I’m literally a journalist, not that it matters! and I’ll stop “bullying” (publicly and clearly discussing) what you and your tragic friends are doing when it doesn’t have a chance of adding another body to the literally overflowing morgues of the place where I live Image
I barely know who this person is besides someone who does terrible tweets- what does that tell you about these parties? Also girl you’re strong enough to risk your viral load like this but having someone talk about it is bullying? Spare meeeee
What’s interesting is the weirdo artists/creatives (people who made these cities “cool” in the eyes of the soft-handed media whites) aren’t partying, really. They have a shared sense of community. Only some folks are convinced huddling around red Solo cups is worth risking lives.
Like everyone I know who makes art or is a genuine weirdo — the parties we don’t discuss here on Al Gore’s Internet— is holed up in the desert or painting a lot or doing mutual aid. Not posing next to flaming trash cans the one time they attended a BLM march for five minutes 😊

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31 Dec 20
While the biggest media grifter morons you know are having house parties to show how cool (?) they are:
This is real garbage shit folks Image
Personally if I’d airily spread COVID to half my social circle via boring parties trying to desperately capture some “downtown cool” you were never part of, I wouldn’t be bragging about it
Read 9 tweets
27 Dec 20
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…
Read 4 tweets
10 Sep 20
A couple things about this: here is the request for comment I sent to Mr. Joseph. He did not respond.
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.
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14 May 20
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.
Read 5 tweets
8 May 20
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/…
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29 Mar 19
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
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