Sometime this week in an undisclosed location, two powerful figures sat down for tense negotiations, hoping to end a cold war that had, in recent days, turned very hot. The talks were not a success, with one participant dubbing some of what the other side presented as “fake and gay.” Tensions, it’s fair to say, […]
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MAGA Is Eating Itself Alive Read Post »
Not long ago, plagiarist-turned-MAGA-influencer Benny Johnson stood in a parking garage underneath Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem emerged; the two embraced, then loaded into SUVs to drive outside the city to ICE’s Broadview detainment facility. Johnson filmed the road in front of him for a video, which he posted […]
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How Benny Johnson Went From BuzzFeed Plagiarist to MAGA’s Chief Content Creator Read Post »
There are sensitive ways to interview a bereaved person, and intelligent ways to interview the CEO of a powerful and socially consequential political organization. When the two improbably overlap, as they do in the figure of Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, the wife of assassinated TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk, things become a lot more […]
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In Her New Media Ascent, Erika Kirk Whitewashes Her Husband’s Legacy Read Post »
On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin begged her followers to step outside, sing together, and wait, at last, for the aliens. Things hadn’t been going well for Martin, the leader of a small UFO-based religious movement usually known as the Seekers. She had previously told her followers that, […]
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It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie? Read Post »
Late last week, the X social media platform rolled out a new “location indicator” tool, plans for which had first been announced in October. Suddenly, it became much easier to get information on where in the world the site’s users are actually posting from, theoretically helping to illuminate inauthentic behavior, including attempted foreign influence. “It […]
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Twitter’s Foreign Influence Problem Is Nothing New Read Post »
In an interview published Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times that he’d personally directed the CDC to put a new page on the agency’s website, casting doubt on the fact that vaccines don’t cause autism. “The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just […]
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In a stunning announcement posted to Twitter/X on Friday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that she will resign her seat in the House on January 5, 2026. The announcement comes after Greene publicly skirmished with Donald Trump over the release of the Epstein files. Trump has responded by calling her a “traitor,” a […]
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Majorie Taylor Greene No Longer Trusts the Plan Read Post »
In the winter of 1996, a cadre of police officers met an airplane as it landed in Portland, Oregon. Santa Claus had come to town. It was the early years of what would come to be known as Santacon, and the plane carried a contingent of pranksters aiming to create a bit of Yuletide mischief. […]
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The Secret History of Santacon, America’s Most Hated Christmas Party Read Post »
Two months ago, U.S. Border Patrol posted a hype video on Facebook and Instagram showing agents picking up guns and trawling the desert in trucks and off-road vehicles. “Gear up. Lock in. The mission doesn’t wait,” the video’s caption proclaimed. The soundtrack, however, said something quite different; it featured the so-called “banned” version of Michael […]
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Border Patrol Won’t Say Why It Used a Michael Jackson Song With Antisemitic Lyrics Read Post »
In late September, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced a crackdown on a relatively new foe: antifa, which he said would be designated as a “terrorist organization.” This was, on its face, ridiculous, given that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, and not one that Orbán has previously spent much time denouncing. But the move […]
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Is America Contagious? Read Post »
“I know in my heart that med beds [sic] are real,” a woman named Pam wrote recently on TruthSocial, the social media site owned by Trump Media and Technology Group, and President Donald Trump’s favorite place to post. “I’ve been hoping and at the same time thinking it’s too good to be true,” Pam confided. “But […]
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Not Just “Medbeds”: How TruthSocial’s Bogus Medical Claims Fool Elderly Trump Fans Read Post »
After last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, hundreds of people gathered in front of Berlin’s American embassy to honor him with a candlelight vigil, at least one of them in a red MAGA hat. The group included several members of Germany’s far-right AfD party, including Beatrix von Storch, its deputy parliamentary leader. Von […]
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The Global Far-Right Is Making Charlie Kirk a Martyr Read Post »
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