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

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January 2024[edit]

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49On the widescale destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza.
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44Here 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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-44Why 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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-28Electric cars are not the future
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65Repeat 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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34Police 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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48Why war with Iran would be a grave mistake
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38"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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40Anonymous 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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55Bizarre conspiracy-laden messages about secret societies keep showing up in food boxes in central Pennsylvania
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-24Liberalism 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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44Extremists 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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32Who 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.)