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Report 751 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month's report of 215 at another school.

“This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations in Saskatchewan. He said he expects more graves will be found on residential school grounds across Canada.

“We will not stop until we find all the bodies.”

The bodies were discovered at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 to 1997 where the Cowessess First Nation is now located, about 85 miles east of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan.

Chief Cadmusn Delmore of the Cowessess said that the graves were marked at one time, but that the Roman Catholic Church that operated the school had removed the markers.

“The Pope needs to apologize for what happened,” he said.

“An apology is one stage in the way of a healing journey.”

Last month the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia.

Following that discovery, Pope Francis expressed his pain over the discovery and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.” But he didn’t offer the apology sought by First Nations and by Canadian prime minister.

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools, the majority of them run by Roman Catholic missionary congregations, in a campaign to assimilate them into Canadian society.

The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse was rampant in the schools, with students beaten for speaking their native languages.

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The alarming downward spiral of the election-fraud conspiracy theory

Philip Bump 2 hrs ago

One America News has all of the trappings of a legitimate cable-news network — shimmering on-screen graphics, snappily named anchors sitting at Lucite desks, little microphones that say “OAN” on them — save one: a commitment to accurately conveying the news.

Over the past two years, OAN has faithfully upheld its perhaps-unstated mission statement, centering its coverage on the most unfailingly positive presentation of Donald Trump and his evolving cast of frustrations. Or, once-evolving. For the past eight months, Trump has focused almost exclusively on claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, which it wasn’t. He has trumpeted various moments in which rampant fraud was proved, which it wasn’t. He has argued for reviews of the vote in various states that he thinks will unearth indisputable evidence of malfeasance, which they almost certainly won’t.

The result has been an ecosystem of delusion that has moved past QAnon in terms of scale. A poll from PRRI released in May found that about 15 percent of Americans believed the unbelievable claims at the heart of that false theory, the idea that satanic pedophiles controlled the levers of American power — an idea that can’t be written or read by most people without some sort of visceral reaction at its bizarreness. Yet polling from Monmouth University released this week shows that the number of people who say they believe that the 2020 election was broken by rampant voter fraud is twice as big.

A third of the country thinks that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, including most Republicans. This despite eight months during which no credible evidence of such an effort has been uncovered or even hinted at, really. This particular delusion predated the election, in fact, with Trump tilling the soil as early as last spring and Trump supporters accepting his presentation that any loss would be a function of fraud even before voting began. On the weekend before the election, I spoke to voters in Scranton, Pa., who told me that they didn’t trust polls in the state and planned to volunteer to poll-watch the following Tuesday to root out expected Democratic saboteurs. Democrats, meanwhile, were turning out voters.

It’s hard from the outside to understand the scale of the appetite for the idea that the election was stolen from Trump. It has the inertia of a boulder tumbling down a mountain, a large dangerous mass that can’t be redirected. Many Trump supporters don’t know any supporters of President Biden (and vice versa). They like and trust Trump, who has actively misled them about the election, among countless other things. Many consume information from media outlets such as OAN, the choir to Trump’s preaching. In the same way that OAN repackages propaganda as news, this media ecosystem provides a veneer of objective analysis to the visceral core of the fraud belief system. It’s emotion-laundering, retrofitting a structure of purported analysis and evidence onto which those nonrational assessments can be hung.

The result is that nuance collapses. Any point at which the reality of the situation is bolstered — that is, that no significant fraud occurred — is pushed away. Those who repeatedly point out that the election wasn’t stolen are recast as themselves biased and anti-Trump. So a state Senate committee in Michigan can release an extensive report detailing how claims of fraud are unfounded, misguided or simply invented (as one did this week) and it quickly becomes evidence of how the system is trying to crush the truth.

That report is particularly pointed in its assessment of a Michigan lawyer named Michael DePerno. He has been at the center of a number of false claims about what happened in the state, elevating, among other things, utterly nonsensical assertions about fraud in Antrim County — claims that were credibly debunked within hours of the Nov. 3 election.

“The Committee closely followed Mr. DePerno’s efforts,” the report states, “and can confidently conclude they are demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.”

This is obviously true. DePerno’s response to state efforts to assure people that the election wasn’t tainted? Here’s The Washington Post’s Tom Hamburger, reporting on a rally in Lansing last week centered on demanding an “audit” of the election results:

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“They are lying,” said Matthew DePerno, a lawyer who is spearheading the petition drive. A small crowd cheered as he denounced Michigan’s secretary of state as a “tyrant” and the state’s Democratic governor as “the Fuhrer” and claimed that county clerks — many of them Republicans — had engaged in racketeering and conspiracy.

“These people have committed crimes,” he said.

Demands for state- or county-level audits have become inescapable in recent weeks. The Arizona state Senate’s authorization of a third-party review of votes in Maricopa County has been a boon to the election-fraud economy, hinting by its very nature at a problem to be rectified and poised to obviously elevate dubious claims of impropriety, as it was designed to do.

The magic of Arizona, though, is the same magic that powers OAN: a veneer of objective analysis that can be used to strengthen unsupported emotional beliefs. It also establishes a trusted authority in a self-fulfilling way. Because any objective analysis that conflicts with the belief system is necessarily tainted, after all, the only acceptable “objective” review must be conducted by a subjective party, with obvious results.

The process also amplifies the post-2020 effort to create what in Internet terms would be called a denial-of-service attack: a flood of so many specious claims that the ability of objective analysts to rebut them all is nearly overwhelmed. The sheer number of claims means that everyone looking for a tiny hook of evidence on which to hang their beliefs will be satisfied. So we see calls for new audits everywhere.

But we can’t overlook DePerno’s rhetoric. State actors who reflect the real world are “criminals” who are “lying” and equivalent to tyrants and dictators. Over on OAN, correspondent Pearson Sharp followed this line of reasoning to one conclusion.

“How many people were involved in these efforts to undermine the election? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? How many people does it take to carry out a coup against the presidency?” he said in a clip that spread quickly on social media. “When all the dust settles from the audit in Arizona and the potential audits in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin, what happens to all these people who are responsible for overthrowing the election? What are the consequences for traitors who meddled with our sacred democratic process and tried to steal power by taking away the voices of the American people? What happens to them?”

“Well,” he concluded, “in the past, America had a very good solution for dealing with such traitors: execution.”

This demented presentation is a function of allowing obviously false claims to continue. You say something false and then cast those who correctly rebut you as your enemies. Frame this as a threat to the country and those enemies become traitors.

QAnon researcher Will Sommer noted that followers of the false information embraced Pearson’s commentary, given that levying mass executions against their opponents is a common component of the Q universe. But this is not about QAnon; it’s about election fraud. There’s much less of a social tax paid for those who claim that the election was stolen than for those who say Democrats torture children and drink their blood.

Earlier this month, the FBI warned that QAnon adherents might start to splinter off and commit acts of violence motivated by their own beliefs of how those “satanic pedophiles” should be treated. It’s obviously warranted to similarly worry about people who adhere to the false belief that thousands of Americans conspired to steal the 2020 election.

There are twice as many Americans who say the election was stolen as believe in QAnon.

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Inside the ‘shadow reality world’ promoting the lie that the presidential election was stolen

The slickly produced movie trailer, set to ominous music, cuts from scenes of the 2020 election to clips of allies of former president Donald Trump describing a vast conspiracy to steal the White House.

“The Deep Rig,” a film financed by former Overstock.com chief executive Patrick Byrne for $750,000, is set to be released online this weekend — the latest production by a loosely affiliated network of figures who have harnessed right-wing media outlets, podcasts and the social media platform Telegram to promote the falsehood that the 2020 election was rigged.

The baseless assertion, backed by millions of dollars from wealthy individuals, is reverberating across this alternative media ecosphere five months after Trump and many of his backers were pushed off Facebook and Twitter for spreading disinformation that inspired a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol. While largely unnoticed by Americans who have accepted the fact of President Biden’s victory, the deluge of content has captured the attention of many who think the election was rigged, a belief that is an animating force inside the Republican Party.

In this world, ballot reviews like a Republican-commissioned recount now underway in Arizona are about to begin in other key swing states. Conspiracy theories that grow more dizzyingly complex by the day will soon be proven, showing that China or other foreign powers secretly flipped votes for Biden. Trump will be restored as president in months.

These falsehoods are now seeping into civic life, spurring citizens in multiple states to demand that local officials review the 2020 results.

Kim Wyman, the Republican secretary of state in Washington, said her staff contended with the latest barrage of email and calls just last week. “It told us something had transpired online,” she said, adding: “You can’t disprove the negatives that are being thrown out that are absolutely based on nothing.”

The echo chamber is being sustained by figures such as Byrne, who says he has spent more than $5.5 million to examine election fraud since November, and Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow, who regularly speaks with Trump and says he has plowed $16 million into the effort. Other untold sums have been donated by ordinary Americans to nonprofit groups that say they are focused on “election integrity” and tout what has been dubbed the “big lie” about the 2020 election.

A key touchstone

Officially, the recount in Maricopa County is not about overturning Biden’s narrow win in the state. Senate President Karen Fann (R), who commissioned the review that began in late April, has said it is aimed at identifying weaknesses in the state’s elections system.

The process has been widely pilloried by election experts as sloppy, insecure and biased.

But across the “big lie” ecosphere, the Arizona audit has become a key touchstone — a development that has persuaded many Trump supporters that there will soon be a reassessment of the election results across the country.

Bannon’s daily “War Room” podcast — an increasingly important stopping point for Republicans who want to lay claim to Trump’s base — keeps an image from the live stream of events at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix in the corner of the screen throughout its daily broadcast.

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© Sarah Rice/For The Washington Post Protesters sing at a Let Freedom Ring rally at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on June 17. (Sarah Rice for The Washington Post)

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