Daniel Walters
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The democracy-and-extremism reporter at InvestigateWest via @Report4America . Truth's righteous arbiter. Reach me on Signal at (Spokane area code)-720-8388.
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@ettingermentum
Maybe Trump wanted to hear about Pikachu too. Did he ever stop to think about that?
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What amazed me about this is how close this echoes the false Antifa Bus/Van rumors that small towns, including CDA, reacted to in June 2020. A ton of out-of-town extremists crammed into a single vehicle with plans to riot!
It's just... it wasn't Antifa.
Dozens of Patriot Front white supremacists traveled to North Idaho with a plan to riot at a Pride event, authorities said after arresting 31 people.
The group was "dressed like a small army" and carried a seven-page tactical plan.
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@danielwinlander
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"'I'm not a NIMBY. I'm not against low-income housing. I'm just against it being in our neighborhood."
-- Spokane City Council commenter about proposed low-income Catholic Charities housing.
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On alt-right-infested Gab, the wife of Spokane County's elected prosecutor declares she's a "white nationalist" and calls Joy Reid the N-word.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Rep. Heather Scott's husband threatened to sue the Inlander, myself, and
@HDruzin
with "damages as high as $150,000 per activity" if we didn't remove this 2015 photo of the Idaho rep. with the Confederate flag within 24 hours:
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Spokane Washington voting 7-0 to legalize fourplexes in the majority of the city shows just how much YIMBYs -- and the dramatic housing crisis, of course -- has won the argument.
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The cool thing about "elite" is it doesn't include the world's richest man but does include reporters making $30,000 to $50,000 a year.
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6-1, Spokane City Council passes a resolution urging the Spokane Police to enforce a century-old rarely-if-ever-used state law banning private armed groups from marching in parades or demonstrations.
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Wow, Seattle is as bad as everyone is saying: one of the first things I saw was this needle on the ground downtown. Everyone had to walk around it. Unacceptable:
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Would someone from North Idaho, with little to no provocation, really scream racial slurs at young people in complete view of the public? I mean, c'mon. (Yes. The answer is yes.)
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I've come to believe that documentaries are just a profoundly dishonest genre
Super Size Me is a fascinating product in that it is objectively one of the most successful docs of all time (both in terms of making money and achieving its goal) and is also one of the most wildly unfair docs of all time (an alcoholic ate McD's all day and felt bad, wow).
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@kathygriffin
I think people were upset because you were holding a prop of a bloody severed head of the President of the United States.
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Fitting for a Jedi to be speaking from beyond the grave.
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Congrats to Dan Harmon on being promoted to The Less Problematic Rick and Morty Guy.
“Rick and Morty” co-creator and star Justin Roiland was charged with felony domestic violence in Orange County, California after a January 2020 incident involving a woman he was dating at the time, the criminal complaint says.
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Not only were Idaho's schools not teaching porn literacy, the company they've contracted with doesn't have pornography in *any* of their student curriculums.
Sometimes a simple phone call can provide a lot of answers, such as clarifying that no, Idaho is not teaching its students 'porn literacy.'
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@daxe
This has surely been said before, but it's amazing that the COVER STORY is that the Russian Warship just decided to go fuck itself.
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One-source journalism will destroy us all.
Rolling Stone ran a story that they could've debunked with a single phone call.
They didn't make that phone call because they wanted it to be true and because it went viral and got clicks.
And they'll keep doing it because no one will hold them accountable.
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@juliamacfarlane
Also worth noting that both "Ivanka Trump" and "Christopher Steele" are perfect Trashy Romance Novel names.
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CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING? IT'S POIGNANT SELF-REFLECTION AND STIGMA-REDUCING HONESTY!
Battled that beast more than once. Us men to prideful to ask for help. Speak up, ask for help & you're never alone. See at the top one day.
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Seems more like evidence for the decline of pizza hut
Americans really convert old Pizza Huts into churches and wonder why church attendance is declining.
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You've got questions about former Rep. Matt Shea suddenly going to Ukraine to bring 60+ orphans to Poland?
I've got answers.
Why did Shea focus on that particular orphanage?
Because he was trying to adopt 4 kids from there.
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After I wrote about her unwittingly linking to bizarre conspiracy websites on Facebook, Rep. Jenny Graham called me a "cocksucker," a "lying piece of shit," "disgusting," "hateful" "sleazy" and accused me of an " attack on human trafficking victims."
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@davidfrum
Having lived in a state with legal marijuana and witnessed first-hand the profound lack-of-impact, I'm confused by this statement.
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Heather Scott's husband tried to use copyright threats to get reporters, Twitter users, and even a fellow legislator to take down the photo she'd posted of herself waving the Confederate flag.
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31 White Nationalists were handed to CDA prosecutors on a silver platter. How did the ringleader manage to get away with all charges dismissed? I dig in.
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Going to be blocking anyone attacking her weight or appearance. You aren't the good person you think you are.
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As for me I'm going to stick to my Jimmy Carter Peanut Ape NFT trading cards thank you very much
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@daxe
Never let it be said that the Russian army doesn't listen to feedback from Ukrainians and try to accommodate their requests
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@HDruzin
@dailykos
@umontana
@CathaySmith
The good news is that everyone we spoke to saw this as a pretty clear case of the "fair use" exception. The same exception that allows Heather Scott to post this copyrighted Inlander cover image to critique it allows us to use the photo when reporting on her choice to post it.
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One reason why traditional journalistic outlets are more trustworthy than Idaho Tribune -- along with the fact that our journalists don't use fake names in their bylines, is that we don't carefully Photoshop pride flags into school board meetings to make the post more incendiary.
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Reporters, if you say a book has been banned, be clear if you mean:
- No longer a part of the mandatory curriculum?
- Teachers not allowed to assign it or discuss it?
- Not allowed in classrooms?
- Not allowed in library?
- Students not allowed to have it in school?
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@buzz
That's nothing. A local sheriff's candidate changed his name to DumpOzzie DotCom to promote his website against the incumbent sheriff. But then he died in a motorcycle accident so his name will remain that way.
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Local TV news should report on ivermectin with the same tone they use for alarmist reports on teens.
"They're calling it 'deworming,' and experts say it's the latest dangerous new boomer fad to sweep across Facebook and Pinterest this summer."
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A suspect pleads that he can't breathe as a police officer's knee digs into his neck.
Not Minneapolis.
Spokane.
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All these deputy gang tattoos make the deputies seem like they're part of some sort of gang.
EXCLUSIVE: On a 2015 camping trip to Kern County, a group of
@LASDHQ
deputies held down another who made an "unauthorized change" to a deputy gang tattoo. After attempting to burn it off w/ the barrel of a recently fired gun, they shot him in the ankle.
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"Try that in a small town...."
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That Idaho bill to redefine "terrorism?" Three Percenter Eric Parker -- famous for having pointed a rifle toward federal agents at the Bundy Ranch 10 years ago -- tells me he played a major role in designing it and pushing it behind the scenes.
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San Diego tech executive Ryan Cook flies into Spokane, Washington, knowing that his son -- if he's still alive -- is living homeless on the city's streets. The plan: walk the streets and talk to homeless people until he finds him.
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Pretty rude of the wife of the Spokane County Prosecutor not to provide a link:
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Maybe he's a NIMFY (Not in my Front Yard) Or a NKCFMBY (Not Kitty Corner From My Backyard)
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@HDruzin
@dailykos
@umontana
@CathaySmith
The crazy thing is -- Heath Druzin didn't even post it on a story. He just posted it as a zinger on Twitter.
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My latest deep dive exploring a question with many answers: How did Coeur d'Alene's Pride in the Park *in particular* become a target for white nationalist groups?
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Whenever anybody complains about vaccine mandates I think about how you can get pulled over by an armed police officer for not having the right sticker on your license plate.
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Washington Voter Registration Database has Mishael and Josiah both registered in the same house in Spokane, by the way:
- Josiah Daniel Buster, 24, of Watauga, Texas
- Mishael Joshua Buster, 22, of Spokane, Washington
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@juliamacfarlane
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene...
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@HDruzin
@dailykos
It's just the latest example of how copyright has been "weaponized" as --
@umontana
professor
@CathaySmith
has written about extensively:
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McMorris Rodgers' no vote on impeachment is no surprise, but this admission that she contributed to part of the problem in today's climate genuinely is:
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This was a Facebook post by Lesley Haskell, one of many on these themes:
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It me
Special reporter Daniel Walters with Investigate West just so happened to show up to the RINO event held by the North Idaho Republicans. We had a brief conversation.
#idpol
#idleg
@danielwinvw
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Despite the ridiculous spike in cases, King County's hospitalizations are still below where they were in September == and deaths are still falling.
if you're just focusing on the cases you're not telling the whole story.
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What is different NOW that we're okay unmasking as opposed to last September, besides vaccination rates, booster rates, death rates, hospitalization rates, ICU capacity levels, infection-based immunity levels, variant severity, case counts, Paxlovid, and the disease trajectory?
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First a Boise prof made a student apologize for being white, which didn't happen. Then a drag queen exposed himself at a Pride rally, which didn't happen. And THEN Idaho schools started teaching Porn Literacy, which didn't happen. What is not happening to this country?!
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Update:
I wrote about my storytelling-based opposition to online dating, and my grudging decision to "cast aside my pieties and descend into the snarling online hellscape of the horny and the damned."
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If you want to get a sense for why Gab is so awful, consider this is the CEO (and Lesley is a big fan)
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@davidfrum
I'd love to write a "WA legalized marijuana. Disaster followed" story. But haven't seen evidence for that. And I've looked!
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I asked my pastor about this yesterday -- I attend a downtown Spokane church -- and he says he doesn't believe our church was asked and that other pastor friends of his say they weren't either.
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Wow, look which "journalist" the New York Times decided it was acceptable to platform now:
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None of the right-wing outlets -- not the IFF, not Red State, not Laura Ingraham's producers -- actually called the curriculum provider ETR to get a comment, much less figure out if their reporting was accurate. It wasn't hard. There was a 1-800 number! Toll free!
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@TitosVodka
@titansfight
Please increase the alcohol content of your Vodka to help combat coronavirus, thank you.
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Pretty insane state of affairs when a single senator, and 50 other senators, can single-handedly impede the collective will of 49 senators.
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An interesting note about Idaho's current cannibalism law is that it doesn't apply if you are really, really, really hungry.
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A few weeks ago, due to the death of all advertising, the Inlander laid off two editorial staffers, and slashed the rest of our hours in half.
(That's bad.)
BUT thanks to a PPP loan, we've now been all hired back full time for the next 8 weeks, starting today!
(That's good.)
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Do you feel like nobody's considerate anymore? That they refuse to so much as apologize? Well, good news! I walked outside a downtown coffee shop and told this scruffy dude "hey that's my bike," when he was going at it with a wirecutter.
And he said "Sorry, man" and walked away!
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"Mom, what's anal sex?"
"Wh- uh, where did you hear that phrase, honey?"
"From the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee's social media ad campaign..."
A dramatized video ad paid for by the Kootenai County GOP falsely implies that North Idaho libraries are showing sexually explicit materials to young children.
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There's something called the "Ideological Turing test." Basically, can you pretend to be somebody on the other ideological side convincingly? This "Rat City Music" account that Ammon Bundy interacted with-- supposedly a Democratic activist in Boise -- gave a bunch of🚩🚩🚩
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So the real deal is that "porn literacy" was the title of an online training to help give advice for teachers, clinicians, educators to be able to answer the super-weird questions that can come from kids who watch porn.
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Spokane may need more cops and firefighters, but the fact that my low-speed, no-one-hurt car accident was responded to by two firefighters and four cops makes me think resource allocation may also be part of the issue.
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As someone who covers extremism in the Inland Northwest I can assure you that the Appeal To Heaven flag was definitely considered associated with Christian Nationalism -- though not in all cases -- before this year. Wikipedia is not always the definitive source.
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A brief brawl between Proud Boys and a half-dozen Neo-Nazis in the Portland area went viral this summer. I got obsessive trying to figure out what happened.
I dug into Casey Knuteson -- Proud Boy-turned-Patriot Fronter-turned-Neo-Nazi-group-leader.
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@ettingermentum
"They're sending us their blastoids, they're sending us their squirtles... and some, I assume, are good pikas. But we're gonna catch em all, folks. You gotta catch em!"
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@mattmfm
If only she had given us some kind of sign -- a secret message on a jacket, say! -- to have warned us of her lack of empathy on this issue.
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Moderate conservative critics of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee make two charges: They've stoked chaos at places like North Idaho College and they've subsidized the alt-right fringe. This week, I look at both.
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@TNTMonstershock
@TheCivilWarDoc1
@KeriLeighMerrit
He got Lincoln's Ghost to pose for him later and then merged the two photographs
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Idaho Freedom Foundation president Wayne Hoffman looked everywhere for a dream rural Idaho property for his children and (when he's not RVing) himself.
He found it -- in Spokane County.
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If you're wondering, the sloppiness of some on what "Critical Race Theory" is is intentional.
Christopher Rufo has become one of the go-to critics of Critical Race Theory.
Here he is... essentially giving away the game. For Rufo, it is all about “branding,’ and the audacity of his charlatanry is breathtaking:
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PRO-TIP: If you anyone you know suggests bombing a federal building or kidnapping a governor, they are 100 percent the FBI
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Uhhhhhhhh.... is that....? with...?
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Sad to see the Minions used as lackeys for an evil boss
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