.@Target claims that they are removing Pride merchandise from their stores to protect the security of their employees.
The message that anti-LGBTQ+ bigots and fascists will receive from this is that making violent threats works.
They will get worse.
Someone moved a significant amount of Ethereum to Ammon Bundy and white nationalist groups like VDARE and AmRen.
They used "Torando Cash," a crypto mixer.
@MeganSquire0 and @jason_a_w with the scoop:
https://t.co/eWSiGV9QA0
And to be clear, I don't think Musk knows he's lying, or that he's a Russian op, I just think he's an idiot who consumes garbage media and incorrectly assumes that makes him smart and well-informed, just like thousands of other idiots on this website.
So when this first became public I was obviously appalled, as it doesn't represent Bellingcat accurately, so I asked for the basis of this claim. I was told a third party organisation who put together this report based it on a Sputnik article and a claim by a Russian journalist.