Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has invited ridicule by announcing
he is “looking at chemtrails” and their adverse impact on public health,
reviving a long-debunked conspiracy theory.
RFK Jr was addressing the anti-vaccine group "Children’s Health Defense" at an event in Washington, D.C., Thursday
when he assured his audience
“you have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House”.
The health secretary, who chaired the…
#today I have just caught up on the #NewScientist article backlog, I am fiddling around with some logging detail for my microinverter proof-of-concept, and will probably go round to a friend's for the afternoon...
Readers reply: Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/12/readers-reply-why-put-solar-panels-on-green-space-when-we-coul…
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Teenage Fanclub:
🎵 The Concept
#TeenageFanclub
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The positive sides of "Bill Gates has put microchips in me" 🤣
#conspiracytheories
Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence -- even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings negotiated to settle an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
The court found that although trucking and drilling magnate James Henrikson had paid Timothy Suckow tens of…
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Allah-Las:
🎵 Pt. Conception
#AllahLas
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Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…
We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book
"Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era".
Neiman argues that evil
— far from being an outdated religious concept
— is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
The Trump administration’s abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil,
part of how people are “brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, f…