JD Vance mentioned Pizzagate and conspiracyland is losing its mind x.com/ScottMGreer/...

Good story, bad headline. It’s a shady marketing campaign, not a “psychological operation” www.wired.com/story/geese-...

Private Eye on Scott Mills… and Anna Brees

Anna Brees, formerly @breesanna on X, noted Covid conspiracist and one-time BBC journalist a while ago, reported Scott Mills to the BBC but nobody investigated. She was on to something for once and then suddenly deleted her account. The girl who cried wolf. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Anti-vaxxers are whooping it up over Elon Musk’s promotion of propaganda from “Peter Sweden”. Here’s a tale of MAHA meeting Europe’s far-right on the ultimate radicalization timeline – and I traced it all the way to its original source. thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/far-right-...

I'm making a radio doc about prediction markets. Are you a trader or do you know one? [email protected]

When right-wing fact checkers feel compelled to call out Candace Owens over her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories, you know all is not right in the MAGA character universe. www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n000...

Nobody was talking about this now everybody will be talking about this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Conservatives are starting to cotton on but still don't entirely get it. The far-right folks aren't "putting the next generation of Republican leadership at risk" - they ARE the next generation. nypost.com/2026/03/31/o...

Generally: liberals are clueless about how to deal with this, conservatives deny there’s a problem, most in authority don’t really understand. Fathers and mothers (but mostly fathers) this is on us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You can only ride the tiger for so long.

The MAGA hivemind loves to use conspiracy theories to bash those libs, but conspiracy theories are now eating the movement from the inside

Yet another story in a conservative publication fretting about conspiracy theories. It’s a trend. The authors may have noticed that QAnon believers were among those rioting at the Capitol five years ago. www.thefp.com/p/arthur-bro...

Oh wait I’m sorry! It’s “none of the above” bsky.app/profile/wend...

“Cracks have begun to emerge in the broad coalition of America's political right” @wendling.bsky.social, author of Alt-Right, speaks on BBC Radio 4 about the MAGA Civil War: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Cracks have begun to emerge in the broad coalition of America's political right” @wendling.bsky.social, author of Alt-Right, speaks on BBC Radio 4 about the MAGA Civil War: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Following the hack-and-leak of Kash Patel’s emails will there be: A) uproar over “censorship”, a la Hunter Biden laptop? B) conspiracy theories about a fictitious pedophile cabal, a la Pizzagate? C) furious denials that Iran is interfering with US politics, a la “Russiagate”?

Accusations of bias usually say more about the person making them than the person being targeted. Also, big story coming up re Jan 6. thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/reporting-...

People use conspiracy thinking as a way to deal with anxiety about the state of the planet. Claiming that vaccines are “killing millions” is one conclusion some reach after thinking something’s very wrong with the world right now.

Kevin D. Williamson is a conservative commentator who's written this insightful piece about the extent of voter fraud (small) and the possible effect of voter ID on the Republican Party (large, and negative). He is very far outside the MAGA mainstream. archive.is/yvQQe#select...

Many people over the years have called me a lying woke libtard pharma shill communist, so how come I haven’t given up and just become a lying woke libtard pharma shill communist? thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/does-calli...

Wait until they find out that tailgating is illegal in Britain lol www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... (spoiler: the word means something completely different)

SNL UK isn’t as good as it used to be back in the old days

When Donald Trump dies a lot of people will celebrate and woke MAGA scolds will tut about respect, however:

This should be a litmus test, if you can't figure out what's wrong with this graph you shouldn't be using prediction markets

Then: Russiagate, "the greatest political scandal in American history." Now:

Some of us have been witnessing this stuff unfold for a while:

yep, i started writing for an underground newspaper in high school and i spent the last 20 years working for mainstream media, it tracks bsky.app/profile/denn...

One of the Reuters journalists who unmasked Banksy did an AMA on Reddit and wow, those folks did not like it one bit. www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

Conservatives are suddenly worried about the extremists in their midst. But why now? I’ve been asking people on the right of American politics why they didn’t notice the trend much earlier, and their answers are pretty fascinating. open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

Brand managers used to be embarrassed when their companies were spotted next to extreme content. But now their ads pop up on groups devoted to, say, vicious stories of woe - including themes like hating women and suicide - and nobody cares.

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

On cue, the anti-vaccine lobby is sounding the alarm about a wave of propaganda designed to … stop kids from dying I guess?

The anti-vaxxers are convinced they know why Trump’s chief of staff has cancer. open.substack.com/pub/petermcc...

The QAnon "Queen of Canada" Romana Didulo had two UK companies about a decade ago. Neither filed accounts and were dissolved. An interesting detail about someone who supposedly doles out financial advice. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1035... @drsarteschi.bsky.social

The White House has a problem or « la Maison Blanche a actuellement un vrai problème. » I spoke to @szadkowski.bsky.social of Le Monde about the White House's use of video game footage. The « vrai problème »? The people they're trying to reach are anti-war and anti-Israel. archive.is/g3Vcm#select...

Donald Trump is now sending out an Iran fundraising email. It's pitched as an "OFFICIAL TRUMP FLASH POLL" and includes the question: Do you believe that the U.S. military operation against Iran should last at least a few more weeks? (y/n) secure.winred.com/never-surren...

Tucker Carlson won't stop attacking mainstream MAGA. First the war in Iran ... now the gold grifters: Steve Bannon, Mike Huckabee, Glenn Beck, Laura Loomer tuckercarlson.com/thegreatgold...

Why do people think calling someone a racist makes them become actually racist? It doesn’t make much sense. You get insulted, internalize the insult, then become the insult? Wait, what? But it's conventional wisdom on the far right … open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

Gosh another young Republican racial slur scandal. Do they all have Tourette’s, or has the alt-right so successfully wormed into the mainstream that it’s cool to drop the n-word in chat? Some of them will be “ironic”. Lol! Some of them won’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Pizzagate believers are going ballistic over Lauren Boebert's bizarre questioning of Hillary Clinton. x.com/LizCrokin/st... It's not hard to separate truth from fiction. Epstein's crimes were real. Pizzagate is fake. Someone pls tell Boebert thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/epsteins-c...

Alt-right/ex-Proud Boy congressional candidate Omar Navarro never did well in the polls, but he did raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, much of which he spent on himself, so now he’s going to prison. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/o...

One of the less-mentioned moments from the State of the Union was Trump’s announcement that JD Vance will lead a “war on fraud”. Fraud exists, but not in its social media fever dream form ... www.govexec.com/federal-news...

Del Bigtree, the id of the anti-vax movement. When they say they want you to get sick, believe them. joinspread.com/post/5aef00a...

Trump disavowed Project 2025, then followed many of its suggestions. I talked to the report’s author, and some of its fiercest critics, to find out more. open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

Project 2025 - it’s half done. My latest for the BBC website: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Enjoying this USA vs Future USA gold medal game, highlights later on Hockey Night in the Territory Formerly Known as Canada

🇺🇸 When "El Presidente" gives his State of the [dis]Union address on Tuesday evening, he is expected to tout his policies from his first year back in the White House. But one thing likely won't get a mention: #Project2025 📝 @wendling.bsky.social

Guy who wanted to party with Epstein spreading conspiracy theories about anti-Trump protests 🤔 Let that sink in