Mike Wendling
@wendling.bsky.social
Reporting on conspiracy theorists and the far-right.
Substack: https://thedayofreckoning.substack.com
Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/muuf3tk
Go Bills.
Substack: https://thedayofreckoning.substack.com
Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/muuf3tk
Go Bills.
The woman wanted in connection with a racist attack in central London isn't a mere "Trump supporter", she's a former QAnon follower who destroyed a mask display in a shop, but apparently later left the Q movement. metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/t...
Trump supporter and businessman are couple who 'shouted racist abuse' in London
Police want to speak to Melissa Lively and Philipp Ostermann after an incident at a Tube station over the weekend
metro.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The woman wanted in connection with a racist attack in central London isn't a mere "Trump supporter", she's a former QAnon follower who destroyed a mask display in a shop, but apparently later left the Q movement. metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/t...
Amazing story about Jan 6 rioter turned Blaze reporter who appears to have falsely accused a police officer of planting a “false flag” pipe bomb outside the RNC.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The Blaze’s Pipe-Bomb Bombshell Appears to Bomb
The right-wing outlet claimed to solve the Jan. 6th pipe-bomb mystery. Things quickly looked less certain.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Amazing story about Jan 6 rioter turned Blaze reporter who appears to have falsely accused a police officer of planting a “false flag” pipe bomb outside the RNC.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Tucker Carlson solidifies his conspiracy credentials with coverage of “Chemtrails”
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Tucker Carlson solidifies his conspiracy credentials with coverage of “Chemtrails”
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blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f... They pepper-sprayed a one-year-old yesterday
Feds Pepper-Spray 1-Year-Old In Cicero, Use Tear Gas On Little Village Neighbors
Federal agents were shot at, according to the Department of Homeland Security, while legal observers said agents created a "dangerous and unsafe environment."
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f... They pepper-sprayed a one-year-old yesterday
I've written as much about the events of 6 January 2021 as anyone in the BBC, and the Panorama error was easily avoided. However it's curious nobody noticed at the time - a year ago. Now top scalps have been claimed after a crusade by the British right-wing press.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC chair to respond to MPs as departing News CEO rejects claims of institutional bias
The BBC's director general Tim Davie, and CEO of news Deborah Turness, resigned last night after a leaked dossier made a series of criticisms of BBC output.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I've written as much about the events of 6 January 2021 as anyone in the BBC, and the Panorama error was easily avoided. However it's curious nobody noticed at the time - a year ago. Now top scalps have been claimed after a crusade by the British right-wing press.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
There is no basement underneath Comet Ping Pong.
Why does it matter now, nearly a decade after "Pizzagate"?
The story behind the conspiracy theory and why debunking can only go so far in healing our information disorder. New post:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
Why does it matter now, nearly a decade after "Pizzagate"?
The story behind the conspiracy theory and why debunking can only go so far in healing our information disorder. New post:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
There is no basement underneath Comet Ping Pong.
Why does it matter now, nearly a decade after "Pizzagate"?
The story behind the conspiracy theory and why debunking can only go so far in healing our information disorder. New post:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
Why does it matter now, nearly a decade after "Pizzagate"?
The story behind the conspiracy theory and why debunking can only go so far in healing our information disorder. New post:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
Now you too can own a piece of Parler, the weird alt-social network that is primarily known for being used by Jan 6 Capitol rioters.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Now you too can own a piece of Parler, the weird alt-social network that is primarily known for being used by Jan 6 Capitol rioters.
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As it turns out, people did not understand what mass deportations would look like.
Trump winning is the end. The courts and institutions can’t save us. It is crucial he loses. I don’t understand.
Do people not understand what mass deportations will look like. It will be sobbing mothers and children yanked apart from each other in front of you and your own kids.
Do people not understand what mass deportations will look like. It will be sobbing mothers and children yanked apart from each other in front of you and your own kids.
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
As it turns out, people did not understand what mass deportations would look like.
ICE agents storm a day care center in Chicago and claim they are fighting an “invasion” (of preschool teachers?)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/i...
Questions remain why ICE targeted day care teacher who was detained in North Center facility
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, of Colombia
www.chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ICE agents storm a day care center in Chicago and claim they are fighting an “invasion” (of preschool teachers?)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/i...
Weird joke (?) about JD Vance and Erika Kirk goes viral. Resistance libs and MAGA boomers react. Grok thinks Vance commented - he hasn’t.
What a layer cake of bullshit.
x.com/i/trending/1...
What a layer cake of bullshit.
x.com/i/trending/1...
Viral X Post Fuels Baseless Divorce Rumors About JD Vance and Charlie Kirk's Widow / X
Viral X Post Fuels Baseless Divorce Rumors About JD Vance and Charlie Kirk's Widow / X
x.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Weird joke (?) about JD Vance and Erika Kirk goes viral. Resistance libs and MAGA boomers react. Grok thinks Vance commented - he hasn’t.
What a layer cake of bullshit.
x.com/i/trending/1...
What a layer cake of bullshit.
x.com/i/trending/1...
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Most political scientists ignore voters who are motivated by conspiracy theory, although they constitute a large section of the electorate - in some countries a majority.
Covid conspiracy stickers were plastered around London during the pandemic, but are now mostly gone. What does this tell us about the past and future of conspiracy theories in British politics?
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
What happened to the White Rose Society?
British conspiracy theorists are pretty marginal ... but perhaps not for long
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Most political scientists ignore voters who are motivated by conspiracy theory, although they constitute a large section of the electorate - in some countries a majority.
I used to have a hobby: peeling conspiracy stickers off of lampposts. But you rarely seem them these days, because the people who put them up have much bigger things on their minds today.
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
What happened to the White Rose Society?
British conspiracy theorists are pretty marginal ... but perhaps not for long
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I used to have a hobby: peeling conspiracy stickers off of lampposts. But you rarely seem them these days, because the people who put them up have much bigger things on their minds today.
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
I used to have a hobby: peeling conspiracy stickers off of lampposts. But you rarely seem them these days, because the people who put them up have much bigger things on their minds today.
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I used to have a hobby: peeling conspiracy stickers off of lampposts. But you rarely seem them these days, because the people who put them up have much bigger things on their minds today.
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
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I am once again asking you to consider subscribing to the BadFaithTimes.com newsletter and joining the thriving BFT discord community, an online retirement home for people born in the late 70s and early 80s. badfaithtimes.com/we-need-a-ne...
We Need A New Concept Of Free Speech, And We Need It Now
Rejecting the civil libertarian interpretation of the First Amendment is more important than ever
badfaithtimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I am once again asking you to consider subscribing to the BadFaithTimes.com newsletter and joining the thriving BFT discord community, an online retirement home for people born in the late 70s and early 80s. badfaithtimes.com/we-need-a-ne...
Covid conspiracy stickers were plastered around London during the pandemic, but are now mostly gone. What does this tell us about the past and future of conspiracy theories in British politics?
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
What happened to the White Rose Society?
British conspiracy theorists are pretty marginal ... but perhaps not for long
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Covid conspiracy stickers were plastered around London during the pandemic, but are now mostly gone. What does this tell us about the past and future of conspiracy theories in British politics?
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
Large sections of the American right think Britain is a crime-ridden hellhole overrun by criminal migrants and woke thought police.
The reality is, as you can imagine, different.
How did this strange narrative take hold?
Allow me to explain:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
The reality is, as you can imagine, different.
How did this strange narrative take hold?
Allow me to explain:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
The American right has swallowed a false narrative about Britain
"Yookay is failed state" bears little relation to reality on the ground
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Large sections of the American right think Britain is a crime-ridden hellhole overrun by criminal migrants and woke thought police.
The reality is, as you can imagine, different.
How did this strange narrative take hold?
Allow me to explain:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
The reality is, as you can imagine, different.
How did this strange narrative take hold?
Allow me to explain:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...
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“In photos of his bedroom shared by the police, the swastika on his wall appears alongside children’s wallpaper featuring construction vehicles.”
Important reporting on a worrying neo-Nazi plot in the United Kingdom by @lizziedearden.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com.
Important reporting on a worrying neo-Nazi plot in the United Kingdom by @lizziedearden.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com.
British Neo-Nazis Discussed Targeting Migrants, Mosques and Synagogues
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“In photos of his bedroom shared by the police, the swastika on his wall appears alongside children’s wallpaper featuring construction vehicles.”
Important reporting on a worrying neo-Nazi plot in the United Kingdom by @lizziedearden.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com.
Important reporting on a worrying neo-Nazi plot in the United Kingdom by @lizziedearden.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com.
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Compare the engagement. This is what Twitter is now, and it's pathetic that so many of our intellectuals refuse to admit it.
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Compare the engagement. This is what Twitter is now, and it's pathetic that so many of our intellectuals refuse to admit it.
What your favourite local conspiracy theorist won't be talking about tonight...
Covid vaccines could actually fight cancer.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Covid vaccines could actually fight cancer.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature
mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What your favourite local conspiracy theorist won't be talking about tonight...
Covid vaccines could actually fight cancer.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Covid vaccines could actually fight cancer.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tell me again how it’s the fault of clueless MSM journalists for platforming fascism and “alternative” media is the only thing that’s going to save us.
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Tell me again how it’s the fault of clueless MSM journalists for platforming fascism and “alternative” media is the only thing that’s going to save us.
After reporting on this area for more than a decade I am glad there now is a conversation about political violence and domestic terrorism at the highest levels.
Are there people inside the US government who have the balls to take on all of it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Are there people inside the US government who have the balls to take on all of it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
Christopher Moynihan, who had been sentenced to 21 months for the riot, allegedly said Hakeem Jeffries
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
After reporting on this area for more than a decade I am glad there now is a conversation about political violence and domestic terrorism at the highest levels.
Are there people inside the US government who have the balls to take on all of it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Are there people inside the US government who have the balls to take on all of it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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@wendling.bsky.social made a "Mini-Guide" to discourse about "Western Civilization" out of conversations he had with me and others for an episode of the BBC's AntiSocial about far right backlash against an art exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral
"Western civilization", it's good right?
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
AntiSocial - How right-wing activists use 'Western civilisation' - BBC Sounds
How right-wing activists use 'Western civilisation'
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@wendling.bsky.social made a "Mini-Guide" to discourse about "Western Civilization" out of conversations he had with me and others for an episode of the BBC's AntiSocial about far right backlash against an art exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral
Three Chicago-area men have been arrested for allegedly impersonating police and planning to attend a No Kings rally.
abc7chicago.com/amp/post/men...
abc7chicago.com/amp/post/men...
Men from Wheaton, Darien, Woodridge arrested, charged with trying to impersonate police officers at Chicago-area protests | abc7chicago.com
Three%20men%20from%20Wheaton%2C%20Darien%20and%20Woodridge%20were%20arrested%20and%20charged%20with%20trying%20to%20impersonate%20police%20officers%20at%20Chicago-area%20protests.
abc7chicago.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Three Chicago-area men have been arrested for allegedly impersonating police and planning to attend a No Kings rally.
abc7chicago.com/amp/post/men...
abc7chicago.com/amp/post/men...
"Western civilization", it's good right?
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
AntiSocial - How right-wing activists use 'Western civilisation' - BBC Sounds
How right-wing activists use 'Western civilisation'
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Western civilization", it's good right?
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Last week I got to talk to @wendling.bsky.social, a journalist I've admired for a long time, about the appeal of "Western Civilization" to far right politics as part of a BBC show on backlash against Canterbury Cathedral's current art exhibition. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Last week I got to talk to @wendling.bsky.social, a journalist I've admired for a long time, about the appeal of "Western Civilization" to far right politics as part of a BBC show on backlash against Canterbury Cathedral's current art exhibition. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...