My daughter came home from school and said,
“Mum, you’re not going to believe what happened in history class today.”
Her teacher told the class they were going to play a game.
He walked around the room and whispered to each kid whether they were a witch or just a regular person. Then he gave the instructions:
“Form the biggest group you can without a witch. If your group has even one, you all fail.”
She said the whole room instantly lit up with suspicion.
Everyone started interrogating each other. Are you a witch? How do we know you’re not lying?
Some kids clung to one big group, but most broke off into smaller, exclusive cliques. They turned away anyone who seemed uncertain, nervous, or gave off even the slightest hint of being guilty.
The energy shifted fast. Suddenly everyone was suspicious of everyone.
Whispers. Finger-pointing. Side-eyes. Trust dissolved in minutes.
Finally, when all the groups were formed, the teacher said,
“Alright, time to find out who fails. Witches, raise your hands.”
And not one hand went up.
The whole class exploded. “Wait! You messed up the game!”
And then the teacher dropped the bomb:
“Did I? Were there any actual witches in Salem, or did everyone just believe what they were told?”
My daughter said the room went dead silent.
That’s when it hit them. No witch was ever needed for the damage to happen. Fear had already done its work. Suspicion alone divided the entire class, turning community into chaos.
And isn’t that exactly what we’re seeing today?
Different words, same playbook.
Instead of “witch,” it’s liberal, conservative, vaxxed, unvaxxed, pro-this, anti-that.
The labels shift, but the tactic is the same.
Get people scared. Get them suspicious. Get them divided.
Then sit back while trust crumbles.
The danger was never the witch.
The danger is the rumour. The suspicion. The fear. The planted lies.
Refuse the whisper. Don’t play the game. Because the second we start hunting “witches,” we’ve already lost.
[Naomi Dennis]
Grok is awesome. I was cleaning the microwave. Couldn’t remember the name of the cleaning tool and asked this question “How long do we cook the cleaning angry lady in the microwave?” 😂😳
Hans Zimmer’s score for Man of Steel (2013) gives the film its identity. “Flight” in particular turns Superman’s first true ascent into one of the most stirring musical moments in modern superhero cinema.
Huey Lewis didn’t want to write a song called BACK TO THE FUTURE so he delivered The Power of Love instead. Robert Zemeckis loved it, built it into key scenes, and it became a No.1 hit.
Robert F Kennedy announces new ultra processed food labels will soon be mandatory on all food products
The product will also have a color code to determine how toxic and unhealthy it is
This is a HUGE win!
RFK Jr to Joe Rogan “By April, we will have a federal definition of ultra-processed foods, first time in the history. And as soon as we do that, we're gonna do front of package food labeling.
So every food in your grocery store will have a label, maybe a green light, red light, yellow light telling you whether or not it's gonna be good for you — It's gonna evaluate all of the ingredients, et cetera.
So I, you know, I think we're not gonna change this overnight, but we're gonna change it pretty quickly. And if you wanna be healthy, we're gonna give you the information to take control of your own health.”