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March 2023

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23National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science
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23Facing an electoral crushing due to thirteen years of misrule, all the British Conservatives have left is to peddle 'culture wars' nonsense. One of the main targets: migrants.
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18How conflict minerals make it into our phones
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34Wyoming's GOP House Speaker, Albert Sommers, has repeatedly shut down anti-transgender bills, causing the state to defy national trends. Here's why.
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17Dark money and special deals: How Leonard Leo and his friends benefitted from judicial activism.

February 2023

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24Conspiracy theories are claiming the war in Ukraine is fake
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16The 10 most important things court filings in the Dominion case have revealed about Fox News.
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18When Your Boyfriend Becomes an Andrew Tate Fan
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10The global ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine, mapped country-by-country.
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21Biden went to Kyiv; DeSantis went to Fox and Friends. Or, Ron DeSantis finds the wrong side of Ukraine.
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24How Milton Friedman aided and abetted segregationists in his quest to privatize public education.
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35The Onion takes on the media's recent wave of anti-transgender fearmongering: "Is the point of reporting to illuminate the world around us, so that we may make meaning of it? Or is it to cause people in minority groups to question their humanity and persuade others to demonize them?"
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18What US abortion legislation looks like in 2023.
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18How the wealthy save billions by skirting a century-old tax law.
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17Why sex education doesn't need to be awkward.
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18Elon's profiting off of unbanning far-righters.
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18Inside r/Obsessive_Love, the 2019-spawned subreddit that has users swapping tips on getting access to the webcams of the victims of their stalking using specialist search engines such as Shodan, which archive electronic devices.
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17The St. Louis Children's Hospital anti-trans "whistleblower" story debunked point-by-point.
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26You Are Lied To Every DayDarkMatter2525 goes over the spread of social media disinformation and the propaganda used by anti-vaxxers, anti-LBGTQ+ bigots, and others.
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8Why are politics in Peru in disarray? Inside the halls of its Congress
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28As per the usual right-wing hypocrisy, Chinese spy balloons flew over the US three times during the Trump administration, and, unlike Biden, Trump never shot down a single one. Turns out they were not detected during Trump administration - US defense abilities to detect them have only been instituted under Biden
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23The Anti-Trans State of the States as of February 4th.

January 2023

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23The latest target of conspiracy theories over the deep state and climate change, your humble TV weather forecaster.
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44Why 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.
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24US media is already presenting the debt ceiling fight as a "both sides" problem when it's not even remotely true, and this is playing into the GOP's strategy.
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16How scientific theories on the origin of Covid evolved
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-69Don’t Call the Brazil Insurrection ‘Anti-Democratic’: The new threat isn’t fascists. It’s dupes who think they’re fighting for democracy.
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20Did anti-vaxxer deaths from COVID swing elections?
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17The Guardian tries to explain why Oxford's experimental traffic reduction scheme is attracting so many conspiracy theorists, including Jordan Peterson, Laurence Fox and GB News' Neil Oliver.
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-36On the anniversary of the January 6th Capital riots. Twitter has removed the ban on Michael Flynn.
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21The last time the House struggled to elect a Speaker was 100 years ago, in 1923. Here's what happened then.
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37Questions are being asked about the carbon footprint of some of richest people in the world, including private jets and multimillion-euro yachts. This is coming back from new research which shows the vast carbon footprint of such people.