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27 Dec, 15 tweets, 5 min read
I'm going to do a quick "best things I did this year" thread. And I want to start by thanking everyone who supported my work, or who reached out privately with information or questions. Out of dozens articles and over 200 interviews, comments, appearances, etc, here's the best:
Obviously, the big thing I did this year was finish, edit, and publish THE STORM US UPON US - the first book that examined QAnon from its precursor scams and frauds to the conspiracy theories it absorbed to how to get people out of it.

static.mhpbooks.com/the-storm-is-u…
Around the same time, I published an excerpt of the book in Time Magazine:

time.com/6076590/qanon-…
A month later, I published an op-ed for NBC News about QAnon's encroachment into local politics and school boards:

nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Back in January, I made my first live appearance on CNN, and went on the network several more times, all from the comfort of my home.

In February, I spoke to Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times for a story about Q believers obsessing over Hillary Clinton - featuring an appearance by the former Secretary of State herself:

nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opi…
THE STORM IS UPON US was highlighted in a New Yorker story about what makes a cult a cult:

newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
I also did lots and lots of podcasts! One of my favorites was going on the awesome @MaintenancePod to talk about the Wellness-to-QAnon pipeline:

podcasts.apple.com/lt/podcast/the…
I also went on @knowledge_fight to talk about the relationship between Alex Jones and the early days of QAnon:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/607…
And I talked to the great @davidfarrier for Dax Sheppard's Armchaired and Dangerous about QAnon.

armchairexpertpod.com/pods/qanon
I also did TONS of interviews for outlets in the UK, Australia, Europe, Japan, and South America. This profile in the Guardian might be my favorite:

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…
I also wrote several dozen stories for the Daily Dot about conspiracy theories and QAnon. A few favorites: I wrote about the "vaccines make you magnetic" nonsense going viral on Tik Tok.

dailydot.com/debug/covid-va…
I wrote about the "there is no qanon" thought-terminating cliche, and why it's so incredibly dumb.

dailydot.com/debug/qanon-th…
And after writing about the "Devolution" conspiracy theory, I unmasked its creator "Patel Patriot" as a guy in North Dakota who quit his job because he was making so much money off his absurd theory that Trump is still the president.

dailydot.com/debug/patel-pa…
There are other things I worked on or am currently working on that I can't talk about yet - though soon, I hope. I have big hopes for 2022 and doing the work of countering conspiracy theories on a bigger and more mainstream scale. Thank you so much for your trust and support.

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Like MTG and Boebert, Madison Cawthorn is an unstable and unqualified shitposter who won a chaotic GOP primary on the strength of his trolling, and has no business in the House. Where he met his wife is not the most disturbing thing about his political rise.
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A compelling case for why the National Guard was repeatedly delayed on J6: because Trump would have used their deployment as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act. Delaying might have made J6 worse, and thwarted the Trump crew's plan in the long term.
Trump and his dead enders, Flynn, Powell, etc, had talked openly of invoking martial law or the Insurrection Act and "re-running" the election. Thousands of armed soldiers on the streets of DC is exactly what they needed to do that. Chris Miller and his people knew that.
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800,000 dying people is a city the size of Seattle or Denver dying. Either you care about that or you don't. If you care, you got vaccinated and still mask indoors. If you don't care, you aren't doing that. There's nothing else to say.
If you don't care that 800,000 Americans have died of COVID, you wouldn't care if that number was 8 million. You're too special and important to care about what happens to other people. As long as it's not you. Which it won't be. Because you're special and important.
I've already had a verified "bodybuilder/jazz enthusiast" and a former Daily Wire writer get mad at me about this tweet.

Like I said, either you care or you don't.
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12 Dec
A great find by @dappergander - both MTG and Boebert dropped obvious typos in the last line of ridiculous tweets that went viral. It could just be that they're bad spellers. Or they know how to get you to share their shitposts and spread their message. ImageImage
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The points you score on them don't matter. But them getting free viral traction for their hate and conspiracy theories - that matters. And while it could be a coincidence, it could also be two notorious trolls manipulating their haters into getting them free engagement.
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I joined the #Negative48 live chat and it still astonishes me just how their tone and content is identical to the NESARA/dinar community. They talk about vibrations and energy and "great things" coming and to hold on and fight evil.

Those scams have been running for DECADES.
There's a lot of talk about people falling off and losing faith, and being real vs. fake. It does seem like some people are drifting away from the group - but many are digging in deeper.
I didn't hear it, but apparently Protzman was on the chat and someone violated etiquette in some way and displeased him, and he left. So now they're falling all over each other to praise him and go through all the things that please and displease him.
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