Today you can find my book, We Are Proud Boys, on bookshelves & in all formats. Please give it a read.
It's more than a history of the street gang leading up to their role in Jan. 6, it's a ground-level view at our growing extremist crisis.
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Author of WE ARE PROUD BOYS: How A Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In A New Era Of American Extremism. Senior Editor andy.campbell@huffpost.com
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At least 3 rich businessmen have gotten access to Supreme Court justices by paying for their lux vacations. Justice Scalia got an Alaska vacation paid for by the same businessman who hosted Justice Alito. Here he is making martinis out of glacier ice:
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Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
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These people put years of work into Vice and built it into a multi-billion dollar company, then fought for a fair contract that guaranteed them a small parachute in the event of layoffs.
Vice ripped away that parachute and now its workers are in free-fall. Support them here:
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Laid-off VICE employees are yet to receive a single dollar in severance because of the company's bankruptcy filing. Some of them have been left struggling to make ends meet, and that's why we need your help to support them.
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Laid-off VICE employees are yet to receive a single dollar in severance because of the company's bankruptcy filing. Some of them have been left struggling to make ends meet, and that's why we need your help to support them.
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The best reporter on conspiracy theorists in the world, , went on a hike with the biggest conspiracy theorist in America. He did not enjoy some of the questions.
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'Put on our armbands boys': Man arrested in attempted arson of donut shop that hosted drag event pushed anti-LGBTQ 'grooming' rhetoric on Facebook.
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NEW: The untold story of resistance to investigate Trump’s role in Jan. 6, how it caused a year to pass before DOJ looked squarely at White House-led efforts to steal the election, & to documents case speeding past to a charging decision. w/
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Presidential candidate RFK Jr. has been doing a podcast since early 2021.
Over the course of 143 episodes Kennedy has, under the guise of promoting a progressive agenda, given a platform to reactionaries and/or conspiracy theorists.
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This month, a Trump-appointed judge sentenced a decorated Air Force lieutenant colonel to 3 years in prison for willfully retaining classified docs at his home and officer quarters. Not accused of spying, cooperated with investigators, expressed remorse.
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It's been over a month since VICE conducted mass layoffs and filed for bankruptcy — our members have not yet received a dollar of the severance they're contractually owed. We're outraged to learn that the timeline to pay that severance has been pushed back at least another month.
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new right-wing paranoid delusion just dropped
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Fox’s parent company wrapped its corporate logo in the same flag to promote its supposed inclusiveness in its 2022 corporate social responsibility report (p. 25). media.foxcorporation.com/wp-content/upl
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Fox News just tweeted and then deleted an article conflating the Progress Pride flag with pedophelia (archived below). Meanwhile, here's one of their top on-air personalities defending an adult having sex with a 16 year old literally 23 days ago.
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If you think the anti-trans moral panic is only going to affect trans people, you are out of your mind.
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spoke to the always-insightful about the online-ness of this election: fivethirtyeight.com/features/2024-
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Let's talk about all the conditions that Trump DOES NOT have to comply with that other accused criminals often do.
1) Stay in South Florida.
Unlike most accused felons, Trump can hop in his jet and fly all over the world raising money.
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Target stores in five states got bomb threats over the weekend and had to evacuate
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If they could the Biden Administration would force every American to drink Bud light and shop at Target.
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don’t threaten me with a good time
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If they could the Biden Administration would force every American to drink Bud light and shop at Target.
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The Proud Boys were once prepared to go to war for Trump.
But their "meh" response to the latest charges against Trump suggests that they've moved on from him — and instead remain laser focused on attacking the LGBTQ community
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We're pulling together all the important updates on Trump Arraignment Day 2, and posting them here in real time:
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Bought a novelty T-shirt from one of those reply bots running rampant on here, and while the content of the shirt is a clear winner, I can report that the shirt quality is so bad it’s unwearable.
This is my service journalism for the day.
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Just the pettiest, most hilarious self-own possible
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This forced me to remember that Trump refused anesthesia during his colonoscopy to avoid a temporary transfer of power to Pence
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Seriously though I’m dying to know what book store displayed my book next to Tucker Carlson’s and what the section is called
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Tim Pool’s followers have spoken:
Buy my book on the Proud Boys, which features a full examination of the pundits, grifters and carnival barkers who support the gang, like Tim Pool!
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For all the conservatives who (apparently) believe DeSantis is “Trump without all the baggage,” this baggage might look familiar:
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Nazis are outside of Disney World in Florida waiving swastika and DeSantis flags as well as anti Semitic, racist, and homophobic signs.
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This is interesting! It’s clearly related in part to Jan. 6 — Trump did nothing for his street soldiers after their arrests — but I also think they’ll latch onto whomever the loudest culture war leader is.
Could be Trump again, but right now it’s DeSantis (and Fox News).
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One of the most interesting things in all this IMO is how the Proud Boys still don’t really appear to care … the majority of chapters have seemingly moved on from Trump and so far remain laser focused on targeting the LGBTQ community
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now that it’s the DOJ (and bidens admin) indicting Trump, the response from his supporters has taken on wilder and even more dangerous dimensions
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We have now reached a war phase.
Eye for an eye.
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I was deeply honored to accept the Walter Cronkite Award today, and ask my fellow journalists an important question:
The next time someone asks you to couch the truth with a lie pushed by a powerful person, what will you do?
Will you help that liar? Or will you fight?
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Breaking: Jim Trusty and John ROWLEY have RESIGNED from Trump’s team, saying in a joint statement they tendered their resignations this morning. Trusty was just on CNN last night defending Trump and detailing charges against him.
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Exclusive: An FBI agent who House Republicans said was a whistleblower has been suspended by the bureau because internal investigators concluded that he leaked classified information to Project Veritas, a bureau official says.
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NEW from me: identified Jan 6. rioters and Proud Boys members at an anti-LGBT rally that turned violent outside a Glendale school board meeting on Tuesday
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