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The Dark Reality of Betting Against QAnon

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The Dark Reality of Betting Against QAnon

January 1, 2021

QAnon—the conspiracy theory that elite Democrats, government officials, and celebrities are part of a cannibalistic, child-sex-trafficking cult, and Donald Trump is the hero destined to stop them—has allegedly inspired kidnappings,…

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Fb Is a Doomsday Machine

December 15, 2020

The Doomsday Machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying…

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What Should a COVID-19 Memorial Be?

November 24, 2020

Memorial designs by Rael San Fratello, Refik Anadol Studio, and Sekou Cooke Unlike a war, a pandemic is invisible and diffuse. It’s everywhere and nowhere. Its death toll is ultimately…

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How Charli D’Amelio Took Over TikTok

November 20, 2020

Photographs by Michael Schmelling Collab day at Clubhouse Beverly Hills was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but that time came and went and the mansion was still as sleepy…

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The Former Cop YouTuber Who Films the Inner City

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The Former Cop YouTuber Who Films the Inner City

October 31, 2020

Video above: A snippet from Charlie Moore aka CharlieBo313’s YouTube video titled “SAN FRANCISCO WORST HOUSING PROJECTS / HOOD INTERVIEW” Charlie Moore shoots hood safaris. For years, he’s filmed visits…

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Why Multilevel Marketing and QAnon Go Hand in Hand

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Why Multilevel Marketing and QAnon Go Hand in Hand

October 28, 2020

Jordan Schrandt—blond, beautiful, mother of eight, founder of The Farmhouse Movement magazine, which teaches readers how to achieve “a lifestyle of authenticity, simplicity, and kindness”—is a Royal Crown Diamond. Less…

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With COVID-19, Waiting in Line Is Unsafe

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With COVID-19, Waiting in Line Is Unsafe

October 28, 2020

On June 8, a crowd of maskless college students gathered outside Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub in East Lansing, Michigan. Like other bars and restaurants in the United States, Harper’s had…

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Why Did Colleges Reopen During the Pandemic?

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Why Did Schools Reopen Through the Pandemic?

October 20, 2020

American colleges botched the pandemic from the very start. Caught off guard in the spring, most of them sent everyone home in a panic, in some cases evicting students who…

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How to Keep Friends During the Pandemic

September 22, 2020

My friend Adam Nemett and I became close friends in college, when I basically lived in the house he shared with my then-boyfriend. We saw each other constantly—at home, on…

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Rising S, Vivos, and the Booming Bunker Economy

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Rising S, Vivos, and the Booming Bunker Economy

September 15, 2020

“I’m not one of the paranoid kinds of people,” Michael, the 51-year-old owner of a construction company, told me this spring. But who doesn’t look at the state of the…

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