RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/July 2020

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July 2020

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Debunking President Trump's claims that mail-in voting will lead to fraud.

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Most of the discussion about black antisemitism is just often an opportunity of white people to call black people racist

12

Near and Present Anarchy: Or how its archaic and outdated constitutional system is turning America into a failed state

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The US-supported coup in Bolivia continues to produce repression and tyranny, while also revealing how US media propaganda works

14

By the end of his life, Martin Luther King realized the validity of violence

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ACLU: A constitutional crisis in Portland

16

Invisible workers: the story of the underpaid, exploited farmworkers of Europe

18

American professional football player Tom Brady uses his celebrity to peddle woo and pseudoscience, sell supplements, and make lots of money

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What is this Schrems judgement about?

6

The claim that we are making progress against global poverty is a fallacious and racist double standard

22

Claims of "cancel culture" is how the powerful play the victim (beware the comments section)

29

Unfounded conspiracy theory accuses Wayfair of bonkers, Pizzagate-level trafficking ring

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Historian James West Davidson on how future history books might cover 2020.

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Noam Chomsky, David Frum, and Margaret Atwood all agree: free speech and the open society are under attack from moralistic zealots from across the political spectrum.

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While cops were away, Seattle's Capitol Hill slipped back to the Pinkerton's era with business hiring armed private security

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Defund the police is not nonsense: The expansion of UK's police and prisons has done little for public safety

20

The human costs of India's coronavirus fake news