I wanted to share a story I wrote for NY Mag last month, about jailed January 6ers, and the cult-like community they'd formed behind bars. The story starts with a scene from inside the DC jail, when J6ers watched Trump get shot on live TV. nymag.com/intelligence... - ThreadSky

tessowen.bsky.social • 144 days ago

I wanted to share a story I wrote for NY Mag last month, about jailed January 6ers, and the cult-like community they'd formed behind bars.

The story starts with a scene from inside the DC jail, when J6ers watched Trump get shot on live TV.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/patriot-wing-january-6-rioters-insurrectionists-jail-cell-block.html

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blabalino.com•80 days ago

Why do you think Trump wants to pardon them? He's creating his own group of "Brown Shirts".

theladyred.bsky.social•89 days ago

and they'll all be pardoned and out to re-offend in 15 days! oh joy...

sharieblue22.bsky.social•80 days ago

Next Netflix series

tessowen.bsky.social•144 days ago

The reaction among the prisoners was hysteria.
As one J6er put it: “We love Trump & what he stands for but a lot of these guys in here are looking at some significant prison time.. In my honest opinion, I think that they felt like, at that moment, their potential for a pardon was wiped off the map.”

mbonner.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thank you, this was an incredible read. And as many people have said, bonkers that they’re all together. Hell of a counterpoint to this feature on a group helping prisoners rehabilitate https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/grip-there-are-many-programs-trying-to-reduce-recidivism-this-one-works/

kilocharlie237.bsky.social•89 days ago

📌

peterhark.bsky.social•57 days ago

It's an extraordinary piece. We don't get this sort of journalism much in UK media - the sort which peels away the layers of a story, revealing increasingly uncomfortable facts with the precision of a bomb-disposal officer gradually uncovering an unexploded landmine.

agatha-christie.bsky.social•135 days ago

📌

nateofsun.bsky.social•143 days ago

📌

mamawetzel.bsky.social•144 days ago

They’re in jail TOGETHER?!

gothamgirlblue.com•144 days ago

📌

ggort.bsky.social•84 days ago

seems like they shouldn't be held in a separate area together.

ggort.bsky.social•87 days ago

why would anyone be surprised by this?

damitman.bsky.social•89 days ago

Well this is terrifying. Also what a bunch of fucking losers

janetlinde.bsky.social•89 days ago

I've been thinking that for a while now. Imagine hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol four years ago, seething with rage at being held accountable, and then set free all at once onto the streets. God help us all.

goldton.bsky.social•87 days ago

I blocked the Zy0 tr0ll Jabari who showed up here with false equivalence of BLM and pro-Plstn supporters. Please do not engage. Block

maudewallace.bsky.social•89 days ago

What issue is this in?

madamjujujive.bsky.social•144 days ago

Tess, this is so excellent but utterly horrifying!
Glad to see you back here again

sonicdave2112.bsky.social•80 days ago

Omg!! Those guys are his Gestapo!

mtgirl6forever.bsky.social•80 days ago

I do not believe he was shot. It was only to gain sympathy and unfortunately it worked.

jag032507.bsky.social•144 days ago

Well when they’re pardoned they’ll go on a rampage.
Why were they allowed to be together?

hellzilla.bsky.social•129 days ago

Fantastic work!🤘❤️🖖👍

mysticmojo.bsky.social•144 days ago

They'll likely comprise Chump's personal, lawless militia, who will round up his critics.

lucy2.bsky.social•128 days ago

No doubt! They've been sitting in there festering.

genepaylor.bsky.social•80 days ago

Take away the tv

irisrose822.bsky.social•144 days ago

I bet they are more than happy. They'll get their blanket pardon and back out on the streets to commit violence for their supreme leader.

lucy2.bsky.social•128 days ago

Yup. They will run outta there with rage and grab their weapons faster than a baton race. They've had time to fester and they are pissed. They ain't right to begin with.

lucy2.bsky.social•128 days ago

I've said they are gonna be pardoned and will come running out, grabbing their weapons faster than a baton race. They are pissed and have been festering.

alostplot.bsky.social•138 days ago

Interesting article! Harrowing, but in the way that we're used to from right wing extremists. Thank you for your work!

snezanana.bsky.social•144 days ago

Wild that they’re allowed to be housed together & absolutely bonkers that they can have a prison podcast.

jj18424.bsky.social•144 days ago

But they complain immigrants get all the free stuff and good housing and food

snezanana.bsky.social•144 days ago

Insufferable entitled f*cks

cdilee35.bsky.social•57 days ago

Great article. Thank you for this story not being reported elsewhere. Pretty scary stuff.

boocow16.bsky.social•89 days ago

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1954-capitol-attack-by-puerto-rican-nationalists/

boocow16.bsky.social•138 days ago

Why the difference in treatment? 👇👇👇

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1954-capitol-attack-by-puerto-rican-nationalists/

linkasofia.bsky.social•89 days ago

incredible that this hasn’t been reported more!! 📌

boocow16.bsky.social•88 days ago

50 years prison sentences

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1954-capitol-attack-by-puerto-rican-nationalists/

boocow16.bsky.social•88 days ago

When I saw the charges they were giving the J-6-2021 terrorists. I said wait a minute what is the DOJ doing? They gave the Puerto Rican Nationalists 50 years prison sentences. Why are these people getting off so easily from trying to overthrow the government.We have two Justice systems in America

linkasofia.bsky.social•88 days ago

So very asymmetrical, it’s outrageous - I’ll share this with more folks in my own tiny circle, anyhow

boocow16.bsky.social•88 days ago

I really believe in the Constitution and what it stands for I will never stop doing that.

boocow16.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thank you so much because I truly believe if more people had seen this in comparison to J-6-2021. They too would have been asking the question what's going on here. These people tried to overthrow the government. Now it looks like Trump will Pardon them all. It's wrong.

boocow16.bsky.social•88 days ago

Good morning when J-6-2021 took place. I immediately thought about this story. I recalled seeing it on 60 minutes when I was growing up. I sent the story to various MSNBC talkshow hosts. Not a single one reported on it.

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-the-1954-capitol-attack-by-puerto-rican-nationalists/

benspky.bsky.social•144 days ago

Jesus. As if I wasn't terrified enough already!

csavitt.bsky.social•144 days ago

📌

sandibachom.bsky.social•89 days ago

What the hell is going to happen?

mfitzbluesky.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is absolutely terrifying.

bluecarcharodon.bsky.social•80 days ago

I have to subscribe to read. It will have to wait.

healingnation.bsky.social•80 days ago

This is a tremendous story! Journalism is alive and well!! Thank you.

healingnation.bsky.social•80 days ago

This story is a great service to the American public. Everyone needs to see the support and special treatment these traitors have been receiving. Thank you.

3azie-e.bsky.social•80 days ago

Ridiculous they’re being held together & w tv. That’s been done deliberately so they can plan & plot. It’s like sleep away camp for them. They’re having fun. They need to be separated.

smartchae.bsky.social•144 days ago

As someone with experience in corrections, I’d like to point out that keeping co-defendants together while incarcerated is NOT NORMAL.

Someone with influence absolutely made this happen for them.

This group is Trump’s first wave of “brown shirts” and they all know it.

virtousvirgo.bsky.social•89 days ago

It’s obvious that you do. And I know that I do. My concern is I fear is that most of America doesn’t!

mamawetzel.bsky.social•144 days ago

Okay, this was my first thought. This is extremely unusual and conspiratorial. Especially considering they’re basically terrorists.

flyfifer.bsky.social•144 days ago

Secure training camp by any definition

cubbie50.bsky.social•129 days ago

we should jail each one separately from each other. no more choirs or insanity.

lucy2.bsky.social•128 days ago

We should, but we aren't in charge. He isn't above the law; he IS the law.

whyami.bsky.social•129 days ago

Should have separated all of them.

praisebob79.bsky.social•144 days ago

I'm sure it's fine. Everything is fine

youdummy.bsky.social•144 days ago

wtf is this tablet stuff and zoom call podcast nonsense?

numinousninja.bsky.social•88 days ago

I have a family member in prison. He is on the work gang and gets to rent a tablet. Inmates no longer receive actual mail in the prison he is at.

Family can write inmates only through apps like these. Each note costs the person sending it. Every note is screened. The tablets are how they get them

numinousninja.bsky.social•88 days ago

But yeah - allowing them to use these for spreading propaganda is BULLSHIT when I can’t even say “I got a great shot of the sunrise last night” or “we are expecting a freeze tonight. It might kill the last of the annuals”.

It sounds to me like they are being given special treatment there.

charlessarver.bsky.social•80 days ago

They should have been separated and isolated behind bars.thats how you deal with terrorists and other enemies to our country

emmettroserose.bsky.social•56 days ago

Some jail. Sounds more like a retreat or sabbatical. Prison issued tablets, on line? I worked in a jail in Charleston, S.C. Now that was a real jail, where inmates go for punishment. These men are not heroes, hostages or patriots...they are insurrectionists and deserve to be punished as such

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