From an ethical standpoint, I can't cover this leak, because a decent amount directly (and falsely) references me. But there's a story here for a journalist who isn't involved with any of the players or previous Q-related drama.
Stewartson was completely obsessed with defaming and creating conspiracy theories about me as far back as August 2020, before I even knew who he was. So I can't write this story, but someone else can.
Before the "OSINT badass" crew shows up with their "receipts," I did interact with Jim a few times in August 2020 - in what could be best described as "polite disagreement." I didn't even remember until I looked it up. And for that, Jim created a conspiracy theory about me.
I've said many times I dislike this drama and find it to be a waste of time. But as long as Jim Stewartson and his inner circle continue to create conspiracy theories about me and other journalists in this space, I will not roll over for them. They can stop any time they'd like.

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9 Jan
Tens of millions of Americans won't get vaccinated, won't wear masks, and won't personally do anything to curtail their behavior in the face of omicron. Most people are, but many would rather die. That's not Joe Biden's fault.
The government can do a lot, and can be doing more to send out tests and makes. But look at the reaction to vaccine mandates. States would rather go to court than make their residents take a free and effective shot. Some people will not comply, no matter what.
I'm not a Biden stan. Didn't even vote for him in my primary. But spend five minutes in right wing media and tell me there was ever a prayer of him personally ending the pandemic.
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6 Jan
My 1/6 story: I've been writing about QAnon since January 2018 - when almost nobody knew what it was or took it seriously. I took did, because I saw its similarities to scams and frauds that had lasted decades by promising the same thing Q promised, except in blood, not money.
Many of the "disinformation experts" who now write reams about what Q "really" is wouldn't have known a Q drop from a hole in the ground when I was *screaming* for people to look at it not as some internet cranks, but as a burgeoning prophecy cult with a kill list.
I've never waivered from my belief that Q is not some high-level conspiracy, but a primal urge to get back at the people who are keeping you down, and the need for out groups to form in groups - all exploited by cagey grifters and spineless politicians.
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4 Jan
Other than Jim (who, let's face it, is the author of his own pain), what independent journalists or OSINT researchers have been suspended? I can't come up with anyone. It would be a big story if new management at Twitter is cleaning house of anti-Trump accounts...
She blocked me, so I guess I'll never find out.
I wasn't trolling, I really wanted to know. Maybe I could have helped bring some attention to someone being unjustly banned.
Read 4 tweets
1 Jan
Everything else aside, this isn't even historically accurate. German elites believed their leaders had been usurped by Jewish financiers and had betrayed their millions of war dead by suing for peace as they were on the verge of winning. It didn't just "happen."
Also, the "I'm the only one who can fix it" dude wasn't Biden or Fauci or Bill Gates. It was this guy:
The German people, particularly the professional military class, felt betrayed and humiliated by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which assigned them punishing guilt for a war they didn't start. It wasn't mass psychosis, it was the need for revenge and vindication.
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28 Dec 21
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.
The guy jumped into a primary 2 days before the filing deadline, and was one of a dozen candidates in a jungle primary. He stood out because he was young and an outspoken troll, and won the general because of massive gerrymandering. The guy isn't Kim Philby, okay?
Sure, his marriage is weird. What about the guy isn't? His biography makes no sense and is riddles with easily disproven lies. And if his primary hadn't been a total mess, he likely wouldn't have won.
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27 Dec 21
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-…
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