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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?

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March 2025

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29Analysis from the automotive news website FuelArc concludes that the Incelmobile Tesla Cybertruck is about 17 times more likely to kill its occupant(s) in a fire fatality than the Ford Pinto, a car infamous for bursting into flames.
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22The right dominates the online media ecosystem, with its bullshit seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces.
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24Why everyone should care about the right to due process.
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5Taylor Lorenz: "The Rise and Fall of 'the Resistance.'"
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17The data hoarders resisting Trump's (digital) purge.
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11Does a CO2 pipeline leak in Mississippi hold lessons for Canada?
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19It should be easy for progressives to dominate the right on trans issues.
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17How fascist mercenary oligarch Erik Prince managed to worm his way back inside Trump's orbit.
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9Noted American comedienne Rosie O'Donnell has said she is emigrating permanently to Ireland with her daughter due to the political climate.
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17Rule by militia: governments wracked by debt have found militias an effective way of managing restive populations.
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29Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America. People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.
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18Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels.
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35 Republicans don't hate Social Security because it's broken—they hate it because it works. The existence of a successful and beloved social welfare program undercuts the conservative worldview that government solutions always produce worse outcomes than The Free Market™.
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4Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way.
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18"Buying a $250 residency card from a tropical island let me bypass US crypto laws."
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33The best current AIs are already using three orders of magnitude more neurons than we'd find in a fly's brain and have nowhere near the fly's general capabilities.
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14The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that.

February 2025

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11Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions.
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13Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.
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22Kash Patel can do a lot of damage without really needing to overhaul the FBI very much at all.
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7Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse
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18 ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones.
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14Google, Apple, and internet restriction – how Big Tech is making censorship "much worse" according to experts.
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20Why (American) Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch (against Trump).
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26Fascism is already here in America. Do we have the strength to drive it out?
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37Musk is doing everything the conspiracist right accused George Soros of doing.
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12Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones.
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24Black, atheist and unapologetic: the rise of secularism in African American communities.
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22The US is not ready for a bird flu pandemic.
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31The Tesla Cybertruck is more explosive than the Ford Pinto.
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30The assault on DEI is really a push to bring back legal segregation.
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28What Trump’s Trade War Would Mean, in Nine Charts.