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

May 2016
The growing influence of anti-immigrant politics in Europe. Lock up the men, evict the women and children. What Kurdish soldiers in Iraq want you to know about their fight against ISIS. Gawker smeared me, and yet I stand with it. We must restore Congressional authority on declaring war. - Rand Paul The conviction of Purvi Patel and the criminalization of abortion.

The Fall of Salon. “These Salon headlines are like the bastard child of World Net Daily and the LaRouche Times … In retrospect it's scary to think that Salon was maybe always just one @joanwalsh or @KerryLauerman away from derp oblivion.” The travails of Dannel Malloy. Still selling neoliberal unicorns. The Catholic cure for poverty. How did the Japanese react to Obama's vist to Hiroshima. The imperfect surveillance state. Were the superdelegates to switch to Bernie like he's demanding them to, it would be a huge nullification of Democratic party’s voters of color and the woman they back in favor of a white male candidate predominantly supported by white men, aka "White Privilege" The problem isn't populism, it is the elites. Why the war on cops is BS. How cracking down on America's painkiller capital led to a heroin crisis. The System Isn't Rigged Against Sanders. How the FBI's crusade against Apple radicalized the Silicon Valley. [http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/05/robocalls_have_triumphed_over_the_do_not_call_list_whose_fault_is_it.html? Why the "Do Not Call" list has become ineffective.]

How the Defense Department resists audits. The high price of security theater. The shameful way the Feds protected convicted pedophile billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein. John Oliver explains how FUBAR the US's primary and caucus elections are. TheRabidPuppies.Com is bought and developed by bizarro butt-pounding erotica phenom Chuck Tingle. A Trotskyist goes to North Korea. Oppose naturopathy: let's stop legitimizing pseuodoscience as medicine. Authoritarianism: The political science that explains Trump (youtube) James O'Keefe stings himself. The Rehabilitation Paradox. Shaun King: Why I am leaving the Democratic party. Matt Taibbi, How Trump is killing the Republican party. Yes, another; this is pretty good. The President should ask Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to step down as DNC chair. Submitted for your consideration: another op-ed on Donald Trump. Nice Grandpa Bernie Sanders Gonna BURN YOUR SH*T DOWWWWWN What I’ve learned as a jail doctor. Kyle Kulinsky explains why Republican voters may be more liberal than you think. Let's Recreate 9/11 fundraiser! "So far Salo has raised £72 from five backers." How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending. Hank Green talks epistemology, conspiracy theory, and religion on Crash Course Philosophy. The secret history of superdelegates and why they will decide the Democratic primary. (Autoplay video) Living in the shadow of the Mexico-US border wall. Palestinians on Nakba Day 2016 How Herbalife's Gospel of health and wealth fuels a billion-dollar deception. Burying the white working class. American workers don't miss manufacturing jobs, they miss labor unions. Why we need more Edward Snowdens. 10 laws you may be breaking right now. "Hot, paranoid singles in your area are looking for you on Awake Dating" Donald Trump's former butler, now volunteer historian, has questioned on Facebook why Obama wasn't executed by the military for being an "enemy agent". He goes on to wonder why Clinton and Sanders were even allowed to run and also casually threatens harm against "other agents" in the current administration. A little investigation by Mother Jones shows a fairly extensive history of these comments and replies in support of his ideas that, well, make Stormfront look nice and fuzzy. Harvard Public Health Review: Brazil’s Zika problem is inconveniently not ending, leading to a bitter truth: the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games must be postponed, moved, or both. Here’s the Real Reason Everybody Thought Trump Would Lose. (Hint:  "Here’s the factor I think everybody missed: The Republican Party turns out to be filled with idiots. Far more of them than anybody expected.") The secret NSA diary of an Abu Ghraib interrogator. Jon Stewart grills Trump, Clinton, and the media on David Axelrod's show. Homeopathic doctors threaten five-second strike Peace Officer: PBS's documentary on the militarization of the US's law enforcers. (Video not accessible outside of the US) (Downloadable copy of the video for anyone outside of the US) John Oliver explains the problem with misreporting and oversimplifying scientific studies in the media When Iraq was Clinton's war. Bernie Sanders misses a chance to explain the government's role in the life expectancy gap. Solitary confinement is "no touch" torture, and it must be abolished Violence in Syria increases as the ceasefire fails and Aleppo lies in ruins.

How to end the criminalization of America’s mothers. They made him an idiot. Labels like "felon" are an unfair life sentence. For Gazans, Israeli shelling harkens back to 2014 war. Why prostitution shouldn't be a crime. Former US diplomats decry the US-backed Saudi violence in Yemen. Free Speech and Islam — The Left Betrays the Most Vulnerable Apple says: I'll take your music and if you don't like it... too bad. The reaction is what you'd expect. VOXMAN POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY LITERALLY WHO: Chuck Tingle and Zoe Quinn pwn Vox Day. (Ursula Vernon commemorates the occasion in poetry.) 10 Strange Stories From Ron Miscavige’s Scientology Tell-all Ruthless Is America’s war on ISIS illegal? See also Betteridge's law of headlines

What we have now, is no longer a problem with the uninformed, but increasingly with the misinformed Whistleblowing is an act of political resistance. Why Craig Wright is not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto but a huge conman with a long track record of shonky dealing. More technical overviews by Dan Kaminsky and ErrataSec, and The Register just takes the piss.