Mack Lamoureux
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Investigative reporter. Comms Manager at @ISDGlobal . Writing a book on QAnon cults for @PenguinCanada . Formerly @VICENews . Mediocre Grappler. ml @isdglobal .org
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Ecstatic to announce that I'm writing a book for
@PenguinRandomCA
on Romana Didulo, QAnon cults, conspiracies, and the weird adventures I've had covering them. Hoping like my past work it'll be equal parts funny and sad.
A massive thank to everyone who made this happen.
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I put the door opening robots video to the Jurassic Park theme because someone had to. Also, we're all going to die.
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Some of the worst people on this site, including its CEO, came together to falsely accuse a Jewish kid as a Neo-Nazi all to further a conspiracy that Feds are making them look bad.
His address was leaked and he was forced to leave his home. I spoke to him
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This is the Canadian equivalent of the large ship in the Suez Canal.
HAPPENING NOW: The TTC has closed the Royal York station's Grenview entrance due to a BEAVER.
Yes. A beaver.
TTC says they've notified the City of Toronto, Animal Services & Toronto Police. There is a supervisor currently watching the beaver.
Photo:
@jennabbott65
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The Guardian released a map of the area in Canada showing their readers where York Landing is (the small town RCMP are now searching for the teenage murder suspects.) It features the very famous Canadian landmarks of Qumbec and Montraal.
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The Canadian queen of the white nationalists went and found a picture of me from taken by a local paper six years ago when I was chubby as hell to show her displeasure at my reporting on her little army of racist sycophants.
That’s a new one.
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Swedish anti-fascists just leaked the customer registry (20,000 names and details) of white power store Midgard, ruining the holidays for thousands of neo-Nazis.
"The goal is always to give no alternative but to leave the movement,” they told told me.
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A U.K. neo-Nazi was just sentenced to 11 years in prison for creating videos that inspired the Buffalo shooter. It's further evidence of the transnational nature of the modern extreme-right.
The problem isn't a local or even national one, it's global.
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me: ...
the weakerthans: hey do you want an upbeat song about a depressed person written from the point of view of their neglected cat?
me: ...
the weakerthans: ...
me: ... yes
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Months ago Romana Didulo (the QAnon Queen of Canada) made a decree saying utilities were now free in the "Kingdom of Canada."
Many of her followers listened. They're now begging for help as utility companies are shutting off their power and water.
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Neo-Nazis held a public trial for "Boneface," a face-tatted member they championed till he was accused of lying bout fighting in the Ukraine war.
It all fell apart for "Boneface" when he was challenged to speak Ukrainian and just made vague Slavic noises.
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QAnon is goofy as all hell but at the heart of it are real people who have real relationships.
I found a few people willing to talk to me about having a loved one fall down this rabbit hole. What I heard was unnerving. Here are their stories:
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Ben Brody's life got turned upside down when Elon Musk and other conspiracy theorists accused him of being a neo-Nazi and "fed." Today Brody announced he's suing Musk.
He's being represented by Mark Bankston, who won the massive suit against Alex Jones.
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Owning the libs by making fun of them for crying at *checks notes* their fathers funeral and Auschwitz.
#TrudeauCried
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At dad's funeral (before entering politics)
At Auschwitz
At mosque shooting victims' funeral
At meeting Syrian refugees
Over death of Gord Downie
During apology for residential schools
and to LGBTQ2S Cdns
Thanks to
#cdnpoli
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The amount of abuse this rich anti-masker—who is only wealthy because his dad owns a Vaughn home development company—doles out to front-line low-wage workers is disgusting.
These supposed pro-business anti-mask influencers legit don't treat workers as human.
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Dark Foreigner, the main propagandists for Atomwaffen and likewise neo-Nazi groups (as well as being immensely influential on the whole aesthetics of the movement) is quietly running a graphic design company in Ottawa.
@BMakuch
and I tracked him down.
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A man snuck into the bedroom of a drunk 17-year-old girl, raped her, stole her phone, took video and photos of himself sexually assaulting her on it and posted them to Facebook. He plead guilty and was sentenced to two years this week.
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Last time I was in London, Ont, was to cover a PEGIDA anti-Muslim rally. This stuff is pervasive across Canada and we shouldn't act like it's not.
I don't want to take up oxygen here but, please, lets recognize this stuff has been festering here for a long, long time.
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Looks like Air BnB has a stronger stance against white nationalists using their platform than both Facebook and Youtube.
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A group of conspiracy theorists who follow a woman who has dubbed herself the Queen of Canada has gathered in Peterborough today in the goals of conducting citizen arrests against police officer.
“Citizen arrests today, time for the police to pay for their crimes.”
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The QAnon Queen of Canada has told her followers to 'shoot to kill' healthcare workers vaccinating children and arrest those facilitating it.
Her followers are giddy and doing what they can to aid the "duck hunters"—those chosen to carry out the violence.
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The 'freedom convoy' crew is little annoyed that most eyes are no longer on them.
“They are starting to twist the events by saying oh our suffering is somehow much less. NO IT IS NOT!” - one said, comparing vaccine mandates to being invaded by Russia.
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The guillotine finally fell.
After eight years I've been laid off from VICE News alongside a cadre of talented pals. It was a hell of a ride. Thanks so much for reading, watching, and listening to my work there. I hope you’ll be seeing it elsewhere sometime in the future.
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There are thousands of QAnon folks following a woman who they believe to be the secret ruler of Canada. They're organizing rapidly and sending out hundreds of cease and desists.
The woman, who claims to be Queen, is promising her subjects executions.
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While Romana Didulo's cult seems immensely goofy on the face, there lies a much more insidious story behind the scenes. I spent months trying to learn what was actually happening on the convoy. Huge thanks to all that spoke to me.
My latest:
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I always figured something would eventually break me mentally and emotionally. I never thought it would be the Berenst(a)ein Bears.
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These people are just trying to earn a goddamn living during a pandemic and they have to deal with a spoiled rich guy in his mid 30s trying to go viral.
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This Newfoundland seal stranded inland and just hanging out on a driveway is a big mood.
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A woman who runs a legitimate Disney-Princess-For-Hire company is creating anti-mask videos for parents to show their children. In them their favourite princess attempts to convince the kids not to follow mask regulations or socially distance.
My latest:
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I spent eight months investigating a militia that was forming in Canada. Here is the story.
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Months ago I was tipped off that the QAnon Queen of Canada was holed up outside a lovely little Nova Scotian town. So I packed up my bags and flew out there to answer a simple question:
What’s it like when a cult leader moves in next door?
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Jesus christ, the
#MacronLeaks
guy is on Infowars saying Macron's wife may have seduced him so that govt could "mind control" him with drugs
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Canada's top doctor is giving a coronavirus update while wearing flannel.
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Patrik Mathews, a Canadian member of the neo-Nazi terror group The Base, has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Mathews hopped the border and lived in the US illegally with members of The Base who prosecutors allege he planned a mass killing with.
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The fact that the one time Trump interacts with the worst media figure in Canada (a man who worships him) to just inadvertently shit on him is one of those rare rainbows in this hellworld.
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Did one final walk around and this were the biggest gathering I saw and it was significantly smaller than even 15 minutes ago.
This is the Way the Day Ends: Not with a Bang but Drunk People On a Street Corner.
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If Canadian media can’t find the spine to call Faith Goldy exactly what she is... I just don’t know anymore.
She’s an out and proud white nationalist—she doesn’t try to hide it.
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Police have killed five people—all people of colour—in the past few months during mental health or wellness checks in Canada. It’s clear something needs to change.
Here’s a deep dive on what’s been going on.
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In small town Saskatchewan with
@EVYSTADIUM
where a QAnon Cult has taken over an abandoned school. Today the cult holds a meet and greet the town is gonna protest.
If you go near the school the members follow and film but won’t say a word. It’s eerie. Spooked ‘em by accident.
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A famously unvaccinated NHLer suffered a side effect after a bout with COVID. Anti-vaxxers blamed vaccines anyways. Within a day the false info was retweeted by a sitting politician.
I took a look at how the conspiracy was laundered down the pipeline.
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This is a tent. You just invented a fucking tent.
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Won't lie when I first reported on this, this isn't how I pictured the suspects but you know what they say about assumptions.
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Hey friends, I’ve got a bit of personal news.
I’m extremely excited to announce that I’m joining
@ISDglobal
as their senior communications manager in the U.S. I've used ISD’s research for years as an extremism reporter, so I’m thrilled to be hopping on board.
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A conspiracy ripping through the anti-vax world may finally drive some anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers to do the unthinkable—wear a mask and keep their distance... so they can be protected from the vaccinated.
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Well, would you look at that... Facebook actually did something.
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Snoop Vs. Drake: greco-roman at dawn.
Winner gets the board man.
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Oh fuck no, we're not using "Albexit." That is not becoming a thing.
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This website isn’t just absolutely useless during breaking news events it’s downright harmful, my god.
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Twitter froze Maxime Bernier's account, after the leader of the Canadian fringe far-right party told his followers to go after specific journalists and shared their info.
His posts were, unsurprisingly, amplified by white nationalists and 4chan trolls.
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Love blossoming on an Alberta Separatist page.
"Boo refugees!"
"Yes! Boo refugeees!"
"You single?"
#ableg
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They're calling the police to ask them to come out and surrender themselves to be arrested. The police, well, do not seem to be cooperating.
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So.... uh... a new development involved in the northern BC murders involves the far-right, YouTube, Azoz Battalian, and nazi-armbands. (massive h/t to
@Justin_Ling
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The man who shot up a mall in Indiana, killing 3, seemingly posted a warning and nazi image to 4chan prior to the act.
@misstessowen
and I worked to confirm this and were able to do so from a photo of the shooters body being leaked online.
Our story:
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Using multiple sources, a huge amount of documents—both open source and not—
@bmakuch
,
@zacharykamel
and I tracked the Base form its beginning to the FBI raids earlier this year. This took months of work and thousands of words. I'm very happy it's done.
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The Canadian Convoy really needs to take a moment or two and think through calling themselves "88 United."
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The man who is alleged to have rammed down the gates in front of Justin Trudeau's home while armed with multiple guns shared conspiracy content on social media, some of which referenced QAnon.
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A man seemingly affiliated with the Order of Nine Angles was charged for sexually assaulting a minor and creating child pornography. O9A is a depraved far-right occult group whose adherents frequently are arrested for sexual crimes.
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Scoop: Two men connnected to neo-Nazi groups I've been looking into were planning a bank heist in New York.
"If we... turn this into an action thriller I'd prefer to have something really nice for the audience," one wrote about acquiring heavier weapons
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The man charged with the first degree murder of a Muslim man in Toronto seems to have connections to, or at least an affinity for the teachings of, the Order of Nine Angles. a satanic neo-Nazi group.
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For years the City of Hamilton has had one of Canada's highest profile neo-Nazis on staff in their IT department. Here is the story.
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Canada's worst troll was arrested trying to illegally cross the U.S. border. According to one person who tried to help, the attempt was laughable and involved him getting lost, forgetting a compass/outdoor gear, and having to be saved by border security.
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The PPC are getting crushed but don't expect the anger that fuelled them to large rallies to go anywhere post election.
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When the QAnon Queen of Canada raises money—and she's raised hundreds of thousands—she funnels it into her followers bank accounts, not her own. At times without permission. Now some former followers are having their accounts shut down for this.
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Some of Didulo's thousands of followers have volunteered to be "duck hunters" for her and follow these orders. They've created private chats where they're sharing info of vaccine pop-ups for children.
Like a lot of this stuff, it's goofy until it's not.
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For weeks now a small town in Saskatchewan has been waging a war with a QAnon cult that took over their abondoned school.
@EVYSTADIUM
and I spent three days with the locals as they planned their counterpunch against their new neighbours.
Our dispatch:
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Absolutely dying at Kenney’s little sheriff badge.
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Breaking news is difficult and mistakes are bound to happen. No shade to the Guardian for this... I just thought Qumbec was funny.
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One of her followers uploaded some footage of their brouhaha with the cops that led to some Romana Didulo followers being arrested. I've embeded it here as not to drive people to the Telegram page.
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Trump accidentally dunking on his little idiot Canadian fanboy is the best thing he’s done as a legislator.
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They've reached the police station where the guy at the centre of it is requesting Didulo bring in the military to remove those "arrested." However, they've encountered a locked door and are mystified at what to do.
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This video of this guy fighting off three robbers with a bong is better than anything you'll see at TIFF this year.
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Hopefully all the people who believed the PPC were going to sweep into power and overthrow the orthodoxy (or at least win a fair number of seats) use this as an opportunity to question who and where they're getting their information from.... but probably not.
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She's now talking about aliens and how everyone saw an alien space craft over the Peterborough police station which, again, if you're familiar with Didulo and her rhetoric is par for the course.
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I'm not gonna lie... feels a bit strange to make fun of Scheer for his upbringing when the Prime Minister basically grew up as the villain in a 1980s ski comedy.
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There is an online community where children are being sextorted into self-harm, creating CSAM, animal abuse, and worse. It's a community where "being the most evil" is the goal. If the latter part sounds childish, well, it is.
These are kids hurting kids.
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Research shows the man charged with a plot to shoot up a NYC synagogue likely had a long history of posting
neo-Nazi shit on Twitter, including multiple threats to synagogues dating back years.
Thanks to
@mattkriner
and
@travisbrown
for chatting/sharing.
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Check in with me next week as I lose my tenuous grip on reality cause everything is really weird and dumb!
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Seems there are a few more police actions going down to evict the rest of the folks. A couple arrests occurring where l last saw protestors last night.
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My family lost someone. It fucking sucks. I didn't know what to do so I wrote about what it's like to deal with loss during this pandemic. If you're dealing with something similar... I dunno, maybe this will help.
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It's a good thing to debate the merits of enacting the Emergency Act—but the idea there are no racists, neo-Nazis, or white supremacists in Canada is complete hogwash.
Nazis; white supremacists. These simply do not exist in Canada. There's no culture of such things in Canada, political or otherwise.
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I have been bestowed with the blue checkmark which means my days as a Bad-Boy-Journalist-Outsider™ are over. It's business reporting, lattes, and talking down to the filthy unwashed masses from here on out, folks.
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@BMakuch
and I have confirmed that the government is designating Atomwaffen Division and the Base as terror organizations at a press conference later today. Story forthcoming.
This comes after
@alexboutilier
confirmed they'll also be designating the Proud Boys.
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I wrote a homage to John Dunsworth and Mr. Lahey, my favourite character in television history.
RIP you beauty.
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A Quebec couple found a live frog in a SOLID green pepper. The mystery broke me and in my quest to find out how I spoke to the Canadian Herpetological Society, a man who studies the physiology of plants, and two illusionists.
Here is my investigation.
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Lots wrong here.
Didn't meet on Steam, were friends from childhood.
There's been literally nothing reported about "cosplaying as nazis and Soviets." Schmegelsky sent a Steam user a photo of a neo-Nazi armband and Hitler Youth knife.
You just straight up crowbarred Antifa in.
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Prominently featuring a skull mask in the poster for the trucker convoy movie you’re making is certainly a choice.
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Lots of people are going to dunk on this but many of her followers are vulnerable—some seniors on fixed incomes—and this may have a profoundly negative impact on them. Getting your power turned off and going thousands of dollars into debt is no joke.
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From the sounds of it, I think they're going to do a sort of kind of ritualistic arrest without the police present. If they do it'll almost certainly just be a mishmash of sovereign citizen gobbledygook.
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Lyndon McLeod, a small manosphere figure, killed 5 people in Dec. For much of 2021—particularly the last month—he was making a 47-min film. It features him outside some victims' homes and loading a van with weapons.
Those close to him are now selling it.
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The crew seems pretty frustrated. One of the main livestreamers is challenging a man there disrupting the event by yelling "hail Satan" and "vaccine saves lives" to a fight.
"One single headbutt and you're going through a wall buddy."
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Lost in the mix of the the anti-mask hysterics/stunts are the people who actually deal with them.
More often than not it is the folks working low-wage front line jobs who deal with the real world repercussions of the conspiracies. I spoke with a few.
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"Ms. Shepherd, on the 75th anniversary of D-day, when you go on shows that discuss white population replacement, try and remember who the Nazis are." - Nathaniel Erskine-Smith
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Didulo very clearly wants to separate herself from the actions of people who were arrested. Saying they were only there to "peacefully observe"—even though the entire thing was planned by a follower around one of her "decrees" and she amplified it and attended it.
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Patrik Mathews—the CAF neo-Nazi who was outed as a member of The Base and promptly went missing—is likely being harbored in the US and is helping train the Nazi group.
@BMakuch
,
@ZacharyKamel
, and I worked very hard and very long on this one. Here it is.
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Expect more tactics like this. Most don't need to hear this but if you're gonna report on the PPC and the like (and it seems more journos in Canada are) best to have all your stuff locked up and maybe do a check to see if you can be easily doxxed.
If you need tips toss me a DM.
Journalists have a legal and ethical obligation to send questions and request comment from our politicians. Going after them for doing their basic duty is unacceptable and dangerous behaviour.
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A reporter became ill on air.
Articles were written blaming the vaccine, posts shared en mass, and she was harassed so badly by the anti-vax mob who so desperately want to pin all public medical issues to the vax she had to lock down her twitter account and issue a statement.
A message from Jessica Robb: On Sunday night, a very personal and vulnerable moment unfolded as I reported live on air.
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