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justice reporter (DOJ et al.). raising kids w/ . DMs open. signal/whatsapp: 202.527.9261 ryan.reilly@huffpost.com 🚲

Adams Morgan, Washington
Joined July 2007

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    Aug 3

    Six years after Ferguson, here’s my look at how protesters built the foundation for the mass movement we’ve seen unfold in the past two months:

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    Dissent by Ilana Rovner, federal judge appointed by George W. Bush: "Today, in the midst of a pandemic and significantly slowed mail delivery, this court leaves voters to their own devices. Good luck and G-d bless, Wisconsin. You are going to need it.”

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  3. DOJ has now issued a national press release on the arrests:

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    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer draws a line between the militia plot to kidnap her and Trump's "stand back and stand by" rhetoric during his debate. “Hate groups heard the president’s remarks not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry — as a call to action," she said.

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  6. FBI undercovers are often also very willing to work with targets on “the money issue.”

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  7. The FBI undercovers try to “bolster the legend” by posing "as someone that’s like-minded so that they build a rapport with us.”

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  8. One of the reasons the FBI tends to nudge right-wing militia types towards explosives is that, while there’s no broad federal domestic terrorism law, there are plenty that cover explosives. But a federal kidnapping charge will work in a pinch.

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    A striking feature in 20 years of indictments of American Muslims for domestic terrorism is the frequency w/ which an informant or an undercover will push someone to go from talk to action. Indictments aren’t proof. But the snitches aren’t driving events in the Michigan indctmnt

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    🚨 BREAKING: Elliott Broidy, a former top fundraiser for Trump and the RNC, has been charged as part of a wide-ranging federal probe into back-channel efforts to influence the Trump administration on behalf of foreign interests

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    In Jim Dwyer's last tweet, he was generous to other journos, inveighed against injustice, and wrote like this: "With a panoramic view of history, grain by grain scrutiny of forgotten records, they halted a railroad with 400 years of momentum."

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    I want to highlight story that always stayed with me. Ten years ago, Jim wrote about how big chain clothing stories like were purposefully damaging unsold clothing before throwing it away. In a city where many people could not afford to clothe themselves.

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    NEW from me + + : Conservative Super PAC Turning Point USA created hundreds of fake identities to rail against Democratic politicians and praise President Trump in Facebook comment sections for mainstream news outlets.

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  15. “Evidence... painted a picture of an all-American brand of homegrown terrorism: angry white men radicalized by Islamophobic memes and fake online news articles whose path to violent extremism was accelerated by a divisive election cycle and a candidate who sounded like them.”

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    i wrote about Sen. Kamala Harris, body language and the familiarity of somersaulting around the "angry Black woman" trope

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    3 hours ago

    Lol someone in my twitter mentions said I was crazy to play the misogyny card...

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    This comes days after Eric Allport, a childhood neighbor of the Weaver family on Ruby Ridge, was shot and killed by FBI agents in Michigan:

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  19. “We ain’t gonna let ‘em burn our fuckin’ state down. I don’t give a fuck if there’s only 20 or 30 of us, dude, we’ll go out there and use deadly force.”

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  20. “Snatch and grab, man. Grab the fuckin’ Governor. Just grab the bitch… I just wanna make it all glow dude. I don’t fuckin’ care anymore, I’m just so sick of it.”

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  21. "FOX explained they would try the Governor of Michigan for ‘treason,' and he said they would execute the plan before the November 2020 elections.”

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