Red mercury: miraculous, expensive… and totally made up.
We tried to debunk this weird and outlandish story. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work.
I wrote about the secret history of this fake liquid that shows the historical depths of our information disorder.
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

Elon Musk's ex-comms guy: “The craft of journalism is different than sharing the raw feed.” edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/b...

British conspiracy theorists: ID cards are the start of NWO Nazism
American conspiracy theorists:

I appeared on the Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze to rebut arch monarchist Curtis Yarvin. As a result, I think I finally reached the dead end of the Dark Enlightenment.
Behind the scenes coverage:
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

If you want to know why Donald Trump put up a video about medbeds, don't ask the White House press secretary.
uk.news.yahoo.com/americans-re...
I got no response from the WH either. But here's what my medbed journey told me about MAGA...
thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/the-reason...

I contributed to this BBC documentary on Charlie Kirk. It sets out facts and includes a huge range of voices, and for that alone it’s worth at least a few thousand hot takes. The BBC at its best, (tho this is unfortunately not available outside the UK)
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Donald Trump posted a weird fake video about medbeds not because he believes what was in it, but because the people who are into conspiracy theories like medbeds are at the core of his movement.
Also: I used a medbed! It was not good.
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I once tried a medbed. It was weird!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-t...

Donald Trump has shared an AI video *of himself*, which includes a fake Fox report about medbeds, a hoax miracle cure truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... h/t @internetthought.bsky.social

For anyone wanting to know more about President Trump's #medbed announcement, here are some relevant links. But first the original video from Trump truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Wow! Utterly bizarre to share an AI video *of yourself* with a fake announcement

Via @wendling.bsky.social: Charlie Kirk hyped a conspiracy theory about a supposed "Day of Jihad."

"Make sure you have a gun on you," Kirk said.

Days later, a man obsessed with the conspiracy theory murdered a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy.

thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

In the debate about free speech after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one story has been missing – how rumours of a “Global Day of Jihad” spread by Kirk and others suddenly led a deranged man to kill a six-year-old boy.
My first post on a new blog explains all.
open.substack.com/pub/thedayof...

US law is very different on this score than UK law, in large part due to the 1st amendment

Breaking down what we do and do not know about what might have motivated Charlie Kirk’s killer with @shayan86.bsky.social

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I feel like we could get aguest going as a verb.

"I am aguesting on the morning news round."

"I often aguest with family."

"Farage is perennially aguesting on question time."

“Be” a guest obvs

The other “witnesses” will be Curtis Yarvin and Andrés Velasco. It will air on Radio 4 on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Will be wild!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Sunday morning I will a guest on The Moral Maze, recorded at How The Light Gets In, a philosophy festival that’s happening at Kenwood House.
The question: “Is democracy a failed experiment?”
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-m...
I’ll put the case against monarchs and dictators.

Jimmy Kimmel is off air, people are getting fired for opinions about Charlie Kirk, so why is the White House worked up about free speech … in Britain?
I tried to break it down with Asma Khalid @asmamk and Tristan Redman on the BBC’s Global Story podcast.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I was just thinking about how people on the left have researched, debunked, and categorized all the little tribes in the right wing grift-o-sphere, but people on the right think everyone but them is a blue haired art school barista with a nose piercing.

The obsessively informed vs the alt reality.

Steve Bannon, Emerald Robinson and other MAGA influencers are spreading conspiracy theories about the Charlie Kirk killing

www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

Steve Bannon, Emerald Robinson and other MAGA influencers are spreading conspiracy theories about the Charlie Kirk killing

www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...