About The Conspiracy Courier

Staff

• Dustin Quarles

  Founding Editor

  A high school history teacher from Tulsa who started a conspiracy-theory blog to teach his students about logical fallacies and accidentally became a true believer in at least three of his own bits. Dustin covers alternative history and timeline anomalies with the earnest confusion of a man who went looking for debunking material and found something worse.

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  A high school history teacher from Tulsa who started a conspiracy-theory blog to teach his students about logical fallacies and accidentally became a true believer in at least three of his own bits. Dustin covers alternative history and timeline anomalies with the earnest confusion of a man who went looking for debunking material and found something worse.

• Harlan Crisp

  Standards Correspondent

  Former comedy writer who spent eight years on late-night staff before deciding that satire had become 'too easy and not paranoid enough.' Harlan covers psyops, propaganda, and media manipulation by treating every press release as an open mic set that bombed on purpose. He's the only Courier writer whose pieces get forwarded with 'I can't tell if this is a joke.'

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  Former comedy writer who spent eight years on late-night staff before deciding that satire had become 'too easy and not paranoid enough.' Harlan covers psyops, propaganda, and media manipulation by treating every press release as an open mic set that bombed on purpose. He's the only Courier writer whose pieces get forwarded with 'I can't tell if this is a joke.'

• Juno Keppler-Ash

  Civic Affairs Desk

  A twenty-four-year-old TikTok creator who went viral for a series called 'Wait, They Did WHAT?' and parlayed it into a column before anyone at the Courier realized she was being entirely sincere. Juno covers leaked documents and symbols in pop culture with the breathless energy of someone discovering for the first time that the world is, in fact, deeply weird.

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  A twenty-four-year-old TikTok creator who went viral for a series called 'Wait, They Did WHAT?' and parlayed it into a column before anyone at the Courier realized she was being entirely sincere. Juno covers leaked documents and symbols in pop culture with the breathless energy of someone discovering for the first time that the world is, in fact, deeply weird.

• Lonnie Vatch

  Culture Columnist

  Retired postal inspector with forty-one years of service and an encyclopedic memory for every psyop, mail fraud scheme, and 'lost' package that crossed his desk. Lonnie covers institutional cover-ups and bureaucratic conspiracies with the weary authority of a man who has personally opened suspicious envelopes for four decades and lived to write about most of them.

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  Retired postal inspector with forty-one years of service and an encyclopedic memory for every psyop, mail fraud scheme, and 'lost' package that crossed his desk. Lonnie covers institutional cover-ups and bureaucratic conspiracies with the weary authority of a man who has personally opened suspicious envelopes for four decades and lived to write about most of them.

• Mara Threshfield

  Field Reporter

  Former NSA linguist who quit after seventeen years because she 'couldn't unsee the patterns in declassified cables.' Mara covers government documents, FOIA dumps, and redaction analysis with the quiet intensity of someone who knows exactly which words get blacked out and why. Her columns read like annotated evidence binders that somehow became riveting.

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  Former NSA linguist who quit after seventeen years because she 'couldn't unsee the patterns in declassified cables.' Mara covers government documents, FOIA dumps, and redaction analysis with the quiet intensity of someone who knows exactly which words get blacked out and why. Her columns read like annotated evidence binders that somehow became riveting.

• Petra Novotná

  Letters Editor

  Czech-born investigative journalist who covered actual organized crime in Prague for a decade before relocating to the States and finding American conspiracy culture 'refreshingly creative but structurally illiterate.' Petra brings European skepticism and real-world intelligence tradecraft knowledge to rabbit holes that usually get explored with YouTube clips and vibes.

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  Czech-born investigative journalist who covered actual organized crime in Prague for a decade before relocating to the States and finding American conspiracy culture 'refreshingly creative but structurally illiterate.' Petra brings European skepticism and real-world intelligence tradecraft knowledge to rabbit holes that usually get explored with YouTube clips and vibes.

• Rex Deepstate

  Institutional Memory Desk

  Investigative journalist who has been connecting dots for so long that the dots have started connecting themselves.

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  Investigative journalist who has been connecting dots for so long that the dots have started connecting themselves.

• Sable Okonkwo

  Weekend Editor

  Data scientist who left a quant fund after noticing 'statistically impossible clustering' in market events that coincided with geopolitical disruptions. Sable brings regression models, Bayesian inference, and entirely too many scatter plots to questions that most people answer with cork boards and red string. She is the red string, but graphed.

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  Data scientist who left a quant fund after noticing 'statistically impossible clustering' in market events that coincided with geopolitical disruptions. Sable brings regression models, Bayesian inference, and entirely too many scatter plots to questions that most people answer with cork boards and red string. She is the red string, but graphed.

• Tomás Belmonte

  Public Records Fellow

  Architectural historian who became convinced that certain building layouts encode messages after spending three years cataloguing Gilded Age floor plans for his dissertation. Tomás covers sacred geometry, coded architecture, and spatial conspiracies with the deep-focus intensity of a man who has measured the angles of seven hundred doorways and found exactly enough anomalies to ruin his academic career.

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  Architectural historian who became convinced that certain building layouts encode messages after spending three years cataloguing Gilded Age floor plans for his dissertation. Tomás covers sacred geometry, coded architecture, and spatial conspiracies with the deep-focus intensity of a man who has measured the angles of seven hundred doorways and found exactly enough anomalies to ruin his academic career.

• Vex Parallax

  Copy Chief

  Self-described truth-seeker who connects dots that may not exist with confidence that cannot be shaken.

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  Self-described truth-seeker who connects dots that may not exist with confidence that cannot be shaken.