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Did MAGA Conspiracy Theories Doom the Lab-Grown Burger?

Scientists once predicted meat-making machines on every kitchen counter, but so far cultured meat—grown from the cells of an animal in a lab or factory—has only been seen at a handful of high-end restaurants. There are entirely practical reasons the stuff has yet to make its debut at McDonald’s, but also bizarre, conspiratorial ones; some […]


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Trump Shares AI Deep-Fake Video of Himself Promoting Fictional “MedBed” Product

The “MedBed” conspiracy theory has led to websites seeking to scam people who wrongly believe that the product is real.


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Laura Loomer Is “Basically a Cabinet Member at This Point”

Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration. The latest example: She appears to have had a Democratic senator’s classified visit to a military spy agency canceled. On Wednesday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that […]


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Trump Doesn’t Like Jobs Numbers, Fires Head of Labor Stats

Economist Dean Baker says Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is a “four alarm fire.”


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How Does the Epstein Scandal End? 

Last week, top officials in Donald Trump’s version of the Justice Department, including Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal criminal attorney, paid a visit to Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite turned sex trafficker. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for her role in helping the financier-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse women and girls; according to a […]


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Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein “List” Fallout

Trump has benefited for years from a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging that Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list.”


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Now It’s Epstein Forever 

“We’re on one Team, MAGA,” Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial over the weekend, “and I don’t like what’s happening.”  “We have a PERFECT Administration,” he added, “THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over […]


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No, Democrats Aren’t Controlling the Weather. Neither Is Anyone Else.

Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works, and that seems especially so when you take stock of the disinformation swirling in the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods. The Independence Day floods in Texas Hill Country have killed at least 121 people, with scores still missing. Yet even as the increasingly […]


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RFK Jr. Packs CDC Immunization Board With Anti-Vaxxers, Conspiracy Theorists

The new board members selected by Kennedy “don’t have the technical capacity” to make sound decisions, one critic said.


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The Brain Rot Cabinet

Last week, baffling many and delighting a few, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared during a Trump administration cabinet meeting that he’s engaged in a hunt for what he said were 300,000 missing children trafficked by the Biden administration. “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” […]


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