Snopes began when David and Barbara Mikkelson met online at the Usenet discussion group alt.folklore.urban, where David posted under the username snopes, from a William Faulkner novel, and was simultaneously one of AFU’s most notorious trolls and prolific researchers. This origin story needs to be firmly kept in mind: the team behind Snopes were complete amateurs using Google, and as far from journalists as it’s possible to get.

Will aligning itself with the Left on Climate Change help or hinder National’s election prospects?

[...] This is just a peek at what Labour’s plans to suffocate innovation, decimate dreams and mandate misery are. This week’s article only covered the beginning of the decay, next week I’ll detail who leaps, how far and what direction

[...] The Dems are now using the president’s curiosity into these happenings in order to stage yet another coup attempt against him, this time in the form of impeachment over “the phone-call.” They’re that desperate and afraid of the next election. The nervous breakdown they suffered after the 2016 election result has now developed into full psychosis.

[...] The “deep green” movement is the rapidly growing extreme of environmentalism. Their practical expression is the Krazy Klimate Kult, Extinction Rebellion. What were once the lunatic beliefs of the likes of the Unabomber are now mainstream environmentalism.