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

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October 2024[edit]

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32ProPublica reports on the case of Josseli Barnica, a Texas woman who died of an infection during a protracted miscarriage. Contrary to the opinion of every medical expert interviewed by ProPublica, under Texas' new abortion law, Barnica was required to wait to deliver until after there was no detectable fetal heartbeat. The resulting 40 hour delay exposed her uterus to bacteria, resulting in an aggressive infection that killed her.
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31The New York Times lied about a study on puberty blockers, claiming the study's author is refusing to publish negative research because of the results. This is not true. Azeen Ghorayshi, the British NYT writer who wrote the piece, is a well-known anti-trans activist.
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40JD Vance says immigration is to blame for high housing costs. In fact, since the housing crisis is caused by longstanding lack of new housing, and since about 1 in 3 workers in the construction industry are immigrants, anti-immigration policies could even make the situation worse.
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24US crime stats still show a decline since 2020
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23US public schools burned up nearly $3.2bn fending off rightwing culture attacks – report
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25How the rich get away with tax evasion
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51The US is required by domestic law to cut off aid to Israel not only for its violations of international humanitarian law and committing of genocide, but also because it is a rogue nuclear state.
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21Make no mistake: the Trump-Russia connection is still active.
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27Mehdi Hasan: Israel is a rogue nation that has declared war on the United Nations. It cannot continue to get away with this.
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8Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell reviewed as 'out of ideas' in New York Times.
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20Despite Trump's claims, his agenda has a lot of overlap with Project 2025.
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23Where have all the Metaverse and Web3 executives gone? They're now AI executives.
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9Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are actually just the result of boring old human pollution.
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-28Some Hispanic U.S. Voters Fear Socialism, and the Messaging and Symbols From the Democrats Aren't Helping. Focusing more on "pro-democracy" politics and less on "progressivism" as well as having a favorable foreign policy in Latin America can help Democrats push back GOP red-baiting propaganda and maintain their advantage with Hispanic and Latino voters.
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27After a Freedom of Information Act request from Gizmodo, the Federal Trade Commission has revealed that lots of Truth Social users have been losing ridiculous amounts of money to scams. Like, six figures for some of them.
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15Although AI streamlined image manipulation misinfo, its use for political propaganda is really at least as old as the Nazis. (From September.)
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28What the US Did to Haiti. How the American public's ignorance of the country's destructive policy towards Haiti fuels racialized narratives about the supposed threat of Haitian immigrants. (shorter paywalled version)