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Comeuppance: how an orgasmic ‘cult’ ended in a prison term for its founder

Nicole Daedone, who promised spiritual wellbeing through her OneTaste enterprise, received a nine-year sentence but some question if freedom of thought is being criminalized

The Guardian - US

Trump’s shoe gifts keep Cabinet in line

The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure

Salon

What Is Opus Dei and Why Are 43 Argentinian Women Suing The Secretive Catholic Group

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

International Business Times UK

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Now comes "the silencing of critics"

"Authoritarian control also involves telling members to not talk to ex-members or critics," Hassan explains

Salon

Did a doomsday cult really drive Lori Vallow to murder her children?

Prosecutors pinned Vallow’s motive in the murders of her children on three pillars of a ‘cult playbook’: Power, money and sex. But a survivor of one of America’s most notorious cults tells Rachel Sharp we may never know if a cult truly drove Vallow to kill

The Independent UK

Did a doomsday cult really drive Lori Vallow to murder her children?

The Independent UK

Trump's cycle of crimes and confessions

"Donald Trump is becoming more and more afraid"

Salon

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The Idol should have been about modern cults rather than Tedros’s weird kinks

As the HBO drama nears its final episode, Olivia Petter examines its least developed storyline

The Independent UK

When do movements become cults?

We talked to experts about partisanship and fanaticism and why some politicians inspire cult-like devotion

Salon

Inside the cults that survive even when the prophecy fails

A core trait of many sect-like communities is paradoxical: A failed prophecy doesn’t mean the end of the movement. Instead, it can galvanize a new era.

Inverse

‘Someone is influencing Ginni’: How the wife of a Supreme Court justice became part of the ‘Trump cult’

Mind control researcher Steven Hassan met Ginni Thomas after they were both de-programmed from ‘cults’ in the 1980s. He tells Bevan Hurley the January 6 hearings are a chance to pierce the MAGA bubble

The Independent UK

OLD ‘Someone is unduly influencing Ginni Thomas’: Expert says wife of Supreme Court justice is part of ‘Trump cult’

The Independent UK

Steven Hassan: Trump cult ready to kill

Former Moonie turned mind control expert says up to one-third of Trump's faithful are ready to support violence

Salon

Trump's latest rally: Cult mind control

At Ohio rally, Trump drums up hatred against "sick, sinister and evil people" — by which he means you and me

Salon

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The Independent UK

‘Someone is unduly influencing Ginni Thomas’: Expert says wife of Supreme Court justice is part of ‘Trump cult’

‘I think someone is unduly influencing Ginni Thomas to believe those things,’ expert tells Bevan Hurley of the conservative activist

The Independent UK

Ginni Thomas: New footage shows MAGA activist ‘exposing’ self-help cult in the 1980s

‘As is the case with so many former members, she was overly susceptible and went from one cult to another’

The Independent UK

Bad Vegan Sarma Melngailis and the curious allure of cults

Kate Ng delves deep into the shadowy world of cults to discover who becomes a cult leader and how they manipulate their followers

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