Banned again — this time for 'Space Force' and 'discombobulater.' Meanwhile 'Rot in Hell you unAmerican scum' stays up. Twice in 24 hours.

🔥 This is the second time in 24 hours. Yesterday X locked my account for a Liam Nissan parody reply. Today they locked it again — this time for the words "Space Force" and "discombobulater" in a sarcastic reply under a video about the Biden DOJ taking my kids.

The official X notice is below. The locked tweet is below. The replies they let stay up against me — "Rot in Hell," "you deserve life in prison," a homophobic slur — are below.

No one can lock this post. You are reading it on my own server, on a domain I own. That is by design. Read it. Share it. Then read the part at the bottom about the open platform we are building so this stops happening to anyone else.

👉 If you only have 30 seconds: paste the bare URL into your feed of choice. Bare links unfurl with the receipts. Quote-tweets get buried by the algorithm. The URL is at the end of this post.

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The official lock notice from X

The email landed less than an hour after I posted the reply. The notice quotes the tweet verbatim:

"Hi Ryan Nichols Sr., Your account, @RealRyanNichols was reported and has been automatically locked for violating the X Rules. Specifically for: Violating our Rules against Violent Speech. You may not share abusive content, harass someone, or encourage other people to do so."

The in-app banner I saw when I tried to post anything else said:

"Your account is locked. After careful review, we determined your account broke the X Rules. Your account is temporarily in read-only mode, which means you can't post, Repost, or Like content. Most accounts regain full access in a week, but it could take longer."

"After careful review." There was no careful review. The lock was issued within minutes — faster than any human moderator can read a tweet. That means the decision came from report volume, not content evaluation. We'll come back to what that means.

(Screenshots of the email notice and the in-app banner are being added to this post — see the case file folder for the originals.)

The tweet they locked me for

Read every word. This is the entire reply X cited as "Violent Speech":

"@LoriNash59 @garykoepnick Yes. Steal another election, and see what doesn't happen to you? Did you not just watch what happened to Maduro? Did you not just see the discombobulater? Delta force, and space force will take care of you. I don't have to do anything. I'm gonna be too busy on my yacht with your tax money paying for it to worry about you."

I am a private citizen in Longview, Texas. I do not command Delta Force. I do not command Space Force. Space Force flies satellites — it has nothing to do with domestic election integrity. "Discombobulater" is not a real word. I do not own a yacht. The cadence is Trump-style sarcasm — a rhetorical riff, not an instruction.

Under X's own published Violent Speech policy, a true threat requires a credible expression of intent to harm a specific person. The locked tweet contains no specific person, no specific time, no specific place, and no specific means. To anyone reading in good faith, it is obvious political satire — the rhetorical equivalent of saying "the Avengers will get you."

How they baited the reply

I posted a video on May 21 titled "This is what a Weaponized Biden DOJ looks like." Caption: "took my kids." It hit 311,000 views.

A verified leftist account I'd already blocked (@garykoepnick — #PROCHOICE #LGBTQ+ ally in the bio) attacked me under the grief post. Because I'd blocked him, X just shows "This Post is from an account you blocked." I replied to no one in particular:

"You are the worst America has to offer. Steal another election and see what happens."

A third leftist account, @LoriNash59 (bio: "Blue dot in a red state hoping dignity, sanity and statesmanship will return to the White House after tRump is gone"), saw an opportunity and jumped in with a one-line setup:

"Is that a threat?"

That is what is called fishing for a reportable line. Classic trap. You bait the target into giving a one-word answer that, ripped out of context by an automated moderation system, looks like an admission.

I answered her. Sarcastically. The Trump-style yacht-and-Space-Force riff above. The lock came inside an hour.

What X did NOT do anything about — the receipts

In the same thread, on the same day, aimed at me — all still up, never flagged, never removed:

• @LoriNash59 — the same person who asked "Is that a threat?" — replied to me a few minutes later:

  "Rot in Hell you unAmerican scum."

  She set the trap, fired the report, then in the open thread said the actual hateful thing. Still up. Not locked. Not flagged.

• @DrMLynne replied:

  "You took part in January 6, you deserve life in prison."

  For reference: I was pardoned by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025. The federal charges against me were dismissed with prejudice — the case cannot be brought again. "You deserve life in prison" is wishing the death of a free citizen. Still up.

• @Teddy_four — a homophobic slur ("phaggot") aimed at me. Still up.

• @hec_nasty — "Lame ass bitch." Still up.

• Yesterday's brigade caller @theliamnissan (~460,000 followers, verified, "parody" bio) used my reply as a recruiting flare for "#smokefleet show him some love" and then wrote, in plain English on the platform: "I'm just casually getting your account banned for 'trying to find me' as you say. It's a threat." Still up. Still verified. Full case file: Banned from X for a parody.

I am not asking X to remove any of these replies. I'm a grown man, I can take an insult. I'm pointing out the asymmetry: the slurs and "rot in hell" calls stay up. My Space Force joke gets the account locked.

If "Rot in Hell" and "you deserve life in prison" do not qualify as Violent Speech under X's own published rules, then a sarcastic Space Force riff from a pardoned private citizen cannot qualify either. Either the rules apply consistently or they are not rules at all — they are a weapon.

I have the audio. Listen for yourself.

I recorded my reaction in real time so this is not a he-said/she-said. You can hear, in my own voice, the context this lock was pulled out of:

Listen to the recording on Google Drive →

If Drive asks for permission, that is on the sharing settings — fixing it shortly.

Why this is happening

This is what platform censorship looks like when the moderation system is report-count-driven instead of content-driven. A coordinated group of accounts targets one user, fires the same report over and over, and the automation does the rest. The author of the most heinous reply in your mentions stays up. You — the one quoting Genesis in your bio — get the lock.

Elon Musk bought X promising free speech. What I am experiencing in real time, in two consecutive days, is the exact opposite: selective, asymmetric, weaponized enforcement. Conservatives keep getting told this is not happening anymore. It is happening. To me. Right now. Twice in 24 hours.

I am writing this on my own website. On my own server. On my own domain. No one can lock this post. That is by design.

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⚡ What you can do RIGHT NOW

This post is going viral as I write this. Whether it stays viral depends on you. Four actions, in order:

1. Share the bare URL. Don't quote-tweet — that lets the algorithm bury it. Paste the link directly into X, Truth, Facebook, Substack, your group chat, the family Signal thread. The link itself unfurls with the receipts:

https://www.realryannichols.com/posts/banned-again-for-space-force-and-discombobulater-meanwhile-rot-in-hell-stays-up

2. Subscribe to this feed. No algorithm. No platform. Straight to your inbox or phone the next time something hits. The signup form is at the bottom of every page on this site.

3. Donate →. I'm spending my last dime on this site, the J6 case archive, and the open-platform build. Donations cover rent, food, mental-health care after pretrial detention, and the servers that make all of this exist. Public pledge: if a major settlement / payout ever arrives, I remove the donate link the same day. No bait. No bullshit.

4. Are you a builder? Email me. Subject line: "OPEN PLATFORM." Details in the next section.

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The open-platform plan — and a public pledge

Several people asked: can we build the kind of thing X used to be — open, owned by the people on it, mass-built together, where one CEO's mood swing can't silence anyone? Yes. The tools already exist.

The three serious open-source approaches:

1. ActivityPub / Mastodon / the Fediverse. Everyone runs their own server, the servers federate, your account moves with you. Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and Threads (Meta's product) all speak ActivityPub. If one server kicks you off, you spin up another and the network still talks to you. Open source. Mature. Free.

2. AT Protocol / Bluesky. Newer, designed from day one around "your identity is portable, your data is yours, the algorithm is yours to choose." Bluesky is the reference app. The protocol itself is open — anyone can build a competing app on the same network.

3. Nostr. Simpler still. Your identity is a cryptographic key you control. Posts are signed by that key and relayed by anyone who wants to relay them. No central server can ban you because there is no central server. Heavy adoption in the Bitcoin community.

The play, concretely:

• Stand up a Mastodon instance at social.realryannichols.com — my own server I cannot be kicked off of, fully interoperable with millions of Fediverse accounts already.
• Stand up a Bluesky PDS at bsky.realryannichols.com for the people who prefer that UX, with the same handle moving with you.
• Use this site (realryannichols.com) as the canonical archive. Every post here cross-posts via ActivityPub to Mastodon, signs and rebroadcasts through Nostr relays, mirrors to Bluesky. You cannot silence a message that is published in four places at once and indexed by anyone with a browser.
• Open the source code on GitHub so anyone who agrees with the mission can fork it, fix it, deploy it, and run a node. A Linux of social media — not a Twitter.

Public pledge. This week. Not next quarter. Not after a fundraising round. This week. I'll post the spec, the commits, and a builders-wanted thread on this site as I go. The second X lock just promoted this from "someday" to "now."

If you want in:

• Builder? Mastodon admin, ATProto curious, Nostr relay operator, full-stack engineer who wants to ship the cross-poster — email me directly at theflashflash24@gmail.com. Subject line: "OPEN PLATFORM." Tell me what you know and what you have time for.
• Writer / moderator / node operator? Same address. Same subject line. Help me draft the community rules, run a node, run a corner of the network.
• Donor / patron? Donate here. If you want to sponsor a specific server ("$X = 1 month of Mastodon hosting"), put it in the donation note. I will publish a public ledger of every dollar and what it paid for.
• Need a site built for you? While we build the open platform, I am also taking a limited number of paid client builds at $997 one-time, 30-day handoff, the whole thing is yours forever. Details on the Support page.

What I will not do

I am not going to retaliate-report. I am not going to brigade @LoriNash59 or @DrMLynne or any of the others. I am not going to ask my followers to mass-report anyone. That is the exact behavior being used against me — and the only way to beat it is to refuse to do it back.

I am going to stay calm. I am going to publish receipts. I am going to build my own house.

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More from the receipts archive

• 🔥 The first X-ban-for-parody, from yesterday → Banned from X for a parody
• ⚖️ Judge Hogan on the record acknowledging his due-process rights were violated → Judge Hogan transcript
• 🏛️ What it actually looks like inside the DC Jail → Inside the DC Jail
• 🇺🇸 The J6 Anti-Weaponization Case Builder — 1,567 defendants with profiles, free, forever → /j6
• 📍 The Map Room — see how many readers are on this site right now and where they are reading from → /the-map-room

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Genesis 50:20

"You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive."

Every time a leftist account brigades me into a lock, the algorithm hands me a thousand new reasons to build my own platform — and a thousand new readers come over here to read about it. The trap they set keeps becoming the launchpad.

I didn't ask for this fight. I am not running from it either.

— Ryan

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