NBC's Ben Collins reports blog maintained by suspect in Paul Pelosi attack posted conspiracy theories about “transhumanism and global warming and COVID-19”

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From the October 28, 2022 edition of MSNBC's Chris Jansing Reports

Conspiracy theories about transhumanism profess that elites are attempting to turn human beings into partial machines that frequently has explicitly anti-transgender ideas. Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has frequently pushed this theory and praised Infowars’ Alex Jones for doing the same. (Progressive transhumanists reject the version of the ideology expressed by Bannon and Jones.)