RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/August 2019

August 2019
Bolsanaro is destroying the Amazon rainforest, right? Well, maybe not. How Trump's ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, isn't just a nutty conspiracy-theory-pushing far-right tweeter who donated at least $350k to Trump and fundraised a lot more: she also starred in 1988 movie Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell, a film so bad that it was parodied in MST3K, and worked as a chiropractor. It’s not just David Duke and the KKK anymore: It’s Tucker Carlson and Fox News Network who sell hate Quillette gets Sokal'd by somebody posing as a DSA organizer named "Archie Carter". Is there a growth in the interest of astrology and horoscopes? Astrologists say uncertainty and helplessness are fueling their industry. We Must Defend Thanos’s Constitutional Right to Snap His Fingers and Make Half of the Universe Disappear. The excellent as ever John Oliver's report on prison slave labour Studies reveal that the world’s first atomic bomb explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945, codenamed Trinity, was a “dirty bomb” that cast large amounts of heavily contaminated soil and debris over thousands of square-miles. Prosecutors shoot down Sean David Morton's appeal