1/8/2023 0 Comments Trending on twitter usa"We’re lovers, not fighters,” she told Owen. The activist and business owner continues to host LGBTQ friendly events. Owen went deep profiling an Illinois baker and business owner who has faced months of targeted harassment from far-right extremists for her support of LGBTQ events including family friendly drag events.Ĭorrina Bendel-Sac has received threatening phone calls, harassment on the street and in front of her business and has even had her bakery vandalized, Owen reports. Tess Owen's stories at Vice News are always worth a read, and her latest is no exception. Opening statements: Prosecutors argue militia members were 'leaders' on Jan. Oath Keepers trial backgrounder: Oath Keepers trial: A 1800s-inspired defense meets most significant Jan. Members of the gang the Proud Boys go to trial in December. Another prosecution of alleged followers of the Three Percenters does not yet have a trial date. Other conspiracy trials: The Oath Keepers are one of three extremist groups on trial for conspiracy related to Jan. The day the election was called in President Joe Biden's favor, "Rhodes called Biden an 'illegitimate usurper' and issued a call to action via the encrypted messaging app Signal," Lee reports. Prosecutors claim Rhodes and the others started planning for the insurrection just days after the 2020 election. 6, in their opening statements, and also about the prosecutors' initial evidence: a discussion about rallying members for a possible fight in Washington. She wrote this week about how federal prosecutors argue the Oath Keepers were "leaders" on Jan. Lee has been in the Oath Keepers courtroom every day. Get up to speed: My colleague Ella Lee and I wrote a full analysis of the historic trial and the novel legal theory central to Rhodes' defense. The trial is arguably the most high-profile prosecution to come out of the insurrection. 6 2021 Capitol insurrection, continued in a Washington, D.C., federal courtroom this week. The seditious conspiracy trial of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the paramilitary extremist group the Oath Keepers, and four alleged accomplices for their role in the Jan. Supporters of the extremist group Oath Keepers stand outside the federal courthouse, on Monday, Oct. Trump, who has since founded his own fledgeling social media company, would likely relish a return to Twitter, where he has a long history os posting disinformation, lies and propaganda. The Trump question: Twitter infamously "permanently" banned then-president Donald Trump from the platform in January 2021. Musk has been largely silent on whether he will allow the extremists who were banned from Twitter back on the platform. We've written extensively on the possible impact a Musk-controlled Twitter would have on the world of American extremism. In April, we examined whether the deal would mean more hate speech on Twitter (probably, yes) and in July, we pointed out that Twitter's existing ban on the Proud Boys isn't working and even more of the extremist street gang members could return to the platform under Musk. On Gab, Gettr, Truth Social and Telegram, extremist groups from the Proud Boys to white supremacist groups welcomed the news. The news was met with glee by extremists on several of the far-right platforms that have sprung up since the large social media companies moved to "deplatform" extremist accounts.
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