Madalyn Murray O’Hair I Once Called The Devil

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ihG6uBDe4

 

Civil War? The REALITY You NEED to Understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqAqYMHe6Gk

 

Opinion | I’m a Conservative Economist. Here Are 6 Reasons Trump’s Plans Won’t Work. - POLITICO

"If you are a deficit hawk only when addressing the other side's priorities, then you aren't a deficit hawk. You are just grabbing whatever rhetorical weapon is nearest to defeat the other party. 

 What's more, as we've already seen, none of this is going to fool the markets, particularly the bond market, whose recent gyrations suggest investors' faith in the stability of the U.S. government has been shaken..."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/28/trump-economic-plans-reality-check-00309673

 

Kate Cohen: The War on Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce3aSh0iklM

 

Rogan-Rufo Reality Check (Conspirituality podcast, episode #200)

This week we take stock of the full entrenchment of the Mirror World, where conspirituality influencers bask in the rays of confident delusion. After a little stage-setting on the heterodox mediasphere, we open with a snapshot of conspirituality Valhalla as we listen in on Joe Rogan and Chris Rufo talking about unhoused people as though they are children who haven’t been given good boundaries.

Then we’ll look at four instances in which the spectacle brokers meet reality. What happens when Chaya Raichik gets bodied by Taylor Lorenz? What happens when the Moms for Liberty have to explain themselves on 60 minutes? What happens when Destiny rejects Jordan Peterson’s bullshit? And what happens when the mack daddy of it all, Alex Jones, gets confronted by Sandy Hook parents, face to face? Does reality break through?
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-6yg8d-1e0d2cab

Events that never happened could influence the 2024 presidential election – a cybersecurity researcher explains situation deepfakes

Situation deepfakes represent the next stage of technologies that have already shaken audiences' perceptions of reality...

https://theconversation.com/events-that-never-happened-could-influence-the-2024-presidential-election-a-cybersecurity-researcher-explains-situation-deepfakes-206034

Investing in the Future with Skeptical Thinking w/ Phil Ferguson (Recovering From Religion podcast Episode #188)

This week on RfRx, we are putting all of those critical thinking skills we’ve been developing to good use. Phil Ferguson joins us to discuss the applications of skeptical thinking in major life decisions including evaluating one’s faith-based beliefs, making sound investment decisions, and helping kids work through religious ideas. Phil Ferguson has been an investment advisor representative since 1996 and is the president of Polaris Financial Planning LLC. 

Phil is also a long time activist in the secular movement. He has been on the board of The Secular Student Alliance and Atheist Alliance International. He now serves as the treasurer for the Reason Rally 2016. He is an active member of many of the national organizations and has helped start three local groups. Phil also gives talks to local groups and Large conventions. He has presented at TAM (The Amazing Meeting) and Skepticon – just to name a few!

For RfRx comments, inquiries & topical questions, email us at RfRx@recoveringfromreligion.org. 

Any time you are struggling with religious doubts or fears you can connect with a trained RfR Helpline agent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

To chat online go to http://www.recoveringfromreligion.org. 

To talk over the phone, dial: (844) 368-2848 in the US & Canada.

If you are in need of professional help, we can offer the Secular Therapy Project to provide options to connect with a professional therapist. All therapists have been thoroughly vetted by our organization and offer only evidence-based and non-religious treatment. Connect with them at http://www.seculartherapy.org. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok. 

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Interview: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e188-investing-in-the-future-with-skeptical-thinking/id1440611090?i=1000611772293

Opinion | The GOP’s ideology doesn’t match economic reality. Just ask Nobel Prize winner David Card. - The Washington Post

…We see other instances in which right-wing ideology leads to faulty economic conclusions. For months, Republicans and many in the media who parroted their arguments insisted generous unemployment benefits were keeping people from working. (This assumes people are lazy and more inclined to get something for nothing.) Sure enough, this turned out to be dead wrong…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/gops-ideology-doesnt-match-economic-reality-just-ask-one-this-years-nobel-prize-winners/

Pitts: Mike Pence shows his inability to deal with reality

…And on Jan. 6 of this year, a mob of them broke into the U.S. Capitol. They injured police officers. They drove Congress from its own house. They looted government property. They called for federal officials — including you — to be lynched. They smeared feces on the walls. 

But you say it's "the media" who are demeaning the supporters of that Florida man who used to be president?…

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/09/pitts-dear-mike-pence

Weird dreams train us for the unexpected, says new theory

AI inspires hypothesis that sleeping human brain might try to break its overfamiliarity with daily data…

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/14/weird-dreams-train-us-for-the-unexpected-says-new-theory

Refusal to accept reality is doing unquestionable damage to democracy - The Washington Post

…"It makes us look like idiots," state Sen. Paul Boyer told the New York Times. "I didn't think it would be this ridiculous. It's embarrassing to be a state senator at this point."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/10/refusal-accept-reality-is-doing-unquestionable-damage-democracy/

Opinion | This Putsch Was Decades in the Making - The New York Times

...For a long time Republican elites imagined that they could exploit racism and conspiracy theorizing while remaining focused on a plutocratic agenda. But with the rise first of the Tea Party, then of Donald Trump, the cynics found that the crazies were actually in control, and that they wanted to destroy democracy, not cut tax rates on capital gains...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/republicans-democracy.html

Former Facebook Executive Tim Kendall on how social media is destroying the world (Nov. 29, 2020)

One of the Silicon Valley Guilty Parties who stars in Netflix’s Most-Watched Documentary Ever explains why humanity is doomed unless we do something.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/GcecWd1PLPQ

Opinion | The Rotting of the Republican Mind - The New York Times

When one party becomes detached from reality.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/republican-disinformation.html

Right-Wing Social Media Had to Divorce Reality - The Atlantic

News outlets, tech platforms, and political commentators had to choose between upholding the facts and indulging those who believe Trump won.....

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/right-wing-social-media-finalizes-its-divorce-reality/617177/

How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus

Since a boat of religious fanatics with buckles on their hats hit the shores near Plymouth Rock and claimed that this was their utopia, America has always been a little bit crazy. It's this kind of wide-eyed "anything can happen if you believe" mentality that, at its best, can produce incredible art. But at its worst, it can be cruel and conspiratorial. We live in a country where people refuse to believe vaccination can help you and where a White House is spinning "alternative — but Kurt Andersen is here to say that this is nothing now. At the time of the Civil War, society had become split by two sides that refused to listen to each other. Back then, the political and social divide is stoked by a hyperbolic partisan media where anyone could publish whatever they wanted in a pamphlet without fact-checking. Sound familiar? It definitely should. Kurt's latest book is appropriately titled Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire....
https://youtu.be/XirnEfkdQJM

In debate, president takes a trip to a strange place: Trump Land

... The problem, of course, is that Trump Land bears no resemblance to our reality. These presidential claims weren't just exaggerations or misleading spins; they were ridiculous falsehoods, peddled by an incumbent who should've been able to point to real-world successes...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/debate-president-takes-trip-strange-place-trump-land-n1244493

GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn't always match reality - ABC News

At almost every turn at the Republican National Convention, speakers from the president on down portrayed American cities like Portland, Oregon, New York and Chicago as lawless Democratic wastelands that have been overrun with violence, looting and destruction that is forcing residents to flee for safer locales. The reality on the ground is much more nuanced. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gop-portrayal-urban-mayhem-match-reality-72696786

Wolff Responds Capitalist Reality vs Conservative Ideology - YouTube

In this video, Prof. Wolff comments on the recent scandal surrounding the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) rolled out by the government to help businesses affected by the Coronavirus outbreak. The largest beneficiaries of the program have been the very same people who oppose and condemn government support. Yet another grotesque example of big capitalists making money at everybody else's expense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb67f32wmUk&feature=youtu.be

Trump’s war on reality just got a lot more dangerous - The Washington Post

Trump is prioritizing the creation of an illusion of normalcy over actually getting it done....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/26/trumps-war-reality-just-got-lot-more-dangerous/