When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Ĭolleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outlet Nobody said running a media site would be easy. Then again, this could mean those claiming “false flag” are onto something. It could just be a coincidence that highly secure panic buttons specific to Ayanna Pressley’s office were all removed right before the Capitol riots. But it seems more and more likely that the debunking attempts were premature as evidence continues to mount supporting a false flag event. “Fact-checkers” have attempted to debunk claims that Antifa and others incited the riots that sent hundreds of Trump supporters into the Capitol Building. Now, the President has been impeached by Congress for a second time over the event. We documented earlier this week how mainstream media had been doctoring videos to make it seem like the President stirred his supporters into attacking the Capitol.

Some Trump-supporters and many unaffiliated conspiracy theorists have combed through video and circumstantial evidence to highlight the possibility of the riots being a “false flag” event intended to stir up negative sentiment for President Trump. Groh pulled out gas masks and looked for the special panic buttons in the office, but realized they had been removed. “It felt like the heat was being turned up in terms of the rhetoric and Trump’s aims to incite violence.”ĭuring the siege, staffers in Pressley’s office barricaded the entrance with furniture and water jugs that had piled up during the pandemic. “I was deeply concerned,” Groh told the Globe about going to the Capitol on Jan. Order Founders Blend Organic Coffee from Freedom First Coffee.

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