The White House created a video game about nutrition. #nutrition #public...

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pyxzV9HG84g

MAHA has arrived in Iowa — and Big Ag is reeling - POLITICO

Lahn is taking aim at fertilizers, pesticides and other farm chemicals seeping into drinking water supplies — and the agrochemical giants that make them. He believes Big Ag and Big Chemical are to blame for the state’s high cancer rates, a top issue for voters here... 

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/31/maha-iowa-big-ag-01056179 

 

Wellness is the New Big Pharma [feat Mallory DeMille] (Conspirituality podcast)

The pharmaceutical industry is filled with greedy businessmen getting innocent consumers hooked on their toxic products in order to barely keep them alive. But if you want to actually thrive, an entire array of natural supplements are just a click away.

So goes most every wellness pitch on social media. Mallory DeMille returns to break down the marketing techniques as we dive into the sordid world of supplements and peptide creation, which, in reality, is not dissimilar from pharmaceuticals. In fact, many products use the same manufacturing processes and production plants, as Derek discusses.

In the final segment, Julian revisits Bryan Johnson, the centimillionaire on a quest to live to 200, and what his recent chronic illness diagnosis says about pumping your body filled with experimental drugs.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/318-wellness-is-the-new-big-pharma-mallory-demille

The White House pushes healthy eating. It cut a landmark nutrition education program

For decades, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program, known as SNAP-Ed, has funded programs such as community cooking classes, farmers markets in low-income neighborhoods, school nutrition lessons and more in every U.S. state. The program is a "pillar of the public health infrastructure in the US," according to a report published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior… 

"It doesn't make sense when we have an administration [promoting] the Make America Healthy Again efforts that are focused on decreasing consumption of ultra-processed foods and wanting to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables," said Tashara Leak, a professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University, "to then get rid of the largest federally funded nutrition education program that helps to achieve those goals."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5896280/snap-ed-healthy-eating-cuts-maha

 

The War on Science (Conspirituality podcast, #316)

With so much emphasis on global politics and the World Cup in recent weeks, we’re going to focus on the somewhat quieter but intensely important bureaucratic dismantling of expertise occurring in health and science.

First, Derek looks into a recent 412-page OMB proposal that hands political appointees veto power over federal science grants, effectively killing peer review, blocking research on health disparities, and walling off American scientists from the rest of the world. Matthew counters with Canada’s own corrosive behavior.

Then we dig into the contradiction of MAHA: the pro-health movement running cover for the EPA quietly approving new forever chemical pesticides mere days after the Supreme Court gutted Americans’ ability to sue Monsanto (by way of their parent company, Bayer). Again, there’s a Canadian parallel: Bill C-30 hands cabinet the power to override Health Canada’s own scientists and approve pesticides they’ve already ruled unsafe.

Finally, Julian removes gravity from the situation by covering congressional UAP hearings where unverified whistleblower claims about alien bodies and secret programs get treated with peer-reviewed science seriousness.

Only, as with everything else in Trump’s America, the science is thin and the theater, thick.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/316-the-war-on-science

Supreme Court hands Bayer a win that rattles MAHA - POLITICO

The Supreme Court has dealt a devastating blow to the Make America Healthy Again Movement by blocking a path for users of the popular Roundup weedkiller to secure payouts from Monsanto for failing to disclose the product’s cancer risk. 

In a 7-2 ruling led by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court ruled in favor of Bayer, which owns Monsanto, finding that states cannot require more information on the pesticide label than required by federal regulation...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/supreme-court-maha-big-business-roundup-cancer-00901550

 

Judge scraps SNAP junk food rules, dealing a blow to MAHA - POLITICO

“With her solicitation and approval of the pilot projects in this case, the Secretary purports to waive not just a mere administrative or technical obstacle, but the very definition of ‘food’ as it was laid down by Congress,” Berman wrote. “Neither the USDA nor the states can force this square peg into a round hole to avoid the plain language of the statute and the requirements of 2026(k),” referencing the part of the statute that addresses projects to help improve SNAP households’ health status...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/22/judge-snap-junk-food-rules-maha-00970700

 

The Resurrection of JP Sears (Conspirituality podcast, episode #313)

A decade ago, JP Sears built a large following poking fun at yogis and wellness types with his “ultra spiritual life” videos. Then Covid came and Sears took a hard right turn. In fact, he credits the pandemic with “opening his eyes” to many of the world’s problems—in his eyes, that means Anthony Fauci, vaccines, and transgender “ideology.”

Sears is one of the very first people we covered on this podcast six years ago, and was one of the influencers we featured in our 2023 book about the wellness-to-right-wing radicalization pipeline. Turns out he’s turned again, this time into a flavor of Christian nationalism with an antisemitic bend.

Lately, Sears has been pumping out tons of Israel commentary, even turning against his former favorite president, Donald Trump. In fact, a number of right-wing influencers have soured on Israel. Is Sears sniffing out opportunities again? How is he balancing legitimate critiques of the genocide with blatant antisemitic rhetoric? And how does he fit into the growing diagonalism occurring in the right-wing attention economy?
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/313-the-resurrection-of-jp-sears

The MAHA moms who helped elect Trump are out of patience - POLITICO

As Republicans fight to hold Congress, they shouldn’t count on the women who helped elect Trump in 2024, MAHA activists say.

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/the-maha-moms-who-helped-elect-trump-are-out-of-patience-00952367

 

The MAHA movement is coming to school cafeterias. Here's what that means for kids

"If a kid is hungry, they're not studying. They can't learn. They're acting out," Taylor said. "But if you build this into part of their school day to where they feel like this is the norm for them, then you've knocked down that hurdle."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5688946/school-lunches-dietary-guidelines-maha 

Antifascist Wellness (Conspirituality podcast) Episode 306

Two-thirds of the Conspirituality staff have new books out: Matthew's AntiFascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times and Derek's Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry. Julian "interviews" the co-hosts about themes of each book and their intersections with Conspirituality.

But first, Derek discusses Glucose Goddess's recent partnership with medical device company, Dexcom.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/306-antifascist-wellness

Trump & RFK are BETRAYING MAHA

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z6V4iXOqqZs 

 

The groups backing RFK Jr. are running low on cash - POLITICO

“It’s hard to actually refer to MAHA as a movement when you’re looking at just a small number of donors providing the vast majority of financial support,” said Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a nonprofit watchdog that studies conservative groups…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/rfk-maha-lyons-pac-midterms-00889913 

Trump administration's rollback of regulations frustrates some in MAHA movement : NPR

The list of grievances with the EPA is long and includes the agency moving to roll back drinking water standards for PFAS, or forever chemicals, and weakening protections against air pollutants like mercury, arsenic, ethylene oxide and more. It's OK'd pesticides and insecticides with known health risks and on the carcinogen formaldehyde proposed there's a safe level of exposure for humans. Alexandra Munoz, who has a Ph.D. in toxicology, advocates alongside many in the MAHA coalition on issues like pesticides...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5783798/trump-administrations-rollback-of-regulations-frustrates-some-in-maha-movement 

Trump’s surgeon general pick faces mounting GOP opposition - POLITICO

Add abortion and psychedelics to the list of reasons many Republicans oppose Casey Means...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/21/trump-surgeon-general-casey-means-abortion-psychedelics-00881954

 

RFK Jr.’s followers will help the GOP in midterms, Kennedy adviser tells POLITICO’s Health Summit - POLITICO

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to tour key battleground states later this year to tout his MAHA agenda and rally support for the Republican Party…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/21/rfk-maha-calley-means-midterms-00884885

The Disinformation Dozen: Wuhan Drift (Conspirituality podcast #302)

Early in this podcast we covered the Disinformation Dozen, 12 wellness influencers and contrarian health figures responsible for spreading the lion’s share of vaccine misinformation on major social media platforms.

On a recent MAHA Action weekly call, Tony Lyons got the group back together for a victory lap after a court settlement seemed to justify their actions. Or did it?

We break down the court case, then hear from the influencers who continue to inflate their own sense of self-importance while rewriting a history that only exists in their minds.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/302-disinformation-dozen-returns-wuhan-drift

About my last video (on MAHA pronouncements on medicine and diet) ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBwWeYHdqT4

 

MAHAspital - SNL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBVuvstPCs

 

RFK Jr.’s days of going wild on health may be over - POLITICO

Kennedy's followers have noticed the shift. The order on glyphosate, for example, has sparked fierce backlash. "Bayer just got a license to kill from our gov't. This [is] the mass poisoning of Americans and it continues," Vani Hari, a MAHA influencer, wrote on X, referencing the German conglomerate that makes the world's most popular herbicide...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/21/rfk-midterms-maha-pesticides-vaccines-food-00792018