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Articles by WATERSPIDER
GETTY HEIRESS GIVES TENS OF THOUSANDS TO BLOCK SOCAL SCHOOL VACCINE MANDATES
by WATERSPIDER | January 30, 2022
Sharon McKeeman, leader of booming anti-mask and antivax organizations Let Them Breathe and Let Them Choose, has created at least seven new fundraisers in recent months, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars with the help of Bay Area tech giant GoFundMe and Getty fortune heiress Anna Getty. In September 2021, LCRW reported on McKeeman’s first […]
CALIFORNIA RECALL BALLOT DOMINATED BY FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS
by WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | September 8, 2021
California governor Gavin Newsom, facing a recall election on September 14, often refers to the recall effort as a Republican power grab. He’s right—the recall got off the ground thanks to the tireless efforts of Proud Boys, QAnoners and Covid conspiracy theorists, and is heavily funded by MAGA money. But who are the actual candidates […]
DARK MONEY GROUP HARASSES SCHOOL BOARDS ACROSS CALIFORNIA
by WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | September 5, 2021
San Diego-based organization Let Them Breathe gained attention rallying and disrupting school board meetings up and down California since June of this year. The organization’s founder, Sharon McKeeman, allows far-right extremists to speak at her events and collects dark money from a GoFundMe page tied to her organization. As of today, she has raised over […]
MAN SMASHES METAL CLUB OVER JOURNALIST’S HEAD, CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE DRIVES GETAWAY CAR
by WATERSPIDER | August 14, 2021
Republican candidate for California governor Sarah Stephens wants to “Make America Gold Again.” Her campaign website states that she will “bring the PROSPERITY back to California on EVERY LEVEL! Just like the GOLD RUSH times.” The “on every level” part is unsettling because Stephens advocates the ideals of her associates including Qanon scammers, violent Trump […]
QANONERS ARE RALLYING SATURDAY IN HOLLYWOOD. LAST TIME THEY BEAT A BYSTANDER AND THREATENED A JOURNALIST
by WATERSPIDER | DESERTBORDER | April 22, 2021
HOLLYWOOD RALLY, MARCH 27TH After a series of batshit rallies in Hollywood last summer, SoCal QAnoners briefly quieted down–the Capitol riot and their widespread ban from social media had been disastrous for the movement. Unfortunately, it didn’t take them long to crawl back out of the woodwork. Around 200 QAnoners led by Fresno-area rapper Thaddis […]
PRO-PLAGUE CULTISTS RECEIVE WARM WELCOME FROM LA COPS AND MAYOR
by DESERTBORDER | WATERSPIDER | January 2, 2021
Far-right cult leader Sean Feucht sent his acolytes to spread Covid on purpose to unhoused communities in LA. The police and the city cheered them on. The contrast was stunning: as 50 or so black-clad protesters marched past LA’s Twin Towers jail on New Year’s Eve, dozens of LAPD cruisers surrounded the march, with some […]
A MILITARY IMPOSTER’S VIOLENT CAMPAIGN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
by DESERTBORDER | WATERSPIDER | December 24, 2020
Gabriel Anthony Lebaron’s third TikTok of the day took a dark turn. After posting a video of himself wearing a Christmas hat and holding a Baby Yoda toy, followed by a video of himself lip-syncing Calum Scott’s sappy, maudlin mega-hit “You are the reason,” Lebaron stitched himself into a TikTok with a woman wearing a […]