My rage has not abated, it has grown. I worked on the Hill on 9/11 & when 2 police officers were tragically killed by a madman with a gun--surprise attacks that lead to dramatic security increases. BILLIONS have been spent to protect OUR house-the people's house. And yet...1/

This attack--planned in plain site by a bunch of morons who had merch!--was carried out with little resistance. Think about it, the seditious mob brought and built a gallows and platform with 6x6 beams at OUR capitol. This required some planning. 2/

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They had ladders! Are you telling me they walked up with ladders and no one thought, "uh oh, shit's getting real?"

📷 Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images 3/
They had zip ties and flex cuffs to handcuff people! Who were they planning to take hostage and thank god they were not successful. 4/
The had SLEDGEHAMMERS??? 5/
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I have been to every kind of protest you can imagine in DC-its part of DC life-#climatechange, women's rights, gun control, and nobody ever brought a ladder to storm the Capitol. In fact, nobody ever tried to storm the Capitol at all. Nobody.

📷Bryan Woolston / Reuters 6/
Hell, I even went to the first Million Man March in 1995, when a million BLACK men came to DC. Guess what?
NOBODY had a ladder or a sledgehammer or zip ties and nobody tried to stage an invasion. If they had, we all know what would have happened. 7/

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Meanwhile, my former colleagues had to evacuate with their hands up. Staff literally running for safety from white seditionists. Those I have talked to continue to process fear, rage, and sadness. This trauma is real.

📷Amanda Voisard/For The Washington Post/Getty Images 8/

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BREAKING: at least six men that provided security for Roger Stone entered the #Capitol during the siege, per a @nytimes visual investigation.

All six are associated with the far-right #OathKeepers militia.

THREAD 1/

Story: https://t.co/abZlcVyaR6


2/ On January 5th, Stone appeared at the Supreme Court, glad-handing and being driven in a go-kart. Later he attended a rally near the White House.

As the @nytimes team shows, his security entourage featured a host of #OathKeepers...


3/ In the morning of the 6th, Stone stood outside the Willard InterContinental hotel, again flanked by men associated with the #OathKeepers.

Some of them, like Rob Minuta, have been named in prior


4/ Interesting detail: while scrutinizing the video of Roger Stone I spotted Rudy Giuliani exiting the same hotel.

Giuliani is accompanied by a man wearing the same outfit as Trump supporter John Eastman & other not-yet ID'd people.

Video source: https://t.co/Rure8TiQTp


5/ Now to the #Capitol: We see a several of Roger Stone's #OathKeeper guards amidst a larger group yelling at police. Video surfaced by the @CTExposers team.👇👇

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THREAD: Okay. I'm about to get SUPER space beans tin foil hat on you, so stop reading if you're not into that. Based on what we're learning from public reporting, the pentagon curtailed the response to the trump coup. 1/

We also know from video and public reporting that there were two groups that stormed the capitol. 1) weird-ass bystanders and 2) possibly armed ex-military members with tactical gear and flex cuffs 2/


We also know there was a failed coup attempt in Venezuela orchestrated by Giuliani and former members of Blackwater, an Erik Prince joint. 3/

We also know that Giuliani met with Brian Benczkowski and Bill Barr to lobby for for help to go easy on his Venezuelan pal. Benczkowski is a former Alfa Bank rep. 4/

Further, we know that Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos (who JUST resigned) and the former head of Blackwater. We also know that the day before the insurrection, a memo was sent out to knee-cap the federal police in DC. 5/

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