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Anna Merlan
annamerlan
Anna Merlan was a Senior Reporter at G/O Media until September 2019. She's the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

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It's so good. That's the main thing everyone should take away, is to buy that book. Read more

Yeah, this is the kind of thing I've heard from everyone who uses an IHS facility. Not good. Read more

A whole lot of the photos of same-sex couples have been removed (although, erm, not the ones of people kissing Tide bottles, Godzillas or coffee mugs, for some reason). Luckily, someone created this lovely Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Duggars-… Read more

To be more precise, their house is registered as a church, so no property taxes. #AMERICA Read more

That's also just fine! Or would be, if we were saying to post a photo, which we're not! Read more

Thank you for recognizing the abiding sacredness of what Jia and that weird stress ball share Read more

I apologize for my insensitivity and my repeatedly referring to your husband incorrectly as a "bouncy ball" Read more

I heard that A LOT living in Dallas, but have never heard anything to back it up. Have you? I think people want it to be true because it would give his homophobia some context instead of just being shitty and senseless. Read more

Yeah, I'll add a [sic] in there. (I want to make a joke but it's just not coming to me) Read more

If it weren't his actual, legal name I wouldn't use it either. Like, when I look up his court docket information I have to search for "Machine, War." Read more

Mostly just wrote this so we'd all have a place to scream together. Read more

deep-seated castration anxiety on the part of Old Timey Australian Bureaucrat, probs Read more