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February 2025

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16The assault on DEI is really a push to bring back legal segregation.
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20What Trump’s Trade War Would Mean, in Nine Charts.

January 2025

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18Top ten moments of RFK Jr.'s senate confirmation hearing to the role of US Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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31The transphobic justification for Trump's transgender military ban is a Rubicon-crossing moment as it ditches the usual concern trolling for the mask-off rhetoric of dehumanization.
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20How to stop your data from being used to train AI. (April 2024)
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27Elon Musk's Nazi salute sparks widespread Reddit revolt: Hundreds of subreddits consider banning links to X, formerly known as Twitter. Others acted faster.
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28From NPR's special series "The Washington Post in crisis": an overview of the debacles and mismanagement caused last year by the Post's new conservative CEO Will Lewis.
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17Luigi Mangione Isn’t the First Accused Killer America Has Loved. He Won’t Be the Last.
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18The US immigration system isn't ready for the chaos that the Laken-Riley Act will bring.
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16Here are 34 things for working people that the GOP plans to cut so that Trump can give billionaires more tax cuts again.
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34Why is Elon Musk and his horde of fascist followers attacking Wikipedia? Because we are no longer in a culture war, we are in an epistemological one, where authoritarians seek to replace process with diktat.
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23Bullshit study linking water fluoridation and lower IQ slithers its way into a respected medical journal, with an accompanying editorial.
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19Republicans are actively erasing reminders of January 6th in the Capitol as Trump's second inauguration looms.
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17Something stinks on Canada's biggest subreddit.
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41The minimum wage claims you keep hearing are totally fake. We can prove it.

December 2024

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24Trump's rise was the end-result of four decades' worth of upward wealth transfer.
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31For Israeli police, humiliating Palestinian women is a tool of collective repression.
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37From the American Indian genocides to the Nazi Holocaust, "self defense" has been a ubiquitous excuse for mass murder. Israel is telling the same lie today.
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36RFK Jr. is not really against Big Pharma. His "Make America Healthy Again" agenda is a dumb rich guy's attempt to take advantage of widely-held frustrations over America's health crisis without threatening in any way the system that created that health crisis.
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7What Cuba and Ecuador Can Teach Us About Energy Crises. Or, how a dictatorship and a democracy differ in their simultaneous handling of similar energy crises.
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20The doctators: why are so many tyrants medically qualified?
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33From May 2024: West Virginia is the future of red states. This is the paradigm example of how conservative ideology makes true believers’ lives worse

November 2024

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27"Now that Trump has escaped punishment for his many crimes, the lesson is clear: He can do whatever he wants, and get away with it."
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23The origins and history of the Christian nationalist movement.
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19Nazis on Aisle Nine: why do so many companies today have sordid histories with the Nazis, and why were they never really held to account?
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25Trump hoodwinked voters about his plan to implement Project 2025.
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13FiveThirtyEight: How the immigration issue fueled Trump's major gains with Black, Hispanic, and Asian-American voters.
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39The difference in American reactions to the arrest warrants issued out by the ICC against Netanyahu and Putin showcases American hypocrisy when it comes to the application of international law.
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32"I'm 16. On November 6th, the girls cried and the boys played Minecraft."
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19What to expect from the next four years? Two words: political theater.
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24Who does the Democratic party actually represent?.
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53If Trump were to go through with his mass deportation scheme, it would be ludicrously expensive.
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26Private prisons are set to profit massively off of Trump's mass immigrant deportation scheme.
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23Defectors from the US military and federal agencies are pushing for an end to the war in Gaza.
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12Andy Beshear: "I'm the Governor of Kentucky. Here's How Democrats Can Win Again."
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22Unlike for genocide and war crimes, there is no international treaty making crimes against humanity legally actionable. This needs to be changed pronto.
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40The media is blaming the left for the Democrats' 2024 electoral defeat, rather than their own fear-based business model, FAIR reports.
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-15Political lesbianism is seeing a comeback in the US after Trump's election.
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24Science-Based Medicine replies to RFK Jr's intentions to remove fluoride from the drinking water supply as Trump's health czar. (See his page: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And buckle up, because he's set to "go wild on health" in many ways.)
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50Senator 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
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12Trump is planning a third Red Scare.
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14I am unconvinced by the leftist arguments for withholding votes from Kamala Harris.
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19‘He’s like a gangster’: How Tommy Robinson became leader of Britain’s far right.

October 2024

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32ProPublica reports on the case of Josseli Barnica, a Texas woman who died of an infection during a protracted miscarriage. Contrary to the opinion of every medical expert interviewed by ProPublica, under Texas' new abortion law, Barnica was required to wait to deliver until after there was no detectable fetal heartbeat. The resulting 40 hour delay exposed her uterus to bacteria, resulting in an aggressive infection that killed her.
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29The New York Times lied about a study on puberty blockers, claiming the study's author is refusing to publish negative research because of the results. This is not true. Azeen Ghorayshi, the British NYT writer who wrote the piece, is a well-known anti-trans activist.
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38JD Vance says immigration is to blame for high housing costs. In fact, since the housing crisis is caused by longstanding lack of new housing, and since about 1 in 3 workers in the construction industry are immigrants, anti-immigration policies could even make the situation worse.
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23US crime stats still show a decline since 2020
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23US public schools burned up nearly $3.2bn fending off rightwing culture attacks – report
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24How the rich get away with tax evasion
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49The 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.
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23Make no mistake: the Trump-Russia connection is still active.
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27Mehdi Hasan:Wikipedia Israel is a rogue nation that has declared war on the United Nations. It cannot continue to get away with this.
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8Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell reviewed as 'out of ideas' in New York Times.
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20Despite Trump's claims, his agenda has a lot of overlap with Project 2025.
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23Where have all the Metaverse and Web3 executives gone? They're now AI executives.
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9Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are actually just the result of boring old human pollution.
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-26Some Hispanic U.S. Voters Fear Socialism, and the Messaging and Symbols From the Democrats Aren't Helping. Focusing more on "pro-democracy" politics and less on "progressivism" as well as having a favorable foreign policy in Latin America can help Democrats push back GOP red-baiting propaganda and maintain their advantage with Hispanic and Latino voters.
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27After a Freedom of Information Act request from Gizmodo, the Federal Trade Commission has revealed that lots of Truth Social users have been losing ridiculous amounts of money to scams. Like, six figures for some of them.
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15Although AI streamlined image manipulation misinfo, its use for political propaganda is really at least as old as the Nazis. (From September.)
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27What the US Did to Haiti. How the American public's ignorance of the country's destructive policy towards Haiti fuels racialized narratives about the supposed threat of Haitian immigrants. (shorter paywalled version)

September 2024

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17The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself: The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
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11Young men in the US are probably more liberal than recent media attention suggests.
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46Turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a horrendous idea, and not just for moral reasons.
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56Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake. The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
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20Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from the antidemocratic Electoral College
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6"Your Cynicism Isn’t Helping Anybody". George Carlin fans will love it!
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-12Talking to ChatGPT for the First Time is a Surreal Experience
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31After South Carolina woman Amari Marsh miscarried in May 2023, state authorities arrested her, held her in prison for 22 days, charged her with homicide, and then held her in house arrest for 13 months. Thankfully, a federal jury recently cleared her of wrongdoing.
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22Mark Robinson and the Republican whackjob problem: this is what happens when a party stops trying to keep out the kooks.
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32They were jubilant after the fall of Roe v. Wade two years ago, but now the US anti-abortion movement is divided and demoralized.
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18Sarah Huckabee used a July traffic stop to demonize immigrants. What the footage actually shows is a cop torturing an undocumented migrant.
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49Because of the indiscriminate nature of the blasts and the prohibition on booby traps, Israel's exploding pagers attack might just be a war crime.
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31What JD Vance and Donald Trump don't want you to know about Springfield: Immigrants are making red America great again
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31Media like the New York Times implicitly legitimized Holocaust denial by referring to Tucker Carlson's non-historian guest with terms like "Holocaust revisionist" instead of "Holocaust denier".
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34Global study shows 'go woke, go broke' incorrect - at worst it is ineffective, at best increases sales and brand loyalty.
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37Donald Trump is a national security threat. That he can be so easily manipulated by Harris in a debate using completely obvious tactics shows that America's enemies can do the same.
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59Research suggests there's an easy way to reduce suicide rates: increase the minimum wage.
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28Politico reporters weigh in on why Harris performed so much better than Trump in the presidential debate.
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-5Decolonizing our understanding of extraterrestrial life: what we think about aliens tends to reflect our own thoughts on humanity, or rather a specific slice of humanity. Many mainstream narratives about aliens reflect a colonial lens. It's commonly argued, for instance, that alien civilizations would see each other as threats and seek to dominate or destroy the other. This thinking can be rooted in how human empires in our own time have dominated other human civilizations in this way. However, not all humans have sought to dominate another. Likewise, a belief that civilizations inevitably destroy themselves can be a reflection of the unsustainable practices of modern capitalist societies. However, many indigenous societies understand that by taking care of our environment, resources can be renewable indefinitely. Our labeling of space as terra nullius likewise reflects age old colonialist practices.
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28WSJ: College Grades Have Become a Charade. It’s Time to Abolish Them. An essay on educational inflation.
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20What's wrong with technocracy? Plenty, it turns out, as it leads to an unjust concentration of power based on a flawed concept of knowledge.
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36How demographics have changed in key US swing states since 2008, and what implications that could have for 2024.
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-29Price controls: good intentions, bad outcomes Although they are sometimes used as a tool for social policy with the best intentions in mind, price controls can dampen investment and growth, worsen poverty, productivity and inequality; can cause chronic shortages of goods as well as the formation of black markets with higher prices, and lead to the substitution towards lower-quality alternatives. They also cause countries to incur heavy fiscal burdens, and complicate the effective conduct of monetary policy. This one is about Kamala by the way.
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-11How open trade saved us from a global food crisis. This is the same trade that Donald Trump wants to disrupt in case you haven't guessed.
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45The voices of Palestine: the story of Gaza and colonialism by Palestinian journalist and storyteller Bisan.
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-8How China's Internet police went from targeting bloggers to targeting their followers

August 2024

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32Trump Betrays the Pro-life Movement; he deserves the disapprobation of evangelical Christians, not their vote.
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17Kamala Harris' DNC speech shows that she isn't repeating the mistakes Hillary Clinton made in 2016.
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-9For the first time ever, political influencers like Hasan Piker have press credentials at the DNC.
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16No Pride without solidarity.
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62Richard Dawkins lied about the Algerian boxer, then lied about Facebook censoring him.
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22The Latin American left is smart not to pick a side over Venezuela’s contested election result. Attempts to get Nicolás Maduro back to the negotiating table highlight the influence of a younger generation of voters.
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65Journal of Virology commentary: "The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence".
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-13Five different ways authoritarian governments such as Venezuela rig elections
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68Naivety 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.
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-21Following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Jeremy Scahill and Mehdi Hasan share their thoughts on the future and past, respectively, of Israel's relationship with the Palestinian people.

July 2024

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42Meet the conspiracy theorist and anti-LGBTQ extremist pulling the strings at major American corporations.
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4The poverty of economic growth. How a "simplistic focus on growth" is "blinding us" to the social and ecological destruction growth requires.
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2The unbearable anthropocentrism of Our World In Data: How Max Roser glosses over social and ecological realities to make the case that progress is driven by for-profit enterprise alone.
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-18Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades. Tankies claim that this is because of China and that the rest of the world didn't really perform that well. What does evidence say?
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-23"Kamala Harris and the Threat of a Woman's Laugh".
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17We Hunted The Mammoth is back as a YouTube channel! If WHTM is going where the misogyny is ...
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29Inside 'Project 2025': The plan to reprogram the US Federal Government.
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32‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?
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31 McGill University philosopher: Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that. Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own.
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51 Fairness & Accuracy in ReportingWikipedia (FAIR): "Media Boosted Anti-Trans Movement With Credulous Coverage of ‘Cass Review’".
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28The House of Mouse, Disney, is suffering from a growing crisis as young people are increasingly turning off many of its avenues including TV, films and themes parks. Instead, the company's popularity is growing among older folk including boomers.
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36Most fentanyl is smuggled into the US by American citizens, not by migrants.
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19"I watched groypers descend on Detroit — where they were no longer pariahs among mainstream Republicans."
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25JD Vance's opportunism and phony populism.
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22School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a $1.4 billion hole in Arizona’s budget.
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22The MAGA plan to abolish free weather reports: Project 2025 aims to dissolve the National Weather Service.
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21David Frum: "The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator".
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24Propublica reports on a New Apostolic Reformation linked "charity" called Ziklag. The purpose of this "charity" is to "redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation." Backed by the plutocrats that run such businesses as Hobby Lobby, Uline,Wikipedia and Jockey,Wikipedia the "charity" helps fund organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom and Turning Point USA, and (likely illegally given its "charity" status) supports actions in order to help Donald Trump and other Republicans get elected for 2024.
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32Project 2025 calls for dramatically increasing the tax burden on middle- and low-income Americans.
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14Why the (British) Conservative Party will keep losing if they chase Reform UK.
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30Life dissatisfaction linked to supporting far-right parties in Europe. "Dissatisfied individuals were more likely to distrust political institutions and view immigration negatively, which in turn increased their likelihood of voting for right-wing populist parties." Cutting edge work on what water is continues.

June 2024

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15Since Tommy Robinson revealed in Canadian immigration papers that he is Irish after he was arrested, there has been a number of right-wingers questioning the whole schtick, accusing him of being a grifter.
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26More than 10 years later, the Senate torture report is still secret.
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-14How people are influenced by political propaganda they initially discard.
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11From April: "Do conservatives really have better mental health? Perhaps not." Basically, it seems they may simply admit to mental health struggles less. However separate from political beliefs, this does find better mental health with frequent church attendees compared to non-attendees and infrequent attendees. (Entry writer's speculation: could have to do with having a consistent third placeWikipedia more than religion per se.)
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25 'The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away'.
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32Why Trump's tariff proposals would harm working Americans. The tariffs would reduce after-tax incomes by 3.5 percent for those in the bottom half of the income distribution and cost a typical household in the middle of the income distribution about $1,700 in increased taxes each year. If executed, these steps would increase the distortions and burdens created by the rounds of tariffs levied during the first Trump administration (and sustained during the Biden administration), while inflicting massive collateral damage on the US economy.
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10The rise and rise of Reform UK.
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18First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’ Slop, at least in the fast-moving world of online message boards, is a broad term that has developed some traction in reference to shoddy or unwanted A.I. content in social media, art, books and, increasingly, in search results.
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18 What happened to liberal conservatism? It has been silenced by the far right.
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28How India's opposition parties went from complete disarray to a major election upset performance that destroyed the BJP majority.

May 2024

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-47How the Kremlin uses comics to glorify its war in Ukraine
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46Why Is the Rent So Damn High? The Real Reason Will Shock You
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45Vox 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.
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17An old clip from 1980s sitcom Yes Prime Minister has been going around on social media, since the Conservatives announced they were planning to introduce national service for 18-year-olds in their 2024 general election manifesto.
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26The Economic Implications of Housing Supply. Housing prices have been increasing in the US in recent years because regulation has made it much more difficult in cities like San Francisco, but the prices but haven’t increased everywhere. In Atlanta, for example, houses prices are about the same as they were in 1990 despite a big increase in population, because Atlanta has built more housing. But if empirical investigations of the local costs and benefits of restricting building conclude that the negative externalities are not nearly large enough to justify the costs of regulation the welfare and output gains from reducing regulation of housing construction are large, then why don’t we see more policy interventions to permit more building in markets such as San Francisco? The great challenge facing attempts to loosen local housing restrictions is that existing homeowners do not want more affordable homes: they want the value of their asset to cost more, not lessWikipedia. They also may not like the idea that new housing will bring in more people, including those from different socioeconomic groups.
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0The central struggle in the world right now is between liberalism and authoritarianism. It’s between those of us who believe in democratic values and those who don’t — whether they are pseudo-authoritarian populists like Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Narendra Modi or Recep Tayyip Erdogan or straight-up dictators like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping or theocratic fascists like the men who run Iran and Hamas
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21Who ran this derogatory prison meme page? A prison guard.
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26NYC mayor Eric Adams falsely smeared a grandmother as an "outside agitator" to justify the NYPD assault on Columbia he ordered.
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27Why is a 6-week abortion ban nearly a total ban? It's about how we date a pregnancy.

April 2024

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15On the 20th anniversary of Polish accession to the EU, PM Donald Tusk has said within five years time, Polish GDP per capita would be higher than the UK’s. [Currently, the UK’s is US$46,125.26]
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19QAnon was born out of the sex ad moral panic that took down Backpage.com.
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7"Little home market": The Connecticut company accused of fueling an execution spree.
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21How the GOP is struggling on the abortion issue.
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-32American Generation Z is 'unprecedentedly rich'. This appears to be down to a myriad of factors; less likely to attend college (careers starting earlier), if they do it's more for 'practical' subjects (higher starting pay) and enjoying the tightest labour markets since the 1950s (ditto). However, this is also partly down to the poor showing in the 'life stage' of previous generations; Millennials and Xers both in the same period were in an America in a recession. Even more importantly, the stats do not take into account this 'Generations' huge debt pile.
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14Since October, Sen. John Fetterman has been building a roster of Republican donors.
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-21The pro-Kremlin troll who (incorrectly) claimed the Sydney attacker was Jewish.
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16GenderGP's critique of the UK's Cass review. (About transgender medicine.)
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17Meet George McJunkin, the black cowboy archaeologist who discovered the Folsom culture.Wikipedia
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25The Daily Mail published an article claiming a new "landmark" study showed that being trans is "usually just a phase". The study does not, in fact, show that.

March 2024

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18GB News' Paul Marshall, his links to evangelical branch of the Church of England, and its drive to evangelize a secular Great Britain.
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37The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
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19How Bellingcat geolocated anti-government militant Ammon Bundy, after he fled from Idaho to Utah to escape from an arrest warrant issued for him in Idaho.
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52Pro-Israel advocates are weaponising the notion of "safety" on college campuses to suppress criticism of Israel.
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51Israeli soldiers are Tiktoking their war crimes in Gaza.
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-52Why Is Trump Trying to Make Ukraine Lose?
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-45 Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine: Handing Vladimir Putin an unearned and undeserved victory will only hurt the US. Ukraine has fought Putin’s revanchist dictatorship behemoth to a standstill over two heroic years, despite being outmanned and outgunned and has achieved this at minimal cost to western countries. The war has done far more than inflict great damage on Russia’s military. It has also revitalised Nato itself. Yet now, Trump and his acolytes seem set on handing Putin an unearned and undeserved victory.
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12Owen Jones: The Labour party is in my blood. Here’s why I’ve just cancelled my membership.
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52Even mentioning "occupation" at the Oscars is antisemitic, some Jewish Hollywood figures say.
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25Friendly Atheist: Evangelicals are using a data-harvesting app to target new potential converts
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25Friendly Atheist: Researchers say Christian leaders will embezzle an estimated $86 billion in 2024.
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32Skeptical Inquirer: The Wikipediatrician Susan Gerbic publishes a scathing take-down of celebrity medium Thomas John, imploring people to talk more about his criminal record and to raise awareness of his conman tactics.
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54Jacobin: "No One’s Rights Should Depend on Where Their Ancestors Lived". This is about Israel/Palestine, if you hadn't instantly guessed.
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53Michael Shellenberger's "WPATH Files" contains 216 instances of factual errors regarding transgender healthcare.
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22Paper book or e-reader: Which is better for the planet? Readers beware: Digital books save forests but also create toxic e-waste. Paper, meanwhile, is a renewable resource, though billions of hard copy books produce a high carbon footprint.

February 2024

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412024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy.
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37While countries around the world have struggled to recover from the economic setbacks brought on by the pandemic, one has emerged particularly strong. With a fast-growing economy, a strong labour market and falling inflation, the US has outpaced its counterparts in Europe and elsewhere.
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27We have entered an era of war crime social media influencers.
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23Hillsdale College sincerely wants to know what you think about the idea of abolishing the US electoral college system for electing the President. Have your say here!
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55"I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation"
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-34‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse. Eliezer Yudkowsky is at the forefront of techno-pessimists (doomers). Luddites generally have different concerns about ethics and labor.
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42Tennessee 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.
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26Quantitative analysis shows that shows major newspapers skewed their coverage toward Israeli narratives in the first six weeks of the assault on Gaza.
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22Mayo Clinic promotes Reiki, one of those "energy healing" things.
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-31‘Ukraine fatigue’ is unpardonable. Western countries have the resources but now must display the will to ensure Russia does not prevail. No western soldiers are at risk. The sums to be agreed this year amount to less than 0.25 per cent of the combined GDP of the EU, UK and US, while Baltic countries have spent as much as 2 per cent of their GDP helping Ukraine. The argument that this is unaffordable is ridiculous.
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57Book bans and political meddling in the educational system are causing an escalating literacy crisis in America.
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40Amid the lingering trauma of Trump’s executions, a new project brings families to federal death row.
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17Rapper and Jewel RunnerWikipedia Killer MikeWikipedia suggests having black people lead the legal cannabis industry as a form of reparations.
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18King Charles, who now has cancer, has previously advocated drinking fruit juice and sticking coffee up one's anus to treat cancer. Another Steve Jobs case perhaps? We'll see if he's come to his senses, but at the moment his doctors haven't specified what kind of care he's receiving.
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-36The Republicans refusal to supply arms is sabotaging Kyiv’s war effort. Some of the Republican reluctance to pass new aid for Ukraine is driven by genuine scepticism about the war. But most of the foot-dragging is simply about Trump’s refusal to give Biden anything that looks like a “win” ahead of the presidential election.
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33Separatist feminismWikipedia in South Korea: "The Women of South Korea’s 4B Movement Aren’t Fighting the Patriarchy — They’re Leaving it Behind Entirely"
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57That recent anti-trans Pamela Paul NYT article is full of pseudoscience.

January 2024

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47On the widescale destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza.
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42Here are the laws plausibly broken by Israel in its Jenin hospital raid where Israeli forces killed several Palestinians while dressed as hospital workers.
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22A summary of how just how incompetent Trump's lawyer for the E. Jean Carroll case, Alina Habba, was.
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36Research shows that economic inequality in the Aztec Empire helped pave the way for the Spanish conquest.
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-43Why building more homes won’t solve the affordable housing problem—The problem isn't the supply of housing; it's that millions of people lack the income to afford what’s on the market.
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-27Electric cars are not the future
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64Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all
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68The 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
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25China is unable to invade Taiwan according to most American and Taiwanese experts
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-16The dirty truth about our clean energy future
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44Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House
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32Police refuse to label Brianna Ghey's murder a hate crime despite clear evidence that transmisogyny was a motivating factor behind her murder
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47Why war with Iran would be a grave mistake
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36"There is a certain ghoulish irony that after facilitating deadly starvation and disease in Yemen by cutting off its maritime trade, the West has bombed Houthi targets in the name of protecting commercial shipping."
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38Anonymous CNN worker explains how CNN's coverage of Israel-Palestine gives heavy credulity to Israel, and acts extremely skeptical of Palestine.
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54Bizarre conspiracy-laden messages about secret societies keep showing up in food boxes in central Pennsylvania
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-22Liberalism is battered but not yet broken. Societies based on liberal principles are the most successful in world history. But both they and their ideas are also embattled.
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43Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts across the US
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34What happens when veterans can't access the psychiatric care they need.
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31Who are the Tyre Extinguishers? A night out with climate activists sabotaging SUVs
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22Child labor laws are under attack across the US
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-3What Oakland, California tells us about why police reform is so hard
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25So anti-Tesla militancy is a thing now, as environmentalist activists in Germany firebombed 15 Tesla cars. (Back in 2021 a Finnish Tesla owner also blew up his own Tesla rather than pay $22k for a faulty battery repair. This repair for some stupid reason also needed permission from Tesla to be done in the first place.)