Did Nothing Wrong podcast (Did Nothing Wrong)

The one where we talk about the latest developments in the GOP Civil War, and the latest MAGA false narrative around the killing of Tyre Nichols.

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Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk with Michael Edison Hayden, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center about their recent analysis of the Alex Jones text messages.

You can read the series of stories written by the SPLC here:

About the texts:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/01/about-alex-jones-texts

Part 1:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/01/infowars-alex-jones-says-he-lives-hell-texts-show

Part 2:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/02/alex-jones-texts-highlight-infowars-overlap-proud-boys

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk with journalist Amanda Moore about her infiltration of the MAGA and QAnon movements and what she learned that we should worry about.

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk about the real threat from China and the lack of a Republican response, as well as the latest updates in the no longer cold GOP civil war.

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk about the attempt to take over Project Veritas by the DeSantis insurgents, as well as Brazilian president Lula da Silva's trip to Washington DC, and Seymour Hersh's new article.

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we just ask some questions about Jack Posobiec's history of questionable and problematic statements about Pizzagate, racism, and being a True Son Of Poland.

Sources cited:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-clark-dc-neo-nazi-arrested_n_5beb99ffe4b0caeec2bf24e5

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jack-posobiec

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-ignored-this-russia-controlled-account-during-the-election_n_59f9bdcbe4b046017fb010b0/amp

This episode is part of a series of permanent records of some of the awful things that awful people have said and done.

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Jay and Griff

The one where we talk about Biden's trip to Kyiv, DeSantis contradicting himself on Russia, and the really nasty internal politics of the GOP media ecosystem

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

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Jay and Griff

The one where we talk with Lincoln Project founder and political strategist Rick Wilson about the 2024 campaign, the shortcomings of Ron DeSantis, and why he's so good at making Donald Trump so mad.

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

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Jay and Griff

The one where we talk with Brazilian-American Jiu-jitsu legend Robert Drysdale about the political situation in Brazil, why social media is killing society, and how to keep growing as a person.

Here are some of the sources and notes we used to assemble this episode. Please check them out.

Robert Drysdale - Bloody Elbow article

"“I lost family members over this. I lost friends. I never voted for the Worker’s Party in my life, but I refuse to support Bolsonaro. I have family members who stopped talking to me. They would ask me to go public and make a video with all these other jiu-jitsu guys who supported Bolsonaro. They were like ‘Why can’t you do the same?’. I’ll live under a bridge before I support a guy like Bolsonaro. There’s no way. These people have no plans for Brazil. Their plan was to sell the country to foreign investors. I never thought he was a serious candidate. Brazilians were so fed up with the Worker’s Party that they voted for him out of anger. It was a hate vote.”

Zenith Jiu-Jitsu

Robert’s Academy and Jiu-Jitsu association.

A typical day at Zenith Jiu-Jitsu

Training for competition at Robert's academy in Las Vegas.

Robert Drysdale - "What is the point of winning?"

Robert’s TED Talk on winning

ADCC(Abu Dhabi Combat Club) 2007 Open Weight final

Robert Drysdale vs. Marcelo Garcia. This is the most prestigious championship in Submission Grappling.

Opening Closed Guard

Robert’s book and documentary film about the origins of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil.

"30 million Brazilians out of poverty"

Oxfam: Brazil has lifted 28 million people out of poverty in the last 15 years, reducing poverty to less than 10 percent of the population. But the rich continue to benefit the most: between 2001 and 2015, the richest 10 percent accounted for 61 percent of economic growth.

"From Dawn to Decadence"

The book Robert referred to.

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

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Jay and Griff

The one where we talk with Journalist and Author David Neiwert about his 35 years of covering the Radical Right, Eliminationist rhetoric, and how the old playbook hasn't changed much.

Here are some of the sources we used, as well as more information on some of the subjects we discussed:

Richard Mack - Constitutional Sheriffs

Chris Rufo on Curtis "Mencius Moldbug" Yarvin

The Stranger, Seattle's Hometown Newspaper, on Chris Rufo's withdrawal from the City Council race

Bill Morlin -- How journalists should cover hate and hate groups

A&E Forensic Files episode on the Phineas Priesthood with Bill Morlin

Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off

David Neiwert on Louis Beam

“This was explicitly laid out by one of these leaders, a man named Louis Beam, who was a top lieutenant in the Aryan Nations organization in northern Idaho. Writing in his magazine The Seditionist, in an essay titled, “Leaderless Resistance,” he advocated the formation of independent cells of militias that could spring into action when needed. And he encouraged “lone wolf” attacks by violent believers – attacks that would undermine public confidence in the ability of a democratic society to keep them safe and secure.”

"Lone Wolves Connected Online" - New York Times article on Louis Beam

The Kehoe Brothers

"Of Orcas and Men", David's "whale book"

“In Of Orcas and Men, a marvelously compelling mix of cultural history, environmental reporting, and scientific research, David Neiwert explores how this extraordinary species has come to capture our imaginations--and the catastrophic environmental consequences of that appeal. In the tradition of Barry Lopez's classic Of Wolves and Men, David Neiwert's book is a powerful tribute to one of the animal kingdom's most remarkable members.”

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where Amanda Moore joins us again to discuss her experiences at CPAC, Rage Against The War Machine, and why people keep platforming guys like Chuck Johnson and Richard Spencer.

Here are some of the sources we used, as well as more information on some of the subjects we discussed:

Amanda's piece on Rage Against The War Machine and the collection of odds and sods that attended.

“The Rage Against the War Machine rally had all of those problems. And while the organizers feebly attempted to portray the rally as pro-peace, the speaker line up included Miss Russia’s boyfriend, a journalist for Sputnik (a Russian state owned media agency), a former UN weapons inspector turned convicted pedophile, and a current lieutenant colonel in the US Army.”

Amanda on CPAC, Shabbat, and Groypers

“After Fuentes’ event was over Saturday evening, a Groyper approached me in the Gaylord hotel. He asked me why I left the rally early, and I held up my press badge. “No journalists, no drag queens. Per Nick himself.”

He informed me someone told the fire marshal they were over capacity, and that 20 people were forced to leave. He shot me an accusatory look, and I shrugged. “It wasn’t me. It wasn’t any of the journalists. We were all together the whole time.”

“Well,” he said as he started to walk away. “If it wasn’t the journalists, it must have been the Jews.”

GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent’s ties to white nationalists include interview with Nazi sympathizer

“On a since-suspended Twitter account and active channel on Telegram called “Pure Politics,” Greyson, or “American Greyson” as he calls himself, has shared posts that called Nazi men the “pure race” and that the US should have sided with the Nazis during World War Two. Arnold has falsely claimed there were “Jewish plans to genocide the German people,” and in a post, he shared a quote that said the “Jewish led colored hordes of the Earth” were attempting to exterminate White people. “

Rosendale calls neo-Nazi photo op a mistake

“U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale said he unwittingly posed for a photo with high profile members of the neo-Nazi movement last week walking between congressional hearings.

The photo taken March 1 in front of the Capitol shows Rosendale, a two-term lawmaker, posing with Ryan Sanchez, formerly of the white supremacist street-fighting gang RAM, or Rise Above Movement, and Greyson Arnold, a Nazi sympathizer and podcaster present at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Arnold has called Adolf Hitler a "misunderstood" and “complicated historical figure."“

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk about Nayib Bukele, an indictment from the EDNY, the curious crackdown on some gang members in El Salvador, and MAGA's fawning approval of these measures.

Here are some of the sources we used while assembling this episode:

Guardian on Bukele's decision to move 2000 suspected gang members to the new "Megaprison"

Damian Merlo's Foreign Agent Registration(FARA) for his work on behalf of El Salvador

EDNY Indictment for the MS-13 gang leaders

El Faro on the EDNY indictment

El Faro on the aftermath of the crackdown

“He says that, for some time now, the gangs’ street "soldiers" believe that their leaders "sold them out.""It’s true. These structures have no management. The ranflas [leaders] claimed to be looking out for their soldiers’ wellbeing. Not anymore. We came to the conclusion that it wasn’t the case." He thinks that the concentration of power in the hands of the historic leaders of the organizations had backfired on them."The ranflas [in prison] didn’t want to appoint substitutes [in the streets]. I don’t know why. Maybe because they didn’t want to leave to someone else what was theirs. So they didn’t do it. These locos negotiated for their own benefit. What did they negotiate? I don’t know," he said.”El Faro on the pact between Bukele and the gangs

The Guardian on the beginnings of ISIS

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

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Jay and Griff

The one where we talk with "Proud Boys Whisperer" Samantha Kutner about the dynamics of radicalization, the vanguard role of the Proud Boys group, and how to tell when a "Former" is really a "Former".

Here are some of the sources we reference in this episode:

Proud Boys Whisperer

This is Samantha’s website, with links to some of her work, as well as a selection of her other interviews.

Glitterpill

Glitterpill provides actionable data, analysis, and consulting services to companies grappling with the challenge of violent extremism and terrorism.

Kutner. “Swiping Right: The Allure of Hyper Masculinity and Cryptofascism for Men Who Join the Proud Boys”International Centre for Counter-Terrorism-The Hague, 2020.

Kutner. “Take the Redpill: Understanding the Allure of Conspiratorial Thinking among Proud Boys.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2020.

Samantha’s appearance on The Loopcast, which is another really interesting podcast that covers extremists and extremism, often from a deep historical perspective. Check them out.

The Khalifa Ihler Institute's Statement to The January 6th Select Committee

In February, the January 6th Select Committee requested that The Khalifa Ihler Institute, represented by Bjørn Ihler, Samantha Kutner, and C.L. Murray, provide a written statement for the congressional record on the Proud Boys’ role and involvement in the attack on the US Capitol.The Khalifa Ihler Institute is honored to share our findings with the January 6th Select Committee and the public.

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we team up with Jared Holt from Posting Through It to have a conversation with Mike Rothschild about certain "researchers" who are long on speculation and vitriol but short on facts.

Here are some of the sources we used to create this episode:

Mike Rothschild’s Website

Mike Rothschild is a journalist, researcher, expert witness, subject matter expert, speaker, and debunker of conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs.

Over the last decade, Mike has written extensively about politics, history, pop culture, and weird stories your aunt shares on Facebook without actually reading. In particular, Mike is an expert on the QAnon conspiracy theory, tracing its evolution from a few 4chan posts to a massive, worldwide movement that draws on centuries of conspiracy theories and scams to induct its believers into a violent mythology.

Mike is the author of “The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything,” published in June 2021, with a paperback version coming in August, 2022.  His next book, to be published in 2023, is “Jewish Space Lasers,” on the Rothschild banking family and the two centuries of conspiracy theories about them. His first print book, “The World’s Worst Conspiracies” was published in January 2020 by Arcturus Publishing, London.

In addition to his work as an author, Mike has served as an expert witness in several legal cases related to conspiracy theories, has guest lectured at numerous college classes and academic panels, and submitted written testimony to the January 6th Committee.

His work in debunking conspiracies has been cited in articles or interviews by the New York Times, Snopes, NBC News, Vice, Daily Beast, CNN and many others. He’s also appeared on high profile podcasts like Maintenance Phase, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Armchaired and Dangerous, Knowledge Fight, Reply All, and numerous others. 

Mike is also a published playwright, podcaster, and working on several TV projects. For more information, contact Mike – rothschildmd@protonmail.comp

Mike Rothschild on Twitter

Publisher’s Weekly review of “The Storm is Upon Us”

“Rothschild also offers useful advice on how to help loved ones get out of QAnon. This is a disturbing and well-informed look at the darker side of modern American politics.“

Written Testimony of Mike Rothschild, Journalist and Author Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration Election Security Subcommittee

“Human brains are hardwired to seek patterns in random chance, and order in chaos. We want explanations for why things are the way they are, why bad things happen to us, who’s responsible, and what we can do about them. By nature, this means we are susceptible to being given incorrect or intentionally misleading answers – particularly if the questions we’re asking don’t have a satisfying answer. And sometimes, if we don’t like the answer, we decide it’s not true – giving rise to conspiracy theories. Over the past few years, these incorrect or misleading answers have been branded with the term “disinformation.”

Conspiracy theories and disinformation, therefore, are not an invention of the internet age, didn’t emerge from a Russian trolling lab, and aren’t restricted to Americans of any political persuasion. Disinformation has been used by governments, rulers, and corporations for centuries to mislead people, cover up misdeeds, or in times of war to throw enemies off the track. And everyone is vulnerable to the right piece of false information or wishful thinking, if it hits them at the right time in the right way.”

Posting Through It

Posting Through It" is Jared Holt’s weekly podcast and newsletter about our modern political disorder. You should go sign up for it because it’s awesome!

Vice News: The Organization Trying to Save QAnon Believers Is Falling Apart

“Stewartson readily admits he’s not a journalist and his only real investigative skill is “googling shit.”

“I’m not a spy or a journalist,” Stewartson wrote. “All I can do is google shit, talk to people and write about it —which I have done.”

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk about what's at stake in the Douglass Mackey/Ricky Vaughn election interference trial, as well as the ramifications of a potential ban on TikTok in the United States.

Here are some of the sources we used to create this episode:

Douglass Mackey's indictment

“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “With Mackey’s arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

“Protecting every American citizen’s right to cast a legitimate vote is a key to the success of our republic,” said William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office. “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft. It is illegal behavior and contributes to the erosion of the public’s trust in our electoral processes. He may have been a powerful social media influencer at the time, but a quick Internet search of his name today will reveal an entirely different story.”

The complaint alleges that in 2016, Mackey established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141).

Luke O'Brien's story revealing "Ricky Vaughn's" identity as Douglass Mackey

“During Gamergate, a 2014 online harassment campaign waged by misogynists and racists online against women and minorities in the video game industry, Ricky Vaughn linked up with Yiannopoulos and Cernovich, who were ringleaders in the harassment and would both go on to even greater notoriety with their attempts to contaminate American political discourse with conspiracy theories.

“I owe a lot to them,” Ricky Vaughn said on a recent podcast.

By the beginning of 2016, he was clearly an open “alt-right” white nationalist. He talked about how “the good people are siding with nationalism and the Shabbos goyim shills and the neocohens are siding with the globalists.” He talked about how he wanted to “introduce ideas of racial consciousness into the mix so that patriotic American conservatives don’t feel bad about creating all-White communities and shunning mixed-marriages and that sort of thing, because we need racial separatism in order to maintain our unique culture and racial heritage.”

Michael Edison Hayden on the Douglass Mackey trial - SPLC

Mackey’s Ricky Vaughn persona seemed to disappear from the web until the DOJ produced these charges in January 2021. After the DOJ charged Mackey, he emerged as a cause célèbre among anti-democracy, radical-right figures, who have depicted him as a victim of state oppression. Daily Stormer and other racist websites raised money for his defense. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson inaccurately described Mackey as a “conservative journalist” on his show in January 2021. Following Carlson’s segment, an anonymous person dropped $60,000 to Mackey in Bitcoin, buoying his defense, as Hatewatch previously reported.

"Microchip" interviewed by Jack Posobiec

Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN), brought a pseudonymous disinformation poster onto the air without providing context of that person’s hateful and terroristic beliefs, Hatewatch found.

Posobiec produced a segment for OANN in September 2018 in which he interviewed “Microchip,” who was at that time a pseudonymous contributor to the white-supremacist-friendly website Gab. Microchip achieved notoriety during Trump’s 2016 run for president for his involvement in a number of high-profile disinformation campaigns. Posobiec also linked his Twitter followers to Microchip’s Gab feed at least five times after the interview was aired, archives show. Microchip posted statements to Gab prior to being interviewed on OANN that celebrated Hitler, and alluded to terrorism and murder.

Wall Street Journal - TikTok tracking pixels present in government websites

A review of the websites of more than 3,500 companies, organizations and government entities by the Toronto-based company Feroot Security found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states, including some where the app has been banned from state networks and devices. Feroot collected the data in January and February of this year.

The presence of that code means that U.S. state governments around the country are inadvertently participating in a data-collection effort for a foreign-owned company, one that senior Biden administration officials and lawmakers of both parties have said could be harmful to U.S. national security and the privacy of Americans.

China's version of TikTok -Deseret News

Although they’re both owned by ByteDance, Douyin — China’s version of TikTok — offers a different version of the social media app that is unavailable to the rest of the world, especially for children. 

“It’s almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, and advocate for social media ethics, said of China’s approach to TikTok. 

“If you’re under 14 years old, they show you science experiments you can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational videos,” said Harris, according to “60 Minutes,” adding that children in China were limited to only 40 minutes a day on the app.

“There’s a survey of pre-teens in the U.S. and China asking, ‘what is the most aspirational career that you want to have?’ and in the U.S., the No. 1 was a social media influencer, and in China, the No. 1 was astronaut,” Harris said. “You allow those two societies to play out for a few generations and I can tell you what your world is going to look like.” 

"National Rape Day" hoax goes viral for the second time - Media Matters

In April 2021, a hoax called “National Rape Day” went viral on TikTok. Videos garnered millions of views claiming that on April 24, 2021, large groups of men planned to sexually assault women en masse. Now, the same hoax is reemerging on the very same social media platform, which seems unable or unwilling to curtail the spread of viral misinformation.

While the “National Rape Day” hoax had been previously floating around the collective consciousness as an urban legend, it found new levels of virality through TikTok’s recommendation algorithm in 2021. The earliest mention of “National Rape Day” on social media that Media Matters could identify was a tweet from April 11, 2021, that read, “Please if you are in the uk, be safe, the boys have made a ‘national rape’ day and that’s tomorrow.” A screenshot of the tweet was circulating on 4chan’s /pol message board the next day.

It seems that shortly after this tweet, the hoax started to spread on TikTok, where it went viral. At the time, a Media Matters study found that 48 of the top 50 TikTok videos under the “#April24” hashtag contained misinformation and none of the videos provided a debunk or any factual information. The hoax gained further legitimacy through poor media coverage, which amplified the panic, as well as participation in the trend from some members of law enforcement on TikTok.

TikTok's algorithm leads users from transphobic videos to far-right rabbit holes - Media Matters

Several of the videos fed to our FYP featured audio called “Teddy” which says, “The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” a quote taken from the first line of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others in 1978 with homemade bombs. The audio, which already has been used in over 1,200 unique videos, has become popular on right-wing TikTok and particularly in anti-LGBTQ content, based on the frequency with which it emerged during our study. In the videos we reviewed, it was frequently paired with montages of screenshots of LGBTQ people livestreaming on TikTok. These videos not only use an audio that pays homage to a terrorist, but they also promote the harassment of LGBTQ TikTok users. 

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we discuss Xi's visit to Russia and what that means to the future of their alliance , notorious troll "Microchip"s testimony in the Mackey trial, and Donald Trump's latest media stunt.

Here are some of the sources we used to create this episode:

No path to peace: Five key takeaways from Xi and Putin’s talks in Moscow

Experts say that China and Russia’s inclination to build their alignment against the US – and a world order more suited to their own more autocratic agendas – was driving the meeting, not interest in resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

As Xi left the Kremlin following a state dinner on Tuesday evening with Putin, his parting message reiterated his view that global power dynamics are shifting. 

“Together, we should push forward these changes that have not happened for 100 years. Take care,” he said during a goodbye handshake with Putin, alluding to what Xi sees as an era where the West is fading and China is ascendant.

Online Troll Named Microchip Tells of Sowing ‘Chaos’ in 2016 Election

““I wanted to infect everything,” Microchip said, adding that his aim before the 2016 election had been “to cause as much chaos as possible” and diminish Mrs. Clinton’s chances of beating Donald J. Trump.”

SPLC article on Microchip

Posobiec has an apparent personal connection to Microchip that goes beyond interviewing him on OANN. Posobiec referred to what he claimed was the creator of QAnon as his friend in a tweet he published on March 8, 2019. He made the claim six months after he produced the segment reporting that Microchip created QAnon with another person. Posobiec and Microchip both promoted fake antifa Twitter accounts as part of a disinformation campaign intended to discredit the leftist protest movement, Buzzfeed reported in March 2017.

“Well seeing as QAnon was started by two guys that are friends of mine, wouldn't that make sense?” he wrote in response to a comment that he “speaks the same language” as QAnon.

Hatewatch reached out to Microchip over the gaming app Discord to ask him about that statement. He described Posobiec as his “buddy just through the internet” and said the OANN correspondent “doesn’t know who [he is],” regarding his true identity.

White House ‘antifa’ petition written by pro-Trump troll

“Microchip is an online provocateur who is routinely kicked off Twitter and claims to direct legions of automated bot accounts. He said getting conservatives to share and discuss the petition is the entire point, and not to prompt concrete action by the government.

He called the petition “a waste of time” but a useful distraction from recent infighting among conservative factions.

He created the petition on Aug. 17, the day after Trump made controversial remarks in which he blamed “both sides” after white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville.

Microchip told POLITICO he wrote it with the explicit intent of stoking conservative rage and forcing the GOP establishment to take a stand or risk becoming targets themselves.

“It was to bring our broken right side together” after Charlottesville, he said, “and prop up antifa as a punching bag.”

“So the narrative changed from ‘I hate myself because we have neo-Nazis on our side’ to ‘I really hate antifa, let’s get along and tackle the terrorists,’” he explained.”

Trump posts disturbing baseball bat photo with Alvin Bragg, threatens ‘death and destruction’

Trump first said last week that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday, which came and went without any word of charges. 

Instead, the grand jury was postponed on both Wednesday and Thursday.

Manhattan prosecutors have been presenting evidence to the grand jury since late January in connection with the $130,000 hush money payment made to porn star Daniels shortly before Trump’s shocking victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which Trump has denied.

Former Trump lawyer and ex-con Michael Cohen alleges he made the payment at Trump’s direction.

Trump paid off Stormy Daniels to subvert democracy Despite what Republicans would have you believe, it matters.

Aaron Rupar’s great Substack article about the case

This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what’s going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.

Thanks for listening,

Jay and Griff

The one where we talk about Donald Trump's curious choice of location for a campaign rally, and whether the fact that it's the 30th anniversary of the Waco standoff means anything to him.

Here are some of the sources and articles we used to create this episode:

Trump holding his next rally in Waco, Texas, sends a message to the far right, experts say

Waco became synonymous with the worst failings of the federal government and has been used to push anti-government conspiracy theories for years. Though the Waco compound was home to a specific sect of religious extremists, elements of the tragedy resonate in today's times: gun ownership vs. gun regulation, rural independence vs. Washington bureaucracy.   

And some experts say that's likely exactly why the city was chosen for a Trump rally.

"Waco is hugely symbolic on the far right," said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. "There's not really another place in the U.S. that you could pick that would tap into these deep veins of anti-government hatred – Christian nationalist skepticism of the government – and I find it hard to believe that Trump doesn't know that Waco represents all of these things."

Timothy McVeigh at Waco

During the stand-off between federal agents and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993, people gathered on a hill roughly three miles away to see what was happening at the compound. One of those drawn to Waco was a 24-year-old Army veteran named Timothy McVeigh.

Far Right Reading List Shows Link Between Its Literature and Real-World Violence

The list also included more overt resistance narratives. It initially featured The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce (it has since been removed with no explanation given). The Turner Diaries is a novel about a clandestine movement of white men who use racialized terrorism and nuclear warfare to “take back” the United States from Jewish “usurpers” and what Pierce portrays as the mindless, sex-crazed Black and Latino men who act as their enforcers. Pierce was the leader of the militant white supremacist organization National Alliance and his novel inspired neo-Nazi terror group The Order, which was responsible for murdering talk radio host Alan Berg in 1984. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh evangelized the book, traveling to gun shows to sell it (and its sequel, Hunter) to like-minded people; his bombing attack on the Murrah Building closely resembled a similar act described in detail in Pierce’s text. Investigators found portions of it in his getaway car. Germany’s National Socialist Underground (NSU), which murdered 10 people and injured others in a years-long terror campaign against a mostly Turkish immigrant population, also took inspiration from The Turner Diaries: NSU member Uwe Mundlos translated several chapters of the book into German and a digital copy was found on a hard drive in an apartment Mundlos and his two primary accomplices had rented while underground

Gunman in FBI attack was Navy veteran who once handled classified info

Meanwhile, authorities are continuing to investigate a potential motive for the shooting in addition to Shiffer’s possible ties to extremist groups, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said. Shiffer’s name is used on several social media platforms by an individual who spoke about being at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and urging a “call to arms” after the FBI executed a search warrant at former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate on Monday.

On Truth Social, a site started by Trump, an account with Shiffer’s name published a post after the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago telling others to “get whatever you need to be ready for combat.” On Thursday at 9:30 a.m., he wrote another post that seemed to indicate he was writing after attempting to enter the FBI building.

“Well, I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn’t,” he wrote. “If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it’ll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops.”

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The one where we talk about the horrifying massacre in Nashville, the MAGA ghouls exploiting it, and what we could do going forward to prevent more of these tragedies from occurring.

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‘Our heart is broken,’ Nashville mayor says as city comes together to grieve 6 killed in school shooting Eric Levenson

As the community grieves, police continue to work to answer the yet unanswerable: Why did 28-year-old Audrey Hale decide to storm into a private Christian school and murder three children and three adults?

A Brief History of Guns in the U.S. How to explain Americans’ astonishing personal arsenal? Start with politics, fear, and marketing.

“In almost any aspect of public health, culture and policy are reinforcing and reflecting each other,” says Daniel Webster, ScD ’91, MPH, director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy. “You gradually see carrying a gun around as normative.” Forty years ago, if someone brought a gun to a party, Webster says, “you would have been shocked. It would have been incredibly abnormal.” Now, gun ownership is a lifestyle choice, one rooted in the individualism “baked into our culture and our laws.”

How many US mass shootings have there been in 2023?

The US ratio of 120.5 firearms per 100 residents, up from 88 per 100 in 2011, far surpasses that of other countries around the world.

While calculating the number of guns in private hands around the world is difficult, the latest figures from the Small Arms Survey - a Swiss-based research project - estimated that there were 390 million guns in circulation in the US in 2018.

Violence Against Trans and Non-Binary People

According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey:

* Nearly half (46%) of respondents were verbally harassed in the past year because of being transgender.

* Nearly one in ten (9%) respondents were physically attacked in the past year because of being transgender.

* Nearly half (47%) of respondents were sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime and one in ten (10%) were sexually assaulted in the past year. In communities of color, these numbers are higher: 53% of Black respondents were sexually assaulted in their lifetime and 13% were sexually assaulted in the last year.

* 72% of respondents who have done sex work, 65% of respondents who have experienced homelessness, and 61% of respondents with disabilities reported being sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

* More than half (54%) experienced some form of intimate partner violence, including acts involving coercive control and physical harm.

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The one where we talk about the somewhat anticlimactic indictment of Donald Trump, Adam Nettina's violent threats, and some of the developments in Russia's War Of Choice in Ukraine.

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Trump judge and his family receive threats after New York arrest

In the 24 hours since former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, the presiding judge and his family have received multiple threats, two sources familiar with the matter said.

One official said “dozens” of threats have recently been directed at Judge Juan Merchanand his chambers but did not give an exact time frame for them.

The other source said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and other top officials in his office continue to receive threats. The threats have been in the form of calls, emails and letters.

Maryland man threatened to 'slaughter' LGBTQ+ people after Covenant School shooting, DOJ says

According to an affidavit, on the morning of March 28, Nettina left a threatening voice mail at the D.C. office of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization in the United States. The call came just one day after six people, including three children, were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School – a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Evan Gershkovich Loved Russia, the Country That Turned on Him.

Mr. Gershkovich, 31 years old, is the American son of Soviet-born Jewish exiles who had settled in New Jersey. He fell in love with Russia—its language, the people he chatted with for hours in regional capitals, the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars. Now, espionage charges leave him facing a possible prison sentence of up to 20 years. 

His employer, colleagues and the Biden administration all deny Russia’s claimthat he was spying on behalf of the U.S., and have called for his immediate release. Diplomats and legal experts see little hope Mr. Gershkovich, a reporter accredited by the Russian foreign ministry, will immediately be freed, given that espionage trials in Russia are conducted in secret and almost always end in a conviction.

Finland joins NATO as 31st Ally

Finland became NATO’s newest member today (4 April 2023), upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the United States at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. NATO Allies signed Finland’s Accession Protocol on 5 July 2022, after which all 30 national parliaments voted to ratify the country’s membership.

Speaking ahead of the ceremony, the Secretary General thanked President Niinistö for his outstanding leadership and for leading Finland into the most successful Alliance in history. “I am deeply proud to welcome Finland as a full-fledged member of our Alliance and I look forward to also welcoming Sweden as soon as possible,” he said. “Joining NATO is good for Finland, it is good for Nordic security and it is good for NATO as a whole,” he added. The Secretary General also noted that Finland’s accession shows the world that President Putin failed to “slam NATO’s door shut.” “Instead of less NATO, he has achieved the opposite; more NATO and our door remains firmly open,” he said. 

Putin has gone crazy' says his defected security officer

Putin has 'gone crazy' according to one of highest ranking Russian security service officers who defected in 2022, Marc Bennetts tells Times Radio.

‘He’s a war criminal’: Elite Putin security officer defects

 On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with his wife and daughter. He switched off his phone to shut out the crescendo of urgent, enraged messages, said goodbye to his life in Russia and tried to calm his fast-beating heart.

But this was no ordinary Russian defector. Karakulov was an officer in President Vladimir Putin’s secretive elite personal security service — one of the few Russians to flee and go public who have rank, as well as knowledge of intimate details of Putin’s life and potentially classified information.

Karakulov, who was responsible for secure communications, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks to himself and his family. He said he hoped to inspire other Russians to speak out also.

“Our president has become a war criminal,” he said. “It is time to end this war and stop being silent.”

Bill Clinton says he feels 'terrible' for pushing a 1994 agreement with Russia that resulted in Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons

Former US President Bill Clinton said that he regrets pressuring Ukraine to give up its nuclear warheads in a high-stakes negotiation in 1994. 

In an interview with Irish news service RTÉ released on Tuesday,Clinton said that he felt a "personal stake" in Ukraine's fragile territorial integrity. He said he believed that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine in 2014, and in 2022, had the weapons still been in the country — a position that a Soviet historian echoed to Insider.

"I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons," Clinton said. "And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons."

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The one where we are joined by Michael Edison Hayden, Senior Reporter with the SPLC, as we discuss Douglass Mackey's a/k/a Ricky Vaughn's conviction, Microchip's testimony, and the failed Manhattan NYYRC protest.

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'ALT-RIGHT' DISINFORMATION KING FACES TRIAL

“On Twitter in 2016, Twitter users interested in politics commonly stumbled across Mackey’s Ricky Vaughn account. He posted rapidly and at a high volume. Archives show that Mackey averaged over 100 tweets and retweets per day between 2014 and 2016. He mixed more benign news articles with more sinister fare, including links to the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer and racist and antisemitic memes.”

DOUGLASS MACKEY VERDICT SINKS 'SHITPOSTING' DEFENSE

“The jury’s verdict carries potentially profound implications for the hard-right, anti-democracy movement that rose around the political career of former President Donald Trump. Not only does it set more clearly visible boundaries around what is legal when sowing disinformation online, prosecutors may have also created inroads to bring about charges similar to those filed against other radical-right activists who engaged in coordinated efforts to shape the outcome of elections.

As for Mackey, the verdict rejected claims he made about his intentions in 2016. Following the Department of Justice issuing charges against him in January 2021, Mackey and his supporters repeatedly portrayed his actions as “shitposting,” an internet term of art for publishing inflammatory content that is protected by the First Amendment.”

JUDGE UNSEALS DETAILS ON COOPERATING WITNESS IN DOUGLASS MACKEY CASE

“Unsurprisingly, the government provides no details about how long this cooperation has been going on — but it presumably started before Mackey was arrested in 2021. Which is likely to make a lot of right wingers awfully nervous.”

JACK POSOBIEC INTERVIEWED A PRO-HITLER DISINFORMATION POSTER ON ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK

“Posobiec has an apparent personal connection to Microchip that goes beyond interviewing him on OANN. Posobiec referred to what he claimed was the creator of QAnon as his friend in a tweet he published on March 8, 2019. He made the claim six months after he produced the segment reporting that Microchip created QAnon with another person. Posobiec and Microchip both promoted fake antifa Twitter accounts as part of a disinformation campaign intended to discredit the leftist protest movement, Buzzfeed reported in March 2017.

“Well seeing as QAnon was started by two guys that are friends of mine, wouldn't that make sense?” he wrote in response to a comment that he “speaks the same language” as QAnon.”

TRUMP PROTEST: SMALL GROUP OF FORMER PRESIDENT'S SUPPORTERS, FOES FACE OFF AHEAD OF COURT APPEARANCE

During Tuesday's pro-Trump rally in lower Manhattan, hosted by the New York Young Republican Club, Greene fired back at Adams, saying, "While you allow crime in your streets, and you sent your henchmen down here ... Democrats are the party of violence."

Speaking through a megaphone, Greene told Trump supporters, "I am here to protest and use my voice and take a stand."

"Every American should take a stand.," Greene said. "This is what happens to communists' countries. Not the United States of America. We have to take a stand against the injustice, the corruption and the communist Democrats."

At one point, members of the New York Young Republicans Club began chanting "USA! USA!"

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The one where we talk about the end of the bromance between Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi, RFK Jr's presidential bid, and Greg Abbott bending the knee to the shrill chorus of right-wing influencers.

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Mehdi Hasan debates Matt Taibbi

This does not go well for Taibbi.

The Tech Dirt article we cited:

“There remains no there there. It’s less than a Potemkin village. There isn’t even a façade. This is the Emperor’s New Clothes for a modern era. Taibbi is pointing to a naked emperor and insisting that he’s clothed in all sorts of royal finery, whereas anyone who actually looks at the emperor sees he’s naked.”

RFK Jr. advanced the idea that the 2004 election was stolen

“Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.”

RFK Jr. Is Our Brother and Uncle. He’s Tragically Wrong About Vaccines.

“We love Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but he is part of a misinformation campaign that’s having heartbreaking—and deadly—consequences.

By KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND, JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II and MAEVE KENNEDY MCKEAN”

Joseph Flynn pushing a Trump/RFK ticket

Steve Bannon spent "months" recruiting anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. to run against Biden as "chaos agent"

“Former chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon spent "months" encouraging anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to a report from CBS News. 

People familiar with the matter told the outlet that Bannon hoped Kennedy could serve as a "useful chaos agent" in the election while also spreading "anti-vaccine sentiment around the country," according to CBS News' Robert Costa.”

RFK Jr. and some frens.

Gov. Greg Abbott announces he will push to pardon Daniel Perry after murder conviction

“The unprecedented effort, which Abbott announced to his 1 million followers on Twitter, came as Abbott faced growing calls from national conservative figures such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted in the shooting deaths of two Wisconsin protesters in 2020, to act to urgently undo the conviction. “

Abbott calls for pardon of Daniel Perry after guilty murder verdict

“Former Travis County assistant district attorney Rick Cofer said the Governor’s move is premature and has interrupted normal justice proceedings.

“Daniel Perry hasn’t even been sentenced yet. He’s not even at this moment, eligible for a pardon from the Governor, even to apply for a pardon, requires final certified copies of judgment and sentence,” Cofer said.”

Buses from Texas drop off more than 100 migrants in a bitterly cold Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve

“More than 100 migrants bused from Texas arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve — enduring freezing temperatures in the state’s latest instance of sending migrants to cities led by Democrats.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that volunteers who greeted the migrants received word that Gov. Greg Abbott had sent about 110 to 130 men, women and children on three buses that arrived at the Naval Observatory on Saturday night. Videos shared on social media show many of them clutching blankets over their shoulders in the 18-degree weather after the two-day trip.

Abbott, a Republican, began sending migrants who arrived at the Texas-Mexico border to other cities in April as a way to antagonize the Biden administration. When the first bus sent to Harris’ residence arrived in September, Abbott went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” saying, “She’s the border czar, and we felt that if she won’t come down to see the border, if President [Joe] Biden will not come down and see the border, we will make sure they see it firsthand”

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The one where we discuss the Bob Lee murder in San Francisco, Harlan Crow's shady real estate deals, Trump's humiliation of Tucker Carlson, and the "TradCath" intel leak suspect Jack Teixeira.

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SF officials slam Elon Musk, others, for spreading rampant crime narrative

“District Attorney Brooke Jenkins blasted “reckless and irresponsible statements” that made incorrect assumptions about the Cash App co-founder Lee’s killing, which she said “serve to mislead the world in their perceptions of San Francisco and also negatively impact the pursuit of justice.”

Fare thee well, Christopher Rufo; We hardly got to know you”

“In Rufo-speak, “clean[ing] up our streets and parks” translates to increased sweeps that brutalize our unhoused neighbors, which is the kind of “law and order” rhetoric used by the likes of Nixon and Reagan to militarize America’s police force since the 1970s. Of those actually attempting to materially help our unhoused neighbors, Rufo says “nothing is more important than their own display of compassion,” and has peppered his writings and speeches with criticisms of Seattle’s “activist class.” Rufo derides what he views as “virtue signalling,” a right-wing talking point peddled by Breitbart to garner sympathy for the police and further foster hatred toward Seattle’s homeless community. He says he wants to “break up the homeless industrial complex,” another right-wing talking point that translates to defunding nonprofits currently offering services. Rufo’s campaign tag, “compassion with results,” left open the option of  “reinstitutionalizating” the dangerously mentally ill, an argument for a return to the days of callous sanitariums.”

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

“These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said.

Thomas did not respond to a detailed list of questions.”

Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.

“A federal disclosure law passed after Watergate requires justices and other officials to disclose the details of most real estate sales over $1,000. Thomas never disclosed his sale of the Savannah properties. That appears to be a violation of the law, four ethics law experts told ProPublica.

The disclosure form Thomas filed for that year also had a space to report the identity of the buyer in any private transaction, such as a real estate deal. That space is blank.

“He needed to report his interest in the sale,” said Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer now at the watchdog group CREW. “Given the role Crow has played in subsidizing the lifestyle of Thomas and his wife, you have to wonder if this was an effort to put cash in their pockets.”

Thomas did not respond to detailed questions for this story.”

Suspect charged in case involving leaked classified military documents

“pA friend of Teixeira described his motives to The Washington Post as wanting to share — and show off — the secrets he knew to a small circle of online friends who bonded over video games.

Teixeira served in a junior position, but he had access to an internal Defense Department computer network for top-secret information, called the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. That access would have allowed him to read and potentially print documents classified at the same level as many of the leaked files.

Teixeira told members of the group Thug Shaker Central on the Discord instant-messaging platform that he worked as a technology support staffer for the Massachusetts Air National Guard and at a base on Cape Cod, and this was how he was able to access classified documents, one member of the Discord server told The Post. Members of the group came together initially because of their shared interest in guns and military gear, the member said.”

Press Pushes ‘Mass of Contradictions’ Storyline about Far-Right Radical Teixeira

“Here’s a new article from the Post on Jack Teixeira which contains a series of assumptions I can only call disturbing. The headline reads, “He’s from a patriotic family — and allegedly leaked U.S. secrets.” In the vein of that headline, the article presents Teixeira as a bundle of contradictions. He didn’t want to hurt America. He was a patriotic guy from a patriotic, military family, etc.

And yet the guy described in numerous interviews with young men or boys from his server community is a textbook far-right radical, the type who often commits acts of violence, though as yet we have no evidence of that from Teixeira. He was very into guns; he was viciously racist and antisemitic; he worshipped at the cult of Ruby Ridge and Waco and anti-government activism.”

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The one where we talk about the state of the GOP primary , as well as the exposure of the identity of "Donbass Devushka", the "Russian" blogger who is not actually Russian at all.

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How Nikki Haley’s Campaign Inflated Her Fund-Raising Haul

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/politics/nikki-haley-money.html

Pekka Kallioniemi's "Vatnik Soup" thread on "Donbass Devushka"

https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/thread/1647199977205125120

Travis Brown's archive of "Donbass Devushka's" deleted tweets

https://twitter.com/travisbrown/status/1648201757879574528

Tucker Carlson Duped By Fake Military Documents on Ukraine War Shared By Russian Propagandist

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-duped-by-fake-military-documents-on-ukraine-war-shared-by-russian-propagandist/

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The one where we talk with Journalist Robert Silverman about Ali Alexander's alleged predatory behavior, what happened to Tim Pool, and the far right's attempt to repeal the 14th amendment.

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How Coward and Phony Tim Pool became one of the biggest political YouTubers on the planet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet

Kanye storms out of interview after podcaster lightly defends Jews

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-west-storms-out-of-interview-after-tim-pool-lightly-defends-jews

How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-twitter-ali-alexander-stop-the-steal_n_6026fb26c5b6f88289fbab57

Police confirm ‘active’ case after report filed against Ali Alexander, who has been accused of soliciting nudes from teen boys

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/colorado-police-active-case-ali-alexander-teen-boys/

Trump supporters tweet #repealthe19th after poll shows he would win if only men vote

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-supporters-tweet-repeal-the19th-amendment-after-poll-shows-he-would-win-if-only-men-vote/

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The one where we talk about Fox News's firing of Tucker Carlson, Elon's blue check fiasco, and Biden announces he's running again.

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Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, pushed out by Rupert Murdoch

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-fox-news

Tucker Carlson Was Blindsided by Fox News Firing

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/tucker-carlson-fox-news-fired

EXCLUSIVE: Tucker Carlson’s producer has a long history of liking anti-Black tweets from white nationalist websites

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tucker-carlson-producer-gregg-re-twitter-likes/

White Nationalist Website VDare Thanks Fox News Host Tucker Carlson for Support

https://www.newsweek.com/white-nationalist-website-thanks-fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-1346578?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter

Twitter reinstates Blue verification mark for top accounts — even if they didn’t pay for it

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/twitter-reinstates-blue-verification-mark-for-top-accounts-even-if-they-didnt-pay-for-it/

Biden’s 2024 campaign has been hiding in plain sight

https://apnews.com/article/biden-election-2024-president-trump-democrats-1e125b32d1a376dff5a1b74748a71476?utm_source=apnewsnav&utm_medium=featured

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The one where we talk with former FBI Counterintelligence agent Asha Rangappa about Social Media Algorithms, information weighting, and the old Soviet technique of "Reflexive Control".

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Asha's website:

https://asharangappa.com

The Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa:

Trump’s own lawyers are turning out to be his greatest legal weakness

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-arrest-enabled-legal-counsel-rcna76741

Russia applies the concept of Maskirovka (military deception) within a political and strategic context and a more refined version, called Reflexive Control Theory, affects NATO and the Netherlands Armed Forces.

https://militairespectator.nl/artikelen/reflexive-control

The guy who got the midterms right explains what the media got wrong

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/27/23475262/midterm-elections-2022-results-red-wave-democrats

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The one where we discuss RFK Jr's "Democratic" presidential campaign, DeSantis's campaign woes, Trump's promotion of QAnon influencers, and Jack Texeira's racist and violent messaging history.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s threat to Biden is inflated in polls. Here’s why.

Of course Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. — he's a great weapon for their war on reality

How bad is it for Ron DeSantis? He’s polling at RFK Jr.’s level

DeSantis assembles senior staff for expected 2024 presidential campaign

In his first year of actively posting on Truth Social, Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times | Media Matters for America

Jack Teixeira: Suspected leaker made threats and researched shootings, US says

MAGA-world is rushing to defend Jack Teixeira, the accused Pentagon leaker who allegedly dumped secret documents online to impress his teenage gamer buddies

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The one where we discuss the FBI Agent involved in January 6th, the Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy verdict, CPAC's conference in Hungary, and some terrifying poll results about the GOP's future.

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Ex-FBI agent who feds say urged Jan. 6 rioters to kill police worked terrorism task force

'The Donald' forum user convicted of assaulting officers on Jan. 6

They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies.

Jordan Fischer's Twitter coverage of the Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy trial

CPAC Hungary to host who's who of anti-LGBTQ and other far-right extremists

Hungary’s far-right PM calls for Trump’s return: ‘Come back, Mr President’

CBS News poll on how 2024 GOP presidential primary race could be Donald Trump v. Trump fatigue

CNN Poll: Most Republicans care more about picking a 2024 GOP nominee who agrees with them on issues than one who can beat Biden

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The one where we sit down with author Mike Rothschild to discuss his new book, "Jewish Space Lasers", as well as the state of the Qanon movement, and conspiracy theories as a new religion.

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The Storm Is Upon Us: How Qanon became a movement, cult, and conspiracy theory of everything

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 years of conspiracy theories

Our previous episode with Mike Rothschild and Jared HoltPromos

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The one where we talk about the Debt Ceiling/Hostage Negotiation, the Neo-Nazi mass shooting in Allen, Texas, and the arrest of GOP Congressman George Santos.

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NYT Debt Ceiling explainer/

Debt ceiling: 2011 showdown leaves lessons for Biden, GOP | AP News

Did GOP Vote To Raise Debt Ceiling 3 Times with No Preconditions During Trump Era? | Snopes.com

Why some people are spreading false rumours about the Texas gunman - BBC News

Eastern District of New York | Congressman George Santos Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering, Theft of Public Funds, and False Statements | United States Department of Justice

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The one where Haley from AZ Right Wing Watch joins us to talk about Rep. Paul Gosar's white nationalist digital director. We also discuss the 2024 Trump Campaign Steal, Patriot Front, and MAGA martyrs.

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Arizona Right Wing Watch

Arizona Right Wing Watch Linktree

https://linktr.ee/az_rww

Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/paul-gosar-nick-fuentes-staffer-wade-searle

Trump Wanted to Hire Laura Loomer, Anti-Muslim Activist

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/trump-laura-loomer.html

A white nationalist pyramid scheme’: how Patriot Front recruits young members

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/patriot-front-recruits-members-young-pyramid-scheme

Chilling footage shows white supremacist group Patriot Front marching through DC

https://news.yahoo.com/chilling-footage-shows-white-supremacist-040050917.html

Daniel Penny gets the Kyle Rittenhouse treatment as Republican presidential candidates line up in support of the man who choked Jordan Neely to death on the NYC subway

https://news.yahoo.com/daniel-penny-gets-kyle-rittenhouse-175157757.html

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The one where we're joined by Robert Silverman to discuss the extremely online right wing crusade against the Target corporation for selling Pride themed merchandise. Yes, really.

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Brands Embracing Pride Month Confront a Volatile Political Climate

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/business/target-pride-lgbtq-companies-backlash.html

How major brands were forced into the conservative plan to target LGBTQ people

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/target-bud-light-are-conservatives-new-favorite-targets-rcna86235

Before Fox News, Tucker Carlson worked at CNN. The show he co-hosted was canceled after a tense on-air exchange where Jon Stewart called him a 'dick.'

https://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-tucker-carlson-fox-news-cnn-2023-4#:~:text=Before%20Fox%20News%2C%20Tucker%20Carlson,Stewart%20called%20him%20a%20%27dick.

Tim Pool calls the Allen, Texas, shooter's pro-Nazi online footprint a “PSYOP” and blames mass shootings on “multiculturalism”

https://www.mediamatters.org/tim-pool/tim-pool-calls-allen-texas-shooters-pro-nazi-online-footprint-psyop-and-blames-mass

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The one where we discuss the Randi Nord case, Russia’s war of choice in Ukraine, the NAACP's travel advisory for Florida, and whether Trump is actually a fascist.

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Woman charged in Royal Oak swastika graffiti

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2023/05/03/woman-charged-in-royal-oak-swastika-graffiti/70181046007/

US Hadrons on Twitter

https://twitter.com/ushadrons/status/1659343821237256192?t=NivDYhXt11v4SP2fuCyNVg&s=19

FALSE FLAGS IN DETROIT: ON THE MULTIPOLAR GRIFT AND THE DISINFORMATION ECOSYSTEM

http://brockley.blogspot.com/2023/05/false-flags-in-detroit-on-multipolar.html?m=1

Michigan GOP Official Hosted Podcast With White Nationalist

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-gop-official-shane-trejo-hosted-podcast-with-white-nationalist

Michigan GOP official portrayed Charlottesville white supremacists as “civil rights heroes” and praised political violence

https://www.mediamatters.org/big-league-politics/michigan-gop-official-shane-trejo-portrayed-charlottesville-white-supremacists

Ukraine war: Wagner says Bakhmut transfer to Russian army under way

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65705733

Russia TV celebrates as it reports the capture of Bakhmut, comparing it to Berlin in 1945

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-bakhmut-79ce2a44951613509ce9d1afede86f97

The NAACP’s Florida travel advisory is less about traveling and more about Black voters

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/naacps-florida-travel-advisory-states-black-voters-rcna85679

Trump's 2025 vision, revealed

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-vision?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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The one where we speak to Journalist Robert Silverman about the latest MAGA tantrum over Twitter's supposed "Censorship" of the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh and his crappy movie.

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Twitter Briefly Pretended To Take A Stand Against Hate, But Then Elon Admitted It Was All A Mistake (Or A Marketing Campaign?)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/02/twitter-briefly-took-a-stand-against-hate-but-then-elon-admitted-it-was-all-a-mistake/

Elon Musk Promoted the Matt Walsh Transgenderism Doc ‘What Is a Woman’ After Twitter Originally Restricted It

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-promoted-matt-walsh-213619740.html

Musk’s response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at Twitter

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/musk-elon-twitter-ella-irwin-trans-video-what-is-a-woman-stream-rcna87429

How New York City Soccer Fans Are Fighting Fascism In The Stands

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-city-football-club-far-right-extremists_n_5c76d679e4b062b30eba721a

QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/qanons-adrenochrome-quackery

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The one where we talk about Germany's AFD and the support they receive from Russia, the Trump/DeSantis troll wars, right wing groomers, and much much more.

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America First is Democracy Last

https://www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/america-first-is-democracy-last

Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/europe/afd-youth-wing-extremist-label-intl/index.html

Gavin Wax Lashes Out After ‘Sovietesque’ Firing From Babylon Bee

https://angrywhitemen.org/2023/05/30/gavin-wax-lashes-out-after-sovietesque-firing-from-babylon-bee/

Patriot Front member pleads guilty to child pornography charges in Utah

https://www.fox13now.com/news/crime/patriot-front-member-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charges-in-utah

Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA Teamed Up With a Registered Sex Offender:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/charlie-kirk-tpusa-registered-sex-offender-1234743149/

Ex-priest Patrick O’Donnell ‘free to roam’

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/jan/27/ex-priest-patrick-odonnell-free-roam/

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The one where we talk about how MAGA believes Antifa has taken. over the DHS, the GOP is selling a new Biden narrative, Tucker's back(in his basement), and Texas GOP reps won't denounce extremism.

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DHS funded college program linking Fox News, NRA, RNC to neo-Nazis

https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/dhs-funded-college-program-tying-fox-nra-rnc-to-neo-nazis/ 

White supremacists remain deadliest US terror threat, Homeland Security report says

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/white-supremacists-anarchists-dhs-homeland-threat-assessment/index.html

Eoin Lenihan Cracks Jokes About AIDS With A White Supremacist In A Recently Unearthed Video

https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/06/20/eoin-lenihan-cracks-jokes-about-aids-with-a-white-supremacist-in-a-recently-unearthed-video/

Right-Wing Outlets Keep Relying On A Racist Troll Posing As A Researcher

https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/06/16/right-wing-outlets-keep-relying-on-a-racist-troll-posing-as-a-researcher/

Far Right Reading List Shows Link Between Its Literature and Real-World Violence

https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-reading-list-shows-link-between-its-literature-and-real-world-violence/

Ricky Shiffer, Navy veteran, identified as gunman in FBI Cincinnati attack - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/12/fbi-cincinnati-ricky-shiffer/

Worse Than Watergate': How the Right Uses Disinformation to Generate Outrage and Conspiracy Theories

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/worse-than-watergate-how-the-right-uses-disinformation-to-generate-outrage-and-conspiracy-theories/

DHS "very concerned" about white nationalist attacks on power grid

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-white-nationalist-attacks-power-grid/

Scoop: Fox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson-contract-breach

TEXAS REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO CONDEMN ALLEN SHOOTER’S EXTREMIST BELIEFS

https://www.texasobserver.org/allen-shooting-republicans-extremism/

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The one where we talk about the toxic air quality, climate change denial, Saudi Arabia's buyout of the entire sport of Golf, and how authoritarian states "Sportswash" their human rights violations.

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The PGA Tour Shamelessly Sells Out for Saudi Blood Money

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-pga-tour-shamelessly-sells-out-for-saudi-blood-money?ref=author

Just How Bad Was the Pollution in New York?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/08/upshot/new-york-city-smoke.html

Why Canada’s wildfires are extreme and getting worse, in 4 charts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/06/12/canada-record-wildfire-season-statistics/

THE FUTURE OF GOLF IN A WORLD OF CLIMATE CHANGE

https://fansided.com/2022/09/27/golf-future-climate-change/#:~:text=As%20the%20climate%20becomes%20more,water%20and%20harming%20natural%20ecosystems.

What is sportswashing? PGA Tour-LIV golf merger latest attempt by Saudi Arabia to become global sports leader

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/golf/news/sportswashing-pga-tour-liv-golf-merger-saudi-arabia/ztq8cmgar21l3e3yt9ueer4d

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The one where we interview Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist specializing in investigating online disinformation, conspiracy theories and extremism at the BBC World Service and BBC Monitoring.

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Why some people are spreading false rumours about the Texas gunman

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65539698

Elon Musk: I will say what I want even if it costs me

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65609927

Ukraine war: Viral conspiracy theories falsely claim the war is fake

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64789737

'TikTok is having a bad war,' say disinformation experts

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/tiktok-is-having-a-bad-war-say-disinformation-experts.946516

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The one where we are joined by Journalist Robert Silverman to talk about the lack of a protest response to Trump's indictment, as well as Fox's curious choices of chyron, and MAGA's newfound sobriety.

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The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/rim-fire-california-wildfire-true-story-1234766956/

In Miami, the Only Violence From Trump Supporters Was Rhetorical

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/politics/trump-protests-proud-boys.html

That Time Donald Trump Promised "Food for Everyone" at Versailles

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/restaurants/donald-trump-visits-versailles-cuban-restaurant-in-miami-after-federal-indictment-17198756

Fox News producer behind Biden ‘wannabe dictator’ chyron resigns

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/16/fox-news-wannabe-dictator-producer-alexander-mccaskill

Fox News Slammed for Celebrating Pride Month—'Woke Bandwagon'

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-woke-pride-lgbtq-boycott-1804912

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The one where we talk about Charlie Kirk and "The Lord's" TPUSA's plan to build a white nation, how anyone can swallow a red pill, the Tate Brothers charged, and Fox called Biden a "Wannabe Dictator"

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Charlie Kirk tells the "Young Women's Leadership Summit": "Most importantly please become a wife and start a family" | Media Matters for America

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-tells-young-womens-leadership-summit-most-importantly-please-become-wife

Madeline Peltz's thread on Twitter

https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1668006720642375680

The Racist 'Great Replacement' Conspiracy Theory Explained | Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/05/17/racist-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-explained

A Star Reporter's Break With Reality

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/lara-logan-60-minutes-correspondent-conspiracy-theories/674168/

Romanian prosecutors change human trafficking charge against Andrew Tate | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romanian-prosecutors-change-human-trafficking-charge-against-andrew-tate-2023-06-13/

Fox News Parts Ways With Producer Responsible for ‘Wannabe Dictator’ Chyron

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-parts-ways-with-producer-responsible-for-wannabe-dictator-chyron

Trump greets arraignment with showmanship in bid to upstage charges - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/13/donald-trump-arraignment-day-speech/

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The one where we sit down with Journalist David Neiwert to discuss his new book, "The Age Of Insurrection", about the Extremist Right's assault on Democracy, and what we can do to fight back.

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The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720886/the-age-of-insurrection-by-david-neiwert/

David's Twitter. Go follow him if you're not already.

https://twitter.com/davidneiwert

David Neiwert on The Lincoln Project Podcast

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The one where we talk with Neurologist Dr. Jonathan Howard about the recent harassment of Dr. Peter Hotez, as well as the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and the antivax hysteria gripping the world.

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WE WANT THEM INFECTED How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID

https://www.jonathanhowardmd.com

The Pandemic As Spectacle

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pandemic-as-spectacle/

Steve Kirsch and Brandolini’s law

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/steve-kirsch-and-brandolinis-law/

“Their Plan is Incongruent With My Existence”

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/their-plan-is-incongruent-with-my-existence/

Why Peter Hotez Should Not Debate RFK Jr. On The Joe Rogan Experience

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/06/26/why-peter-hotez-should-not-debate-rfk-jr-on-the-joe-rogan-experience/?sh=4a7f78d44fa0

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Did Nothing Wrong is a weekly podcast about politics at the intersection of extremists, propaganda and Cold War 2.0. You can find us at DidNothingWrongPod.com and on all major podcast platforms

The one where we speak with Journalist Robert Silverman about the latest terrible rulings to come down from the Leo/McConnell Court, as well as Elon Musk's need for validation from internet randos.

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The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction

https://newrepublic.com/article/174048/supreme-court-doesnt-care-gay-wedding-website-case-based-fiction

Supreme Court strikes down Biden student-loan forgiveness program

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-program/

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Award-winning legal journalist Chris Geidner's independent newsletter.

Feds Seized a Fortune From #Resistance Icons Accused of Boosting Online ‘Ponzi Schemes’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-seized-a-fortune-from-resistance-icons-accused-of-boosting-online-ponzi-schemes

"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!"

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

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The one where we talk about the GOP's L on state elections, the fight between white nationalists in Oregon, the latest antisemitic remarks from a GOP campaign staffer, and much more!

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The Independent State Legislature Theory Read on to learn about the independent state legislature theory and what was at stake in the U.S Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper.

https://www.democracydocket.com/isl/

How it started for the Gateway Pundit.

https://archive.li/jZcKH

How it's going for the Gateway Pundit.

https://archive.li/o28rW

2 arrested during brawl between Proud Boys, nationalists protesting Oregon City Pride, police and witness say

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/06/2-arrested-during-brawl-between-proud-boys-nationalists-protesting-oregon-city-pride-police-and-witness-say.html

GOP Lawmakers Side With Proud Boys After Their Wild Brawl With Neo-Nazis

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmakers-push-pro-proud-boys-conspiracy-theory-after-wild-brawl-with-neo-nazis

This Week In Fascism #133: Communities Continue To Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks As New Fascist Formations Emerge

https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/

Did Nothing Wrong Pod Episode 63

Exclusive — Rising Conservative Influencer Pedro Gonzalez Regularly Espoused Racist and Anti-Semitic Sentiments in Private Messages

https://archive.is/mu0C7

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-miller-donald-trump-immigrants-1234778491/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-miller-donald-trump-immigrants-1234778491/

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The one where we review Jim Caviezel's new movie, recap the Charlie Kirk/Fox News drama, and fact-check Tucker's Carlson's interview with Andrew "Cobra" Tate.

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U.S. Republicans’ Favorite Summer Blockbuster Flirts With Antisemitic QAnon Blood Libel

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-07-13/ty-article/.premium/u-s-republicans-favorite-summer-blockbuster-flirts-with-antisemitic-qanon-blood-libel/00000189-4e51-db66-afbb-4f7db86c0000

When ‘Jesus’ Came to Q: Holy war, the Storm, and the thin line between reality and theater.

https://www.thebulwark.com/when-jesus-came-to-q/

Fox News Goes Cold on MAGA Youth Org TPUSA

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-goes-cold-on-maga-youth-org-turning-point-usa

Tucker Carlson Interviewed Alleged Human Trafficker Andrew Tate For His Failing Twitter Show

https://angrywhitemen.org/2023/07/12/tucker-carlson-interviewed-alleged-human-trafficker-andrew-tate-for-his-failing-twitter-show/

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The one where we talk about Nick Fuentes's recent appearance on the Fresh and Fit podcast, Destiny, Antisemitism, YouTube, and Big Tech's lack of pushback.

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‘Fresh & Fit Podcast’ Lets Nick Fuentes Spew Hours Of Bigotry

https://angrywhitemen.org/2023/07/10/fresh-fit-podcast-lets-nick-fuentes-spew-hours-of-bigotry/

The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’

https://nypost.com/2023/06/09/controversial-podcaster-myron-gaines-is-the-next-andrew-tate/

Kick signs Destiny under new 7-figure contract with “two big conditions”

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/kick-signs-destiny-under-new-7-figure-contract-with-two-big-conditions-2192169/

Robert Jay Mathews, founder of the white-supremacist group The Order, is killed during an FBI siege on Whidbey Island on December 8, 1984.

https://www.historylink.org/File/7921

Episode 32 - Nick Fuentes's Permanent Record

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Sources cited:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argues that the Republican Party stole the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.

https://charlierose.com/videos/21051

RFK’s sex…

The one where we talk with Freelance Journalist and Researcher Teddy Wilson from Radical Reports about the current state of the far right, the importance of fact checking, who inspires him, and more.

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The one where we talk with journalist Robert Silverman about Elon's latest idiocy, as well as the recent video from the DeSantis Campaign, and much more!

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The one where we talk with Journalist Robert Silverman about Trump's indictment(s), the disturbing trend towards campaigns signaling to Nazis, and PizzaGate gets reheated and served up again.

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The one where we talk with Matt and Tawni Browning, authors of the book "The Hate Next Door -Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy" and founders of the Supremacist Intelligence Network.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

Former Mesa police officer recalls working undercover to take down white supremacists in Arizona

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/former-mesa-police-officer-recalls-working-undercover-to-take-down-white-supremacists-in-arizona

‘The Hate Next Door:’ Taking on the most dangerous white supremacists in Arizona

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/07/12/hate-next-door-taking-most-dangerous-white-supremacists-arizona/

Undercover Inside Hate Groups with Matson and Tawni Browning

https://www.sharonmcmahon.com/blog/undercover-inside-hate-groups-with-matson-and-tawni-browning

Matt and Tawni's website

https://www.mattandtawni.com

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The one where we talk with Journalist Robert Silverman about Richard Hanania's racist past(and present), Nick Fuentes's latest Twitter ban, and the Right's hatred of women's soccer.

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The one where we talk with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hannah Gais about the latest Groyper on a mainstream GOP campaign, as well as her experiences writing about other extremist groups.

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MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE EMPLOYED WHITE NATIONALIST COLLABORATOR

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/08/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-employed-white-nationalist-collaborator

HOW A WHITES-ONLY GROUP PLANS TO TURN RURAL TENNESSEE INTO ITS HOMELAND

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/06/15/how-whites-only-group-plans-turn-rural-tennessee-its-homeland

LEAKED CHATS, DOCUMENTS SHOW ATOMWAFFEN FOUNDER'S PATH TO TERROR PLOT

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/23/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot

PROLIFIC ALT-RIGHT PROPAGANDIST'S IDENTITY CONFIRMED

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/05/01/prolific-alt-right-propagandists-identity-confirmed

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The one where we talk about the deliberate disinformation campaigns around the fires in Maui, the "Fight" between two truly ridiculous people, what we can learn about MAGA from the AFD, and much more.

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The one where we talk with Friend of the Pod Jared Holt about the FBI shooting in Utah, the latest Hunter Biden nonsense, and Andy Ngo's failed lawsuit against "ANTIFA".

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

Jared Holt's Institute for Strategic Dialogue bio

https://www.isdglobal.org/isd_team/jared-holt/

Utah man killed by FBI agents after he allegedly made threats against Biden ahead of president’s visit

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/fbi-utah-man-joe-biden/index.html

Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant

https://apnews.com/article/utah-biden-fbi-assassination-threat-ba3cc1d3b2f6cca8bd429febdcf04219

The MAGA Right Has a New Martyr in Utah Man Gunned Down By FBI

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/craig-robertson-fbi-utah-joe-biden-maga-1234804746/

Garland appoints Weiss as Special Counsel in Hunter Biden inquiry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/garland-weiss-hunter-biden-special-counsel.html

Jury Rules Against Andy Ngo in Activist Lawsuit

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2023/08/09/46651345/jury-rules-against-andy-ngo-in-activist-lawsuit

Right-wing publications launder an anti-journalist smear campaign

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/quillette-antifa-journalist-smear-campaign.php

Right-Wing Outlets Keep Relying On A Racist Troll Posing As A Researcher

https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/06/16/right-wing-outlets-keep-relying-on-a-racist-troll-posing-as-a-researcher/

Eoin Lenihan Cracks Jokes About AIDS With A White Supremacist In A Recently Unearthed Video

https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/06/20/eoin-lenihan-cracks-jokes-about-aids-with-a-white-supremacist-in-a-recently-unearthed-video/

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The one where we break down the history and future of Trump's most annoying soldier, Laura Loomer.

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The one where we talk with Robert Downen from the Texas Tribune about paid gen Z influencers, white supremacists in Texas, and Trump as a Cyrus figure for the dominionist right.

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Gen Z influencers, quietly recruited by a company with deep GOP ties, rally to impeached Ken Paxton’s aid

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/14/influenceable-texas-politics-ken-paxton/

New allegations against Ken Paxton raise stakes for early votes in impeachment trial

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/17/ken-paxton-impeachment-new-allegations/

New accusations: Ken Paxton used burner phone, secret email account, fake Uber name to hide ties to Nate Paul

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/16/ken-paxton-impeachment-evidence-senate/

Kyle Rittenhouse launches nonprofit with far-right Texans as he ramps up political engagement in the state

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/16/kyle-rittenhouse-texas-foundation/

“Right wing death squad”: What to know about the Allen shooter’s neo-Nazi views

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/08/allen-mall-shooting-right-wing-death-squad/

Trump vows retribution at Waco rally: “I am your warrior, I am your justice”

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/25/donald-trump-waco-rally-retribution-justice/

Trump supporters, including Branch Davidian leader, undeterred by looming legal woes

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/25/donald-trump-waco-rally-indictment/

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The one where we discuss the recent shooting in San Bernardino over a shop owner's display of a Pride flag, and Alex Jones's invention of an imaginary threat that he can "defeat"

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The one where we talk with video game designer Luc Bernard about the Holocaust Museum in Fortnite, and why Nick Fuentes and his idiot fans got so upset about it.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

At Holocaust Museum in Fortnite, Superheroes and Atrocities Collide

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/arts/design/fortnite-holocaust-museum.html

How a Holocaust Museum Ended Up in Fortnite

https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/holocaust-museum-fortnite-luc-bernard/

Nick Fuentes Unleashes Antisemitic Mob on Developer of Online Holocaust Museum

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2023-08-14/ty-article/.premium/nick-fuentes-unleashes-antisemitic-mob-on-developer-of-online-holocaust-museum/00000189-f3c2-d387-afaf-f3dba0ae0000

Jewish Game Dev Luc Bernard Defends Epic After Fortnite Listed As Worst Game For Antisemitism

https://www.thegamer.com/luc-bernard-interview-epic-games-antisemitism-adl/

The Light in the Darkness - Official Developer Gameplay Commentary

ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt Praises Elon Musk as a Modern Henry Ford, Then Reconsiders

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2022-10-09/ty-article/.premium/adls-jonathan-greenblatt-praises-elon-musk-as-a-modern-henry-ford-then-reconsiders/00000183-bdba-dc37-adfb-bdfb4b330000

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The one where we discuss how a 9th grade dropout from Chicago used the ONE WEIRD TRICK of being the most confidently incorrect man in any room to build a media empire.

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We talk to the founder of the Institute of Unreality, Karl Folk, about the Post-Truth world we’re in, who’s making it worse, and how we go about determining and reclaiming the “Truth”.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

The Institute of Unreality

https://www.instituteofunreality.com

THE WEAPONIZED UNREAL

https://www.instituteofunreality.com/dispatches/primer

ANATOMY OF NEW RIGHT INFORMATION WARFARE:

https://www.instituteofunreality.com/dispatches/anatomy-of-a-new-right-hate-campaign

The Hidden Author of Putinism: How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hidden-author-putinism-russia-vladislav-surkov/382489/

How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality

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We discuss Cassandra Fairbanks (MacDonald), the anarchist firebrand turned white nationalist media gatekeeper, who's living proof that Horseshoe Theory is real.

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We talk with Steven Monacelli from the Texas Observer about the rise of Christian Supremacists, astroturfed activist groups, "Feds", the fall and rise of the Birchers, and more

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

THESE CHRISTIANS THINK GOD NEEDS YOU RICH AND TO RULE THE WORLD

https://www.texasobserver.org/these-christians-think-god-needs-you-rich-and-to-rule-the-world/

GOD’S ARMY GATHERS IN FORT WORTH

https://www.texasobserver.org/gods-army-gathers-in-fort-worth/

Flyers Threatening White HP Parents Who Send Their Kids to the Ivy League Reek of Fakeness

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/whos-behind-dallas-justice-nows-dont-send-white-kids-to-ivy-league-controversy-12098228

Conservative PR Firm Linked to Black Lives Matter Hoax That Fooled Right-Wing Press

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/08/02/conservative-pr-firm-linked-to-black-lives-matter-hoax-fools-right-wing-press/

Operator of 'Keep Dallas Safe' Campaign Linked to 'Astroturf' Scheme in New Orleans

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/anonymous-political-group-keep-dallas-safe-managed-by-former-astroturf-operator-11983637

HOMEGROWN NEO-FASCIST MOVEMENT MARCHES IN AUSTIN

https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/

THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY SEES A RENAISSANCE IN NORTH TEXAS

https://www.texasobserver.org/the-john-birch-society-sees-a-renaissance-in-north-texas/

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The one about Charlie Kirk. We break down his various projects, ridicule his electoral politics skills, and discuss his "Professor Watchlist" with someone who ended up on it, Dr. Alexander Reid Ross.

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We talk with Mike "Poker and Politics" Rains about the QAnon Movement, the direction it's going in 2024, and the people of "BlueAnon" who are making it worse.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

Adventures in HellwQrld Podcast by Poker And Politics

https://shows.acast.com/hellwqrld

The r/QAnonCasualties SubReddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/

Mike Rains at Global Network on Extremism and Technology

https://gnet-research.org/author/mike-rains/

Exposing Q: Revealing the racism, failed predictions, and stupidity of the leader of QAnon

https://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Revealing-racism-predictions-stupidity-ebook/dp/B09SHRW8LK

My Feet Are Awful And Bad

https://www.gofundme.com/f/my-feet-are-awful-bad

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We talk with Alexander Reid Ross about fascist infiltration, what it's like to be on an enemies list, and what we can do to make things better going forward.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

Against the Fascist Creep: Alexander Reid Ross

https://www.akpress.org/against-the-fascist-creep.html

Nazis Fail In Attempt To Shut Down “Against The Fascist Creep” Author Talk At Potter’s House

https://itsgoingdown.org/nazis-fail-attempt-shut-fascist-creep-author-talk-potters-house/

Clark Brothers Accused of Planning Race War Followed Alt-Right Heroes

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clark-brothers-accused-of-planning-race-war-followed-alt-right-figures-richard-spencer-jack-posobiec

Scheming D.C. Neo-Nazis Resurface Jack Posobiec’s Alt-Right Past

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/scheming-d-c-neo-nazis-resurface-jack-posobiecs-alt-right-past/

THE MULTIPOLAR SPIN: HOW FASCISTS OPERATIONALIZE LEFT-WING RESENTMENT

https://hummusforthought.com/2018/03/16/the-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment/

KOIN TV - CBS Portland: PSU professor talks history between white nationalist groups and Antifa

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We sit down with Richmond, VA activist Goad Gatsby to discuss Andy Ngo's latest idiocy, confronting fascists, and how groups like Patriot Front are still not feds.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

Goad Gatsby, Citizen journalist and activist

https://m.styleweekly.com/richmond/goad-gatsby-36/Content?oid=18592594

One Hipster's Battle Against the Confederate Flaggers

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/396503/hipsters-battle-against-confederate-flaggers/

And stay out: Cantwell pleads guilty, banned from Virginia for five years

https://www.c-ville.com/cantwell-pleads-guilty

My year of following fringe political movements led me to Amanda Chase

https://www.virginiascope.com/my-year-following-fringe-political-movements-led-me-to-amanda-chase/

Jury Rules Against Andy Ngo in Activist Lawsuit

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2023/08/09/46651345/jury-rules-against-andy-ngo-in-activist-lawsuit

Right-wing "journalist" Andy Ngo outed: Video shows him hanging out with far-right hate group

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-ngo-outed-video-shows-him-hanging-out-with-far-right-hate-group/

‘This is why you arm yourselves’ wrote alleged Portland mass shooter on an Andy Ngo YouTube video

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/portand-shooter-andy-ngo-youtube-comment/

Review: Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends antifa’s the real enemy

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-02-08/andy-ngo-new-book-still-pretends-antifa-real-enemy

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We take a look at Chaya Raichik/Libs of TikTok's Permanent Record of Stochastic Terrorism.

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Boston Children's Hospital warns employees over far-right online harassment campaign

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/boston-childrens-hospital-warns-employees-far-right-online-harassment-rcna43376

Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-threats-hospitals-libs-of-tiktok/

Woman pleads guilty to making hoax bomb threat against Boston Children's

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/woman-pleads-guilty-to-making-hoax-bomb-threat-against-boston-childrens/3147446/

Libs of TikTok suspended from Twitter in wake of Children’s National Hospital audio recording

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/libs-of-tiktok-childrens-national-hospital/

Libs Of TikTok post instigates another round of bomb threats

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/09/25/libs-of-tiktok-post-instigates-another-round-of-bomb-threats/

How Libs of TikTok Became an Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Machine

https://www.them.us/story/libs-of-tik-tok-twitter-facebook-instagram-explained-childrens-hospitals-grooming

Libs of TikTok - Media Matters Archive

https://www.mediamatters.org/search?search=libs+of+tiktok

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We talk to Kelly Weill from the Daily Beast about conspiracies, cop cities, and GOP Congressional staffers.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

Kelly Weill at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/kelly-weill

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kelly-weill/off-the-edge/9781643753379/

‘Stop Cop City’ Activists Hit With RICO Charges By Same Grand Jury That Indicted Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-cop-city-activists-hit-with-rico-charges-by-same-georgia-grand-jury-that-indicted-trump?ref=author

Is California’s ‘Cop Campus’ the Next Cop City Fight?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-californias-cop-campus-the-next-cop-city-fight?ref=author

Mom Left, Kelly's newsletter about the intersection of parenthood and politics

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We have a conversation with Karl Folk about the "Dirtbag Left", nihilism, and building a better future. Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: 

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We sit down with Katie McHugh, who walked away from the center of the Alt Right and has been helping to fight them ever since. We’re also joined by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Michael Edison Hayden to talk about his experiences working with Katie, and how she’s been an invaluable part of the fight against White Nationalism since walking away.

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Here are some of the sources and references we used to create this episode:

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL INVOLVED IN WHITE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT, HATEWATCH DETERMINES

https://www.splcenter.org/gebert

STEPHEN MILLER’S AFFINITY FOR WHITE NATIONALISM REVEALED IN LEAKED EMAILS

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails

Leaked Stephen Miller emails show Trump’s point man on immigration promoted white nationalism, SPLC reports

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/12/leaked-stephen-miller-emails-suggest-trumps-point-man-immigration-promoted-white-nationalism/

More Miller “hate group” emails leak as former reporter claims media hid "racist screeds" for years

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/14/more-miller-hate-group-emails-leak-as-former-reporter-claims-media-hid-racist-screeds-for-years/

Can You Ever Trust a Former White Nationalist?

https://politicalresearch.org/2022/05/11/can-you-ever-trust-former-white-nationalist

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We discuss the MAGA attempts to make Jim Jordan House Speaker, and what that says about the state of Democracy.

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We talk with Mike Senters about the far right's use of language and concepts to increase radicalization in online spaces.

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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262529877/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/

Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars-9781635578638/

Episode 70 - Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and Fact Checking with Shayan Sardarizade

Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC Verify

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65650822

Popular Vtuber Pikamee Retires Following Hogwarts Legacy Controversy

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/popular-vtuber-pikamee-retires-following-165000900.html

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We are joined by Christoper Mathias from the Huffington Post to talk about Richard Hanania, Tucker Carlson, and his forthcoming book, "To Catch a Fascist"

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Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/opinion/richard-hanania-eugenics-billionaires.html

Tucker Carlson Brought TV Racism Into The 21st Century

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-fox-news-racism-great-replacement_n_6446e9cce4b04997b5734f22

Despite widespread rumors about busloads of antifa protesters traveling the country, there is no evidence this is happening.

https://www.adl.org/disinformation-buses-protesters

How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/antifa-rumors-george-floyd-protests

White House ‘antifa’ petition written by pro-Trump troll

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/antifa-white-house-petition-trump-troll-241990

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT 'MICROCHIP,' THE FBI’S FAR-RIGHT JUDAS

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/06/28/what-we-know-about-microchip-fbis-far-right-judas

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We are joined by Bjørn Ihler from Glitterpill and the Khalifa-Ihler Institute to discuss how to promote peace and inclusivity in our communities, and how to reach people with an alternative to hate.

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The Khalifa Ihler Institute

https://www.khalifaihler.org

Glitterpill, "The Counter Terrorism Company"

https://www.glitterpill.io

Bjørn Magnus Jacobsen Ihler - The Forgiveness Project

https://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories-library/bjorn-magnus-jacobsen-ihler/

I Survived a Far Right Terror Attack in 2011. Here’s What We’re Still Getting Wrong About Extremism

https://time.com/5552534/new-zealand-utoya-far-right-extremism/

Mass killer Anders Breivik threatens hunger strike for better video games, end of "torture"

https://www.euronews.com/2014/02/14/far-right-terrorist-breivik-threatens-hunger-strike-for-better-video-games-end-#:~:text=Breivik%20requests%20the%20Playstation%202,35%2Dyear%2Dold%20wrote.

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Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality joins the pod to talk Weaponized Unreality and the Israel/Palestine conflict.

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The Institute of Unreality

https://www.instituteofunreality.com/

Neo-Nazi Groups Are Attempting To Worm Their Way Into Rallies Against The War On Gaza

https://itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazi-groups-are-attempting-to-worm-their-way-into-rallies-against-the-war-on-gaza/

Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zx5a/neo-nazis-hijack-pro-palestine-protest-mike-enoch

THE MULTIPOLAR SPIN: HOW FASCISTS OPERATIONALIZE LEFT-WING RESENTMENT

https://hummusforthought.com/2018/03/16/the-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment/

To Propagandize The West, Lenin Recruited A Corps Of “Useful Idiots

https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/lenin-used-useful-idiots-to-spread-propaganda-to-the-west/

Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference

https://ndupress.ndu.edu/portals/68/documents/stratperspective/inss/strategic-perspectives-11.pdf

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Dr Amanda Rogers joins the podcast to talk about the lasting influence of Tom Metzger, the similarities between the goals of ISIS and White Supremacist propaganda, and how we avoid being played by it.

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Amanda's Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/MsEntropy

A selection of Amanda's writings

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/AmandaRogers

Amanda's Bio at The Century Foundation

https://tcf.org/experts/dr-amanda-e-rogers/

Dismantling White Supremacist Infiltration of the Military and Law Enforcement

https://tcf.org/content/commentary/dismantling-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-the-military-and-law-enforcement/

The Patriot–Terrorist Dichotomy

https://tcf.org/content/commentary/the-patriot-terrorist-dichotomy/

Amanda on The Loopcast

https://www.theloopcast.com/e/the-legacy-and-influence-of-tom-metzger/

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Discussing the shutdown of Jezebel and the future of worker-owned media with with Robert Silverman from the Daily Beast.

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Trailblazing feminist blog Jezebel’s owner says the site has to shut down from a lack of buyers. The writers claim ‘strategic and commercial ineptitude’

https://fortune.com/2023/11/09/jezebel-shut-down-sold-ineptitude/

Jezebel Boss Quits as G/O Media Dumpster Fire Burns On

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jezebel-boss-quits-as-go-media-dumpster-fire-burns-on

This Is How Things Work Now At G/O Media

https://deadspin.com/this-is-how-things-work-now-at-g-o-media-1836908201

Jezebel, the Oral History: ‘There Was This Riotous Sense of Fun’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/style/jezebel-oral-history.html

After Vice’s Downfall, Top Journalists Start Their Own Tech Publication

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/business/media/404-media-vice-motherboard.html

Decline in local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help

https://apnews.com/article/local-newspapers-closing-jobs-3ad83659a6ee070ae3f39144dd840c1

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Writer and activist Elad Nehorai joins the pod to discuss the rising tide of antisemitism, false narratives, and keeping your humanity during inhumane times.

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ELAD NEHORAI Writer. Community Builder. Marketer. Activist.

http://eladnehorai.com

Elad's Substack(GO SUBSCRIBE PLZ)

Elad's Twitter feed(or "X" if we must)

https://twitter.com/EladNehorai

Elon Musk is the most dangerous antisemite in America

https://forward.com/opinion/549819/elon-musk-is-the-most-dangerous-antisemite-in-america/

The Right's Selective Outrage on Antisemitism is a Scam

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rights-selective-outrage-on-antisemitism-is-a-scam?ref=author

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Mike Senters joins the pod to discuss GamerGate and whether the signifigance of those events will ever be fully understood.

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Accused Pelosi hammer attacker David DePape tearfully testifies of bizarre plot

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67411189

Pelosi attacker found guilty after pointing to Gamergate influence at trial

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/at-trial-accused-pelosi-attacker-says-gamergate-led-him-to-far-right-conspiracies/

Gamergate should have armed us against bad actors and bad-faith arguments. It didn’t.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

Meme Wars The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars-9781635578638

The Christchurch Attacks: Livestream Terror in the Viral Video Age

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/christchurch-attacks-livestream-terror-viral-video-age//

The gamer identity cycle and evolution

https://tech.eu/2023/04/16/the-gamer-identity-cycle-and-evolution/#:~:text=Your%20player%20identity%20encompasses%20your,often%20screenshotted%20or%20screen%20captured.

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Spencer Sunshine joins the pod to discuss the legacy of James Mason and SIEGE, calling out antisemitism where it is, and how to keep activism going for the long haul.

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Spencer's Website, with links to his writing and activism

https://spencersunshine.com

Spencer's Patreon(PLEASE GO BUY THIS MAN A BURRITO!)

https://www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

Rebranding fascism: national anarchists - Spencer Sunshine(PDF)

https://files.libcom.org/files/Rebranding%20fascism.pdf

The right hand of Occupy Wall Street: from libertarians to nazis, the fact and fiction of right-wing involvement(Extremely eye-opening if you weren't aware)

https://libcom.org/article/right-hand-occupy-wall-street-libertarians-nazis-fact-and-fiction-right-wing-involvement

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege - By Spencer Sunshine(Preorder Now)

https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

ATOMWAFFEN AND THE SIEGE PARALLAX: HOW ONE NEO-NAZI’S LIFE’S WORK IS FUELING A YOUNGER GENERATION

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/22/atomwaffen-and-siege-parallax-how-one-neo-nazi’s-life’s-work-fueling-younger-generation

James Mason - The SPLC's Extremist File

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason

Looking Left at Antisemitism(PDF)

https://transformativestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Spencer-Sunshine.pdf

Right-Wing Populism in America Too Close for Comfort

https://www.guilford.com/books/Right-Wing-Populism-in-America/Berlet-Lyons/9781572305625

Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/louis-beam-white-supremacy-internet.html

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Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality joins the pod to discuss Destiny, the upcoming movie "Civil War", and how the left can get better at storytelling and world-building.

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Right-wing dating podcast Fresh & Fit embraces Holocaust denial

https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/right-wing-dating-podcast-fresh-fit-embraces-holocaust-denial

What to know about Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist who was just hosted by a major Texas PAC leader

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/10/nick-fuentes-texas-meeting/

Why is Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubling down on conspiracy theories?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67655552

Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, And Ultranationalists Celebrate Republican Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's Claim That 'The Great Replacement Theory' Is Real And Part Of Democratic Party Policy, Claim Vivek Is 'Standing Up For White Men'

https://www.memri.org/dttm/neo-nazis-white-supremacists-and-ultranationalists-celebrate-republican-candidate-vivek

‘Civil War’ Trailer: Kirsten Dunst Reckons With War-Torn America in Alex Garland and A24’s Action Epic

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/civil-war-trailer-kirsten-dunst-war-torn-america-alex-garland-1235835961/

Alex Jones, Roger Stone hit shooting range to prepare for civil war they say would break out if Trump is removed

https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/12/22/alex-jones-roger-stone-hit-shooting-range-to-prepare-for-civil-war-they-say-would-break-out-if-trump-is-removed/

Podcaster Ruthlessly Mocked For Declaring ‘Civil War’ in United States After Trump Charges

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/podcaster-ruthlessly-mocked-for-declaring-civil-war-in-united-states-after-trump-charges/

Reflexive Control The relevance of a 50-year-old Russian theory regarding perception control

https://www.militairespectator.nl/sites/default/files/uitgaven/inhoudsopgave/Militaire%20Spectator%206-2018%20Kamphuis.pdf

JACK POSOBIEC INTERVIEWED A PRO-HITLER DISINFORMATION POSTER ON ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/07/23/jack-posobiec-interviewed-pro-hitler-disinformation-poster-one-america-news-network

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We reveal our person of the year, a.k.a. "The 2023 Did Nothing Wrong Person who Did The Most Nothing Wrong".

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Haley from Arizona Right Wing Watch joins the pod to talk about attending Turning Point USA’s “America Fest”, which is the Parasocial Right's big yearly rinse of their gullible fanbase.

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Arizona Right Wing Watch - Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/AZRWW

Turning Point USA holds AmericaFest 2023 conference in Phoenix

https://www.azcentral.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/arizona/2023/12/18/turning-point-usa-americafest-2023-phoenix-convention-center/71949088007/

Frequent Fox guest Charlie Kirk praises and endorses Tucker Carlson's “replacement” theory

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/frequent-fox-guest-charlie-kirk-praises-and-endorses-tucker-carlsons-replacement

How Colleges Became Recruitment Hubs for the Gen-Z Right

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/colleges-gen-z-right/

Church Militant founder Michael Voris resigns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/11/22/catholic-church-militant-resignation/

Episode 98 - Charlie Kirk's Permanent Record w/ Special Guest Alexander Reid Ross

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Mike Senters joins the Pod to discuss the firing of Harvard President Claudine Gay, as well as Chris Rufo's and the Right's potential next targets.

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Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/3/claudine-gay-resign-harvard/

How We Squeezed Harvard to Push Claudine Gay Out - Conservatives can prevail in the culture wars by understanding how power works, and using it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-we-squeezed-harvard-claudine-gay-firing-dei-antisemitism-culture-war-a6843c4c

Perspective: Did social conservatives go too far in celebrating the fall of Claudine Gay?

https://www.deseret.com/2024/1/4/24025671/christopher-rufo-harvard-claudine-gay-resignation-new-right-manifesto

Crisis communicators face blowback after disastrous college hearing

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/22/college-presidents-debacle-over-antisemitism-hearing-meets-pr-blame-game-00132994

Incel Influencer Sneako’s Young Fans Yell ‘All Gays Should Die’ in Viral Video

https://www.advocate.com/media/disturbing-sneako-video-kids-transphobic

Our Permanent Record episode on Nick Fuentes

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Accused pedophile Ali Alexander is back on the political scene, proving once again that the GOP has no floor. This is his Permanent Record.

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“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander brags that “our perspective” and “fact set” on January 6 is “now being shared, is being taken in consideration”

https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/stop-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-brags-our-perspective-and-fact-set

Did Nothing Wrong Pod #56 - Our interview with Robert Silverman

How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-twitter-ali-alexander-stop-the-steal_n_6026fb26c5b6f88289fbab57

‘New Right’ Activists Pivot Backwards, Share Laughs With ‘Unite The Right’ Demonstrator

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/new-right-activists-pivot-backwards-share-laughs-with-unite-the-right-demonstrator/

Videos show ‘Stop the Steal’ rally organizer saying he would work with extremist groups

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/ali-alexander-january-6-extremists-kfile/index.html

Just Security - January 6 Clearinghouse

https://www.justsecurity.org/77022/january-6-clearinghouse/

‘Stop the Steal’ leader hands over communications with GOP lawmakers to January 6 committee

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/politics/ali-alexander-january-6-investigation-gop-lawmakers/index.html

Ali Alexander and the alt-right feud that finally exploded

https://onlysky.media/ccassidy/ali-alexander-and-the-alt-right-feud-that-finally-exploded/

‘Stop the Steal’ Organizer Apologizes After Being Accused of Asking Teen Boys for D*ck Pics

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-apologizes-after-being-accused-of-asking-teen-boys-for-sexual-pics

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson (1972)

https://notevenpast.org/fear-and-loathing-campaign-trail-72-1972/

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* Charlie Kirk and TPUSA have decided that Martin Luther King is canceled. Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality and I discuss what could possibly have motivated this.

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How Charlie Kirk Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act

https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/

Charlie Kirk: Martin Luther King Jr. “is not worthy of a national holiday. He is not worthy of godlike status. In fact, I think it's really harmful.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-martin-luther-king-jr-not-worthy-national-holiday-he-not-worthy-godlike

Armstrong Williams: Charlie Kirk’s absurd attack on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/01/19/armstrong-williams-charlie-kirks-absurd-attack-on-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/

Tucker Carlson’s top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html

Legal Highlight: The Civil Rights Act of 1964

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/civil-rights-center/statutes/civil-rights-act-of-1964

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The dumbest people keep saying that the White Supremacist group "Patriot Front" are "Feds" and a "Psyop" In this episode, I talk to David Neiwert, to try and get to the bottom of this.

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Patriot Front’s neofascist spread a product of Rousseau’s ‘white nationalist pyramid scheme’

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/2/2120505/-Behind-a-neofascist-fa-ade-Patriot-Front-is-really-just-another-white-nationalist-pyramid-scheme

Data leak gives an inside look at neofascist Patriot Front: Clownish operations with military edge

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/2/2078346/-Data-leak-gives-an-inside-look-at-neofascist-Patriot-Front-clownish-operations-with-military-edge

PATRIOT FRONT MEMBER JAILED IN TEXAS FOLLOWING IDAHO ARREST

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/07/11/patriot-front-member-jailed-texas-following-idaho-arrest

Elon Musk Feeds Viral Conspiracy Theory That Patriot Front Actually ‘Feds’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2024/01/20/elon-musk-feeds-viral-conspiracy-theory-that-patriot-front-actually-feds/?sh=53a9bf2b10f3

Joe Rogan Doubts White Supremacist March: 'Where's the Fat People?'

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-doubts-white-supremacist-march-wheres-fat-people-1800468

Shawn Vestal: Yes, Elon, the Patriot Front was unmasked in Coeur d’Alene

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jan/23/shawn-vestal-yes-elon-the-patriot-front-was-unmask/

The Age of Insurrection - THE RADICAL RIGHT'S ASSAULT ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By David Neiwert

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720886/the-age-of-insurrection-by-david-neiwert/

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Journalist Claire Goforth joins the pod to discuss her new four part series "Naziland", about how white nationalists are attempting to infiltrate communities, and how the residents are fighting back.

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Naziland - A four-part series examining right-wing radicals’ impact on communities nationwide

https://www.dailydot.com/naziland/

Anti-immigration power couple has big plans to shape U.S. laws—from their castle in West Virginia

https://www.dailydot.com/news/vdare-white-nationalists-peter-lydia-brimelow-berkeley-castle/

VDARE - The SPLC Extremist Flie

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare

‘You have to take the little towns first’: White nationalism infiltrates Idaho Republicans, where the ‘Christian Taliban’ is gaining influence

https://www.dailydot.com/news/idaho-white-nationalism/

KEENAN V. ARYAN NATIONS - The case that bankrupted a notorious hate group

https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/keenan-v-aryan-nations

OPINION: The extremist branch of Idaho’s GOP is producing a moving experience

https://cdapress.com/news/2024/feb/01/opinion-the-extremist-branch-of-idahos-gop-is-producing-a-moving-experience/

Idaho's traditional Republicans realizing their new far-right transplant overlords are radicals

‘He knows when to use humor; he can be very friendly and nice’: The neo-Nazi up the road

https://www.dailydot.com/news/chris-pohlhaus-blood-tribe-maine/

Maine Wants These Nazi Squatters Gone

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone

‘They do have blood on their hands. And they will have more’: Why Florida is a sunny haven for white nationalists

https://www.dailydot.com/news/florida-white-nationalism-jon-minadeo/

Neo-Nazi Litterbug Is Spending Thanksgiving in the Slammer

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jon-minadeo-neo-nazi-goyim-defense-league-leader-jail-1234894095/

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The Republican Party has some serious issues going into the 2024 elections. Ross wrote a really brilliant essay about it, and we discuss it in this episode.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

The Republican Party is Falling Apart, and Nobody’s Noticing

https://themedianvoterderogatory.wordpress.com

Ross on Twitter

https://x.com/merovingians

Democrats hold vast fundraising advantage as Republicans face cash problems, disarray in crucial swing states

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-hold-vast-fundraising-advantage-republicans-face-cash-problems-disarray-crucial-swing-states

Multiple State Republican Parties Are Going Broke

https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-state-republican-parties-going-broke-1858680

Election results point to major GOP liability on abortion heading into 2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/election-results-point-major-gop-liability-abortion-heading-2024-rcna123103

Can DSA Go the Distance?

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-dsa-go-the-distance/

US: DSA and the Democratic Party

https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article7819

It’s Party Time: As socialists, we need to help decide who runs the Democratic Party.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/its-party-time/

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Journalist Daniel Walters joins the pod to talk about the recent Patriot Front trial in Idaho, as well as schisms in the far right, and the idea of redemption and paths forward after leaving hate.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Daniel Walters at InvestigateWest

https://www.invw.org/author/danielw/

Daniel Walters at The Inlander

https://www.inlander.com/author/daniel-walters

How Local Idaho Prosecutors Lost The Case Against Patriot Front’s White Nationalist Leader

https://www.invw.org/2024/02/08/how-local-idaho-prosecutors-lost-the-case-against-patriot-fronts-white-nationalist-leader/

Manufacturing Fear Spokane's Republican sheriff says members of his own party are dangerously dividing people

https://www.inlander.com/news/manufacturing-fear-2534837

A new report accusing state Rep. Matt Shea of 'domestic terrorism' shrinks his number of supporters, but also stokes their fervor

https://www.inlander.com/news/a-new-report-accusing-state-rep-matt-shea-of-domestic-terrorism-shrinks-his-number-of-supporters-but-also-stokes-their-fervor-18804117

The Bundyville Podcast by Leah Sottile

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville

Kicked Out Of The Proud Boys, A Portland Neo-Nazi Launched His Own Group — And He’s Gone To War With His Former Allies

https://www.invw.org/2023/10/25/kicked-out-of-the-proud-boys-a-portland-neo-nazi-launched-his-own-group-and-hes-gone-to-war-with-his-former-allies/

Skinhead convicted in racial attack

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/12/14/Skinhead-convicted-in-racial-attack/8044598078800/

The Wizard of Spokane

https://www.inlander.com/news/the-wizard-of-spokane-2271516

A tech executive from San Diego wanders the streets of Spokane with one mission — find his son

https://www.inlander.com/news/a-tech-executive-from-san-diego-wanders-the-streets-of-spokane-with-one-mission-find-his-son-25892369

Let my aged wisdom and accrued cynicism guide you, young reporter

https://www.inlander.com/culture/let-my-aged-wisdom-and-accrued-cynicism-guide-you-young-reporter-26090105

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Dakota Adams is the son of the founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, who was recently convicted of Seditious Conspiracy. He and I discuss growing up in the militia world, and much more.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Deprogram An inside perspective on militias, extremism, and domestic terrorism.

EXCLUSIVE: OATH KEEPERS LEADER STEWART RHODES' CHILDREN SPEAK

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/05/12/exclusive-oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes-children-speak

Stewart Rhodes' son: ‘How I escaped my father’s militia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63709446

Jury convicts Oath Keepers leader of seditious conspiracy

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict-00071248

Operation Vampire Killer 2000 : American police action plan for stopping the program for world government rule.

https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/79f30599-76ff-4e55-b25f-f012a44d4e4e

Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician

https://longreads.com/2019/07/18/bundyville-the-remnant-chapter-four-the-preacher-and-the-politician/

An oath of his own: Stewart Rhodes' son takes GOP criticisms to the campaign trail

https://helenair.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/stewart-rhodes-dakota-adams-montana-militia-legislature-ryan-busse-neil-duram/article_9182dd06-a5ae-11ee-a090-ef329928529d.html

Dakota Adams - ActBlue

https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/154110

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Jacob Ware is a Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a professor at Georgetown University. He and I discuss his book, "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America".

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Jacob Ware - Council on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org/expert/jacob-ware

God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/god-guns-and-sedition/9780231558808

How ‘The Turner Diaries’ Incites White Supremacists

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books/turner-diaries-white-supremacists.html

Louis Beam:

An iconic figure of the radical right, Louis Beam played a key role in shaping the revolutionary racist movement in the United States during the three decades following the Vietnam War as one of its principal theorists and strategists.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/louis-beam

Vietnamese Fisherman's Suit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/05/09/vietnamese-fishermans-suit/bbdb1c87-0bfc-4944-be06-79afc4394dd5/

High-Tech Network for Extremists

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1986/11/04/high-tech-network-for-extremists/0599bf92-3bed-4888-946f-3aedee3b4351/

UNDERGROUND' OF RACIST LEADERS COORDINATED CRIMES, FBI TAPS SHOW

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/12/28/underground-of-racist-leaders-coordinated-crimes-fbi-taps-show/62f58121-547e-4a96-8e41-79ccb88b1846/

13 WHITE SUPREMACISTS ACQUITTED IN ARKANSAS MURDER AND SEDITION TRIAL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/08/13-white-supremacists-acquitted-in-arkansas-murder-and-sedition-trial/21c30cbe-c120-40ac-8fec-33420d1b0d2e/

TERRORISM'S NEW PROFILE: THE LONE WOLF

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/07/22/terrorisms-new-profile-the-lone-wolf/3dff71da-cddc-4014-b578-347b667a83af/

Hatemongers make their voices heard

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/aug/26/onlinesupplement

Oklahoma City bombing: 20 years later, key questions remain unanswered

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/oklahoma-city-bombing-20-years-later-key-questions-remain-unanswered

Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/louis-beam-white-supremacy-internet.html

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Friends of the Pod Amanda Moore and Samantha Kutner return to discuss some of the challenges and obstacles that they and other women in the Journalism and CVE space are grappling with.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Amanda's Substack

Amanda Moore's links

https://linktr.ee/noturtlesoup17

Amanda Moore at The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/authors/amanda-moore/

I Was Banned From CPAC, but the Extremists Weren’t

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cpac-far-right-nazis/

Undercover With the New Alt-Right

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/undercover-maga-alt-right/

The Plan Was Simple: Infiltrate MAGA World and Tell Everyone What She Saw. Then She Was Found Out.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/amanda-moore-undercover-maga/

Samantha's Website

https://proudboyswhisperer.com

Samantha's Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/TheGlitterpillCommunity

Samantha’s Upcoming Events

Samantha Kutner is partnering with Red Wine and Blue  for an Instagram Livestream on March 21st 12pm EST on her instagram to promote Episode 4: Turning Point USA: The Alt-Right Radicalization of Young Men.

This episode is part of a limited series podcast with Red Wine and Blue and will be released on March 20th, 2024. 

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On this episode, I'm joined by Mike Senters and Andy Vitek to talk about this latest controversy about "Wokeness" in the gaming world that some are calling "Gamergate 2".

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Andrew Vitek: Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science and Director, Counterterrorism Option

https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/auv434/

Sweet Baby Inc.

https://sweetbabyinc.com/

Sweet Baby Inc. Doesn’t Do What Some Gamers Think It Does

https://kotaku.com/sweet-baby-inc-consulting-games-alan-wake-2-dei-1851312428

A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of 'anti-woke' gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-company-called-sweet-baby-inc-has-become-the-target-of-anti-woke-gamers-because-it-offers-consultancy-work-an-industry-standard-service-thats-been-normal-for-years/

Spider-Man, Alan Wake, Ridiculous Fishing devs speak up in support of consultancy studio Sweet Baby Inc

https://www.eurogamer.net/spider-man-alan-wake-ridiculous-fishing-devs-speak-up-in-support-of-consultancy-studio-sweet-baby-inc

What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

It’s 10 years since Gamergate – the industry must now stand up to far-right trolls

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/mar/08/gamergate-trolls-woke-game-consultants

DNW Episode 127 - God, Guns, and Sedition w/Jacob Ware

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Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality joins the pod to discuss what a sociologist sees when looking at political signs in the Midwestern USA.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Right-wing conspiracy theory politics grip Sequim, a small Washington coastal town

https://www.kuow.org/stories/right-wing-conspiracy-theories-grip-politics-in-sequim

The Town That QAnon Nearly Swallowed

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sequim-qanon/

The True Story of the Antifa Invasion of Forks, Washington

https://www.wired.com/story/antifa-social-media-rumor-forks-washington/

Newhouse’s primary success rare among GOP impeachment voters

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-presidential-washington-9c4ce99101655b16c8ef5a8b9c7c76e0

The Institute of Unreality

https://www.instituteofunreality.com

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In this episode, Jay McKenzie rejoins the pod to talk about the man who is probably the biggest stumbling block to a resolution to the horrible situation in Gaza.

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For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

Russia, China veto U.S. Security Council resolution on Gaza cease-fire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/22/israel-gaza-security-council-resolution/

The corruption and autocracy nexus: The case of “King Bibi”

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-corruption-and-autocracy-nexus-the-case-of-king-bibi/

Israeli Supreme Court strikes down Bibi's controversial judicial overhaul law

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/01/israel-supreme-court-judicial-overhaul-netanyahu-gaza

Reports: Judges in Netanyahu trial tell prosecution bribery charge has little chance

https://www.timesofisrael.com/reports-judges-in-netanyahu-trial-tell-prosecution-bribery-charge-has-little-chance/

Golan Heights: Israel unveils 'Trump Heights' settlement

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48656431

Schumer’s speech meets Biden-Bibi call

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/03/18/schumers-speech-meets-biden-bibi-call-00147619

From ‘I Love You’ to ‘Asshole’: How Joe Gave Up on Bibi

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/22/biden-netanyahu-friendship-pressure-campaign-00148328

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Robert Downen from the Texas Tribune joins me once again to discuss the massive rightward political shift in Texas, white nationalists, the secessionist movement, and the billionaires who pay for it.

Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

Amid white supremacist scandal, far-right billionaire powerbrokers see historic election gains in Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/08/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-defend-texas-liberty-election/ 

Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/02/texas-gop-antisemitism-resolution/

Influential Texas activist Jonathan Stickland hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes at office near Fort Worth

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/08/nick-fuentes-kyle-rittenhouse-jonathan-stickland/ 

Live from the Republic of Texas

Nick Fuentes is just the latest white supremacist embraced by Defend Texas Liberty

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/23/defend-texas-liberty-nick-fuentes-jonathan-stickland/

Texas state Rep. Jonathan Stickland resigns from hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/06/jonathan-stickland-resigns-texas-house-freedom-caucus/

Texas secessionists feel more emboldened than ever

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/15/texas-secession-texit/

Texas, California Separatists Attend Kremlin-Funded Conference

https://abcnews.go.com/International/texas-california-separatists-attend-pro-kremlin-conference/story?id=42395066

Texas secession was a key theme in Russian disinformation campaign during 2016 elections, report says

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/12/17/texas-secession-russia-disinformation-2016-social-media-new-knowledge/

Alexander Ionov case: US charges Russian with interfering in US politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62359884

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