Did Nothing Wrong Live is a roundtable discussion(with video!) about the issues of the week, featuring Jay Mckenzie, Karl Folk, and Griff Sombke.

Questions? Comments? Email:griff@didnothingwrongpod.com

Tyler DiPeppe is a former member of the Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Tyler is also a Trans man. We discuss his involvement, how he got out, and what he's doing to help others leave as well.

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

Atomwaffen Division - SPLC Extremist File

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

Atomwaffen and the Siege Paralax: 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

Justice Department announces nationwide arrests of members of neo-Nazi Atomwaffen group

https://abcnews.go.com/US/justice-department-announces-nationwide-arrests-members-neo-nazi/story?id=69239957

Neo-Nazi charged in 'swatting' scheme that targeted ex-DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/neo-nazi-charged-swatting-scheme-targeted-ex-dhs-chief-kirstjen-n1143581

No prison time for transgender ex-neo-Nazi in threat case

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-florida-washington-gender-identity-conspiracy-1952b35f4817342779ba387c33faa9a1

Transgender ex-neo-Nazi won't face prison time, 'already suffered enough'

https://www.jpost.com/international/transgender-ex-neo-nazi-wont-face-prison-time-already-suffered-enough-663842

Why Do Neo-Nazis Keep Getting Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse Material?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-do-neo-nazis-keep-getting-arrested-for-child-porn/

Vaush on the Struggle for the Future of Young Men

https://therealnews.com/vaush-on-the-struggle-for-the-future-of-young-men

Hands of Eir on Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/handsofeir.bsky.social

Help Tyler get back on his feet

https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-beginnings-newcar-bills-debt

Questions? Comments? Email:griff@didnothingwrongpod.com

Sociologist Karl Folk and I talk about the home stretch of the 2024 election, and the increasingly desperate measures MAGA and the Silicon Valley oligarchs are taking to convince you they're ahead.

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

How Russian disinformation is reaching the U.S. ahead of the 2024 election

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/russian-disinformation-2024-election-storm-1516/index.html

Russian disinformation peddlers are targeting Harris-Walz campaign with fake videos, Microsoft says

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/russian-disinformation-peddlers-are-targeting-harris-walz-campaign-fak-rcna171476

Leaked chats reveal right-wing militia's coordinated efforts to watch AZ ballot boxes

https://azmirror.com/2024/10/17/leaked-chats-reveal-right-wing-militias-coordinated-efforts-to-watch-az-ballot-boxes/

Pro-Trump dark money network tied to Elon Musk behind fake pro-Harris campaign scheme • OpenSecrets

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/10/pro-trump-dark-money-network-tied-to-elon-musk-behind-fake-pro-harris-campaign-scheme/

Peter Thiel Invests In Polymarket Political Betting Platform—But The Future Of Gambling On Elections Remains Unclear

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/05/14/peter-thiel-invests-in-polymarket-political-betting-platform-but-the-future-of-gambling-on-elections-remains-unclear/

A handful of pro-Trump bettors have dumped more than $25 million into Polymarket, swaying election odds in his favor

https://fortune.com/2024/10/18/presidential-election-odds-pro-trump-bettors-polymarket-political-polls-harris/

Polymarket whale raises Trump odds, sparking manipulation concerns

https://cointelegraph.com/news/polymarket-whale-trump-odds-manipulation

What We Know About the Mystery Trader Betting Big on a Trump Win - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/who-polymarket-mystery-trader-fredi9999-1969646

University of Florida - Election Lab Early Vote Tracker

https://election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/

Comments? Suggestions? Email: griff@didnothingwrongpod.com

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

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/

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

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

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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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

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

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

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 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/

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

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/

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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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 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

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'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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https://pod.link/1647010767/episode/5b77b05c504748ca8d8f2630be08728b

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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

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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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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https://pod.link/1688099084/episode/0c2f271ecba1619e8c16aa2a132ba827

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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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Jay and Griff

Author Mike Rothschild joins me to discuss the spread of false information in the wake of the recent natural disasters, and what we can do about it.

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

US officials struggle to quash Hurricane Helene conspiracy theories

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-officials-struggle-quash-hurricane-helene-conspiracy-theories-2024-10-05/

North Carolina Republican pushes back on hurricane misinformation: "Nobody can control the weather"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-edwards-north-carolina-hurricane-helene-fact-check/

Fact check: Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html

False conspiracy theories about Hurricane Milton continue to swirl despite outcry from officials

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/hurricane-milton-conspiracy-theory-government-storm-biden-rcna174558

Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s space laser and the age-old problem of blaming the Jews

https://www.vox.com/22256258/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-space-laser-anti-semitism-conspiracy-theories

GORDON LIDDY ON SHOOTING FROM THE LIP - RADIO HOST DENIES 'FUELING THE LUNATIC FRINGE'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/04/26/gordon-liddy-on-shooting-from-the-lip/75754676-030f-4191-a9e3-a421855aea1f/

Jewish Space Lasers THE ROTHSCHILDS AND 200 YEARS OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733925/jewish-space-lasers-by-mike-rothschild/

After Helene created a news blackout, here’s what my Asheville neighbors and I did

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/health/asheville-neighbors-hurricane-helene-wellness/index.html

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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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https://pod.link/1647010767/episode/5261c75bcb5ed942ec40f38d1aa56aa3

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

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

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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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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https://pod.link/1647010767/episode/5261c75bcb5ed942ec40f38d1aa56aa3

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

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

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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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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https://pod.link/1647010767/episode/5261c75bcb5ed942ec40f38d1aa56aa3

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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Episode 73(originally released 06/26/2023) - David Niewert joins us to discuss his new book, "The Age Of Insurrection", about the Extremist Right's assault on Democracy, and what we can do about it.

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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 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 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 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 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.

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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 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

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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. 

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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."“

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Sociologist Karl Folk joins me to discuss the GOP's 2024 election strategy of “it doesn’t matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes.”, and what we can do about it.

Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: 

https://pod.link/1647010767/

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

The R.N.C. Asked a Conspiracy Theorist to Train Poll Watchers. Here’s What He Told Them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.html

The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance

FAR-RIGHT OANN ANCHOR JACK POSOBIEC’S RISE TIED TO WHITE SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT

https://www.splcenter.org/splc-investigation-far-right-oann-anchor-jack-posobiecs-rise-tied-white-supremacist-movement

Partisan Split on Election Integrity Gets Even Wider

https://news.gallup.com/poll/651185/partisan-split-election-integrity-gets-even-wider.aspx

Dave Roberts's Twitter Thread

https://x.com/drvolts/status/1839386902514049461?t=CPVSm7b4pV1DpGBpUHEsBw&s=19

Vigilantes, Inc. Zach D. Roberts and Greg Palast's documentary about voter suppression

https://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantes-inc-free-download/

In donations, Harris vs. Trump is no contest

https://rochesterbeacon.com/2024/09/26/in-donations-harris-vs-trump-is-no-contest/

Kamala Harris Hires Massive Legal Team To Fight Back Against Election Denials

https://meidasnews.com/news/kamala-harris-hires-massive-legal-team-to-fight-back-against-election-denials

Comments? Suggestions? Email: griff@didnothingwrongpod.com

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jay and Griff

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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Mike Senters joins me to discuss the evolution of online information war tactics from Gamergate to the current battle in Springfield, Ohio, and how to counter them.

Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: 

https://pod.link/1647010767/

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

Did Nothing Wrong Hot Take - Springfield Bombs

JD Vance defends baseless rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/vance-immigrants-pets-springfield-ohio-cnntv/index.html

What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate

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

Two distinct forms of isolation predict belief in conspiracy theories

https://www.psypost.org/two-distinct-forms-of-isolation-predict-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/

Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/magazine/robert-putnam-interview.html

Elon Musk blinks first, bowing to pressure in Brazil to reopen X

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/22/musk-brazil-x/

JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X

https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-nato-support-eu-regulation-x-musk-free-speech-2024-9

(Editor’s Note: This seems BAD.)

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The one where we talk about Nick Fuentes and his personality cult of "Groypers". We break down his shtick, and come to the conclusion that he is simply David Duke for Zoomers.

Content Warning: this episode features lots of clips of Nick Fuentes being extremely racist, sexist, homophobic, and threatening violence. Anyone under 18 should not listen to this without adult supervision

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The one where we talk about how counterproductive the narratives of the "Great Reset" and the "Great Awakening" are if your goal is to make the world a better place to live.

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The one where we talk with information warfare expert Molly McKew about the war in Ukraine, the battle over the information environment around it, and what people can do to help Ukraine win.

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