This is wild.

Fascinating morning here. Covering an anti-IVF protest in Charlotte, NC (more on that later). A participant was arrested apparently for having a gun w/o a permit. His group was shouting, “Let him go” as counter-protesters were alternately shouting “Lock him up” and “F— the cops.”

‘Flynn’ portrays the Christian nationalist evangelist’s fight with the ‘Deep State’ religionnews.com/2024/04/19/fly… by Tess Owen

A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They're there for the same conference. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c… by Brandy Zadrozny

All these guys are going to die on the first day of the zombie apocalypse.

Leftists cheering on a Trump win because things aren’t as bad as they were warned of are ironically proving why Democrats winning is so important.

They are literally saying the country is more democratic than warned because Biden one. The lack of thought on this is wild.

MAGA Influencers Tearing Each Other Apart Over Israel-Hamas War rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Allow me to retort:

THIS IS FUCKING STUPID. jacobin.com/2024/04/libera…

Richmond man ‘ranted’ that hospital favored non-whites, threatened staff before police found hundreds of guns, 11,000 pounds of ammo at his home mercurynews.com/2024/04/15/ric…

I will not be linking to or direction quoting what this individual published today or any of the writings that were published during the past year. However, I will note that this individual used a significant amount of apocalyptic language, with no apparent coherent ideology.

The individual who self immolated outside the courthouse in New York, did so nearly exactly a year-to-the-day from when they first began publishing a newsletter (which currently remains available online) — these writings include several familiar and fringe conspiracy theories.

The man who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial has been named as Max Azzarello; last year he filed suit against the Clinton Foundation, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg and others. He appeared to believe that crypto was a gigantic scam by the world's most powerful people...

My weekly report breaking down news and highlights from every venue where Donald Trump is indicted is live:
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This Washingtonian 🌸 piece by Andrew Beaujon on why and how WAMU 88.5's leaders killed DCist and laid off 16 reporters is the definitive, must-read account of what happened, and why people who worked there (and may still be there) are angry about it: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…

This video, viewed over 400,000 times, claims to show footage of an alleged retaliatory attack by Israel in Isfahan, Iran, today.

But the same video was posted yesterday, claiming to show missiles fired from Lebanon landing in northern Israel.

Police identify 7 suspects in alleged anti-LGBTQ assault on two Michigan State students nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-ne…

.Melissa Ryan: 'Roe’s fall has laid bare the America that Trump and the MAGA Right want, and how catastrophic a second Trump presidency would be for America.' altrightdelete.news/p/fascist-hell…