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J.W. McCormack

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Call of Duty | Molly McGhee

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By J.W. McCormack
| The Baffler Verified
The Listening Officer placed his headset beneath his wall of screens. Roughly 10 percent of the population assigned to this Center received twenty-four-hour monitoring. Each person of interest had a dedicated screen. This was mostly for show. Today—like every day for the last five years—The Listening Officer had assigned himself the task of documenting the movements, thoughts, and intentions of a person of interest internally referred to as The Young Conspiracy Theorist.
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Groypthink | Caleb Brennan

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By J.W. McCormack
| The Baffler Verified
In the days following the killing of Charlie Kirk, I had the unenviable task of explaining to my well-meaning, sixty-year-old parents just who Nick Fuentes is and why his followers are called groypers. Initially, the shooter was believed to be an acolyte of Fuentes, who had created a parallel youth movement to Kirk’s more mainstream Turning Point USA. Their rivalry had long been a supporting storyline of the far right’s passion play, and the New York Times’s readership had catching up to do.
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Warrior Pose | Mary Turfah

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By J.W. McCormack
| The Baffler Verified
Breathe in. Notice your chest rise. Notice a photo showing several people inside a poorly lit space with arms reaching for the sky. Foam mats separate their bare feet from uneven concrete. They gather in what appears to be the fourth level of a parking garage in, according to the caption, central Israel. Exhale.
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