Meanwhile, on Fox News: “Greys, Nordics, Insectoids and Reptilians”

May 19th, 2026

Via: Fox News:


“I Think The Choice Is Clear”

May 19th, 2026

Worst congressman in history! It’s astonishing how bad Thomas Massie is for America. His opponent Ed is beloved by all of us MAGA loyalists and so good for America.

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Trump Administration Backs Nuclear Fusion – As Company Tied To Trump Invests In It

May 18th, 2026

Pump and dump shitcoin scams played out?

Golden Trump phones?

How about fusion energy???

Via: MarketWatch:

In October, the Trump administration released a “Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap” to support the construction of commercial fusion power plants as soon as the 2030s. It may not exactly resemble a Manhattan Project for nuclear fusion, but the road map indicated the federal government would support a constellation of American fusion companies and no longer treat them like an academic project.

Among several approaches, the road map pointed to a unique reactor concept — field-reversed configurations, “which could significantly reduce the cost of fusion power.” It also referenced aneutronic fuels as being a potential source of “perhaps the greatest cost savings.”

Two months later, in December, Trump Media & Technology Group – the publicly traded company behind President Donald Trump’s Truth Social online platform – announced a merger agreement with TAE Technologies, an American fusion company that has helped pioneer field-reserved configurations and been a leader in the commercial development of aneutronic fuels.

The deal, which has not yet closed, represented an abrupt change of course for TMTG. Its stock soared two years ago as it became a popular way to bet on Trump’s 2024 election win, but it has seen its shares drop by around 80% since that victory. The Florida-based company’s moves to diversify by holding bitcoin and launching exchange-traded funds haven’t come close to lifting its stock back to its prior heights.

Now, TMTG is pivoting toward nuclear fusion, a corner of the energy industry that has the Trump administration’s support as it aims to start providing actual commercial power to the country’s grid in a matter of years, after decades of experimentation. Nuclear fusion, which joins atoms, is the reaction that powers the sun; the technology remains unproven. Existing U.S. nuclear plants, which provide an estimated 18% of the country’s electricity, rely on fission, which splits atoms.


Atlas, Can You Bring Me a Drink?

May 18th, 2026

Via: Boston Dynamics:


Pro-Israel Forces Throw Kitchen Sink At Massie Ahead Of Tuesday Primary

May 18th, 2026

Via: ZeroHedge:

Eleven months after President Trump launched an all-out political war on Rep. Thomas Massie, the Tuesday, May 19 Kentucky GOP primary is almost here. With polls showing the race going down to the wire, the anti-Massie forces — whose animus is largely driven by Massie’s refusal to vote in accordance with the Israel lobby’s wishes — have been throwing everything they can at him, from vague 11th-hour allegations of inappropriate conduct with a woman, to AI ads showing Massie entering a hotel room with progressive congresswomen, to a new round of Trump social media rants and enough money to make the contest the most expensive House primary in US history. Massie’s challenger is former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein.

In just the past few days, various anti-Massie PACs have filed disclosures indicating another huge load of cash showering down on the race. The Republican Jewish Coalition is spending another $470,000. The misleadingly-named United Democracy Project, which is a PAC affiliated with the formidable American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), revealed more than $950,000 in additional spending. The MAGA Kentucky PAC — which was created solely to oust Massie and funded by non-Kentuckian Jewish billionaires Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer and John Paulsen — disclosed more than $1.6 million since May 7.

As large as those sums sound, they’re just a fresh coating atop a mountain of money: The race has now seen more than $20 million dollars in “outside spending” — that is, money spent by PACs and other entities that are not part of the candidates’ campaigns or political parties. Not coincidentally, the next two most-expensive-ever primary races also featured quests by pro-Israel PACs and individuals to oust incumbents who failed to heed the Israel lobby’s voting directives. In 2024, AIPAC alone spent $14.5 million and $9 million, respectively, to successfully dislodge New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman and Missouri Democrat Cori Bush.


When They Said the Ebola Vaccine Was “100% Effective”

May 18th, 2026


Gas Prices Up 56% In USA

May 18th, 2026

Via: CleanTechnica:

US gas prices have gone up, and up, and up since the country bombed Iran in late February. In March, I reported that the average price of gas in the country had gone up from $2.89/gallon to $3.48/gallon. Now, the average price of gas in the US is $4.517/gallon. That’s a 56% increase in the price of gasoline since the US bombed Iran!


No More Automatic Posts to X.com

May 16th, 2026

There will me no more automatic posts of Cryptogon information to x.com.

For years, when I posted to the main cryptogon.com site, there was a free feature that allowed the information to be automatically re-posted to x.com (previously Twitter).

X.com now charges for automated posting. I won’t be paying to do that.

Automated posting to Telegram still works.


NIH/NIAID-Funded Hantavirus Gain-of-Function Mutations Created ‘Highly Infectious’ Chimera in 2018

May 16th, 2026

Via: Jon Fleetwood:

A peer-reviewed study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in 2019 says researchers intentionally mutated hantavirus glycoproteins and used serial passage to create what the study itself called “highly infectious” recombinant viral systems.

The revelation comes amid an alleged hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, which departed Argentina in April 2026.

The resurfaced gain-of-function work was funded under a multi-million-dollar NIH/NIAID grant AI132633 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

NIH RePORTER records show the project began in 2017 and remained active during the 2018 experiments that produced the infectivity-enhancing mutations described in the paper.

The study, published in mBio, states researchers started with wild-type Hantaan virus (HTNV) glycoproteins that were said to produce only poor rescue and replication in a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) system.

One of the paper’s lead authors, Dr. Kartik Chandran, now also serves as the project lead of NIAID’s active $70 million PROVIDENT hantavirus pandemic-preparedness program, which had just completed unprecedented Andes hantavirus mapping and vaccine-platform engineering before the 2026 outbreak emerged.


“Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid”

May 14th, 2026

Via: Arkadiy Tetelman:

Modern cars are computers on wheels – they have more sensors than you can count and are constantly phoning home with telemetry data like your location, speed, fuel levels, sudden accelerations/decelerations, video footage, driver attention data from eye monitoring systems, and hundreds of other data points. Cars have inward- and outward-facing cameras. They have microphones. They have always-on modems. It’s all enabled by default with difficult or meaningless opt-outs, and your data is monetized through brokers like LexisNexis or Verisk. This all brings a host of security and privacy issues…

In this blog post, rather than relying on companies’ promises or meaningless opt-outs, we’re going to stop the data at the source by physically removing the modem (the DCM, or Data Communication Module) as well as the built-in GPS on my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid, so the car will no longer have the capability to send any telemetry data back home.


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