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Putting David DePape, Paul Pelosi’s attacker, on the witness stand wasn’t a great idea. But it was the only thing DePape’s defense had. He has admitted, even bragged, about his attempted murder of Nancy Pelosi’s husband last year at the couple’s home in San Francisco. Predictably enough, on the …
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At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an aberrational, fringe phenomenon. But what if is isn’t? A 2014 study by Eric Oliver and Thomas Wood of the University of Chicago found that “half of the …
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He may not have bolts sticking out of his neck, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is morphing into the MAGA version of Frankenstein’s monster. For months, he’s been propped up by Donald Trump’s sprawling propaganda apparatus, from Fox News to Steve Bannon’s podcast, as he makes a fruitless bid to run for …
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People are saying that they don’t want you to have the information Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson are surfacing. For instance, there’s Kelly’s report to Newsmax host Eric Bolling earlier this week about the belief shared with her by “a lotta people” that “the Obamas are already running the …
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I once met a former Scientologist at a backyard barbecue who explained to me how L. Ron Hubbard, the mediocre science fiction author who founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s, got his retro-pulp novel “Battlefield Earth” on the bestseller lists in 1982. According to this fellow, the church …
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Here we are, coming up on three years of dealing with COVID, and not only are people still arguing about vaccines against the disease, but the anti-vax sentiment that seemed to blossom when the COVID vaccine became available in 2021 has also now cross-pollinated and found its way into the …
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Users on far-right online forums are publishing private information about members of the Georgia grand jury that indicted former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in a sweeping criminal case focused on alleged 2020 election interference earlier this month, leading to jurors receiving …
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In my most recent nonfiction book, “Operation Mindf**k: QAnon & the Cult of Donald Trump,” I focused extensively on a “QTuber” named Rick Rene, because I viewed him then and now as the perfectly imperfect microcosm of the entire messed-up QAnon universe, which perceives the Democratic Party as an …
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“Fucking shit Russian car,” my driver spat as a Lada sedan passed us on the highway from Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi to Stepantsminda during my trip there in 2019, shortly after our long conversation touched on Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. His momentary flash of anger was an eye-opening …
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Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, a close ally of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has cut a deal to turn over his findings into supposed 2020 election fraud to special counsel Jack Smith, according to The Daily Beast. Kerik received a full pardon from then-President Trump in …
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