[The assailant] didn’t run away from the police when they showed up, and Facebook allowed him to leave that video up because they claimed it wasn’t violent enough [to take down], since I wasn’t injured severely. So he continued to get praise and adulation from the anti-vaccine community for actually laying hands on me.
And then after that yet another
[anti-vaccine activist] threw blood on to the senate floor. Just to put that in the context, the California state legislature has been meeting in those legislative chambers for 150 years and those public galleries have been up there in that same building for that same amount of time. It was the first example I have found of someone intentionally throwing something from the public gallery at legislators while they were conducting the people’s business on the floor below.
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QAnon, the right-wing conspiracy theory community, had another bad day on Thursday.
Following the letdown of Jan. 20 when, contrary to QAnon belief, former President Donald J. Trump did not declare martial law, announce mass arrests of satanic pedophiles and stop President Biden from taking office some QAnon believers revised their predictions.
They told themselves that “the storm” the day of reckoning, in QAnon lore, when the global cabal would be brought to justice would take place on March 4. That is the day that U.S. presidents were inaugurated until 1933, when the 20th Amendment was ratified and the date was moved to January. Some QAnon believers thought that it would be the day that Mr. Trump would make a tri
How QAnon Began â And Became A Domestic Terror Threat
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Less than three years after it started on an anonymous far-right message board, the QAnon conspiracy theory was being praised by the president of the United States.
On August 19, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if he had anything to say to followers of QAnon. Speaking in the White House briefing room, Trump said, I don t know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate, adding that it was gaining in popularity and consisted of people that love our country.
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When local presidential historian Dr. Larry Cook gave a presentation to the Wyoming Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution two years ago, he noticed something.
In preparing for his talk, the Dallas resident delved into his extensive personal archive of presidential memorabilia and discovered five former first ladies who were members of the DAR. He made that the focus of his presentation, and the topic proved to be extremely popular with the group.
Later, while speaking to several historian friends about first ladies who were affiliated with the DAR, they were all interested and even suggested to Cook that he should write a book.