Absurdity Observer – June 2026

  • A new CO₂ Coalition paper calculates that eliminating all 1.6 billion cattle on Earth would lower global temperature by just 0.04°C—and eliminating 1.3 billion sheep would shave off a microscopic 0.004°C. In exchange, we’d get less food, crushed farmers, higher prices, and devastated rural economies.
  • A Barrie high school reportedly distributed “safer snorting” pamphlets to students during Mental Health Week. The pamphlets, created by the Canadian Mental Health Association and distributed at Barrie North Collegiate Institute, included information on making one’s own drug-snorting equipment and steps to protect a person’s nasal passageways from irritation.
  • A former senior National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci has now been criminally charged for allegedly hiding and deleting COVID-origins records to evade Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests. Prosecutors say David Morens deleted emails, used his personal email, concealed federal records, and obstructed transparency around one of the most important public questions of the pandemic.
  • Canadians were told a new government would bring relief. Instead, gas prices are now ~50 cents a litre higher than in 2014 despite similar oil prices, and ~13% higher than in the US.
  • Government spending now represents 43.6% of Canada’s entire economy —the highest since the 1990s recession outside of COVID-era spending—while Ottawa’s 2026-2027 spending plan totals a staggering $502.8 billion.
  • While the FDA continues to claim antidepressant SSRIs show no evidence of human fetal risk, a 13th consecutive MRI study has now found that SSRI antidepressants can alter fetal brain development. (Adam Urato, MD, post)
  • Study finds lead, nickel, copper and arsenic in lung tissue following vaping exposure. (McGrath et al.) The study also detected metal-containing compounds. Researchers say the new findings add to expanding evidence that the devices themselves —particularly the heating coils and metallic components—may be contributing to toxic exposure.
  • A new peer-reviewed paper examined 136 studies on childhood vaccines or their components and found 107 inferred a possible link to autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders. The authors conclude combination vaccines given during critical brain-development windows may be the most significant modifiable autism risk factor, while the full pediatric schedule has never been tested for neurodevelopmental safety (Hulscher et al.)
  • As US federal health agencies revisit childhood vaccine schedules and emphasize shared clinical decision-making, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is now encouraging hospitals to use pediatric admissions as a “unique opportunity” to vaccinate more children. A series of newly released AAP publications promotes offering routine, catch-up, and seasonal vaccines during children’s hospital stays and visits. As Dr. Paul Thomas put it, “It just makes sense not to further stimulate the immune system while it is dealing with something significant enough to require hospitalization.”
  • Poul Thorsen, the Danish vaccine researcher whose CDC-backed autism studies helped shut down questions about vaccines and autism for years, has now been extradited to the US after more than a decade as a fugitive. Thorsen is accused of 22 counts of wire fraud and stealing over $1 million in CDC grant money, yet his research was still used to deny claims from thousands of families in Vaccine Court.
  • CIA whistleblower says Fauci intentionally helped bury COVID lab-leak evidence in a multi-agency cover-up. James E. Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer, gave sworn testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, alleging that Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government officials suppressed evidence that COVID-19 may have emerged from a Chinese laboratory tied to US-funded coronavirus gain-of-function scientists.
  • US Senator Ron Johnson’s new report claims that Biden health officials knew their Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) safety algorithm was hiding COVID-shot injury signals—and refused to use an updated method that found them. Serious warning signs were reportedly missed or ignored during the biggest vaccine rollout in history.
  • Digital ID was sold as a convenience. Now it is openly being described as the permission slip for banking, school, welfare and vaccination status. At Davos, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands said the quiet part out loud: “A single digital identity should not stop at financial access, but reach into medical records, children’s education and government aid.” Yesterday’s “conspiracy theory” is today’s keynote speech.
  • A car-tuning app called EZ Lynk is being sued by the US government over alleged Clean Air Act emissions violations. But instead of only going after the company, the DOJ has reportedly subpoenaed Apple, Google, Amazon and Walmart for the personal information of more than 100,000 people who downloaded the app or bought the device—including names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase histories. The company offered anonymized data. The government said no.
  • A Texas woman spent the night in jail over a Facebook post. Jennifer Combs posted on Facebook that neighbours were reporting sickness linked to possible bacteria in the town water. Despite her followers claiming illness and related hospitalizations and the city itself issuing a formal boil water notice, telling residents not to drink, cook with, or wash dishes in the water without boiling it first, the city said her claims of people getting sick and being hospitalized weren’t true—so instead of answering residents, they sent police to her door and charged her with a felony law meant for fake bomb threats and mass panic.
  • Canada is on pace to record its 100,000th MAiD death before June 17, 2026—the 10th anniversary of the law’s passage. At roughly 1,400 deaths per month, Canada has likely euthanized more people than any other country in the world.
  • Framed as a housing solution, Ford’s government gave a $300 million loan to a private equity fund run by a cannabis entrepreneur to buy up unsold condos and bail out developers.
  • More of our tax dollars at work: Toronto fire crews were dispatched to melt Drake’s  25-foot-tall album-promo ice sculpture after it became a safety hazard, with fans climbing on it and breaking off pieces because Drake claimed his release date was inside.