RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2016

June 2016
Making abortion rights real. The working-class wounds hidden behind Trump voters’ racism. An interesting comparison between the responses of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to the recent attack in Istanbul, Turkey. Republicans find out once again that trying to appease the far right is a fool's errand: wingnuts now are floating the idea that Congressional Republicans are part of the Benghazi "conspiracy" because they refuse to say that Obama and Hillary were behind the attacks. The violence of eviction. The tyranny of forced fun at work. How should property rights in space be governed? The toxic myth that working moms fail their kids is based on old pseudoscience. A world without work isn't a bad thing. Brexit's success shows the failures of the West's established institutions. How American Politics Went Insane Donald Trump, Poland, and America 'B'. Why does homelessness look the same in San Franciso? America's shameful history of mistreatment of migrant workers. Confessions of a payday lender. The "knowledge economy" is a myth. Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations. Everyone should love explainers: Why Brexit Should Scare The Shit Out Of You, Explained Brexit: the reaction from that immigrant Englishwoman in Portugal from the other day. (This time, just pull down to the end of the Portuguese text to read the English one, although you'll still have to click the blue rectangule in order to continue to read the text.) Andrew Cuomo’s BDS blacklist is a clear violation of the First Amendment. Fully Loaded: Inside the shadowy world of America's 10 biggest gun manufacturers. The Democrats gun reforms are weak and disingenuous. My four months as a private prison guard Twitter Trolls Are Reporting Pro-LGBT Muslim Women to Their Governments, Where Punishment Can Mean Death "Today, I can no longer disregard the inconvenient fact that I was a quack": Former Naturopathic doctor Britt Marie Hermes speaks of the start to her journey into the world of real medicine. Donald Trump’s problems are making it too easy for Democrats to ignore their own. The best courtroom transcript ever recorded. [https://mic.com/articles/146630/what-it-s-like-to-have-your-period-in-a-women-s-prison? What it's like to have your period in a women's prison.] How union contracts shield police departments from DOJ reforms. I grew up in a racist militia. (Cracked) Someone from the Daily Caller tries to pick a fight with Snopes. It goes about as well as you'd expect. The Democrats' war against due process and terrorist fearmongering have long predated Orlando. [http://nymag.com/betamale/2016/06/macho-food-marketing-is-killing-men.html? How years of macho food marketing is killing men.] The return of lesser evilism. Why did white workers leave the Democratic Party? Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system. These are the nine lost souls the FBI charged as terrorists while letting the Orlando shooter go. Cracked: I (Charlie Veitch) Was A Professional 9/11 Truther (And I Gave It Up) There can be no racial justice until we end money bails. Scientific publishers are killing research papers. A Twitter thread on why the "Berniebro" narrative is harmful to PoC and women. Youth unemployment is caused by late retirement, driven by pension precarity, not by automation. An immigrant Englishwoman in Portugal talks about Brexit (to read the English version, just click on the blue rectangule that says "continuar a ler", then scroll down 'till the end of the Portuguese text, which is just a little bit more). Six answers to the question behind Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Why wasteful military spending never stops. (The American Conservative) The US's mental health crisis ensnares inmates, judges, jailers and hospitals. Why doesn’t education in juvenile detention facilities get any attention or support? Remembering the 1953 East German worker's strike. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/17/the-fbi-was-right-not-to-arrest-omar-mateen-before-the-shooting/? The FBI was right not to arrest Omar Mateen before the shooting.] The shadowy war on the press: How the rich silence journalists. How Israel is inciting Palestinian violence. Recalling the judge that sentenced Brock Turner may hurt racial minorities. [http://www.vox.com/2016/6/15/11894036/dylann-roof-death-penalty My mom was killed in the Charleston shooting. Executing Dylann Roof won’t bring her back.] How I bought an AR-15 in a Five Guys parking lot. How juice companies game science to perpetuate the myth that cranberry prevents UTIs Britain is in the midst of a working-class revolt. I escaped Romania's dictatorship, went to Oxford and started a business – all thanks to European openness. Why is Jo Cox's killer not being called a terrorist? 7 bullshit cures for Zika that are spreading online "This is just soul-crushingly awful": A live-tweet of the June 14 Trump Rally in Greensboro, NC by a Georgia Southern U. professor. Public defenders can be biased and it hurts PoC. The Supreme Court is afraid of racial justice. What activist Jasmine Richards's "lynching" conviction means for the Black Lives Matter movement I don't have to vote and I can still complain. (The Federalist) Poor Native Americans have a hard time recieving a lawyer. How Menards bombards its employees with right-wing propaganda Since When Is An Act of Terrorism an Act of God?: A discussion of religiously-motivated/ideologue-driven hate from a devout LGBT Catholic. After Orlando, time to recognize that anti-gay bigotry is not religious freedom 6 ways Ronald Reagan ruined the country. (Cracked) United States of Paranoia: A look at the targeted individuals community. Only the rich are gaining from the recovery after the Great Recession. PTSD may be more physical than psychological. Senator Ron Wyden and Judge Andrew Napolitano (video) have both come out against the FBI's unconstitutional attempt to increase their warrantless surveillance access over internet browsing history. The Humanist Report on why Bernie Sanders should not drop out before the Democratic Convention in July. [https://thenib.com/the-uk-might-leave-the-european-union-heres-why-f32dc653a220#.di56mfv8i The UK might leave the European Union. Here’s why.] The State of Surveillance. - Vice News Your definitive guide to the Silicon Valley's bizarre politics. All human knowledge is there so why can’t everybody access it? Democrats work with Big Tobacco and Big Pharma to choke the vaping industry. Drones emerge from shadows to become key cog in U.S. war machine. Three years on, it appears Snowden's leaks have damaged the NSA so badly that it's healthier than ever. Tased in the chest for 23 seconds, dead for 8 minutes, and now facing a lifetime of recovery. The Day the Micropig Internet Mob Came After Me: a reminder of the and how a small vocal group on the Internet can turn into a storm of harassment and anger over something as innocuous as an album of cute tiny pig photos. Kyle Kulinski on Bernie Sanders' response to a journalist asking whether or not it is sexist of him to keep running against Hillary Clinton. The Bitcoin price is an illusion built by faked volume: A sale of 265 coins crashed the price. Everyone from the The Week and Salon, to the National Review and Reason agree that Andrew Cuomo's order against businesses and organizations associated with BDS is a threat to freedom of expression. Challenging police violence shouldn’t require black Americans to sacrifice their privacy. This is where Libertarians abandon fusionism with social conservatives. The myth of of the 70's ice age prediction. These photos show some of the many places people have died crossing the US's southern border. When DNA implicates the innocent. Tattoo recognition research threatens free speech and privacy. To stop bad prosecutors the Fed must gain oversight over them. Andrew Cuomo and other Democrats launch severe attacks on free speech in order to protect Israel. Nixonian palace guard now protects Hillary - Jonathan Turley How MSG got a bad rap: Flawed science and xenophobia. John Oliver explains debt buyers. Now that Muhammad Ali is dead and no longer able to respond, conservatives are already rushing to whitewash and claim him for themselves, just like they did with "MLK the Republican" (Spoilers: he wasn't one either). Cruel and Unusual: Radiolab explores the legal history of the death penalty. Three IMF economists have released a report doubting the success of neoliberalism. As restrictions on free speech grow we must speak out to save it. Doubt grows as Michel Temer's presidency continues to crumble under corruption. Having Their Cake and Eating Ours Too Your money or your life data: How Russian cybercrime bosses crafted a ransomware empire out of an economic crisis. It should be OK to teach "wrong" ideas in science. Case study: the Bohr model.