Conspiracy Theories Around Mass Shootings, Tragedies Affect Families Left Behind

Conspiracy Nation is a series exploring the enduring hold conspiracy theories have in the United States.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/conspiracy-theories-mass-shootings

This case is mostly flying under the media radar but it's quite contentious in the gun enthusiast world with a ton of outrage aimed at the ATF.

A Virginia Beach man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for possessing and selling unregistered machineguns and possessing unregistered destructive devices.

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, between approximately October 2021 and April 2022, Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, was obtaining illegal machine guns that were not registered and he was selling these machine guns online.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/virginia-beach-man-sentenced-dealing-illegal-machine-guns

@janallmac Cat!

Reason number 1,275,345 for why I don't miss Twitter = the backstabbing.

Every time I read or hear about Trump referring to the "Clinton Socks Case" I laugh.

The Clintons' White House cat was named Socks.

This really made me laugh.

https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1668664531214798849

His wife is named Vicki Vail???😀

"Minutes from Vail's initial court appearance on Friday indicate that he did not recognize the court's authority, and he refused to initial or sign a document advising him of his rights."

Non paywalled story with details. https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/man-shooting-at-idaho-power-equipment-hells-canyon-brownlee/277-27bfdfd6-9718-4497-979d-7ac51ce2f7e1

Idaho man charged with shooting at power substations, possessing ‘destructive device’

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/06/idaho-man-charged-with-shooting-at-power-substations-possessing-destructive-device.html

Annapolis mass shooting may be a racially motivated hate crime, police say

https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/local/maryland/annapolis-mass-shooting-may-be-a-racially-motivated-hate-crime-police-say/65-6a5ae696-6410-43fb-92cd-5e85d50f4ce0

@stueytheround I don't think it'll matter because judgment wasn't final (he hasn't been convicted and sentenced) in the NY criminal before this case commenced.

Any lawyers here?

TLDR version:

How Much Prison Time Does Former President Trump Face? Applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines

https://www.justsecurity.org/86901/how-much-prison-time-does-former-president-trump-face-applying-the-u-s-sentencing-guidelines/

Taylor Swift’s Alleged Stalker Mitchell Taebel (#sovereigncitizen) Has Colorful History With the Law

'I'm not a criminal at all,' said Taebel — handcuffed and wearing an orange jumpsuit — during a briefing on a 2018 arrest

https://themessenger.com/news/accused-taylor-swift-stalker-mitchell-taebel-has-colorful-history-with-the-law

A sample set of the most recent boards on 4chan /pol/ right now.

Today, the one who worship the Unabomber are the teenage agents of chaos who hang out on gaming apps and forums.

On Twitter, if you see "RIP King" this is who I'm talking about.

In 2012, Chi, a tax protester and sovereign citizen, decided to blow up a natural gas pipeline in Plano, TX. The bomb went off prematurely, denting both the pipeline and bits of Chi.

Chi had tried to correspond several times with the Unabomber who basically told him to fuck off.

Back to Kaczynski for a moment, I first became aware of the right wing anti-government fascination with the Unabomber in the early 2010s.

A self-hating Asian American named Anson Chi (he wrote book called "Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed") was someone I'd been watching since 2007 when he was a online supporter of the Edward and Elaine Brown standoff in Plainfield NH in 2007.