RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/July 2017

July 2017
Stories of Venezuelan government/state enterprise employees grappling with their decision about voting in today's controversial (and widely seen as fixed and illegitimate) election. Predatory Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting. Obvious spoof papers (that weren't even written by a Star Wars Fan) on midi-chlorians get accepted into predatory journals. Given Trump enough time and he will, once in a while, tweet like Shakespeare. (YouTube link) Autism – Minority children need more support What Russian journalists think of how American reporters cover Putin and Trump (TL;DR: It has been murky and without much substance.) book that predicted Trump’s rise offers the Left a roadmap for defeating him. (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic) NPR, as part of its 4th of July celebrations, tweeted the entire text of the Declaration of Independence. The response from the right went about as well as expected.