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  • dodger-dog 1 hour ago
    According to article, this militia is so powerful you can stay in leader’s house and go through his files while he is asleep, because the leader of such a powerful group would keep a filing cabinet at his house with all sorts of incriminating records.

    Only someone smart enough to climb the ranks over many years could pull this off.

    This is the single most important news event of the century. Certainly a book and movie will soon follow. Hopefully if there is still a representative government after the midterms, we can have public hearings before the Senate broadcast on all the networks as we root out these treasonous thugs.

    • no-name-here 31 minutes ago
      > the leader of such a powerful group would keep a filing cabinet at his house with all sorts of incriminating records

      I’m 95% sure your comment is alluding to the President of the U.S. keeping classified/secret/top secret documents (after leaving office) in stacks of cardboard boxes and spilling out onto the floor in:

      * a Mar-a-Lago resort business center

      * a Mar-a-Lago resort ballroom stage

      * a Mar-a-Lago resort bathroom

      etc., with Mar-a-Lago being the 126-room resort (and Trump's home) where others are constantly coming and going, including even representatives of foreign adversaries and the foreign security teams, etc.?

      • 3RTB297 8 minutes ago
        Or it's 4 paragraphs in to the article:

        >He’d slept in the home of the man who claims to be the new head of the Oath Keepers, rifling through his files in the middle of the night.

  • EdwardDiego 1 hour ago
    The involvement of Police and military personnel is not unexpected, but still rather horrifying.
  • qrios 1 hour ago
    2025
  • ChrisArchitect 16 minutes ago
  • roenxi 1 hour ago
    This article could do with an serious edit; it seems to be an odd mix of actual information, imagined colour and emotion to the point where it is a little difficult to follow and hard to work out the credibility of any individual assertion. I get the strong impression here that Williams is a bit paranoid and spent a lot of time fearing for his skin in the company of people who thought we was a good mate and would probably just kick him out of the club if they figured out he was conspiring against them. I thought this passage summed the vibe up best:

    > They spotted the dog at the same time. The bug was attached to a charging device. The animal was running around with it like it was a tennis ball. As Kinch went to retrieve it, Williams felt panic grip his chest. Could anyone talk their way out of this? He’d learned enough about Kinch to be terrified of his rage. Looking around, Williams eyed his host’s handgun on the kitchen counter.

    > If he even starts to examine it, I’ll grab the gun, [Williams] thought. Then I’ll shoot him and flee into the woods.

    > Kinch took the bug from the dog’s mouth. Then he handed it right to Williams and started to apologize.

    • madaxe_again 12 minutes ago
      The lede isn’t just buried, it is submerged in a swamp under a pile of human interest rocks.

      The article mentions several relatively minor/local public figures, including a prosecutor, apparently caught on mic saying they’ve influenced policy in favour of the group. Political lobbying is one thing, but an undeclared interest, another entirely.

      As best I can tell this was published, talked about for a few days, and sank under its own mass. Their most read piece of 25, apparently, and it went precisely nowhere.

  • hdb385 33 minutes ago
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  • aucisson_masque 43 minutes ago
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    • Erem 31 minutes ago
      It’s a 20y/o news organization that has won multiple Pulitzers
    • youdumbwithab 38 minutes ago
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