RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2020

October 2020
Irish politician, former Taoiseach and current Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment as well as co-Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar caught breaking confidentiality laws like the self serving hypocrite, sorry naughty boy, he is Why Social Media is so good at polarizing us The fascist sympathies of Britain's aristocracy Muslim human rights defenders no longer feel safe in France Reuters review of Amy Coney Barrett's record as a federal appeals court judge shows that in almost every case, she has ruled in favor of police or prison guards accused of using excessive force. Trumpworld's mockery of Joe Biden embracing his son shows their warped and childlike perception of masculinity. Pro-Woman but anti-worker: Union busting in reproductive justice organizations Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability: a thoughtful analysis of the perils faced by traditional media and social media in pursuit of truth and accountability in news reporting A lot of Republican voters refuse to believe that the GOP opposes pre-existing conditions because it would be political suicide Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook "Surveillance capitalism, as it’s known, is the dominant way of making money from the internet. As a result, the web is now a global surveillance machine, fueled by industrial-scale abuse of personal data." The First Amendment in the age of disinformation. How a torrent of propaganda, lies and conspiracy theories has weaponized the First Amendment. News outlets must report on how President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee would help thwart climate action for decades to come. Big Business and its bottomless bootlickers Libertarians take over town in New Hampshire, town gets overrun by bears. The Ultimate Authority: the state's control over life and death, and your lack of it No, the Nazis were not socialists A documentary has been released saying that Cambridge Analytica has worked with Trumpian far-right religious fundamentalists to exploit vulnerable people into growing its base and trying to shift the balance of U.S. politics. By using 60% less energy it would be possible to provide decent standards of livng to 10 billion people by 2050 An abortion clinic worker shared how some anti-choice women get their abortions and then try to justify this by lashing out at the employees What do Americans think socialism looks like? Short answer: New Deal-style social democracy and government ownership of utilities (including gas, electricity and railway companies). Amusingly only 21% of Republicans think income taxes are socialism.