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Jul 17, 2021 • 32 tweets • 11 min read
Fully packed event at Influence church in Anaheim right now. This is the latest stop in Clay Clark’s roving Health and Freedom tour. Main auditorium filled to capacity and hundreds more in huge tent outside. Food trucks sputter outside, merch tables lined up.
Mike Lindell was just on stage. His memoir in the merch corner.
Nov 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
According to this report, six Igbo synagogues were razed by soldiers amid wider protests in Nigeria 9africa.com/2020/11/soldie…
IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu tweeted this picture of what the article above identifies as one of the synagogues
Long Facebook post from Marianne Williamson on New Agers she sees "completely taken in by the right wing authoritarian Trump/Q phenomenon" facebook.com/williamsonmari…
Marianne also called QAnon a “dark psychic force,” a callback to her line from the presidential debate
So, there's a Hebrew Israelite back story to this now-viral video of the high schoolers and Nathan Phillips in D.C.
A group known as House of Israel had been camped out on the mall for some time before this viral moment. According to Phillips, he was trying to defuse tensions between the MAGA crowd and the 6 or so HOI preachers by stepping between them to chant. freep.com/story/news/loc…