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heretics.

Andrew Gold

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What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants. Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Francis Foster and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to Robbie Williams and gender crit ...
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An exploration of the deepest corners of the psyche of Philadelphia’s most fervent sect – the fans of sport. And other related stuff. Featuring Jesse Rendell, Mike Meech, Rodg "Rock" Matthews, Eric Fink, Tom Henneman and Mark Goodheart.
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Let's Talk About Sects is an award-winning monthly podcast focusing on a different cult each episode. Sarah takes a storytelling, deep dive approach, looking at the history of a sect's leaders, the recruitment of members, their experiences, psychological aspects, and notable incidents during its existence. You can support us on Patreon, with a one-off donation, or grab some merch. Sarah Steel's debut book Do As I Say is available now. “A fascinating and well-researched look into cults and th ...
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Coming to you straight from the sect, covering anything and everything that we damn well please! From black Icelandic beaches to high powered tactical crossbows, we aim to cover it all! Get in touch and thank you for listening to basically two guys talking and broadcasting it out to the cosmos...
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Unraveling Religion, Judaic Edition

Rabbi Jessica Minnen and Joel David Lesses

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With an emphasis on Judaism, these mystical and practical discussions are explorations of spirituality and its relation to religion and psychology, with questions always. Beyond a specific spiritual practice, or sect or stream of Judaism; what do we share, what do we have in common? These talks are a work in progress evolving our rich inner life, including reflections on religious texts (i.e., Torah and Talmud), poems, art, and what is common in our human experience enhancing understanding o ...
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Sects Ed

A History of Unorthodox Faiths

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Welcome to Sects Ed, a podcast that carefully explores and shares the history of unorthodox faiths. Whether it be cults, heresies, or new religious movements, Sects Ed is dedicated to understanding the beliefs of peripheral faiths and teaching you both how the world viewed them and how they viewed themselves. Thank you for joining us as we analyze religious groups outside the mainstream whose histories are often overlooked. We post new episodes bi-weekly on Tuesdays.
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The TV Sect Podcast

Moni Wood and Sierra DuCharme-Hansen

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Welcome to The TV Sect! A podcast dedicated to the cult-like love of television. We’re your hosts, Moni Wood and Sierra DuCharme-Hansen, two emerging TV writers, expert TV watchers. Come share in our devotion to the Cult of TV, as we explore all the sacred things of scripted television. In each episode, we highlight a different aspect of a TV series and explore how it influences a show’s cultism. From teasers to tags, characters to costumes, aliens to zombies, and everything in between. Let ...
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Life Giving Word is dedicated to exposing error in doctrine and practice, and rightly dividing the word of truth according to the Word of GOD. We do not espouse a sect or any worldly religion divided by the traditions of men excepting that ancient sect where “... the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts 11.26b KJV). We consider ourselves Biblical Christians pure and simple. Having no worldly interest at stake, nor religious compensation to blind our eyes or pervert our ju ...
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Survivor stories of claiming independence after leaving high-control groups & people. Cults to Consciousness is a YouTube channel and podcast, hosted by Shelise Ann Sola (a former devout Mormon & CSA survivor) and her Producer husband, Jonathan Rosales. C2C delves into the nuanced experiences of individuals who have escaped a broad spectrum of high-control groups and coercive environments. They are not anti-religious but firmly anti-abuse, aiming to shed light on manipulative practices and s ...
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Feed The Ball

Derek Duncan

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In the Feed the Ball podcast, Golf Digest architecture editor Derek Duncan discusses golf course design, architecture, aesthetics and other topics with golf course architects and other luminaries of the game.
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Inside the Tribe

Tim Elliott and Camille Bianchi

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Episode released weekly or subscribe now to binge all episodes of Inside The Tribe: Apple: Subscribe For Early Access Spotify: Subscribe For Early Access It’s 1996, and a young couple, Mark and Rose, have just returned to Sydney from living overseas. They are in love, with two beautiful kids, but they are at a loose end. One day at a local fair, they come across a Christian sect called the 12 Tribes. The group, who live in seclusion, offer a utopia of love, peace and communal living, beholde ...
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Secular Lotus Buddhists

Secular Lotus Buddhists

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New grassroots school or sect of Nichiren, Lotus Sutra based secular Buddhism. A philosophical and ethical meditation practice and way of life. Buddha was not a god or deity. He was just a super "woke" aka enlightened human. We ALL have the ability to attain buddhahood, enlightenment, wokeness. Let's do it together and help ourselves, each other, and the planet! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/secular-lotus-buddhists/support
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Guber Mente 2025

What's Really Happening Today

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No bells, whistles or popular culture normie banter. Conversation regarding the clear and present danger from an unexpected enemy and untrustworthy and worthless government that has never been what the propaganda has pushed. You either see it or you do not see it. You must unlearn what you have learned.
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The Anthony Rogers Show

The Anthony Rogers Show

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The Anthony Rogers Show is a wildly original, uncensored talk show hosted by comedian and cultural provocateur Anthony Rogers. Featuring cohost Nikki Knightly a psychic, stand-up comic, adult entertainer with 25 million views on PornHub alone. A model known for her bold takes and quick wit. And beloved Canadian viral sensation Frankie MacDonald is the show's weatherman. With millions of followers and a growing cult fanbase, the show blends absurdist humor, sharp commentary, and unfiltered in ...
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"Everything Is Going To Be All Right..." That's what Lieutenant Terry Metcalfe keeps telling his friends and co-workers. A hero to the public, just months ago he successfully prevented the veritable destruction of human civilization at the hands of terrorists from the warlike Qraitian Empire. But Metcalfe has changed, grown unhappy with his role as an officer in the Confederate Navy. Distancing himself from his friends, he's decided to join a religious sect which believes it's literally foun ...
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More Programs @ www.OpenandClear.com - Here we will be discussing the personal divine revelations shared by Devan Byrne involving the ten dimensional experience of all this universe. For any Question, Comments EMail: [email protected] with the subject line "TEN DIMENSIONS". This is not any one religion, but ALL OF THEM.------------------------------------------... The Following is only for search enhancement ... A Course in Miracles, ACIM, I am, Almighty, A Course, in Miracles, The Mira ...
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Regardless of your faith ... You believe in truth, justice and democracy in America. You see all the lies and want truth, clarity, understanding, perspective, facts, data and evidence. The White Evangelical church leadership doesn’t speak for you as a person of faith, much less as an American. You’re simply tired of manipulation, bluster and overt deceit from government. You wonder how will America survive polarizing activities from one political party, and its sect acting like a cult that d ...
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Dark Sisters Opera

Dark Sisters Opera

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DARK SISTERS is a new American opera, with music by Nico Muhly and libretto by Stephen Karam. Co-commissioned and Co-produced by Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and Opera Company of Philadelphia. DARK SISTERS is a suspenseful, emotional, and lyrical depiction of one woman's struggle with life and faith and the universal dilemma of whether to stay or leave.The opera opens a window into the lives of Eliza and her sister wives, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints ...
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Ian Duncan MacDonald's Novels

Ian Duncan MacDonald

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The author, Ian MacDonald, narrates the contents of his three novels. The first novel to be narrated by Ian is "BEWARE THE ABANDONED". It follows a discarded, orphaned boy from Los Angeles who is enlisted by a non-religious capitalist sect in New Mexico. Their objective is to exploit gifted street children for the rest of their lives by turning them into wealthy entrepreneurs. The story moves from Paris to Las Vegas and Delaware with the FBI and the Mafia in hot pursuit. The three murders we ...
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Being Bali

Ravinjay Kuckreja, Ph.D.

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Cultural insights into the mystical island of Bali, home of an ancient blend of local beliefs and a newly defined Hinduism. Step into the worldview of a local, the duty they must uphold and explore living in the kaleidoscope of Indonesia. This is #BeingBali.
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Do you love The Traitors, Werewolf and Mafia? Welcome to the next level of social deduction, Blood on the Clocktower. Our episodes are stacked to the brim with subterfuge and betrayal! With guests from No Rolls Barred, The Pandemonium Institute, Dropout, Oxventure and beyond, you won't be able to stop listening. Subscribe for a new episode in our ten-episode first season on the last Tuesday of every month!
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Subway Rat Podcast

Subway Rat Podcast

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Luisifer has launched Subway Rat Podcast, which will feature the Teething vocalist and monster illustrator going into deep conversations with his friends that dabble with independent art whether it’s music, cinema, illustration, or whatever. Subway Rat Podcast will host musicians from the hardcore and grindcore scene to horror nerds who run their own distribution companies. More importantly, each episode will take a dive into everyone’s favourite food.
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A true desi and a proud Mumbai girl, 5 years ago I moved out of home and have been going from one country to another and have changed more houses and cities than I can remember. This is a podcast about life abroad, trying to make sense out of different cultural norms and a whole new way of living. My confusions and the stories that arise from this chaos while I try to hold on to my culture, identity and life as I know it...
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The Script is a podcast for Storytellers of the social deduction game "Blood on the Clocktower." Each episode focuses on a different edition of the game with the goal of providing new Storytellers helpful information on how to run their first game successfully. For more information on Blood on the Clocktower, check out kickstarter.com/projects/pandemoniuminstitute/blood-on-the-clocktower
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Friday Night Fanfiction

Nighthorse Media

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The drunken terrible fanfiction podcast that you never knew you needed (and your mother warned you about). Join Stevo, David, Logan, Val, and Shawn as the Nighthorse crew takes on terribly terrible (erotic?) fanfiction weekly, accompanied by guests from the community, fanfiction writers, and random people we roped into suffering with us. Loose drinking rules for whenever you make a mistake, and you can see how this goes downhill quickly! Episodes are recorded and broadcasted weekly on Wednes ...
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A Course In Miracles is a very deep work and can be, for many people, rather difficult to understand. The purpose of this podcast is to read, reframe and make ACIM more comprehensible for Regular People. Life Coach, Rev. Robin Smith, has been studying ACIM for over half a decade. It has had a profound impact in her life and she wishes to allow more ‘Regular People’, like herself, to receive the benefit that she has from this work. Robin wishes this to be an interactive show so please go to a ...
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All About Hinduism

Hindu American Foundation

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Want to learn all about Hinduism, the world's oldest and third-largest religion? Like actually understand what karma is? Or what dharma means? Do you want to know what the sacred texts of Hinduism are? Or, maybe, you just want to know why Hindu women wear a dot on their forehead? Or, perhaps, if all Hindus vegetarian? If so, then All About Hinduism is just what you’ve been waiting for. We’ll give you an overview of Hinduism as a lived and contemporary spiritual path. We’ll explore the histor ...
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Danny Rensch grew up in the Church of Immortal Consciousness, a cult he usually refers to as ‘the Collective’. Started by Steven and Trina Kamp, the group followed the teachings of a Dr Pahlvon Duran, whose spirit first visited Trina when she was 9. In trances, she would convey the teachings of Dr Duran, whose last lifetime was lived as an Englishm…
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One of the polygamous offshoots of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) where the famous Kody Brown and Sister Wives come from. Melanie grew up in this group with 4 mothers and 34 and counting siblings. Her Father was an apostle when she was growing up, but would go on to become the prophet. A posit…
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Street Sects is an American experimental band from Austin, Texas formed in 2013, composed of vocalist Leo Ashline and multi-instrumentalist Shaun Ringsmuth. Their style is extremely abrasive, characterized by industrial rhythms, use of screamed vocals, samples of both noise and synthesizers, and nihilistic lyrics. Brought to you by www.MyPatriotCig…
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Leo Ashline and Shaun Ringsmuth are back with the amazing Street Sects, and they made up for their recent absence by creating another brand new band, Street Sex - and both are releasing albums tomorrow! We sat down with the boys, who let us in on all the secrets behind these two masterpieces of pain. (pic: Ismael Quintanilla III)…
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Health and Compulsion Records presents: Leo and Shaun from Street Sects/ Street Sex are doing it big. Not only have they come careening out of the gate with a blistering new Street Sects recording, "Dry Drunk", but they are simultaneously dropping their first electro pop recording as alter ego Street Sex. This interview legit has it all, addiction,…
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Kevin James Thornton grew up in a small Christian town in Indiana. His early life started at a Baptist church, but once he discovered a Mega Church focused on rock bands and the youth, he became enamored and doubled down on his faith. A Jesus loving, self motivated chiId then teen, he loved his fully immersive church and heavily partook in extremel…
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🔥 Something is seriously wrong with Britain. In this explosive Heretics interview, Charlie Downes of Restore Britain (Rupert Lowe's movement) warns that what’s coming will be WORSE than a civil war. From mass immigration and identity politics to grooming gangs, tribalism, and the collapse of English identity – is the UK sleepwalking into disaster? …
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Tom Weir of Old Moon joins us for the 3rd time. This time around, he comes to us as a new father with a new set of tools in his arsenal and a new album that is unlike anything he's given us before. Streaming on Bandcamp now! Vinyl Preorder available. https://oldmoon.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/thebookofveryverybadthings/ https://…
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Many of you have gotten knocks on your door lately (us included) by the Jehovah’s Witnesses inviting you to attend their upcoming weekend long convention in July. Our friend Jake at @altworldly found a LEAKED copy of their propaganda and promised it would deliver in absurdity and disgusting takes on the “apostates” who have left the religion. Join …
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As a 4th generation Jehovah’s Witness, Alissa Watson followed the path laid out before her and married young at a month past 19. Against the recommendation of the doomsday cult, she had chiIdren. During the birth of her first chiId, a pool of lost blood scared her husband into looking into the doctrine of blood transfusions being a punishable sin. …
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Jerry Pate burst into the golf world when he won the 1976 U.S. Open at Atlanta Athletic Club in just his second year on tour. From 1976 through 1982 when he won the first Players Championship held at the new Pete Dye-designed TPC Sawgrass he was one of the best players in the world, contending in other majors and earning a spot on the 1981 Ryder Cu…
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During WWII the horrific extermination of religious and ethnic groups forced people to denounce their faith and hail Hitler for their own survival. Owen Morgan, former JW and successful YouTuber @OwenMorganTelltale dove into the rabbit hole to extensively research the position and stories of the JW people at the time. He explains how Joseph Frankli…
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🚨 In this explosive episode of Heretics, Andrew Gold sits down with Ben Habib — businessman, politician, and now leader of a brand-new political party, Advance UK. From Brexit to Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, immigration, Islam and culture wars — Habib pulls no punches. SPONSORS: Make your AI video here: https://invideo.io/i/andrewgold Get an exclusive …
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In this episode we sit down with Scott Winegard, bassist of the seminal post-hardcore band Texas Is The Reason. Emerging from New York City’s 90s underground, the band carved out a legacy with their melodic sensibilities, introspective lyrics, and their enduring influence on the emo/post-hardcore movement. Scott reflects on those years with a mix o…
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Bethany was raised in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, only to realize she had been part of a cult for thirty years. The psychological pressure cooker exploded in her 20s with quickly deteriorating mental health. The faux perfectionism drove her into an eating disorder as a means to gain any form of control over her life. When she could no longer pretend a…
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Bethany Leger was raised in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, only to realize she had been part of a cult for thirty years. The psychological pressure cooker exploded in her 20s with quickly deteriorating mental health. The faux perfectionism drove her into an eating d*sorder as a means to gain any form of control over her life. When she could no longer pre…
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What if one forgotten law changed the course of history — and we ignored its lesson? In this explosive interview, Matthew Syed – bestselling author, Times columnist, BBC broadcaster and former Olympian – joins Andrew Gold on Heretics to uncover the shocking truth about cousin marriage, tribalism, immigration, and the hidden ban that built Britain. …
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Melanie and Cory grew up in the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) at the Montana compound. They wouldn’t meet, however, until long after leaving the cult and all their family behind. Almost a polygamous wife, Melanie had a horrible arranged marriage at a young age and did whatever it took to get out and become free. Now, we look at what happens when …
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Pulled from the Archives of Unraveling Religion, Judaic Edition, this January 2010 conversation with Rabbi Gedaliah Gurfein of Jerusalem opens to the importance of Judaism's connection to the land of Israel. Also discussed is the nature of a human being, being is less important than becoming. Rabbi Gedaliah shares utilizing the time on our planet m…
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I sit down with Lubna Fahran, host of Candid with Lubna and former The Apprentice UK contestant under Lord Alan Sugar. Lubna opens up about her shocking experiences: from death threats and being told she should be killed, to her journey navigating faith, freedom, and identity in Britain today. Subscribe to https://www.youtube.com/@Lubna.Candid SPON…
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In this episode, we sit down with Geert Van Der Velde, best known for his time fronting the influential hardcore band Shai Hulud. Geert shares insights from his journey in the world of heavy music, reflecting on the band’s lasting impact and the philosophies that have shaped his life and art. From exploring nihilism and the role it’s played in his …
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Shannon Foley Martinez was a vict*m of CSA at age 14. Never quite able to meet her parent's expectations, Martinez sought out other angry teens. By 16 she was a sk*nhead spouting white supremac*st rhetoric, giving stiff-armed N*zi salutes and tagging public property with swast*kas. Fortified by the love of an adopted family, Martinez left the sk*nh…
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Shannon Foley Martinez was a victim of CSA at age 14. Never quite able to meet her parent's expectations, Martinez sought out other angry teens. By 16 she was a skinhead spouting white supremacist rhetoric, giving stiff-armed Nazi salutes and tagging public property with swastikas. Fortified by the love of an adopted family, Martinez left the skinh…
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On this episode of The Anthony Rogers Show, pornstar-turned-comedian Nikki Knightly sits down with Ryan Fox, drummer of the rising Texas grunge-country band Dexter and the Moonrocks, for a one-of-a-kind conversation recorded right on the track at the legendary Daytona 500 Speedway. Nikki dives into Ryan’s journey, the band’s breakout success, and w…
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Prince Andrew: The Making of a Monster – an explosive deep dive into the life, scandals, and shocking secrets of the disgraced Duke of York. In this revealing investigation, biographer Andrew Lownie exposes jaw-dropping details: how women were “provided” for Andrew, his disturbing early sexual experiences, and the bizarre obsessions that shaped his…
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Christian Picciolini found himself stumbling through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music. There, he was recruited by a notorious white power sk*nhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in rac*st philosophies, a terror…
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