"I am an investigative reporter and am about to publish a story identifying the operators of four major neo-Nazi social media accounts. I have been facing harassment since we started contacting them for comment so I expected something like this would happen. Would you like to speak with my fiancee?"

Fortunately, this has never happened to me. It's a really good question, and I don't have a good answer for it.

Regardless, the government will argue that bringing firearms to the ICE facility helps prove the defendants‘ intent to murder law enforcement officers, support terrorism, riot, etc.

The indictment against nine "antifa" defendants cites a private chat for planning the July 4 Prairieland ICE facility attack.

Notably, the indictment cites evidence of only one defendant indicating an intention to shoot at law enforcement. Debate in the chat centered on a "noise demonstration." 2/2

Ironically, the government shutdown is kind of on-brand for militant accelerationist ideology, described by federal prosecutors as being centered on the belief "that violence and terrorism is necessary to ignite a race war and 'accelerate' the collapse of the government...."