fight for a #ZeroCovid global elimination strategy. #CovidIsntOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The report was given to motivate this Congress resolution, which was unanimously adopted. As part of the @ICFI_WSWS, we are the only political party in the world fighting to stop the pandemic and massively expand public health & healthcare. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The other reports and resolutions focused on the #UkraineWar & the danger of #WWIII, the #January6 coup & the threat of fascism, and the fight to build the International Workers’ Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in the working class. 3/ wsws.org/en/special/pag…
Happening now: Most destabilizing factor in the world today - "There are so many" @ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines tells @SilveradoPolicy @Google Leadership & Service Forum
NEW: "The mismatch between what we perceive to be #Putin's even near-term military objectives & the fact that his military can't actually achieve them is a destabilizing factor" per @ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines "It has raised the potential for escalation"
#Russia-#Ukraine
#Russia-#Ukraine
Another destabilizing factor - "The way in which disruptive technologies are emerging in many respects, the kind of convergence of so many fields of science" per @ODNIgov’s Haines
Breaking today: Fmr General Mike Flynn exercised 5th Amdt right to remain silent re if he believes in peaceful transition of power in USA.
Our Dec 2021 report looks closely at little-discussed #January6 military controversies 👇
unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
Our Dec 2021 report looks closely at little-discussed #January6 military controversies 👇
unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
Since the 1990s, Michael Flynn and his brothers were taken under the wing of Major General John Singlaub, a master architect of America’s covert empire, seen here facing the music @ the #IranContra hearing on May 20, 1987. More info in our report >> unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
A photo of Gen. John Singlaub, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and Phyllis Schlafly Eagles President Ed Martin, posted by Martin on November 29, 2020, four days after former President Trump pardoned Flynn. Martin and Flynn were subpoenaed by the January 6 Committee.
Let’s play connect the dots. I’ll say it again #FreeDumbConvoy is about establishing a RW insurgency. It’s not a coincidence that many #January6 insurrectionists have both participated in & promoted #CoupTruxKlan & the disinformation assault on #PMJT. #CdnNatSec #cdnpoli
Enter players like Tom Marazzo. His connections to radicalized current & former law enforcement & military can be seen most readily through “vets 4 freedom” & its allied group “camp eagle”. #FreeDumbConvoy #CdnNatSec #cdnpoli #OttawaOccupation
Marazzo also ran as a candidate for Derek Sloan’s neo-fascist “Ontario Party”, which enlisted the services of malignant insurrectionist, Roger Stone. #FreeDumbConvoy #CdnNatSec #January6thCommiteeHearings #cdnpoli #OttawaOccupation #CoupTruxKlan
🔥🔥Reading Luttig's statement & I'm so grateful he doesn't tiptoe around the crisis. The conservative judge says #Jan6 was a battle in Trump & GOP's ongoing war on democracy & America. He uses "war" 21x on just p1 ! He says they lied knowingly, to cling to power. #Jan6thHearings
Luttig: A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, & our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.
America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other…
America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other…
Luttig: "January 6 was…a war for America’s democracy, a war irresponsibly instigated and prosecuted by the former president, his political party allies, and his supporters…
only the party that instigated this war over our democracy can bring an end to that war."
#Jan6thHearings
only the party that instigated this war over our democracy can bring an end to that war."
#Jan6thHearings
The #January6 polls are in. Will there be a shift? Yes. But the economy is still driving decisions. Mullah Ron DeSantis running on the platform of "Free Gas for Monster Trucks" is still a GOP threat to our democracy.
DeSantis will be holding half time dissident executions and witch burnings at football stadiums. QAnon followers will be allowed to vote telepathically. Anyone caught without a bible, flag and AR will be publicly stoned.
DeSantis’ pick for Minister of Truth, Elon Musk, will be responsible for supervising collective punishment for “group sedition” sending all liberals to Mars and locking all remaining lefties in their Teslas during voting season. Trump will be on the new Million Dollar Bill.
This hasn’t aged well.
The double standard and unmitigated hypocrisy beggars belief.
No buildings were 🔥 burned.
No policemen 👮🏻♂️ were killed.
No looting occurred.
Police opened the doors ffs!😲
#January6th
The double standard and unmitigated hypocrisy beggars belief.
No buildings were 🔥 burned.
No policemen 👮🏻♂️ were killed.
No looting occurred.
Police opened the doors ffs!😲
#January6th
Remember, America…
The same people blathering on about #Insurrection are the same ones who tried for FOUR years to convince you that #RussianCollusion was real and #BLM & #Antifa were ‘peacefully’ protesting in 2020.
#January6th
The same people blathering on about #Insurrection are the same ones who tried for FOUR years to convince you that #RussianCollusion was real and #BLM & #Antifa were ‘peacefully’ protesting in 2020.
#January6th
January 6 Documents Reveal Plans to Overturn 2020 Election as Military Questions Deepen
Congress investigates military role in Jan. 6; Generals warn of rogue military personnel in future coup attempts
[Dec 2021] unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
Congress investigates military role in Jan. 6; Generals warn of rogue military personnel in future coup attempts
[Dec 2021] unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
Deep dive #January6 questions: Political operatives discussed how to overturn election | “Absolute and unmitigated liars”: controversy over ‘civil disturbance’ emergency military actions | National Guard Timeline conflicts & Last-second DCNG policy changes unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
Mark Meadows, former President Trump's Chief of Staff, had documents calling for federalized national guard troops & tossing out millions of votes in the 2020 election. unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6…
In another shocking, anti-Constitutional & lawless ruling, the half-Trump Supreme Court majority finds Americans don’t have the basic rights against false conviction or extralegal execution we have all come to take for granted. apple.news/AAomXCYKETD2hl…
The gravity of this ruling cannot be overstated. The #1stAmendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the right to seek redress, but Thomas ignores this & cites a law he claims denies courts the authority to intervene in miscarriages of justice.
The #6thAmendment guarantees the right to be properly defended by competent counsel, but Thomas ignores this & essentially argues with zero foundation in law that there is simply no need to correct such an injustice.
This is a message to white people in the US: Conservatives have worked since the early 1970s for this moment of overturning #RoeVsWade. Because they're white and Christian, their danger was not taken seriously. And here we are. #SCOTUS
Liberal, affluent, white cis women thought as long as #RoeVWade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along. In the U.S., white and Christian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
In my January 10, 2021 essay about #January6, I wrote about the audacious innocence afforded to white womanhood.
It is the most popular FEMINIST GIANT essay. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
It is the most popular FEMINIST GIANT essay. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
And now, more than a year later: “Women put 'friendly face' on Jan. 6 attack, extremism research argues in new study.”
WHITE women. Say it.
nbcnews.com/politics/natio… h/t @rerutled
WHITE women. Say it.
nbcnews.com/politics/natio… h/t @rerutled
Two new documents posted to our #January6 resource page by @rohini_kurup and @katherinepomps
Court order requiring John Eastman to turn over documents to the Committee, and Navarro and Scavino Contempt Report
Both found here: lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c…
Court order requiring John Eastman to turn over documents to the Committee, and Navarro and Scavino Contempt Report
Both found here: lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c…
For those catching up - the #Jan6 Committee wants emails sent or received by Eastman between 3 Nov 2020 and 20 Jan 2021 - Eastman had claimed privilege over some, and the court has ruled against him.
The big takeaway from this court order though, of course, is the judge ruling that Trump’s actions “more likely than not constitute attempts to obstruct an official proceeding.”
(Starts on Page 31, “i. Obstruction of an official proceeding.”)
again: lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c…
(Starts on Page 31, “i. Obstruction of an official proceeding.”)
again: lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c…
Who unlocked the magnetic doors on the east side of the Capitol on January 6? When George Tenney first tried to open them, both were locked. Then after he pointed at the doors and said something, the left door opened. #SmokeyInsider #GreenSidesPack #ScruffyBouncer #January6
Update: Stewart Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, & 10 others have been the first to be charged with seditious conspiracy over the January 6th Capitol riot over a year ago. wsj.com/articles/oath-…
The federal grand jury indicted 11 suspects of seditious conspiracy yesterday. Nine of them were already previously charged for other offenses over January 6 riot. DOJ accuses Rhodes of executing plan to stop the transfer of power from Trump to Biden. Read:justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/lea…
The full #January6 sedition indictment against Rhodes & others can be read here. The DOJ outlines it accusations on what Rhodes allegedly did before and during the riot to warrant the conspiracy charge, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
If the female insurrectionists were footsoldiers of the white supremacist patriarchy who had misread proximity to the power of white men as their own power feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6th
Then Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are their golden calves. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr… #January6th
The insurrectionists within the Capital and without were not revolutionaries.
They were not fighting a tyrannical state.
They were fighting to extend the tyranny of white supremacy, which has seen its fruition in Donald J. Trump. #January6th
They were not fighting a tyrannical state.
They were fighting to extend the tyranny of white supremacy, which has seen its fruition in Donald J. Trump. #January6th
#Onthisday, it’s Christmas in #Armenia. Even more interesting, this was once Christmas Day around the world. It is well-known that the exact birth date of Jesus was not historically recorded. Until the 4th century CE, it was largely celebrated on #January6.
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Roman Emperor Constantine moved the date to December 25, in 336 CE, apparently because he wanted to weaken an established Roman pagan celebration – the feast of the winter solstice.
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But for Eastern Europe, including Armenia, December 25 had no special meaning. Armenia was also a proudly Christian country by Constantine’s time. They saw no need to shift the date. And so Christmas Day remains January 6.
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