QAnon
Where Things Stand: Roger Born-Again Stone Warns Of ‘Satanic Portal’ Above White House
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04.28.22 | 6:21 pm

I will admit: I have watched every episode ever of the documentary-style “Ghost Trackers” and “Haunted,” as well as the fictionalized adaptations of the hauntings of “Bly Manor” and “Hill House.”

If there’s a fleck of dust in a dark room and you wanna call it an orb, I’m there.

But Roger Stone could perhaps stand to watch a few episodes of “Ghost Brothers” or “Haunted Towns” — particularly the episodes when they talk about how basic things like light reflections work — before he starts proclaiming evidence of “satanic portals.”

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Listen to This: QAnon Goes Mainstream
04.07.22 | 4:28 pm

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the Republican party going full QAnon and the latest follies of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC).

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

GOP Starts To Cannibalize Itself With Unhinged QAnon-Flavored Accusations
INSIDE: Jan. 6 Panel ... Dem-Drawn Maps ... Alleged Russian War Crimes
04.05.22 | 8:14 am
Listen to This: No Guardrails
03.17.22 | 2:00 pm

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss President Zelensky’s address to Congress and a new push from state legislatures to police culture war issues outside of their jurisdictions.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

Where Things Stand: Tulsi Gabbard Has Some Thoughts About Those ‘Biolabs’ That The Kremlin Is Fixated On
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03.14.22 | 7:00 pm

Former long-shot presidential candidate and congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is just the latest U.S. politician to seize on debunked, Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about the supposed existence of U.S.-run bioweapon research labs in Ukraine.

But she’s the first high-profile Democrat to do so.

What started as an InfoWars talking point has been embraced by the Russian and Chinese state media and has morphed in recent days into a full blown right-wing effort to place the blame for President Putin’s deadly war on Ukraine squarely on the shoulders of the U.S. right’s usual cast of enemies, including President Biden and, of course, Anthony Fauci. Kate Riga digs into the madness here.

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A New Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory With The Same Old Cast Of Characters
Anthony Fauci reemerges as the central villain in propaganda-fueled conspiracy theorizing about Ukrainian biolabs.
03.14.22 | 3:43 pm