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Travis View

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Father. Husband. Tap water goblin. QAnon Anonymous podcast host. QAnon, conspiracy theories, disinfo, and other signs of the dystopia. Email: travis @ Qanonanonymous.com

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello, new followers of my Bluesky account. Here's my long introductory thread. I’m Travis View. At least, that’s my pen name.

I’m a host of the QAA Podcast (formerly QAnon Anonymous). Since 2018 we’ve covered how online conspiracism and extremism crept into the mainstream.
www.qanonanonymous.com

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: Turning Point’s Christian Revival

Turning Point USA’s first tour stop after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 was at the University of Minnesota, and for many the experience was spiritual.

Turning Point’s Christian Revival - UNICORN RIOT

Turning Point USA’s first tour stop after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 was at the University of Minnesota, and for many the experience was spiritual.

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 4d

That's pretty cool. It reminds me of how surgeons tend to say that Scrubs is the most accurate televised depiction of medical internship.

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 4d

Nice argument you have there. Unfortunately I have already depicted me as the smug Colonel Robert Hogan and you as the bumbling Hans Schultz.

the smug Colonel Robert Hogan and the bumbling Hans Schultz

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 4d

Hogan's Heroes was a weird show. It was a sitcom about allied WWII airmen in a German POW camp that premiered in 1965, when WWII vets were entering their 40s.

Lots of guys thought, "Sure, I'll sit and chuckle at a televised depiction of the period of my life where I lived in a Nazi war prison."

Cast photo of the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes"

Sergeant Hans Schultz played by John Banner
Colonel Robert Hogan played by Bob Crane
Kommandant Wilhelm Klink played by Werner Klemperer

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 10d

Going through some nearly 200-year-old correspondence. People don't write this beautifully any more.

Click "Alt" to read the transcription.

Dear Weed,

I have just received yours yesterday and have read the rascally contents attentively. –

Now, you long legged, long _________ impertinent son of a bitch. What do you mean?

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cat garcia 🐈‍⬛ @bycatgarcia.bsky.social · 10d

In 2023, I made the decision to step away from sports writing.

Today, I’m finally talking about why and what I’m doing now.

⬇️

bycatgarcia.medium.com/why-i-left-s...

Why I Left Sports for Extremism Research

“It’s been a long time coming…”

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 10d

In a new podcast interview, anti-vax figure Sherri Tenpenny said her family "used to sit around the kitchen table talking about [the] New World Order & the Illuminati &, you know, Council for Foreign Relations & all that stuff when I was a kid."

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 11d

The right love to play cutesy word games like “Nazis are socialists because their party was called the National Socialists” or “Christian Identity isn’t hatred.”

The Christian Identity movement is a violent white supremacist extremist movement. Slapping “Christian” on it doesn’t clean it up.

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11d

CHRISTIAN IDENTITY IS A WHITE POWER THEOLOGY, not just identifying as Christian. Christian Identity believes that white people are the lost tribe of Israel and all people of color and Jewish people are descended from beasts or from Satan. (1)

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 12d

With this ringing endorsement, if you'd like to understand what deeply evil nonsense the literal President of the United States is promoting now please do listen! on.soundcloud.com/0SJT1Mcqx8ks...

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Sam @sammycham.bsky.social · 11d

Please, I beg of you: listen to QAA if you want to understand this [incredibly dumb] moment. @jakerockatansky.bsky.social @travisview.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/1VLb...

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone always asks me what my favourite conspiracy theory is but medbeds is for sure the saddest, I really can't think about it for too long. Just openly preying on the hopes of very desperate people

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 12d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 12d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 15d

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 15d

This appears to have been the most successful 4chan operation in a while, & was reminiscent of past years when 4chan's efforts extended elsewhere into the right & caused potential offline harms.

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 15d

Far-right trolls on 4chan attempted to block Indians from flying to the US amid Trump’s H-1B change.

The campaign spread widely among the far-right on multiple platforms, garnering thousands of shares.

My latest:

4chan troll campaign tried to block Indians from flying to the US amid Trump’s H-1B change

www.mediamatters.org

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 15d

This is an essential point given the irony poisoned nature of our information ecosystem

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 18d

Today I will be honoring Charlie Kirk’s legacy by soliciting money from billionaires who want to set the agenda of my platform and organization.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20d

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20d

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”

Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

www.theguardian.com

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Allan Smith @allansmith.bsky.social · 20d

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar

“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

www.nbcnews.com

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 20d

Being mortal is such a funny and thrilling thing. I woke this morning with an unquestioned certainty that I will see the sun set tonight. It’s the same certainty that Charlie Kirk had on the 10th. He happened to be wrong, and it’s too early to say if I’m right. The chaos is exhilarating sometimes.

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 21d

Once you get the smallest taste of power, just begin repeating “I am an immortal God with the Mandate of Heaven, and this time my fantasies of everlasting power won’t be derailed by the fickle whims of the American electorate.”

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 21d

If your political faction has control of the federal government and even begins to make culture war gains, it’s important to assume that trajectory will continue forever and wildly overplay your hand during the year leading up to the already-disadvantageous midterm elections.

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 21d

This will be made more difficult by the fact that the first on demand online audio programs were launched in 2000, it first became possible to subscribe to "audioblogs" via RSS in 2001, and the term "podcasting" was coined in 2004.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

History of podcasting - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 21d

Going back to 1998 to explain that in 27 years "Should the sidekick on Win Ben Stein's Money have a network TV show?" will be the most hotly-discussed political issue of the day because President Donald Trump used the assassination of a right-wing podcaster as a pretext for abusing federal power.

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 22d

As long as we're going after late night hosts, it was outrageous that Jay Leno was permitted to use public, FCC-regulated airwaves to falsely claim that "presidential kneepads" exist. I looked like a FOOL in front of the White House tour guide.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 23d

How’s that for timing

www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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