Month: January 2021

"Marjorie Taylor Greene penned a conspiracy theory that a laser beam from space started deadly 2018 California wildfire...In November 2018, California was hit with the worst wildfire in the state's history. At the time, future Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote a bizarre Facebook post that echoed QAnon conspiracy theorists and falsely claimed that the...

Anti-vaccine activists are making up stories about the covid-19 vaccine--they're falsely claiming it's killing people. They're spreading these fabricated stories on social media. Why? As clickbait for some site selling "alternative" medicines? In some cases money may be the motive. But sometimes they just seem to be fanatically sticking to the lies in the face...

We have maintained here that there is such a thing as moral stupidity. Whatever part of a morally-stupid person's brain is supposed to make them aware of conscience, of basic moral standards...isn't working. Trump made moral stupidity commonplace: It was morally stupid, incredibly so, to separate children from their parents to try to scare immigrants...

Radical right-wing pastor Greg Locke claimed during a sermon that Senator Mitch McConnell was "controlled by 'Illuminati hand signals' when Congress gathered to certify the election results last week." "Locke... spoke at ...Stop the Steal events in Washington, D.C., that took place before before MAGA activists ​and members of militia organizations and such far-right hate...

Maybe someone's asking, but if so I haven't seen it asked. So, Trump and Giuliani, for just two, are wealthy, connected men who got infected by Covid-19. They were treated very effectively in a short time. They seem fine now. Yet Covid-19 is a very real danger. So why did fate or nature give them...