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This podcast is It Could Happen Here, and I'm Garrison Davis.

Last episode, I talked with Mia Wong about the trajectory of liberal conspiracy theories,

specifically throughout the last 10 years. From Russia Gate to Trump's staged

assassination and 2024 election denial, this resurgence of liberal conspiracyism has been dubbed

Blu-Anon. If you want more background on that, go listen to our previous episode, but this episode is about

a new evolution of Blue Anon and possibly the most Qanani iteration we've seen yet.

The Alt National Park Service.

A social media engagement farming account that gained traction on Blue Sky and Facebook

last February and March amidst cuts to the Park Service from the Trump administration.

This account gained followers by posing as a group of anti-Trump dissidents from within the

Park Service. And soon enough, it inspired a collection of other

alt government accounts like Alt CDC, Alt-N-I-H, Alt-Yellowstone, and Alt-Noah. The original

Alt's National Park Service account basically never talks about the Park Service itself, but during the first few months of

Trump's second term, the account started going viral by posting sequences of random numbers

as ostensibly coded messages to other hashtag resistance fighters, though the account has

since experimented with, altered, and refined their engagement

strategies. To hear more about that and how Alt National Park Service fits into this trend

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