RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2024

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April 2024[edit]

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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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-33American 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.
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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.