The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup

The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner over the weekend was disturbed, deranged, twisted. In obligatory 2026 style, the fallout might have been weirder still. Ostensibly perpetrated by 31-year-old California teacher and self-styled “Friendly Federal Assassin” Cole Thomas Allen, the incident in the public consciousness quickly descended into false-flag, time-traveling, Mossad-agent bizarro land. A few conspiratorial theories already flying about the WHCA shooting: Cole Allen traveled through time. Yes, you read that right: an instantly viral theory described an elaborate “Timeline War” plot: An X account by the name of Henry Martinez made one post in 2023, reading only...