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

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July 2024[edit]

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42Meet the conspiracy theorist and anti-LGBTQ extremist pulling the strings at major American corporations.
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6The 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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4The 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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-19Was 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 Reporting (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, and Jockey, 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.