Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Tiffany here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Today, we have some post-election stories, including one about QAnon candidates losing. We also have a recap of the latest episode of Andor.
Since it’s Thursday, we also have the Dirty Delete column from Claire Goforth.
— T.K.
⚡ Today’s top stories
👀 POLITICS
Almost all of the GOP’s QAnon-touting candidates lost their elections
But the conspiracy theory’s central claims are now central to Republican politics.
📵 MISOGYNY
Social media history of man arrested after viral stalking video reveals fixation on rape, Nazis, incels
The video of the man went viral this week. In it, police urged a then-unidentified man to leave a woman alone.
📨 CONNECTIONS
Lauren Boebert’s election misfortune led a former baseball legend to shoot his shot
A former professional centerfielder for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies attempted to get Boebert to slide into his DMs.
🌌 STAR WARS
‘Andor’ episode 10 asks: How does someone become a Rebel leader?
Our latest recap of Andor by staff writer Gavia Baker-Whitelaw.
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💵 Chasing the bag
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🗳️ Dirty Delete
Mike Lee is a partisan who has principles
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🍗 Customer shares hack to getting $5 meal for Wingstop.
👀 Cracker Barrel waitress accidentally calls out manager who called her voice ‘sexy’.
🅿️ Worker says workplace makes her pay for parking at its site.
🗳️ Local journalist tweets that he always casts a blank ballot.
🔴 Right-wing cope is all over the internet as ‘red wave’ dissipates.
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👋 Before you go
Conspiracists all over the internet have urged one another to check the Wi-Fi connections at polling stations, convinced it proves that voting machines are connected to the internet.
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