Noelle Cook
@noellecook.com
Author of The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, The Conspiracists (2024) | https://linktr.ee/NoelleCook noellecook.com
Random recommendation: My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes, a 14-minute documentary short by Charlie Tyrell. Saw it years ago in a visual anthropology class. I love how this was made. vimeo.com/292537862?sh...
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
Was my father’s leftover stuff the key to who he really was? Winner of the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival. "Honest, funny, nostalgic and incredibly invent...
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A reminder to #Pride organizers: your event is a backdrop for “MAGA Granny” Pam Hemphill’s content. Last year, she left Pride to give a 13-min interview to the organizer of a far-right “Hetero Pride” event, which produced anti-LGBTQ talking points. She gets content. Your community gets the fallout
ACLU of Washington@acluwa.bsky.social · 4w agoWashington Pride events in August include: 🌈August 1 Federal Way Pride Battle Ground Pride (Clark County) 🌈August 15 Alki Beach Pride (West Seattle) 🌈August 20-23 PNW Black Pride Weekend (Seattle) (Visit our booth!) 🌈August 28-30 Palouse Pride
She's spent the last 20 years trying to become internet famous by stirring up conflict. She's an attention-seeking narcissist who isn't that bright and has no moral core. She's fundamentally dishonest and a cancer for any activism and movement building. Stay far away.
Pam Hemphill on the hunt for her next confrontation.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 5d agohad to grab a shot of this old lady lighting up a cig while surrounded by a pack of scumbag streamers
A reminder to #Pride organizers: your event is a backdrop for “MAGA Granny” Pam Hemphill’s content. Last year, she left Pride to give a 13-min interview to the organizer of a far-right “Hetero Pride” event, which produced anti-LGBTQ talking points. She gets content. Your community gets the fallout
ACLU of Washington@acluwa.bsky.social · 4w agoWashington Pride events in August include: 🌈August 1 Federal Way Pride Battle Ground Pride (Clark County) 🌈August 15 Alki Beach Pride (West Seattle) 🌈August 20-23 PNW Black Pride Weekend (Seattle) (Visit our booth!) 🌈August 28-30 Palouse Pride
Thank you @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social, for having me on. I really enjoyed our conversation about the women of January 6, conspiracy beliefs, and what years of ethnographic fieldwork can reveal about belonging, identity, and extremism.
The Revealer@therevealer.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW podcast episode: "The January 6 Women Insurrectionists & Their Conspiracy Beliefs" @noellecook.com, author of The Conspiracists (@broadleafbooks.bsky.social), discusses the women who stormed the Capitol, their beliefs, & how conspiracies act like religion. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.
“The most consequential feature of conspiracy theories may be their ability to move from one group to another.” theconversation.com/faucis-covid...
Fauci’s COVID-origins hearing shows how conspiracy theories became political weapons
Conspiracy theories don’t just explain events – they identify villains, and Fauci is among the most popular.
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NEW podcast episode: "The January 6 Women Insurrectionists & Their Conspiracy Beliefs" @noellecook.com, author of The Conspiracists (@broadleafbooks.bsky.social), discusses the women who stormed the Capitol, their beliefs, & how conspiracies act like religion. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.
The January 6 Women Insurrectionists and Their Conspiracy Beliefs
Podcast Episode · The Revealer · July 30 · 36m
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Thank you @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social, for having me on. I really enjoyed our conversation about the women of January 6, conspiracy beliefs, and what years of ethnographic fieldwork can reveal about belonging, identity, and extremism.
The Revealer@therevealer.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW podcast episode: "The January 6 Women Insurrectionists & Their Conspiracy Beliefs" @noellecook.com, author of The Conspiracists (@broadleafbooks.bsky.social), discusses the women who stormed the Capitol, their beliefs, & how conspiracies act like religion. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.
A sitting president, frantically posting AI slop to signal QAnon and keep the faithful looking anywhere but at the Epstein files.
Either Todd Blanche is lying and knows that the FBI works under the Attorney General-which would disqualify him as a dishonest hack Or he’s ignorant of the DOJ hierarchy-which would disqualify him as an incompetent hack
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w agoA source tells MS NOW that Todd Blanche told Epstein survivors during their meeting, "The FBI has the power to open investigations, not me." "I'm just the attorney general," Blanche added.
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Noelle Cook@noellecook.com · 3w ago“High-T patriots” is a remarkably stupid way for the federal government to say women need not apply.
The FBI would like to remind you that thinking is now probable cause. Please think responsibly.
The FBI would like to remind you that thinking is now probable cause. Please think responsibly.
“High-T patriots” is a remarkably stupid way for the federal government to say women need not apply.
I spent every summer in this building when it was Riverside’s public library. It was one of my favorite places as a kid. I’ve loved seeing a place that meant so much to generations of children become home to one of Riverside’s newest and most important cultural institutions. abc7.com/post/inside-...
Inside The Cheech, where Cheech Marin's personal art collection tells decades of Chicano stories
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside showcases over 700 pieces of Cheech's decades-long Chicano art collection and the stories behind it.
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Really glad to see The Conspiracists resonating beyond the United States, and honored to have it selected by the Democrats Abroad Political Book Club. share.google/um5q7KnbRibG...
Q&A with The Conspiracists author Noelle Cook
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
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Really glad to see The Conspiracists resonating beyond the United States, and honored to have it selected by the Democrats Abroad Political Book Club. share.google/um5q7KnbRibG...
Q&A with The Conspiracists author Noelle Cook
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
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I posted a shorter version of this earlier as a thread. The full Field Notes essay is here: Why Conspiracy Beliefs Feel Like Home open.substack.com/pub/noelleco...
Why Conspiracy Beliefs Feel Like Home
The Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of the book: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves?
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Very proud of my wife, @noellecook.com
Noelle Cook@noellecook.com · 4w agoThe Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of it: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves? Certainty, purpose, identity, and belonging. January 6 was one outcome of that world, but it was never the whole story🧵
Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life
“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”
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The Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of it: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves? Certainty, purpose, identity, and belonging. January 6 was one outcome of that world, but it was never the whole story🧵
The Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of it: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves? Certainty, purpose, identity, and belonging. January 6 was one outcome of that world, but it was never the whole story🧵
