I think recruiting is a good guess — it’s worked before! The Proud Boys followed the GOP grievance-of-the-day with memes and events and real-world violence, Trump and co embraced and boosted them, and their recruiting (and cashflow) skyrocketed.

It's beautiful! And nice of them to provide so much seating!

Or just put a rope in front of it!

I mean, museums very often have displays that you're meant to interact with or take pictures on/around. And if you're not meant to sit on the thing meant for sitting, they usually rope it off at the very least!

He was denied bail, which isn't super surprising www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Mostly police, actually!

Here’s the narrative Trump is spinning to justify the federal “liberation” of LA. It’s pretty clear which side is plotting to carry out the violence here, and we know because this is the same way it was carried out during Trump’s last term

And yes, the 2020 protests were overwhelmingly peaceful: 93% had zero calls for violence or property destruction (link below).

Trump’s propaganda machine characterized them as violent anyway, so people shrugged when his feds began *disappearing protesters in vans* acleddata.com/2020/09/03/d...

Thank you so much for reading! Great question. I know the proud boys have publicly said they want to help ice deport immigrants — and it seems likely given law enforcement’s relationship with them over the years that there are ice officials who consider themselves PBs. In any case — similar tactics!