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Senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering disinformation, tech and extremism. Author of REPUBLIC OF LIES. Tips: amerlan@motherjones.com. DM for Signal.
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The Election Denier Ecosystem Has a New Symbol Named Spencer Pratt

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By Anna Merlan Verified
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There’s a specter haunting Los Angeles, and it’s Spencer Pratt. A few days after the former reality TV heel turned Republican candidate lost his second-place spot in the Los Angeles mayoral election to progressive Nithya Raman, he released a statement and video saying that, unfettered from the bonds of actually winning, he has now entered “phase III” of a “war” on corruption and his political opponents. “You enjoy your worthless meetings at City Hall,” he declared.
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How Two Punk Icons Are Giving the Cramps a Second Life

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One fall night in 1979, two best friends went to a small club in their hometown of Washington, DC, to see a band. The show was so extraordinary, the band so singular, that decades—and thousands of shows—later, even at “AARP age,” as one of them now puts it, they still talk about it.
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