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Woman Shares Weird Text She Got Before A Date, People Say It’s A Warning Sign

For many people, dating today can be complicated, even toxic. Values and ideologies have changed from a decade or two ago, with toxic masculinity coming in the form of red pill dating tactics. A woman appears to have been a victim of this approach, as she shared a screenshot of…

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Three-Time Trump Voter Shocked To Find Out Her 'No-War President' Actually Loves Launching New Wars

A Florida Trump supporter regrets her votes due to his recent military actions, highlighting a shift in his base's perception of his foreign policy.

International Business Times UK

Donald Trump's Late-Night Truth Social Spree Caused by Evening 'Sundowning' Agitation, Expert Claim

A geriatric specialist suggests Donald Trump's late-night social media activity may indicate dementia symptoms, consistent with 'sundowning' and other neurological concerns.

International Business Times UK

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Comeuppance: how an orgasmic ‘cult’ ended in a prison term for its founder

Nicole Daedone, who promised spiritual wellbeing through her OneTaste enterprise, received a nine-year sentence but some question if freedom of thought is being criminalized

The Guardian - US

Trump’s shoe gifts keep Cabinet in line

The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure

Salon

What Is Opus Dei and Why Are 43 Argentinian Women Suing The Secretive Catholic Group

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

International Business Times UK

Now comes "the silencing of critics"

"Authoritarian control also involves telling members to not talk to ex-members or critics," Hassan explains

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Did a doomsday cult really drive Lori Vallow to murder her children?

Prosecutors pinned Vallow’s motive in the murders of her children on three pillars of a ‘cult playbook’: Power, money and sex. But a survivor of one of America’s most notorious cults tells Rachel Sharp we may never know if a cult truly drove Vallow to kill

The Independent UK

Did a doomsday cult really drive Lori Vallow to murder her children?

The Independent UK

Trump's cycle of crimes and confessions

"Donald Trump is becoming more and more afraid"

Salon

The Idol should have been about modern cults rather than Tedros’s weird kinks

As the HBO drama nears its final episode, Olivia Petter examines its least developed storyline

The Independent UK

When do movements become cults?

We talked to experts about partisanship and fanaticism and why some politicians inspire cult-like devotion

Salon

Inside the cults that survive even when the prophecy fails

A core trait of many sect-like communities is paradoxical: A failed prophecy doesn’t mean the end of the movement. Instead, it can galvanize a new era.

Inverse

‘Someone is influencing Ginni’: How the wife of a Supreme Court justice became part of the ‘Trump cult’

Mind control researcher Steven Hassan met Ginni Thomas after they were both de-programmed from ‘cults’ in the 1980s. He tells Bevan Hurley the January 6 hearings are a chance to pierce the MAGA bubble

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OLD ‘Someone is unduly influencing Ginni Thomas’: Expert says wife of Supreme Court justice is part of ‘Trump cult’

Salon

Steven Hassan: Trump cult ready to kill

Former Moonie turned mind control expert says up to one-third of Trump's faithful are ready to support violence

Salon

Trump's latest rally: Cult mind control

At Ohio rally, Trump drums up hatred against "sick, sinister and evil people" — by which he means you and me

The Independent UK

‘Someone is unduly influencing Ginni Thomas’: Expert says wife of Supreme Court justice is part of ‘Trump cult’

‘I think someone is unduly influencing Ginni Thomas to believe those things,’ expert tells Bevan Hurley of the conservative activist

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The Independent UK

Ginni Thomas: New footage shows MAGA activist ‘exposing’ self-help cult in the 1980s

‘As is the case with so many former members, she was overly susceptible and went from one cult to another’

The Independent UK

Bad Vegan Sarma Melngailis and the curious allure of cults

Kate Ng delves deep into the shadowy world of cults to discover who becomes a cult leader and how they manipulate their followers

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