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Chaya Raichik appears to have trespassed at the Capitol

Newly-released footage appears to show Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the LibsOfTikTok account, trespassing on restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Today Chaya Raichik, a professional bigot whose anti-LGTBQ posts have been blamed for threats on children's hospitals, revealed her face for the first time in an interview with Tucker Carlson, in which she called the LGBTQ community a "cult".

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December 27, 2022
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Video appears to show right-wing streamer Tomas Morales illegally entering the Capitol on Jan 6

Tomas Morales, a Los Angeles-based right-wing streamer and notorious troll associated with the Proud Boys and the racist Groyper movement, appears to have entered the U.S. Capitol illegally on Jan 6th.

My analysis relies on publicly available video and photo evidence, including surveillance footage released by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. I present the evidence here in its entirety, so that you can draw your own conclusions.

The U.S. Department of Justice does not recognize a "streamer exception" for people who live-streamed as they joined the violent mob entering the Capitol on January 6th. Several streamers have been charged with various federal crimes for entering the Capitol -- at least three streamers have already pleaded guilty, including Tim Gionet (better known as "Baked Alaska") and Infowars employees Owen Schroyer and Samuel Montoya.

Unlike these streamers, te usually braggadocious Tomas Morales has remained unusually silent regarding his whereabouts during the Capitol attack, other a handful of early-morning tweets from Trump's rally at the Ellipse that day. In fact, Morales's Twitter shows a very noticeable gap between 7:08am EST on January 6th and midnight.

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December 20, 2022
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Twitter backs down from its policies against transphobic speech, and more

First post!

Thank you for subscribing! It means a lot to me that you've followed me to this new medium. I'm excited to experiment with longer-form writing and to escape the restrictions imposed by Twitter.

I'm not sure how much longer I will keep my Twitter account, but I'm working to archive my more popular and oft-cited documentary threads here.

For my first issue, I spoke to several Twitter employees (who shall remain anonymous) about their concerns regarding Elon Musk's takeover of the company, and what that means for Twitter's industry-leading policies regarding hate speech.

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April 26, 2022
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