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Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks

Violent Insurrectionist Open Thread: White Supremacist Steps On His Own… Plea

by Anne Laurie|  May 11, 20226:25 pm| 44 Comments

This post is in: domestic terrorists, Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Open Threads, Violent Insurrection at the Capitol, Schadenfreude

NEW: Far-right internet provocateur “Baked Alaska” botches his plea deal hearing after declaring himself “innocent.”

Trial now set for March 2023, but he’s got 60 days to change his mind on the plea deal. https://t.co/5X11qV24gs

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 11, 2022

Could not happen to a more deserving idiot bigot — here’s the Wikipedia entry for ‘Baked Alaska‘, aka Anthime Joseph “Tim” Gionet.

Hello from Judge Emmet Sullivan's virtual courtroom, where far-right troll Tim Gionet (better known as "Baked Alaska"), will be entering a guilty plea in connection w/ Jan. 6. Gionet livestreamed from the Capitol: "Occupy the Capitol let's go. We ain’t leaving this bitch" pic.twitter.com/TUBwaJenDZ

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 11, 2022

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Sullivan is one of the longest serving fed judges in DC and trying to recount all of his major courtroom moments would take a lot more than a tweet. But you may remember him from such notable interrupted hearings as Michael Flynn's postponed sentencing: https://t.co/nYpHgHGuLe

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 11, 2022

Something to consider about Gionet possibly blowing up his plea deal and getting a trial date: That means he spends that much more time on pretrial release subject to court oversight — his online activities have already gotten him in trouble with the court while it's been pending

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 11, 2022

Previously: https://t.co/CoHWQkj90s

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 11, 2022

Sullivan sets a status hearing for July 22, at the end of the 60-day window that Gionet now has to take the plea deal as is or prep for trial in March 2023.

Gionet: "Thank you for the additional time, I appreciate it"
Sullivan: "These things happen, I wasn't born yesterday"

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 11, 2022

Can't help but remember this hilarious self own after Baked Alaska just messed up his own plea deal in federal court pic.twitter.com/88I3a08Mju

— all concerned parents matter (@People4Words) May 11, 2022

Why did Baked Alaska blow up his plea hearing today? Because God told him to. https://t.co/gSQOTqfaGq pic.twitter.com/oBo3N31zWa

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 11, 2022

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Working On Alignment

by Anne Laurie|  April 27, 20227:58 am| 87 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Alignment of 5 planets, Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter, as seen from Africa at 4 am. pic.twitter.com/g1XWoa53h3

— Andrew ProEU. Hiraeth is strong in this one (@Captn_Hurricane) April 25, 2022


(click on the photo to see the topmost planet)

If Republicans were "good on the economy," the last 3 Democratic Presidents that followed one wouldn't have had to:

??Drag us out of recession — Clinton
??Enact emergency Recovery aid — Obama
??Rescue our economy from freefall — Biden

End this myth once and for all. Pass it on!

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) April 23, 2022

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U.S. Capitol riot panel to hold public hearings in June, chairman says https://t.co/LohYKDO7Os pic.twitter.com/gyPC3M3iu6

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 27, 2022

Trolling, trolling, trolling…

Florida atheist petitions to ban Bible from schools due to age inappropriate content and how “woke” Jesus is https://t.co/Fa1ZEdaBzQ

— Claire Goforth (@claire_goforth) April 26, 2022

WaPo newbie gets shoved in front of the videocam to explain the Moron Caucus telegraphing its wildest fantasies:

If Republicans regain control of Congress after the November midterm elections, the White House will face an onslaught of GOP-led investigations.

Here’s how the Biden administration is preparing ??:: pic.twitter.com/PEb1R1EHtH

— Blair Guild (@BlairGuild) April 26, 2022

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Repub Venality Open Thread: Kevin McCarthy, Not A Smart Man

by Anne Laurie|  April 22, 202210:09 am| 163 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Open Threads, Republican Venality

nice to see liz cheney carrying on the family tradition of shooting a man right in the face https://t.co/BWrgHpq9G6

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 22, 2022

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So today, Kevin McCarthy tried to deny that he said that he would urge Trump to resign after Jan. 6, but NYT just released a recording of the call where he said it pic.twitter.com/wIrZimGNpK

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 22, 2022

#MoscowMitch not looking too good here, either…

Analysis: New details lay bare GOP’s post-Jan. 6 cravenness — and miscalculation https://t.co/zrDzZtzyoX

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2022

“Yet none of the men followed through on their tough talk in those private conversations.” https://t.co/a36weCCPI4

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 21, 2022

NYT: “In days after the Jan. 6 attack, Representative Kevin McCarthy planned to tell Mr. Trump to resign. Senator Mitch McConnell told allies impeachment was warranted. But their fury faded fast.” https://t.co/dx6gK5U7hI

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 21, 2022

Analysis: One last time before he left office, the GOP base had Trump’s back https://t.co/6zDrNTuHLE

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2022

Jaw dropping. For one week every Republican in Washington including the party leaders in both chambers understood that Trump was unfit and a threat to the Republic. Then they lost their nerve. And some did worse. https://t.co/89MjhuAtjq

— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) April 22, 2022

Question for Kevin McCarthy, @GOPLeader… how can you honestly feel ok with the lies? Yes, other people lie too, but you have claimed to fight for a higher purpose. You went from one day asking Trump to resign, a day later ????. Honestly Kevin, is it worth it? pic.twitter.com/0x6lSgY11i

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) April 22, 2022

I think there would be no more fitting end to Kevin McCarthy’s dream of becoming speaker than the “scandal” of him being exposed as privately believing the right and moral thing.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) April 22, 2022

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Domestic Terrorists Open Thread: Rooting for Injuries

by Anne Laurie|  April 21, 202210:35 pm| 49 Comments

This post is in: domestic terrorists, Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Trump Crime Cartel, Violent Insurrection at the Capitol, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up

"Jan. 6 committee investigators have asked at least three witnesses to detail the behind-the-scenes rivalry, mistrust, and animus between Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and prominent Proud Boys member Enrique Tarrio during the run-up to the attack on the Capitol"

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) April 21, 2022

Like thieves, traitors seem to fall out:

… The questions the committee has asked and related answers reveal how it is deeply looking into how far-right groups were potentially riven by intense rivalry, even as they pursued similar and allegedly seditious aims during the Jan. 6 period. It is unclear if this line of inquiry will be included in the committee’s public findings, if at all, as it pushes to finish its work in the coming weeks. Several people close to the committee have said members and aides felt pressure to wrap up their work in the coming weeks even as they explore various investigative paths…

The investigation into the relationship between the two leaders has not altered the committee’s private assessment that members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were able to work closely together on Jan. 6, inspired by Trump and his false claims of a stolen election, two of the people familiar with the depositions said.

Rhodes and Tarrio are two of the highest-profile Jan. 6 defendants facing federal prosecution, with Rhodes awaiting a trial for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack. Tarrio also remains jailed pending trial on several federal charges, including conspiracy…

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An attorney who has represented Proud Boys clients in other criminal cases said the group specifically seeks men only for membership. The Jan. 6 defendants allegedly affiliated with the Proud Boys have roots in larger metropolitan areas, including Philadelphia. Many of the accused Oath Keepers charged in the attack hail from small, rural communities, including southern Ohio and western Virginia.

In particular, the committee has prodded witnesses about the Jan. 5, 2021, meeting between Rhodes and Tarrio in Washington, D.C., hours before members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were accused of storming the Capitol intent on stopping the certification of the 2020 presidential election…

CBS News has also confirmed that the committee is investigating whether far-right leaders felt inspired by Trump’s remarks about the Proud Boys.

At a presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, Trump and then former vice president Joe Biden had a heated exchange on the threat of white supremacy. At one point, when asked about the Proud Boys, Trump said, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” and then said that violence is a “left-wing problem.”

Lawyers, federal prosecutors, and judges have singled out Trump’s comments in an increasing number of civil and criminal cases stemming from the Capitol siege. They allege the phrase was an inspiration for the violence on Jan. 6, particularly among Proud Boys…

Much more at the link.

From an Feb 2022 story in the Rolling Stone. https://t.co/YTbJD9s1gu pic.twitter.com/Tea3Ll0O8i

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) April 21, 2022

Supplementary reading:

NEW: A massive trove of text messages shows Oath Keeper leaders chatting about plans to provide Jan. 6 security to high-profile Trump-world figures.

Also shows high-level contact with Proud Boys.https://t.co/7axBSBBPeh

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 19, 2022

Almost too much to hope for, but it would be very satisfying if a certain lifelong professional ratfvcker got dinged…

It's always been weird that 1/6 was basically a joint op between Oathkeepers (middle-aged, antisocial Facebook addicts pretending to be SEALs) and Proud Boys (stunted 4chan dorks pretending to be their high school bullies.)

And yet it's obvious who was key to marrying the two pic.twitter.com/HbGyjndxLF

— zeddy (@Zeddary) April 21, 2022

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Domestic Insurrection Open Thread: Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing?

by Anne Laurie|  April 19, 20229:55 pm| 12 Comments

This post is in: domestic terrorists, Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Republican Venality

April 19 is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest mass attack on the U.S. between Pearl Harbor & 9/11. Many people still don't realize it was an act of organized terrorism perpetrated by the white power movement, which still threatens our democracy today (1) pic.twitter.com/QUejutHfyZ

— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) April 19, 2022

Since then, white power activists and those in unlawful, private armies have stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 and laid siege to school boards and statehouses (3)

— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) April 19, 2022

It was too easy to accept McVeigh’s self-aggrandizing ‘lone wolf who wreaks hell’ framing to look at his allies:

… [T]he bombing remains misunderstood as an example of “lone wolf” terrorism. People repeat the words of the bomber Timothy McVeigh, an avowed white-power advocate who before his execution pointed out how scary it was that one man could wreak “this kind of hell.”

But in fact, the bombing was the outgrowth of decades of activism by the white-power movement, a coalition of Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, skinheads and militias, which aimed to organize a guerrilla war on the federal government and its other enemies.

Its network of activists spanned regional, generational, gender and other divides. Membership numbers are hard to pin down, but scholars estimate that in the 1980s the movement included around 25,000 hard-core members, 160,000 more who bought white-power literature and attended movement events, and 450,000 who read the literature secondhand.

These hundreds of thousands of adherents were knit tightly together. As a historian of the movement, I have spent a decade connecting threads among thousands of documents, including original correspondence and ephemera of activists, government surveillance documents, court records and newspaper reports.

From the formal unification in 1979 of previously antagonistic groups under a white-power banner, through its revolutionary turn to declare war on the government in 1983, through its militia phase in the early 1990s, the white-power movement mobilized through a cohesive social network using commonly held beliefs. Its activists operated with discipline and clarity, training in paramilitary camps and undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting and weapons trafficking…

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To say nothing of the threat this presents, we have not reckoned with April 19, 1995, and the families it devastated. (5)

— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) April 19, 2022

I thought you were exaggerating about the McVeigh/Hawley part, but then I realized I forgot about this news story. https://t.co/2fKj6D87dz

— Mr. Robert Dobalina IV (@doctorjonp) April 19, 2022

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Thank You, Brandon!

by Anne Laurie|  April 15, 20227:46 am| 232 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

New neighbors just moved in… pic.twitter.com/Y5Sk3QqRz7

— Matt the ??Buff Joker Dude?? (@RetvrnOfTheMatt) April 14, 2022

For the virtual White House Passover Seder tonight, VP Harris and the second gentleman will speak.

Tomorrow night, the 2nd family is hosting Seder at the VP’s residence, and inviting Jewish members of staff, her office says.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 14, 2022

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President Biden has authorized the National Archives and Records Administration to hand over a new tranche of Trump White House documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/EeHc0Dk9nn

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 14, 2022

Biden continues crusade to diversify federal judgeships with five new picks https://t.co/XgAj0Pqn4u pic.twitter.com/fEUuRLJFHF

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 13, 2022

Boosting enforcement of antidiscrimination and antitrust laws, raising the federal minimum wage and higher unionization rates could substantially boost U.S. economic growth, a new report by President Joe Biden's top economic advisers concludes https://t.co/e3c3UJtMLo

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 14, 2022

the last forty years of american politics have been republicans saying “me manage money smart” and running ungodly deficits and democrats very quietly cleaning up the mess. will voters ever figure this out? probably not! https://t.co/mWepbKdWA0

— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) April 13, 2022

Sen. Grassley (R-Iowa) said this week that Republicans will not try to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they retake the Senate, in the latest signal that the GOP is abandoning its long-running effort to scrap the national health-care law. https://t.co/kURc5fnVYc

— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) April 13, 2022

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: But His Burners…

by Anne Laurie|  March 29, 20225:39 pm| 93 Comments

This post is in: Investigations Into Violent Extremist Attacks, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trump Crime Cartel

a gap in the tapes! appreciate the writers' callback to Watergate in this latest plot twist https://t.co/dLR8jm12r9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2022

Given the standards of competence in that godsforsaken maladministration, you know there’s gonna be a plethora of criminal intent falling out of every GOP closet…

administrative pondering: does the white house have a closet of burners and SIM cards that, like, an office manager inventories? or do they send someone out to a phone kiosk to expense one? https://t.co/ICUukf4bAN

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) March 29, 2022

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i mean, there's absolutely no way that anyone who worked in that admin at that point was ever going to eat the cost of an out of pocket expense

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) March 29, 2022

The white house has its own internal repeater, right? Cell phone calls from the building got logged somewhere

— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) March 29, 2022

they sent a gofer with cash in at least one instance: https://t.co/w2tvZ5xwJz

— buckd_dc (@buckd_dc) March 29, 2022

Nothing to see here, just the leader of the Republican Party using burner phones during a violent insurrection that he, his staff, 147 Republicans in Congress, and the wife of a Republican Supreme Court Justice coordinated to prevent the lawful transfer of power. https://t.co/DDvjQzDtMN

— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) March 29, 2022

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