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Founder & CEO of the democracy group @IssueOneReform. Former publisher, editor, reporter. Author of “Nation on the Take.” Human, not bot.
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Welcome to Vibecamp, an IRL Gathering for the Terminally Online

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By Nick Penniman
| Rolling Stone Verified
“This is Protein,” says the woman in all black sitting cross-legged in a hammock. Ten yards away, a middle-aged man is taking off his shirt in the center of a circle of 30 or so people sitting in the grass. We watch on as he extends his arms, closes his eyes, and then — slowly, as if on a display platform — begins to rotate. The sitters stare up at him, smiling and murmuring. Receiving their energy, he smiles back.
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Drain the Slop | The Point Magazine

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By Nick Penniman
| The Point Verified
Drain the Slop | | It’s 8:15 p.m. on Friday, June 12th, and we’re at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, a few hundred of us, for the UFC Freedom 250 press conference, the curtain raiser for the president’s birthday weekend, whose culminating fight the mini jumbotrons on either side of us tease as “The Most Historic Sporting Event of All Time.” The crowd is pretty well mixed—mostly groups of young guys along with the families and couples, but the races and ages are all covered.
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Fulton County FBI raid previews Trump’s 2026 election interference plan

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By Nick Penniman
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Verified
In late January, I watched in horror as the FBI conducted a raid at a local Georgia elections office — a raid based on debunked conspiracy theories. At a U.S. District Court hearing on the fate of the seized ballots, an expert witness hammered that point home. In describing the affidavit used to obtain the warrant, former U.S. Election Assistance Commission official Ryan Macias told the court that, “[t]here’s no basis in reality for most of the witness statements.
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