Capitol Rioters Keep Outing Themselves on Social Media
A fresh cohort of pro-Trump rioters involved in the Jan. 6 sacking of the U.S. Capitol have been arrested, many of whom were largely undone by their own ill-advised social-media posts, according to a series of newly filed criminal complaints.
Some uploaded selfies to Facebook that placed them at the scene, along with vivid descriptions of breaking into and being inside of the Capitol building during the attempted insurrection. Others implicated themselves online, then sealed the deal with the active tracking apps they had had open on their phones, which the FBI subsequently used to recreate their precise whereabouts that day.
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Edward Jacob Lang, 25, was charged with assault for attacking a police officer with a bat, and faces additional charges for civil disorder, unlawfully entering the Capitol, and disorderly conduct. The Upstate New York man outed himself on Instagram, posting a picture of himself storming the Capitol with the words “THIS IS ME” emblazoned across it. If that wasn’t enough to do it, Lang’s post also included a finger icon pointing directly to himself. In addition to the Instagram post, Lang posted a video with a caption that read, “I was the leader of Liberty today. Arrest me. You are on the wrong side of history.” “Decisions have consequences,’’ FBI official William Sweeney Jr. posted on Twitter in announcing the arrest. “Edward Lang is in custody for the ones he made during the assault on our Capitol.”
Unemployed grocery store clerk Brandon Fellows, 26, posted a video on Snapchat of himself sitting with his feet up on Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley’s desk during the Capitol riot, after which he told a Bloomberg News reporter that he had “no regrets” for what he had done, which Fellows said included smoking marijuana in Merkley’s office. “[C]ops are very cool, they were like hey guys have a goodnight, some of them, which is crazy, it’s really weird, you can see that some of them were on our side,” he said in the interview with Bloomberg, which is cited verbatim in court documents charging him with trespassing and disorderly conduct. Fellows also used Facebook to boast of his involvement in the MAGA mob (“We took the Capitol and it was glorious,” he wrote), as well as posting pictures on Instagram of himself sitting on a police motorcycle outside the Capitol.
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I grew up in the early 80's 
But I did read a lot scifi/cyperpunk/psychology (anyone remember OMNI magazine?!) etc and it seems like a lot of the dystopia is coming true
But I love the Xfiles and all that too
I guess I should (never voted for him) apologize for Reagan!
