This is a neat feature of Substack. Get your summary, here:
https://open.substack.com/summer/open-draft

The Trump campaign is investigating reports that up to 20 attendees of his rally in Tucson last week experienced severe eye irritation issues, prompting speculation the incident was some kind of chemical attack.

https://modernity.news/2024/09/19/tucson-trump-rally-attendees-report-suffering-mysterious-eye-burning-symptoms/

"Several other attendees shared similar stories with The Arizona Globe. The reported symptoms, including blurred vision, severe eye pain, and facial swelling, appeared roughly 30 minutes after the rally ended. One attendee used milk to ease the burning before heading to the hospital, while another reported his face turning red and peeling. They stated that the emergency room staff told them they were not alone—multiple patients from the rally had come in with the same complaints."

https://arizonaglobe.com/fl/tucson-trump-rally-sparks-backlash-mysterious-illness/

🇷🇺 In May 2019, a Russian Soyuz rocket was struck by lightning during its launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Despite the incident, the rocket successfully delivered its payload, a Glonass-M navigation satellite, into orbit.

Knights Hospitaller (Order of St. John) in the French masonic revolution

"In 1790 the ‘droit de lignage’ was abolished in France. This right had enabled the noble family to legally appoint the eldest son as one and only heir, thus maintaining the family estate. On 10 March 1791, Pope Pius VI formally denounced the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of France and the Revolution. ‘C’est la faute à Voltaire, c’est la faute à Rousseau!’ According to Hafkemeyer, the French Revolution caused a loss to the Order of about 3,000 Knights. This might be an exaggeration, but on the other hand is an indication of how wide-spread the continental Knights were. The Pope probably had no other option than to condemn the Revolution. The property of the Church in France was attacked and its servants were mocked and persecuted. It will come as no surprise that the vast majority of the Knights were against the Revolution. In June 1791, King Louis XVI was captured in Varennes. His flight had been financed by a Knight."

Hoegen Dijkhof (2006). The legitimacy of Orders of St. John: a historical and legal analysis and case study of a para-religious phenomenon.

You're Not Spock

No one is immune from emotional manipulation

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/youre-not-spock

Interesting hypothesis. UV laser attack at Trump rally?

https://x.com/HealthRanger/status/1836926426374668714

How much are they paying this clown? Unbelievable. https://news.1rj.ru/str/CharlieKirk/17116

"We apply a newly developed attitude network-modelling technique (Response-Item Network, or ResIN) to study attitude–identity relationships in the context of hot–button issues that polarize the current US-American electorate. The properties of the network–method allow us to simultaneously depict differences in the structural organization of attitudes between groups and to explore the relevance of organized attitude–systems for group identity management. Individuals based on a sample of US-American crowd workers (N = 396) and the representative 2020 ANES data set (N = 8280), we model an attitude network with two conflictive partisan belief-systems. In the first step, we demonstrate that the structural properties of the attitude-network provide substantial information about latent partisan identities, thereby revealing which attitudes ‘belong’ to specific groups. In a second step, we evaluate the potential of attitudes to communicate identity-relevant information. Results from a vignette study suggest that people rely on their mental representations of attitude-identity links to structure and evaluate their social environment. By highlighting functional interdependences between (macro level) attitude structures and identity management, the presented findings help advancing the understanding of attitude-identity dynamics and socio-political cleavages."

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjso.12665

The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
🔇