Conspirituality

MAHA isn’t a health movement. It’s a marketing engine driving activist propaganda. Derek looks at Tony Lyons, one of MAHA’s key architects, and his recent strategic memo sent to Republican leadership about how to use MAHA talking points to retain power in the midterm elections. 

Show Notes

Tony Lyons’s strategic memo to GOP leadership

Examining Who Benefits From Kennedy’s Anti-Science MAHA Push

MAHA Supporters Form New Organization to Boost RFK’s Goals in D.C.

MAHA’s money man has built a political machine. Will it matter for midterms?

The co-founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. super PAC is a Steve Bannon and MAGA media ally

As MAHA turns 1, a fired-up movement is still figuring out how to fulfill its promises

Skyhorse Publishing: About Us

MAHA Action

American Values 2024

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In the wake of the DOJ’s dump of 3 million documents from the FBI’s Epstein investigation, journalists, content creators, and everyday people are forming narratives and schema for what it all means.

Social media is flooded with survivor stories, overwhelming disgust, rage and grief, and reports of anxiety, sleep disturbance, and difficulty functioning in the world (mostly from women). Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy memes are being resurrected. Satanic Ritual Abuse materials are again circulating, which imbue sex trafficking and child abuse with sensationalized supernatural overtones.

The Epstein class must be held accountable. Alongside that, Julian explores how toxic masculinity teaches men to dehumanize women and girls, as evidenced by email exchanges that play along with misogynistic attitudes and objectification.

Making sense of the cultural and historical context for the global human trafficking trade, which extends far beyond movie villain elites, billionaires, and royal family members, requires that men speak up against casual everyday dehumanization of women and girls, while actively fostering relational intelligence within male culture.

Show Notes

50 Million People Suffer Today Under Global Slavery

Many Countries Still Allow Child Marriage
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Deepak Chopra is all over the Epstein files. Are we surprised? Nope. But we are interested in the various layers of his entanglement and what they say about the ethics and politics at play in the shadow of Big Wellness.

Show Notes

Self-Help Guru Sorry He Got Busted for Vile Epstein Emails

Deepak Chopra: New Age Guru, UCSD Prof – and Epstein Confidant

God Is A Construct, Cute Girls Are Real': Bestselling Spiritual Author Deepak Chopra's Emails To Epstein Revealed

Deepak Chopra told Epstein to 'bring your girls.' Here's their entire email exchange
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Mark Carney is a devout Catholic, and his economic vision came from a challenge posed by Pope Francis. Matthew walks through the contradictions of Carney’s economic spirituality. 

Show Notes

Values by Mark Carney | Penguin Random House Canada 

Pope Francis says he wasn't offended by 'communist crucifix' gift 

The Catholic Case for Communism - America Magazine 

Pope Francis: “If I See the Gospel in a Sociological Way Only, Yes, I Am a Communist, and So Too Is Jesus” - The American TFP 

Exclusive: Pope Francis disusses Ukraine, U.S. bishops and more - America Magazine
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Matthew pokes at the contradictions behind Prime Minister Mark Carney’s polished Davos attempt to distance Canada from U.S. chaos, while Canadian companies continue profiting from the U.S. domestic terror regime. 

Drawing on reporting by Rachel Gilmore, Matthew looks at how Canada’s “middle power” liberalism masks deep complicity with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through arms, surveillance tech, and security contracts. 

Carney’s benevolent affect continues the tradition of obscuring a longer history of exclusionary border politics. He’s there to manage outrage without challenging the capitalist structures that escalate into authoritarian violence.

Show Notes

The Great White North: Canada’s New Border Bill Appeases the Trump Administration | TechPolicy.Press 

A list of Canadian companies profiting off of ICE and Trump's violent mass deportation regime 

If TikTok News Is the Future, Rachel Gilmore Is Living It | The Tyee 

Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
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