Matthew Randazzo V
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Author on org crime, gov/cop corruption & political extremism, adviser/negotiator for Tribes, former government exec, NOLA native, father. https://t.co/c2izvFQHlV
Olympia, WA
Joined May 2013
DEVELOPING: In the tiny, remote town of Forks, WA, locals on Facebook are claiming they blocked the highway out of fear that an incoming bus was an ANTIFA bus of looters come to burn down the town and then chased and harassed the bus though town while repeatedly talking guns.
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BREAKING: Criminal investigations have opened into Forks, WA vigilante mob that terrorized a mixed race family based on rumors of antifa invasions spread by a Sequim, WA gun store owner. Forks residents were proudly bragging about the event on Facebook comparing it to The Purge
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Keith "Keefe D" Davis, who was just arrested for the murder of Tupac Shakur, has long admitted that he was the driver for his cousin who pulled trigger. Bigger story in coming days will be that he has always claimed that Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy/Puffy/Diddy ordered the hit.
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BREAKING -- Small WA Town Government Overthrown by QAnon Mayor. Wearing a "thin blue line" punisher pin, open QAnon supporter William Armacost, the unelected Mayor of Sequim, WA, in closed exec session fired the city manager yesterday. There's lots more to the story. (1/)
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UPDATE: a mulitiracial family of four out camping was accosted, harassed, and followed out of Forks, WA by armed vigilantes who accused them of being antifa and blocked the road out of town by falling trees.
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How detached from reality are Congressional Republicans?. Rep. Andy Harris (R) just tried to get in a fistfight at 2 am w fellow representative and FORMER NFL LINEBACKER Collin Alred (D) on the House floor. Ponder the lack of self awareness necessary to make this bout possible.
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UNCONFIRMED: I HAVE PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE THAT A FORKS CITY COUNCILMAN WAS PART OF THE VIGILANTE MOB THAT ACCOSTED THIS MIXED RACE FAMILY, MORE WHEN I CAN CONFIRM.
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RECAP: small town gun dealer w a 3% patch makes up secret Intel from about incoming antifa attacks, causes mayhem & paranoia in two small towns, blocked roads, militia patrols, & racist counter demonstrations. Cops politely make him take down post. He claims victimhood. 2020!
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If anyone has any hot tips on invading buses of Tom of Finland models, antifa super soldiers, or extreme fetish videos, or if you just need a hyperventilating vigilante to talk to:.Fred's Guns: .fredsguns2.0@gmail.com.(360) 683-6812.
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. (2 of 2) In such a small town, that means that grocery store has a video that can identify every single participant.
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While you're here, please check out what the Native American leaders whom I work with are doing to meaningfully hold police accountable. And succeeding.
For generations, Indigenous peoples have known this hour would come: It is a moment of inescapable reckoning and national accounting. We must build a new American Dream, open to all, on the ruins of the American Nightmare that we are now tearing down.
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this half-ass attempt at stoking a race war in the rain forest originated with Fred's Guns in Sequim, WA. He's posted multiple heavy breathing, red cheek, excuse videos once the cops visited him. Plz send original screen captures of deleted post.
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I'm hearing mult reports that this began with a wingnut gun dealer who posted a video about an antifa invasion, marshalling all the goofy troops for a violent showdown with a bus of peaceful protesters that was escorted by cops. I won't share the name until I get confirmation.
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Updated: I'm now receiving reports from locals that pick up trucks of vigilantes surrounded the bus at the grocery store to intimidate it and then patrolled the streets all night.
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#forksvigilantes recap (3 of 3): thx to heroic local teens who clear road, family escapes. Forks resident brag on Facebook next morning about "the purge" & fighting off #antifa invasion. Gun store owner visited by cops but simply takes down initial video & claims victimhood.
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#ForksVigilantes recap (1 out of 3): Sequim, WA 3%er gun store owner freaks about peaceful #BLM protest, livestreams 'intel' about incoming #antifa invasion of looters into Olympic Peninsula. Wingnut followers in tiny Forks, WA 90mins away start a vigilante mob to defend town. .
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Police investigation into #forksvigilantes should be quick. they openly confessed on Facebook to terrorizing, threatening, then trapping innocent tourist family in woods as suspected #antifa invaders. Facebook dry snitching is rural equivalent of rappers confessing crimes on wax
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And now he's claiming a video where he allegedly screamed ICE! ICE! ICE! at obstensibly Hispanic protesters was just an innocent command to his dog.
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MORE DETAILS: Gun dealer Seth Larson promoted a conspiracy that "white buses full of antifa" were invading rural W. WA -- which is why a camping mixed race family traveling in a white bus in Forks, WA were terrorized. Larson spent day heavily armed counter-protesting #blm.
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All four votes to eliminate the well-liked city manager, Charlie Bush, came from unelected, appointed extremist conservative councilmembers. Armacost himself has never been elected. All four serve as part of what appears to be a coordinated far-right recruitment effort (2/).
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#forksvigilantes recap (2 of 3): Seeking #antifa invaders, Forks Mob accosts mulitiracial, multigenerational family of campers in a store parking lot, interrogates them, follow them w rifles to remote camp site. At night, Mob fells trees over road to block family exit from camp.
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Local comment is mixed on the arms dealer that shared multiple insane rumors about made up invasions and provoked multiple felonious vigilante actions that easily could have resulted in death and destruction of innocents.
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Seth Larson, Sequim WA gun dealer who started antifa invasion rumors among WA militia types & launched #forksvigilantes, is shown in this screen capture showcasing the falling of the trees that trapped a terrorized mixed race family accused of being #antifa in a remote campground
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Democratic politics always asking the question: "Should we replace our ancient, doddering, fantastically out-of-touch wealthy leadership that's been historically unsuccessful for 4 consecutive decades . or should attack anyone who suggests it as prejudiced for some reason?".
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LEAD ( 1of 2) much of the confrontation and later organizing of the vigilantes who terrorized mixed race family sounds like it occurred at the parking lot of the Thriftway grocery store in Forks. Which is under blanket surveillance camera coverage. .
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A town that has explicitly chosen a local gov model with weak mayor/council are being ruled by 3 unelected extremists and a Q-pilled Mayor who got on council because he was only candidate to register for an obscure local election. Literally no one voted for this.
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America gone crazy: Enjoy this public comment politely requesting that Mayor William Armacost of Sequim, WA -- a QAanon devotee -- refrain from acts of insurrection, terrorism, or murder, all delivered in a deadpan worthy of the Office Space boss.
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BREAKING/SCOOP/SHARE."@nytimes published the Indigenous Rachel Dolezal. Trust me, she was my stepmother," says prominent Indigenous businesswoman, @BossKwe, COO of @8thgen. @nytimes published Claudia Lawrence, alleged #pretendian, as 1st take on Deb Haaland in Cabinet. (1 of 15)
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We go live for comment to Poseidon, God of the Sea.
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It is heavily rumored that Bush was terminated because he *allegedly* refused to illegally reject permits and authorizations for a drug treatment clinic being opened by a local Tribal Nation over extreme conservative pushback. Bush also openly criticized Mayor. (4/).
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Armacost refused to conduct the meeting in public and forced Bush's resignation in a closed executive session, giving no information. Councilman Brandon Janisse, a dissenter, apologized to the City Manager and denounced what was happening. (3/)
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In the interim, the City Government of Sequim is in control of a QAnon cult believer who actively made excuses for extremist mobs in his town who displayed intimidating and racist behavior over the summer. There's no telling what is next. (6/).
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For promoting QAnon on a public broadcast on behalf of the official City of Sequim government. Likewise, Bush contradicted Armacost by acknowledging systemic racism was a problem at the height of #blm summer. There's a lot more coming. Stay tuned. (5/).
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Multiple people who used Facebook to demonstrate inside knowledge of or early support for the #forksvigilantes who terrorized family as suspected #antifa work for Forks' local hospital. One person waiting for unsuspecting patients compared terror incident to the Purge.
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To correct an earlier mistake, Armacost is not "unelected" -- he was just elected in 2019 in an uncontested low-profile election to the Council. The biker and salon owner was made Mayor by a council vote. The other three votes were all appointed. (7/).
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Signing off for tonight. Please read/like/share the below -- we need to nationalize the success WA Tribes & #blm had w i-940 holding cops accountable & de-escalating police violence.
For generations, Indigenous peoples have known this hour would come: It is a moment of inescapable reckoning and national accounting. We must build a new American Dream, open to all, on the ruins of the American Nightmare that we are now tearing down.
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When I learned of story this morning, overwhelming Facebook response in Forks, WA was thx to #forksvigilantes for protecting town from #antifabus. In Sequim, WA more criticised gun dealer Seth Larson for spreading lies, but his home & business were surrounded by armed supporters.
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#forksvigilantes -- Please retweet and thank the teenage heroes w chainsaws who rescued innocent family by clearing the road of the downed trees that were trapping them in a remote campground. Travis Davis, Jacob Hull, Gabe Terrones, and Anthoney Beglinger: we speak your names!.
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As Q-pilled Mayor William Armacost attempts a hostile takeover of the Sequim, WA city government by suddenly firing city leadership with help of three appointed councilpersons, a reminder who he is: This guy's still waiting for JFK Jr. to show up and help him fight the DEMONcrats
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ELECTION NIGHT 2021 IN USA'S BELLWETHER. Clallam Co, WA: wave backlash against QAnon-fueled rural extremism. Progressives sweep Sequim/Port Angeles schoolboards, hospital, & city council race, blowouts, #qanon-promoting Sequim mayor Bill Armacost neutered
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Locals say that up to ten different vehicles were involved in #Forksvigilantes confrontations & patrols last night. This includes multiple people who harassed innocent family as the prophesied white #antifabus foretold by gun dealer Seth Larson. Small Town, everyone connected.
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UPDATE: The victimized vigilante cut a #maga guy in sunglasses in his car video thanking armed militia who all night at his house & business all night to protect him from the incoming antifa attacks he was monitoring on their secret group.
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Most American story of day:. The Knox County Tennessee Board of Health voted 7-1 to mandate a mask ordinance for anyone inside certain buildings. The only no vote was Mayor Glenn Jacobs. Who made his name as the masked demonic brother of pro wrestling legend the Undertaker.
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Unclear if Bush has even informally agreed to negotiate to resign. It'll be interesting to see if the secretive vote to force resignation was procedurally correct and inappropriate. and what happens if Bush refuses to resign. (8/).
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I'm so honored to announce that the Snoqualmie Tribe has purchased the land and businesses surrounding its most sacred site, Snoqualmie Falls, in the process blocking a planned development that they opposed.
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Sequim has "weak mayor" city gov that vests most responsibility in its professional hired administrator. The Mayor just chairs meetings, does ceremonial duties, gets minimal nominal pay. Armacost and his crew abruptly taking over breaks local norms and empowers him. (9/).
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Part of #forksvigilantes background: Forks' definitive local folklore has nothing to do with vampires or Sasquatch -- it's the legendary event told nightly when the town loggers got into a mass rumble with the Hell's Angels wielding logging equipment & kicked them out of town.
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Serene Lawrence is acclaimed COO of leading Native American art company @8thgen. Her career is dedicated to supporting authentic Native voices. She alleges her former step-mother, white lady Claudia Caruthers, has stolen her father Dr. Blake Lawrence's tribal identity. (2 of 15)
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#forksvigilantes: last night I reported that I had received reports that a Forks city council member was part of the mob that terrorized town. I still believe that to be true. Now I can share that it appears the son of the Mayor Tim Fletcher dry snitched on himself.
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QAnon Mayor William Armacost, the would-be Q-pilled Robespierre taking over Sequim, WA City Government, fired the city manager only months after the city manager publicly walked back the Mayor RECRUITING FOR QANON ON OFFICIAL CITY GOV RADIO BROADCAST.
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It illustrates the fact that Trump/Qanon/FB has radicalized suburban upper middle class types (like salon owners and small town city councils) to the point that they are open to overthrowing the government that's so scary. This is a broad issue that cuts through class/geography.
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12,000 acres of #landback to Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, returning a huge forest where they were originally promised a reservation over 170 years ago to full Tribal ownership. One of the proudest projects of my career. Lucky beyond belief to do this work.
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#forksvigilantes: the local who was biggest Facebook promoter of mob that terrorized tourist family as #antifabus, sharing inside info & calling it "the purge", replied to my thread. Crystal, we call on you to share the names of the conspirators.
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#forksvigilantes: given interest in the crazed mob that terrorized innocent family in Forks, I'm hearing from journalists. My day job is public policy & writing books, but I am a journalist who broke this story because I didn't want it covered up. Plz credit my reporting.
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Serene worked on a piece of her own with me about this experience & her career fighting appropriation. We are submitting to @nytimes. If they are serious about accountability & representation, they will publish it. If they don’t, we will elsewhere. (editors DM me). (11 of 15).
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Leave it to these guys to not publicly campaign for one of the few policies that would get votes and instead drop it suddenly without warning post-holiday week during a lame duck session. They hate winning. Must.
BREAKING: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer just announced that there will be a floor vote on a bill to federally legalize marijuana ***NEXT WEEK***.
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Extremism doesn't just exist in poor rural communities. To address misconceptions I keep seeing in thread: Sequim is an affluent, well-educated, beautiful seaside town. I once lived there. I have many friends there. It's not some backwater redneck town in the middle of nowhere.
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SCANDAL/COVERRUP/PLEASE SHARE. Six-term WA statewide elected official is illegally retaliating against a whistleblower who accurately exposed racist, sexist, homophobic abuse of employees. Read and share the attached and tell Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to resign.
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Serene's father was a heroic Air Force vet & MD. Over a decade after his untimely death, his ex-wife appears to have taken his name and Tribal identity too. @nytimes – everything I researched and published above, you should have found. What's next, too. (5 out of 15)
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This is a huge failure of editorial scrutiny/taste. In open competition with talented Indigenous writers, Claudia’s cliché, stereotypical, cringe-inducing approximations of a “Native voice” somehow was judged as best available by @nytimes. That indicts the editors. (13 of 15).
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#forksvigilantes: overnight, I received reports that Seth Larson's bizarre #antifabuses livestreams also activated militia squads in far more liberal Port Townsend & Olympia, WA, or played into their already frothing paranoia. Photo of gathering outside an Olympia gun store.
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#forksvigilantes: if you're asking why a frmr gov't exec who longer reports for a living is doing this for two days, it's because I know the area & have seen hate crimes covered up. RIP to Jimmy Smith Kramer, Quinault Indian Nation. You deserved better.
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This struck a chord. Representation matters. As a professional political strategist, I propose wrestling fans form BUFFHAUSEN PAC & pay .@Marcbuffbagwell & @DanhausenAD to jointly narrate ads supporting pro science, pro choice, pro union, & pro wrestling candidates. Who's in?.
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#Forksvigilantes: MAJOR UPDATE: This is a screen capture that was deleted by Seth Larson, the gun dealer who provoked #forksvigilantes into terrorizing town. He called for "qualified shooters" to report to him for action. We are very lucky no one died.
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I have been unable to verify a number of Claudia’s claims contained here. If credentials are accurate, Claudia may face serious fraud accusations – even felonies – for misrepresenting herself as a Hopi-Assiniboine Indigenous woman while raising money/getting paid. (10 of 15)
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#forksvigilantes: some of the militia types & gun enthusiasts who eagerly jumped aboard Seth Larson's paranoid hallucinations about #AntifaBuses &, even guarded his property from incoming attacks have flipped on him & are jumping ship.
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Background on the QAnon/MAGA backlash that has taken control of the Sequim WA City Government can be found in this WaPo article. A local Tribe's attempt to help opioid addicts has triggered a racist nimby fury that resulted in a QAnon believer as mayor.
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“Being Native isn’t something removable like goggles — it’s an abiding perspective honed by lived experience,” Claudia writes. No shit!. That’s Serene’s entire point. How could you write that sentence, submit it, and publish it? . (9 of 15).
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Also accused because I am social media friends w @TheWarNerd, interact w @MarkAmesExiled on social media & @yashalevine shared thread that I work for Putin to discredit Patriots. I now realize how quickly any adverse information becomes part of the conspiracy. Instantly.
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Dr. Lawrence was son of Hopi (Moencopi) mom & Assiniboine (Sioux) father. He served rural Hopi/Pueblo as a medical doctor until his passing. His parents’ Tribes are the exact Tribes his ex, Claudia, now claims as her own. Somehow he & his entire family didn't know. (6 of 15)
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Check out Claudia "Lawrence" Caruthers (birth name) parent’s marriage records (white), her father's draft card (white), maternal grandparents census data (German immigrants, both sides.). Family roots in Kenosha, WI (really). Yet she claims otherwise . (4 out of 15)
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Signing off for 1-12-2021. I've written a piece about all of this news that puts it all into context for any editors. (cough, @timmarchman, @viviana_mazza j/k). DM me. There's a lot more coming tomorrow. In meantime please check out my new audiobook:
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In case you missed it, the apparent legal strategy for John "Johnny Ace" Laurinaitis, longtime WWE exec, is to defend his participation in Vince McMahon's sex crimes by claiming Vince was his de facto *pimp* & he was Vince's sex action figure to use on women. This will be ugly.
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Serene, who is enrolled in her mom's Tribe (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) has not seen her former step-mother in decades. She is stressed that she has to be the person to expose an obvious fraud. Claudia “Lawrence” (pic) is not Indigenous, says Serene. (7 of 15)
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#forksvigilantes update: more bragging screen captured of gun dealer & militia buddies harassing family as #antifabus, then bunkering down & claiming victimhood
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PNW EXTREMISM UPDATE -- 9-4-2020 (1 of 4). Sequim, WA (pop: 7500) is known for its sunny arid climate, lush lavender farms, natural splendor, & affluent retiree community. Absurdly, it's now the first city government in America to use tax dollars to openly recruit for QAnon.
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#forksvigilantes: This terrifying photo is like something from a horror movie, the family's bus as seen through the broken filthy windshield of the mob following the poor family down isolated forest roads. This had all the hallmarks of a lynching.
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You know the patriarchy is in trouble when President Fawn Sharp of the Quinault Indian Nation and @Lexialex are collaborating on social justice and empowering indigenous voices worldwide.
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#forksvigilantes more "On second thought, maybe #antifabuses full of looters invading remote rain forest communities wasn't a credible claim in first place. " backtracking from a follower of Seth Larson who guarded his property from incoming attacks.
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@kthorjensen I'll get accused of leaving out a key element of the story if either see this so let me add I actually scammed him out of multiple servings of the dessert (yogurt parfaits) direct from hotel catering before ghosting him.
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received my first accusation that I am working for @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE & @ByYourLogic, @cushbomb covering up #antifabus invasion. Good reminder tho that this is perfect podcast reading series to raise awareness on radicalization of the right & danger of anti-antifa propaganda.
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@nytimes picks Claudia "Lawrence" to speak for Indian Country. It's awful: "some may brand her as a 'Hangs-Around-the-Fort Indian' . One of my friends wrote, 'Our auntie has done it!'" . All of Claudia's aunties appear to be white ladies. (3 of 15).
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#forksvigilantes FIRST CONFIRMED DIRECT PARTICIPANT: Forks local Eric Shields confessed on Facebook that he was among mob that confronted terrified mixed race family in store parking lot accusing them of being #antifabus . Cops? Time for an arrest. FB dry snitching for the win.
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INSANE UPDATE #forksvigilantes #antibuses: the antifa bus invasion conspiracy actually tricked Curry County, OR Sheriff John Ward into mobilizing local cops & gun owners for battle.
BREAKING: #antifabus paranoia in PNW not limited to #forksvigilantes: the sheriff of Curry County, OR John Ward posted insane rumor of incoming antifa invasion on Facebook & called for "local boys with guns" to join cops for street war.
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@davemeltzerWON Dave, you have exploded your rating scale to a degree that grades a certain group of NJPW and AEW wrestlers are worlds better than literally everyone that has ever come before. To claim that doesn't represent your taste, but rather some objective analysis is nuts.
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#forksvigilantes PLEASE SHARE. Anyone w info on participants in Forks Mob that terrorized town looking for #antifabus, plz share w local investigation:. or 360-417-2540. Plz DM me for insurance to ensure no conveniently connected guy slips thru cracks.
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Serene asks @NativeActionNet / @najournalists to please comment. "Moving forward, it would be helpful if orgs & institutions speak out about what they know so that #pretendians don't cause further harm in the future. We must insist on authentic representation.". (14 of 15).
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@RobertT36652227 @RexChapman These guys would kick the everliving shit out of the Proud Boys, even in heels, even outnumbered 2 to 1. And they'd look fucking fantastic doing it.
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@GreatBrianLast I am baffled what the endgame is engaging in this with you, because it merely makes millions on Twitter ask themselves "was there an AEW program where Chris did not kill his opponents momentum?".
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You don’t have to take it from me. Serene will be available for limited media as her busy schedule allows. She's a serious professional who deserves to have her voice heard. DM me w requests. (12 of 15) .
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BREAKING/UPDATE 1: Yesterday, respected Indigenous @8thgen COO @BossKwe alleged @nytimes published her white #pretendian fmr step-mom as Native take on Deb Haaland. Last night, @nytimes launched internal investigation, spoke w/ me. Serene's voice is creating accountability.
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#forksvigilantes: Josh Fletcher, apparent participant or supporter of lynch mob that terrorized mixed race family, posing with his dad's campaign sign for Mayor of Forks. Local PD has a conflict of interest or what? . Keep up the heat. Make accountability impossible to avoid.
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BREAKING @OlyPD is investigating the officer we showcased in this thread cutting selfies w/ #antifabus 3%er militia.
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Thanks to Serene Lawrence for being so bold, brave, fearless, & for honoring me with your story. Thx to Brittney Couture Photography for her photo. Thx to Jaime Martin for tireless advocacy, fearlessness, editorial help. Thx to Melissa Randazzo for her dogged research. (/end).
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Google image search for "Jewish Space Laser" unveils a genre I didn't know existed.
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