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"Maria Sanchez Roa is a senior at MVRHS and was called in to help interpret. She was born in Columbia and takes AP Spanish.
'...My mom burst through the door and told me to go to the high school. I’m here because I’m a Hispanic kid who speaks Spanish.'"
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Children as political props.
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Here's a photo from the Martha's Vineyard Times.
** We have blurred the faces of the migrants standing with local officials
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Here's a photo from the Martha's Vineyard Times.
** We have blurred the faces of the migrants standing with local officials
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My family says “was the grink there” every time I make a typo in a text. This is oppression.
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The thing people do not get is that Yvon Chouinard really would be happy living in a tent
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EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.
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Ron Johnson is now using this Homeland Security Committee hearing with executives from Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter to complain about Ivermectin, so you can turn it off for a while.
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Says in #NCICP22: for a while it felt like the anti-vaccine activists were winning the internet; and the algorithm helps them. But lately it feels to her like the tide is turning - doctors are fighting fire with fire, and there is some light against the dark side.
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Says in #NCICP22: the time for decorum is over. It's okay to call liars and grifters as they are.
Transparency is the new objectivity.
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Very weird listening to someone ask good questions in a Senate hearing about social media. Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter reps taking questions. Turn it on before it gets dumb again.
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First question in this Homeland Security hearing from is about QAnon and why it took so long for Facebook and YouTube to take extremist movements seriously.
“You caught [QAnon], but not until 16% of people are part of this insidious theory,” he said.
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Tucker Carlson used to merely echo Putin's propaganda. Now he has surpassed it in sycophancy, with bizarre claims about Ukrainian defeat that even Moscow's TV1 wouldn't make. Why is Fox News throwing any remaining credibility with this idiot?
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When you see the most insane 
propaganda on one of the highest-rated TV shows on Fox-News, it blows your mind.
Tucker Carlson just stopped pretending and became a Russian propagandist.
And we made a video about it… 
youtu.be/ARlYgR1S7jU
propaganda on one of the highest-rated TV shows on Fox-News, it blows your mind.
Tucker Carlson just stopped pretending and became a Russian propagandist.
And we made a video about it…
youtu.be/ARlYgR1S7jU183
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Better question: why is a VPN service tweeting about this? twitter.com/nordvpn/status
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Watch the fun dance Kevin does here to allude to goatse but not actually say it in the article.
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NEW: Somebody hacked the school messaging service Seesaw this morning, forcing accounts to post goatse in parent-teacher group chats across the country: nbcnews.com/tech/security/
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NEW: Somebody hacked the school messaging service Seesaw this morning, forcing accounts to post goatse in parent-teacher group chats across the country:
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It will shock you to learn that hours after publishing a story about a new wave of satanic panic, my inbox is full of randos calling me a … satanic pedophile.
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This is how QAnon boards are reacting to Trump's recent overt interest in their movement.
This post is stickied to the top of the page by a moderator.
(Q+ and GEOTUS, which stands for God Emperor of the United States, both refer to Trump.)
"Your digital soldiers are ready."
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I'm watching this Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing about social media's impact on extremism and domestic security.
It'll have a rare appearance from TikTok's COO and YouTube's Chief Product Officer after the lunch break.
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This wave of violence comes the same week Donald Trump is leaning into QAnon more than ever before.
He re-shared a post about the "Storm" on Truth Social, Q's end date in which enemies like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are rounded up and killed.
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Just a reminder that the "Storm" referenced below is the big end date for QAnon, when Trump is supposed to round up all of his political enemies and hang them in public after a brief military tribunal.
I have no idea if he knows this, but he shouldn't be playing around with it.
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The man arrested at a DQ for threatening to kill Democrats had posted about QAnon's Great Awakening.
He had been expelled from his church for wearing clown outfits to services and scaring children.
He was armed and wearing a clown wig when cuffed.
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One daughter of the QAnon killer was unwounded. After the attack, she talked about her dad's Q obsession.
“I think that he was always prone to [mental issues], but it really brought him down when he was reading all those weird things on the internet."
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Wave of QAnon-based terror this weekend. A Trump fan in a clown wig obsessed with the end times threatened to kill all Democrats in a DQ on Saturday.
Another man riddled with Q delusions in Michigan shot up his family at home, injuring his daughter and killing his wife and dog.
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mike cernovich, who furiously promoted qanon's predecessor, pizzagate, is trying to rebrand as someone who sought to warn people about the dangers of such conspiratorial thinking. i don't know why these guys think that just because they delete their tweets people forgot.
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Infowars had 4.1 billion (!) impressions on Facebook in 2016.
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This is Infowars' Facebook engagement from 2016, shown in court. It's, uh, staggering.
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This is Infowars' Facebook engagement from 2016, shown in court. It's, uh, staggering.
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I spent the summer chasing Satan -- talking with people who have been newly accused as "Satanists" or so-called ritualistic abusers. Experts told me we were in a modern day version of the moral panic of the 1980s, when hysteria over the devil reigned.
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This shit is happening on the left too, but they don't talk about Satanists.
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Incredible story by @BrandyZadrozny here:
Satanic Panic is back. This time it's changing election outcomes, riding the wave of QAnon.
One previously popular Utah attorney lost a Republican primary because of accusations he was sacrificing kids to Satan.
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According to a poll in June, one-third of Americans believe that "members of Satanic cults abuse thousands of children every year."
Once again, Satanic Panic is making a real comeback.
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/
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Incredible story by here:
Satanic Panic is back. This time it's changing election outcomes, riding the wave of QAnon.
One previously popular Utah attorney lost a Republican primary because of accusations he was sacrificing kids to Satan.
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Just In: Former President Trump called into a small rally held in support of January 6 prisoners at the DC Jail Tuesday.
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A man who walked into a Demont, PA Dairy Queen, wearing a vest, rainbow wig, and a loaded firearm was arrested. He said he was “working to restore Trump as President King of the US” and was going to “kill Democrats and liberals.”
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In January 2021, a meme war spilled onto the streets of Washington, D.C., Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg write. A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.
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UPDATE: WBZ I-Team sources say the package that exploded at Northeastern University was in a “Pelican case”and contained a manifesto railing against virtual reality and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
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NBC News: At approximately 7:15pm a person at Boston’s Northeastern University sustained hand lacerations and other minor injuries when they attempted to open a Pelican-type case and a minor explosion occurred, multiple law enforcement officials tell and myself.
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Breaking: FBI Boston tells me they’re aware of 2 packages that exploded at Holmes Hall at Northeastern University tonight resulting in one injury…FBI currently coordinating with Boston Police..Sources say too early to say whether this is related to terrorism or not #7News
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Lot of career right-wing loudmouths claiming they’re being raided lately following the Trump raid. I have no insight into Lindell or McInnes’ situations, but I certainly don’t believe a word either of them say
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Mike Lindell claims to The Daily Beast that the FBI seized his phone at a Hardee’s restaurant.
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A key pattern I have found in studying QAnon is how adherents shift their perception of good and evil over time. E.G. A conspiracy theory circulating in the ecosystem at the moment is that Trump, Xi Ji Ping, Putin and Kim Jong-Un are working together to take down the cabal
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What's truly elucidating about this is Mike Lindell — who has been claiming he personally knows how voting machines were hacked and has barnstormed the country with bullshit technological gish gallop — admits he doesn't even have a computer.
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Mike Lindell says the FBI stopped him at a Hardees in Minnesota today and seized his phone
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Mike Lindell claims to The Daily Beast that the FBI seized his phone at a Hardee’s restaurant.
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