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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Law enforcement officials said there is concern that QAnon followers could be plotting acts of violence in the coming days. According to a bulletin obtained by ABC News, the new misplaced QAnon belief predicts that Trump will be returned to power on Jan. 31. Meanwhile, there’s …
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Donald Trump’s departure from the White House shattered the hopes of some Qanon conspiracy theorists who said they believed he would expose a worldwide cabal of devil-worshipping pedophiles. While some have clung to the faith even after the reality of Trump’s election loss set in, others have …
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Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus joined an effort to expel Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the U.S. House after the discovery of a series of controversial social media posts, including ones where she said the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas was staged and liked comments calling …
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This was the week that the stock market became the stonks market. For those of you unaware, “stonks” is an internet meme, an absurdist play on the word “stock” that’s now almost unavoidable on social media. On Jan. 26, Elon Musk, recently the world’s richest man, tweeted “Gamestonk!!”, and received …
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kevin roose In the days leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, as my colleagues in Washington were getting ready to go cover the inauguration, I was checking in with the followers of QAnon. archived recording (qanon believer 1) Boom, what’s up, guys? Welcome to another show. We’re …
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It didn’t take long for the neo-Nazis to show up. Minutes after Joe Biden’s inauguration, as followers of QAnon were trying to understand how their predictions of Trump remaining in power had not come to fruition, white nationalists saw a slate of potential recruits. “Don’t let this moment slip by. …
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The theories seem crazy to Ms. Perron now, but looking back, she understands how they drew her in. They were comforting, a way to get her bearings in a chaotic world that felt increasingly unequal and rigged against middle-class people like her. These stories offered agency: Evil cabals could be …
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ceally Smith spent a year down the rabbit hole of QAnon, devoting more and more time to researching and discussing the conspiracy theory online. Eventually it consumed her, and she wanted out. She broke up with the boyfriend who recruited her into the movement, took six months …
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‘Washington Post’ reporter Craig Timberg suggests some in the QAnon movement will become even more extreme now that Trump, their “messiah,” has left office. “There is a real danger that what we’ll see is a somewhat smaller but maybe more fervent and maybe more hateful and maybe more stealthy …
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This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. In Washington, there’s a pretty set playbook for when politicians or their aides find themselves with an onslaught of negative headlines filling the inbox …
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