oh i suspect this was just the only way they could get permission to cover it at all, since one of the people they're indirectly hinting at is famously litigious wrt newspapers

Any article pointing out the network is good. The coverage can increase from there. Jan 6 had two main domestic backing groups: the fundamentalist religious right, and the techbro neo-fascists (which includes the gay MAGA network). They obviously do not share values.. 1/2

.. so there must be conflict, yet the religious right is strangely quiet right now, seeming to cede power. An expert on the religious right predicted that this is a waiting game, that if Thiel really seized power they would knife him, use his gayness against him. We shall see what happens. 2/2

i would suspect he will always act through a cutout that's religiously acceptable like a certain yalie

Thiel had two cutouts that would be more acceptable - Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have deep Evangelical credentials. But, Cruz had failed for the presidency already. JD as a recent-convert hard-right tradCath will be a tougher sell, both for the general voter and for religious-right power brokers.