The House Made of Gingerbread, Come on In, My Darlings

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Some rallies have been tied to bizarre conspiracy theories involving petipilia and the democratic party. This all sounds sort of reminiscent of cuanon, which is this conspiracy that the former president is going to save the children from a left leaning pet files. Can trace it back to centuries, because the tropes that comprise cuanon and this new rumor variant are essentially exactly the same as trope we've seen dating back to the middle ages.

Accounts like “Libs of TikTok” are fueling right-wing media to label people who speak openly about sexuality and gender as “groomers.” Vox’s Aja Romano and the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz explain this age-old practice.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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