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PHOTOS: PACIFIC BEACH RALLY TO RECALL NEWSOM AND I GUESS SUPPORT TRUMP
| February 9, 2021
JOE ORELLANA “Just because your team loses, it doesn’t mean you stop rooting for them.” I overheard this while checking the traffic on my phone last Saturday. I looked up across the boardwalk and saw a passerby in a tense discussion with a Recall Newsom demonstrator. They meandered from one topic to the next, eventually […]
ANALYSIS: THE PROUD BOYS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
| February 3, 2021
SARLACC ATTACK Late into the morning on January 6, 2021, about 300 men from the far-right fraternity known as the Proud Boys assembled on the eastern side of the Capitol Building across the street from the Supreme Court. They traveled from as far as Washington State to stop the Democrats from “stealing” the presidential election […]
HERE’S THE CALIFORNIANS WE IDENTIFIED AT THE CAPITOL STORMING
| January 19, 2021
DESERTBORDER, WATERSPIDER, JAMES STOUT After four years of amping up his followers on racism and conspiracy theories, Donald Trump brought followers to the Washington, DC, Wednesday, January the 6th. They marched on the Capitol building as Congress was voting to ratify the results of the election Trump lost and pretended was stolen from him. Trump […]
CITIZEN’S LIBERTY ORGANIZATION: ONE OF THE BOOGALOO MOVEMENT’S BIGGEST DISCORD CHATS
| January 16, 2021
HARVEY EISNER, MICHAEL BOORMAN, ABNER HÄUGE Last year the Boogaloo movement provided an ominous taste of one possible future for America. As it struggled to find its identity, new social communities formed online. One of them, Citizen’s Liberty Organization (CLO), contained over 2000 members–all dedicated in varying degrees to the idea of overthrowing the federal […]
RACIST UTAH COP HAS LONG HISTORY OF TRAINING ALPHABET AGENCIES
by LCRW STAFF | January 14, 2021
In May of 2014 Dan Watson of Kanab, Utah posted a photograph on his personal Facebook page of a line of armed men silhouetted against a sunset. The man at the far right of the photo holds the leash of a dog – probably a German Shepherd. Overlaid on the photo are the words “There […]
SAN DIEGO COPS HUG CAPITOL BUILDING STORMER, LET NAZI BRANDISH KNIFE IN PACIFIC BEACH
by JAMES STOUT | January 14, 2021
There are plenty of reasons to visit San Diego: surf, sand, and the set of groundbreaking teen film-noir classic Veronica Mars. But it turns out the systemic bias and corruption in policing outlined in the series is not as far from the truth as one would hope, and perhaps that is what pulled about 100 […]
HERE’S THE NAZIS WHO TOPPLED THAT MONOLITH
by HARVEY EISNER | January 8, 2021
THE MONOLITH “Christ is king in this country. We don’t want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space!” Ryan Sanchez shouted to his viewers online. He gestured with a smirk to a tall metallic box he called an ‘oh-ball-eqsque,’ probably meaning to say ‘obelisk.’ Streamed to the white supremacist friendly, Twitch alternative DLive a group […]
PRO-PLAGUE CULTISTS RECEIVE WARM WELCOME FROM LA COPS AND MAYOR
by DESERTBORDER | WATERSPIDER | January 2, 2021
Far-right cult leader Sean Feucht sent his acolytes to spread Covid on purpose to unhoused communities in LA. The police and the city cheered them on. The contrast was stunning: as 50 or so black-clad protesters marched past LA’s Twin Towers jail on New Year’s Eve, dozens of LAPD cruisers surrounded the march, with some […]
A MILITARY IMPOSTER’S VIOLENT CAMPAIGN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
by DESERTBORDER | WATERSPIDER | December 24, 2020
Gabriel Anthony Lebaron’s third TikTok of the day took a dark turn. After posting a video of himself wearing a Christmas hat and holding a Baby Yoda toy, followed by a video of himself lip-syncing Calum Scott’s sappy, maudlin mega-hit “You are the reason,” Lebaron stitched himself into a TikTok with a woman wearing a […]
THE COPS PRIVATE ENFORCERS
by JJ MAZZUCOTELLI & CHRIS TORRES | December 3, 2020
On August 10th Mass Liberation published a press release which claimed that Douglas County Sheriff was working with Local far-right militias to respond to a planned local Black Lives Matter (BLM) rally. In an article published the same day reporters working for the RW noted that “militia members were spotted throughout the grounds providing unofficial […]