Roughly 7,000 Twitter accounts tied to QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that alleges the existence of a "deep state" with ties to a child sex trafficking ring, were removed from the platform. Eventually, 150,000 accounts affiliated with QAnon will be impacted with less visibility for other Twitter users.
The announcement comes as QAnon has trickled into mainstream politics and conversation, experts who study the beliefs and growing movement behind it say.
Time to require everybody read Richard Hofstadter's classic "The Paranoid Style in American Politics."
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Trump has canceled his coronation in Jacksonville amid the crisis he created.
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Aside from the obvious question of why ANY woman would EVER give birth to a baby as a result of rape, this is still an outrage:
Along those lines, here is an article from last year about rapists' custody rights.
I really don't get women, however, who have such a low opinion of themselves they would have a rapist's child. I also don't get women who would want to deny abortions to women who have been raped. It is like they have this weird religious idea women need to suffer, that the rape was somehow their fault.
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Another very old cold case murder has been solved through genetic genealogy. As in many of these very old cases, the suspect has since died:
And now, after 52 years, thanks to some slick genealogical work, both the victim and the alleged killer have been identified.
In June, Huntington Beach detectives, using familial DNA analysis, informed a family in Maine that a missing runaway from 1968 was the answer to the oldest Jane Doe homicide case in Orange County.
The woman was identified as Anita Louise Piteau, whose family tree runs through Augusta and Lewiston, Maine. Police on Wednesday, July 22 said they believe she was killed by a man named Johnny Chrisco, who died at age 71 in 2015. Very little is known about him, said Huntington Beach Police Department public information officer Angela Bennett.
Another story about the same case:
For 52 years, investigators have been trying to determine who raped and killed a young woman, leaving her body in a large farm field in Huntington Beach. But thanks to investigative genetic genealogy, authorities were finally able to unravel the decades-long mystery, officials announced Thursday.
The woman’s body was discovered by three boys who were playing in the area of Newland Avenue and Yorktown Street on March 14, 1968, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
She had been beaten and raped, her neck slashed.
But who she was — and who killed her — would remain unsolved for more than half a century, ultimately becoming the county’s oldest Jane Doe cold case murder.
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