Megan Basham
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I think when you see her spunky spirit, her original hair, the fact that she chose to step off the ice for a time before coming back with her own style just really made her an instant American icon.
Yes, such a guy question.
You want to know the statistics, so let me give them to you.
So Norway really ran away with this.
You have to say they racked up 41 medals, including 18 golds.
But the U.S.
does have a lot to be proud of here, taking home the second most medals with a total of 33.
That includes 12 gold, 12 silvers, and 9 bronze.
So a lot of American necks out there adorned with medals.
Yeah, John, I would say that the picture coming into focus here is less scattered and spontaneous outrage, and it's more structured activism that's operating through layered networks on the ground in Minneapolis.
So some of these are local, some are regional, and some are indeed actually tied to national left-wing movements.
So according to investigative journalists at Fox News and some other outlets, these networks that Preti was involved with rely pretty heavily on encrypted messaging platforms, especially Signal, to coordinate their movements in real time.
So essentially what they're doing is sharing locations of federal vehicles, they're sharing hotels that are housing agents, and they're sharing enforcement activity.
Now, these protesters' roles are clearly defined within the chat groups with emojis as identifiers.
So to give you some examples, a car with exhaust represents mobile patrols who hunt for ICE vehicles.
A runner symbol is for foot patrols and a phone for dispatchers running constant calls.
Now, according to the signal materials that were leaked over the weekend from these groups, protesters are taking shifts and operations are running 24-7 with dispatch calls maxing out at 50 people at a time.
And they're dividing their patrol zones into districts guiding, quote-unquote, ice chasers on positioning.
And in some of these chats, members are openly acknowledging that they're also fighting a sort of propaganda war.
And the strategies for that include filming escalations, reframing incidents as, quote, executions or murders.