Another “secret” New Years Eve party in LA, referencing Prohibition, promising masks required (sure), rapid tests (notoriously unreliable) and hand sanitizer, which we all know makes it totally safe to be in a crowded space for as long as you want. Hope it’s worth it, partiers!
On our last episode of “can you people not just open a bottle of wine on the couch for one fucking holiday without experiencing a psychic meltdown:
It is apocalyptically bad here. The numbers are insanely grim. I cannot understand what’s in the psyche of this place that’s causing people to behave this way. You are not immortal and you can get sick no matter how lux the velvet rope on the club is. google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
I’m extremely sorry to hear he feels this piece was racist, inflected by my own whiteness or “gothness” or otherwise discriminatory. readers can look at it for themselves and decide. However, this wasn’t just an experience about a Black family being uncomfortable in an Airbnb.
He directly, specifically, without talking to the host claimed there were objects used for “satanic rituals” in the house and “ritualistic markings on the floor.” I spend a lot of time covering Qanon and Pizzagate crowds. I cover when these accusations go horribly wrong.
New from me: I got very curious about just how Plandemic went viral. It turns out at least part of the answer lies in an ex-Google employee named Zach Vorhies, who laid out his plan to make Judy Mikovits famous in an unlisted YouTube video from last month. vice.com/en_us/article/…
Vorhie's involvement has been partially reported out; the New York Times noted that he had created a GoFundMe intended to help amplify Mikovits. But the YouTube video lays out his plan to engage YT content creators, and his conviction that this is all part of the Great Awakening.
Vorhies has been involved with the QAnon world since around 2018 and frequently tweets critically about vaccines, including the long-debunked idea that they cause autism. In the unlisted video, he includes graphics falsely claiming that vaccines contain the XMRV retrovirus.
We know that Plandemic is full of pseudoscience, revisionist history and outrageous bullshit- beach sand has healing properties? There’s more COVID in Italy because of dogs? — but we should be both more curious and more worried about why it went viral. vice.com/en_us/article/…
Stuff like this has obviously been circulating for months- conspiracy theorizing, bogus cures - but as more people become desperate for a way out of this, it’s gaining broader appeal. The idea that all we have to do is simply not believe this is an emergency is seductive.
The anti-vax and health freedom worlds are ready to seize on people’s frustration and distrust, their desire to do what feels best for them and stop worrying so much about collective or public health. Consider how excited MMS peddlers were just recently. vice.com/en_us/article/…
The anti-vaccine crowd has evidently decided their persecution can only be expressed in Holocaust metaphors. At a rally in Texas yesterday anti-vax media personality Del Bigtree pinned a yellow star on himself mid-speech.
Have also seen a handful of social media profiles that are yellow stars reading “anti vax.”
The Rockland, NY quarantine on unvaccinated minors to handle a measles outbreak is generating some very intense emotions on that side and conspiracy peddlers like the Health Ranger are swooping in
The fact that both the GOP's communications people and the Democratic congressman they're opposing are using the phrase "the Jewish question" is very fucking bad
when Nazis talk about moving the Overton window, they are talking about introducing phrases like this into the public discussion
Here's Fox News obscuring what "the Jewish question" means. This is not just "debate that unfolded in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries regarding the status of Jewish people as a minority" foxnews.com/politics/2018/…