January 6 rioters have been held together in a segregated wing of the D.C. jail, which they came to call the “Patriot Pod.” They developed their own rituals and inside jokes and, over time, radicalized one another. We follow a young rioter from the Patriot Pod who went into jail a mischievous goofball and emerged willing to die for MAGA. 
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We Live Here Now

The Atlantic

If It’s My Time to Die, It’s My Time to Die

OCT 16, 202434 MIN
We Live Here Now

If It’s My Time to Die, It’s My Time to Die

OCT 16, 202434 MIN

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January 6 rioters have been held together in a segregated wing of the D.C. jail, which they came to call the “Patriot Pod.” They developed their own rituals and inside jokes and, over time, radicalized one another. We follow a young rioter from the Patriot Pod who went into jail a mischievous goofball and emerged willing to die for MAGA. 

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