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T. Kenny Fountain

@tkennyfountain.bsky.social

Associate Professor of English, UVA. Scholar of rhetoric (old & current), studying conspiracy theory belief, disinformation, extremism, and visual media. Writing a book, Imagining Conspiracy Theories.

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I know! I agree. But I can't imagine her staying out of public life for long.

22.11.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

MTG is signaling officially her loss of faith in the QAnon movement. Time will tell whether or not this disaffection is sincere. In the meantime, we should not be surprised when she runs for president. 4/4

22.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

QAnon believers often dismiss any contradictions or inconsistencies in Trump's actions, specifically his failure to bring down the supposed cabal, as merely an intricate operation that the common person cannot understand. Trump, they say, is playing a sophisticated game of "4D chess." 3/4

22.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As she states in the video amd the written statement, "There is no 'plan to save the world' or insane 4D chess game being played." "The Plan to Save the World" is a famous short, movie trailer-like documentary created by an early QAnon believer that has been widely circulated for years. 2/4

22.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign after fallout with Trump Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene supported a bill compelling the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the DOJ, putting her on the bad side of President Trump.

In her video announcement that she is resigning from Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks directly to the QAnon community. 1/4
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/m...

22.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And they will do everything they can to make it so.

21.11.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

21.11.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 30620    πŸ” 8541    πŸ’¬ 775    πŸ“Œ 359

Excellent thread by @eliothiggins.bsky.social that pinpoints the failure of Yarvin's hollow ideology.

20.11.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’sΒ the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr’s FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

19.11.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 77
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This is indeed what happens when billionaires like Jeff Bezos dictate the contents of the opinion pages of @washingtonpost.com
What a fall for a once good newspaper! I have never regretted canceling my subscription after he nixed the Kamala Harris endorsement.

18.11.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

They started dismembering him while he was still alive

18.11.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

This op-ed is advocating for a military invasion and a war. This is war propaganda.

18.11.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spare me the "Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed" bullshit.

18.11.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 345    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?

18.11.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1495    πŸ” 492    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 57
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy' Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files

"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."

Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?

people.com/donald-trump...

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Mark Epstein (Jeffrey’s brother):

β€œThe reason they’re gonna be releasing these things, the reason for the flip is that they’re sanitizing these files. There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out”

18.11.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2112    πŸ” 1219    πŸ’¬ 193    πŸ“Œ 115

Sadly, we should all know who Nick Fuentes is (as Carlson interviewed him and MTG continues to defend him). This interview with John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is great!

17.11.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And because I can't edit posts on Bluesky (if only we had that option on all social media platforms), I will delete my post.

17.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, he did! And I should have been more specific in my criticism.

17.11.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't wait to read this preprint article critiquing the standard "polarization narrative" by @aurelmondon.bsky.social and his colleagues. Great thread on the article here.

17.11.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

17.11.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1692    πŸ” 401    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 21
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Viktor OrbΓ‘n’s Hail Mary. I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my jobβ€”and it’s ...

A very depressing read

17.11.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.

15.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œA since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her β€˜crazy eyes’ and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to β€˜get rid of your diaper’ while telling the office to open the door and come out.” h/t @kfile.bsky.social … 1/
x.com/kfile/status...

15.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 322    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 22
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Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked β€˜credible death threats’ against him and his family

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

15.11.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 16422    πŸ” 4661    πŸ’¬ 711    πŸ“Œ 324

Indeed... that was the main takeaway of teaching "Far-Right Politics" in Fall 2025.

Not that the students are more supportive of the far right than previously - they are not! - but for them the far right is "normal". It is the "conservative" party that their dad supports.

15.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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No one should have to face such threats.

It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

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People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work? Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.

This is another example of AI being used to replace reading and reflection. But it speaks to how much we crave interaction & immersive experience. We want a kind of involvement we can lose ourselves in, which ironically religion has been offering for millenia.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/tech/re...

15.11.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

15.11.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 47007    πŸ” 11862    πŸ’¬ 1191    πŸ“Œ 481

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