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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2023
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October 2023[edit]
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Three expert shoemakers say Ron DeSantis is probably wearing height boosters. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -14 | On Russia's pillaging of Alaska. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | We are witnessing a drive to wipe trans and non-binary young people from NHS waiting lists and deny them treatment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | According 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Have 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | IDF volunteers are criticising Benjamin Netanyahu's son for staying in Miami, Florida, instead of moving to Israel to fight against |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Owen Jones writes for The Guardian: Israel is clear about its intentions in Gaza – world leaders cannot plead ignorance of what is coming. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Fact-checking the Hamas-Israel War: What we know about three widespread Israel-Hamas war claims. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | How the GOP keeps gerrymandering alive in secret. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Media Matters for America chronicles: Sean Hannity's Jim Jordan faceplant. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 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." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Joe Biden's Gaza strategy appears to be standing staunchly beside Benjamin Netanyahu in public while trying his darnedest to hold him back in private. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Hundreds 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![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Is Netanyahu walking into Hamas' trap? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Bad 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Are 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Fake news Falun Gong outlet Epoch Times grows its revenue 685% in two years after courting conservative wingnut politicians |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Employers 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Twitter is now actively counterproductive, if your aim was to stay informed about the Israel war. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Democrats need to pick up the pace on putting judges on the bench. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | A reminder as to how Netanyahu propped up Hamas for years. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 43 | Omar 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Reports of Hamas "beheading babies" are (currently) unverified and without credible evidence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | The US library system, once the best in the world, faces "death by a thousand cuts". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Ukraine's ongoing battle for survival: a report from the front line in Zaporizhia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The field of economics has long excluded women, and it goes back to basic theories developed by men |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Economics 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Sexual Harassment and Violence against Palestinian Women in Israeli Prisons |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 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." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Thanks 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Recently, 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | What post-Armenia Nagorno-Karabakh looks like, now that Azerbaijan has conquered it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The British Conservative Party's "final descent" into absurdity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | Neoliberal trash Politico (acquired by Axel Springer SE![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Scientists say finding alien life in the universe is 'only a matter of time' |