QAnon

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that the crowd at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, last Saturday night was “giving what looks frightening like a Nazi salute.”

MSNBC host Ari Melber said Tuesday on his show “The Beat” that the next generation of Republicans was “organized around election lies, science lies, QAnon lies.”

Wednesday on “Deadline,” MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson accused Republican senators questioning Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson of “flogging” her with “crazy QAnon” conspiracies.

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said  Tuesday on “The Last Word” that the Republican senators questioning Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson were trying to tie her to child pornography “to activate QAnon voters in November.”

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that she believed Republican members of Congress were giving tours the day before to the people who were involved in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

A new intelligence bulletin drafted by the FBI highlights the risk the QAnon conspiracy theory poses to the United States.

The Flynn family says CNNLOL — an extremist, far-left Blue Anon outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, fake news, and promotes blacklists and violence against Trump supporters — lied about them being followers of QAnon.

California Governor Gavin Newsom attempted to deflect efforts to recall him by linking Monday to a website that blames “national Republicans, anti-vaxxers, Q-Anon conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant Trump supporters” for the campaign.

Comedy Central’s South Park devoted an hour-long special episode Wednesday to parodying the coronavirus vaccine and QAnon followers who refuse to take the jab.

An essay published in the Nation on Friday warns of the convergence of New Age trends with right-wing extremist political conspiracies and how the “real threat” emanates not from those who breached the Capitol in January but from “self-serious Republicans” like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and those “who aren’t easily denounced as extremists.”

Friday, FNC’s Tucker Carlson hit the media and Democrat members of Congress for playing up the threat of a so-called QAnon incursion that did not occur.

After warning to brace for violence at the Capitol by “QAnon crackpots” who believed former President Trump would return to power on March 4 (the country’s original Inauguration Day), with a militant group possibly plotting to breach the Capitol again, the Washington Post followed up by declaring the supposed threats a mere “mirage.”

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that speeches by former President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week emboldened those who want to take up arms against the U.S. government.

The Washington Post published an op-ed on Monday discussing the idea of launching a war-on-terror style campaign against domestic right-wing extremists and listing reasons why such a move may do more harm than good.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) attacks against House Republicans for their alleged support for the QAnon conspiracy theory have received backlash from some Democrats themselves.

An Army commander recently briefed U.S. Special Forces candidates and trainees they could be detained or chaptered out of the Army if they are found affiliated with certain imagery popular on the political right that is now considered to be associated with extremism, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace predicted on Wednesday’s broadcast of “Deadline” that many House Republicans were “going home in two years” for not removing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her committee appointments.

The New York Times published an essay on Tuesday detailing a range of recommendations for the Biden administration to adopt to fix the “reality crisis.”

Several House Republicans want to remove far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her committee assignments based on her history of advancing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

On Monday, the Washington Post published an op-ed by columnist Brian Klaas whereby he expresses the near futility of attempting to “deprogram” millions of Trump supporters, claiming that many have “gone far enough down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking.”

Facebook has reportedly blacklisted more than 78,000 users of its main platform and Instagram for violating the company’s policies against posting content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory and “militarized” social movements.

Britain’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was censored from Facebook on Friday, as Silicon Valley tech giants turn their censorship apparatus upon the radical left in the U.S. and the UK.

(AFP) — The mysterious “Q” behind the QAnon conspiracy movement, which was instrumental in the storming of the US Capitol, is in fact two people, according to Swiss experts.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Republicans are focusing on the Rep. Eric Swalwell scandal because they are trying to distract from QAnon.

NBC News reporter Kristen Welker won high plaudits for her performance moderating last week’s final debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Friday criticized President Trump’s “unwillingness to denounce an absurd and dangerous conspiracy theory” — a reference to Thursday night’s town hall with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, who demanded the president to unequivocally denounce the QAnon theory.

CNN’s Jake Tapper said Friday on his show “The Lead” that President Donald Trump was continuing “to spread and endorse these deranged conspiracy theories” by not condemning QAnon.

YouTube announced on Thursday that it will ban content that promotes the QAnon theory. YouTube follows both Facebook and Twitter, which have both made an active effort to curb the presence of the QAnon movement on their respective platforms.

I have no idea what QAnon is. It’s like GamerGate and the word “agency.” One of my goals in life, and I don’t have many, is to die without knowing what any of those things mean.

rump, during a town hall in Miami with NBC News, denounced white supremacy yet again. “You always do this,” Trump said. “I denounced white supremacy.”

Social media giant Facebook recently announced that it would ban all accounts related to the QAnon theory across both its main platform and Instagram.

Friday on both CBS’s “This Morning” and CNN’s “New Day,” Vice President Mike Pence said he had no knowledge of the QAnon conspiracy theory and dismissed it “out of hand.”

Social media giant Facebook recently removed 980 groups linked to Antifa along with hundreds of pages and advertisements. In the same move, the company removed almost 800 QAnon groups.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was largely unaware of the QAnon movement online, but appreciated its support.

In a sweeping move across the platform, Twitter has banned 7,000 accounts related to the “QAnon” movement and limited another 150,000.

In a tweet, Krugman speculated that it “could be an attempt to Qanon me.”