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Anna Merlan
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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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This isn't a prank, Farenthold actually owns that website. I've heard him talking about it at parties. Read more

"Bonsall asked for Moore's friend for his name for the to-go order, the friend showed her his Facebook page" Read more

Oh yeah, totally logical. When I place a to go order and they ask for a name, I'm always like, "Let me show you the facebook page of the person the order is for." Restaurants love that because it's so much more efficient than just saying, "Steve." What a wacky misunderstanding! Read more

"Basically I'm building a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded media company that is going to take all the people like me — autistics, researchers, nerds, ex-law enforcement, whistle-blowers — and we're going to give them an opportunity to make money on the information that they have." Read more

The Encylopedia Brown remark made me spit my coffee. So, you regularly have dinner with the chief of police, and when he's onto a case he just can't crack, he'll take his notebook out of his breast pocket and let you have a whack at it? "But wait ... you said he wore a BLUE hat when he walked into the room! Case Read more

Not sure about anyone else, but my Doctor told me about false positives and negatives with these tests. It's up to you, the parents if you want them done. I chose not to, for me it wouldn't have given me any extra peace of mind knowing that the tests aren't always accurate. Read more

Our genetic counselor was very clear that these were not 100%, but was also pushing them quite hard instead of an amnio when we had multiple warning signs on ultrasound. Since we knew we would abort if the test was positive we went for an amnio (came back clear, son is doing wonderfully) since it would have to be done Read more

Not all men! He said it! Can you do "women can be sexist too"?? Play the hits! Read more

WHOA!... It's been registered to him since at least 2009!!! I... I think he legitimately owns it. Read more

For Patton, the fact that rape victims in college know their attackers is enough to prove that we're not talking about real rape here. Read more

Suspect still at large.

Yellow.
Ducky.
Pajamas.

But what did Costello and CNN producers think they were going to get when they booked her? A nuanced discussion on a very real and troubling aspect of life on college campuses? Please. Princeton Mom's whole view on women and relationships is straight out of a 1950s home ec class. Read more

Does she really carry an orange pen and wear orange-y scarves to reinforce her pathetic, self-proclaimed 'Princeton' brand? I'd like to complete the look by stuffing a large Navel orange into her mouth so we never have to hear any argle-bargle from her again. Read more

beginning to suspect "princeton mom" is actually a robot controlled by a cartel of sentient polyester scarves Read more

This will be one of the ones getting like, one stray commenter a month for two years, ranging from a "fuck u feminazi bitchz" to a 7 paragraph scientific breakdown of why you're wrong. Read more