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Tracy Minovitz's avatar

You are a warrior!!!

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McLain's avatar

Happy Anniversary, Jim!

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LoWo's avatar

It was also my 24th. On the 24th happy f golden ….. this all sucks . Thanks for what you do !

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Lucy's avatar

I was angry when Flynn’s troll network got you inauthentically banned from Twitter, but I am happy you found this space on substack. You have done and continue to do great work exposing Qanon and also exposing Michael Flynn’s continued alarming fascist rhetoric and activities, and educating people about coordinated inauthentic and larping accounts on social media.

You produce excellent analysis and information, which is why I am a very happy subscriber.

Happy Anniversaries! I appreciate all you do in this war on democracy.

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Mark Roemers's avatar

Happy anniversary! I do hope you will have a nice romantic dinner with your wife.

I want to thank you for your contributions and relentless efforts to educate us about the misinformation we are exposed to every day.

The Fascists are going to try a coup again soon and nobody in the GQP is going to stop them.

It feels like they are the Orc’s in Lord of the Rings. We must defeat them at all cost. We will suit up and we got your back.

Stay strong! Mark

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leighg1218's avatar

Congratulations on your anniversary! So thankful to have found you, The Rad Pod, and other voices of sanity, who keep us focused on the fight in the battle against the firehose of disinformation. Power in numbers! I appreciate you. Your words brought me back from the edge a few times. Keep shining light in the darkness.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

Thank you Leigh. 🥰

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Sheila Hogan's avatar

I was following you on Twitter and was amazed by the information you supplied us, then suddenly your account was gone. I searched and searched to find out where you were, I don’t even remember now how I found your new venue but glad I did. I look forward to and read your updates every day.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

Thanks Sheila. I’m grateful you’re here. 💙

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LaNita Jones's avatar

Being able to follow your experience and help you has helped me. Incredibly impressive to me for those who have retained their writing skills. Where is my big orange heart when I need it.

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LaNita Jones's avatar

Top Kill to stop the leaks was designed to be "komprocated" as Heidi astutely put it. It was the day for me that I knew evil was real.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

LaNita I am so happy you are here and find my work helpful. I appreciate you and your comments, even if they take me a while to unpack from time to time.

💙

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LaNita Jones's avatar

Sure, I can see unpacking, "The Kremlin’s Arctic Dreams. Geo-Strategic Implications for Russia and the World in 2040", is challenging for all our brains, it's 220 pages, but it is beyond time we all be on the same page.

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LaNita Jones's avatar

🧡

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MHRHS01's avatar

I’ve followed you for years now. You were the first place I’d go to on Twitter. I hate the unfair treatment you were given there! I’m so thankful you’re still fighting and investigating this radically and insane terrifying group! Thank you for your superb updates. Much respect and gratitude for you. Stay safe always Jim.

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Defango's avatar

It's been simple 2 years of some interesting changes. Ever since 2018 many people have flown the "Expose Qanon" banner since then and have all had varying levels of success. I guess I'll never understand why you showed up so late to the party. I'll also never understand why this 2020 group was so different from all the people before.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

I read an article that said QAnon was an ARG on 8/2/20. I checked it out and realized what it was capable of. So I have been trying to do something about it ever since. So I guess I was “late to the party” because I wasn’t like most of these fuckers who watched it grow and metastasize under their noses and did nothing for years? The first day I saw it I went after it.

And as you well know, the problem with the other “expose QAnon” efforts was that they were all LARPs. I’m just a dude who has no fucks. That’s why it’s different.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

I haven’t defamed anyone dude. I have been defamed.

And why were they first to the party you think? Because they knew all about what was going on and did jack shit but grift off it. They encouraged it and attacked anyone who got close to the truth. You know this as well as I do.

Also, as far as “first to the party” I’ve been doing this shit for a quarter century — ethically. All you idiots have done is ruin everything. I’m here to clean your fucking mess up.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

I banned you for 24 hours. Rage on Twitter if you want.

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LaNita Jones's avatar

Your realization about QAnon from the article you read is exactly how I felt about the nobody cyber warfare technique that was being seeded – maybe even way back in 2012. To not get brainwashed through it is actually an amazing thing.

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LaNita Jones's avatar

'"Nobody can be bothered to troll if they’re not specifically paid to do it."' (Jessikka Aro article June 2015)

Getting bodies to do it for free was the grand and sadistic scheme.

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Rane's avatar

I know you know, but I must convey thanks and gratitude on behalf of my family, myself and ignorant folks that will probably never know the lengths we have watched you go.

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KatheO's avatar

Such a kind thing to say to him. Sweet, well deserved support

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

Thanks Rane. That means a lot to me. 💙

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Kanon's avatar

I'm just so very bored with seeing these same questions, comments, lies, mischaracterizations, and accusations repeated ad nauseum by Jim's Twitter Trolls. Just because you missed the answers, doesn't mean that Jim hasn't provided them via his blog or podcasts. He has, in one form or another. I hope he deletes your bullshit because you're just a disinfo shill peddling the same garbage that's been going on for the last 2 years. You don't care for Jim's style or his facts and evidence don't fit your cognitive bias or ideology? You just came here to Jim bash like the troll that you are? Move on, plenty of people appreciate and respect him. We know Jim brings receipts, he's brilliant, and puts his heart and soul into this for all the right reasons. I should know, I'm one of his research partners. Or, maybe you’re just here fishing for information 🧐

The TTP had barely launched (as a non-profit) primarily to support and educate the families of QAnon cult victims when it was sabotaged from within and attacked from without, including that VICE hit piece, by many of the same people attacking Jim now, like you. Any funds raised were returned.

As for what Jim has done "about QAnon", because of his expertise and tireless efforts, Jim can back up his statements about who is/was behind QAnon. Apparently, you're willfully ignorant, because Jim (and colleagues) have compiled a massive public body of original, OSINT, and crowdsourced evidence and analysis on and off Twitter exposing the bad actors, nation states and techniques used in QAnon and disinfo/PsyOps. Most of the trolls, researchers and/or journalists who are in conflict with Jim, did and continue to intentionally ignore or downplay the roles of many of these people and Russia/foreign agents. They are often there to protect these actors, shape the narratives and further the network made up of a combination of authoritarian Christo-fascists, red-brown alliance, AnCap-Libertarian-NRx, GQP, and the Dugin/Putin Eurasianism and Accelerationist political agenda, so they can take over. Similar to what happened with Occupy, the Progressive and SJW movements have been infiltrated by Tea Party and other anti-democracy types from these groups. In addition, some of the people who attack Jim or engage others to, do so because Jim is their competition or because they know they are implicated at some level in the effort to destroy democracy and/or burn it all down so they (the oligarchs) can take over. They need Jim and others discredited and sidelined and they certainly didn't want his evidence, testimony, or documentary going to the J6 committee so that Flynn would be asked the right questions about his and other people's roles in QAnon. Instead, they got Satanic Temple leader Lucien Greave's fanboy, Mike Rothschild. When Jim "showed up" 2 years ago (and he's been at this for at least a part of almost every day since), he quickly started throwing a big Truth wrench into all that and informing the public about wtf was really going on. Is he the only one? Of course not, and he sometimes collaborates with other credible researchers. Among his many hundreds of crucial receipts and insights, Jim made a video very clearly comparing how Flynn was using an I AM prayer almost verbatim from Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Doomsday cult as a syncretic tool targeting the Christian Evangelicals toward Flynn's stated goal of creating 'one religion'. Jim was the *only* researcher to capture the event on video at the Church of Glad Tidings (Embassy of Heaven) in California with their SovCit/separatist movement and militia where Mike Flynn was gifted with an AK-15 and said, "Maybe I'll Find Somebody in Washington, D.C.'" https://www.newsweek.com/michael-flynn-totes-rifle-joke-washington-dc-1613004

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KatheO's avatar

Perfectly said

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You don't think Mike Rothschild who is peddling books and is also now a paid expert witness, The Knowpe News (snort), and many of the other QAnon related social media podcasters , documentarians, bloggers, academics, and activists, don't see it as a business opportunity? Jim did this with zero compensation for quite a long while. Because he produced quality content, he had acquired 60K followers by the time the third of three (in 3 months) coordinated mass targeted efforts happened to get him banned from Twitter. About 10K more followers than Rothschild had (at the time) and 50K more than Rocco has now. His influence was growing and certain people, like the Flynns, wanted him sidelined. But apparently, you don't think good researchers, writers, activists, and journalists deserve to be paid. If you're a subject matter expert, you should get paid or be able to make a living doing this. Many of us do not get paid and also have day jobs. If you can get paid to do it, you have more time to work on it. smh...

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Apparently, the troll took what I said quite seriously because that idiot immediately set up a KoFi tip jar, but the only people who are donating are the other trolls, lol.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

💙 I’m so sorry for how it happened. I had no idea what was going on after I left in March.

I know you’ve been through a lot, Mindy. There will be accountability.

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KatheO's avatar

Irish Princess?

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KatheO's avatar

You are MY people!!

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