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Marjorie Taylor Greene: "MAGA Was a Big Lie"

From Sean James' 2-1-26 MEDIAITE post entitled "Marjorie Taylor Greene Bluntly Declares MAGA ‘Was All a Lie’ in Scalding Take on Trump’s GOP":

Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went absolutely nuts on President Donald Trump in a new interview, branding his Make America Great Again movement a “big lie” and accusing the president of ignoring U.S. citizens so that he can focus on waging “war on behalf of Israel.”

The ex-lawmaker shared her eyebrow-raising thoughts in an interview with political commentator Kim Iversen on YouTube on Thursday.

“MAGA is — I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people,” Greene said.

She said Trump has completely turned on his base and is more worried about serving the “big big donors” who send money to his PACs and have pitched in for his new ballroom.

“Those are the people that get the special favors, the government contracts, they get the pardons,” Greene said. “And it’s the foreign countries that are running the show here. It’s the major big corporations and what is best for the world. That’s really what MAGA is.”

Greene then accused the president of caring more about Iran than what’s going on in the USA...

To read the entire post, click HERE. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES on Jan. 6th & Trump's "Zombie Army of Followers"

From Alan Feuer and Dan Barry's 1-5-26 NEW YORK TIMES article entitled "For Many Jan. 6 Rioters, a Pardon From Trump Wasn’t Enough":

In the five years since the Capitol was stormed, no new facts have emerged to undermine the basic findings of congressional and Justice Department investigators that many of the rioters acted in the misguided belief, pushed relentlessly by Mr. Trump, that he had been robbed of victory in 2020 — and that in attacking the Capitol they not only injured about 140 police officers but also struck at a cornerstone of American democracy: the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

Even so, Mr. Trump has long maintained that the rioters endured horrible, even illegal, mistreatment during their prosecutions.

And yet if that is true, some pardoned rioters are now asking, then why haven’t their persecutors been thrown in jail? And if the rioters are martyrs to a righteous cause, as the president and his allies have often said, then why haven’t they been made whole through financial reparations?

While this disillusionment is not universal, some so-called J6ers have even begun to ask why, after nearly a year in power, Mr. Trump’s law enforcement agencies have yet to provide any proof of the conspiracy theory they promoted to help him reclaim the presidency: that deep-state agents lured Trump supporters into storming the Capitol to derail the MAGA movement and justify political reprisals.

What J6ers rarely seem to acknowledge is the possibility that Mr. Trump’s government has failed to reveal the hidden truth about Jan. 6 because there is no hidden truth, no deep-state conspiracy, and therefore no legal reason to bring further charges related to the riot [...].

By feeding a steady diet of unfounded conspiracy theories not only to the J6ers but also to others in their base, Mr. Trump and his allies have spawned what some experts have likened to a zombie army of followers. And now, by failing to follow these theories to their logical conclusions, they are seeing that army begin to turn on them.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

James Grauerholz, R.I.P. (1952-2026)

From Oliver Harris' 1-2-26 obituary for James Grauerholz, the executor of William S. Burroughs' literary estate:

James’ extensive and outstanding work as an editor has never been recognised. It started early: in his introduction to the revised edition of The Adding Machine, James noted how closely he was already working with Burroughs from the mid-1970s on his columns for Crawdaddy magazine. More substantively, he worked from the original manuscripts to edit Junky, Queer, Interzone, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (with Miles), My Education: A Book of Dreams, Last Words, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. He also co-edited, with Ira Silverberg, Word Virus, a Burroughs anthology, and contributed his original research to Miles’ landmark 2014 biography.

James’ erudition was impressively wide-ranging. At times, when I felt my own inadequacy, he knew just how to be supportive. While re-editing Queer for my 2010 edition, I asked him to review my introduction, worrying that, as a straight guy who didn’t really know the field of gay literature or queer studies, I might well have missed what mattered most. He wrote back to say (I paraphrase): ‘You’ve never been an addict, either, but that didn’t stop you doing Junky…’ It was pragmatic advice that helped me know my place and get the work done.

James got a lot done in the Burroughs universe. For a good while, ‘William Burroughs Communications’, led by James and staffed by a wonderful crew of helpers, brought the creative best out of Burroughs and ensured his legacy. But there were times while Burroughs was alive and, in the years after his death, when James regretted what that cost him, what was left undone in his own name. James will not be remembered for his music or his writing. But he will be remembered, and rightly so, with love.

To read the entire obituary, click HERE.

Happy Birthday, Melissa!!!

Callooh! Callay! Here at Cryptoscatology Headquarters we've been celebrating Melissa's birthday every January 31st for exactly 20 years now! In the earliest photo, you can see Melissa preparing to perform aggressive surgery on a birthday cake shaped like a bowl of Top Ramen. The cake is somewhat more modest in this latest photo but no less delicious. It was a frabjous birthday all around. Here's hoping for many more to come!!! Callooh! Callay!

 

HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD on... CONSPIRINORMAL!

I'm delighted to report that CONSPIRINORMAL is up and running again on a regular schedule, and I've just appeared on the latest episode with hosts Adam Sayne and Serfiel Stevenson! Topics include my most recent nonfiction book, HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMA OF OCCULTED TABOOS, as well as the 2020 Nashville bombing, shapeshifting police officers, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, Bob Brewer, Warren Getler, treasure hunting, James Shelby Downard, The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, Egyptian Freemasonry, CORONADO'S CHILDREN, Harold T. Wilkins, FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK, The Hidden Hell Window, Richard Shaver, THE MALTESE FALCON, Bishop James Pike, Philip K. Dick, NATIONAL TREASURE, Charles Darwin, MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, FRANKENSTEIN, Devo, predictive programming, the Revelation of the Method, Michael A. Hoffman, Marc Maron, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, AQUAMAN, Jack Parsons, Ray Bradbury, TWIN PEAKS, the Black Dahlia, the Zodiac Killer, Crispin Glover, and Scientology Santa! You can listen to this epic two-hour-plus interview in its entirety on YouTube...

Conspirinormal 502- Robert Guffey 6 (Hollywood Haunts the World)

 

Lilliputian Hallucinations

From Rachel Nuwer's 1-21-26 BBC article entitled "'They Saw Them on Their Dishes When Eating': The Mushroom Making People Hallucinate Dozens of Tiny Humans":

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.

The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forests and is a locally popular food, known for its savory, umami-packed flavor. In Yunnan, L. asiatica is sold in markets, it appears on restaurant menus and is served at home during peak mushroom season between June and August.

One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.

"At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'" says Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah, who is studying L. asiatica. "It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there" [...].

Domnauer is on a quest to solve the decades-old mysteries about this fungi species and identify the unknown compound responsible for its unusually similar hallucinations – as well as what it can potentially teach us about the human brain [...].

In a 1991 paper, two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences described cases of people in Yunnan Province who had eaten a certain mushroom and experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" – the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures. It is so named after the small people who inhabit the fictional Lilliput Island in the novel Gulliver's Travels.

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".

To read the entire article, click HERE.