Public death threat from a verified Facebook account — May 13, 2026

The comment is still up as of this writing.

On May 13, 2026, on a public Facebook thread, a verified account replied to me — by name — with this:

"Ryan Nichols you're a fucking pussy and you should've been put to death for treason."

The account posts under the name Jake Duffney and carries Facebook's blue verification check. The comment was public, attached to my name, and left up with reactions.

Here's the context. The thread was about a simple principle: that children deserve the same standard of protection no matter whose "team" an adult is on — that principles aren't principles if they only apply to people you dislike. I agreed, and I said so plainly:

"Thank you. As a J6er, I have stood AGAINST Jake Lang since day 1, and James Talarico since day 1."

I've never made my standards conditional. I hold people on my side to them and people who aren't. That's the whole point.

The reply to that — to a pardoned, exonerated man saying he holds everyone to the same standard — was a public statement that I "should've been put to death."

Let me be precise, because the word "treason" is doing a lot of work in that comment. I was charged in connection with January 6 and held in pretrial detention across ten facilities, where a federal judge acknowledged on the record that my due-process rights had been violated. On January 20, 2025, I was granted a full and unconditional pardon. Every charge was dismissed with prejudice — the case is over, for good, and can never be brought again.

There is no charge. There is no conviction. There is no "treason." There is a verified account telling a free, exonerated American that he should be dead.

This is why this wall exists. The case ended. The threats didn't. I document every one — dated, sourced, screenshotted — and put it in public, because people who post things like this are counting on them vanishing into a feed. They don't vanish here.

I'm not asking anyone to go after this person. I'm doing the opposite of what was done to me: no brigade, no pile-on, no mob. Just the record. The screenshot is preserved, the comment has been reported through the platform's normal channels, and it lives here now — permanently, next to every other threat.

If you said it, you own it.

— Ryan Nichols