Philly QAnon detective in D.C. last Jan. 6 still on limited duty awaiting disciplinary hearing

January 7, 2022 2020 election

Archived 5 years ago from The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philly QAnon detective in D.C. last Jan. 6 still on limited duty awaiting disciplinary hearing

This time last year, Jennifer Gugger, a longtime Philadelphia police detective responsible for screening potential recruits, had returned from Washington, where she’d been posting on Facebook about having beers with “fellow patriots.” Hashtag: #StoptheSteal. Hours after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on …

Do Republicans really believe the Big Lie about the 2020 election?

Elections

January 7, 2022 2020 election

Archived 5 years ago from The Washington Post
Do Republicans really believe the Big Lie about the 2020 election?

In our study, we divided respondents into two groups. We asked all of them: “How many of the following do you believe? Don’t tell us which ones. Just how many.” However, the control group was asked about four statements, while the other group was asked those four, with the addition of this: “Joe …

Kelly Ernby was an anti-vaxxer who died. Is that cause for glib satisfaction?

COVID-19

January 6, 2022 2020 election, antivax, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Los Angeles Times
Kelly Ernby was an anti-vaxxer who died. Is that cause for glib satisfaction?

Kelly Ernby was no doubt a good person, a friend to her friends, a companion to her husband, a crime-fighting prosecutor. She presumably had all the decent qualities we usually celebrate after a person dies, when we generally say only the kindest things we can think of. But she was also a vocal …

Fact check: How we know the 2020 election results were legitimate, not ‘rigged’ as Donald Trump claims

Elections

January 6, 2022 2020 election, marjorie taylor greene, qanon, trump

Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
Fact check: How we know the 2020 election results were legitimate, not ‘rigged’ as Donald Trump claims

The claim: The 2020 presidential election was ‘rigged’ As the nation marks a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump continued to promote a falsehood that he and his supporters have peddled for more than a year: that the 2020 election was rigged against him. “Why is it that the …

Conspiracy

January 6, 2022 2020 election, nazi, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Maine Public
Violent rhetoric and conspiracy theories have gained traction in Maine since the Capitol riot

Nick Blanchard was one of thousands of people from across the U.S. who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, to attend the “Save America” rally on the National Mall, where then-President Donald Trump was speaking. The Waterville resident attended the rally and left at 2:12 p.m., he later …

Maricopa County Officials Release Report Debunking Arizona Election Fraud Claims

Elections

January 6, 2022 2020 election, bill gates

Archived 5 years ago from National Review
Maricopa County Officials Release Report Debunking Arizona Election Fraud Claims

A woman holds a pro-Trump sign outside the State Senate Building during the announcement of interim findings from the audit of the 2020 election in Phoenix, Ariz., September 24, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Maricopa County Elections Department released a 93-page report on Wednesday debunking …

Elections

January 6, 2022 2020 election, covid19

Archived 5 years ago from Axios
New wave of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol insurrection continue to flood private messaging groups, social networks and even major news outlets one year later. Why it matters: The lasting echo chamber of misinformation shows the long-term impact the event will have on future elections. “These …

After January 6, a new breed of extremism emerges: The mainstream insurrectionist

Conspiracy

January 6, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
After January 6, a new breed of extremism emerges: The mainstream insurrectionist

A gallows set up outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Credit: Tyler Merbler. CC BY 2.0 Dylann Roof allegedly had a drug problem. He drifted between homes and schools growing up and had quit a landscaping job by the time he killed nine people in a racist attack on a church in Charleston, South …

Conspiracy

January 6, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago
American Support for Conspiracy Theories and Armed Rebellion Isn’t New – We Just Didn’t Believe it Before the Capitol Insurrection – UConn Today – University of Connecticut

Americans had to confront a new reality when an angry mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: Some of their fellow citizens were in the grips of a false reality and had resorted to violence to support it. Conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and the strange alternate …

Rep. Mark Finchem demonstrates once again that he has no shame

Elections

January 6, 2022 2020 election

Archived 5 years ago from The Arizona Republic
Rep. Mark Finchem demonstrates once again that he has no shame

Rep. Mark Finchem, presumably kitted up in his “full armor of God,” chose the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection to once again toss out the fantastical (and completely baseless) claim that Arizona’s vote was rigged. Isn’t that special? On a solemn day when the country marks the one-year …

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