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This is fascinating. Verified falsehood-spreader Candace Owens has spread bad information on the holocaust, the first lady of France, George Floyd, lots of other things, yet voluminous detail means people are entranced and trusting her on It Ends With Us www.thecut.com/article/cand...

Nicole Shanahan has seen a chemtrail and would like to talk to the manager please x.com/NicoleShanah...

Children's Health Defense - the organization led by RFK Jr until recently - invited Andrew Wakefield on to talk about the measles outbreak. Wakefield says the MMR vaccine causes measles, can make measles more deadly, and is itself dangerous. live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows...

A US Secret Service agent who leapt on to JFK’s limousine as it came under fire in Dallas has died at the age of 93. Clint Hill later became a bestselling author but was haunted by guilt over Kennedy's assassination (By @wendling.bsky.social for BBC World) www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Proud Boys are holding a press conference at the US Capitol to advertise a promised lawsuit against the government and a crypto coin which is a way to donate money to the group. Not all the Proud Boy chapters are 100% on board:

Enrique Tarrio just announced a lawsuit against the DOJ. He says it will be funded by their crypto investments.

I remember in 2020 being astounded when Trump fielded a press question about QAnon. This internet cult is so widespread it’s being MENTIONED in the White House. It’s getting WAY out of hand! Now a regular guest on QAnon podcasts is the FBI director. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Tucker Carlson says Ukrainians are mistreated, forced into a war, rules by a dictator. Somehow those same arguments escaped his mind as he sat across from Vladimir Putin. And yet somehow it’s the “legacy media” that’s biased

"Free speech! ... Unless I disagree with what you are saying. Then, it's prison."

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DOGE employee Gavin Kliger cites Ron Unz as one of his key political influences. Ron Unz is a holocaust denier, 9/11 conspiracy theorist and key funder of alt-right websites. open.substack.com/pub/weeklyby...

According to this native news outlet, RFK Jr overruled DOGE/OPM and reinstated hundreds of Indian Health Service employees who were due to be fired ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...

Ever since I was in Davenport IA last year I’ve been intrigued by the city’s alt-weekly River Cities Reader. Typical lineup: -New play -Rock tribute act -9/11 INSIDE JOB DEEP STATE QANON DEMONRATS REPUBLICONS TRUMP -New restaurant -Local cinema listings A microcosm of America www.rcreader.com

Just some dudes planning a little boogaloo violence against the US military in public on X

MAGA + tech billionaires + conspiracy crowd = who is running the United States right now

RFK Jr: I have nothing to do with that anti-vax group Anti-Vax Group: He is definitely one of us, we all piled into the hearing room and hell yeah, buy some onesies!

Go ahead put a bunch of cost-cutting "move fast and break things" teenagers in charge of airplane safety. Gosh what could possibly go wrong?

Remarkably clear insight into horseshow techno-utopianism thepointmag.com/politics/hom...

The conspiracy counterculture has its own Latitude Festival standinthelight.uk

Notice how some “heterodox” “free speech” “freedom” warriors who decried the secret influence of billionaires are now silent or positively enthusiastic about this open attempt by the world’s richest man to seize huge amounts of power www.bbc.com/news/article...

The vibe isn’t drastically new but you can feel the temperature go up … when stuff like this is on Reddit calling for heads to be literally chopped off, you can bet political violence in this country ain’t over yet.

Now who’s going to be the first to say “It’s NOT an anti-vax onesie it’s a pro-vax onesie, it just wants more safety tests!” www.bbc.com/news/article...

RFK Jr's hearing today was a masterclass in "just asking questions" and our reporting team covered just about every angle, recap here: www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

Gosh Mr. Corporate why would you not want to use advertise on the site owned by the Nazi salute guy which pays a guy for talking up holocaust denial to millions? Must be a libtard conspiracy!

As RFK Jr prepares to go in front of confirmation hearings, the foundation he led continues to pump out anti-vaccination stories like this: childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/stu... For a thorough deconstruction check out The Real Truther... @therealtruther.bsky.social here x.com/thereal_trut...

The Justice Department has removed the web page that tracked Jan 6 Capitol riot cases www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capi...

The pardon of Ross Ulbricht recalls the time we went undercover to buy drugs on the dark web … back in 2012. We did not name it at the time but I think it’s OK to say now the site we used was Silk Road www.bbc.com/news/busines...

Elon Musk did not tweet about the horrific Southport killings at the time. X refused to take down a stabbing video watched by the murderer. But he did tweet in defence of people who posted messages encouraging riots afterwards. Draw your own conclusions about his motivations.

A lot of the political content is bad but really what broke Twitter/X for me was the extent to which it began pushing endless videos of violence at me... just people getting punched, assaulted, run over, fighting... I like to think I'm fairly mentally resilient but constant exposure altered my mood.

If you're looking for a primer on Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and other far-right activists who were pardoned this week and are among Trump's most fervent supporters, this is the book I wrote which came out just a few months ago. www.plutobooks.com/978074534971...

The Proud Boys and other far-right groups could come alive again. They want the people who prosecuted them in prison, and they want Trump's opponents punished. Online they are celebrating and talking about taking to the streets again. Interesting times. www.bbc.com/news/article...

While the ADL and now Benjamin Netanyahu defend Elon Musk's Nazi salutes, the billionaire continues to openly engage with neo-Nazis. Hours after the Bibi bump, Musk replied to iamyesyouareno, an account Musk frequently promotes and that has celebrated Hitler's birthday.

Trump's sweeping pardons for Jan 6 rioters raise concerns about legitimizing political violence. @wendyvia.bsky.social warns that the release of militia members could revive far-right groups, reigniting their extremist activities. From @wendling.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump’s birthright citizenship order is legally dubious and v difficult to implement. It would also throw the citizenship of millions like this guy into doubt … your average Italian-American MAGA boomer whose parents almost certainly did not become citizens right “on arrival”

The scope and speed of Trump’s January 6 Capitol riot pardons surprised even some of the lawyers for the defendants. He went further faster than most people guessed. And now the Proud Boys could regroup as a political street fighting force www.bbc.com/news/article...

If he is living IRL in the same way he is living extremely online, Musk deliberately did the "salute" so that he could stir the pot, cause a scene, get people to call him a "Nazi", accuse those criticising him of overreacting, then say he "owned the libs".

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Looks like Enrique Tarrio got a FULL PARDON, like the bulk. The 14 commutations were these guys.