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Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.

Report from NBC News that the Jan 6 pipe bomb suspect was a "Stop the Steal" guy
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

2: Giving thanks for Jay-Zed Podcast Episode · Notes from a Small (Cold, Dark, Miserable) Island · 04/12/2025 · 38m

The new episode of Notes From a Small (Cold, Dark Miserable) Island, where me and @mattpierce75.bsky.social give thanks, consider the plot to end dual citizenship, shout out Jay-Zed and get irrationally annoyed at British phrases. You alright mate?

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They caught a suspect in the Jan 6 DMC RNC pipe bomb case, so that will end the conspiracy theories, right?
Nope.

Yes, antifa exists. I've known many sympathizers.
But the 2025 version of it was given a helpful boost by MAGA missteps.
Now it's bigger - and more mainstream - than ever before.
Read more:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

FBI arrests suspect in Jan. 2021 pipe-bombing case Authorities say the suspect placed viable explosive devices outside RNC and DNC offices the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

This line in the big MSNOW scoop on the RNC DNC pipe bomber:

"The arrest is also expected to tamp down some conspiracy theories about Jan. 6"

I promise you it absolutely won't.

www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr...

the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week

He’s an Unapologetic Fascist Who ‘Despises’ Democracy. He Still Wants You to Vote for Him. He was once leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo.

The Proud Boys always denied they were Nazis and threatened to sue anyone who called them white supremacists.
This is their lawyer and former leader - a self-declared anti-democratic fascist

thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...

The sportsball guy who went out with a teenage Olivia Nuzzi just can’t seem to resist all the latest news

bsky.app/profile/olbe...

This is an article published in Spectator World written by a far-right influencer praising a cartoon produced by an avowed white nationalist, and also includes a lurid AI rape fantasy, which makes any normal person wonder wtf is happening at The Spectator

archive.is/RImyS

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Fortunately X, Reddit and Bluesky aren't real life.
Unfortunately Facebook is
www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

1: Newcomers, we are your sherpas

I have roped my good friend @mattpierce75.bsky.social into a podcast studio. We've been Americans living in London for a long time, and now city is lousy with yanks.
We're doling out tips for expats and bantz for brits. Sub here:
open.spotify.com/show/7zFOTKk...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The motive behind Charlie Kirk's killing: What we know and don't know - BBC News Prosecutors have broadly outlined suspect Tyler Robinson's political views - but many questions remain.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
(There may be other things that have emerged since)

FCC probes BBC’s edit of Donald Trump’s January 6 speech Regulator asks UK broadcaster if misleading ‘Panorama’ clip was aired in US

The FCC is investigating the BBC to bolster a potential private civil lawsuit.
To put it another way, US taxpapers are bankrolling an attempt by the president to take a billion dollars from British TV viewers.

www.ft.com/content/0a16...

Influencer Says 'Alt-Right' Label In Review Defamed Him - Law360 A conservative American author urged a London judge on Wednesday to rule that a review of a Mumford & Sons album in The Observer newspaper had defamed him by referring to him as an "alt-right agit...

This hasn't received much coverage so far, but Andy Ngo has sued @observeruk for an article (a review of a Mumford and Sons album) that called him an "alt-right agitator"
www.law360.com/articles/241...

Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one and I can see why. “Why is the power company warning me about power cuts?” Some of modern life has become predictable to the point where disruption seems like deliberate conspiracy

Epstein Helped Build MAGA. Has He Blown It? Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, Bubba, and the end of democracy

One of the biggest stories that has emerged is Epstein's role in backing the global far-right, starting with his close friendship with Steve Bannon.
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...

Sri Lankan influencer targets UK with anti-migrant Facebook pages — The Times and The Sunday Times A Sri Lankan influencer is at the heart of a network of more than 100 Facebook pages posting anti-migrant and Islamophobic disinformation about the UK, an investigation shows. Geeth Sooriyapura, a sel...

Remember Veles in Macedonia?
Now a decade later fake news hubs, where people from poor countries pump out rage bait to Westerners, still thrive. This one in Sri Lanka

apple.news/AGTw6O5E1T_C...

Part 1: How I Found Out Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...

I made a mistake, gosh, have you ever made an error of judgement?
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Thanks for defending the BBC though, my former colleagues appreciate it.

Has QAnon been vindicated? Throughout the past ten years "Q" has, in a quite objective sense, been good at predicting the course of events.

The Spectator has put this insanity on its World section and it’s behind a paywall so you may have to trust me that it’s a delulu take on how QAnon is right and good. Looking forward to next headline“Epstein did nothing wrong”

thespectator.com/topic/has-qa...

lol

It’s 2025 and we’re really hearing the same arguments about 'platforming'? There are better ways to think about the problem of 'amplification'

You know those people who hate the so-called “mainstream media”, and have a bizarre notion of how it all works?
No, not those ones! I mean the folks you follow, the very concerned millennial types.
Latest post breaking down the bad arguments over “amplification”
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

Candace Owens Creates Chaos And the rise of American schizo-politics

There are people on the left of politics who are failing to come to grips with a rise in conspiracy and violence.

However those things have plagued the right for years. I don’t quite get how some right-wing activists think it’s a newish thing?

christopherrufo.com/p/candace-ow...

READ IN FULL: The full transcript from Bev Turner's interview with Donald Trump The President sat down with Bev for GB News's US programme The Late Show Live

Imagine having a conspiracy-addled brain, sitting across from Donald Trump and NOT asking him about Jeffrey Epstein.
The mind boggles

www.gbnews.com/politics/us/...

What I Saw And Heard In Washington Groyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real

I’ve been writing about extremism on the right for many years, and people called it crazy or made up or overblown or “what about the other side”.

Now:

open.substack.com/pub/roddrehe...

YouTube video by AWKWORD GLOBAL WARNING: Emily Gorcenski (Ep 4)

“We're not going to react to every single thing that Trump does. We can't stop that. What we can do is we can help feed the hungry people in our community. We can help provide shelter and warmth to the houseless people in our community.”

- @emily.gorcen.ski

I have a chapter on white nationalism in this but the volume's real impact will be demonstrating the relevance of "race" for the study of the ancient past. W/ @katherineharloe.bsky.social @kataplexis.bsky.social @platanoclassics.bsky.social @twhittermarsh.bsky.social @aerl.bsky.social & many others

Is ICE retreating from Chicago?

chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Trump supporter and businessman are couple who 'shouted racist abuse' in London Police want to speak to Melissa Lively and Philipp Ostermann after an incident at a Tube station over the weekend

The woman wanted in connection with a racist attack in central London isn't a mere "Trump supporter", she's a former QAnon follower who destroyed a mask display in a shop, but apparently later left the Q movement. metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/t...

The Blaze’s Pipe-Bomb Bombshell Appears to Bomb The right-wing outlet claimed to solve the Jan. 6th pipe-bomb mystery. Things quickly looked less certain.

Amazing story about Jan 6 rioter turned Blaze reporter who appears to have falsely accused a police officer of planting a “false flag” pipe bomb outside the RNC.

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...