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Media reporter @washingtonpost . Author of "Trust the Plan," a book on QAnon out now. Email: will.sommer -at- . Signal: willsommer.38.

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TRUST THE PLAN is here! Today is pub day for my new book on QAnon that the New York Times called "punchy and well-reported." It's available in print, ebook, and audio on Amazon, Bookshop, your local bookstore, and everywhere else!
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Kanye has stormed out of his Tim Pool interview tonight after just 20 minutes, after Pool offered him the slightest pushback to his anti-Semitism.
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This filing in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News is one of the most remarkable documents I've ever seen. Filled with private texts between Fox stars like Hannity and Carlson, plus Murdoch, all admitting they knew Fox's stolen election claims were lies.
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Alex Jones is getting roasted on cross-examination, as Sandy Hook lawyer Mark Bankston plays video for the jury of Jones slamming the jurors as "blue collar" people who "don't know what planet they are on."
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The Sandy Hook jury verdict is in for the Alex Jones - InfoWars trial in Connecticut, and it's looking enormous. One plaintiff alone is getting $120 million.
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Emotional Capital Gazette staffer interview just now on CNN: "Thanks for your prayers, but I couldn't give a fuck about them if there's nothing else."
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Hundreds of Trump fans were left stranded yesterday after buses to take them to DC never showed up. Organizers claim the bus company is biased against conservatives, but the bus company has a simpler explanation: they were never paid.
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Lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents says in a hearing that he's received multiple law enforcement requests for Alex Jones's phone, and plans to hand it over immediately today unless the judge prevents him from doing it.
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Kanye's InfoWars appearance is starting off great.
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Trump's "major announcement" turns out to be a series of $99 NFTs that are ugly even by the usual NFT standards.
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I'm reading Sidney Powell's much-hyped "kraken" legal filing. So far, she misspells her key expert's name twice — his name is William Briggs, she calls him "Williams Briggs" and "William Higgs."
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Alex Jones tells the Sandy Hook jury any judgments above $2 million "will sink us." Evidence introduced earlier in the trial showed that InfoWars makes as much as $800,000 a day.
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This anti-Trump arson and graffiti attack became a big cause celebre on the right in 2020 as proof of liberal violence. Now the feds say it was staged by the pro-Trump property owner as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
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Twitter has permanently banned Jacob Wohl for creating fake accounts, hours after he openly bragged about creating fake accounts.
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MyPillow magnate Mike Lindell is releasing a 3-hour movie Friday he claims will prove the election was stolen. If his movie fails to catch on, Lindell predicts it will mean the end times out of the Book of Revelation — "We pray and we go to heaven, it's over."
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The cameraman at the QAnon convention just inexplicably spent 30 seconds zoomed in on a speaker’s bare feet.
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Twitter won't unban Laura Loomer, even after she won a GOP primary last night. Twitter statement: "We do not plan to reverse that enforcement action."
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Roughly 12 hours since Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes disappeared during a live broadcast of his show, and it's still not clear whether it's a prank, he was arrested, or something else happened. No confirmation from any law enforcement agencies so far.
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QAnon believers say they're fighting a pedophile cabal. Today, I've got a story on a leading Q promoter whose ill-advised defamation lawsuit against a local paper revealed his own criminal relationship and sexually charged text messages with a teenager.
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How's Milo Yiannopoulos's attempt to represent himself in a lawsuit going? Oh...
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I’m reading a lot of anti-COVID vaccine forums, and it’s striking how quickly the posters fold and get the vaccine as soon as it’s mandated by their jobs/colleges/govs. The other posters tell them to go off the grid and live in the woods, but not a lot of takers on that idea.
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The world of QAnon has erupted in civil war after QAnon hero Michael Flynn was caught on tape calling QAnon "nonsense."
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Some QAnon news: QAnon figure Austin Steinbart, who goes by the alias "Baby Q" and has claimed to be the leader of QAnon visiting from the future via time travel, just filed to act as his own attorney in a federal felony case. What could go wrong?
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Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman appear at their felony arraignment in Michigan
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Remember the doctor's group pushing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as Covid cures? I've got a story today on where the money they earned — at least $10 million — went. It involves a mansion, a $100K private jet trip, and an underwear model.
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Hundreds of QAnon supporters are back in Dallas's Dealey Plaza awaiting JFK Jr's return and singing "We Are the World."
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I got the boot from the Dalls QAnon conference, after legally buying a ticket and having no reason to believe I was unwelcome. Saw some pretty weird stuff over the last two days — stay tuned for my book on QAnon for more!
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At least 100 QAnon supporters convinced JFK is coming back are still in Dallas. Today they stood on a bridge over Dealey Plaza for the anniversary of the assassination, but JFK and JFK Jr. never showed.
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Sandy Hook families just won a court victory against Alex Jones that gives them access to InfoWars internal financial documents.
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Things are not going great at the pro-Trump The Donald forum after the GSA transition announcement.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested this morning on a DWI charge
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Twitter just suspended pro-Trump YouTube prankster @joeysalads , a failed GOP congressional candidate who once donned a swastika for a prank and urinated in his own mouth.
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Boom: Sandy Hook lawyer reveals that Alex Jones's lawyers accidentally gave him a copy of Jones's entire phone, which he now plans to use as proof that Jones lied under oath about not having relevant text messages: "Do you know what perjury is?"
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Trump supporters on 4Chan and Reddit cheering the net neutrality repeal is some real cows voting for the slaughterhouse type stuff.
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Milo Yiannopoulos has been fired from the Ye / Kanye entourage after a series of disastrous media appearances that saw the candidate praising Hitler. Milo says in an email that there was a “mutual conclusion that I should step away.”
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Here's how disinformation spreads. Someone is shot at a rally in Denver, various right-wing personalities instantly claim antifa did it and rack up thousands of RTs. The police say the suspect wasn't connected to antifa, but that gets a fraction of the attention.
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Looks like George Papadopoulos's wife forgot to switch accounts before posting. Quickly deleted this tweet.
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It’s hard to think of a worse use of money for Democrats right now than donating to Amy McGrath.
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Probably not a great sign for Lin Wood and Sidney Powell in their election fraud sanctions hearing that one of their main lawyers appears to be crying.
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New: Pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander has apologized after being accused of asking teenagers for dick pics. In one message, Alexander allegedly complained that a 15-year-old wasn’t sending him “Jack off material.”
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They couldn't handle the truth.
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QAnon fans were initially excited about new MAGA social app Gettr, but they're growing irate as moderators fail to keep lewd anime pics and the "pig poop balls" meme out of the QAnon hashtag. One of the top results now features Sonic the Hedgehog crushing a guy with his feet.
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The Arizona “audit” coming out tomorrow didn’t just confirm Biden won. Biden actually gained votes in their recount, while Trump lost hundreds, according to a draft report.
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This bus company let the anti-impeachment crew order multiple interstate buses on 8 hours notice — that's less planning than you put into the hotel shuttle at a wedding! But they refused to work for free on a $10K+ job, so now they're part of the deep state or something.
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Surprise: Two days before being deposed in a Sandy Hook lawsuit, Alex Jones of InfoWars came down with an unnamed medical condition this afternoon — an emergency his lawyer says in a new court filing means Jones can't be deposed this week after all.
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Candace Owens and other pro-Trump media figures have told their fans to pay $500 for the Freedom Phone, billed as the "best phone in the world." In reality, it's a budget Chinese phone that sells elsewhere for a fraction of that price.
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Matt Gaetz claimed antifa infiltrated the Capitol riot, citing cited facial recognition data. Now the tech company at the center of that claim says it's a hoax and is demanding a retraction.
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Trump and his allies have embraced @stella_immanuel , a doctor with a viral video saying masks aren't needed. But Immanuel has also claimed that some medical issues are caused by sex with demons and witches, and that alien DNA is used in medical treatment.
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Exclusive: Jacob Wohl caught on tape trying to concoct a sexual assault smear against Pete Buttigieg and promising to make the accuser wealthy. Now the supposed victim says Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman made it all up.
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InfoWars punitive verdict is in unanimously: roughly $44 million.
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Burkman continues to praise Wohl, who's 20: “Jacob is on of the brightest and most capable people i’ve ever met...Jacob's a lot smarter than I am.” A heckler brings up Wohl's lifetime ban from futures trading: "He can't even open an eTrade account!"
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Silk is insinuating that Diamond’s death was caused by the vaccine, but Diamond was a huge anti-vaxxer. Is Silk saying Diamond got the vaccine herself, even as she told her fans not to get it?
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BREAKING: Silk reveals the possible reason for Diamond's death. WATCH! #RipDiamond
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Wohl is fuming again that someone photoshopped him into a corncob: "One of them had a picture of corn!"
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Looks like Candace Owens is getting a lot of use out of her Freedom Phone.
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There's a big feud breaking out tonight between two of the biggest names in right-wing media. It pits Steven Crowder against Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, all over a $50 million offer for Crowder that he found so offensive he leaked the terms of the offer.
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Milo Yiannopoulos, now more than $2 million in debt, has resorted to auctioning stuff on Instagram.
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How it started / how it's going, Newsmax edition
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Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's office to protest being banned from the site. Incredible.
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The Dominion filing offers the best look inside Fox's internal operations that we've had in years, maybe ever. It shows Fox operating as many suspected: no compunctions about lying to viewers, and desperately tacking right to avoid losing market share to competitors like Newsmax.
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The state of the American right: Newsmax anchor @gregkellyusa had to walk back his criticism of the Myanmar coup because too many of his fans support military coups. Kelly is now coup-ambivalent.
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Sandy Hook families have scored another legal win against Alex Jones, with a Texas judge issuing two orders requiring Jones and InfoWars to pay $100K in sanctions and legal fees.
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The texts show Fox trapped in a dilemma of its own making, afraid to admit the election was honest bc they'll lose viewers to Newsmax. Tucker rages and tries to get Fox reporter @JacquiHeinrich fired after she admits the election wasn't stolen.
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Sebastian Gorka is getting very riled up about a parody Nintendo account.
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Milo's legal battle is not going great so far
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Yet another Milo Yiannopoulos tour has collapsed, leaving him even further in debt.
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I just got back from a hipster coffee shop where everyone was talking about how this story seems almost certainly false and planted by Jacob Wohl himself
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Michigan's attorney general is investigating a voter-suppression robocall allegedly created by blundering conservative operative Jacob Wohl.
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A brief history of James O'Keefe self-owns, in light of today's WaPo story 1/
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Turns out it wasn’t a good idea for Alex Jones to spend a day yelling at the head of the one social network that hadn’t already banned him.
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The deafening cheers from the audience after Trump says "kung flu" make for a good reminder that Turning Point USA has been exposed, repeatedly, for having racist members in leadership positions
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Trump once against refers to coronavirus with the racist "Kung Flu" moniker, prompting huge cheers from his Turning Point Action audience. He then expresses confusion about what the "19" in "Covid-19" stands for.
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Here's Rupert Murdoch telling Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to focus on winning the GA Senate races for Republicans, "helping any way we can."
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This is just stunning. Police hit a peaceful crowd with tear gas and flash bangs 20 minutes before the curfew even started.
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A chaotic scene has unfolded as police throw explosions and sprays into the crowd. They just gave protesters a warning over speaker that curfew was going into effect. Scary scene as people ran away.
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“Sorry about tweeting ‘burn the Jews.’ Just one of my fans...”
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I did not see the hashtag. Just trying to share the trailer on social media
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Tucker Carlson repeatedly frets in text messages to his producer that Trump is a "demonic force" who could "destroy" him if Carlson missteps: "He's the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong."
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News in QAnon world today: Veronica Wolski, a Covid denier known for hanging QAnon signs on bridges, died of Covid last night. QAnon believers, led by Lin Wood, had been deluging the hospital with demands that she receive ivermectin. Cops were called last night amid bomb threats.
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Is @sebgorka the most pranked major talk radio host? A prankster called into his show this afternoon and asked if it was true that Gorka tried to join the KKK, but couldn't join because they couldn't find a hood big enough for his head. Gorka quickly cut him off.
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Not sure how I’m going to recover from Jordan Peterson tweeting a male milking fetish video because he thinks it’s a real Chinese government policy.
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As part of his private border wall scheme, Brian Kolfage and We Build the Wall vilified a nearby butterfly sanctuary and accused it of being involved in drug trafficking. Naturally, the sanctuary is thrilled by today's indictments:
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WE TOLD YOU SO!!! From the beginning, we said this was a Bannon scheme to raise dark money for the administration & help @FisherSandG defraud the government. We are sure there will be more coming out...Just wait!!! Oh, and SUCK IT, @BrianKolfage
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I ditched the Jan. 6 protest today to attend a basset hound convention in Virginia. Pretty happy with that decision, saw some hungry bassets compete in a pie-eating contest.
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The pro-Trump Navy SEAL who became famous claiming he killed Bin Laden is getting very heated about the new Trump-endorsed conspiracy theory that he actually killed a body double.
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"Watch the Water" is trending on Twitter. It's a reference to a new right-wing "documentary" with a QAnon slogan as its title that claims — not kidding here — that snake blood was put in the vaccines to inject us with Satan's DNA.
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Baked Alaska got banned permanently from Twitter and now he's ranting outside a McDonald's that "Twitter cannot get away with this"
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There's a sizable crowd of QAnon believers in Dallas's Dealey Plaza, where they're convinced JFK Jr. and plenty of other dead celebrities will return. Lots of talk online about Kobe Bryant and Robin Williams.
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Lots of anger in the QAnon group chats, with many people saying they want to throw up as they realize the mass arrests won't happen. If you or someone close to you is reconsidering QAnon after today, my DMs / email (will.sommer at ) are open.
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Mike Cernovich is doing a livestream about Trump caving on the shutdown, and he's had to say several times that he's not crying.
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Baked Alaska’s plan to livestream his crimes is not going great
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Incredible watching Trump supporters cheer as the president proves he can hold a water glass with only one hand.
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Breitbart and Matt Boyle getting fed the warrant, then being unable to describe what’s actually in it because it would make Trump look bad, is incredibly funny.
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The documents obtained by @BreitbartNews include the warrant, two accompanying attachments specifying terms for the warrant, and a property receipt outlining the inventory federal agents seized from Mar-a-Lago
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Michael Cohen spent Trump's money on a Twitter account talking about how hot Michael Cohen is, and the results are incredible.
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Cirsten Weldon, a top QAnon promoter, called vaccine recipients gullible "idiots" and warned people at a vaccine site that the shots would kill them. On Thursday, Weldon died of COVID.
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Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, last seen chaining herself to Twitter HQ, has jumped the fence at Nancy Pelosi's Napa home and set up a tent protesting immigration. Now she's chanting "Nancy, Nancy!"
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