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Posts by Mike Wendling

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Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread Despite some headlines, a new poll does not show that most Americans no longer trust vaccines.

That viral poll about vaccine hesitancy is not all it seems. Confidence in vaccines has decreased recently but it’s not as tenuous as the Politico poll made out, because the question was poorly worded.

www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/v...

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Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in personal income and gifts, on top of his £94,00...

With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻

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The Dark Truth About Pizzagate
The Dark Truth About Pizzagate YouTube video by Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson, leader of the Paranoid Style, leans into Pizzagate. It might not be true BUT something seems up with that strange apparent code (true) AND nobody’s asking questions(false). Oh and “there’s no white person in America who drinks grape soda”.

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A picture I took at a grassroots pro-Trump rally in the Detroit suburbs two years ago.

Other than the man in the White House, what’s changed?

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Epstein’s crimes were real. Pizzagate was fake A new generation has latched on to an old conspiracy theory.

A reminder of what's true and false about Epstein and Pizzagate
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JD Vance mentioned Pizzagate and conspiracyland is losing its mind
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The wild Geese chase Read to the end for a great Bluesky post

And an interesting take which argues, bad story, bad headline. The company could be full of shit
www.garbageday.email/p/the-wild-g...

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The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was.

Good story, bad headline.
It’s a shady marketing campaign, not a “psychological operation”

www.wired.com/story/geese-...

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Yep, was in the papers when the story broke

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Private Eye on Scott Mills… and Anna Brees

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Yeah that’s because she was largely trading on her work for the BBC. not a sin, I used to be in their full-time employ too. (For about 10x as long as anna but whatevs, I guess that just makes me brainwashed) But for a conspiracist it’s a tough needle to thread

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She was right! Like a stopped clock

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Timeline of events before Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 The DJ was abruptly taken off air last week over allegations relating to his personal conduct

Anna Brees, formerly @breesanna on X, noted Covid conspiracist and one-time BBC journalist a while ago, reported Scott Mills to the BBC but nobody investigated. She was on to something for once and then suddenly deleted her account. The girl who cried wolf.
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Far-right tycoon boosts anti-vax propaganda Elon Musk pushes a conspiracy theory, yet again

Anti-vaxxers are whooping it up over Elon Musk’s promotion of propaganda from “Peter Sweden”. Here’s a tale of MAHA meeting Europe’s far-right on the ultimate radicalization timeline – and I traced it all the way to its original source.

thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/far-right-...

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I'm making a radio doc about prediction markets. Are you a trader or do you know one? michael.wendling@bbc.co.uk

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Sounds like a deal lol

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Charlie Kirk Murder Conspiracy - Just Facts Get rigorously documented facts that set the record straight.

When right-wing fact checkers feel compelled to call out Candace Owens over her Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories, you know all is not right in the MAGA character universe.

www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n000...

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Nobody was talking about this now everybody will be talking about this

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Something new is definitely happening here.

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Groypers are putting the next generation of Republican leadership at risk College Republican associations have a groyper problem.

Conservatives are starting to cotton on but still don't entirely get it. The far-right folks aren't "putting the next generation of Republican leadership at risk" - they ARE the next generation.

nypost.com/2026/03/31/o...

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Teachers union warns of 'masculinity crisis' brewing in schools NASWUT's leader said there is a

Generally: liberals are clueless about how to deal with this, conservatives deny there’s a problem, most in authority don’t really understand. Fathers and mothers (but mostly fathers) this is on us.

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You can only ride the tiger for so long.

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The MAGA hivemind loves to use conspiracy theories to bash those libs, but conspiracy theories are now eating the movement from the inside

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Ideologies can blind, and in this case “own the libs” made a lot of people stick their fingers in their ears and hum loudly.

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Arthur Brooks: Why Your Neighbor Became a Conspiracy Theorist. And Maybe You, Too. Millions of Americans aren’t just misinformed. They’re searching for coherence in a world that no longer provides it, writes Arthur Brooks.

Yet another story in a conservative publication fretting about conspiracy theories. It’s a trend.

The authors may have noticed that QAnon believers were among those rioting at the Capitol five years ago.

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Oh wait I’m sorry! It’s “none of the above”

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BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, Fight on the Right: The MAGA Civil War What's behind the growing schism within the Make America Great Again coalition?

“Cracks have begun to emerge in the broad coalition of America's political right”

@wendling.bsky.social, author of Alt-Right, speaks on BBC Radio 4 about the MAGA Civil War:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, Fight on the Right: The MAGA Civil War What's behind the growing schism within the Make America Great Again coalition?

“Cracks have begun to emerge in the broad coalition of America's political right”

@wendling.bsky.social, author of Alt-Right, speaks on BBC Radio 4 about the MAGA Civil War:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Reporting on your pet conspiracy theory isn't "bias" Why focus on "right-wing" conspiracy theories over "left-wing" ones?

If not, I can tell you why:

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Following the hack-and-leak of Kash Patel’s emails will there be:
A) uproar over “censorship”, a la Hunter Biden laptop?
B) conspiracy theories about a fictitious pedophile cabal, a la Pizzagate?
C) furious denials that Iran is interfering with US politics, a la “Russiagate”?

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