…Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, said #RFKJr’s finances showed “outrageous conflicts of interest that endanger #PublicHealth.”
“This disclosure shows that RFK Jr. made millions off of peddling dangerous #AntiVaccine #conspiracies,” she said in a statement. “Even worse, if he is confirmed, his finances will still be tied to the outcomes of anti-#vaccine lawsuits — even as he’d be tasked with regulating them as #health secretary.”
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From Evidence to Extremism: How Our City Council Failed Us
We discuss the worrying trend of our local political leaders making public policy decisions based on bad science, conspiracy theories, and personal agendas. Actively ignoring the will of their constituents. Their most recent move in this vein was to vote to remove the fluoride from our municipal water supply here in Aberdeen. This will negatively impact public health in a place with already abysmal health stats. It will also primarily harm those who are already marginalized and vulnerable such as the poor in our City. This may seem like small potatoes, but this City Council has been actively harming residents of this City for years now, it is time to consider what can be done to counter this destructive institution.
https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/from-evidence-to-extremism-how-our-city-council-failed-us/
Thoughtful analysis —
"How Conspiracy Theories About L.A. Wildfires Are Hurting Democracy:
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Bad actors creating havoc with false information, it turns out, can be a tinderbox too."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/los-angeles-wildfires-conspiracy-theories-1236105959/
#conspiracy #conspiracies #politics #SocialMedia #LosAngelesFires #misinformation #disinformation
Guardian: Far-right militia targets US military over baseless hurricane ‘weather weapon’ claims
"...A vigilante militia notorious for its patrols on America’s border with Mexico has threatened to take on the US military in recent weeks, with its founder baselessly claiming that Hurricane Helene was deliberately caused by a government energy weapon that needs to be destroyed, according to private and public Telegram chats...."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/far-right-militia-targets-military-weather-manipulation #conspiracies #weather #terror
Some experts argue the saturation of #online #conspiracies could translate into dangerous offline actions. A large quantity of voter-fraud #propaganda might prime the public to distrust the outcome of the #election, for example, laying the political groundwork for #GOP leaders to challenge the results.
Individual pieces of election #disinformation could inspire physical or digital attacks against poll workers, election officials or immigrant communities.
‘#BlackInsurrectionist’ #X #Account That Spread #Anti - #KamalaHarris #Conspiracies Was Reportedly Run by a #White #Guy.
A #socialmedia #account claiming to be run by a #Black #veteran was allegedly tied to a #white #guy from #upstate #NewYork.
Extract from an article in the Washington Post. One of the weather folks complaining about his mom now believing the conspiracy theories being pushed on the service... where he posted his complaint 
The #MAGA #Maniacs Are Going #AllIn on #Deranged #Hurricane #Conspiracies.
It’s the #Jews! It’s the #deepstate! It’s anything but a #natural #weather occurrence made much worse by #ClimateChange!
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/hurricane-milton-conspiracy-theories-maga/
#Trump isn’t solely responsible for this age of #poisonous rhetoric, #hateful name-calling, #conspiracies & #lies, #divided families & communities, #cowardly leaders & #deluded followers—but as long as Trump still sits atop the #Republican Party, it will not end. His #power depends on lowering the country into a feverish state of #fear & #rage where Americans turn on one another.
"Two distinct forms of isolation predict belief in conspiracy theories
Alienation also emerged as a significant predictor of conspiratorial thinking. Alienation...described as feeling marginalized or left behind by society.
Individuals who perceive themselves as outsiders ...may be more susceptible to conspiracy theories,
possibly as a way to explain their marginalization or to find a sense of community "
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/technology/biden-conspiracy-theories-misinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb “These #influencers don’t seem to lose influence when they get it blatantly wrong,” said Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation. “It just shows that people like to believe false information — even when they find out it’s inaccurate — if it confirms their existing prejudices or their prior beliefs.” #conspiracy #conspiracies
#Embracing #election #conspiracies could #sink a #Kansas #sheriff who once looked #invulnerable
Hayden is in a #contentious #race ahead of Tuesday’s #primary #election and #Democrats are #bullish about their #chances of winning their first #sheriff’s #race since 1930 in the #generalelection in #November.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kansas #Politics #Elections
Election Deniers Score Major Win in Arizona’s Maricopa County
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/election-deniers-just-scored-a-major-win-in-arizonas-biggest-county/
* Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (Republican; oversees mail-in voting, voter registration, property records in U.S.’ 4th-largest county) reached out to Elon Musk
* Musk declared that electronic voting machine & anything mailed in too risky to use in elections
Certification fights are already cropping up in battleground states
Georgia conservative Julie Adams spread #conspiracies about election workers,
concocted a baseless story about ballot couriers drinking #beer and doing #drugs while hoarding ballots,
and boasted of her contentious relationship with local election officials.
Then, in February, Adams was sworn in as a 
member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia.
In one of her first acts, she #sued the rest of the board and the elections director,
claiming she should not be forced to certify election results “without access to all elements of the election materials”.
The dustup in Fulton County is just one example of the election #certification #fights already cropping up in battleground states,
from Georgia to Michigan to Nevada this year.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/certification-fights-battle-ground-states/index.html
The would-be assassin was a registered Republican who had recently been donating to Democrat-aligned groups, per CNN and the FBI.
The most logical conclusion is that he was hoping to kill Trump before the Primaries, so the GOP would have to nominate a more palatable candidate. (He obviously didn't understand that Trump is not the disease; he's just a symptom of how vile the GOP is today.)
It's also doubtful Trump would have actually put himself in harm's way, so this was NOT "staged."
So please... Let's stop with the conspiracy theories, shall we? We hear enough of that from MAGAts. Let's not get as crazy as they are.
The Supreme Court rejected Rep. Greene’s bid to overturn the hefty $100,000 in fines she incurred for repeatedly refusing to wear a #mask on the #House #floor during the #pandemic.
“That’s right—Marjorie Taylor Greene took her #Covid19 #conspiracies all the way to the #highest #court in the land,” says Jen Psaki. And lost!
Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies
“study published on Wednesday in Nature has found that using online search engines to vet #conspiracies can actually increase the chance that someone will believe it. The researchers point to a known problem in search called "#DataVoids." Sometimes, there's not a lot of high-quality information to counter misleading headlines or surrounding fringe theories”
@Free_Press is it possibly because the #putin #russia war machine threatens #sanctions that reduce the products of international investors and the very same people running the media whereas another war lighting fire between #muslims and #jews in the Middle East is just fine by them?
No need for dark #conspiracies just self interest by #sociopaths that don’t care about human suffering in their game of who has the most billions
