1/ Got a personal taste of how the QAnon conspiracy works today. After I tweeted an @aliwatkins story about the bizarre case of a QAnon follower accused of killing a mafia boss, it caught the attention of none other than the mysterious Q ... tinyurl.com/vsdw79u
@AliWatkins 2/ Q, the anonymous creator of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory about Deep State traitors and pedophiles working against the president, posted a list of reporters who had tweeted the story, with the cryptic comment: "Thinking timing"... 
@AliWatkins 3/ That triggered an avalanche of replies and retweets by hundreds of QAnon fans speculating that the story was ordered by our Deep State masters to deflect attention from the pending release of the DOJ-IG report on the Russia investigation...tinyurl.com/u4s7qh6
@AliWatkins 4/ As it happens, the NYT was indeed "thinking timing" when the story was prepared -- the timing being that the murder suspect was in court Thursday for a ruling affecting his QAnon "insanity" defense ...
@AliWatkins 5/ But that's too mundane for the alternative reality of QAnon, where Democrats murder and eat children, President Trump is the savior, and JFK Jr. (not really dead) will soon join him on the 2020 ticket tinyurl.com/se4dk6y
