Delusions In a world contaminated with delusions, many of them deliberately propagated, this article is essential reading: www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-social...

The Social Roots of Delusions

Clinical delusions, collective irrationality, and the fragile achievement of human knowledge

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My UK friends: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform to review the electoral system

I ask the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, as advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. It should be an independent, time limited, expert led re...

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Florida AG:"It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.” True indeed. There is no serious scientific doubt remaining that the Covid virus arose naturally, and was transmitted to humans in the Wuhan wild animal market; see reviews freely available and with good plain language 1/5

The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review

A review of the current literature supports a zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2 and emphasizes the need to focus on identifying the exact animal host through collaborative and carefully coordinated studi...

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www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bra... Flooding the web with trollbot output in order to get made-up stories picked up and repeated by AI aggregators

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't be working so hard to dissuade you or (in US for example) prevent you

Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them)@catalystmeow.bsky.social · 2w ago

The people going around saying “Voting doesn't work” on Bluesky could've done so on Truth Social instead. They're targeting Blue voters. Every person urging you not to vote has a specific agenda, and it's not caution. It's voter suppression. Vote Blue, USA! 💙 #USDemocracy #MomSky

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission and the dismantling of the Constitution by Paul Braterman I first learnt of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, which delivered its draft report on June 26, from a post in Hemant Mehta’s Friendly Atheist, where he describes it as a clown show and as “a…

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission and the dismantling of the Constitution

by Paul Braterman I first learnt of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, which delivered its draft report on June 26, from a post in Hemant Mehta’s Friendly Atheist, where he describes it as a clown show and as “a blueprint to end church-state separation.” Mehta is far too optimistic. The commission’s report is much more than that. The final report, we are promised, “will equip all Americans with the knowledge and support needed to defend their Constitutional rights.” The draft shows us what these words really mean.

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Trump's Religious Liberty Commission and the dismantling of the Constitution 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily... The Religious Liberty Commission interim report contains recommendations that would greatly aid the Administration in its campaigns against independence of thought, suppress discussion 1/6

Federal Judge Voids Trump IRS Settlement, Finds No Legitimate Case Existed and Refers Trump's Lawyers to the Bar aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-f...

BREAKING: Federal Judge Voids Trump IRS Settlement, Finds No Legitimate Case Existed and Refers Trump's Lawyers to the Bar

A federal judge has delivered a sweeping rebuke of President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, ruling that the case never presented a legitimate legal controversy, voiding t...

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This is not a spoof. He posted it himself

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u... The pool was refilled with D.C. municipal water, which contains phosphate to stop lead leaching out of old pipes. But phosphate is fertilizer! If this project were not under the personal supervision of the President of the United States, this story would be hilarious

Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts.

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h/t Heather Marshall, FaceBook: Select all squares that are blue

This is VERY IMPORTANT. The President of the United States, no less, is discussing it, and that, I think, needs to go viral (or algal); you know what you have to do

My UK friends; if you agree, please sign and share. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Reverse the UK’s student visa ‘brake’ now

Women from Afghanistan, as well as Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon, who have worked tirelessly to achieve offers to UK universities are now being denied the opportunity to study under the UK government’s ...

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$300 billion is too big a number to imagine. So here's what it means; Trump will be paying TO Iran $870 for every single person in the US. And that's just the Development Fund payment

My UK friends, if you agree, please sign and share: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/06/15/o...

Open Letter: Russia Set Britain on Fire. We Demand an Inquiry. – HOPE not hate

You can read our full open letter asking the government to take action and call a comprehensive and transparent inquiry that looks at the full...

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The Netanyahu regime has done more damage to Judaism than enemies from Haman to Hitler. How can we Jews live with the knowledge of this? www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-leb...

Israel Is on a Killing Spree of Paramedics and Rescue Workers in Lebanon

Israel has killed over 120 rescue workers, damaged 16 hospitals, and targeted over 130 ambulances in Lebanon since March 2.

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What really happened in the English local elections Wikipedia is good on this: . Reform got 26% of the vote, with Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, and Greens all within the range 16% – 18%. Not significant differences, but for what it’s worth, the highest of those was for the Greens. I watched a…

According to this thedispatch.com/newsletter/m... Canada has even lower rates for measles vaccination than the US. How did that happen? My Canadian friends, what are you or your government going to do about it?

Could Hantavirus Go Global?

Plus: U.S. and Iranian forces exchange fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Kalshi is valued at $22 billion, and Sue Bird is the bird of the month.

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www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru... h/t Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social‬ “Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.” Hantavirus is spread by rat droppings. What could possibly go wrong‬?

CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks

The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.

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Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than we have seen from the White House on Iran…” 1/3

May 6, 2026

It has not been a banner day for members of the Trump administration.

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My US friends, aren’t you glad your govt understands what’s really important? Today the FBI raided the offices and business of Virginia state senator L. Louis Lucas, 82, a Black woman who led the movement to redraw Virginia’s districts. Fox News was on the scene, suggesting a tipoff. 1/2

May 6, 2026

It has not been a banner day for members of the Trump administration.

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On the rise of antiscience www.protagonist-science.com/p/we-need-to... A sobering account of the rise of science-denying sensationalism, and the structural and institutional asymmetries that have brought us to our present state

We need to talk about the anti-science movement

6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back

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Peter Hitchens thinks there's more sugar in semi-skimmed milk? He also thinks (reported by Saeed,O.F.(2021). EvolutionandAtheism. AcademiaLetters,Article1168. doi.org/10.20935/AL1...) that the purpose of evolution is to try to prove atheism. Is he hoping for a job in Washington?

Evolution and Atheism

Peter Hitchens, younger brother of the late Christopher, says in the notorious London Daily Mail that the implication of evolution "is plainly atheistical, and if its truth could be proved, then ...

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don’t you have bigger problems to deal with?

Read this: what the Filton 6 said to the jury Filton 6 Trial - realmedia.press/filton-6-clo... The smartest legal manoevre since Darrow at Scopes; and the forst speech moved me to tears

Filton 6 Trial - Defendants' closing speeches - Real Media - The View From Below

Defence legal professionals watched their clients from the public gallery as the Filton trial dramatically concluded with defendants accusing the court of hiding the nature of the weapons they damaged...

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The Debunking Handbook, 2020, free download at skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunki... which I review at 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily... This brief booklet has persuaded me to change my strategy in dealing with disinformation, and misinformation in general.

Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41... A wise decision. If you’re not going to listen to them, why pay them?

Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.

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Tactical voting Scotland, 2026 I discussed tactical voting in the 2024 general election here. My analysis stood up well to events, but much has changed since then. The most notable differences are the ability of Labour to half its support within 20 months of taking office, and the rise of Reform…

Am I paranoid if I see here clear warning that the Republicans are laying the ground for denying the validity of the November election? And if I am not paranoid, what are the counter-tactics?

My US friends; (a) what is the reason the Trump Regime is giving for asking Universities for lists of Jewish Faculty members, (b) why are *any* Universities complying, (c) how and why were any such lists compiled in the first place? Asking for a friend