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March 4, 2021

Should Democrats who oppose ending the filibuster be primaried?

I say yes- those who want to preserve it simply wish to be kingmakers in a hung Congress.
I feel it's *that* important, even at the possible cost of seats.

Democrats should not conform to the old stereotype of "liberals that are too principled to defend their own interests"

March 3, 2021

US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows

Source: The Guardian

A Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents.

But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad swath of Americans, not just military and law enforcement. Members include both men and women, of ages ranging from their 20s to their 70s, doing jobs from medical physics to dental hygiene and living in all parts of the country...

...According to members who spoke to the Guardian, the website from which the list was leaked was set up by national leaders of Patriot Movement group, which is affiliated with the broader Three Percenter movement.

Names, phone numbers and even photographs of members were obtained by activists who then posted the data to an internet archiving site, and the Guardian cross-referenced these with public records and other published materials...

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/03/us-militia-membership-military-police-american-patriot-three-percenter-website-leak



Anybody know what 'internet archiving site' the article references? Seems to me that there's a lot of doxxing that needs doing...

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