Annie Kelly brings Jake, Julian, and Travis tales of the lesser known figures of the European witch hunts during the early modern period: the skeptics who openly doubted that every accused woman was actually a witch.

At the time, it was common for village communities in England, Spain, and France to accuse local women of cursing cows and similar satanic mischief. But a handful of men didn’t believe the mainstream belief that witchcraft was widespread. Doubts were raised by the Spanish royal physician Andrés Fernández de Laguna, the English gentleman Reginald Scot, and the inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frías. Salazar even established rules on investigating witchcraft that set a high standard of proof. This subsequently saved an untold number of accused witches from being hanged or burned at the stake.

What can all of this tell us about the modern right’s use of the language of demonology to describe their enemies? Listen to get exclusive analysis from the National Baby.

To get a better background on the history of witch hunting, Annie interviewed Professor Marion Gibson from the University of Exeter, and author of the book Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials.


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Annie Kelly
https://bsky.app/profile/annieknk.bsky.social

Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Witchcraft/Marion-Gibson/9781668002438


Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)

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Witchcraft Skeptics And The Spanish Inquisition (E306)

In this News Brief we detail how The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN take a pathological liar with a clear ideological agenda at his word he's worried about "waste" for the sole reason he’s rich and powerful.

News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith "Cost-Cutting Effort"

Take a break from hearing about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.S. politics to learn about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.K. politics.

Annie Kelly brings us an update on the state of the far right across the pond. Specifically, we learn about political party Reform UK, and its relationship to the UK’s two most prominent far-right figures. Those figures are: Nigel Farage - Mr Brexit himself and Reform’s leader, and Tommy Robinson, the perpetually re-imprisoned anti-Islamic agitator. Elon Musk spent weeks on X boosting the views of Tommy Robinson. This has caused some consternation for Farage, who has tried to distance himself from Robinson’s explicit ethnonationalism. 

This episode features contributions from Joe Mulhall, director of research at Hope Not Hate, the UK's largest antifascist organization.

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Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Jake Rockatansky, and Corey Klotz. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)

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LINKS


Web Worm: How Racist Agitator Tommy Robinson Found Support with the World’s Richest Men
https://www.webworm.co/p/tommyrobinson

Hope Not Hate
https://hopenothate.org.uk/ 

Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance by Joe Mulhall https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rebel-Sounds/Joe-Mulhall/9781804441169

Reform UK, Nigel Farage, and Elon Musk (E311)


“The Tsuki Project” was a once-active community of likeminded 4chan anons who longed to be transported into a better world. And they believed that by participating in this community formed around the promises and lore of someone named Tsuki, they could enter into this better world after they died.

This is a community that first formed in 2017 and has since dissipated into the online ether. It’s hard to say what the Tsuki Project was exactly. It has been described as anime suicide cult, a digital version of Heaven’s Gate, a hoax, a piece of interactive fiction, an Alternate Reality Game, or just a group of lonely, depressed people who were sucked into one person’s maladative daydreams. It was probably a swirl of all of those things.

What exactly happened has to be pieced together from archived imageboard posts, websites that only survive as zip files, anime Wikis, and leaked screenshots from Discord servers.

This is the story of the Tsuki project based on the surviving records.

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The Tsuki Project (Premium E278) Sample

They're trying to foster "mole children". They're attending religious services by the hundreds. We are in uncharted territories here: a church founded on QAnon beliefs and Dominionist Christianity. Our guest is Marc-André Argentino, a PhD candidate studying conspiracy theory radicalization who attended their services undercover for 3 months.

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Episode 93: The Church of QAnon featuring Marc-André Argentino

Recently, armed groups of men sporting Hawaiian shirts and other references to the "boogaloo", "big igloo" or "big luau" are showing up to protests and making themselves more visible online. We are joined by Bellingcat journalist and podcast host Robert Evans who'se been out in the streets documenting protests and getting tear-gassed. He'll help us sort out far-right ideology from civil war fetishism and understand a group that is bonded by certain common beliefs and a whole lot of ironic memes.

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SOURCES

QAnon News
https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/we-dont-want-to-die-father-livestreams-multi-town-police-chase-with-5-kids-in/article_b4663e11-e42c-51ca-8067-c10803777ef8.html

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/perkins-greene-qanon-2020-elections


Boogaloo

https://apnews.com/6223153093f08fa910c4ab445771b773

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/second-arrest-of-a-boogaloo-boy-suspect-made-after-violent-columbia-demonstrations/article_9e4fdf5c-a76f-11ea-8217-ef9830925b24.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/what-boogaloo-how-online-calls-violent-uprising-are-getting-organized-n1138461

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/feds-warn-violent-opportunists-infiltrating-protests-emboldened-attack/story?id=71040109

https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-gen-flynn-forces-evil-want-steal-freedom-dark-night-god-stands-us/

Episode 96: The Boogaloo Boys feat Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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