| 87 | The cruelty is the point: President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear. |
| 85 | A quiz "persecuted American Christians" need to take - How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just 10 Quick Questions |
| 75 | In response to Benjamin Netanyahu's attack on Jeremy Corbyn attending a Palestinian memorial, comedian Mark Steel reminds people of the time Netanyahu attended a memorial with Irgun members to commemorate the King David Hotel bombing. |
| 74 | The forces of stupidity outdo themselves and reveal that Canadian force to be reckoned with, Canadian Cynic is in reality Rob Day from talk.origins. The tactic backfires badly, as now the Cynic is able to call Creationists and IDiots "douchebags" in a much more public fashion than before. |
| 71 | Parents in America are reporting that due to the popularity of the British children's TV show Peppa Pig ,
their toddlers are starting to speak with an English accent and peppering their vocabulary with British English. |
| 67 | The implosion of a legacy sports magazine perfectly encapsulates the ugly, ongoing collapse of US journalism, being steadily replaced by a parade of automated gibberish, clickbait, well-funded propaganda, and marketing |
| 66 | Francis Fukuyama interview: socialism ought to come back |
| 66 | Naivety about Trump threatens all our futures. Most important of all for the world’s future might not be Trump the would-be tyrant, Trump the betrayer, Trump the protectionist or Trump the devaluer, but Trump the man who pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate. |
| 65 | Red Hats are the new white hoods |
| 65 | "I hate what Fox News has done to almost everyone in my family. It’s absolute poison and the only thing I think is worse is that there are people who think that destroying the morals and conscience of multiple generations is worth a few more bucks." 'Fox News brain': meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news |
| 65 | Christianity Today, the evangelical publication founded by Billy Graham, endorses the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump. Trump rails against the magazine, re-defining the usual definitions by calling it far-left!! |
| 65 | Journal of Virology commentary: "The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence". |
| 63 | The COVID-19 lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market. |
| 62 | Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions: Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published |
| 62 | Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all |
| 61 | Christianity has died in the hands of Evangelicals. Evangelicalism ceased being a religious faith tradition following Jesus’ teachings concerning justice for the betterment of humanity when it made a Faustian bargain for the sake of political influence. |
| 61 | Richard Dawkins lied about the Algerian boxer, then lied about Facebook censoring him. |
| 60 | Over the past decade, a new type of historical denialism has cropped up -- the insistence that 19th century Americans never discriminated against Irish immigrants. Enter a 14-year-old girl who decided to do a Google search on the topic just for the hell of it and . . . well, you can probably guess the rest. And if you'd like to see some examples of actual, supposedly non-existent 19th century "NINA" (i.e., no Irish need apply) classified ads, here are some from The Brooklyn Eagle. (The professor whose claim the girl refuted? R.J. Jensen, late of Conservapedia.) |
| 59 | "WARNING: This product contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Surgeon General has determined that DNA is linked to a variety of diseases in both animals and humans. In some configurations, it is a risk factor for cancer and heart disease. Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children." |
| 58 | Line Goes Up: The Problem With NFTs. Dan Olsen gives a broad look into the Crypto and NFT trend, the motivating economic factors behind it, and an examination of the hyper-capitalist implications of the tokenization of everything into a speculator market. |
| 56 | Warhammer 40,000 publisher Games Workshop (finally) tells Nazi gamers to fuck off: "We won’t let you participate. We don’t want your money. We don’t want you in the Warhammer community." |
| 56 | That recent anti-trans Pamela Paul NYT article is full of pseudoscience. |
| 56 | Book bans and political meddling in the educational system are causing an escalating literacy crisis in America. |
| 55 | The subject is Canadian blogger/idiot Patrick "Twatsy" Ross, but we can all spot people we know. Including at CP. Maybe especially at CP. |
| 55 | How the Christian Gospels More Resemble the works of fiction produced in the time they were written in than actual works of history produced during the same period |
| 54 | Cracked: 4 Dangerously Influential Dimwits, featuring Sylvia Browne and Jenny McCarthy. |
| 54 | 'Toxic Christianity': the evangelicals creating champions for Trump. |
| 54 | Let People Not Enjoy Things. These days, a good portion of the fandoms of nerd franchises such as the MCU, Star Wars and Game of Thrones - which is to say, consumer products fielded by megacorporations - gets far too defensive upon reading criticism thereof, and would do well to engage in some self-reflection. |
| 54 | Why libertarian cities fail. How attempting to be free of the "tyranny" of regulation and taxation can result in running out of clean water or neighborhoods being overrun by wild bears. |
| 53 | "Dear 1%ers, many of our fellow citizens are starting to believe that capitalism itself is the problem. I disagree, and I’m sure you do too... [but] these idiotic trickle-down policies are destroying my customer base. The pitchforks are coming for us plutocrats." |
| 53 | Court-packing is necessary to save American democracy |
| 53 | A history of Israel pursuing diplomatic relations with pro-Israeli anti-semitic regimes to serve the interest of the state, at the expense of Jewish communities worldwide. |
| 53 | Bizarre conspiracy-laden messages about secret societies keep showing up in food boxes in central Pennsylvania |
| 53 | "I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation" |
| 53 | Michael Shellenberger's "WPATH Files" contains 216 instances of factual errors regarding transgender healthcare. |
| 52 | The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment, according to one of its developers: Complete and total failure as human nature overcomes libertarian ideals. |
| 52 | CBC: Alex Jones deals in vicious stupidity. It's not free speech — it's incitement. |
| 52 | Why the Western notion of an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and morally perfect God is incoherent. |
| 52 | Research suggests there's an easy way to reduce suicide rates: increase the minimum wage. |
| 52 | Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake. The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives. |
| 51 | Complaining to the Advertising Standards Authority about the British Homeopathic Association. UPDATE: A response has been received from Advertising Standards Authority. Seems they agree that the BHA leaflet "contains material that is likely to be problematic". |
| 51 | The creator of the blatantly fake UndergroundNewsReport.com shared his outlandish (and totally false) stories to pro-Trump groups on Facebook, who fell for it hard: "It seemed that there wasn’t anything I could write that was too wild or outrageous to be believed by this particular audience." |
| 51 | Popular youtuber JonTron allegedly "goes full Nazi". |
| 51 | Sovereign citizens — not "radical Islam" — are the biggest terrorist threat in the US. |
| 51 | Jacobin: "No One’s Rights Should Depend on Where Their Ancestors Lived". This is about Israel/Palestine, if you hadn't instantly guessed. |
| 50 | Pizza chain CEO who owns "a 40,000 square-foot mansion in a tony suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, that features several swimming pools, a private golf course and a 22-car garage among other amenities," threatens to make all of his employees part-timers in order to save the $5 to $8 million that (he says) Obamacare will cost him. He also claims that O-care will cost him between 11 and 14 cents per pizza. Forbes columnist does the math: It'll cost between 3.4 and 4.6 cents per pizza -- and, besides, the company gives away about 2 million pizzas in an annual promotion that costs between $24 and $32 million dollars. |
| 50 | "Vaccines Work." A cartoon guide to vaccines and vaccine denialist arguments. |
| 50 | Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): "Media Boosted Anti-Trans Movement With Credulous Coverage of ‘Cass Review’". |
| 49 | John Oliver finally gave into the temptation to talk about Donald Trump. |
| 49 | A new experiment in teaching kids to be critical thinkers and combat pseudoscience and fake news shows promise. |
| 49 | The Guardian’s Catherine Bennett has criticised the number of illiberal views that have been growing on BBC Radio 4’s daily religious programme Thought of the Day. |
| 49 | Neoliberal trash Politico (acquired by Axel Springer SE in 2021, by the way) peddles the clean Waffen-SS myth, because "history is complicated" in reaction to the Hanka scandal in the Canadian parliament. |
| 49 | Even mentioning "occupation" at the Oscars is antisemitic, some Jewish Hollywood figures say. |
| 49 | Pro-Israel advocates are weaponising the notion of "safety" on college campuses to suppress criticism of Israel. |
| 48 | Apparently this is controversial. |
| 48 | Oh behalf of actual gamers everywhere, everyone's favourite former NFL player Chris Kluwe spectacularly rips Gamergaters several new ones. |
| 48 | A video exposing the corruption in Putin's government has been banned in Russia, so its makers have reuploaded it to PornHub. |
| 48 | Publishers are not obligated to give bigots like Jordan Peterson a platform |
| 48 | Israeli soldiers are Tiktoking their war crimes in Gaza. |
| 48 | If Trump were to go through with his mass deportation scheme, it would be ludicrously expensive. |
| 47 | Muslims take the piss out of ISIS, using genuinely funny snark and satire. We at Rationalwiki salute you. |
| 47 | Jimmy Wales tries to patiently explain to a Gamergater why Gamergate has some public relations problems. "It is very difficult for me to buy into the notion that gamergate is 'really about ethics in journalism' when every single experience I have personally had with it involved pro-gg people insulting, threatening, doxxing, etc." They don't quite take the recommendations of the world-famous and highly influential charity founder they enquired with to heart. |
| 47 | "I teach human evolution at the University of Kentucky. There are some students I’ll never reach." |
| 47 | On Starbucks and the "War on Christmas", from a Christian who's had enough of that nonsense. |
| 47 | "This tax bill is straight out of 1929" says economic historian. |
| 47 | Even Tucker Carlson is starting to lose faith in Donald Trump, as revealed in an interview with the conservative Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche in which he calls him "not capable" of governing and accuses him of having barely achieved anything. |
| 47 | What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right |
| 47 | Why are American churches in decline? Long story short: a one-two punch of drastically fewer young people continuing to attend of their own accord (as a result of not having time to attend, feeling alienated and/or shunned due to political and social factors, or both) and the pandemic breaking existing churchgoers' attendance habits. |
| 47 | Wisconsin's dairy industry relies on undocumented immigrants, but the state won't let them legally drive |
| 46 | Shortest evolution debate ever? |
| 46 | In 2008, Focus on the Family predicted what 2012 under Obama would be like. Let's see how they did. (Some portions may be familiar.) |
| 46 | Cracked: A 90-Second Guide to Determine if Your Internet Cause Is BS |
| 46 | John Oliver takes on televangelists. Alternative link. |
| 46 | Even Reason thinks the Republican base has gone totally and utterly bonkers. |
| 46 | 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. |
| 46 | Rick Reilly analyses Trump's claim to have won 18 golf tournaments: unsurprising conclusion - Trump lied |
| 46 | A reminder as to how Netanyahu propped up Hamas for years. |
| 46 | Human Rights Watch republishes Byline Times article arguing that selling weapons to Israel could make the UK complicit in war crimes. Likewise, back in October New York magazine also argued that the US is giving Israel carte blanche permission to commit war crimes. |
| 46 | Why Is the Rent So Damn High? The Real Reason Will Shock You |
| 45 | Twitter Joke Trial: a layman journalist’s view. Paul Chambers was prosecuted for joking on Twitter that he planned to "blow an airport sky high" if they didn't deal with their snow problem. This blog post is about the appeal and a layman's view from the court room. |
| 45 | "Legitimate" rape and the "gift" of pregnancy: An analogy as subtle as being hit with a slice of lemon, wrapped around a brick. |
| 45 | Mars One is sounding pretty scammy. |
| 45 | The privatization of the US justice system, thanks to a 2011 Supreme Court decision that allows businesses (defendants) to shift an individual plaintiff's lawsuit out of the courts and to a private arbitrator -- who is usually hired by the defendants. So basically... |
| 45 | Return of socialism to the U.S. (Note: worldwide, it's not considered socialism.) |
| 45 | Donald Trump Isn’t the Presidential Candidate We Should Be Worried About: The real danger is the smarter, more capable neo-fascist politician who will inevitably rise in his wake. |
| 45 | The Dutch far right’s election donors are almost exclusively American. |
| 45 | A Christian pastor explains how young Earth creationists like Ken Ham are turning young people against Christianity. (Short version: a myth that flies in the face of all evidence is a terrible foundation upon which to build a lasting faith.) |
| 45 | Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity. |
| 45 | Why war with Iran would be a grave mistake |
| 45 | On the widescale destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza. |
| 45 | Vox on the US State Department's obscure intelligence agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), which has made correct predictions about e.g. Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine where other agencies failed. One reason cited in the article for the INR's possible relative success in making foreign policy predictions where e.g. the CIA failed, is simply the INR's reliance on more experienced experts, often recruited from academia. |
| 44 | P. Z. Myers writes beautiful open letter to a nine-year old suggesting that "how do you know?" is a better question than "were you there?". The dribbling idiot who came up with the "were you there?" question complains. Mom weighs in without reading the letter. |
| 44 | Mayor of Boston to Chick-fil-A: Fuck off. |
| 44 | "I'm not a scientist" = "I'm losing the War on Science." |
| 44 | Frustrated Gunman Can’t Believe How Far He Has To Drive To Find Nearest Planned Parenthood ClinicThe Onion |
| 44 | Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish, and has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. |
| 44 | How (and why) Americans were taught to hate atheists |
| 44 | Trump is a shockingly un-masculine and immature president, and his popularity among working-class men in America is a symptom of a culture that values perpetual adolescence. |
| 44 | QAnon is basically a white evangelical cult whose believers become even more fanatical when the prophesied end does not come. |
| 44 | Non-fungible tokens died a slow, painful death in 2023 as most are now worthless |
| 44 | The US is required by domestic law to cut off aid to Israel not only for its violations of international humanitarian law and committing of genocide, but also because it is a rogue nuclear state. |
| 44 | Senator Bernie Sanders' take on the election result: "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right." Unsurprisingly DNC Chair Jaime Harrison disagrees |
| 43 | Creationist Questions translated. |
| 43 | The "Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology" petitioned Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to "create and enforce new policies that allow for true scientific discourse about holistic approaches to healing." Jimmy Wales responds. |
| 43 | Go fuck yourself, ESPN! ESPN suspends MLB writer Keith Law ostensibly for defending evolution. |
| 43 | Reddit enacts new anti-harassment policy and begins to crack down on subreddits that promote harassment. Among the first on the block is the infamous /r/fatpeoplehate along with /r/hamplanethatred, /r/transfags, /r/neofag and /r/shitniggerssay. A large number of users are enraged by the news, and the announcement is currently flooded with downvotes. |
| 43 | In response to Tumblr banning all NSFW content, a writer at The Guardian proposes that social media should focus less on nipples and more on Nazis. |
| 43 | Contemporary journalism is failing to accurately convey the rise of American authoritarianism and the threat it poses to democracy. The media needs to focus on the underlying issues and stakes rather than traditional election coverage. |
| 43 | Omar and Tlaib Are Condemned in the US for Saying What Prominent Israelis Are Saying: The White House is ripping Squad members for proposing de-escalation and diplomacy to stop the killing of Israelis and Palestinians. |
| 43 | Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House |
| 43 | Because of the indiscriminate nature of the blasts and the prohibition on booby traps, Israel's exploding pagers attack might just be a war crime. |
| 42 | If only American TV journalists had the balls to say something like this on the air. Oh, and there is video of it on the intertubes (quote at 2:30). |
| 42 | Court decides parent's refusal to vaccinate kids is not “free exercise of religion”. Win one for the constitution. (self promotion warning) |
| 42 | Daily Kos: Neil deGrasse Tyson makes important scientific discovery: Liberals can be just as anti-science about GMOs as Conservatives are about Global warming. |
| 42 | Idaho Representative Vito Barbieri is not an OB-GYN |
| 42 | Jordan Peterson appears very profound and has convinced many people to take him seriously. Yet he has almost nothing of value to say. |
| 42 | It's time for #MeToo in the Catholic church |
| 42 | Young conservatives flock to Washington, D.C., to support renewable energy. |
| 42 | PewDiePie faced backlash for giving a shoutout to a YouTuber called E;R, who is known for making anti-semitic jokes, comments, and content and also has a Gab account. PewDiePie has since then responded to the controversy. |
| 42 | Are Israeli media too soft on the country's popular military? |
| 42 | My semester with the snowflakes. |
| 42 | Ukraine's ongoing battle for survival: a report from the front line in Zaporizhia. |
| 42 | Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts across the US |
| 42 | Meet the conspiracy theorist and anti-LGBTQ extremist pulling the strings at major American corporations. |
| 41 | Phil Sandifer: an analysis of the 2015 Hugos, the Sad Puppies, Vox Day's politics and his supporters, and how neofascism works in a culture war. |
| 41 | A woman in Texas kicks off a plan to protest a "campus carry" law by carrying dildos to a university. |
| 41 | Star Trek Discovery — y'know, the series that shows races from all over the galaxy working together — now has an Asian captain and a black first officer. Right wingers are outraged by this clear example of "white genocide". |
| 41 | Hatred of liberals is all that's left of conservatism (paywall) |
| 41 | The Japanese Wikipedia is full of historical misinformation, apologism and propaganda |
| 41 | Tennessee law forbids abortion in nearly all circumstances, but provides little care for children after birth. ProPublica followed one family as they struggled to provide for their newborn child that Tennessee forced them to carry to term. |
| 41 | Turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a horrendous idea, and not just for moral reasons. |
| 40 | Skepticism *is* making a difference |
| 40 | The heir to Mencken's throne of snark: An American football player? |
| 40 | Can you tell the difference between conservative Christians and Muslim fundamentalists? |
| 40 | How Gamergate has destroyed the reputation of video games in academia. |
| 40 | The left should receive more criticism for their anti-science views - Opinion piece from The Tech. |
| 40 | The Grauniad on "populist correctness", aka the right's tendency to get triggered by whatever doesn't fit their worldview. |
| 40 | The women who flipped: the price of changing your conservative views. |
| 40 | America isn't just a failing state, it's a failed experiment as the realities of bigotry, discrimination and gross economic inequalities belied the promised ideals of equality and justice for all. |
| 40 | "Welcome to the Brexit" says a Dutch customs officer Martijn as he confiscates a gentleman's ham sandwich, has a social media phenomenon as many Brits were surprised that EU Customs would be banning the personal importation of food. |
| 40 | It’s Time for Justice, Not Healing. The United States needs to follow South Korea’s post-impeachment example |
| 40 | Oh my fucking god, get the fucking vaccine already, you fucking fucks |
| 40 | Here are the laws plausibly broken by Israel in its Jenin hospital raid where Israeli forces killed several Palestinians while dressed as hospital workers. |
| 40 | Amid the lingering trauma of Trump’s executions, a new project brings families to federal death row. |
| 40 | 2024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy. |
