President Donald Trump signed an executive order fast-tracking FDA approval of psychedelic drugs — psilocybin, MDMA, ibogaine — and Joe Rogan was standing right behind him when he did it.
Bridget Phetasy breaks down the results of a text message between Rogan and Trump, why libertarians are finally winning, and whether any of this is actually good for anyone.
Plus: Aliens.gov is real, it’s launching soon, and the government has been quietly confirming UFOs exist for years. Here’s Phetasy with a new edition of The Dumpster Fire.
MK-Ultra was confirmed when a CIA mind control victim sued the hospital that experimented on her, and it was exposed that she was abused as a child. In 1958, a 16-year-old girl was admitted to the Allan Memorial Institute, a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, Canada—now infamous as the epicenter of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control program.
Nearly 70 years later, that same woman is suing the hospital and the organizations behind it for decades of psychiatric and physical trauma. What happened when, without her consent, doctors subjected her to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, repeated electroshock therapy, and brutal brainwashing techniques? To this day, she wakes up screaming from nightmares of the torment she endured.
Join Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts on this Edge of Wonder Live as they dive deep into MK-Ultra, plus NASA’s bizarre new image of comet 3I/ATLAS.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the latest information coming out of the JFK documents with massive implications suggesting CIA’s involvement.The released documents draw a number of possible connections between Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA, beginning from the early days in 1957 when Oswald as a Marine ran U-2 flights over the Soviet Union from the Atsugi Naval Air facility in Japan.
Not only did the Japanese base serve as a Naval facility, but it also housed an arm of the Central Intelligence Agency involved in research into psychedelic drugs. In The Devil’s Chessboard, his 2015 biography of former CIA Director Allen Dulles, author David Talbot wrote, “Some chroniclers of Oswald’s life have suggested that he was one of the young marines on whom the CIA performed its acid tests.”
Here, Grim and Jashinsky delve into other instances where Oswald’s path crosses that of the CIA. Most notable: His time in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, when the CIA’s E. Howard Hunt was active in New Orleans, working with the Brigade 2506.
This was a ragtag band of anti-Castro exiles that the CIA used to attempt to overthrow Castro and engage in related Cuban machinations, including the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. Grim and Jaskinsky’s program, called Counter Points, is part of the Breaking Points YouTube podcast.
Most conspiracies are psyops, meant to distract you from the deeper truth about JFK’s death. Here, Elijah Schaffer exposes many of the layers surrounding the Kennedy assassination, delving into Jack Ruby, Israel and the atomic bomb, in a new edition of Slightly Offensive called Who Really Killed JFK?.
Jamie Dlux takes a look back at the late scientist Kary Mullis, an American biochemist, who shared the Nobel Prize in 1993 after inventing the polymerase chain reaction (or PCR) technique.
Mullis, who died in 2019, was quite a rebel. Married four times, he was an avid surfer and indulged in LSD and other psychedelic drugs that he crafted himself while studying chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. His PCR development was the highlight of his career — providing a means to replicate complex strands of DNA sequences.
Always a maverick, Mullis tangled frequently with other scientists and generated a lot of debate. He challenged many of the arguments behind climate change and ozone depletion. He also questioned the linkage between HIV and AIDS, causing some to label him an “AIDS denialist.”
