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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2023

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October 2023[edit]

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13Three expert shoemakers say Ron DeSantis is probably wearing height boosters.
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32Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate.
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-14On Russia's pillaging of Alaska.
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17We are witnessing a drive to wipe trans and non-binary young people from NHS waiting lists and deny them treatment.
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6According to gossip website Popbitch, before he retired Murdoch says is keen to buy GB News and merge it with his TalkTV. It is said among insiders that offer it still on the table.
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5Have we already discovered evidence of alien civilizations? Scientists say that we need to change our search strategies to comb the mountains of data that's already been uncovered.
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11IDF volunteers are criticising Benjamin Netanyahu's son for staying in Miami, Florida, instead of moving to Israel to fight against Palestinians Hamas.
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15Owen Jones writes for The Guardian: Israel is clear about its intentions in Gaza – world leaders cannot plead ignorance of what is coming.
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14Fact-checking the Hamas-Israel War: What we know about three widespread Israel-Hamas war claims.
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17Secret report on UK modern slavery the Home Office didn’t want you to see: Foreign workers on British farms were allegedly starved, abused, denied medical care and financially exploited — so why did the Home Office try to cover up damning evidence from its own inspections?
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13How the GOP keeps gerrymandering alive in secret.
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10Media Matters for America chronicles: Sean Hannity's Jim Jordan faceplant.
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22"This is the most powerful and emotionally mature commentary I’ve seen on the Israel Gaza war. And it comes from an Israeli teenager who survived the Hamas attack. What she wants more than anything else is peace. Please watch and listen to her words."
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16Joe Biden's Gaza strategy appears to be standing staunchly beside Benjamin Netanyahu in public while trying his darnedest to hold him back in private.
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15Hundreds of books have been banned in schools across Iowa due to the law targeting depictions of "sex acts". Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, Ulysses, and Forrest Gump have been banned in some schools.
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12Is Netanyahu walking into Hamas' trap?
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16Bad science videos full of AI-generated bullshit are flooding YouTube, and strangely enough one of their largest audiences are children. The BBC found that such videos were effective at convincing children that aliens can generate electricity using the Giza pyramids.
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23Are we witnessing the beginning of an LGBTQ genocide? You can look to Russia and Uganda to see where the U.S. and Canada could be heading.
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17Fake news Falun Gong outlet Epoch Times grows its revenue 685% in two years after courting conservative wingnut politicians
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17Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year. Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage, at significant cost to taxpayers and state economies.
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22Twitter is now actively counterproductive, if your aim was to stay informed about the Israel war.
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25Democrats need to pick up the pace on putting judges on the bench.
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46A reminder as to how Netanyahu propped up Hamas for years.
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43Omar and Tlaib Are Condemned in the US for Saying What Prominent Israelis Are Saying: The White House is ripping Squad members for proposing de-escalation and diplomacy to stop the killing of Israelis and Palestinians.
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36Reports of Hamas "beheading babies" are (currently) unverified and without credible evidence.
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32The US library system, once the best in the world, faces "death by a thousand cuts".
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42Ukraine's ongoing battle for survival: a report from the front line in Zaporizhia.
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21The field of economics has long excluded women, and it goes back to basic theories developed by men
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15Economics is a disgrace - or something is rotten in the state of economics, with serious systemic issues of racial and gender-based discrimination, toxic environments, problems with replicability of research, elitism, and rejection of diversity and inclusitivity.
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26Sexual Harassment and Violence against Palestinian Women in Israeli Prisons
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27"Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context. The dread Israelis are feeling after today's assault, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long."
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21Thanks to paid verified accounts on Twitter, doctored and flat out fake news stories about the Hamas/Israel conflict are shooting to the top of Google searches.
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25Recently, right-wing media has been posting about a study that supposedly shows HRT increases the chance of getting heart disease by 95%. The study does not, in fact, show that.
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10What post-Armenia Nagorno-Karabakh looks like, now that Azerbaijan has conquered it.
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11The British Conservative Party's "final descent" into absurdity.
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49 Neoliberal trash Politico (acquired by Axel Springer SE in 2021, by the way) peddles the clean Waffen-SS myth, because "history is complicated" in reaction to the Hanka scandal in the Canadian parliament.
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19Scientists say finding alien life in the universe is 'only a matter of time'