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January
01/01 (Wed)
01/02 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-war-game-that-could-have-ended-the-world - another almost-war that happened right after Petrov Day; Able Archer
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everyone-hates-open-offices-here-s-why-they-still-exist
- https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/01/new-civil-fosta-lawsuits-push-expansive-legal-theories-against-unexpected-defendants-guest-blog-post.htm
- 2015-03-17 Pulling Back the Curtain on Airport Security: Can a Weapon Get Past TSA?
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/after-turbotax-shenanigans-irs-floats-possibility-of-offering-rival-service/
AU fire crisis
- Australia bushfires: Traffic jam as thousands flee "tourist leave zone" - but I guess we're not supposed to call it a "climate emergency" because that might hurt the conservatives' feelings
- one comment:
How dumb are you people?
It is NOT global warming that caused this. It was the green activists who made it law for Australians not to be allowed to clear the overburden of dry wood that builds up every year. A man started this fire, he has been arrested.. he was trying to ‘protect his marijuana plants’ by burning 5000 acres and then when the wind picked up it was unstoppable.
You people are delusional.
- a little research finds that "According to Scientific American, the link between the 2019 extreme bushfire season and anthropogenic climate change is scientifically undisputable."
- 2019-12-31 Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
- 2019-11-12 Factcheck: Is there really a green conspiracy to stop bushfire hazard reduction? - No.
- "Blaming 'greenies' for stopping these important measures is a familiar, populist, but basically untrue claim." - Greg Mullins, former NSW fire and rescue commissioner
- The Greens have never been in power, so how could they have set policy?
- The Greens support what the claim says they oppose.
- NSW government has an entire web site about climate change, Understand climate change: "Temperature and rainfall fluctuate greatly, with large variability in seasonal and regional climatic conditions bringing heatwaves, storms, droughts, floods and bushfires, which can have devastating effects on the environment, human life and property."
- The propaganda:
- 2019-11-12 Barnaby Joyce defends comments that fire victims were likely Greens voters
- 2019-03-05 Green ideology, not climate change, makes bushfires worse - but they don't link to any sources, or even provide any quotes, for "green ideology"
- is that VFFD even real? The two known VFDs for NSW are New South Wales Rural Fire Service and Fire and Rescue NSW
01/03 (Fri)
- Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention: an example of how large endeavors go awry because people can't agree on things -- even without disinformation being injected
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/03/i-thought-the-soy-boy-nonsense-had-run-its-course/
- https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_3615c6d58cbd56d14338a9358d1d8900
01/04 (Sat)
01/05 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-surprising-reason-people-change-their-minds - implications for InstaGov
- https://www.vox.com/world/2020/1/3/21047989/iran-general-killed-qassem-soleimani-world-war-3
- https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/education/magnet-schools-college-admissions-scandal-booker-t-dallas/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909418/-Mike-Pence-demonstrates-vividly-just-how-much-contempt-he-holds-for-the-American-public - includes a bit of 9/11 non-trivia
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909376/-Trump-was-presented-multiple-options-in-Iraq-He-chose-them-all-including-the-worst
- https://twitter.com/tommchenry/status/1203425292188041216 - "proud to honor" cartoon, authoritarian followership
- Man gets history lesson after moaning about a woman fighting with a sword in The Witcher - Andrew Klavan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909410/-Putin-is-Not-Happy-With-His-Puppet
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/5/1909531/-Top-Iranian-adviser-says-Iran-will-respond-militarily-to-death-of-Soleimani-calls-this-a-war
01/06 (Mon)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/what-caused-opioid-epidemic/604330/ - seems likely it's both job-loss and pharma-driven overprescription
- https://www.newsweek.com/nathan-pyle-abortion-controversy-strange-planet-comic-twitter-tweet-alien-1392353 - this seems to have the most info on the whole Nathan-Pyle-pro-life drama
- https://myasstodon.xyz/@Bashabez/103437131467067408 - comments on a Bernie Sanders town hall & native Americans
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909714/-Pelosi-announces-war-powers-resolution-as-Trump-tries-to-bypass-Congress-and-start-war-with-Iran
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/3/1909069/-Virginia-governor-asks-legislature-to-remove-traitor-s-statue-from-U-S-Capitol
- https://therealnews.com/stories/iraqi-protesters-storm-the-american-embassy-in-baghdad-but-theres-more-to-the-story
- https://therealnews.com/columns/soleimanis-assassination-brings-us-closer-to-war-with-iran
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909740/-Republicans-try-to-use-Trump-s-Iran-conflict-to-derail-impeachment-because-of-course
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/5/1909619/-Pompeo-Awaiting-the-Rapture-Pushed-Trump-to-Strike-Iranian-General-Soleimani
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909746/-Defense-Secretary-s-chief-of-staff-tenders-resignation-as-Trump-team-moves-towards-war
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/us-allies-trump-suleimani-killing-reaction-response
- https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1214297036566253571 - us troop withdrawal announcement was a clerical error
- https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1214246027127119872 - private equity and the coming crash
- http://www.thehofellerfiles.com/
01/07 (Tue)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/01/04/1909360/-What-Would-Our-World-Be-Like-Today-If-Exxon-Had-Told-The-TruthA-Case-Of-Failed-Leadership
- https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/us-iran-soleimani-tensions-intl-01-07-20
01/08 (Wed)
- 2020 Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Iraq
- https://splinternews.com/meet-the-woke-misogynist-1793859082
- https://twitter.com/RayBoomhower/status/1212691781680283648 “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/05/alarming-iranian-americans-reportedly-detained-asked-about-political-views-us-border
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1910005/-Elizabeth-Warren-shuts-down-Meghan-McCain-s-whiny-Republican-talking-point-nonsense
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1910019/-Donald-Trump-talked-with-Saudi-officials-about-Iran-and-why-didn-t-we-know-that
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1909976/-Assassinating-Soleimani-was-illogical-and-will-of-course-backfire-on-America
01/09 (Thu)
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-disability-benefits_n_5e14b935c5b6c7b859d17b97
- https://threader.app/thread/1214891868451938304 - a very plausible theory about what's going on, and how to fight it
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms - disinformation
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910217/-Why-Trump-s-revealing-that-the-United-States-is-developing-hypersonic-missiles-is-a-very-big-deal
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910265/-After-insulting-briefing-at-least-two-Republican-senators-to-vote-to-limit-Trump-s-Iran-actions
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/amazon-threatens-to-fire-employees-who-speak-out-on-climate-change.html - more suppression of climate speech
- http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/ - capitalist "innovation" is parasitical
- https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- https://www.outsports.com/2019/12/18/21028032/new-hampshire-washington-georgia-tennessee-missouri-restrict-transgender-athletes-sports
01/10 (Fri)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/misleading-political-ads-are-the-users-problem-to-avoid-facebook-says/ - errorism by Facebook & the Trump administration: "Our ads are always accurate, so it's good that Facebook won't limit political messages." If their ads are always accurate, they would want inaccurate ads from their competition to be checked. (Also, note the co-opting of liberal terminology: "more involved in the process", "voter suppression", "uneven playing field".)
- https://twitter.com/fodderfigure/status/1215641761902747649 - actual autistic people do not overwhelmingly prefer "person-first language", though a few do prefer it. Workers should ask what the individual prefers.
- https://twitter.com/MAGAIsDead/status/1214709952775892993 - Trump regret
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910433/-Former-Trump-housekeeper-slams-Ivanka-Trump-s-pro-immigrant-talk-Like-her-father-she-is-a-liar
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910465/-Governor-under-fire-after-predicting-a-black-senator-will-launch-a-thousand-years-of-darkness
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/10/1910517/-AZ-s-own-Republican-snowflake-wages-war-on-sex-education-and-the-word-homosexuality
01/11 (Sat)
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/629659591639136706/ "Kaylen Ward has reportedly raised more than $700,000 in just two days after she asked fans to give $10 to charity in exchange for nudes"
- me on Facebook:
CNN, Jan 10: "Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani..." https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tech/instagram-iran-soleimani-posts/index.html
Me, Jan. 7: The US attack on General Soleimani disgusts me. We are a rogue nation now, and deserve any retaliation we get. Unfortunately, the troops are bearing the brunt and they largely do not deserve to have been put in the position they're in, following the orders of our insane leader. https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1214723434942533633
(Once again, the Right's silence on this proves that they only care about "free speech" when it's *their* speech being suppressed. #errorism)
- https://twitter.com/shava23/status/1215825286744330240 - false claim against AOC debunked
- https://www.quora.com/q/gmxbrurjysxqbumi - South Africa, pollution, Eskom, coal power
- https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-trade-war-is-making-lobbyists-rich-and-slamming-small-businesses - more Trump regret
- https://www.georgetakei.com/bruce-griffey-trans-sports-bill-2644666240.html - transmisia, errorism
01/12 (Sun)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/10/1910796/-Rachel-Maddow-Rips-NY-Times-on-Hillary-Coverage
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/college-wealth-premium-collapsed/604579/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/tax-patriarchy/601864/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/why-financial-confessionals-viral/600358/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/cancel-billionaires/599587/ - "A growing body of economic and political-science research demonstrates that Gilded Age–type inequality does not just mean having too many with too little. It is warping the very social fabric of the country, stifling mobility, innovation, investment, and growth, and putting the country at political risk." "Wealth inequality, in other words, is an anti-democratic force."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/17/1644618/-The-photo-of-a-regretful-Trump-supporter-is-going-viral-on-Twitter-on-Donald-s-own-playing-field - more Trump regret
- http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html - global warming/effects/expected
- https://twitter.com/xenophrenia/status/1216812707535577088 - Elizabeth Warren smears Bernie Sanders?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs - climate denialism in Erik the Viking
01/14 (Tue)
- https://longreads.com/2020/01/10/the-price-of-dominionist-theology/
- https://boingboing.net/2020/01/14/dead-on-arrival-2.html
- https://marker.medium.com/the-man-whos-spending-1-billion-to-own-every-pop-song-75df0024155b
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-life-of-einstein-s-first-wife - erasure of women
01/15 (Wed)
- https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796329598/cancelling-student-debt-is-easier-than-it-sounds
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1910907/-Australian-fires-may-have-opened-the-gates-of-hell-by-changing-the-globe-s-climate-patterns
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/14/1911575/-I-Wrote-My-Senator-Requesting-a-Fair-Impeachment-Trail-with-Witnesses-etc-Here-s-his-reply
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/2/1908694/-It-s-degenerative-dementia-as-well-as-malignant-narcissism-And-the-public-tipping-point-is-coming -- actually, I don't think he is changing the subject; he just started on one rote thing and then realized it was inappropriate and segued to a related rote topic. This doesn't prove he's demented; he just doesn't care about coming across as sane.
- That said, the preponderance of small bits of supporting evidence is starting to make a good case.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911693/-Kentucky-mom-says-Christian-school-expelled-daughter-over-photo-with-rainbow-cake-and-sweater - yes, Virginia, homomisia is still a thing
01/16 (Thu)
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/15/warren-sanders-debate-audio-transcript
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/12/iran-middle-eastern-problem-soleimani-figured-out-097350
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911841/-Wisconsin-Court-of-Appeals-reverses-course-on-voter-purge
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911539/-Democrats-file-ethics-complaint-over-Republican-trackers-roaming-House-halls
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/the-costs-of-inequality-increasingly-its-the-rich-and-the-rest/
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1210269371928580096 - homomisia is still a thing
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1209200245181222912 - good criticism of UBI
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1197721567708536833 - anti-transition bill in SC
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/12/politics/oregon-joins-national-popular-vote-compact/index.html
- https://www.businessinsider.com/what-us-cities-looked-like-before-epa-regulated-pollution-2019-8?
- https://www.facebook.com/dasmith88/posts/10218622104637458 - pro-Trump denialism in the comments
- https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/08/06/30-years-ago-day-middle-class-died
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911814/-As-the-far-right-prepares-for-a-Boogaloo-Virginia-governor-declares-emergency
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911747/-Racist-dog-whistle-sounded-to-justify-having-homeless-moms-stormed-evicted-from-vacant-Oakland-home
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911941/-David-Attenborough-Warns-We-Have-Reached-Moment-of-Crisis-on-Global-Warming
- https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html
- https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-death/283685/ -- repeats the "Google+ is an identity service" lie
01/17 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/catdana2/status/1215617610840268800 -- ad requesting fake supporters for Trump rally
- https://abcnews.go.com/Health/single-payer-save-country-money-health-care-costs/story - we already knew this, but here it is again
01/18 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/18/only-stupid-hurtful-memes-about-trans-people-are-allowed/ - the whole "Identify as an Attack Helicopter" fiction kerfuffle
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912205/-Do-not-adjust-your-radio-We-are-controlling-transmission-Russian-propaganda-buys-hours-of-time - "conservatism" is now literally rebroadcasting Russian propaganda
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912142/-I-just-read-Leonnig-and-Rucker-s-Wash-Post-article-four-times-and-I-wish-all-of-you-could-read-it
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912176/-New-info-emerges-explaining-why-Tillerson-called-Trump-a-f-ing-moron
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/trump-remorseless-advocate-crimes-against-humanity.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-home-of-the-transactional-marriage
- https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465042333 "Losing Ground (by Charles Murray) argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities."
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomsday-glacier
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/13/1910718/-Not-OK-Racists-cynically-market-hate-by-hijacking-mainstream-symbolism
01/20 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/voodoo_soviet/status/1218610820197834752/photo/1 - violent eviction in Palm Beach
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911926/-Rand-Paul-threatens-fellow-Republicans-if-they-vote-against-an-impeachment-trial-cover-up
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/20/flying-homosexual-chemtrail-fire-ants/ - insane right-wing site
- https://mastodon.cloud/@FerdiZ/103518231663076977 - legality is not a good guide to morality
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extinction-rebellion-greenpeace-cnd-counter-terror-prevent-document-a9289476.html
01/21 (Tue)
- https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/41
- https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/500m-People-Worldwide-Struggle-to-Find-Adequate-Paid-Work-Study-20200120-0008.html
- https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/15/the-myth-of-self-reliance/ - self-reliance
- https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZK1CT
- https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48885846 - NO/prison system (aka Norwegian prison system)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/exit-interview-i-was-a-black-female-thru-hiker-on-the-appalachian-trail - racism: still not dead
01/22 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/22/now-im-physically-incapable-of-seeing-richard-jewell-because-of-all-the-projectile-vomiting/ - George Zimmerman, American Thinker
- https://www.burnsfordurham.com/
- Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment prior to European contact
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/21/1913060/-Lindsey-Graham-s-2020-opponent-releases-impeachment-statement-using-Lindsey-Graham-s-own-exact-quote - Republican hypocrisy (again), Lindsey Graham
01/23 (Thu)
- https://news.sky.com/story/simon-pegg-tax-millionaires-more-to-tackle-inequality-11915551 - the rich are saying "please tax us" in increasing numbers
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/23/wwii-was-comprehensible-as-adaptations-of-the-lineages-in-question-christ/ - Darwinian reductionism
- Prison time for Insys bosses puts opioid makers on notice
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078903/podcast-house-antitrust-chairman-cicilline-tech-monopoly-vergecast
01/24 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913562/-Ocasio-Cortez-dismisses-calls-for-civility-I-feel-a-need-for-all-of-us-to-breathe-fire
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913482/-Indiana-Legislators-Propose-Making-Abortion-Murder-Arresting-Judges-Who-Strike-Down-Law - Curt Nisly
- "The proposed new law, in an apparent attempt to thwart any constitutional challenges, proclaims that the state will ignore any federal rulings striking down the law."
- "under the new law, the very act of trying to undermine the legislation now becomes a crime."
- So much for free speech under the GOP.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913522/-Bank-calls-police-on-black-man-trying-to-deposit-checks-from-racial-discrimination-settlement - but racism is over
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913555/-Update-Navajos-Apaches-Working-to-Deny-Trump-Arizona-s-11-Electoral-Votes
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913532/-Trump-regime-finalizes-move-allowing-pollution-and-destruction-of-wetlands-protected-by-Obama-rule
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078828/report-saudi-arabia-hack-jeff-bezos-phone-fti-consulting
01/25 (Sat)
- https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbi - investigation of the 9-11/Saudi Arabia connection
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/25/goodbye-facebook-friends-up-yours-facebook/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/25/rainbows-are-so-wicked-and-perverted/ - but we shouldn't be afraid of religion, and also the Right supports free speech
- https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/ozone-layer-epa-united-states-pollution/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1913264/--Home-Now-Somali-refugees-forge-new-lives-and-transform-a-dying-Maine-town
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913821/-Mike-Pompeo-got-backed-into-a-corner-about-Marie-Yovanovitch-during-NPR-interview
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913880/-Evangelical-Christian-s-song-about-the-betrayal-he-feels-from-evangelical-Trump-support-goes-viral
01/26 (Sun)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1913622/-Evangelical-scammers-praise-Trump-for-hastening-the-end-of-the-world-Well-they-re-not-wrong
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913752/--Right-matters-and-the-truth-matters-Read-Adam-Schiff-s-history-making-impeachment-trial-speech
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1914023/-Pompeo-responds-to-reports-of-rage-filled-tirade-against-reporter-with-lie-filled-statement
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/03/19/1750281/-Former-congressman-says-hes-had-enough,-publicly-resigns-from-the-Republican-party-over-Trump
- https://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Nonprofits-worry-sale-of-dot-org-universe-will-15000509.php "They said in a statement that prices will remain low, the registry's managers will stay in place and the infusion of capital will ensure the long-term growth of dot-org."
01/27 (Mon)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/26/1914292/-Trump-s-Inner-Mob-Boss-Emerges-with-Alarming-New-Threats-to-Politicians-and-the-Press
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914375/-The-Big-Dog-Problem -- the "big dog" metaphor for handling unwanted privilege in a kind way
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
- https://blob.cat/objects/c4d90bdd-c1ea-46d7-9342-ea31efb65ebd - "Reminder that Switzerland dominates world pharmaceuticals because they didn't implement a patent system for medicine while everyone around them did."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914492/-Washington-Post-suspends-reporter-for-pointing-out-that-Kobe-Bryant-was-not-a-god - WaPo silencing of discussion of rape
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914384/-Why-I-left-Team-Warren-and-why-I-am-back
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914475/--Get-your-facts-straight-Chris-Wallace-gets-testy-with-Fox-News-pundit-s-spin-on-Bolton
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914444/--I-am-now-proudly-a-registered-Democrat-standing-with-the-Constitution-ILeftTheGOP-goes-viral
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-grim-conclusions-of-the-largest-ever-study-of-fake-news
01/28 (Tue)
- temporarily embarrassed millionaires:
- https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/americans-class-politics-piston
- http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/ - quote is actually somewhat misattributed -- it's similar to something Steinbeck once wrote, but what's quoted is a paraphrasing of that by someone else in 2004
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/28/china-a-major-polluter-of-the-scientific-literature/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913517/-Anti-trans-bill-that-hurts-both-patients-and-doctors-passes-committee-vote-8-5-in-South-Dakota
- The bill, known as HB 1057, makes it a misdemeanor crime for physicians (though not nurses or medical assistants) to perform these medical procedures on people under 16 years old. The stakes are high, as the bill argues for the punishment of up to a year in jail and a fine not exceeding $2,000 for doctors, reports The Washington Post. An earlier version of this bill wanted to make it a felony.
- Mind you, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics just came out today on the topic of transgender youth and puberty blockers. The findings? Transgender youth who are able to access puberty blockers report lower levels of mental health issues, including suicidal ideation.
- Republican Rep. Fred Deutsch, who sponsored the bill, incorrectly suggests such treatments are "harmful" for youth. He also took to Twitter to suggest this is all about "protecting children."
- https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/we-re-nearing-a-tipping-point-for-renewable-energy-legislators/article_aa524556-7677-5207-9e42-f1e2d3655027.html via"South Carolina state [Republican] Sen. Tom Davis urged the nonprofit groups Conservatives for Clean Energy and Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy to consider what the two states might accomplish in tandem [...] noting that goals would include "breaking down territorial monopolies"..." -- thing to watch for: arguments that regulation causes monopolies, therefore we need less regulation so there can be more competition
- https://www.ncwarn.org/2020/01/big-fight-over-duke-monopoly/
- https://www.ncwarn.org/2020/01/lawmakers-utility-reform-plans-would-target-duke-energy-dominion-monopolies/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/28/dishing-out-all-the-dirt/ - Richard Carrier, speech suppression, Lawrence Lessig
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914511/-UH-OH-Trump-s-Favorite-FOX-News-Shills-Admit-He-Extorted-Ukraine-to-Smear-Joe-Biden
01/29 (Wed)
01/30 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/ThePoke/status/1222828964890189825 - snark about the Brexit bus
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914970/-Kamala-has-Trump-s-Access-Hollywood-comment-read-into-Impeachment-record-by-Chief-Justice-Roberts
01/31 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915083/-Alan-Dershowitz-jumps-in-to-attack-the-ridiculous-theories-of-legal-muttonhead-Alan-Dershowitz
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915171/-Rand-Paul-continues-his-efforts-to-get-the-Ukraine-whistleblower-killed
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915127/-Why-has-this-not-made-news-Protestors-swarm-the-Senate-Capitol
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915456/-Murkowski-embraces-the-cover-up-In-her-own-words-There-will-be-no-fair-trial-in-the-Senate
- https://www.vox.com/2018/10/22/18009020/transgender-children-teens-transition-detransition-puberty-blocking-medication
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/congress-must-stop-graham-blumenthal-anti-security-bill
- https://mastodon.social/@eff/103580605055036930
- https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/31/earn-it-act-bill-would-limit-encryption/
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116788/earn-it-act-section-230-lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption
- https://www.macobserver.com/link/lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption/
- https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/01/31/210255/a-new-bill-could-punish-web-platforms-for-using-end-to-end-encryption
- https://pressfrom.info/us/news/science-and-technology/-385091-draft-bill-could-penalize-companies-for-using-end-to-end-encryption.html
February
02/01 (Sat)
- https://www.gem.wiki/Main_Page - Global Energy Monitor wiki (offshoot of SourceWatch)
02/03 (Mon)
02/05 (Wed)
02/06 (Thu)
02/07 (Fri)
- https://darkest-timeline.com/@paranoid/102885848775657342 - cartoon explaining how profit is theft
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/06/gitlab_sales_women/ - GitLab being problematic again
- https://twitter.com/degendering/status/1225551116101918720 - joingiggle.com uses problematic gender-determination software
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-models-are-running-red-hot-and-scientists-don-t-know-why -- this article keeps talking about temperature-rise projections but never mentions what the time-frame is
02/08 (Sat)
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-51413724 - Apple caught slowing down old iPhones
- https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/20/16800058/apple-iphone-slow-fix-battery-life-capacity - this is a bit more HTYPish, but related
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/6/1917311/-Racist-website-lays-off-staff-because-no-one-wants-to-give-it-money
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/tulsi-gabbard-votes-present-trump-impeachment-articles-n1104301 - Tulsi Gabbard did not vote to impeach
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917330/--He-broke-America-the-meme-about-Mitch-McConnell-s-tombstone-that-keeps-grasping-social-media
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917461/-Susan-Collins-now-a-national-laughingstock-has-concerns
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917546/-GOP-sending-out-fake-Census-mailers-to-trick-Americans-into-handing-over-their-money-data
- https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/07/Second-Raid-Wetsuweten/ - pipelines over people again
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/ - Buttigieg doesn't support whistleblowing
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/yes-free-will-exists/ - presumably the cited items have definitions of free will in them, somewhere?
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917643/-Carville-gets-it-right - James Carville on the 2020 election
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916988/-Romney-made-history-He-also-changed-the-news-cycle-and-the-anti-GOP-ads-to-come-in-2020
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/1/1915676/-Why-Jonathan-Turley-isn-t-just-wrong-about-the-House-impeachment-but-dangerously-wrong
02/09 (Sun)
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-evangelicals-like-President-Trump/answer/Ryan-Overbeek-1 - what happened to evangelism in the 1980s/90s, and why they seem to ignore the New Testament
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/02/03/eco-anxiety-is-overwhelming-kids-wheres-line-between-education-alarmism - there's some kind of blame-shifting or subject-shifting going on here, but I'm not exactly sure what. global warming eco-anxiety
02/10 (Mon)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51449739 - more US domestic atrocities
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1917480/-Why-birth-strikes-aren-t-the-right-way-to-end-the-climate-crisis - at least the idea is finally being talked about
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-s-fears-about-vaccines-aren-t-just-about-vaccines - (unread) hopefully this makes my point about lack of transparency, accountability, & patient agency in the medical practice
02/11 (Tue)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51446463 - UK Post Office corruption
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/11/high-court-rules-aboriginal-australians-are-not-aliens-under-the-constitution-and-cannot-be-deported - the fact that this was even a question... :rageface:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918326/-Mike-Bloomberg-secret-racist-tape-worse-than-you-think
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1917534/-For-shame-Washington-Post-and-all-the-other-reputable-newsgroups-that-misled-the-public-last-week - WaPo badly misrepresents what happened
02/12 (Wed)
- https://www.quora.com/Would-you-allow-your-14-year-old-to-have-a-sleepover-with-their-significant-other-Why/answer/Mel-Kartmazov - how abstinence-based education and other parental attempts to prevent teen sex can backfire
- https://www.liberationnews.org/los-angeles-palestineans-and-supporters-reject-trump-and-netanyahus-joke-of-the-century/
- https://fox59.com/2018/07/31/no-more-snow-days-school-district-replaces-wintry-days-off-with-online-classes/ (region-locked; archive) - this is half a good idea. What do students with no internet do when a storm unexpectedly closes school?
- for CWRE: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MythsAboutGenderRoles
- https://github.com/shinigami-eyes/shinigami-eyes/issues/18 -- good example of a discussion crying out for InstaGov
https://twitter.com/NightinGem/status/1227738708306055168archive.org "shin/igami eyes is owned/operated by laurelai bailey..." which is a valid conflict-of-interest point, but then it goes straight into ad hominem
02/13 (Thu)
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-man-blocked-uk-home-office-passport-brussels-a9332311.html
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/13/senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-stop-trump-launching-illegal-attack-iran
02/14 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/13/1919101/-Warren-shreds-Bloomberg-s-economic-mythology - Mike Bloomberg blamed the 2008 economic crisis on the end of redlining
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/14/1919211/-9-Senate-Democrats-call-on-Barr-to-resign-over-clear-violation-of-your-duty
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/8/1917821/-I-am-a-Black-woman-Trump-and-his-supporters-are-right-Democrats-are-destroying-America - the "America" they're destroying is kinda awful
02/15 (Sat)
- https://stopevictions.network/
- https://twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1228336805638000642 - feminist bookshop explains what they do and why trans women are women
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/Border-Patrol-ICE-Sanctuary-Cities.html
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/25/18225011/amy-klobuchar-president-prosecutor-criminal-justice-record
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/15/the-electability-business-is-bernie-sanders-americas-corbyn - Corbyn maybe-accidentally endorsed some anti-Jewish groups [1] [2], but Sanders actually is Jewish and presumably would be too aware to make that kind of mistake (and also can't as easily be accused of anti-Semitism).
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/14/1919145/-Oil-flowing-Bible-exposed-as-a-fraud -- "it comes from the Bible" is apparently valid evidence even when the "it" in question is mineral oil
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/appeals-court-seems-poised-to-reverse-landmark-qualcomm-antitrust-ruling/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/15/xi-critic-professor-this-may-be-last-piece-i-write-words-ring-true
- http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/pdf.html - Anarchism FAQ book, in PDF (multiple documents)
02/16 (Sun)
- http://rc3.org/2014/08/25/the-difficulty-of-tracking-police-violence/
- http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/richard-feynman-creates-a-simple-method-for-telling-science-from-pseudoscience-1966.html - another method for solving the science/demarcation problem besides falsifiability: the jargonless explanation
02/17 (Mon)
- https://myunwantedexistenceblog.wordpress.com/ Trans woman dealing with unsuccessful transition commits suicide by jumping in front of train - this was her suicide note
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919697/-The-Unforgivable-Sins-of-Elizabeth-Warren
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919687/-Documentarian-Ken-Burns-warned-Trump-s-rise-would-be-Hitler-esque-here-s-what-else-he-predicted
- https://twitter.com/systemantix/status/1229458023925604352 - school is prison
- Fraud Case in Charleston, S.C., Shines Light on Web’s Dark Corners - sounds like all he did was sell VPNs, and he needed a way to get more IPv4 addresses...
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/17/reality-winner-nsa-whistleblower-russian-hacking-report-petition-clemency
- https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229054383540887555
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919814/-Ted-Cruz-commits-vasectomy-related-epic-self-own
- The logic of the trolling is iffy -- but it seems telling that the "pro-life" side didn't come back with a firm statement of principle (i.e. they might be against unwanted pregnancies, at least in theory, but they're not in favor of mandatory sterilization)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919814/-Ted-Cruz-commits-vasectomy-related-epic-self-own
- Medicare for All
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919769/-John-Oliver-DESTROYED-every-argument-against-M4A-tonight
02/18 (Tue)
- Sustainalytics chief: 'We are past the time of voluntary disclosures'
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4270282/Sydney-200-000-homes-foreign-investors-blamed.html - empty homes + homelessness
- https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community/community-support/homelessness/street-count
- https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/thousands-of-empty-homes-adding-to-sydneys-housing-crisis-experts-say-20160323-gnpc52.html
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-11/sydney-apartment-market-hit-by-ghost-tower-phenomenon/11193132
- https://www.nhsforsale.info/
- https://myasstodon.xyz/@emsenn/103680258808761541 - voter intimidation
- Supreme Inequality – behind the unjust agenda of America’s highest court: book review
- http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html - advertising is a cancer on society
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/18/1920090/-Evening-Shade-We-Still-Have-a-Koch-Problem - Koch-related front groups
- federal judge intervention:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919899/-For-Republicans-in-Trump-s-cover-up-it-wasn-t-about-heads-on-pikes-it-was-all-about-the-money
- https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/banning-the-ability-to-evict-tenants-without-reason-could-be-final-straw-for-landlords-real-estate-institute-of-new-zealand.html - gee, maybe housing shouldn't be a for-profit business in the first place.
- https://twitter.com/CorRaven/status/1229644582473715712 "If I spent one night as a patient in the hospitals I send my patients to; I'd be financially ruined."
02/19 (Wed)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ - argues that primaries should let elites decide the vote
- https://twitter.com/Portaldrop/status/1229877780164177922 - Catholic student sit-in protesting firing of LGBT teachers
- https://www.upworthy.com/former-president-jimmy-carter-built-a-solar-farm-in-his-hometown-and-now-it-powers-half-of-the-city
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/maybe-we-shouldnt-nominate-a-billionaire-who-describes-1841778055 “If you go to the middle of the country, people would say, ‘If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,’” Bloomberg says in the video. “They care about healthcare, they care about education, they care about safety, and all those kinds of things.”
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/immigration-therapy-reports-ice/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/technology/kickstarter-union.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/18/uk-to-close-door-to-non-english-speakers-and-unskilled-workers
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/19/donald-trump-offered-julian-assange-pardon-russia-hack-wikileaks
- https://filtermag.org/overdose-prosecution-indiana-naloxone-hancock/ - how not to handle drug addiction
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/18/21142306/patreon-capital-loans-jack-conte-cash-advances
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190212034828/https://www.dykehousecollege.com/file/dykehouse/8-531-net-behaviour-policy-2017-18.pdf - what fresh hell is this? Northern Education Trust, disciplinarianism (see p.41 for "Consequences Room Rules")
- US Election 2020: Meet the voters behind Bloomberg's surge
- Are economically inactive people the answer to staff shortages?
- https://twitter.com/imrankhan/status/1230193712199802882 - Uber leasing scheme
02/21 (Fri)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/20/kavin-senapathy-fired-by-cfi/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-cars-divide-america - car wars
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/policy_vs_techn.html
- "Technologists don't try to consider all of the use cases of a given technology. We tend to build something for the uses we envision, and hope that others can figure out new and innovative ways to extend what we created" .. "Policy doesn't work that way; it's specifically focused on use."
- "Policy is often driven by exceptional events, like the FBI's desire to break the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. (The PATRIOT Act is the most egregious example I can think of.)"
- Policy is very slow to respond to technological change. "It's like tortoises and hummingbirds."
- https://social.seattle.wa.us/@pnathan/103698061981382016
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/20/1920666/-Local-GOP-chair-shows-up-armed-outside-Virginia-lawmaker-s-house-to-show-we-know-where-you-live
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/20/1920626/-After-gutting-Bloomberg-Warren-lands-a-blow-against-a-Las-Vegas-billionaire-in-his-own-newspaper
- https://time.com/5784464/susan-fowler-book-uber-sexual-harassment/ - Uber, stalking, and harassment
- https://thecorrespondent.com/283/poverty-isnt-a-lack-of-character-its-a-lack-of-cash/37442933638-a4773584
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/us/california-mother-warning-white-supremacists-soh/index.html
02/22 (Sat)
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/15/why-presidency-cant-go-back-normal-trump-115362 - history of informal US Presidential conventions
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/21/if-you-thought-eugenics-was-only-an-abstract-notion/ - eugenics
- https://lgbt.io/@porsupah/103541072820654537 - popular resitance to Oakland eviction (I probably have other links about this)
- https://couragetoresist.org/manning-grand-jury-opposition/ - Chelsea Manning
- https://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html - Anarchism FAQ
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets - what actually works for interrogation (hint: not torture)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/19/1920391/-White-House-spokesman-offers-bizarro-explanation-for-Donald-Lock-Her-Up-Trump-s-pardons - he's "against aggressive sentencing"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/21/1920849/-The-intelligence-community-erupts-as-Trump-purges-everyone-opposed-to-Russian-election-interference
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1920705/-A-small-California-agricultural-community-defeats-ICE-for-now
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1921155/-NOAA-report-shows-January-was-the-warmest-ever-as-Great-Lakes-suffer-from-a-constant-high-tide
- http://www.criticalthinking.org/
- https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/a-defense-of-the-binary-in-human-sex/ - questionable. Why is it important to say that something is a "binary" when there are known classes of exceptions?
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bloomberg-tax-returns-debate_n_5e4df2a3c5b630e74c50142b
- https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-proposal - Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, EARN IT Act, William Barr
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs - apparently the "work ethic" philosophy is sometimes called "workism", but it seems to me that jobism is a better name, since "work" isn't necessarily paid.
02/23 (Sun)
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-32199250 - Michael Bloomberg fighting smoking in Uruguay (2015)
- https://www.quora.com/q/collapsedquestionheaven?__ni__=0&__tiid__=5649573&sort=top -- good answer to creationist "gotcha" question
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsy1Y3HdfM - indigenous perspective on Mount Rushmore
- https://octodon.social/@kensanata/103708849880291231
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919697/-The-Unforgivable-Sins-of-Elizabeth-Warren
02/24 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/24/when-a-righteous-cause-enables-unrighteous-behavior/ - avoid hierarchy! concentration of power leads to problems
- Why People Think the World is Flat (video, 18:42) Flat Earth
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feCQPD9DSOA - all public transit will be free in Luxembourg starting March 1
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/21/1921045/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-Kentucky-GOP-moves-to-strip-Democratic-governor-of-his-power-after-election
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/24/1921479/-Krugman-and-Palley-signal-establishment-shift-on-Sanders - some of the Dem thought-leaders are finally pushing back against the "be more like the GOP" meme
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/24/1921604/-I-ve-Spent-4-Decades-Underestimating-Bernie-Sanders
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/here-are-the-urban-highways-that-deserve-to-die
02/25 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/WardQNormal/status/1206280031552454656?s=20 - charts of economic disparity factors and Reaganomics
- https://pleroma.site/objects/335e087b-168b-49df-abeb-0227f0d02d02 -- good point to bring up in the future whenever GOP complains about "who will pay for it" or "what about the deficit"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1921147/-Sonia-Sotomayor-Accuses-her-conservatives-colleagues-of-bending-over-for-Trump-in-Scathing-Dissent
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921927/-Friendly-reminder-that-Bloomberg-helped-Republicans-wreck-the-Senate - Michael Bloomberg
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921963/-Wow-Joe-Wash-I-never-liked-that-guy-but-still-you-should-read-this - a Republican on standing up to Trump
02/26 (Wed)
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-scotland-sanitary-idUSKBN20J1NZ
- HOLY SHIT - random msnbc ghoul “to young people, free healthcare, college debt forgiveness sounds good to them. think about it, you’re out of college, 25 or 26 years old, working your first job, earning 75,000 or 80,000 a year, that kind of thing appeals to them i guess.”
- https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/coronavirus-white-house-public-health-cdc-hospitals/
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/06/taiwan-shaken-64-magnitude-eathquake/ - lots of photos of how high-rise buildings actually collapse
02/27 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-did-america-give-up-on-mass-transit-don-t-blame-cars - mass transit can be profitable, but service needs to come first
- 2020-02-26 13:54 Bernie Sanders I don't think it's radical to say schoolchildren should not have "lunch debt." If we can give tax breaks to billionaires we can guarantee free, universal school meals to all our kids.
- 13:57 Michael School 👏 children 👏 shouldn’t 👏 get 👏 lunch 👏 if 👏 they 👏 don’t 👏 pay 👏
- 14:11 TexLady If you can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em
- 13:56 Why stop there? Why not free dinner too? - I was bad and replied
- 22:18 Nope. I was a single om working three jobs, but my daughter had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread every day. I was making $20,000 dollars, paying rent and maintaining a car. No handouts and proud of it. - also replied
- 13:55 I don't think it's radical to say Bernie is a communist who would bankrupt the country.
- 16:21 I don’t think it’s radical to ask parents to pay for their kids and ask charitable organizations to pay for kids that can’t afford lunch.
- 20:06 To judge people based on their financial wealth is radically prejudice. / To dislike people just because they have money is prejudice. / To treat billionaires poorly because they are billionaires is discrimination. - omfg
02/28 (Fri)
- https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-podcast-trans-people-species-machine-paul-nathanson-1377906 (archive.md)
02/29 (Sat)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-black-woman-was-once-the-biggest-star-in-jazz-here-s-why-you-ve-never-heard-of-her - badass piano genius Hazel Scott fights racial discrimination and Red Scare tactics
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-singer-elliott-management-twitter-jack-dorsey
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921786/--Boogaloo-civil-war-talk-takes-on-a-life-of-its-own-as-far-right-extremists-coalesce
- https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/02/tenant-rights-rent-eviction-landlords-management-systems/606868/
March
03/01 (Sun)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921933/-White-Parents-Force-Suspension-of-White-Studies-High-School-Course - racism/denial
- https://todon.nl/@jeroenpraat/103725328681082075 - map of areas in Poland that have signed the "LGBT-Free" pledge
03/02 (Mon)
- Climate change: Greenpeace stops Barclays from opening branches - aka Greenpeace gives climate activism a bad name
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/2/1923575/-Endorsements-continue-to-roll-in-for-Vice-President-Joe-Biden
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/27/1922428/-Teacher-suspended-for-showing-students-picture-of-her-fianc-e-receives-100K-settlement - anti-gay discrimination is still a thing
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dystopian-lake-filled-by-the-world-s-tech-lust - Mongolia, neodymium
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/business/laurene-powell-jobs-corner-office.html
03/03 (Tue)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/chris-matthews-longtime-msnbc-host-of-hardball-announces-his-resignation/2020/03/02/9c4b3dfc-5ce0-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced - this is complicated
- https://twitter.com/iatemuggles/status/1234657804130103297 - compassion as a survival trait
- https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/19/21052356/norman-rockwell-the-problem-we-all-live-with-saturday-evening-post?utm_source=pocket-newtab
03/04 (Wed)
- https://www.complex.com/life/2020/03/black-owned-business-sales-jump-comment-target-ad-racist-white-people - reverse racism
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/2/1923731/-Once-again-Trump-insists-nobody-knew-a-thing-that-everybody-knew
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/04/bye-bye-michael-bloomberg/
- Here's David Frum basically calling Bernie Sanders supporters poor David Frum
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/3/1923879/-Facebook-made-The-Daily-Caller-an-official-fact-checker-here-are-the-results
- International Fact-Checking Network [3]
- address matches SourceWatch, tho web site is different; Wikipedia
- site does not seem to list certifications
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/17/facebook-teams-with-rightwing-daily-caller-in-factchecking-program - they did try to contact Poynter for confirmation
- Fact-Checking on Facebook: What Publishers Should Know
- International Fact-Checking Network [3]
- Did first female-majority legislature in US make a difference? - Nevada
03/05 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/yanakuchirko/status/1235050702654672896 - the reality of the Left-Right range in the US
- https://hub.toot.cat/display/feb19b0018b001389da00f6db7d6371d - summary of negative reactions to UBI
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/bernie-sanders-polls.html - polls show Sanders can beat Trump
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/03/05/2024220/people-kept-working-became-healthier-while-on-basic-income-report
03/06 (Fri)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/world/americas/03iht-scotus.1.5124385.html - Supreme Court ruled CO2 as a pollutant in 2007
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/6/1920991/-The-climate-and-all-of-us-may-have-dodged-a-big-bullet-all-thanks-to-Trump-s-incompetence -- Trumpco can't even get industry-pandering right
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/5/1924570/-As-COVID-19-cases-climb-in-the-United-States-so-is-the-threat-generated-in-the-White-House -- errorism teams up with Coronavirus
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/new-authoritarianism/607045/
- It turns out that Amazon and Google aren't nearly as different as I thought they were--I've just discovered The Fourteen Google Leadership Principles. I relay them to you now, in this thread:
- I wanna stop and explain the concept of "the establishment" to some people and why a lot of black Southern voters will NEVER vote for Bernie.
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/06/were-doomed-3/ - people who should know better, on camera not correcting Trump
03/07 (Sat)
- https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols - I think this just underscores that we can't just let the Right's hateful usage of words and symbols take them away from us; we'd soon be unable to speak or function. We need to reclaim words, and find other ways to fight back besides allowing things to become tainted and unusable.
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615325/ravelry-ban-on-pro-trump-patterns-unraveled-the-online-knitting-world-censorship-free/
03/08 (Sun)
- https://www.facebook.com/david.lindes/posts/10157852838173828
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/young-democrats-have-rejected-biden-and-it-could-cost-him-the-nomination/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/29/1923006/-Jimmy-Kimmel-brutally-exposes-Republican-voters-deep-ignorance-and-Ted-Cruz-s-devious-duplicity
03/09 (Mon)
- https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/09/the-bbc-was-just-caught-editing-a-headline-and-making-johnson-sound-better/
- https://twitter.com/lessig/status/1237061708499152896 - Lessig confronts Biden about voting reformation
- https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1236031092647313408 - some background on Shaun King
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/7/1925306/-Trump-steaks-Trump-Airlines-Trump-University-Trump-America-Failing-to-plan-is-planning-to-fail
- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/a-stern-letter-from-the-desk-of-vanessa-a-bee - about the primary, and being aware of the influence that your feelings may be having on your choices
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/9/1925854/-Elizabeth-Warren-predicted-impending-economic-crash-last-year-Her-warnings-weren-t-heeded
- https://twitter.com/brenden77/status/1234361709571268610 -- possible source for the "how will Bernie pay for it" graphic -- and a typical response
03/10 (Tue)
- https://beach.city/@alva/103793462316499879 - good thread debunking some of the lies capitalism tells about itself
03/11 (Wed)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2-5-trillion-reason-we-can-t-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid - smells of propaganda
- https://twitter.com/FlyerNews/status/1237597991826948096
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/10/1926156/-Biden-tells-gun-nut-that-he-s-full-of-shit-America-objectively-agrees
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-stay-sane-as-a-female-deckhand-in-alaska - gentle sexism
- https://thebestschools.org/magazine/brilliant-woman-greedy-men/ erasure of women
03/13 (Fri)
- https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/laurence-fox-question-time-performance-1-6559637 - it sounds like the Fox was basically "reverse racism!", for which he was rightly condemned by Equity people -- who wanted to stand behind their condemnation (which, as I see it, would have been the right thing to do), but higher-ups overruled them by deleting the tweets, so they felt they had to resign (in protest).
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/13/laurence-foxs-brave-victory-mob-can-show-us-fight-free-speech2/ by Toby Young, Conservative Party member -- basically another case of "people using their speech to criticize me violates my free speech".
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/qanon-4chan-rightwing-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1927078/-The-New-York-Times-has-obtained-CDC-s-worst-case-scenario-estimates
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/12/1927008/-The-editor-of-Science-magazine-is-pissed-off
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1927127/-AOC-goes-on-FOX-to-spew-garbage-about-Michigan-suppressing-Bernie-voters -- but she never said they were specifically suppressing Bernie votes, at least not in what was quoted.
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/jamie-loftus-the-comedian-who-infiltrated-mensa
- "Firehouse members accused him of being racist for suggesting that they were racist."
- https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/103817765599394653
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/raj-chettys-american-dream/592804/ (via)
- https://therealdeal.com/2020/03/13/nyc-enacts-one-week-moratorium-on-evictions/?fbclid=IwAR1uSuix_vZx_KezjyMREczddSn4oyTDdD9XNcXERPYIXhVSX9TaHSSwLr4
- https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/487453-louisiana-to-postpone-democratic-primary-over-coronavirus
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/
03/14 (Sat)
- https://eand.co/why-britains-coronavirus-strategy-is-literally-one-of-the-most-insane-things-in-modern-history-45c755f1db2d
- https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1238097745971421184 - may be the source for the "herd immunity" thing
- This morning, in the middle of an evolving pandemic, I, a ER physician, am being charged in San Diego court with a federal misdemeanor for trying to vaccinate children in CBP custody against a deadlier disease for them.
- https://twitter.com/hanjaneway/status/1237801855297581056 - charges dropped on a technicality
- {Coronavirus started in US} theory:
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/conspiracy-theory-that-coronavirus-originated-in-us-gaining-traction-in-china
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html
- https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronavirus-get-started-china-wuhan-lab
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-covid-19-made-in-china-or-made-in-america/5706272
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/22/mapping-spread-new-coronavirus/ "A majority of cases and deaths occurred in China, mostly in the Hubei province, where Chinese health officials said the new virus strain originated in wild animals sold at a market in the capital city of Wuhan."
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/ - story about finding its origin
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/14/1927234/-Trump-s-Google-coronavirus-website-lie-may-be-the-ultimate-in-simply-making-sh-t-up
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1927153/-If-the-United-States-is-a-week-behind-Italy-brace-yourself-for-horror-that-still-seems-impossible
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/11/1926558/-New-report-connects-Trump-organization-with-the-largest-tax-fraud-case-in-New-York-City-history
03/15 (Sun)
- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/are-black-people-safe-from-coronavirus - another Coronavirus myth debunked
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/14/1927543/-Disbelief-soars-after-Trump-s-coronavirus-results-announced-but-does-one-test-matter
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bad-thinkers -- starts right in attacking 9/11 skepticism
03/16 (Mon)
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-cautionary-tale-italy-dont-do-what-we-did/
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11181354/universal-credit-pip-esa-welfare-in-person-face-scrapped/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fjenok/do_you_think_landlords_should_be_open_to_being/
- https://www.bernthednc.org/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/us-sales-guns-ammunition-soar-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying
03/17 (Tue)
- https://governor.nc.gov/news/north-carolina-close-restaurants-and-bars-dine-customers-allow-takeout-and-delivery-operations
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/17/1928215/-Trump-Transition-Team-Uninterested-In-Obama-Exercise-To-Battle-Worst-Epidemic-Since-1918
03/18 (Wed)
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90473758/what-would-happen-if-the-world-reacted-to-climate-change-like-its-reacting-to-the-coronavirus
- https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/
- https://mastodon.social/@benjaminnorton/103844532323443083 - Venezuela scores an interesting point on the IMF
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/16/1928016/-Ex-Sheriff-Clarke-urges-far-right-followers-to-take-to-the-streets-defy-coronavirus-measures - errorism
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-the-meat-paradox-reveals-about-moral-decision-making - probably supports the idea that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism
- https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1239880558227992576 - a report about the various scenarios, and likely long-term social effects
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-will-a-coronavirus-vaccine-be-ready
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/ -- may be covering the same paper, or at least the same scenarios
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/17/amazons-warehouse-workers-sound-alarms-about-coronavirus-spread/
- https://twitter.com/RentStrike2020/status/1240185493368664066
03/19 (Thu)
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/convincing-boomer-parents-to-take-the-coronavirus-seriously
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/18/1928623/-Reports-reveal-what-officials-are-being-told-about-COVID-19-and-it-s-not-what-they-are-telling-us
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/upshot/coronavirus-economy-crisis-demand-shock.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/01/us/politics/democratic-presidential-campaign-donors.html
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/18/coronavirus-sen-john-cornyn-says-chinese-eating-bats-spread-virus/2869342001/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817737690/senate-passes-coronavirus-emergency-aid-sending-plan-to-president
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184445/facebook-marking-coronavirus-posts-spam-misinformation-covid-19
- https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/03/the-strange-case-of-donald-j-trump-a-psychological-reckoning/
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ag55g/republicans-coronavirus-emergency-legislation-abortion-restrictions
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818343720/homeowners-hurt-financially-by-the-coronavirus-may-get-a-mortgage-break
- https://therealnews.com/stories/coronavirus-bailout-corporations-workers-unemployment
03/20 (Fri)
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818192535/burr-recording-sparks-questions-about-private-comments-on-covid-19
- https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1240915391574085634 - Coronavirus death-curves
- https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1240559018084630529 - Joe Biden and universal healthcare
- https://designobserver.com/feature/malcolm-gladwell-is-wrong/19008/ - a refutation of Malcolm Gladwell's criticisms of social media as a tool for activism
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqkyw/copper-destroys-viruses-and-bacteria-why-isnt-it-everywhere
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818253789/congress-awaits-gop-relief-plan-as-first-lawmakers-test-positive-for-coronavirus
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nick-brown-smelled-bull
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818343720/homeowners-hurt-financially-by-the-coronavirus-may-get-a-mortgage-break
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/magazine/title-ix-sexual-harassment-accusations.html
03/21 (Sat)
- https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/20/21179040/coronavirus-us-italy-not-overreacting
- https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italian-army-called-in-to-carry-away-corpses-as-citys-crematorium-is-overwhelmed-11959994
- https://deadspin.com/behind-the-photo-that-changed-the-boston-marathon-forev-1698054488 - history of sexism
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/critics-cry-foul-at-miners-truckers-citing-virus-to-bend-rules
- https://itsgoingdown.org/a-dozen-vacant-homes-reclaimed-by-unhoused-tenants-in-la-as-calls-for-rent-strike-grow-across-us/
- https://twitter.com/paulbeard/status/1241415848067129345
03/22 (Sun)
- https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/breaking-all-railway-operations-to-be-suspended-till-march-25-due-to-coronavirus/story/398884.html - India
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/21/1929793/-Justice-Dept-seeks-emergency-powers-including-detaining-people-without-trial-indefinitely
03/23 (Mon)
- https://medium.com/@juliaserano/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3 - Ray Blanchard, autogynephilia (by Julia Serano)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/22/1930179/-In-an-Interview-Dr-Fauci-Tells-the-Truth-and-Likely-Soon-Will-be-Sidelined-or-Sacked
- https://logicmag.io/failure/the-automation-charade/ by Astra Taylor
- https://twitter.com/HorrasTim/status/1242071752995409922 - word to the wise on rent striking
03/24 (Tue)
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817974987/every-single-individual-must-stay-home-italy-s-coronavirus-deaths-pass-china-s
- https://radical.town/@lesbianhacker/103858662593121557 "At the end of this article it mentions that it is likely that Italy had Coronavirus as early as November." -- evidence is anecdotal, but this seems like something which should be followed up on.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52012048 - 25,000 cases in NY; Andrew Cuomo pleads for medical supplies
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/ - Florence Nightingale
03/25 (Wed)
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/feds-can-stop-patent-trolls-endangering-covid-19-testing-and-treatment
- https://therealnews.com/stories/coronavirus-israel-surveillance-rights-shock-doctrine
- https://durhamnc.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2296 - Durham County stay-at-home order
- https://www.theroot.com/congress-reaches-2-trillion-stimulus-package-deal-her-1842488815
03/26 (Thu)
03/27 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/26/1931534/--You-re-wasting-everyone-s-time-Trump-official-shut-down-on-CNN-after-rant
- Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive
03/28 (Sat)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/27/1931761/--We-are-the-laughingstock-of-the-country-Mississippi-mayor-laments-after-governor-s-deadly-order - governor overrides mayor's order, reopening restaurants and other nonessential businesses
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/27/1931806/-Trump-orders-GM-to-make-ventilators-without-contract-at-someone-else-s-factory-by-tweet
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/28/21197995/coronavirus-stimulus-trump-inspector-general-wont-comply
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/ - Trump's actions and lack of action will be very costly
03/29 (Sun)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubilee-is-only-way-avoid-depression/
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21192765/donotpay-rent-bill-delay-chatbot-coronavirus-extension-laws-pandemic
- https://www.genstrike.org/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/27/822407626/mystery-in-wuhan-recovered-coronavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/cdc-coronavirus-survived-in-princess-cruise-cabins-up-to-17-days-after-passengers-left.html
- https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076323/third-coronavirus-cases-may-be-silent-carriers-classified
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-cdcs-restrictive-testing-guidelines-hid-the-coronavirus-epidemic-11584882001
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/27/coronavirus-uk-lockdown-big-drop-air-pollution
- https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/
03/30 (Mon)
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html
- https://radical.town/@Aleums/103912521557169866
- https://www.myillegalbody.org/our-team
- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/how-we-know-kavanaugh-is-lying - a decision which really could have benefited from structured debate
03/31 (Tue)
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/tech/amazon-worker-fired-staten-island-warehouse/index.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/tech/instacart-amazon-worker-strikes/index.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/31/how-not-to-celebrate-the-trans-day-of-visibility/ - "biological sex"
- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/everything-has-changed-overnight
- https://www.sandersinstitute.com/issues/healthcare
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html "The stalled efforts to create a new class of cheap, easy-to-use ventilators highlight the perils of outsourcing projects with critical public-health implications to private companies; their focus on maximizing profits is not always consistent with the government’s goal of preparing for a future crisis."
- https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820595489/why-germanys-coronavirus-death-rate-is-far-lower-than-in-other-countries
April
04/01 (Wed)
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/PG-E-pleads-guilty-to-arson-manslaughter-in-Camp-15150340.php
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/31/1933170/-Trump-loses-high-profile-media-fan-over-corona-incompetence
04/02 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/04/02/michael-egnor-agrees-with-me-im-having-a-panic-attack/ - covid-19 and "design"
- so the federal government seized a shipment of masks that the MA state government had purchased...
04/03 (Fri)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/2/1933636/-Fox-News-host-sits-in-silence-as-infectious-disease-specialist-exposes-Trump-s-coronavirus-failure
- https://littlesis.org/toolkit - find out who owns a rental property
04/04 (Sat)
04/05 (Sun)
- https://returntonow.net/2017/12/23/urban-garden-produces-7000-pounds-food-per-year-tenth-acre-without-synthetic-fertilizer/ - organic works
- https://dailyhealthpost.com/solar-panel-farm/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/01/oceans-can-be-restored-to-former-glory-within-30-years-say-scientists - it's not too late, but we do have to start now
- https://www.businessinsider.com/us-work-more-than-other-countries-even-with-coronavirus-shutdowns-2020-3
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/02/facebook-posts/yes-us-shipped-donated-personal-protective-equipme/ - back in February, Trump ignored warnings about the US being undersupplied with PPE, and shipped a bunch of donated PPE to China.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html - red tape prevents Navy medical ships from helping as planned
- https://joebiden.com/healthcare/ - Joe Biden just wants to shore up the ACA
04/06 (Mon)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/6/1934759/-COVID-19-updates-Trump-s-mask-failure-worse-than-we-knew-surgeon-general-issues-dire-warning - yes, Trump is having PPE confiscated
- https://ask.metafilter.com/343576/Seizures-of-N95-Masks-Official-Reasoning-Most-Likely-True-Reasoning#4925503
- https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals
- https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/feds-only-started-ordering-masks-as-lockdowns-were-starting
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/5/1934617/-Some-companies-have-been-stepping-up-to-help-during-COVID-19-pandemic-but-not-Trump-s - TrumpCo is a parasite
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/27/style/what-is-inside-this-internet-rabbit-hole.html
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/tiger-coronavirus-covid19-positive-test-bronx-zoo/
- https://indyweek.com/news/soapboxer/thousands-of-people-are-dying-donald-trump-failures/ - more Trump vs. COVID-19 history
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/21/1873438/-You-chickensh-t-Fascists-waited-til-the-Greatest-Generation-died-off-to-start-your-BS
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did -- well. Hmm.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/4/1934049/-Evangelical-churches-run-smack-into-coronavirus-lethal-reality-but-some-continue-to-resist
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/big-gods-came-after-the-rise-of-civilisations-not-before-finds-study-using-huge-historical-database
04/08 (Wed)
- https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2020/04/08/if-you-read-one-thing-today-about-the-nhs-and-coronavirus-make-it-this/
- https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1247902668657266689 - Dem official behaving badly during the crisis
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html - NYT says Bernie is dropping out, but doesn't say when/where/how Bernie said this
- https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html
- http://archive.is/iTlIu - Bernie's campaign site at 11:52, some time after the NYT article
- https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247914464319504385 - DT plays it as "he has dropped out"
- apparently he has not dropped out; he's just stopped campaigning
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out/index.html - provides actual quote
04/09 (Thu)
- https://uk.pcmag.com/security-5/125569/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill-passes
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-alt-right_n_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
04/10 (Fri)
- https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/489751-texas-roadhouse-ceo-giving-up-salary-bonus-to-pay-workers
- https://emilygorcenski.com/post/early-termination-fees-the-necessary-costs-of-cancel-culture/ - cancel culture
- Google's Chinese project:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/betty-shannon-unsung-mathematical-genius - erasure of women
04/11 (Sat)
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-the-coronavirus-is-doing-to-rural-georgia
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/when-the-coronavirus-comes-to-rural-georgia - a couple of weeks earlier
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/10/1936138/-Trump-responds-to-Wall-Street-Journal-criticism-of-his-daily-clown-show-briefings
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe9yq/the-chinese-government-has-convinced-its-citizens-that-the-us-army-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/4/1934049/-Evangelical-churches-run-smack-into-coronavirus-lethal-reality-but-some-continue-to-resist
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/11/1936456/-Sweden-has-been-conducting-an-experiment-with-its-citizen-s-lives-it-s-time-to-stop
- https://joebiden.com/covid19/ - okay, Biden does actually have a COVID-19 plan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/6/1934918/-Trump-s-daily-stream-of-coronavirus-lies-are-all-about-to-hit-a-wall
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/10/1936168/-CEO-shocks-business-news-host-says-billionaires-and-bad-companies-deserve-to-get-wiped-out
04/12 (Sun)
- 9/11 stuff:
- https://www.epi.org/blog/millions-of-workers-are-paid-less-than-the-average-minimum-wage/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/french-police-turn-away-private-jet-passengers-escaping-u-k-n1181381
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200406-why-smart-people-believe-coronavirus-myths
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/31/1784829/-Top-conservative-artists-released-a-new-masterpiece-and-we-can-t-stop-laughing - a look at the "conservative" counterfactual view of the world
- https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rejects-bailout-that-included-aid-to-usps-report-says-2020-4
04/13 (Mon)
- https://threader.app/thread/1248741868440940544 - excellent summary of the USPS political situation
- https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/coronavirus-lockdowns-have-sent-pollution-plummeting-environmentalists-worry-about-what-n1178326
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/06/your-internet-is-working-thank-these-cold-war-era-pioneers-who-designed-it-handle-almost-anything/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/12/1936744/-KY-Sen-Even-Moscow-Mitch-s-Daughters-Have-Turned-On-Him-For-Becoming-Trump-s-Enabler-In-Chief
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/12/1936715/-Fox-Friends-Host-Says-Trump-is-Behaving-Like-a-Third-Grader
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90230330/how-our-obsession-with-productivity-evolved
04/14 (Tue)
- https://time.com/5817412/sweden-coronavirus/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html
- https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/13-year-old-leads-neo-nazi-group-linked-to-bomb-plots-las-vegas-listed-as-target/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-09/california-declares-independence-from-trump-s-coronavirus-plans
- https://abc11.com/1-arrested-as-reopennc-protesters-gather-in-downtown-raleigh/6102688/
04/15 (Wed)
- https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3916690 - China bans Animal Crossing
- https://springhole.net/writing/character-morality-and-ethics.htm - some ethical analysis
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51906530 - the rich are to blame for global warming
- https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/the-woman-on-the-bridge.html - Meir Kahane, Jewish Defense League
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pregnant-scientist-who-raced-against-death-to-transform-physics - erasure of women
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/open-innovation-medical-technology-will-save-lives
- https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/15/despite-cdc-warning-significant-risk-lifting-stay-place-orders-right-wingers-launch
- https://freespeech.org/stories/calls-for-a-may-1st-general-strike-grow/
- https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/24/mark-twain-on-slavery-empathy-compassion/
04/16 (Thu)
- https://c19.se/en - COVID-19 stats for Sweden
- https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-cyberpunk-science-fiction-government-politics.html "As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through the world, it collides with governments in the West that have spent decades deliberately shedding power, capability, and responsibility, reducing themselves to little more than vestigial organs that coordinate public-private partnerships of civic responsibility. This hollowing of the state began in earnest in the 1980s, and the science fiction of that time—the earliest texts of cyberpunk—imagines what happens when that process is complete." ... "Writing in the 1980s, foundational cyberpunk authors were watching as leaders on both sides of the Atlantic pursued a set of political reforms collectively known as neoliberalism. Prioritizing competition in the market above all else, these reforms were fundamentally a political project, aimed at shrinking the public sphere and undoing many of the commitments to social welfare that had been made in the wake of the chaos, upheaval, and deprivation of the first half of the 20th century. The neoliberal turn was a project of unmaking the state for individuals and communities and remaking it for capital."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937573/-Republicans-Endorse-Biden
04/17 (Fri)
- Kick The KKK Out Of #Portland February 8th! https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/02/05/kick-the-kkk-out-of-portland-on-february-8th/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/15/1937705/-Right-wingers-get-RecallGavinNewsom-trending-and-it-doesn-t-go-exactly-as-they-planned
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/16/1937740/-Trump-vows-to-make-states-reopen-without-testing-or-else
- Exactly how Trump plans to put a crowbar into reluctant states hasn’t yet been revealed, but he has made it clear that any disobedience to his “total authority” is considered “mutiny.”
- NC has second largest one-day increase in coronavirus cases. Total now tops 5,800.
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/17/us-food-banks-over-budget-demand-coronavirus
- https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fq8vya/discussion_thread_joe_biden_coronavirusfocused/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/the-democrats-dont-understand-their-own-strength/608611/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/11/positively-alpine-disbelief-air-pollution-falls-lockdown-coronavirus - before and after photos
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/barilla-pasta-s-turnaround-from-homophobia-to-national-pride
04/18 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/04/18/protesters-think-about-what-you-are-protesting-for/ about the "reopen the US" astroturf protests
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1937000/-CNN-s-chyron-writer-has-had-enough-goes-to-town-during-Trump-s-coronavirus-press-conference
- https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/04/13/cuomo-stresses-regional-restart-in-talks-with-other-states-1275202 - east coast 6-state coalition
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/14/1937064/-Trump-declares-himself-a-dictator-Blue-state-governors-organize-A-breakup-is-now-on-the-table
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/12/1936741/-FEMA-Was-Planning-to-Seize-Masks-Destined-for-States-Until-the-FBI-Found-Out-They-Were-Fake
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-13/fear-of-an-impending-car-price-collapse-grips-the-auto-industry
04/19 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-world-outsmarts-us -- why we need truth-mapping
- huge profits and layoffs:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1936455/-Cartoon-The-death-cult - GOP response to COVID-19
- https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/04/03/its-a-sh-sandwich-republicans-rage-as-florida-becomes-a-nightmare-for-trump-1271172 - GOP deliberate sabotage
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/18/1929884/-Rick-Scott-s-78-million-unemployment-website-was-designed-to-fail-but-that-s-not-the-worst-of-it
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/18/1938492/-To-avoid-Fed-confiscation-Illinois-Governor-secretly-bought-PPEs-from-China-White-House-unhappy - more Federal PPE confiscations
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/27/trump-pollution-laws-epa-allows-companies-pollute-without-penalty-during-coronavirus
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-at-world-health-organization-transmitted-real-time-information-about-coronavirus-to-trump-administration/2020/04/19/951c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html
- https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1237570285173235713 - a bit of queer history
- https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/1200-wont-cut-it-lawmakers-unveil-plan-to-send-americans-2000-monthly-check/285-da6d8d0a-c5b8-4afe-a0e5-2e41a7b8a80f?fbclid=IwAR26hlind-KaTMff3dLiVgc3XO43Y1nZCqc5rHYTeuz7kfCL4JhN2SRycF4 - 2nd stimulus bill
04/20 (Mon)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/04/hulu-mrs-america-phyllis-schlafly-long-shadow/610129/
- https://www.facebook.com/voiceofkiki/posts/10158099078685011
- "When put on the spot, she brazenly lies; when challenged, she smoothly changes the subject." - common evasion technique; need debate mapper
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/hospitals-face-a-white-house-blockade-for-coronavirus-ppe.html - Trump's war on the states
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/florida-beaches-hundreds-coronavirus
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/19/1938713/-Americans-are-now-officially-at-war-with-a-sociopathic-monster-named-Donald-Trump
- US oil price below zero for first time in history (archive.is)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/20/1938808/--ReOpen-Wisconsin-Protest-No-Permit-No-Porta-Potties
04/21 (Tue)
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/la-health-care-provider-thanks-woman-for-her-coronavirus-sacrifice-after-cutting-off-her-lupus-meds/ Kaiser Permanente
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/i-work-grocery-store-dont-call-me-hero/610147/
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/20/fauci-warns-coronavirus-orders-protests-may-backfire/5167386002/ - "liberate" as a emo manipulation
- https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionization-risk-with-heat-map-2020-1
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104037008622699169 - some meta-analysis by Cory Doctorow
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/barr-says-doj-may-act-against-governors-with-strict-virus-limits
- rent crisis:
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-rent-was-paid-in-april-by-nearly-a-third-of-american-renters-2020-04-08
- https://popularresistance.org/residents-at-an-apartment-complex-prepare-to-strike/?fbclid=IwAR0liyeQUToFv72myee_z8DPjAkvP88p-Mj4m95W_Fd8UXdvUM0OW0oUrr4
- https://www.newsweek.com/landlords-sex-free-rent-female-tenants-1116559
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/10/told-my-landlord-i-cant-pay-rent-due-to-coronavirus-how-he-responded.html
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/from-strike-wave-to-general-strike/
- https://mastodon.social/@cypnk/104037633945852632 - apparently COVID-19 is "freedom" and needs to be spread
04/22 (Wed)
- https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1252665806334410752 - Abigail Disney on executive pay at Disney
- A lot of the “liberate” footage is meant to make these events look big. Here’s what the protest in Ohio today really looks like.
- https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1252602880974114821 - Bill Kristol said something sensible?
- https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1252594911607652352 - Harvard gets $8.7m in federal aid to keep their $40b endowment fully charged
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/22/1939410/-Georgia-s-Kemp-getting-resistance-on-harebrained-scheme-to-kill-his-citizens
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/21/1939173/-Radio-host-and-Trump-superfan-tweets-the-dumbest-f-cking-thing-you-ll-see-today -- meet Bill Mitchell, media errorist
- https://rdtdaily.com/missouri-puts-screw-jim-bakker-bogus-coronavirus-solution/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/21/1939356/-GA-losing-it-over-this-possible-explanation-of-Kemp-s-reopening
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-reopening-economy-more-important-things-n1188911
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-it-s-bad-for-you - meritocracy, fair world fallacy
04/23 (Thu)
- https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-mcconnell-bailouts-new-york-20200422-fjli4iuxznapdol3csfzyu7j3q-story.html (archive.org)
- rationology
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-huguenot-philosopher-realised-that-atheists-could-be-virtuous - history of Christian denial of non-Christian virtue
- https://blog.ncase.me/curse-of-the-chocolate-covered-broccoli-or-emotion-in-learning/ - the point about monkeys being naturally curious and actually doing worse at solving puzzles when motivated by food seems relevant to claims that people will only work if motivated by money.
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-slaveholders-in-the-caribbean-maintained-control - how power-structures use psychology
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/us-coronavirus-outbreak-tennessee-kentucky
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/labor-unions-trader-joes-workers-coronavirus-us
04/24 (Fri)
- https://en.everybodywiki.com/Fish_hook_theory "the left is just as bad as the right"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939780/-1-million-N95-masks-meant-for-Florida-firefighters-hijacked-by-federal-government-claims-official - more PPD hijackings
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/shutdown-is-tyranny-approximately-1000-march-to-demand-cooper-reopen-nc-economy/19064821/
- https://ncase.me/ballot/
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
04/25 (Sat)
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-french-fries-analy/heres-why-you-cant-find-frozen-fries-while-us-farmers-are-sitting-on-tons-of-potatoes-idUSKCN2261AU -- investors don't want to invest in supply-chain conversion
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 - peer-reviewed research on the origins of COVID-19
- https://toot.cat/web/statuses/104042830460050500 - discussion
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldn-t-escape-the-cult-mentality - Children of God, cults, and the military
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gossiping-is-good - the virtue of gossip
04/26 (Sun)
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-team-moves-to-scrap-protections-for-lgbtq-patients-206398
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/india-charged-anti-terror-law-pregnant-woman-jail-200426100956360.html
- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-signal-capitalism-200330092216678.html
04/27 (Mon)
- https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-people-face-stimulus-check-delays-for-a-strange-reason-they-are-poor
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-23/wuhan-s-return-to-life-temperature-checks-and-constant-anxiety
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/27/1940495/-Cartoon-The-press-briefing - Trump continues to kill satire
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/27/1940793/--Reopen-NC-organizer-tested-positive-for-COVID-19-says-quarantine-a-violation-of-civil-rights
- https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1617582.html - how opaque supply-chains cannot handle major sustained increase in demand
04/28 (Tue)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/supreme-court-rules-georgia-cant-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/utopia-is-a-dangerous-ideal-we-should-aim-for-protopia
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/cruise-ships-coronavirus/
- https://www.themarysue.com/georgia-governors-mansion-stays-hypocritically-closed/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/27/1940955/-NBC-Host-stops-Trump-sycophant-from-UV-rays-defense
04/29 (Wed)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/28/1941082/--Our-answer-is-no-New-York-Times-shuts-down-Sean-Hannity-s-request-for-retraction-apology
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/28/1941029/-Trump-lashes-out-as-Senate-Republicans-focus-on-saving-their-own-hides
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dorothy-thompson-the-journalist-who-warned-the-world-about-adolf-hitler - wrote "Who Goes Nazi?"
04/30 (Thu)
- https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article242380421.html - people trapped on cruise ships still
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/26/1931424/-Kentucky-Governor-Andy-Beshear-continues-to-be-one-of-the-nation-s-bright-lights-a-dark-moment
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/04/30/yeesh-but-anti-choicers-are-terrible-people/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maryland-national-guard-protecting-coronavirus-tests-seizure-feds-992535/ - more federal c19 seizures
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mank/boss-flees-slack-as-workers-deride-corporate-greed-tribune-publishing - strike micromovement
May
05/01 (Fri)
- https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/dygakq/millions-of-neo-nazi-discord-messages-dumped-online
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/29/1941272/-COVID-19-positive-woman-in-Louisville-busted-for-being-a-modern-day-Typhoid-Mary
- https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/not-like-the-flu-not-like-car-crashes-not-like
05/02 (Sat)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-bauhaus-kept-the-nazis-at-bay-until-it-couldn-t
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-land-is-your-land-the-story-behind-america-s-best-known-protest-song
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/combatting-stereotypes-how-to-talk-to-your-children - how stereotypes can develop in children
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/02/property-values-in-alex-jones-neighborhood-must-be-plummeting/
- Amazon investors told to 'take a seat' as demand jumps
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/02/property-values-in-alex-jones-neighborhood-must-be-plummeting/
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/01/homeless-women-activists-take-over-empty-house-in-san-francisco/
- https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/05/02/the-stock-markets-latest-rebound-shows-how-disconnected-from-reality-it-truly-is/ - the stock market is actively harmful to society
- https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2020/05/02/the-bbc-was-just-shamed-by-us-media-over-tory-coronavirus-testing-lies/
- https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/05/02/johnsons-latest-act-of-mind-blowing-hypocrisy-nearly-broke-twitter/
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-removes-us-from-global-initiative-to-develop-coronavirus-treatments-and-vaccines/
05/03 (Sun)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-exxonmobil-coronavirus-oil-demand/
- https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/05/03/0149201/how-kickstarters-new-union-negotiated-terms-for-pandemic-related-layoffs
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/4/1762045/-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar - media finally calling out Trumpco lies
05/04 (Mon)
- https://www.quora.com/As-a-Trump-supporter-what-do-you-think-of-his-recommending-disinfectant-and-UV-light-as-a-treatment-for-Covid-19/answer/Andy-Kaminski-1 - this is the level of intelligence we're dealing with in Trump supporters
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/4/1942468/-COVID-19-daily-death-trends-by-state
- https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon
- https://twitter.com/AMZNforClimate/status/1257748876561281024
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/05/amazon-employees-with-courage/
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray-resigns-calls-company-chickenshit-for-firing-protesting-workers
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/amazon-vp-resigns-over-companys-chickenst-firing-of-whistleblowers/
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/tech/amazon-vp-tim-bray-quits/index.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/3/1942274/-Best-News-I-Read-Today-There-will-be-Criminal-Prosecutions
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/4/1942467/-History-made-as-Supreme-Court-holds-first-ever-teleconference-arguments
- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/496016-white-house-prohibits-coronavirus-task-force-members-from-testifying
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/05/behold-the-face-of-god/ - an errorist
05/05 (Tue)
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/frontier-will-charge-up-to-89-for-social-distancing-on-flights/ - the profit motive needs to die
- https://twitter.com/srl/status/1257810559308894221
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-governor-greg-abbott-admits-dangers-of-reopening-state-on-private-call-with-lawmakers/
05/06 (Wed)
- https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arbeit-macht-frei-re-open-illisnoi-auschwitz-010854818.html
- https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-electricity-renewables/amid-pandemic-u-s-renewable-power-sources-have-topped-coal-for-40-days-idUKKBN22G2X2
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/cooper-easing-nc-stay-at-home-rules-allowing-most-businesses-to-reopen/19084913/
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/what-nc-s-key-covid-19-metrics-say-about-the-state-s-readiness-to-reopen/19085474/
05/07 (Thu)
- https://www.thejournal.ie/freedom-information-ministers-pensions-5092578-May2020/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/researcher-verge-making-very-significant-coronavirus-findings-shot-death-n1200896
- https://news.yahoo.com/asian-american-woman-harassed-self-210854159.html
- https://news.yahoo.com/in-a-hurry-to-reopen-state-arizona-governor-disbands-scientific-panel-that-modeled-outbreak-180726870.html - errorism, shoot the messenger
- https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-declines-lift-pennsylvanias-202700435.html
- https://news.yahoo.com/russia-reports-record-daily-rise-075804134.html
- https://news.yahoo.com/travel-york-city-seeded-wave-185506732.html
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-loses-nearly-3-billion-in-three-months-stock-heads-south-in-late-trading-2020-05-07
- https://news.yahoo.com/evidence-suggests-coronavirus-likely-spreading-154500955.html
- https://theweek.com/articles/912988/did-just-witness-nuttiest-foreign-policy-blunders-american-history - Venezula
- https://theweek.com/articles/912977/ahmaud-arbery-racist-history-loitering-laws
- https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-reportedly-buried-detailed-063758815.html
- https://thehill.com/policy/defense/operations/496555-pentagon-official-fcc-decision-on-5g-threatens-gps-national - an actual problem with 5g
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/30/21241218/frugality-coronavirus-scallions-aluminum-foil-reuse
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dynasties-still-run-the-world
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/samsung-lee-apology.html
05/08 (Fri)
- https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/thoughts-current-crisis/ "As I write, I am not confident that I know whether all of the current economic shutdowns in the United States are necessary to stop the virus. Every hour I read some authoritative person saying yes, and the next hour I read some authoritative person saying no." - the haute conservative spin. What "authoritative" people are saying no? ...and then we go into the whole "government bloat" thing...
05/09 (Sat)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/us/politics/white-house-coronavirus-safety.html
- Eastern Oregon church leads suit over Gov. Kate Brown stay-home executive orders
- https://www.9news.com.au/national/coal-mine-under-greater-sydneys-woronora-drinking-water-reservoir-approved-during-coronavirus-pandemic/d3e51de8-f370-4fcf-b4f8-7f62be1c24c7
- https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1258364688435478528 - George Monbiot reacts to Planet of the Humans, and explains why population isn't the issue
- https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/104138668714864553 - the American right wing
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/us-denmark-economy.html
- http://gomag.com/article/lesbian-beats-sheriff-who-fired-her-in-election/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/what-if-they-reopened-country-and-no-one-came/611182/ - polls show overwhelming support for not reopening yet
- https://www.quora.com/Its-already-in-the-US-narrative-that-Trump-has-not-done-well-with-his-response-to-Covid19-How-do-Trump-supporters-counter-this/answer/Geoff-Guenther-1
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/6/1943132/-Calls-to-kill-grandma-still-won-t-reopen-our-economy-and-that-s-what-grandma-killers-don-t-get
- socio-cultural effects of COVID-19:
05/10 (Sun)
- attacks on Tara Reade:
- https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-elon-musk-sues-county-and-threatens-to-move-tesla-hq-out-of-california-in-lockdown-row-11985947
- https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/5/9/21251034/covid-19-reopening-economy-plans-missouri-georgia-science
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/4/1942568/-Fox-News-host-pushes-new-pandemic-hoax-this-one-even-dumber-than-the-others
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months - human nature but actually
- https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-too-much-coronavirus-testing-makes-us-look-bad-2020-5 - errorism
- https://news.yahoo.com/secret-service-coronavirus-cases-white-house-concerns-221444492.html
- https://tucson.com/business/tribally-owned-solar-power-plant-beats-skeptics-odds-on-navajo/article_9dcbd829-9134-552b-a305-242cdb673d0a.html - yes, solar can power a lot of homes
- https://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/2020/04/iceland-bans-sociopaths-from-government/
- https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2020/05/quiz-time-which-bible-figure-wore-a-mask-to-protect-others.html - so much for that argument
- https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-warren-cory-booker-join-forces-bill-ban-most-factory-farming-2040-1502699
- https://www.news9.com/story/5eb349f4fa9b103a3dc68e66/2-arrested-after-allegedly-shooting-2-employees-at-sw-okc-mcdonalds- - errorism
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundraiser-and-trump-ally-to-be-named-postmaster-general-giving-president-new-influence-over-postal-service-officials-say/2020/05/06/25cde93c-8fd4-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html
- from Dana Hunter: "You're wrong. I won't debate you because you're wrong. We're not on equal footing, because you're wrong. I won't discuss the merits of this, because it is meritless. Please respect me and don't send that kind of stuff ever again." -Reddit user MarsNeedsRabbits
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/military-official-working-white-house-tests-positive-coronavirus-n1202061
05/12 (Tue)
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2193136-universal-income-study-finds-money-for-nothing-wont-make-us-work-less/ - UBI
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/08/april-2020-jobs-report/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/11/1944215/-A-tiny-ice-cream-parlor-gets-an-unwelcome-lesson-in-American-entitlement
- https://www.wral.com/science-saves-airplane-flies-counter-protest-banner-over-200-reopennc-protesters/19094434/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-with-extreme-political-views-have-trouble-thinking-about-their-own-thinking
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/
05/13 (Wed)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/12/1944627/-Lawyer-shuts-down-Fox-News-Obamagate-talking-points-in-60-seconds-leaving-host-speechless
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic
- https://santaclaraprinciples.org/ - The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/10/1944047/-Three-Minnesota-teens-arrested-for-kicking-Asian-woman-after-viral-video-identifies-suspects
- https://twitter.com/hate5six/status/1260556689117523969 - the MOVE bombing, 1985
05/14 (Thu)
- https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-13/fbi-serves-warrant-on-senator-stock-investigation
- https://m.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/05/11/whitmer-becomes-target-of-dozens-of-threats-on-private-facebook-groups-ahead-of-armed-rally-in-lansing
- https://www.quora.com/Former-Trump-supporters-who-changed-their-mind-what-was-the-specific-moment-event-where-you-started-having-doubts
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/13/1944933/-Senator-s-cell-phone-seized-amid-federal-investigation-into-stock-trades-made-as-COVID-19-spread
- https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/leaked-white-house-data-shows-infections-spiking-more-than-1000-in-rural-areas-that-backed-trump/
05/16 (Sat)
- https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21249203/venezuela-coup-jordan-goudreau-maduro-guaido-explain
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-12/if-landlords-get-wiped-out-wall-street-wins-not-renters (archive.org)
- https://www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21257078/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-joint-unity-task-forces-democratic-policy
- https://www.vox.com/2020/5/16/21259492/covid-antibodies-spain-serology-study-coronavirus-immunity
- https://www.vox.com/2020/5/15/21258854/house-three-trillion-stimulus-bill
05/17 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-well-intentioned-white-families-can-perpetuate-racism
- COVID-19:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/15/1945241/-Florida-deaths-mount-daily-with-thousands-dying-needlessly
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/15/1945276/-Two-weeks-into-reopening-Texas-is-hitting-coronavirus-milestones-and-not-the-good-kind
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/15/1945359/-Even-Wisconsin-Media-Can-t-Believe-What-They-re-Seeing-Here
- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/police-covid-19-pandemic-excuse-abuse-roma-200511134616420.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/11/1944335/-Trump-unveiled-new-props-at-bizarre-COVID-19-briefing-that-spurred-instant-memes
- https://www.quora.com/If-you-believe-Fox-news-is-fake-news-did-you-form-your-opinion-by-actually-watching-different-Fox-programs-or-by-what-you-are-told-by-other-people-and-what-you-have-read/answer/Melinda-Potter
- https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1260944477629415425 - guns ok, axe causes alarm
- https://www.alternet.org/2013/09/true-history-libertarianism-america-phony-ideology-promote-corporate-agenda/
- https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/outrage-after-trump-quietly-fires-state-department-inspector-general-friday-night-slow-moving-coup/
- Anti-Communist myths debunked
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/12/1944592/-Katy-Tur-s-expression-says-it-all - someone else saying what I've been saying
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w27097.pdf - how the NBER expected people to spend the stimulus money, vs. how they actually did
05/18 (Mon)
- COVID-19:
- https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/05/18/world-backs-australia-coronavirus-probe/ (archive.org)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/stock-market-economy-coronavirus.html - more about the economy than c19, really
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/16/1945402/-Kentucky-Garbage-Man-Hadn-t-Seen-Elderly-Woman-s-Trash-Can-Out-Rightly-Felt-Something-Was-Amiss
- epistemology:
- rhetoric:
- https://www.givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers/ - results of giving people lump sums
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/it-s-a-place-where-they-try-to-destroy-you-why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us - concentration camp
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-pandemic-shattered-the-harmony-of-medieval-europe-s-diverse-cities - the plague, pandemics
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/18/1945920/-Pastor-John-Pavlovitz-details-the-5-reasons-white-evangelicals-worship-Trump
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/15/856189149/it-s-partly-on-me-gop-official-says-fraud-warnings-hamper-vote-by-mail-push --vvoter fraud
- https://newsone.com/3940390/ahmaud-arbery-armed-black-protesters-patrol-georgia-neighborhood/ - Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery
05/19 (Tue)
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/investing/jobs-coronavirus-consumer-spending-debt/index.html - the economy is not us
- COVID-19
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/18/lockdown-protests-spread-coronavirus-cellphone-data
- https://www.newsweek.com/michigan-closes-down-capitol-face-death-threats-armed-protesters-against-gov-whitmer-1504241
- https://secondnexus.com/donald-trump-physician-hydroxychloroquine-statement
- https://cbs12.com/news/local/woman-who-designed-floridas-covid-19-dashboard-has-been-removed-from-her-position
- https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorship-covid-19-data-researcher-removed-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/
- https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/furloughed-workers-encouraged-help-farms-18277700
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ31Ljd9T_Y - a copy of this video was being passed around, so I researched it
- text version: 2008-05-08 archive.org (not available on wjla.com)
- The report opens with some statements regarding beliefs about organic food -- it's pesticide-free, better for you, and worth the extra cost -- which it then implicitly calls into question with regard to all organic food, rather than specifically food labeled as "organic", coming from China, and sold by Whole Foods. (There's also a heavy implication that people only buy organic because Whole Foods has promoted this image, which isn't true. Whole Foods capitalized on pre-existing positive sentiment towards organic food.)
- The report also implies that WF has been mis-labeling China-grown food as "local", but the evidence they present shows that it is labeled as grown in China.
- The problem this report does identify is that Whole Foods very much appears to be using logistical shenanigans and opacity to hide the fact that they are (or were) apparently labeling non-organic foods as organic, and that this is one of the many ways in which giant corporations like WF exploit globalization for their profit and to our detriment.
- text version: 2008-05-08 archive.org (not available on wjla.com)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/parking-has-eaten-american-cities
- https://www.insider.com/the-post-covid-19-future-for-bozeman-montana-2020-5
- https://www.theroot.com/georgia-keeps-releasing-misleading-data-about-its-covid-1843525307
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/saudi-arms-sale-was-second-area-investigation-fired-state-department-n1209521
- https://www.quora.com/What-are-Trump-supporters-still-angry-about-considering-that-they-ve-been-in-control-of-the-USA-for-almost-4-years-now/answer/Vikki-Stefans-1
- https://www.quora.com/What-is-Obamagate-Please-use-words-a-5-year-old-would-understand - Trumpite revisionist history
05/20 (Wed)
- COVID-19:
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-french-connection-trump-family-trusts-are-invested-in-hydroxychloroquine-maker/ar-BB12he2q
- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/lockdown-effects-mt-everest-visible-from-kathmandu-after-decades-as-pollution-level-goes-down/as75802249.cms
- File:2020-05-20.stolen valor c19.97084319 2943203062434262 3892514708447559680 n.jpg
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/trump-declares-scientific-study-a-trump-enemy-statement/ - war on science
- https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/05/20/the-tories-just-got-a-stark-warning-to-learn-the-lessons-of-the-past/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/my-family-s-slave - pretty sure I read this several years ago
- https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n10/eric-foner/the-corrupt-bargain - Electoral College
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-venice-is-disappearing - Venice global warming
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-jane-roe/plaintiff-in-roe-v-wade-u-s-abortion-case-says-she-was-paid-to-switch-sides-idUSKBN22V33D - Roe v. Wade
05/21 (Thu)
- shootings:
- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-westgate-shooting-least-two-22061249 - Westgate, AZ
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/corpus-christi-naval-base-lockdown-reports-shooter-200521124000881.html - naval station in Corpus Christi, TX
- COVID-19/shortages:
- https://slate.com/business/2020/05/pasta-shortage-coronavirus-why.html
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/theres-only-one-way-out-of-this-mess/611431/
- https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/what-is-employee-ghosting-how-companies-created-their-own-worst-nightmare.html - was a thing in 2018, apparently
05/22 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/displacedviet/status/1263541132933214212 - Seattle police raid homeless encampment very unsafely
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/recession-unemployment-covid-19-economy-consumer-spending
- COVID-19/reopeners
- https://www.journalnow.com/news/state/photos-of-armed-demonstrators-at-north-carolina-subway-draw-national-attention/article_1c376a27-f977-5943-9b4a-f616b4f6d8c9.html
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/reopening-all-businesses-would-be-an-economic-disaster-if-workers-arent-safe-2020-05-20
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/21/california-pastors-services-stay-home-order
05/23 (Sat)
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-do-food-delivery-companies-lose-money.html - capitalist efficiency, or gullible investors?
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/against-big-philanthropy - distractivist/whitewashing philanthropy
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/23/twitter-bots-covid19 - "Through the analysis, they identified more than 100 types of inaccurate covid-19 stories and found that not only were bots gaining traction and accumulating followers, but they accounted for 82% of the top 50 and 62% of the top 1,000 influential retweeters"
- https://gizmodo.com/no-he-absolutely-isnt-1843612621 - Elon Musk
05/24 (Sun)
- https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/content.php?file=sundowntowns-whitemap.html - sundown towns, mostly seem to be "unknown, more info needed" from a few brief checks of NC towns
- racist sign, may still exist?
- https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/aug/12/wikipedia-entries-won-t-let-harrison-sh/ - apparently this is at the center of a Wikipedia edit-war
05/25 (Mon)
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/midland-michigan-dow-chemical-plant-threatened-by-flood-hometown.html
- https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-announces-temporary-flexibility-policy-regarding-certain-labeling-requirements-foods-humans
05/26 (Tue)
- COVID-19:
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/nsw-coronavirus-case-at-sydney-school-waverley-college/12284242
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/trump-threatens-to-move-rnc-without-assurances-from-cooper/19113224/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/26/862230065/as-the-u-s-heads-toward-100-000-covid-19-deaths-we-re-early-in-this-outbreak
- https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/23/861561659/north-carolina-reports-highest-one-day-spike-of-covid-19-cases
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/22/860981956/scientists-say-new-lower-cdc-estimates-for-severity-of-covid-19-are-optimistic
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/23/1947216/-Twitter-has-a-field-day-after-Republican-candidate-rage-tweets-Pottery-Barn-over-COVID-19-policies - things that Reopeners complain about (what happened to property rights? isn't that part of "freedom"?)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/26/1947704/-Widower-begs-Twitter-to-take-down-Trump-s-horrifying-lies-about-his-wife-s-death - when politicizing a death is actually bad
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/26/1947744/-Trump-advisor-blasted-for-describing-U-S-workers-as-human-capital-stock-ready-to-return-to-jobs -- "human capital stock"
- https://features.propublica.org/diabetes-amputations/black-american-amputation-epidemic/ - US healthcare system problems in a nutshell
- https://secondnexus.com/nbc-hard-evidence-trump-obama - Obamagate
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/861401372/unlikely-allies-band-together-in-laredo-to-oppose-the-border-wall
- https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1264587046544265216 - Asher Wolf predicts major bad stuff socially
- https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/21242299/outbreak-girlstown-chalco-world-villages-villa-de-las-ninas - a Catholic idea of providing refuge
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/26/but-amy-cooper-is-a-racist/ - yes, Virginia, racism is still a thing
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-change-sea-level-rise-737012/ -- "IPCC reports are notoriously conservative"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/23/1946982/-In-unusual-electoral-strategy-Trump-declares-war-on-must-get-Michigan - if I thought he were smart enough to do it, I'd say he's trying to lose so he can get back to his regular life
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499 - Facebook algorithms encourage division; FB decided not to do anything about it, in part because solution would have worked against "conservative" viewpoints
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/25/1947101/-The-Memorial-Day-history-forgot-The-Martyrs-of-the-Race-Course - erasure of Black people
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/23/1947225/--Karen-isn-t-suddenly-going-wild-She-s-just-being-documented-At-last
05/27 (Wed)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-20/private-equity-is-ruining-health-care-covid-is-making-it-worse - the profit motive needs to die a flaming death
- https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-05-06/socalgas-union-leader-protest-threat-no-social-distancing - when unions behave badly
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/25/861702165/trump-hasnt-worn-a-mask-publicly-here-s-what-might-convince-him-to - mask wearing (or not) as allegiance-signalling
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484/trump-team-killed-rule-designed-to-protect-health-workers-from-pandemic-like-cov
05/28 (Thu)
- https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/104227495420119062
- https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/104227496654670309 - "we have decided to stop providing our service on mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud starting June 30, 2020."
- COVID-19
- Donald Trump/war on truth:
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/863011399/trump-threatens-to-shut-down-social-media-after-twitter-adds-warning-on-his-twee -- Trump's tweet: "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen." So much for free speech.
- https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-to-close-twitter-for-fact-checking-his-tweets-on-voting/
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order/trump-will-sign-an-executive-order-on-social-media-companies-white-house-spokeswoman-idUSKBN2333BT
- https://twitter.com/CenDemTech/status/1267899045923688450
- George Floyd:
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1265874933432737792
- 2020-05-28 (video: 12:38) The Minneapolis Uprising and Lessons for the Communist Movement
- https://twitter.com/basand34/status/1266012237740859392 "Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is the first mayor in the US to call for the charge of arrest on a officer"
- crowdfunding for protesters:
- Oakland in solidarity:
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/the-efficiency-dilemma - Jevons
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kppna/california-police-used-military-surveillance-tech-at-grad-student-strike
- https://outline.com/sCv7z4 - Ilhan Omar
- https://twitter.com/dr_jfprice/status/1265658344133591041 - 4chan homomisia campaign for Pride Month
- Mark Zuckerberg thinks money should be the arbiter of truth:
05/29 (Fri)
- George Floyd:
- https://www.stylerave.com/2020/05/28/george-floyd-story/
- https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-28/george-floyd-central-park-familiar-terror-they-inspire - racism still not dead
- https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/2020/05/29/minnesota-sends-500-national-guard-soldiers-to-minneapolis-and-nearby-areas-as-protests-grow-over-george-floyds-death/
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1265874933432737792
- https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/george-floyd-911-call/
- https://twitter.com/i/status/1266403964314058757
- https://twitter.com/ColonelSklar/status/1266255313792950273
- https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1266166402521522176
- https://twitter.com/dyllyp/status/1266167967865286656
- https://twitter.com/molllygurl/status/1265864499166396421 - footage of suspected cop
- https://twitter.com/MistyGComics/status/1265974519581343750 - same guy here breaking windows (look for identifying notch over left eye?)
- https://twitter.com/maggiekb1/status/1266436014563659776
- https://citizenactionny.org/about/board-of-directors/
- Donald Trump/war on truth
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/28/863932758/stung-by-twitter-trump-signs-executive-order-to-weaken-social-media-companies
- https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1266110420588396544
- https://www.theverge.com/21273768/section-230-explained-internet-speech-law-definition-guide-free-moderation
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1266119379831230465
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html
05/30 (Sat)
- George Floyd
- https://twitter.com/mollyhc/status/1266375603864735746 - Gandhi Mahal Restaurant in support
- https://twitter.com/AngelicFusion/status/1266589686148984832
- https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1266552262563954695
- https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1266551316534435843 - NYC bus drivers refuse to transport arrested protesters
- https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1266558115228667905 - Erika Shields, Atlanta PD, goes to talk directly with protesters
- https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1266392274549776387 - Taylor Swift makes a point
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/29/1948573/-Black-CNN-Reporter-all-but-loses-it-rightfully-on-air-with-the-truth-America-must-hear
- https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article243058791.html
- COVID-19:
05/31 (Sun)
- George Floyd
- https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/may/george-floyd-ministry-houston-third-ward-church.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/31/1949067/--I-am-permanently-blind-in-my-left-eye-Police-target-reporters-covering-George-Floyd-protests
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/31/1949092/-Michigan-sheriff-joins-George-Floyd-protesters-in-viral-video-Let-s-walk
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/31/1949055/--He-should-just-stop-talking-Atlanta-mayor-slams-Trump-s-responses-to-George-Floyd-protests
- https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/charleston-county-news/photos-damage-to-businesses-restaurants-in-downtown-charleston-following-riots/
- https://twitter.com/gulabjammin/status/1266953426363187200 - another vandalism victim who supports the protests
- https://twitter.com/aquaribubblegum/status/1266929964793896961 -- protesters blocking access to (not damaging or looting) a Target
- https://twitter.com/andizeisler/status/1266772395311771648 -- and, yeah, why didn't this happen to the reopener protests?
- https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1266996832514658304 -- journalist shot while recording police
- Lori Lightfoot's curfew:
- https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/1266865470097014785 - history lesson
- https://twitter.com/iamKITTENS/status/1266866024948752384 - thing to look for: orange armbands at LA protests
- https://twitter.com/yhfncmkdken/status/1266905623746273286 - police in US/SC/Columbia
- https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/1266931348251373568 - a peaceful moment in Beverly Hills
- https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1266997653977604096 - CBS News crew targeted by police
- https://twitter.com/Sarah4Justice - generally a good account to follow for protest news
- https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669 - journalist permanently blinded in one eye while recording protests. Lots of related stuff in thread.
- https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/05/city-hall-candidates-speak-out-about-portland-riot-curfew.html - US/OR/Portland
- Derek Chauvin's wife files for divorce, in solidarity with Floyd:
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wife-officer-charged-murder-george-floyd-announces-she-s-divorcing-n1219276
- https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Attorney-Wife-of-former-officer-charged-in-Floyd-death-files-for-divorce-570902531.html
- https://ksyl.com/national/d24a153f505b08ad18030af15ed10f0c
- https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/wife-of-former-minneapolis-police-officer-arrested-in-death-of-george-floyd-speaks-out/89-4a49fdde-5a8b-4b5c-b67f-53baed07ad37
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/05/31/2029259/protesting-mark-zuckerberg-comments-about-fact-checking-fake-news-about-mark-zuckerberg-goes-viral
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/28/1948297/-Nancy-Pelosi-stopped-Andrea-Mitchell-cold-directing-her-messaging-Not-Trump-s-but-one-for-Americans
- COVID-19:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/28/1948292/-Joe-Biden-shows-Trump-how-to-properly-use-Twitter-by-making-him-eat-his-own-words - even Joe Biden saw this coming
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1948016/-Evangelical-leader-refuses-to-wear-a-mask-unless-it-transforms-him-into-a-walking-hate-crime
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/22/1946981/-Robert-Reich-to-essential-workers-when-this-is-over-go-on-strike
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/26/1947818/-Inspector-General-tells-House-Oversight-Committee-what-she-DID-that-caused-Trump-to-Fire-her - Trump's war on truth
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1947924/-Trump-threatens-to-shut-down-Twitter-after-the-site-calls-him-on-two-out-of-52-000-lies - Trump's war on truth
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1947972/-CNBC-host-snaps-on-Trump-pundit-You-have-used-and-abused-your-position
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1947955/-Donald-Trump-s-lies-are-so-outrageous-that-now-God-is-calling-him-out
June
6/1 (Mon)
- George Floyd:
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/us/george-floyd-protests-saturday/index.html
- State and local authorities said the violence in Minneapolis was being fueled by outsiders.
- St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said everyone arrested in his city on Friday night was from out of state.
- https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-31-20/h_3c5a64acb64d7769dd91f1ce61ae9a8f
- https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1266957030285127687 - video: A reporter interviews a #Minneapolis nurse who was working at the medical tent, treating a man bleeding badly from a rubber bullet wound, when police attacked them.
- https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267176238960922624 - Denver. Police were firing pepper bullets and tear gas at cars stopped at an intersection, targeting a car with a pregnant woman.
- https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267240417193365504 - Minneapolis: Police deliberately shoot foreign press crew from @DW with rubber bullets.
- https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1267249556737032192 - ATLANTA: Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim were returning home when police smashed their car windows. The cops pepper spray and taser the terrified young couple, then drag them out of the car & arrest them.
- https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1267327498339127298 - New Zealand marching for BLM
- https://twitter.com/fromshadows/status/1267319606622015490 - Art Acevedo, Houston Chief of Police
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/31/1949224/-Tanker-Truck-Drives-High-Speed-Into-Thousands-Marching-in-Minneapolis
- https://twitter.com/samiasnothere/status/1267478903448371201 - Syrian solidarity
- https://twitter.com/eddy_sarah/status/1267522867874365440 - US/NC/Durham
- https://twitter.com/JehanPatterson/status/1267365802384207873 - police department lied about whether they had detained someone, sounds like
- https://twitter.com/codepink/status/1267520244941066240 - police shot and killed protester in US/KY/Louisville, omfg
- https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1267525903032016897 - US/WA/Snohomish racism
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barrs-statement-riots-and-domestic-terrorism
- https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/ex-fbi-official-slams-bill-barr-for-ignoring-the-right-wing-boogaloo-bois-infiltrating-protests/amp/ - right-wing infiltrating the protests for their own aims
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/1/1949392/-Trump-comes-absolutely-unglued-on-phone-call-with-governors-and-mayors - Trump tells governors they need to "dominate"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/1/1949336/-So-he-was-literally-hiding-in-a-bunker
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/1/1949376/-Sen-Tom-Cotton-calls-on-Trump-to-deploy-infantry-against-American-citizens
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/us/george-floyd-protests-saturday/index.html
- David McAtee:
- https://twitter.com/codepink/status/1267520244941066240 - David McAtee was shot and killed by Louisville police early this morning after officers open fired into a crowd of protestors.
- https://twitter.com/robferdman/status/1267555994709655553 - Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer just announced every single officers' body camera was NOT ACTIVATED during the shooting last night that resulted in DavidMcAtee’s death. Not one.
6/2 (Tue)
- George Floyd protests
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/primatechess/2020/05/31/dont-pretend-you-care-about-riots-america/sc_42667e767da717cc2f7d779a34d3e342/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2020/05/31/guest-post-activism-ability-fear-and-guilt/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2020/06/01/trying-to-understand-the-riots/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/06/01/of-course-hes-going-to-do-the-very-worst-thing-for-bringing-peace/ - about the Trump "dominate them" phone conference
- https://biden.intochz.com/2020/05/31/seattle-cop-caught-on-video-with-knee-on-neck-of-george-floyd-protestor/
- https://www.theroot.com/police-prove-point-of-protests-by-instigating-violence-1843797562
- Trump tweets Antifa will be labeled a terrorist organization but experts believe that's unconstitutional
- https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1267621204392804353 "Peaceful protesters were tear-gassed and shot with rubber bullets on Trump’s orders—outside a church across the street from the White House—just so Trump could have a photo op"
- https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1267768077594304512 "US policeman fires a teargas grenade into an unarmed man’s face at point blank range. This is the sort of shit I’ve seen covering conflict in the Middle East."
- https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1267673936659021830 - similar observation in Seattle
- https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/1267857684285607940 "This is the Berlin February-March 1933 playbook."
- https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1267673936659021830 - similar observation in Seattle
- https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1267610698965753865 - police allow armed white groups to patrol after curfew
- https://7news.com.au/news/north-america/prime-minister-scott-morrison-calls-for-investigation-after-7news-reporter-and-cameraman-assaulted-in-us-riots-c-1074160
- https://twitter.com/griner/status/1267647744774156290 - US/AL/Birmingham follows through on agreement to remove racist monument
- https://twitter.com/zenalbatross/status/1267615382539579392 - crowd consensus to ignore curfew in NYC
- http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/isaac-asimov-laments-the-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-united-states.html
- https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/resources-supporting-black-lives-matter-movement-creative-industry-010620 - resources for supporting Black Lives Matter
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/internet-users-all-kinds-should-be-concerned-new-copyright-offices-report
- police violence:
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-intolerable-tensions-between-american-cities-and-their-police-forces
- https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224 - research-based solutions to stop police violence
- https://twitter.com/TechConnectify/status/1267840371146608642 - Technology Connections is declared a traitor! (by whom?)
- https://twitter.com/katiejoyofosho/status/1267273702271520768 - riots in Philly... owait, it's just sports fans trashing the place, so that's ok
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/24/tanya-day-death-custody-inquest-family-want-answers
- https://twitter.com/imagineterrain/status/1267716771513012230 - troop movements towards DC
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/2/21277981/senators-police-military-equipment-weapons - Rand Paul and Brian Schatz want to de-militarize the police
6/3 (Wed)
- George Floyd
- https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/may/george-floyd-ministry-houston-third-ward-church.html
- https://www.newsweek.com/54-americans-think-burning-down-minneapolis-police-precinct-was-justified-after-george-floyds-1508452
- https://twitter.com/DavidLy50171905/status/1267287562323927041 - police officers condemn the killing
- https://twitter.com/objkshn/status/1267138767267065863 - another one
- https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1267995719660720128 - video: Republican senators largely avoid comment on Trump's photo-op clearing
- https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/03/28501719/good-morning-news-in-portland-a-city-unites-while-its-police-spiral-out-of-control
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-s-no-such-thing-as-a-dangerous-neighborhood - broken windows policing and violence
- police reform/obstacles:
- http://www.citypages.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-members-consider-disbanding-the-police/570993291
- https://twitter.com/MplsWard3/status/1267891878801915904 "Politicians who cross the MPD find slowdowns in their wards. After the first time I cut money from the proposed police budget, I had an uptick in calls taking forever to get a response, and MPD officers telling business owners to call their councilman about why it took so long."
- https://twitter.com/billwasik/status/1267908608672620546 "This whole thread, by a Minneapolis city councilperson, is pretty remarkable in the way it captures the hostage-style relationship that a lot of progressive city leaderships feel w/r/t their PDs"
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-still-so-rare-for-police-officers-to-face-legal-consequences-for-misconduct/
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/6/2/21278113/looting-george-floyd-protests-social-unrest - about looting
6/4 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/minik-and-the-meteor - imperialist looting
- https://narratively.com/the-black-investigator-who-went-undercover-as-a-white-man-in-the-jim-crow-south/ - Walter Francis White, lynching, looting
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-america-lost-the-war-on-drugs
- https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/06/george-floyd-protest-urban-design-history-racism-architecture/612622/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-black-feminists-who-saw-the-alt-right-threat-coming - online provocateurs
- Trump church photo-op:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/3/1950204/-White-House-confirms-Trump-gave-order-resulting-in-assault-on-St-John-s-Church
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-use-of-tear-gas-to-break-up-a-protest-undermined-three-core-values-of-american-democracy/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/2/1949735/-Traitors-Park-Police-denies-coordinating-with-Trump-to-attack-Americans-but-evidence-is-clear
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/1/1949565/-Trespassing-St-John-s-Bishop-says-Trump-was-on-church-property-without-permission
- Trump bunker retreat:
- George Floyd:
- https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268297412424204288 - the megathread of police brutality
- https://www.stylerave.com/2020/05/28/george-floyd-story/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/3/1950332/-Only-Black-Member-of-KY-Legislature-Attacked-by-Louisville-Police - everything was peaceful until the cops showed up
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-protesters-and-police-safer-heres-why-departments-respond-with-force-anyway/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/4/1950328/-Good-News-Roundup-We-re-Finally-Getting-Somewhere-on-Police-Shootings
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/3/1950135/-Minneapolis-store-owner-regrets-his-clerk-called-911-on-George-Floyd-after-full-transcript-released
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/3/1950098/-Conservative-journalist-caught-pretending-to-board-up-a-business-for-a-fraudulent-Instagram-post
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/3/1950018/-Evidence-mounts-of-far-right-extremists-violent-chicanery-at-police-protests-around-the-nation
- https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/ex-fbi-official-slams-bill-barr-for-ignoring-the-right-wing-boogaloo-bois-infiltrating-protests/amp/
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/four-years-after-colin-kaepernick-kneeled-nfl-quarterbacks-are-starting-to-speak-out/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee - Robert E. Lee: the myth and the actual person
6/5 (Fri)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2020/06/05/definitely-a-bad-idea/ - cops treat firecrackers like bombs; media plays along
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/gwquua/freedom_for_me_but_not_for_thee/ - PragerU demonstrates that when they do it to us it's "freedom" but when we do it to them it's "bias"
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/bowser-black-lives-matter-street/2020/06/05/eb44ff4a-a733-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html - DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has "black lives matter" painted in huge yellow letters in front of the White House
- https://twitter.com/JTSparta13/status/1268961894322311173 - someone claiming the Boogaloo Bois aren't racists, using photos of brown people with Boogaloo-Bois-like costumes
- COVID-19/bailout: https://www.propublica.org/article/this-treasury-official-is-running-the-bailout-its-been-great-for-his-family
- Buffalo police resign from special unit:
- https://buffalonews.com/2020/06/05/57-members-of-buffalo-police-riot-response-team-resign/
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/new-york-state-57-police-resign-to-support-officers-fired-for-shoving-75-year-old
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-officers-shoving-75-year-old-ground-decried-governor-where-n1225776
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/06/05/57-buffalo-police-resign-from-riot-unit-in-protest-of-officers-suspension/#1483d693473e
6/6 (Sat)
- https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1269010234821021696 "Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will decline to prosecute people charged with unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct cases tied to protesting. This means the non-violent arrests for breaking curfew will not be prosecuted."
- https://twitter.com/NickStubbins/status/1269196909672988672 "cornered peaceful protestors and sprayed mace inside Central Station, then denied Journalists from entering claiming there was 'nothing to report'"
- https://twitter.com/maximumcuddles/status/1269196848805249024 "This is 'kettling', a tactic developed by the IDF to violently surround and suppress Palestinian protesters. It has been taught to police departments across the world, including @nswpolice. It is a lethally dangerous tactic which should be outlawed."
- https://thenewinquiry.com/in-defense-of-looting/
- https://twitter.com/55mmbae/status/1268946680507797505 "Officials in Washington DC have renamed part of a street that leads to the White House to Black Lives Matter Way"... echoes of naming streets "Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive", I guess, but this one seems like a message to Trump & cohorts
- https://twitter.com/JohnGallagherJr/status/1269049272936419328 - police war on civilization
- https://www.particlesforjustice.org/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/3/1950090/--I-m-crying-tears-of-joy-Immigrant-rights-advocates-mark-white-supremacist-Steve-King-s-defeat - Steve King
- https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1269267256564989952 - Philly police threaten to call in sick
- https://twitter.com/itsjosephryan/status/1269158676037660672 - "The @SeattlePD just refused to let an AMBULANCE through a peaceful protest." (video)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/5/1950752/-It-turns-out-the-New-York-Times-asked-Tom-Cotton-for-his-war-crime-filled-op-ed
- https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1269326050863075334
- https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1268713390513565696 - one example of factual error, thoroughly analyzed
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program/
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/05/im-getting-shot-attacks-on-journalists-surge-in-us-protests
- https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21280643/police-brutality-violence-protests-racism-khalil-muhammad
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/protests-trump-helicopters-national-guard.html
- https://twitter.com/AmyJPetty/status/1268801051198582785 - video: cops whacking protesters with batons for no reason
- https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/police-department-civil-forfeiture-investigation/Content?oid=23728922 - Chicago PD's secret budget
- https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/uk-population-being-fooled-by-government-1-6684939
- Lowe's vs. Home Depot:
- https://twitter.com/Lucaskavner/status/1269074733611401216 - "the founder of Lowe’s is one of the only black CEOs of a Fortune 500 company"
- https://twitter.com/Ptolemarch/status/1269327821261897729 - "Lowe’s just donated 25 million to help minority owned businesses reopen. Home Depot founder donated 7 mil to Trump. Go to Lowe’s."
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/05/trump-maine-puritan-throw-away-coronavirus-swabs/3153622001/
- https://twitter.com/blondbyrd/status/1269295630989606915 - repeats the myth that protesters haven't been wearing masks; thread refutes it soundly
- https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/05/the-recovery-trial-reports-on-hydroxychloroquine - study shows no benefit
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/2/1949859/-Trump-left-his-bunker-and-people-along-the-route-expressed-themselves-loud-and-clear
6/7 (Sun)
- https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/06/28512975/mayor-wheeler-will-not-ban-police-use-of-tear-gas-during-protests
- https://twitter.com/submedia/status/1269372055654408192 - how violence/riots/looting are necessary for change
- Japanese protests:
- https://twitter.com/itsavibe/status/1269123190099451904 - firefighter reports being threatened by cop while on duty and in uniform, not sure where
- https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1269533136716783618 - police targeting reporters
- https://communities.nysba.org/blogs/hubert-g-plummer-esq/2020/06/05/new-york-suspends-habeas-corpus
- https://todon.nl/@ShellMustFall/104292557271354627 "YOU BROKE THE CONTRACT! Why do you 'burn down your own neighborhood'? It's NOT OURS! WE DON'T OWN ANYTHING. FUCK your Target. They are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge."
6/8 (Mon)
- https://www.channel4.com/news/we-have-a-statue-of-someone-who-made-their-money-by-throwing-our-people-into-water-and-now-hes-on-the-bottom-of-the-water-marvin-rees-elected-mayor-of-bristol
- https://twitter.com/ElectKHT/status/1269795380608200704 - police absent from massive march in South Seattle, and everything went great
- https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-democracies-fail by David Frum - note the definition of "conservative" as basically "supporting an elite class"
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/climate-change-i-have-known - real-world effects
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/06/america-giving-up-on-pandemic/612796/
- Recession hit US in February, ending record-long expansion - happened before COVID-19
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/klamath-falls-oregon-victory-declared-over-antifa-which-never-showed-n1226681
- https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1270059322806923264 - Minneapolis Police slashed tires of numerous legally parked cars
6/9 (Tue)
- Seattle Autonomous Zone
- https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1270111875586555907 - video of discussion with former police chief of Camden, NJ
- https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/
- https://medium.com/@projectid/max-temkin-and-rape-culture-9fc2599196e8
- https://mastodon.fidonet.io/@joacim/104312798435650115 - 'accused, not convicted'
- https://social.pixie.town/@thufie/104313305564051384 - 'admin is defending rape; need instance block'
- https://mastodon.fidonet.io/@joacim/104312798435650115 - 'accused, not convicted'
6/10 (Wed)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/miami-will-be-underwater-soon-its-drinking-water-could-go-first - global warming effects; Florida
- https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-who-is.html
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/court-denies-immunity-police-west-virginia-george-floyd
- https://twitter.com/djmckenna00/status/1269219453637623808 - wage theft adds up to more than all the "looting" -- burglaries+robberies, shoplifting, auto theft -- but it is not a crime.
06/11 (Thu)
- https://www.newsobserver.com/article243438961.html - possible example of Dems being (slightly) worse than Republicans
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/under-pressure-over-nursing-home-outbreaks-nc-plans-coronavirus-tests-in-every-one/19139398/
- https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tear-gas-abortifacient-why-wont-anti-abortion-movement-oppose-it/
- https://franklywrite.com/2020/06/01/a-white-woman-racism-and-a-poodle/ - black poodle as a test for systemic racism
- https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html - a reminder that the police are not here to protect us
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/under-pressure-over-nursing-home-outbreaks-nc-plans-coronavirus-tests-in-every-one/19139398/
- https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-the-protests-have-changed-the-pandemic
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/here-are-the-urban-highways-that-deserve-to-die
- https://secondnexus.com/trump-twitter-violence-suspension-test
- https://twitter.com/CoutureHentai/status/1269320241357578240 - US/OR/Salem
- https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1269290014019633152 "It's a strange situation we're in, from the point of view of the political sociology of mass protest. It is not often that Executive incompetence runs so deep that there's no clear path to successful democratic de-escalation *or* successful authoritarian repression. (1/n)"
- https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1269293200721805312 - video of unmarked guards in DC
- America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress
- https://twitter.com/freeblackgirl/status/1269308178727985153
- http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning
- https://twitter.com/miyukijane/status/1269323940897230848 "Have you ever wondered why some college campuses seem so confusing and hard to get around in? It's by design, to prevent students from amassing in big public spaces as they did in the 60's. (Not in the brutalist architecture, IMO, but by shaping access to spaces)."
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/the-power-broker-robert-moses-and-the-fall-of-new-york-robert-caro-review
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-still-so-rare-for-police-officers-to-face-legal-consequences-for-misconduct/
- https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/covid-forecasts/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/5/1950648/-There-was-one-group-behind-the-violence-on-Thursday-night-and-it-sure-as-hell-was-not-antifa
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/6/1951159/-CO-GOP-Rep-Dave-Williams-posts-totally-legit-flyer-left-behind-by-protesters
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/4/1950417/-Episcopal-bishop-blocked-from-vigil-at-church-Trump-commandeered-then-a-good-thing-happened
- https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Democrats-accused-by-Republicans-as-being-un-American-or-un-patriotic/answer/Greg-Larson-7 - the Gingrich strategy
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/8/1951465/-After-week-of-unrest-Trump-s-approvals-continue-to-plummet-to-disastrous-levels
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/7/1951304/-BREAKING-Hell-Freezes-Over-As-Mitt-Romney-Marches-in-DC-w-Evangelicals-For-Black-Lives-Matter
06/12 (Fri)
- https://www.quora.com/Should-I-be-worried-about-the-US-riots-spreading-to-the-suburbs/answer/Agueda-Sanchez-2 - more scare tactics
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/h11gkw/he_tells_it_like_it_is/ - cartoon responding to a thing that was often said in praise of Dubya
- https://twitter.com/workingdog_/status/1121104622641451009 - lashon hara seems like an important concept
- police & infiltrators in protests (collected by request):
- historical:
- police helping protesters
- https://kvia.com/news/crime/2020/06/03/both-extremists-and-police-embed-themselves-amid-protesters-in-el-paso-across-texas/ - police helping to identify infiltrators
- https://mronline.org/2020/06/05/agent-provocateurs-police-at-protests-all-over-the-country-caught-destroying-property/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uRwt2-DDYc
06/13 (Sat)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/11/1952337/-Heave-Ho-Media-buyers-drop-Tucker-Carlson-into-the-abyss-over-racist-commentary - Tucker Carlson
06/14 (Sun)
- https://twitter.com/pgorski/status/1267067209450434560 - black activists experiencing burnout because of how white activists are (list)
- https://twitter.com/NatalieGABand/status/1272156470713475074 - James Baldwin on "looting"
- https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-man-found-hanged-tree-inwood-park-20200609-irhvgdkizzbpfnkyulxzm2n2tq-story.html
- https://twitter.com/where_the_rider/status/1271941396677582848 "most likely a lynching that they're trying to rule as a suicide"
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/facebook-silicon-valley-trump-silence/612877/
- https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/8/1951550/-NYTimes-Op-ed-warns-of-a-Trump-vaccine-October-Surprise
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/8/1951555/-Video-of-state-troopers-slashing-and-puncturing-protesters-and-reporters-cars-tires-goes-viral
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/13/1952986/-Malcolm-Harsch-Robert-Fuller-both-black-both-found-hanging-from-a-tree-50-miles-apart-in-CA - probable covert lynching
06/15 (Mon)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/h9avbd/portland_police_have_declared_themselves_above/
- https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/
- https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/
- https://twitter.com/traderjoes130/status/1272253873227313152?s=19
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/nyregion/nypd-plainclothes-cops.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/14/blm-supporter-speaks-out-after-carrying-counter-protester-to-safety
- https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/georgia-democrats-set-new-primary-turnout-record-outpacing-gop-voters/fotxE4Udba0e0q6QvDBZ8M/
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/judge-denies-document-request-abrams-ethics-investigation-68997431
- https://twitter.com/Samman812/status/1272555545745113093 "Abrams is a CHEATER. Her sister is a middle GA Federal judge and she needs to be investigated too. Keep your voter fraud garbage in IL and CA with your lover Oprah."
- https://twitter.com/Samman812/status/1272529822586220544 "Abrahams was investigated in the GA Govenors election for the same BS. She was trying to ballot harvest. Which is illegal in GA and when questionsed and asked to turn over evidence she left the state. She is poster child for cheating in an election. Oprahs girlfriend is a loser." - sounds like ad hominem to me...
- https://twitter.com/shawn1814/status/1272616476931915782 - Samman812 is a bot
- https://heated.world/p/the-fairness-trap - "two sides" fallacy
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/black-lives-matter-foundation-unrelated-blm-donations - the Black Lives Matter Foundation is not the same as the movement, and doesn't support defunding the police
- https://www.thewirechina.com/2020/06/14/when-financial-security-means-national-security/ - Hong Kong, and possible insight into how money works at the level of high finance
- https://meedan.com/blog/we-stand-with-maria-ressa/ - "cyber libel" in the Philippines
- https://www.propublica.org/article/emails-reveal-chaos-as-meatpacking-companies-fought-health-agencies-over-covid-19-outbreaks-in-their-plants
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-is-stockholm-syndrome - Stockholm syndrome
- https://www.comicsands.com/police-report-black-woman-nword-2646173180.html - this goes beyond white fragility; not sure what to call it. Weaponized institutional racism? But racism is already a weapon. Maybe what the author said: weaponized white woman tears
- manufactured terrorism by FBI:
06/16 (Tue)
- https://crooksandliars.com/2020/06/armed-men-roam-small-town-streets-ward-non
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-violent-protests-change-politics
- https://www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21276004/anger-police-killing-george-floyd-protests
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-you-know-about-global-order-is-wrong - "the postwar liberal system"
- https://billmoyers.com/story/we-hold-this-truth-to-be-self-evident-its-happening-before-our-very-eyes/
- https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/why-we-need-a-working-class-media
- Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand.
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/08/recession-begins-us-ending-longest-expansion-history/5320335002/ - recession started in February
- https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-police-accountability/
- https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/police-brutality-protests-covid-black-writers/Content?oid=80371561 - Black writers react to the current situation
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/15/1953423/-Republican-who-doesn-t-wear-mask-on-floor-of-the-House-announces-he-and-his-family-caught-COVID-19
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/15/1953441/-Pence-encourages-state-governors-to-lie-to-their-citizens-about-spikes-in-Covid-19-infections
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain/ - capitalism's new innovations in pollution
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-existing-civil-rights-law-protects-gay-lesbian-n1231018 - national LGBT rights are a thing
- https://www.wral.com/protesters-spend-the-night-at-durham-police-department-want-to-defund-police/19146366/
- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/16/_politics-zone-injection/trump-police-reform-eo/index.html
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/this-teenager-accused-two-on-duty-cops-of-rape-she-had-no
- https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/16/21285836/reed-hastings-netflix-teachers-education-reform-park-county-colorado-ranch-retreat - capitalist war on public education
06/18 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/06/17/dave-rubin-is-a-first-class-twit/ - conservative: don't teach young kids about racism
- Steven Hsu:
06/19 (Fri)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-15/deadliest-corporate-crime-in-u-s-will-end-with-84-guilty-pleas - more problematic consequences of corporate personhood
- https://toofab.com/2020/06/17/black-cop-fired-stopped-white-cops-chokehold-city-wants-investigation/ - what happens to "good apples"
06/20 (Sat)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/podcasts/charm-city-part-three-transcript.html
- https://hackers.town/@Anarkat/104373344723023779 - police literally don't know how to do their jobs, because of decades of unaccountability
06/21 (Sun)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/16/1952927/-Mr-Trump-Goes-to-Arizona-and-right-on-cue
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/technology/google-neeva-executive.html - rejecting the ad-revenue model in favor of subscriptions
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/19/1954338/-A-purge-is-underway-at-the-Pentagon-as-loyalty-concerns-place-Trump-above-the-Constitution - not at all alarming, nope
- https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1274774126557683712 - 3d scan of the Robert E. Lee memorial, one week before removal
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/18/1954201/-White-guy-threatens-Black-teen-in-front-of-her-home-in-gated-community-you-don-t-belong-here
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/16/1953566/-7-year-old-maced-at-George-Floyd-protest-and-Seattle-police-arrest-man-who-filmed
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-poverty-changes-the-brain
- Trumpfan gullibility:
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/06/04/pinker-parodies-himself/
- https://www.themuckrake.com/main/a-faulty-messiah - why Evangelicals like Trump
06/22 (Mon)
- Corona and the Commons: the pandemic is forcing a chaotic transition
- https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-CEO-of-Home-Depot-donating-all-his-profits-to-the-Trump-campaign-re-election/answers/221079421 - Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus
- on-the-ground reports from Tulsa:
- https://crazynoisybizarre.town/@ThornEater/104382957158522622
- https://crazynoisybizarre.town/@ThornEater/104315276588393820
- "BA protest" refers to https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/broken-arrow-peaceful-protest-against-police-brutality-racism-addresses-issues-from-why-black-lives-matter/article_c2bcfd8c-4187-5d5d-ba5b-d01272b9a98d.amp.html
- Trump's Tulsa rally:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/21/1954987/-A-Masked-Man-Takes-a-Walk-in-the-Park - dysconservative obliviousness
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/18/1954147/-Mayor-s-Facebook-rant-about-privilege-knocks-protesters-people-who-receive-government-assistance - dysconservative makes terrible arguments based on wild assumptions; film at 11
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/kentucky-slashes-polling-places-voting-rights-mcgrath-booker-lebron-james/
06/24 (Wed)
- https://twitter.com/JamieFord/status/1272273637173637120 - "defunding the police" in 1967 led to modern ambulance services, dramatically improving outcomes for everyone
- NASCAR launches investigation after noose found in Black driver Bubba Wallace’s garage stall
- David Neiwert tweets at great length about the Red Summer of 1919
- Adam Savage says: "This is one of the most involved and incredible twitter threads I’ve ever encountered. Brutal. Necessary. Read it."
- https://twitter.com/TheBradBlog/status/1274769442463866880 - money being spent to promote electronic voting systems
- http://www.openculture.com/?p=1065218 - erasure of women who helped found rock & roll
- https://aeon.co/essays/can-the-liberal-order-be-transformed-by-global-government - "The end of the liberal order would unleash chaos; its continuance means unconstrained economic suffering. What to do?"
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/3-things-schools-should-teach-about-america-s-history-of-white-supremacy - US dishonor, racism, US/history, white supremacy
- Wikipedia vs. Grayzone:
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/beijing-reinstated-lockdown-as-us-officials-warn-the-same-could-happen-here/
- 2020-06-08 From Denver to Minneapolis, we're starting to see cities & city officials respond to BLM & change their policies. (ongoing numbered thread)
- "Bikers for Trump" claiming that far-Right conspiracy websites lied about them coming to the #CHAZ in #Seattle and that it is literal "fake news."
- https://twitter.com/rdevro/status/1272625325122428932 - NYPD's now-disbanded "anti-crime unit" was basically a reincarnated version of the "Street Crimes Unit" which was disbanded in response to the police killing of Amadou Diallo
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating - worst-case may be optimistic
- The Easy Answers of YouTube Conservatism feat. Ben Shapiro (video, >1 hour long)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/confederacy-wasnt-what-you-think/613309/ - the Confederacy was the antithesis of "freedom": "The Confederates built an explicitly white-supremacist, pro-slavery, and antidemocratic nation-state, dedicated to the principle that all men are not created equal."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/science/rome-caesar-volcano.html - Rome's transition from republic to empire; the effects of volcanoes on climate
- https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity - anyone who signs onto this bill is an enemy of humanity, seems to me
- https://twitter.com/ehamer7/status/1275585765515427842 - livetweet of US/WI/Madison protests
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/olympus-to-exit-camera-business-after-84-years-11592996861 - #thanksCapitalism
- https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1275527496230895617 - protest in US/VA/Richmond
- https://popular.info/p/a-schlapp-in-the-face
- https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1275032567092305928 - "Several corporations who have publicly championed Black Lives Matter are quietly paying 6-figures annually to right-wing activist @mschlapp" - Verizon, Abbott Labs, Comcast, Walmart
06/25 (Thu)
- Surveillance footage captured employees from both the Ventura County Sheriff's Office and Ventura County District Attorney's Office vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign that was hung on a fence in Thousand Oaks.
- https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1276026884392919040 - actual lost history (because TX Board of Education)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/when-byron-williams-died-saying-i-can-t-breathe-few-n1231342
- https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1274889441220460546 - protests in US/OH/Columbus
- https://nclawyersweekly.com/2020/06/24/north-carolina-requires-face-coverings-statewide/ - Dan Forest wants to reopen more quickly
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/ha7ka5/portland_protests_to_continue_for_20th/
- https://www.pdx-blm-events.org/events
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/hac4wm/portland_police_bureau_announces_they_will_not/
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
06/26 (Fri)
- https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract - but “Picking and choosing customers is not the approach that we take to these types of questions when it comes to influencing government policy.”, said CEO
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/06/26/ask-a-ny-paramedic-how-were-doing/
- https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/25/28576547/we-were-told-to-lie-qanda-with-state-worker-processing-unemployment-claims
- https://twitter.com/beatonna/status/1276516956745711618 - Canadian history, John A. McDonald
- https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/tesla-factory-workers-who-stayed-home-due-to-covid-fears-face-termination/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882316641/what-parents-can-learn-from-child-care-centers-that-stayed-open-during-lockdowns
06/27 (Sat)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/24/1955709/-Lousy-night-for-turncoat-New-York-Democrats-as-voters-reject-their-bids-for-promotions-and-comebacks
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/22/1955048/-Trump-knows-he-is-losing-and-he-s-prepared-to-tear-the-nation-apart-when-it-happens
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/26/trump-obamacare-supreme-court-brief/
- There is so much American history textbooks are so eager to omit. Like Chiquita's history in Latin America.
06/28 (Sun)
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay3xm/one-of-americas-most-powerful-unions-will-shut-down-29-ports-on-juneteenth
- New York:
- San Francisco:
- Parkdale (where?):
- Aurora, CO:
- Yesterday Aurora, Colorado was holding a violin vigil for Elijah McClain, who was known for playing his violin, especially to animals. "Police then used pepper spray to clear the park. There were families and kids out in Aurora. It was literally just a violin vigil for Elijah."
- https://twitter.com/Ron4California/status/1277335360985419776 - shock politics?
- Yesterday Aurora, Colorado was holding a violin vigil for Elijah McClain, who was known for playing his violin, especially to animals. "Police then used pepper spray to clear the park. There were families and kids out in Aurora. It was literally just a violin vigil for Elijah."
- Minneapolis:
- Richmond, VA:
- https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2020/06/28/the-assange-will-decide-the-future-of-journalism-and-yet-there-is-a-deafening-silence/5850175/amp/
- https://phys.org/news/2020-06-private-school-students-social-emotional.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html - just wow. Donald Trump/presidency
- https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/tim-oreilly-makes-a-persuasive-case-for-why-venture-capital-is-starting-to-do-more-harm-than-good/ "The idea was, ‘As long as someone wants to buy this [collateralized debt obligation], we’re good.’ Nobody is thinking about: Is this a good product?"
- This is the financial equivalent of right-wing argumentation. It doesn't matter if the idea/product is good; the question is whether someone else thinks enough people will find it credible.
- Is Gresham's law another example of the same phenomenon?
06/30 (Tue)
- https://www.thebalance.com/socialism-types-pros-cons-examples-3305592 - flawed definition of socialism
July
07/01 (Wed)
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505227-texas-bar-owner-bans-masks-organizes-bar-lives-matter-concert-in-protest
- https://twitter.com/anarchotrash/status/1278337171758473216 - how evictions go (and how the law operates) when you can't afford a lawyer
- Hong Kong national security law:
07/02 (Thu)
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/dont-believe-proven-liars-absolute-minimum-standard-prudence-merger-scrutiny
- https://www.quora.com/Does-the-Republican-Party-in-America-have-any-socialist-policies/answer/Allen-Eron - right-wing arguments against socialism
07/03 (Fri)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nick-brown-smelled-bull - how science works but also how power-politics gets in the way
- I feel like I've read this before, and may have filed it under a different URL. (Originally published 2013-10-17)
- US/OR:
- https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/oregon-state-police-dont-wear-coronavirus-masks-as-they-patronize-corvallis-coffee-shop-despite-governors-order.html
- US/OR/Portland:
- https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/07/01/hours-after-gov-kate-brown-signs-tear-gas-ban-into-law-portland-police-deploy-more-gas-onto-protesters/
- https://www.koin.com/news/protests/black-lives-matter-protests-portland-thursday-2-july-2020/
- https://katu.com/news/local/police-declare-riot-use-tear-gas-on-north-lombard
07/04 (Sat)
07/05 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-millennial-s-alter-ego-is-a-forgotten-female-surgeon-from-wwi - erasure of women (there were no women soldiers in "the good old days"! really!)
- https://lithub.com/chrome-plated-pistols-and-pink-polos-the-face-of-elite-panic-in-the-usa/
- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/505381-dhs-deploying-new-task-force-to-protect-monuments-ahead-of-july-4
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/29/1956885/-Hoo-boy-did-this-Trump-tweet-age-badly - inconsistency? what's that?
- https://openargs.com/oa400-no-john-roberts-is-not-your-friend/
- https://yiff.life/@drifa/104455701783253916 "Remember, the citizens of Florida overwhelmingly voted to recognize people's right to participate in making political decisions despite their criminal convictions. This is about Republicans effectively overruling their own citizens to deny people the right to vote."
- https://twitter.com/iridienne/status/1279196432067522560 - National Guard traveling in medical vehicles, for non-medical purposes, violates Geneva Convention
- https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tear-gas-abortifacient-why-wont-anti-abortion-movement-oppose-it/
- https://www.teenvogue.com/video/watch/the-las-vegas-shooter-was-not-a-lone-wolf-the-teen-vogue-take - captioned vlog post about "lone wolf" terrorism
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-death-of-an-adjunct -- seems to me the adjunct professor crisis is just part of the overall academic crisis which is part of how the elite are sucking the lifeblood out of the economy
07/06 (Mon)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/5g-was-going-to-unite-the-world-instead-its-tearing-us-apart/ -- 5G
- transmisia/JKR:
- https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/07/05/frederick-douglass-statue-rochester-ny-removed-defaced-anniversary-july-4th-speech/5380432002/ - seems likely to be right-wing vandalism, given the different MO and the timing
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/07/04/someone-noticed-pinkers-sleaziness/ - Stephen Pinker
- https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1280142365605400579 - Electoral College members must vote according to their state's majority, SCOTUS rules
- https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1280155405642063872
- This tweet seriously brought out the right wingnuts.
07/07 (Tue)
- https://cybre.space/@coleoptera/104473970608514154 - speculation and research on copyright
07/09 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/07/09/how-about-some-happy-news/ - University of Minnesota Morris is now carbon-neutral
- https://www.revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/ - prison profiteering, slavery
- https://pressthink.org/2017/11/pricing-access-trump-white-house-strange-case-times-social-media-policy/ - "objectivity" in journalism
- https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1279485384393621506 (part of a long tweetstorm)
- Majority of women support trans people’s right to self-identify despite years of relentless transphobia, eye-opening polling finds
- https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/article_0b9589e2-c195-11ea-a0b7-af4b71393acf.html
- https://twitter.com/RiverSaysBlerg/status/1280815543218569216 - coming out as a cis woman -- trans people are very accepting
07/12 (Sun)
- https://www.gq.com/story/killer-mike-the-atlanta-way
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media
- https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/9/21318896/facebook-civil-rights-audit-hate-speech-failed-zuckerberg-white-nationalism-sheryl-sandberg
- https://nondoc.com/2020/07/09/scotus-affirms-creek-nation-reservation-mcgirt/
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/07/11/0513235/why-did-a-tech-executive-install-1000-security-cameras-around-san-francisco - decentralized surveillance
- https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-employment-department-fails-to-meet-pua-processing-goal-for-second-week
- Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign - unlikely they were actually duped; they're participants in the same propaganda machine
07/13 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/07/13/capitalism-and-sexism-wrecks-comic-books-now/ - another industry in need of self-governance
- https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1282044533619011586 BLM protest in Brighton, England
07/14 (Tue)
- https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/why-so-many-billionaires-are-escaping-to-teton-county-wyoming/ - the obliviousness of the powerful who don't realize how much power they hold over others
- https://longreads.com/2018/09/18/no-i-will-not-debate-you/
07/15 (Wed)
- https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/13/890403682/miami-hospital-icu-doctor-new-influx-of-patients-is-younger-than-before
- https://toot.cat/web/statuses/104517630490458965 - users getting banned from Metafilter for complaining about other abusive users
- https://radical.town/@radicalrobit/104387703922782689 - Palemoon is against BLM
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/economists-on-the-run - Paul Krugman admits he was wrong about globalization
07/16 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/betty-shannon-unsung-mathematical-genius - Betty Shannon, erasure of women possibly
- https://twitter.com/____lexxxllIxx_/status/1283633962695499783 - anti-trans propaganda
- https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/burger-king-workers-strike-trans-employee-dies-covid-bk-blamed-hormones-death/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/third-immigrant-dies-in-ice-custody-after-contracting-the-coronavirus/
07/18 (Sat)
- https://pressthink.org/2020/03/today-we-switch-our-coverage-of-donald-trump-to-an-emergency-setting/ - how the mass media should be covering Trump
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/cbp-does-end-run-around-warrants-simply-buys-license-plate-reader-data/
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist-idUSKCN24G15E - deepfake identity
07/21 (Tue)
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-american-monuments-memorials-statues-combating-recent-criminal-violence/ "Other statutes punish those who participate in or assist the agitators who have coordinated these lawless acts. Such laws include section 371 of title 18, United States Code, which criminalizes certain conspiracies to violate Federal law, section 2 of title 18, United States Code, which punishes those who aid or abet the commission of Federal crimes, and section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, which prohibits as material support to terrorism efforts to support a defined set of Federal crimes.
- https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/four-months-unprecedented-government-malfeasance/ - how the haute-rightwingoverse is spinning COVID-19
- https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of - AOC verbally assaulted for suggesting that crime is caused by economic disparity
- https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/pavement-protest-murals-will-they-stay-or-will-they-go/
07/23 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/yes-determinists-there-is-free-will - free will yet again
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are - jobsolescence? post-capitalism?
07/24 (Fri)
- https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-least-reliable-Fox-News-Breitbart-or-RT/answers/170835667 - one opinion on which news sources are reliable
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-dhs-deployment-20200720-dftu5ychwbcxtg4ltarh5qnwma-story.html - plans for an incursion in US/IL/Chicago
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-american-monuments-memorials-statues-combating-recent-criminal-violence/ - Trump declares statues more important than human rights
07/26 (Sun)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/07/26/minnesota-has-mandated-face-masks-in-public/ - couple wearing swastika face-masks in Walmart (video)
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/what-police-officers-are-throwing-at-protesters
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/07/26/tell-me-again-how-evolutionary-psychology-is-not-a-con-game/
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexicos-new-copyright-law-puts-human-rights-jeopardy
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/16/1961288/-Brace-yourself-for-the-latest-COVID-19-predictions-You-re-not-going-to-like-them
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-meeting-masks-cancelled-when-residents-without-masks-pack-room-n1234017
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/13/1960453/-Florida-cop-fired-and-arrested-after-being-turned-in-by-other-officers-on-the-seen
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/14/1960665/-Arkansas-cop-shoots-other-officer-after-saying-he-would-shoot-through-the-door-at-BLM-protesters
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/13/1960374/-Donald-Trump-electorally-broke-the-GOP
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/12/1960087/-Tech-CEO-Trump-s-gonna-f-k-you-You-f-king-need-to-leave-You-f-king-Asian-pieces-of-sh-t
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/12/1960260/-Thank-you-Donald-Trump-You-have-done-the-one-thing-no-Democrat-could-ever-have-done
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/11/1959951/-Not-Shocking-News-The-couple-who-waved-guns-at-peaceful-protesters-are-gigantic-a-holes
07/27 (Mon)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/24/coronavirus-relief-bill-tax-break-retirees-rmd/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/27/housing-inequality-coronavirus/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/hy6q8v/because_the_only_ones_covering_a_major_monument/ - anti-protester trying to score a point deceptively
07/28 (Tue)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-your-arguments-stronger-hint-longer-is-not-the-answer - apparently overwhelming evidence leads to less persuasiveness; is this still true in a debate mapping context?
- https://time.com/5869987/spaceforce/ - US/Space Force
07/29 (Wed)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/facebook-disinformation-floyd-brown.html - Western Journal, Facebook
- Bernie delegates won't support any platform that doesn't include Medicare for All:
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/07/27/hundreds-of-democratic-delegates-vow-to-reject-platform-if-it-doesnt-include-medicare-for-all/
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/bernie-supporters-medicare-single-payer-381972
- https://www.courthousenews.com/sanders-delegates-prepare-dnc-revolt-over-medicare-for-all/
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/black-lives-matter-police-riot-gear-uk-protests-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-a9642166.html
07/30 (Thu)
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-police-unions-fight-reform - police union
- https://libcom.org/library/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order - Rusty's Rules of Order
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-southern-town-was-growing-so-fast-it-passed-a-ban-on-growth-11580738467 - even Republicans can see that there's a limit to the benefits of economic growth
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/29/1964352/-Reopening-schools-cutting-unemployment-and-hydroxychloroquine-are-all-the-same-story - the GOP COVID-19 agenda
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/29/1964877/-Trump-is-still-digging-coal-he-s-digging-its-grave-as-the-industry-collapses-despite-deregulation - some actual good news
07/31 (Fri)
- https://www.wave3.com/2020/07/28/kentucky-town-hires-social-workers-instead-more-officers-results-are-surprising/
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/deleted-biden-video-sets-off-a-crisis-at-voice-of-america-388571 GOP: using government resources to support your campaign totally isn't ok, unless it's in our favor
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/postal-service-backlog-sparks-worries-that-ballot-delivery-could-be-delayed-in-november/2020/07/30/cb19f1f4-d1d0-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html
- https://secondnexus.com/desantis-failed-pandemic-response-editorial - COVID-19/US/FL
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bad-thinkers - starts out with another 9-11/anomalies straw-man
August
08/02 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-europeans-don-t-get-huge-medical-bills
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/is-any-protest-a-threat-to-public-safety-this-small-north-carolina-town-said-yes/2020/07/28/33511ca8-d0f9-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html - US/NC/Graham
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-day-the-native-americans-drove-the-kkk-out-of-town
- check for transmisia:
- Someone to notify, once I have all the evidence together: https://twitter.com/GellmanRebecca/status/1287465902187909120
- https://thevelvetchronicle.com/anonymous-letter-from-a-terrified-lesbian-thoughtcrime/ - sounds made-up
- Posie Parker: "Trans Women Aren't Women" (video)
- Trans brains:
- Transgender brains are more like their desired gender from an early age
- Research on the Transgender Brain: What You Should Know
- Are the Brains of Transgender People Different from Those of Cisgender People? "human studies have found that, in several regions, the brains of trans people bear a greater resemblance to those of cis people who share the trans subjects' gender than to those of the same natal sex."
08/03 (Mon)
- More anti-trans issues:
- https://aeon.co/essays/why-trans-inclusive-language-is-no-threat-to-cis-women
- https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/06/trans-dogma-is-based-on-junk-science/ - labels stuff as "unscientific" when it actually isn't
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/gender-critical-trans-women-the-apostates-of-the-trans-rights-movement.html
08/04 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1290620524318601216 - COVID-19 origin conspiracy theory
- https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/10/looming-evictions-may-soon-make-28-million-homeless-expert-says.html
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/04/israel-schools-covid19 - COVID-19: school reopening did not go well in Israel
- Beirut explosion:
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/04/truth-is-paywalled-lies-are-free
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/3/1966115/-Cartoon-Voter-fraud - has a couple of links about voter fraud data
08/05 (Wed)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i3izcv/first_day_of_school_in_a_georgia_town_one_of_the/
- https://twitter.com/mgbelka/status/1291107724634161152 - door-to-door arrests in US/OR/Eugene
08/06 (Thu)
- COVID-19:
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/06/georgia-teens-shared-photos-maskless-students-crowded-hallways-now-theyre-suspended/
- https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/back-to-school-rural-oklahoma-students-are-the-first-to-head-back-into-classrooms-since/article_d5ae7ea4-5a23-5e91-b827-dfdf566d599f.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/08/06/the-quack-in-chief-is-dispensing-dangerous-medical-advice-again/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899712823/new-york-attorney-general-moves-to-dissolve-the-nra-after-fraud-investigation
- https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/seattle-city-council-police-budget-cuts-durkan-15464615.php
- https://www.papermag.com/rebecca-sugar-noelle-stevenson-2646446747.html - Rebecca Sugar Noelle Stevenson Steven Universe She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/1291473943413444608 - to find: black support for Trump was troll farm
08/07 (Fri)
- https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/protesters-threaten-indigenous-seattle-council-member-z9nJOWTXGk2uS60Lf9hkEQ
- https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/din%C3%A9-woman-will-be-kansas-youngest-sitting-legislator-LvjdBixm3UqsAP51yfIkmw
- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200731-the-saboteurs-you-can-hire-to-end-your-relationship - one consequence of making divorce difficult
- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/seattle-city-council-votes-to-defund-team-that-removes-homeless-encampments-in-victory-for-activists/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-protests.html
08/08 (Sat)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-30/private-jet-secrets-from-sex-to-pets-to-celebrity-bad-behavior - lifestyles of the absurdly rich
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-invention-of-satanic-witchcraft-by-medieval-authorities-was-initially-met-with-skepticism - early history of witch-hunts
- https://onezero.medium.com/the-gig-economy-is-failing-say-hello-to-the-hustle-economy-13ae3aa91954 - how COVID-19 is affecting the economy
08/09 (Sun)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html -- Rebecca Watson referenced this in a recent video
- https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1291688761361866754 - video about right-wingers claiming oppression
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/brexit-fuels-brain-drain-as-skilled-britons-head-to-the-eu
- https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1290666322326675457 "Brexit has sparked an exodus of economically productive people from the UK to European Union nations on a scale that would normally be expected only as a result of a major economic or political crisis, according to a detailed new study."
- https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1290588187652509696 - comparing JKR and HP Lovecraft
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-is-medicine-so-expensive - some history; actual example of a slippery slope
- https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1280542770764054532 - Margaret Atwood on sex and gender
- https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1292565297551966211 - one way to get the funds for universal healthcare
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1292332879414927361 "New Zealand has gone 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19 — here's how they did it"
08/10 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1291358804702101504 - Twitter is locking the accounts of people who fact-check Trump
- https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1290512424429289473 - video: Trump again claiming that the US is best in COVID-19 response
08/11 (Tue)
- https://www.insider.com/grocery-worker-threatened-woman-claiming-from-anti-mask-agency-2020-8
- https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/08/cities-cannot-fine-homeless-people-for-living-outside-us-judge-rules-in-grants-pass-case.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/coronavirus-cases-protests-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html - BLM protests have not led to a spike in infections
08/12 (Wed)
- https://www.sightline.org/2020/08/11/on-wednesday-portland-will-pass-the-best-low-density-zoning-reform-in-us-history/ US/OR/Portland housing
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5341098/men-who-identify-as-women-are-invited-for-cervical-smear-without-a-cervix/ - this is an example of how trans people's medical needs are often neglected
- https://www.salon.com/2020/08/12/mail-sorting-equipment-being-removed-from-post-offices-leaving-mail-to-pile-up-union-leader/
08/13 (Thu)
- https://www.themarysue.com/trump-will-hold-up-coronavirus-stimulus-so-people-cant-vote/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/more-than-1200-amazon-delivery-drivers-laid-off.html
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/empty-apartments-in-manhattan-reach-record-high-topping-13000.html
- http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex/gender-is-what-you-make-of-it - Margaret Mead and gender
- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/09/kickstarter-to-workers-and-project-creators-drop-dead - Kickstarter blatantly anti-union
- https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1293834613819879425 - Stonewall UK is in fact still supporting Mermaids
- https://twitter.com/2damntrans/status/1293953746653843456 - rejecting the left using Left ideas
- https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1293900102210396161 - apparently Wall Street approves of Harris-Biden
08/14 (Fri)
- COVID-19:
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368136/facebook-climate-change-fact-check-senators-warren
08/15 (Sat)
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/jamie-loftus-the-comedian-who-infiltrated-mensa
- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/eviction-crisis-coronavirus-pandemic - defund police, abolish property
- https://twitter.com/A_V_Stephen/status/1294164710577897472 - lament of the "politically homeless" (I don't think she used this term, but it seems like the same argument)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969502/-How-to-fight-back-against-Trump-s-destruction-of-the-Post-Office
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1966017/-Planned-chaos-Trump-s-GOP-has-big-ideas-for-voter-suppression-and-intimidation-this-November
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/printers-will-always-be-terrible - I don't agree with everything this article says, but it is still a good example of how capitalism and quality are in opposition.
- https://nextshark.com/naomi-wu-vice-controversy/
08/16 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real (title is kinda wrong) -- problems with research methodology
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53724620 - "being stolen from the city": why is it important that the city have a monopoly?
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53775311 - WhatsApp was used heavily in the rescue effort and in disseminating news
- https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2020/04/30/arguments-against-nothing-to-hide/ nothing to hide
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-chernobyl-syndrome
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-poor-americans-get-exploited-by-their-landlords
08/17 (Mon)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-qanon-rode-pandemic-new-heights-fueled-viral-anti-mask-n1236695
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969593/-BLM-Antifa-Overwhelm-Armed-White-Racists-in-Stone-Mountain-GA
08/18 (Tue)
- https://evonomics.com/josh-ryan-collins-land-economic-theory/ - land value tax-related
- https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/13/looted-landmarks-notre-dame-big-ben-st-marks-east-stealing-from-the-saracens - I wouldn't actually call this "stealing", but it does show how much of "western cultural heritage" actually came from the east, especially Islam
- COVID-19:
- https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/03/20/rural-county-leaders-utah/ "Leaders from seven Utah counties sent a letter earlier this week to Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov Spencer Cox urging a “return to normalcy” amid a state response to the coronavirus outbreak they say is causing panic and disrupting the economy."
- https://www.facebook.com/saltlaketribune/posts/10158053688159399
- https://masto.vy-let.software/@vy/104708587232127289 - thread includes other bizarre c19 responses
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19
- https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/03/20/rural-county-leaders-utah/ "Leaders from seven Utah counties sent a letter earlier this week to Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov Spencer Cox urging a “return to normalcy” amid a state response to the coronavirus outbreak they say is causing panic and disrupting the economy."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/16/1969755/-Man-shoots-woman-in-the-arm-with-BB-gun-for-accidentally-removing-Trump-2020-lawn-sign
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/4/1966493/-Fox-News-host-says-Joe-Biden-considering-Black-women-for-VP-slot-probably-illegal - Tucker Carlson
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/08/04/1966558/-Federal-judge-basically-begs-the-Supreme-Court-to-overturn-qualified-immunity
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/2/1965924/--I-don-t-think-he-plans-to-leave-the-White-House-Rep-Clyburn-warns-Americans-to-wake-up
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-01/trump-says-he-will-ban-china-owned-tiktok-from-operating-in-u-s-kdb1nhx1
08/19 (Wed)
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-just-dropped-a-massive-russia-bombshell-and-most-people-missed-it/ar-BB189P3l
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-sets-obamacare-showdown-for-week-after-election/ar-BB189J4w
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-times-editorial-boards-gay-bidens-platform-far-more-liberal-than-obamas-in-2008/ar-BB189OTG
- https://twitter.com/jessf_white/status/1295701035730731014 - See Red Collective history
- https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encryption-without-actually-banning-it - the EARN IT Act
- https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/ - the 40-hour work-week
08/20 (Thu)
08/21 (Fri)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-16/oil-companies-wonder-if-it-s-worth-looking-for-oil-anymore - BP Oil, Falkland Islands
- https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-is-modernitys-most-beguiling-dangerous-enchantment
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html - QAnon, We Are the Storm, GOP
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1296825532626001921 - DeJoy's Senate testimony
08/22 (Sat)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-incredible-story-of-new-orleans-first-black-female-homicide-detective - policing, US/LA/New Orleans
- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/12/a-new-vision-for-our-streets-part-2 - systemic problem: only the systemic solution fixed it
- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/14/a-new-vision-for-our-streets-part-3 - stroads, US/KS/Wichita
- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020 - the American myth of perpetual "growth", suburbia, car-centric design
08/23 (Sun)
08/24 (Mon)
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/23/republican-death-cult - so much for being "pro life"
- https://www.si.com/college/2020/08/20/barry-wesley-colorado-state-antifa-daily-cover - antifa demonization, xenophobia
08/25 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1298002536842981376 - Julia Serano's autogynephilia links
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2iawp0y5Y - John Oliver on racism in jury selection
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1297719385834942464 - protester paralyzed by police brutlity in US/WI/Kenosha
- https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-joe-biden-trump-maga-1527141
08/26 (Wed)
- https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-9000-florida-children-diagnosed-coronavirus-two-weeks-schools-reopen-1527587
- https://www.sightline.org/2020/08/11/on-wednesday-portland-will-pass-the-best-low-density-zoning-reform-in-us-history/
- CDC guidelines change:
08/27 (Thu)
- Some positive trans stuff, for a change:
- https://twitter.com/JanetAnneLogan/status/1299008437498544128
- https://twitter.com/JanetAnneLogan/status/1299008553877999627 - former "gender critical" activist explains why she changed sides
- https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1298678363360579586 "The notion of "biological sex" was developed for the exclusive purpose of being weaponized against people. Courts are recognizing it."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/26/1972618/-Trump-is-Failing-His-Latest-Test-Hurricane-Laura - Republicans love being bad at Gulf Coast hurricane disasters
- https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/a-hidden-tycoon-african-explosives-and-a-loan-from-a-notorious-bank-questionable-connections-surround-beirut-explosion-shipment - the Beirut explosion
- "The ownership of the Rhosus, and the companies that ordered the nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate to be transported halfway around the world in a rickety ship, are obscured by layers of secrecy" -- should be able to confiscate property for which there is no clear owner, no?
- https://www.carbonbrief.org/wind-and-solar-are-30-50-cheaper-than-thought-admits-uk-government
08/28 (Fri)
- https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-leaving-behind-toxic-trash/
- https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/23/makoko-lagos-danger-ingenuity-floating-slum
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200813123550.htm - at current temperatures, Greenland's ice-melt exceeds ice-accumulation
- https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/08/powells-says-it-wont-sell-books-on-amazon-anymore-we-must-take-a-stand.html “For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon’s business on our communities and the independent bookselling world,” CEO Emily Powell wrote in a note to customers Wednesday.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/28/1973012/-Rand-Paul-claims-he-was-attacked-by-an-angry-mob-leaving-White-House-Problem-is-there-s-video
- https://mastodon.social/@garfiald/104530838505383246 - Charles Hamilton, trans man b.1721
- argumentation/discussion systems:
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-confederate-flag-civil-war-americana-santa-barbara/2020/07/11/1e8a7c84-bec4-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html - a lot of COnfederates fled to Brazil after the war ("America - love it or leave it"?)
- https://www.salon.com/2020/07/12/the-rats-are-leaving-the-sinking-ship-lindsey-graham-agrees-to-let-robert-mueller-testify_partner/
- https://www.salon.com/2020/04/28/pulitzer-winner-chris-hedges-these-are-the-good-times--compared-to-whats-coming-next/ - a prediction
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/oregon-non-binary-legal-recognition-birth-certificate-jones-hollister-gender/
- https://therealnews.com/stories/police-accountability-secret-source-cash-police-unions-block-reform
- https://alis.me/x/honestly-im-just-tired/ - Hugo Award George R.R. Martin sexism WorldCon
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/08/26/the-scots-version-of-wikipedia-is-written-by-an-american-teenager/
08/29 (Sat)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/23/economy-federal-benefits-low-wage-workers/
- https://www.quora.com/If-every-US-gun-owning-civilians-started-rebelling-against-the-government-for-some-reason-how-hard-would-it-be-for-the-US-military-to-stop-them/answer/Aditya-Sharma-1280 - I think this overlooks some important facts. Try guns and rifles against tanks, jets, and a well-organized logistics system. Also, you'd have to actually get all the gun-owners to agree on a cause -- and they couldn't even come together against Wall Street or actual fascists. (They'd more likely be on the side of the fascists -- so maybe if a Democrat was president, and the government started regulating corporations, the gun-owners would come out to protect the owners' freedom or something)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/technology/social-media-superspreaders.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-the-very-poor-have-become-poorer
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/why-biden-picked-harris/615100/ - Biden-Harris
- EARN IT:
08/30 (Sun)
- https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html - Ursula LeGuin, racism
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/30/1973531/-As-schools-reopen-amid-pandemic-major-university-reports-more-than-1-000-positive-COVID-19-cases
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/25/1972209/-Black-Lives-Matter-protester-shot-in-rural-Pennsylvania-on-march-from-Milwaukee-to-D-C
- https://twitter.com/joviilius/status/1299789669027254275 - thread about "confessions of a former bastard cop"
08/31 (Mon)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/new-gop-platform-authoritarianism/615640/ - this is David Frum speaking, so of course he's not actually against these points, but it does seem like a pretty accurate assessment of where the GOP's head is at the moment.
- https://www.zerohedge.com/political/portland-police-investigate-100-antifa-suspect-identified-4chan-hours-after-shooting - antiantifa hit-piece?
- https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/fbi-cointelpro-new-left-panthers-muslim-surveillance - the FBI's mission to destroy the Left
- https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/bernie-sanders-five-year-war
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/26/1007611/how-qanon-is-targeting-evangelicals/
September
09/01 (Tue)
- https://blog.ucsusa.org/taryn-mackinney/worried-for-government-science-so-are-we#.X06uM94lbBo.twitter
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/bush-gore-florida-recount-oral-history/614404/ -- the 2000 election
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/trump-admin-shuns-global-covid-19-vaccine-program-citing-beef-with-who/
- https://themargins.substack.com/p/facebook-the-pr-firm
- 2020-08-30 Study: Conservatives are Terrified (and That's Why They're Conservative) video by Rebecca Watson
- 2020-08-30 RNC 2020 & Kenosha: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism/117186/the-recent-erasure-of-anarchist-spaces-from-corporate
- https://ni.hil.ist/@bugs/104724014517991399 - anarchist links
- https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/08/20/portland-oregon-ice-building-attacked/ - US/OR/Portland
- https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/how-to-win-arguments-actually-change-someones-mind
09/02 (Wed)
- https://www.propublica.org/article/new-engineering-report-finds-privately-built-border-wall-will-fail - Steve Bannon, border wall
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/1/1974080/-Unlawfully-serving-Chad-Wolf-claims-he-didn-t-know-naturalization-stunt-would-be-used-at-convention
09/03 (Thu)
- https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/02/cdc-states-vaccine-distribution-407783
- https://www.vox.com/2020/9/1/21409279/trump-biden-fomenting-violence-kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-portland
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasn-t-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943
- https://narratively.com/the-literally-unbelievable-story-of-the-original-fake-news-network/ - faking a revolution in order to control public sentiment
- https://elekk.xyz/@noelle/104798068387972494 - origin of myths about poisoned Halloween treats
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/how-californias-assembly-killed-effort-expand-broadband-all-californians
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/2/1974501/-Unarmed-Black-dad-and-10-year-old-son-returning-U-Haul-truck-are-shot-at-by-white-couple
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/3/1974683/-Racist-Barr-There-is-no-systemic-racism-in-policing-and-people-who-say-there-is-are-being-racist
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/3/1974658/-Trump-pauses-his-ranting-about-imaginary-voter-fraud-to-suggest-his-supporters-commit-voter-fraud - Trump uses nonexistent voter fraud as an excuse for preventing mail-in, while also urging supporters to commit it
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/3/1974644/-Republican-states-death-rate-more-than-double-Democratic-states
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/1/1974167/-Cartoon-Kenosha-killer - the Kenosha killer
- Why Libertarians win the media war over Greens
09/04 (Fri)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/in-1930s-new-york-the-mayor-took-on-the-mafia-by-banning-artichokes - power structures
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ "He also said that he didn’t understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies."
- https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/515090-key-model-predicts-400000-coronavirus-deaths-in-us-by-january
- https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/mark-zuckerberg-fears-civil-unrest-after-2020-election/
- Report finds that 93% of Black Lives Matter protests in the US were peaceful
09/05 (Sat)
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1302056827257937922 - protests in US/NY/Rochester
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-mississippi-once-banned-em-sesame-street-em - history, racism, regressivism
- https://leaddev.com/harassers-are-nice-me-and-probably-you - workplace harassment
09/06 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-19th-century-writer-who-braved-the-desert-alone erasure of women (erased women)
- police "courtesy cards":
09/07 (Mon)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/opinion/trump-economy-jobs.html US/economy
- 2020-09-07 Music Theory is Racist
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/southwest-virginia-coronavirus-cases-rising/2020/09/05/b82f6b0a-ec6a-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/publisher-locks-capital-gazette-staff-out-of-their-building-in-annapolis/2020/09/07/8b66c1f6-f140-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-fall-projections-second-wave/2020/09/04/6edb3392-ed61-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html
- https://www.quora.com/Whatever-happened-to-the-proof-of-voter-fraud-that-the-Pennsylvania-judge-demanded-of-the-Republicans-last-week/answer/Kevin-Davidson-9
- https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/racial-justice - the Left's response to ALEC
09/08 (Tue)
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/104829369678205404 - Christianity, the religion of peace
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor-police-killing.html
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/bush-gore-florida-recount-oral-history/614404/ - 2000 election (if I didn't already save this link)
- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/difficult-recognise-nazism-200907191738806.html
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/cognitive-ability-and-vulnerability-to-fake-news - cognitive ability seems to be the primary factor
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/5/1975254/-Trump-is-losing-broke-and-under-intense-fire-So-what-do-you-think-he-did-today
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-not-to-negotiate-a-6-1-billion-deal
- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/ - again, there's no money in publishing the truth
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/caster-semenya-being-forced-alter-her-body-make-slower-runners-ncna1000896
09/09 (Wed)
- http://citypages.com/news/brave-tiktok-lady-survives-walmart-in-downtown-minneapolis/572347781 - stolen victimhood
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/8/21428079/republicans-pressure-platforms-230-bill-liability-protection-blackburn-lindsey-graham-wicker - anti-free-free-speech posing as free speech
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/ip06ai/offgrid_power_takes_off_in_africa_the_social_and/ - this may relate to what about Africa
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/5/1975254/-Trump-is-losing-broke-and-under-intense-fire-So-what-do-you-think-he-did-today - probably doesn't want the job
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlimited-information-is-transforming-society/ - information overload, Future Shock
- https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit - how we lost the dream of a better future
- https://toot.cat/@woozle/104829702066305025 - interrelatedness of previous 2 links, and others
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/30/1973440/-After-Driving-237-Miles-Through-Rural-Georgia-I-m-Ready-For-The-Giant-Meteor-To-Arrive - 2020 election
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/30/1973619/-Rep-Steve-Scalise-tweets-faked-video-spokesman-claims-it-is-common-practice-when-called-out - errorism
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/29/1973283/-Want-to-know-how-sad-this-is-Trump-followers-show-5-traits - Trumpism
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/30/1973626/-Portland-mayor-rips-Trump-to-shreds-It-s-you-who-have-created-the-hate-and-the-division
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/01/1918-flu-pandemic-end/
- https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/where-do-we-go-from-here/ - more restroom history "the vile influence of men"
- "But as Prof. Stryker argues, this notion of a predatory cross-dressing man is complete fiction. In reality, if you look at the numbers: it is trans people who are at the greatest risk of being attacked in public restrooms. According to Terry Kogan, roughly 70 percent of trans people have experienced either verbal or physical abuse, with Black trans women, in particular, experiencing even higher rates of abuse."
- https://wandering.shop/@DialMforMara/104832135719792019
- https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1303695503780085761
- https://www.propublica.org/article/the-loan-company-that-sued-thousands-of-low-income-latinos-during-the-pandemic - Opportun, Inc.
- "Despite the near 67% interest rate in her client’s loan, Oportun maintains that its average APR is 36%." Both of those are absurdly high; how can they actually benefit anyone?
- https://www.themarysue.com/woodward-trump-no-heroes-here/ - Trump knew about and understood the danger of COVID back in February
09/10 (Thu)
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/07/income-inequality-wealth-gap-409234 - economic disparity
- https://marker.medium.com/remote-work-is-killing-the-hidden-trillion-dollar-office-economy-5800af06b007
- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/difficult-recognise-nazism-200907191738806.html*
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdaZX7pX_XM - Trump's pandemic cover-up
- https://www.vox.com/2020/9/2/21409364/trump-approval-rating-2020-election-voters-coronavirus-convention-polls "Yes, many of us are partisans, with a hard lean one way or the other. But the assumption has long been that beneath that, we are Americans, and we want the country governed with some bare level of competence, that we care more for our safety and our paychecks than our parties."
09/11 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/Becca2400/status/1301562870476484609 - activists arrested on trying to enter press conference
- COVID-19 and US failure to deal with it:
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/09/11/the-people-with-bugs-in-their-brains-are-a-vital-segment-of-american-culture-after-all/
- https://boingboing.net/2020/08/06/cops-lie-constantly.html
- https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/amazons-alexa-for-landlords-is-a-privacy-nightmare-waiting-to-happen/ - add to Amazon is evil dept.
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-bidens-tax-plan-might-affect-five-american-households-11599739200
- 2020-09-11 In Search Of A Flat Earth (video, 1:16:16) links to other related videos in description
09/12 (Sat)
- https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas - economic disparity
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-lean-in-feminism-created-elizabeth-holmes-and-the-toxic-ladyboss - corporate feminism, Lean In, tribal feminism - getting above the glass ceiling by protecting it
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-american-killed-by-asian-islanders-hoped-to-save-their-souls
- "To pacify the hostile natives, the colonizers captured and held some in so-called Andaman Homes. There they were plied with alcohol and other enticements to create “artificial wants,” in the words of one official, to satisfy which they would have to engage in peaceful “intercourse with a superior race.” Also at these homes, guards raped Andamanese women, injecting syphilis into a population that, because of tens of millennia of isolation, had no immunity..." Literal intercourse, apparently, and literally getting fucked by the system.
- "The Jarawa were eventually seduced into laying down their arms and interacting with settlers in peace. Almost instantly, they were beset by epidemics of pneumonia, mumps, measles and other diseases; even the common cold seemed to be lethal to them. No one knows how many died."
- "The Sentinel Islands have thus far escaped a similar fate. Contact attempts were abandoned in the 1990s, when officials and anthropologists were chastened by the lethal chain of events that the pacification of the Jarawa had precipitated." -- maybe we're not utterly hopeless?
- https://the-orbit.net/brutereason/2016/03/24/boundary-setting-vs-tone-policing/
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/01/improve-your-relationships-with-advice-from-counter-terrorism-experts - what actually works, in interrogation and parenting
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/in-rich-countries-the-middle-class-is-getting-smaller-and-smaller-generation-by-generation
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/11/1976661/-Lies-about-auto-jobs-and-defiantly-maskless-supporters-at-Trump-s-Michigan-campaign-stop
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-long-lost-manuscript-contains-a-searing-eyewitness-account-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921 - Tulsa Race Massacre
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/8/1975859/-Trump-keeps-reminding-Americans-what-a-menace-he-is-with-his-twisted-law-and-order-fearmongering
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/9/1976096/-ICE-facility-failed-to-properly-screen-for-COVID-19-should-release-at-risk-detainees-expert-says
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/12/1974812/-Two-more-reasons-Kamala-Harris-as-VP-will-be-a-historic-milestone-for-our-nation - race & religion significance
- https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
9/13 (Sun)
9/14 (Mon)
- eugenics and sterilizations:
- https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/
- history of eugenics, US/NC: Eugenics Board of North Carolina
- https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/14/1977330/-Newly-revealed-Trump-quote-reveals-again-his-contempt-for-other-people-s-lives
9/15 (Tue)
- US history: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/maya-gabeira-surfed-biggest-wave-year/616216/ - some investigation needed: how are the surfing rules different for women, and why?
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/09/trump-bob-woodward-book-411225
9/16 (Wed)
- https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2020/09/who-owns-florida-beaches - property law
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-train-company-crashed-two-trains-you-will-believe-what-happened-next - marketer conceives hugely irresponsible scheme which kills and maims several people, and is fired -- but then re-hired when the scheme ended up being successful. #ThanksCapitalism
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/bonkers-federal-podcast-downplays-covid-19-blasts-health-restrictions/ - ye gods
- https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1306359385656946688 - Pacific Gas & Electric, Camp Fire, run-to-failure
9/17 (Thu)
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/defeated-quarantine-gardeners-are-throwing-in-the-trowel-11600263092 (archive.vn): hmm, why the emphasis on failure instead of success?
- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-13/should-i-buy-a-house-now-covid-19-pandemic-says-wait
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/16/1977960/-More-DeJoy-corruption-exposed-along-with-the-extent-of-damage-he-s-done-to-the-Postal-Service
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-jury-of-peers
09/18 (Fri)
- https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/ - global warming/effects/US
- https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plummets-internationally-as-most-say-country-has-handled-coronavirus-badly/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/ancient-mud-reveals-an-explanation-for-sudden-collapse-of-the-mayan-empire
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/how-many-people-america-testing-coronavirus/616249/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/09/18/friends-dont-let-friends-fall-for-the-lincoln-projects-lying-tricks/ - a brief history of compromising with the GOP
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-nhs-testing-hospitals-shortage-b485589.html
09/19 (Sat)
09/20 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-long-history-of-how-jesus-came-to-resemble-a-white-european
- https://twitter.com/acrider/status/1307504142563397632 - pro-Trump convoy in Alamance County (photos)
- https://news.yahoo.com/u-admits-putin-favorite-congressman-121215555.html "Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer, told the court that she had attended a meeting between Assange, then Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and pro-Trump troll Charles Johnson at Assange’s hide-out, the Ecuadorian embassy in London, on August 15, 2017."
- https://twitter.com/KimCrayton1/status/1307631950891552768 - racism in photography tech
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436760/us-customs-statement-oneplus-buds-seized-apple-airpod-trademarks - CBP
09/21 (Mon)
- https://newrepublic.com/article/159415/milton-friedman-federal-reserve-libertarian "He saw personal liberty as a zero sum: If government grew, then personal liberty was automatically reduced."
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/usps-post-office-mail-slowdowns-louis-dejoy
- 2020-09-13 The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained | Tom Nicholas - media bias, BBC
- 2020-09-18 Sheriff Joe Arpaio's explosive interview on Inside the Hill - was this actually a real interview? At first I thought it was edited... but in any case, provides a lot of checkable statements about Joe Arpaio
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/business/media/disney-mulan-china.html - when powerful entities interact
- https://lotusmedia.org/challenging-racism-in-alamance-county - US/NC/county/Alamance's Sheriff Terry Johnson
09/22 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1308394044771512323 - Boris Johnson supports the freedom to die for capitalism
- https://twitter.com/Ruby/status/1308412319786041344 - police culture
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/rising-s-vivos-and-the-booming-bunker-economy/616240/ - apocalypse bunkers
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/conspiracy-theorists-have-a-fundamental-cognitive-problem-say-scientists - conspiracy theory; "Fortunately, other scientists have found a way to block the pervasiveness of illusory pattern perception: critical thinking. In a previous interview, North Carolina State University psychology professor Anne McLaughlin told Inverse that critical thinking is something that can be taught, and if people are trained in the right way, pseudoscience and false conspiracies can be combated with logic and reasoning. The brain may try to make false connections, but that doesn’t mean you have to believe it."
09/23 (Wed)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-3-most-polarizing-words-in-india -- dogwhistles aren't a uniquely English phenomenon
- https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1308471166919680001 - what GOP senators said about nomination then, and what they say now (video)
- https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/response-to-gender-recognition-act-2004-consultation?utm_source=99733659-ba42-4fa8-95f1-51cce3105929
- (comment on Discord) tl;dr the gender recognition process isn't going to change but they're going to
- reduce the £140 fee (which is already reduced or lowered for people on low income, and does nothing to address the main costs which are obtaining medical reports, certified copies of documents, etc)
- they're going to allow the forms to be submitted online instead of requiring hard copies to be posted (yay?)
- they've made a vague promise to open three new gender clinics within two years but not given any information on how they're going to train or recruit clinicians, which if it was easy/possible to do that why haven't they done it at the existing clinics to reduce waiting times
- https://twitter.com/NotRightRuth/status/1308338647759024130
- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/327108
- (comment on Discord) tl;dr the gender recognition process isn't going to change but they're going to
- https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/1308654915703586816 - police cause a disturbance in response to being de-funded by 5%
09/24 (Thu)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/23/1979996/-Trump-Blacks-have-themselves-to-blame-for-inequality-and-Jews-are-only-in-it-for-themselves - Trump is a huge racist, part one zillion
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/23/1980045/-Trump-s-Supreme-Court-front-runner-already-let-the-cat-of-the-bag-says-the-court-is-us-vs-them - current likely GOP Supreme Court nominee argues (in the past) that it's inappropriate to appoint a justice in an election year when it would “dramatically flip the balance of power."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/23/1979954/-Maddow-exclusively-busts-CDC-Director-Redfield-with-a-massive-scandal-of-doctoring-a-report
- https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1309166939139461124 - responding to appeal to calmness re Trump
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-best-and-worst-ways-to-spot-a-liar - epistemology
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/24/breonna-taylor-case-ignites-fresh-outrage-spills-into-us-streets
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104925939910701587 - Cory Doctorow on Justin Trudeau and some recent Canadian history
- https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1309166939139461124 - Chris Hayes on appeal to calmness re Trump and COVID-19
- https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1309510065163038720 - AOC responds to claim(s) that she's "doing a memorial event for Yitzhak Rabin".
- https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1309499994861457411 - argues that gender conversion therapy isn't actually intended to fix anyone's gender identity but basically to remove them from society
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/09/03/conversion-therapy-center-founder-who-sought-turn-lgbtq-christians-straight-now-says-hes-gay-rejects-cycle-shame/ - gay conversion therapy
- https://politics.slashdot.org/story/20/09/23/2044206/louisiana-shuts-down-voter-registration-site-for-scheduled-maintenance-on-national-voter-registration-day - vote suppression, US/LA
- https://medium.com/indica/the-overwhelming-racism-of-covid-coverage-78e37e4ce6e8 - "3rd world" countries are handling COVID-19 much better than we are, but the press is framing it in terms of racial traits
09/26 (Sat)
- https://twitter.com/ellenfromnowon/status/1309833159517835264 - actual educational censorship
- https://slashdot.org/story/20/09/25/205253/amazon-employee-warns-internal-groups-theyre-being-monitored-for-labor-organizing
09/27 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-disobedient-children-of-monsters - Argentina, police brutality, anti-authoritarianism
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-24/harvard-economist-raj-chetty-creates-god-s-eye-view-of-pandemic-damage " No matter how many businesses are allowed to reopen, normal economic life will not resume until their customers feel they’re no longer at risk of contagion. In the meantime, he tells them, target assistance to the people, businesses, and places that need it. There’s no use sending stimulus checks to people making $150,000 a year or cutting their payroll taxes. They have plenty of money; what they lack is places to safely spend it."
- https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/ridding-themselves-of-dissent/news-story/4b1e5a624382a8d23bbea9eb50759f7b - free speech trolling about global warming
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBOxrHdTKE0 - rebuts counterarguments to an earlier anti-landlord video
- https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1310190199339655168 - signs of possible COVID-19 2nd wave
- https://roarmag.org/2020/09/23/zapatistas-need-solidarity-after-coffee-harvest-burned/ - Zapatistas, Colombia
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/at-the-evangelical-creation-museum-dinosaurs-lived-alongside-humans-and-the-world-is-6-000-years-old - Creation Museum
- https://twitter.com/tansyrr/status/1310042316741046272 - denial of medical hazards for the sake of The Economy is apparently not a new thing
- https://twitter.com/TheEmmelineMay/status/1309918286084177920 - using a fictional authoritarian chant to fight back against an authoritarian trying to impose authoritarianism by getting everyone to make anti-authoritarian noises in unison; Dr. Who
- https://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryOfWales/posts/carmarthen-cheese-riot-1818200th-anniversary-the-carmarthen-cheese-riot-occurred/1758472667606741/ - the Carmarthen Cheese Riot: land enclosure, capitalism, food scarcity
- was apparently one of the Rebecca Riots
- https://twitter.com/CherylMorgan/status/1309144477064466433 - traditional debate formats are designed for dominance
- https://twitter.com/drdomthompson/status/1309039384365330435 - racism is still not over
- https://twitter.com/RoadsideMum/status/1308874449178054659 - war on mobile living (UK)
- https://twitter.com/LouisatheLast/status/1310222825345687552 - "conservative feminism" is a self-contradictory term; Ross Douthat
- "neutrality": ""If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." (find authoritative source)
09/28 (Mon)
- https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/25/916969969/floridas-governor-lifts-all-covid-19-restrictions-on-businesses-statewide
- https://medium.com/indica/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there-ba1e4b54c5fc
- https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Early-Morning-Cult-Or-Activist-Group-Gathering-15601489.php
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/27/1981238/-Uh-oh-NY-Times-got-Trump-s-taxes-and-it-s-even-worse-than-anyone-could-ve-imagined
- https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/wisconsin-ballots-stay-appeals-court/
- https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-says-voter-fraud-serious-threat-seeks-outlaw - no, it isn't
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/police-officers-qanon/
- https://behavioralscientist.org/how-focusing-on-individual-achievement-favors-the-upper-class/ - "individual achievement" and "personal responsibility" seem like closely-linked tropes
- https://behavioralscientist.org/how-fraud-and-a-broken-publishing-system-fueled-the-vaccine-autism-myth/
- https://twitter.com/CateSpice/status/1310674228866199552 - astroTERFing
09/29 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1310777365207773190 - cultural ignorance in the design of the Potterverse
- fake news, fact-checking:
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/29/cia-tips-fake-news-check-bias-ask-questions-do-research-column/5518879002/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/31/559571970/learning-to-spot-fake-news-start-with-a-gut-check
- https://www.theverge.com/21276897/fake-news-facebook-twitter-misinformation-lies-fact-check-how-to-internet-guide
- https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-spot-real-fake-news/
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-twitters-fact-check-of-trump-might-not-be-enough-to-combat-misinformation/ "there is evidence that fact checks do work. Numerous studies have demonstrated that when confronted with a correction, a significant share of people do, in fact, update their beliefs."
- https://theconversation.com/numbers-in-the-news-make-sure-you-dont-fall-for-these-3-statistical-tricks-105707
- https://aeon.co/essays/racism-is-baked-into-the-structure-of-dialectical-philosophy "As these writers thus show, dialectical thinking is not inherently racist, nor should it necessarily be discarded in the name of some other philosophical understanding of history. Nevertheless, philosophers need to acknowledge that the modern origins of dialectical thought can be directly traced to the explicit racism of philosophers such as Rousseau and Hegel. This explicit racism, as is common, became implicit when it was abstracted into the concepts that these philosophers developed. When we use dialectical thought today – even in the service of antiracism – we risk carrying this racist history into our thinking if we don’t acknowledge and come to terms with it."
- https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/1310929478030426112 - Trump's "tax avoidance" may actually be money-laundering
- https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1310725296174309377 - Breonna Taylor
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gdp-growth-missed-16-trillion-systemic-racism-inequality-report/ "America could have been $16 trillion richer if not for inequities in education, housing, wages and business investment between Black and White Americans over the past 20 years, new research concludes." - Citigroup
- https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/indigenous-woman-who-died-at-joliette-hospital-had-recorded-staffs-racist-comments
09/30 (Wed)
- https://the.ink/p/sarah-kendzior - America is now a Mafia state
- https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/facebook-suspends-hundreds-of-accounts-associated-with-online-event-targeting-coastal-gaslink-pipeline/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/genetic-science-coronavirus-outbreak-iowa/ - COVID-19
- https://twitter.com/SheriffReese/status/1311125507757416449 - the Portland sheriff does not support Trump
- https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-lesser-known-history-of-african-american-cowboys - history
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/104956331330685612 - 5 republicans voted against peaceful transfer of power resolution
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/104956250292682143 - Florida's investigations of 2018 ballot fraud
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/24/disruption-big-tech-buzzword-silicon-valley-power
- https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1306/
- 2020-09-29 debate:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/29/1981876/-Trump-steamrolls-moderator-Chris-Wallace-in-horrifying-mess-of-a-debate
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1982019/-On-Tuesday-Trump-doubled-down-on-refusing-to-surrender-power-when-he-loses-the-election
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1981957/-White-supremacists-are-celebrating-after-Trump-tells-them-to-stand-by-to-attack
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1982079/-What-Almost-Nobody-Seems-to-Have-Noticed-or-Given-Biden-Credit-For-in-Last-Night-s-Debate
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/29/1981892/-That-debate-was-bad-for-America-But-it-was-even-worse-for-Trump
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1981981/-Fake-prez-commits-latest-fraud-this-time-by-pretending-he-d-debate-then-wasting-Biden-s-time
- https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-2020-election-get-rid-of-the-ballots/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980607/-Pentagon-worried-that-Trump-will-drag-them-into-his-fight-to-hold-onto-power-no-matter-what* https://puraacracia.club/2020/09/28/against-managers-of-revolt/
- https://behavioralscientist.org/how-fraud-and-a-broken-publishing-system-fueled-the-vaccine-autism-myth/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980975/-A-Catholic-s-Case-Against-Amy-Coney-Barrett
- https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/518410-former-gop-lawmakers-on-endorsing-biden-trump-is-no-republican-lacks-basic
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980723/-Trump-rarely-mentions-his-one-major-legislative-accomplishment-That-s-because-people-don-t-like-it
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980903/-Why-Trump-s-expected-Supreme-Court-nominee-believes-all-Civil-Rights-legislation-is-illegitimate
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980693/-Court-House-challenge-on-Trump-s-Treasury-robbing-for-border-wall-can-move-forward
- https://www.pewresearch.org/2020/09/23/the-changing-racial-and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate/
- https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1309840268519235590 "Kentucky's only black female lawmaker was arrested at a protest & charged with a felony for no reason. Rep. Attica Scott introduced a bill to end no-knock warrants."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/23/1979954/-Maddow-exclusively-busts-CDC-Director-Redfield-with-a-massive-scandal-of-doctoring-a-report
- https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/09/23/patriot-coalition-far-right-chat-logs-violence/
- https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978488/-NYTimes-obtains-stunning-emails-from-Trump-HHS-official-trying-to-silence-CDC-criticism-of-Trump
- https://newrepublic.com/article/159415/milton-friedman-federal-reserve-libertarian - libertarian ideas wrecked the Fed
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978423/-Democracy-had-a-big-day-in-court-with-DeJoy-s-Postal-Service-under-strict-scrutiny
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978370/-Four-GOP-Senators-try-to-hide-their-votes-to-kill-health-care-coverage-for-pre-existing-conditions
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-republicans-democracy-at-risk_n_5f5fb18fc5b6e27db1314744 - Trump alarmism
- https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/15/senior-former-military-officers-biden-trump-marxism-socialism/
- https://www.salon.com/2020/09/15/trump-thinks-he-gets-to-be-president-of-just-the-republican-states-so-how-are-they-doing/
October
10/1 (Thu)
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104779055504442040 - monopolies, big tech, AT&T, Amazon
- https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ - Digital Ocean false advocacy for open source
- https://www.concordmonitor.com/First-presidential-debate-Trump-Biden-full-transcript-36532544
- 2018-07-06 Why the Left Will Win | Philosophy Tube
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/30/more-than-200-writers-and-publishers-sign-letter-in-support-of-trans-and-non-binary-people
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/28/jk-rowling-robert-f-kennedy-human-rights-award-trans-views
- https://www.thesecondshelf.com/digest/a-message-from-members-of-the-uk-and-irish-publishing-community - miscarriages, the medical system, and "right to life"
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/01/voter-fraud-by-republicans-wohl-and-burkman/ - GOP election fraud
10/2 (Fri)
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/donald-trump-cant-denounce-white-supremacists-because-he-is-one/
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-kkk-klan-wizard/ - smearing Biden with Robert Byrd (again)
- http://nautil.us/issue/90/something-green/the-human-error-darwin-inspired
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-donald-trump-covid-positive-melania-cases-latest/
- https://secondnexus.com/donald-trump-attended-fundraiser-positive
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/1/1982686/-Donald-and-Melania-Trump-both-test-positive-for-COVID-19
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/1/1982666/-pre-symptomatic-President-Trump-s-debate-performance-was-degrading-and-sinister-in-equal-measure - includes lots of related and tangential tidbits
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/2/1982754/-Team-Trump-kept-exposing-people-to-COVID-19-after-there-was-reason-for-serious-concern
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/2/1982841/-Trump-s-COVID-19-symptoms-are-reportedly-mild-at-this-point
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/trump-infects-america.html
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-is-terrified-and-could-exploit-his-19-infection-to-further-destabilize-the-election-naomi-klein/
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-is-having-trouble-breathing-jim-acosta-reports-white-house-advisor-is-admitting-this-is-serious/
- https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-trump-conley-int-idUSKBN26Q2WT - not out of the woods, but met criteria for discharge
- https://www.vox.com/2020/10/1/21493602/covid-19-schools-reopening-nyc-florida-hybrid
- https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a34246524/secretly-recorded-melania-tapes/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/1/1982538/-Trump-campaign-adviser-shut-down-by-MSNBC-anchor-Prepare-for-this-interview-next-time
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/1/1982431/-Fox-News-reporter-leaves-anchor-speechless-with-rant-on-Trump-s-failure-to-denounce-white-supremacy
- voter fraud:
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/daniel-cameron-lied-about-grand-jury-louisville-police-breonna-taylor.html
10/3 (Sat)
- https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/scotus-agrees-to-decide-major-new-case-that-lawyers-fear-will-dramatically-weaken-landmark-civil-rights-law/
- https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-apology-racism
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/2/1982884/-Lindsey-Graham-makes-mistake-of-acknowledging-Black-cops-at-Fraternal-Order-of-Police-event
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-presidential-debates-league-women-voters-20201001-52rb4lootrftbhqnk57okvybqy-story.html
- https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service-reps-for-disney-and-airbnb-who-have-to-pay-to-talk-to-you
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-covid-positive-test-hospital-plane-train-mask-mandate-transportation-1070629/
10/4 (Sun)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-senator-who-stood-up-to-joseph-mccarthy-when-no-one-else-would
- https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/amazon-reveals-over-19000-workers-got-covid-19/
10/5 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1312609600256970752 - right-wing extremism in the US
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-05/exxon-carbon-emissions-and-climate-leaked-plans-reveal-rising-co2-output
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurabogart/millennials-moving-back-in-with-their-parents-adulting
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-best-and-worst-ways-to-spot-a-liar - best way is to get more details and look for contradictions
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/1/1982432/-Religious-group-scrubs-references-to-Amy-Coney-Barrett-from-its-website
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/07/someone-trolling-anti-trans-group-most-perfect-way/
10/6 (Tue)
- https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/80-year-old-man-dies-following-dispute-over-wearing-face-mask-at-west-seneca-bar - wow
- https://twitter.com/butchanarchy/status/1313544272067530752 - the difficulties military encounter in fighting insurgency
10/8 (Thu)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/facebook-bans-qanon-entirely-says-previous-crackdown-wasnt-enough/
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/googles-supreme-court-faceoff-with-oracle-was-a-disaster-for-google/ - Google did a terrible job defending APIs from copyright protection. Maybe they actually want APIs to be copyrightable?
- 2019-11-19 Gender dysphoria in children: puberty blockers study draws further criticism
- https://twitter.com/DadTrans/status/1255991006287278081 "An average of 38 trans under 15's were prescribed puberty blockers per year by @NHSuk from 2012-2018."
- https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/feds-thwart-militia-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer/5922301002/ - errorism
- https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/9/29/antifa-hysteria-americas-revamped-red-scare
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/05/amy-barrett-we-watched-hours-her-speeches-heres-what-we-learned/3596731001/
- TERFs Lose Their Minds Over Disposable Menstrual Pad Wrappers
- Grading is Capitalist Conditioning
- Election 2020: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Queer✨| Philosophy Tube
- The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk | Tom Nicholas
10/9 (Fri)
- Amy Coney Barrett:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1983723/-A-pattern-of-coverups-is-emerging-in-Barrett-nomination-by-the-nominee-and-by-Republican-senators
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1242637
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/11/barrett-ginsburg-supreme-court-428622
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/how-does-science-really-work - science
- 2018-08-14 Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 drafted by the Group of independent scientists
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/rnc-white-house-trump-gop-fascism-kenosha-murder.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/08/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-25th-amendment-removal
10/10 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/10/the-arrogance-of-terfs/
- https://theglowup.theroot.com/the-significance-of-im-speaking-1845313016
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/as-cold-weather-arrives-u-s-states-see-record-increases-in-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN26P0K8
- https://www.queerty.com/read-mike-pences-article-advising-employers-never-hire-gay-people-20171018 Mike Pence
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dawn-of-television-promised-diversity-here-s-why-we-got-leave-it-to-beaver-instead - US history
- https://www.comicsands.com/firefighters-biden-mask-tomi-lahren-2648122870.html
- http://www.businessinsider.com/strict-ndas-reveal-how-facebook-controls-messaging-2020-10
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/to-many-supporters-trumps-covid-19-diagnosis-inspires-hope-not-fear
- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/10/922610152/the-boiling-resentment-behind-the-foiled-plan-to-kidnap-gov-whitmer
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/9/1985155/-Dumbass-Trump-is-suppressing-the-REPUBLICAN-vote
- https://www.them.us/story/largest-study-of-intersex-people-is-alarming
- https://daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-transphobia-in-the-medical-establishment/ - history of transphobia
- https://www.ajc.com/news/8-foot-fence-will-surround-georgia-state-capitol/B4WXSSDDYVEWTDZKG3D2LZC6KY/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984402/-One-of-the-most-corrupt-federal-agencies-in-the-U-S-wants-to-destroy-its-internal-records?detail=emaildkre
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/watch-msnbc-abruptly-cuts-away-from-trumps-south-lawn-rally-after-a-string-of-lies-and-smears/
- https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-career-certificates-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-genius.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-hundreds-of-american-public-libraries-owe-to-carnegie-s-disdain-for-inherited-wealth
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/inside-the-jpm-precious-metals-desk-called-a-crime-ring-by-prosecutors
- https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-building-military-rocket-to-ship-weapons-anywhere-world - Elon Musk, SpaceX
10/11 (Sun)
- https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-party-trump-pence-embraced-history-american-fascism-2020-10
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pussy-riot-arrest-lgbt-flag-pride-putin-russia-moscow-b884220.html
- https://twitter.com/jennifurret/status/1315294759800336384 "#iamabiologist and like the majority of scientists, I understand that both sex and gender are non-binary, and that claim is supported by neuroimaging and genetic studies / TERFs are a transphobic hate group that make the world worse for both cis and trans women" -- there's also PZ Myers's response, see my tweet: https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1314917097840013313
- https://atlantablackstar.com/2020/10/07/jonathan-price-tried-to-shake-white-texas-officers-hand-before-cop-killed-him-affidavit-says/ - police brutality
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/09/it-crowd-transphobia-complaints-channel-4-all-4-graham-linehan/
- https://twitter.com/princess_jem4/status/1315047925635051520 - a bit of how evangelism works to isolate believers
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/if-you-re-so-smart-why-aren-t-you-rich - meritocracy
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/11/nature-indicts-trump/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/republicans-risk-losing-texas-florida-arizona-state-houses-n1242842 - election
- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/921596963/npr-electoral-map-biden-lead-widens-again-with-less-than-a-month-to-go
- https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffett-hank-paulson-financial-crisis-stimulus-saved-us-economy-2020-10-1029667870# - what really happened in the 2008 bailout
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105016753041968054 - long, interesting thread starting with Cory Doctorow talking about homelessness solutions and moralization, and ending with Morbius adding some relevant details
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-terror-trump-militias_n_5f832f7ec5b62f97bac42a7c
10/12 (Mon)
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dznbz/how-to-talk-to-friends-consumed-by-conspiracy-theories-child-trafficking-qanon - conspiracy theory, counterfactual belief
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/twitter-buries-gop-scumbag-liar-ronna-mcdaniel-for-claiming-82-of-americans-make-over-400000-year/
- https://rantt.com/brett-kavanaugh-and-the-gops-politics-of-abuse
- https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-swamp-that-trump-built/
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trumps-vote-by-mail-conspiracy-theories-decimated-the-republican-partys-early-vote-lead-in-florida-report/ - election, vote-by-mail
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/12/gisele-fetterman-pennsylvania-verbal-assault/
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/california-gop-caught-installing-unofficial-ballot-drop-off-boxes-for-election-says-report - election, absentee voting
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/sen-mike-lee-wages-strange-crusade-against-mormon-owned-utah-media-outlets-for-not-being-right-wing-enough/ "History TEACHES Pure Democracy leads to slavery and suffering."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/11/1985706/-Republicans-have-been-packing-the-courts-for-years-It-s-time-to-unpack-them
- 2020-10-01 Wolff Responds: Why Capitalism is NOT a Market System - by which he means that markets are not a defining attribute of capitalism, since many other systems have markets
- https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-triggers-doubling-of-disasters-threatens-millions-un/a-55243851
- https://apnews.com/article/maine-archive-voting-2020-73734f7c725609742316313361da6f3f
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/heavily-armed-maga-patriots-are-preparing-for-election-day-qanon-linked-group/
10/14 (Wed)
- https://www.patreon.com/posts/stay-and-fight-42729555 - lots of interesting-looking links
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1986210/-Dozens-of-Barrett-s-Notre-Dame-colleagues-ask-her-to-call-a-halt-to-her-nomination
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/13/1986139/-Amy-Coney-Barrett-makes-it-clear-she-s-willing-to-ignore-the-Constitution-to-elect-Donald-Trump
- https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project -- libertarian experiments in US/NH
- https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/13/new-eyewitness-accounts-feds-didnt-identify-themselves-before-firing-on-portland-antifa-shooting-suspect/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-death-mystery-black-lives-matter-michael-brown-809407/
10/15 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/15/how-can-you-tell-when-a-creationist-is-making-stuff-up/
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/she-wants-to-be-a-dictator-trump-goes-after-michigan-governor-who-was-target-of-kidnapping-plot/
10/16 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/sargoth/status/1317030118775283714
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/14/1986425/-Vulnerable-Senate-Republicans-forget-who-s-president - more interesting for what it says about the Senate Republicans and their hypocrisy
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/aoc-progressives-biden-cabinet-429736
- https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/us/qanon-religion-churches/index.html - teach people that received truth is the best truth, and this is what you get
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/our-return-sucks-over-the-past-few-yearsand-weve-just-run-out-of-time-says-10-billion-value-investor-calling-it-quits-11602787123
- https://twitter.com/FierceMum/status/1317159520276197376 "23 years ago the Sunday Times was telling the same lies about the NHS gender identity service for kids as it does today."
10/18 (Sun)
- https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/18/kirstie-alley-defends-voting-donald-trump-in-election-13440149/ - wow.
- https://www.transgendertrend.com/transformation-street/ - transnegation
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105056588802756171 - Bill Gates contributed the maximum to Lindsey Graham. Why.
- https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/18/violating-irs-rules-texas-pastor-tells-entire-church-to-vote-for-trump/
- FSO Nabarima (Wikipedia)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/17/sturgis-rally-spread/ - COVID-19 spreader event
10/19 (Mon)
- https://laurajedeed.medium.com/these-invisible-wounds-4851f13b4f05 - police brutality, US/OR/Portland
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/jdjdng/rant_about_how_portland_is_seeing_outside_of/g98pmpp/
- https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/10/208m-food-box-rip-off-private-outsource-government-contract-covid-corona-virus - capitalism exploiting the pandemic
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/supreme-court-undocumented-immigrants-census-429969
- https://popular.info/p/david-perdue-attacked-kamala-harris - guys, you can't back Republicans and claim to favor diversity
- https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-fox-news-passed-on-hunter-biden-laptop-story-over-credibility-concerns/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-11/the-next-big-shift-in-economics-takes-shape-under-covid-shadow
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/105062599839078111
- https://twitter.com/SamWHarnett/status/1318265349964394496 - Uber and CA prop 22
10/20 (Tue)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/20/scientists-crying-about-cancellation-again/ - performative outrage about cancel culture
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/20/black-woman-british-countryside-london-rural-village-stereotypes - racism in the UK
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/18/next-economic-crisis-empty-retail-space-429994
- https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/texas-social-workers-now-turn-182225054.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/us/compton-guaranteed-income-trnd/index.html - US/CA/Compton guaranteed income (but means-tested)
10/22 (Thu)
- https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342/recall-that-ice-cream-truck-song-we-have-unpleasant-news-for-you - history of racism in the US
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/22/creepy-ol-uncle-rudy/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/21/tired-creationist-arguments-again/
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105067244149875406 - another word for idiot? bayard
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105073035081539776 - antitrust laws: we're reluctant to enforce them during economic downturns, but actually this is when they could do the most good
- https://secondnexus.com/trump-campaign-videotaping-voters-ballots
10/23 (Fri)
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/why-new-zealand-rejected-populist-ideas-other-nations-have-embraced
- https://thehill.com/homenews/news/522346-north-carolina-man-arrested-with-van-full-of-guns-and-explosives-had-plans-to
- https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-administration-launches-manifesto-with-coalition-of-anti-choice-anti-equality-regimes/
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105084623849081707 - as far as bird fatalities, wind turbines aren't even a drop in the bucket
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006363/elbe-coen-edgerton-mazzucato-mirowski/ "The libertarian consensus that government holds back innovation more than stimulating it is wrong and damaging."
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/woman-injured-after-motorcyclist-barrels-into-crowd-at-democratic-senators-rally/
10/24 (Sat)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-long-war-against-a-gay-cure - conversion therapy
- https://emsenn.substack.com/p/settlerday-october-24-2020 - settler terrorism
- https://twitter.com/tibby17/status/1320038727100620800 - TERFs believe that feminism is just for women
- 2020-04-12 The Dirty Con Job Of Mike Rowe (YouTube)
- 2020-10-09 Truth is dead and Project Veritas killed It (Thought Slime, YouTube]
- 2020-10-23 My final crummy jobs (I hope) in Cellphone heck (Thought Slime, YouTube]: capitalism
- 2020-09-08 JK Rowling and the Detransition Narrative (Shonalika, YouTube]
- https://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/tag/transphobia/ - academic free speech trolling
10/25 (Sun)
- https://www.propublica.org/article/draft-hawaii-homesteads-mainbar - "returning native lands" by selling the land back to the natives, at the usual impossible prices
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/real-estate-market-rental-apartments-houses-pile-up-from-new-york-to-singapore
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are - bullshit jobs
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/economists-on-the-run Paul Krugman admits he was wrong about globalism being good
- 2020-10-19 The World Health Organization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) World Health Organization
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/22/1988626/-Watch-Trump-whine-about-not-being-smart-enough-in-unedited-footage-he-posted-himself
- https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/13-year-olds-given-mastectomies-at-california-clinic/12816 - the "pushing tranition on children" narrative again
- https://eand.co/this-election-is-going-to-reveal-who-america-really-is-daa6982e08a5
10/26 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320153594952286209 - Trump speech highlights, US/WI/Waukesha
- https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/15/the-rights-war-on-universities/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-never-was-a-real-tulip-fever - the myth of the Dutch tulip boom
- https://ihra.org.au/allies/ - intersex for allies (101?), Australian government
- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201017/00052845523/facebook-is-so-biased-against-conservatives-that-mark-zuckerberg-personally-agreed-to-diminish-reach-left-leaning-sites.shtml
- https://pluspora.com/posts/4606574 - infographic about logical fallacies
- https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar-republic-fragility-democracy/readings/why-study-weimar-germany
- https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/10/16/Ancient-societies-collapsed-when-leaders-ignored-the-social-contract/3521602861264/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/barrett-reveals-formula-reversing-landmark-rulings-n1243248
- https://theysaythisneverhappens.tumblr.com/ lots of transphobia
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104983515438480394 "After years of slumber, US and EU antitrust enforcers are beginning to stir, calling tech CEOs in for hearings, opening investigations, and hinting darkly at the possibility of future breakups."
- https://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/10/from-mother-jones-union-co-chair/
- https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/cnn-public-editor-television-journalism-will-remain-broken-post-trump.php
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/opinions/trump-lies-evangelicals-avlon/index.html
10/27 (Tue)
- Commander in Chief (song) - about the 2020 election
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/26/1989758/-Florida-residents-burn-masks-as-COVID-19-cases-increase-statewide
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21528569/homeless-poverty-cash-transfer-canada-new-leaf-project - free money
- https://www.vox.com/21525343/supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-obamacare-pennsylvania-voting-rights-census-unions
10/28 (Wed)
- https://www.axios.com/republican-voters-rural-suburbs-future-trump-38bd5273-7584-4d69-834d-dc4d9e3c8ac8.html
- https://www.innocenceproject.org/rosa-jimenez-mexican-immigrant-innocent-latinx-hispanic-heritage-month/ - false imprisonment
- https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump - Foxconn, US/WI/Mount Pleasant
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-war-game-that-could-have-ended-the-world - nuclear scare: Operation Able Archer
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-kiwis-fight-back-after-nz-compared-to-nazi-germany/N5RCKEXHQACFT4RW3R7QNIDQKI/ - UK right-wing pol continues to push the idea that health-safety measures are anti-freedom
10/29 (Thu)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54730425
- https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
- https://inews.co.uk/news/media/bbc-staff-suspended-attend-lgbt-pride-events-ban-new-impartiality-rules-742247
- https://twitter.com/benjaminbutter/status/1321915852317446145 "Asked for clarity on confusion, BBC said pride is fine if it is seen as a “a celebration”, but if the “trans issue" (as it was described) is involved then it passes as a protest and news and current affairs staff should not attend."
- https://twitter.com/scattermoon/status/1321917324669190146 "Let's not forget that staff at the Guardian have also faced pressure to not speak up for trans people, while the top brass continued to run a hate campaign against us, leading to the trans staff there all quitting. It's not just the BBC, it's a thing right across UK media."
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/10/28/trump-tongass-national-forest-alaska/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/thucydides-and-the-plague-of-athens-what-it-can-teach-us-now - plague in classical history
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-melting-arctic-is-a-real-time-horror-story-why-doesn-t-anyone-care - progress and consequences of global warming
10/30 (Fri)
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34527140/minnesota-absentee-ballots-court-ruling/
- 2020-10-05 Capitalists Are Bad At Business
- 2020-10-27 The time I met Joe Biden
- 2017-08-28 Why Anarcho-Capitalists Aren't Anarchists! (Thought Slime)
- 2019-07-12 Ten things everyone gets wrong about Anarchists! (Thought Slime)
- 2020-01-19 Are liberals our enemies? (Thought Slime)
- 2020-10-28 Is a Vote for Biden a Vote for Science? (Rebecca Watson)
- 2020-10-02 Trust The Process™ (Thought Slime)
- 2020-08-28 I was wrong about Landlords (Thought Slime)
- https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/1321843659248177154 - Jeff Sharlet on police nationalism
10/31 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/31/the-horror-that-is-the-skeptic-atheist-movement/
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105132100495036799 - yet another example of the Right's inconsistency
November
11/1 (Sun)
- 2020-10-25 Asylum: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- 2020-10-31 Amy Coney Barrett | Philosophy Tube ft. LegalEagle
- https://www.cpr.org/2020/10/30/colorados-first-trans-lawmaker-targeted-with-anti-lgbtq-campaign-ads/ - bathroom panic still being used (against Brianna Titone
- 2020-10-29 A Brief History of the Culture Wars | Tom Nicholas
- 2017-08-28 Why Anarcho-Capitalists Aren't Anarchists! (Thought Slime)
11/2 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1322957092412686343 - Trumpfans block the Garden State Parkway (NJ)
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-03/australians-choose-poverty-over-punitive-jobseeker/12837930 - AU/Centrelink is punitive
11/3 (Tue)
- https://itsgoingdown.org/trump-applauds-escalating-far-right-violence/
- https://www.axios.com/trump-claim-election-victory-ballots-97eb12b9-5e35-402f-9ea3-0ccfb47f613f.html
- https://twitter.com/MarieAnnUK/status/1323537580760203265 -- Trump's first 4 years in 2 minutes
- https://aclu-or.org/en/press-releases/aclu-statement-response-report-dhs-agents-deployed-portland-protests-were
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/voters-in-battleground-states-robocalls
- https://thewayofimprovement.com/2020/11/03/liberty-university-removes-john-pipers-convocation-address-from-all-its-social-media-sites/
- https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/durham-investigation-insiders-say-no-evidence-to-support-obamagate-has-been-found-in-18-months/ - Obamagate, what even was that
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/trump-antifa-movement-portland
- https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/10/booking-homeless-portlanders-into-jail-is-endless-expensive-cycle-that-arrests-dont-curb-but-housing-does.html
11/4 (Wed)
- 2020-10-31 Jon Stewart And Stephen Reunite On The 10th Anniversary Of Their Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear - election mood
- 2020-11-03 No, James Randi Didn't "Destroy Skepticism" By Being Skeptical (Rebecca Watson)
- 2020-11-01 Trump & the Coronavirus: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/4/1992532/-There-s-only-one-person-trying-to-steal-the-election-and-that-s-Donald-Trump
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1324102753426223114 - "stop the count" is not a legitimate movement
11/05 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1323333293467525126 - the "black belt" and the blue swoop
- https://twitter.com/aschrock/status/1324076497586417665 - why the vote in US/NE isn't winner-take-all
- Vote suppression:
11/6 (Fri)
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-warns-of-corrupt-post-election-day-votes-as-his-supporters-push-for-them-in-pa/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aides-explain-stop-the-count-demand-ensure-loss-reports-2020-11
- 2020-11-02 William Barr: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - unitary executive
- 2020-10-31 Amy Coney Barrett | Philosophy Tube ft. LegalEagle
- https://secondnexus.com/nikki-haley-matt-gaetz-twitter
- https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1324865670941532160 - Trump voters had no disciplining force in their media consumption
- https://www.comicsands.com/lou-dobbs-surround-philly-gritty-2648650515.html
11/7 (Sat)
- https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324699605687242753 - AOC on blaming progressivism for underperformance (hint: that's backwards)
- https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/1324387833336025091 Jeff Sharlet: fascism has been growing in the US for a long time (thread)
11/8 (Sun)
- Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/08/why-you-gotta-do-me-like-this-anthony/ - Catholic extremism
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-did-america-give-up-on-mass-transit-don-t-blame-cars - US/mass transit (I think I saw this when it originally came out, may be another link)
- https://www.inquirer.com/news/four-seasons-landscaping-philly-trump-giuliani-hotel-biden-20201108.html
11/9 (Mon)
- https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/ricky-hurtado-flipped-district-63/
- 2020-11-08 Election Results 2020: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1325949658875777026 - tracking the coup attempt as it unfolds
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1325946867419639815 - Mary Trump agrees they'll try a coup
- https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1325972080056098816 - the story Fox News was telling in 2018 about Dems being reluctant to leave office
- https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f91e43ec5b61c185f4848de/amp
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1325950514647994371 - actual voter fraud in PA... by a misinformed Trump voter, of course
- 2020-09-29 In Suspense: Donald Trump’s Efforts to Undermine Public Trust in Democracy
- https://secondnexus.com/fox-cuts-away-kayleigh-mcenany
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/2020-election-voting-did-not-go-smoothly.html
- https://twitter.com/fIowerfemme/status/1325902786404491266 - the anti-Jewish origin of blandness in American cuisine
- https://theauthoritarians.org/updating-authoritarian-nightmare/ - Donald Trump
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/progressives-are-not-the-enemy-alexandria-ocasio-corte-1845614307
- https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/gop-used-two-santa-clauses-tactic-con-america-nearly-40-years/amp/ - GOP strategy since Reagan
11/10 (Tue)
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/10/the-urgency-to-hold-biden-accountable-on-foreign-policy/
- https://twitter.com/Grown_UpWoman/status/1326261119053426694 - this is almost a coherent gender-critical argument; might be worth addressing
- https://twitter.com/Grown_UpWoman/status/1326267772985372672 - less good, but easier to answer
- https://twitter.com/jengerson/status/1325870326304055297 - this is a point we often make
- https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1325231273464324096 - Richard "increasingly toxic" Dawkins weighs in
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/10/oh-my-i-have-some-favorite-tweets/
- https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/clearwater-seafoods-incorporated-to-be-acquired-by-premium-brands-holdings-corporation-and-a-mi-kmaq-first-nations-coalition-846191150.html
- https://twitter.com/JuliaOakCityGR/status/1326276442884345856 - AP style on derogatory mental health words
- https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2020/11/7/21554114/trump-election-2020-voter-fraud-challenge-recount-biden
- https://secondnexus.com/dean-browning-black-gay-guy
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/postal-worker-fabricated-ballot-pennsylvania/2020/11/10/99269a7c-2364-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/tech/michigan-dead-voter-fact-debunking/index.html
11/11 (Wed)
- https://cosmicshambles.com/words/blogs/robinince/the-narcissistic-truth-movement - flat earthism and Trumpism
- https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_defund_the_police_stop_meaning_defund_the/
- https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pompeo-smooth-transition-second-193000465.html "smooth transition to a second term"
- https://regenerationmag.org/beyond-the-vote-base-building-for-class-independence-in-philadelphia/
- https://regenerationmag.org/an-organizers-history-of-the-philadelphia-tenants-union-part-i/
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325138159408050176.html - deficits, Biden
- 2020-11-09 Let's talk about Biden outsmarting Trump's transition trap.... (Beau of the Fifth Column)
- 2020-11-09 Economic Update: No Matter Who Wins (Richard Wolff)
- https://www.facingsouth.org/2020/11/southern-workers-mobilize-ensure-every-vote-counted
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red - how red & blue got party-coded
11/12 (Thu)
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/12/black-women-voters-mobilize-georgia-elections - these are the people who need to use InstaGov
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/12/hit-the-brakes-hard-right-now/
- https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/ - election fraud
- https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1326985417376186369 - where the Dems are going wrong, according to Beto O'Rourke
11/13 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1327066975554723840 - US/KY/Louisville police abused children
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54922971 - massacre in Ethiopia
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/13/belarus-tells-banks-seize-money-raised-help-protesters-lukashenko
- https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-11-12/covid-19-spread-at-thanksgiving-holiday-gatherings-could-be-like-maine-wedding
- https://www.ksl.com/article/50047970/conspiracy-theorists-try-to-get-into-utah-valley-hospital-icu - errorism
- 2019-11-22 Hats off to Tim Pool!
- 2019-01-11 Snowflakes-- The Right's War on the Individual
- https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/03/it_for_oppression.html
- https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/11/13/1726224/your-computer-isnt-yours - Apple Computer,MacOS, digital privacy
11/14 (Sat)
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/trumps-plan-to-sabotage-the-election-backfired-and-hes-awakened-a-sleeping-giant-instead/
- Fun:North Carolina
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/14/joe-biden-trump-black-latino-republicans
- 2020-11-13 Let's talk about Trump using the military to maintain control.... basically, nope.
- https://twitter.com/JacquelynGill/status/1327752097652224002 - some climate stuff debunking
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-makes-play-for-conservatives-mad-at-facebook-twitter-11605382430
- https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1327781633966092291 - the "two sides" claim, updated for 2020
11/15 (Sun)
- https://www.dailydot.com/irl/el-paso-inmates-covid-bodies/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8OSHlGfoL8 - Saint Francis Dam disaster who could have foreseen, water rights, progress...
11/16 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1328185031823683585 - more on Abigail Shrier :-P
- https://jezebel.com/trump-reportedly-planning-some-unhinged-shit-for-his-fi-1845684246
- 2020-11-16 Trump & Election Results: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- https://twitter.com/crusaderproject/status/1328286888600494080 - Dinesh D'Souza errorism
- https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/11/10/30408103/activists-rally-to-keep-city-workers-from-clearing-a-laurelhurst-homeless-camp
11/17 (Tue)
- https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/here-we-are/story/2018772391/woman-evicted-with-3-hours-notice-for-being-transgender
- 2020-08-21 Thanks Obama | Why Obama is a monster who you should not celebrate.
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105226065919051237 - the housing crisis hits storage units
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2020-election-results-coverage/ - final election results
- 2020-11-17 #CovidWinter may be extraordinarily bad
11/18 (Wed)
- https://twitter.com/mirriam71/status/1328772922891231232 - Rudy Guiliani makes a fool of himself (again), loses PA voter fraud case
- https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1328801527855673349?s=20
- https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1328802522094563328?s=20 - more clarity on the 2 "dissents" (which were not really)
- https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1328796179887427586 -- Giuliani perjured himself by swearing he was a member in good standing, but he had been suspended for failing to pay dues
- https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1328860098677121026 - Giuliani gets the definition of "opacity" exactly wrong
- https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/but-can-he-hack-prison/Content?oid=919647
- https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1329147204779569154 - the "loony left"
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/14/rosie-duffield-mp-labour-transphobia-row-staffer-quits-resignation-canterbury/ - Rosie Duffield, transnegation
- https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-firms-should-abolish-single-sex-spaces-help-staff-feel-comfortable-says-law
- https://twitter.com/marshadecordova/status/1311993483973062661
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/j3xfru/marsha_de_cordova_shadow_women_and_equalities/ - claims de Cordova was endorsing the article's position, but it seems pretty clear from reading what she said that she opposed it on at least legal grounds
- https://twitter.com/marshadecordova/status/1311993483973062661
11/19 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1329140317837148163 - a good graphic for 2020
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/19/kristi-noem-trump-strategy-denial-covid-ravages-south-dakota - Republicans deliberately create conflict
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-strategy/2020/11/18/94fbe50e-29c9-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/19/you-know-what-else-is-over-the-election/ - Trump's latest election-not-losing strategy
- 2020-11-18 Transgender & Cisgender Animated Explainer
- https://twitter.com/abandonedameric/status/1329479247979814918 - people side with Trump because they like being on the side that has the game rigged in its favor
- 2019-10-02 Should We Abolish Copyright? | Tom Nicholas
- 2020-11-18 Tricking Conservatives into Caring About COVID (Rebecca Watson): conservatives are more likely to believe in feelings over science
- 2018-11-23 Civility (Thought Slime)
- 2020-11-13 Why COVID-19 Is Worse For Poor People (and How to Fix It) (Rebecca Watson)
- 2020-11-08 The FULL List of Trump’s Most Tremendous Scandals | The Daily Social Distancing Show
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/9/1976111/-Trump-Won-t-Prep-for-Debate
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/9/1976204/-Three-reasons-why-Woodward-s-revelations-about-Trump-and-Civid-is-so-devastating-to-him
- 2020-11-16 Is It Election Fraud to Not Vote Down-Ballot? No! (Rebecca Watson)
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/?sh=3b6a6e1867d5
11/20 (Fri)
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/black-lives-matter-foundation-unrelated-blm-donations - Black Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter Foundation
- https://blmphxmetro.org/maupin - related: Jerry Maupin ([4][5]) of All Black Lives Matter Arizona (another fake BLM)
- https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/compensation-cap-why-are-public-agencies-that-make-million-dollar-mistakes-only-liable-for-a-fraction-in-florida/ - more qualified immunity
- 2020-11-20 Oligarchs will let the world burn. (Thought Slime): anarchism, socialism
- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-know-about-the-world-peace-and-unification-sanctuary-brings-guns-to-church
- https://www.teenvogue.com/video/watch/a-selected-history-of-civil-disobedience
11/21 (Sat)
- 2018-12-14 Keeping Hope Alive: bad problems we're dealing with, including global warming
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/11/20/2150236/tech-organizations-back-inclusive-naming-initiative - this will probably be called political correctness
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/republican-party-trump-coup-embrace.html
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105249904247186200 - video about neoliberalism
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105249888319952266 - "crisis pregnancy center" in US/KY/Louisville
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-more-people-in-power-not-stand-up-to-President-Trump/answer/Judy-Rofe
- https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/09/10-things-you-need-to-know-to-stop-a-coup/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-ghosts-of-elaine-arkansas-1919 - US history: 1919 race massacre, Elaine Arkansas
11/22 (Sun)
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1329728889296355328.html - Trumps bluffs must be called
- https://twitter.com/machineiv/status/1325496517914812416 - the transphobia of Kamala Harris
- 2019-12-06 HEY PETE BUTTIGIEG, MEANS TESTING SUCKS DUDE. (Thought Slime) -- Pete Buttigieg, means testing
- 2019-09-06 It's Just a Joke (Thought Slime): the problem with just a joke
11/23 (Mon)
- 2020-10-27 Breadtube vs Economics #1: Response to Philosophy Tube on Housing
- Seems to me that Olly's point wasn't "we must abolish the housing market unilaterally, now, no compromises" but rather "we need to stop thinking of the housing market as a good idea, and start working towards doing away with it" -- which is pretty much what this video proposes, with some more detailed suggestions.
- https://www.ucsusa.org/ - Union of Concerned Scientists
- https://twitter.com/kari_jerge/status/1330576580209373184 - hospitals overloading again
- https://maddythorson.medium.com/is-madeline-canonically-trans-4277ece02e40 - trans identity in game development
- https://sixcolors.com/link/2020/11/comcast-to-enforce-data-caps-across-us-starting-in-early-2021/ - Comcast is implementing more data-caps because they can get away with it
- https://www.comicsands.com/poll-watchers-obstructing-recount-wisconsin-2649018148.html - election fraud
- https://www.thecanary.co/global/2020/11/23/richest-countries-buy-up-covid-19-vaccines-at-the-expense-of-poorer-nations/
- 2020-11-23 Why Did So Many Democratic Women Lose in 2020?
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2020/11/23/nhs-faces-action-over-illegal-transgender-healthcare-delays/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2020/11/11/350-transgender-people-have-been-murdered-in-2020-transgender-day-of-remembrance-list/
- https://www.gq.com/story/trevor-noah-newsman-of-the-year-2020
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190115040317/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/iVn2kXTDBTE - dialectic vs. rhetoric
11/24 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1330480707043471360 - the LGB Alliance is astroturf
- https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1330493748804022273 - "People have been granted asylum 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞 because of how badly we treat trans people."
- 2020-11-23 How QAnon Is Taking Over The GOP | The Daily Social Distancing Show: QAnon
- 2020-11-23 Why I (Don't) Hate Thanksgiving: War on Thanksgiving, War on Christmas
- 2020-11-24 How the NY Times is Going to Kill More People: New York Times, COVID-19
11/26 (Thu)
- 2020-04-05 OAN: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): One America News
- 2020-03-13 Utopia (Thought Slime): utopianism, optimism
- 2020-03-01 Political Correctness: EXPLAINED!! (TheObnoxiousAnarchist): political correctness
11/28 (Sat)
- 2020-11-23 Philosophy Tube Accused of Transphobia... But is that true?: Philosophy Tube, dogpiling, how online discussions blow up
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/invisible-manipulators-of-your-mind
- 2020-11-18 How To Destroy A Movement: Coagitate addresses many of these points
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/opinions/scientifically-illiterate-scotus-covid-decision-sachs/index.html
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/podcast-episode-control-over-users-competitors-and-critics
11/29 (Sun)
- https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-election-fraud
- Freefall of the American University Amazon
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/24/facebook-sociopaths
- https://www.reddit.com/r/alltheleft/comments/iits4x/conservatives_deciding_what_todays_definition_of/ - meme: how conservatives define socialism
- https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/news/companies/bankers-prison/index.html - yes, Virginia, some bankers were sent to prison for the 2008 crisis
- https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1332800213191327744 - McConnell is worse than nothing
- https://twitter.com/Brendelbored/status/1333041529561231362 - commentary on PragerU's video "Was Jesus a Capitalist?"
- https://zora.medium.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-monogamy-1e733245eb2f
- https://www.propublica.org/article/debt-collectors-have-made-a-fortune-this-year-now-theyre-coming-for-more
- https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/11/20/studies-show-riding-transit-during-pandemic-is-safer-than-you-think/
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/fccs-independence-and-mission-stake-trump-nominee - Twitter, Facebook, supposed bias against the Right
11/30 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/30/three-religions-at-once/ - Fox News pandemic disinfo
- 2020-11-21 The Bubonic Plague in... San Francisco?: history of pandemic denialism
December
12/01 (Tue)
- https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2020/11/18/lawsuit-tyson-managers-bet-money-on-how-many-workers-would-contract-covid-19/ - Tyson Foods
12/03 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-you-know-about-global-order-is-wrong
- 2020-12-02 Supreme Court Allows Churches to Kill Worshippers: pandemic, war on science, Amy Coney Barrett
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/pro-trump-attorney-caught-encouraging-florida-republica-1845798728 - GOP-driven voter fraud
12/04 (Fri)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/covid-relief-mitch-mcconnell.html - McConnell is holding lives hostage
- https://wpde.com/amp/news/local/students-react-to-all-gender-restrooms-on-ccu-campus - generally favorable (the Rose quoted is our Rose)
- https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1334981032278429702 - another very salty judicial smackdown of an electoral case ("Sidney"?)
12/05 (Sat)
- https://drbrittanij.medium.com/the-moment-i-became-radicalized-b30a875c2aac - systemic racism in the medical community
- Keemstar: good examples of bad logic
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwoLW6LCJPw - fake feminism in She-Ra criticism; dogwhistles, primary subject as a smokescreen
- https://harpers.org/archive/2020/12/skin-in-the-game-wall-street-student-debt-crisis/ - "The left wing of the Democratic Party wants to fix these problems by massively expanding public funding for education and training. Progressive Democrats are pushing to guarantee free college and vocational training, and they have proposed canceling existing student debt." This is where the Dems are definitely more on the good side.
12/06 (Sun)
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/wechat-case-us-government-doesnt-care-if-it-breaks-internet - WeChat, censorship
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4-VDepYEY - Caleb Maupin part 2
12/07 (Mon)
- https://www.vox.com/2020/12/5/22155815/daca-court-nicholas-garaufis-batalla-vidal-chad-wolf-homeland-security-joe-biden-trump
- https://www.vox.com/2020/12/4/22151242/melbourne-victoria-australia-covid-19-cases-lockdown
- https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/943764542/navajo-nation-extends-lockdown-due-to-dire-surge-of-coronavirus
- https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1335395470609244160 - Trumpism: other people's money -> other people's lives
- https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/npr-substantial-likelihood-of-wrongdoing-by-voa-parent-agency-government-watchdog-says/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/12/06/the-atavism-theory-of-cancer-is-bunk-again/ - kinda belongs in SciCrit
- https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/sensible-compassionate-anti-covid-strategy/ - strangleworthy BS
- https://twitter.com/NedStaebler/status/1336085113298444289 "The Florida State Police 'raided' the home of @GeoRebekah who they previously fired as a scientist for refusing to fake Covid data at the request of DeSantis."
- https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/12/07/agents-raid-home-fired-florida-data-scientist-who-built-covid-19-dashboard-rebekah-jones/6482817002/
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/florida-police-raid-home-of-former-state-coronavirus-data-manager/
- https://twitter.com/NewsGuyGreg/status/1336138650959159299?s=20
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105345769442139313 judge resigns
- https://www.sapiens.org/culture/covid-undocumented-essential-workers/
12/08 (Tue)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/border-wall-mexico.html
- https://www.projectcensored.org/1-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls/
- https://www.reuters.com/article/newzealand-shooting-idUSKBN28I0DV - Islamic terrorism vs. white nationalist terrorism
- https://twitter.com/vizjourno/status/1259189791150800899 - white nationalist terrorism
- https://twitter.com/savannimalz/status/1335657517653794817 - police assault peaceful protesters (where?)
- https://twitter.com/MyDickerson/status/1335680466037297153 - LAPD attacked protesters
- https://twitter.com/michellemackey/status/1335284975445434371 - eviction protest (where?)
12/09 (Wed)
- https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/biden-moderate-democrats-republicans-conservative-study-john-kasich-aoc-a9699431.html -- centrism -- "Political researcher David Adler found that across Europe and North America, centrists are the least supportive of democracy, the least committed to its institutions, and the most supportive of authoritarianism."
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/brexit-grassroots-movement-elitist-takeover-2016-referendum
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/1013641/facebook-should-be-broken-up-says-us-government/
12/10 (Thu)
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment - Trump trying to kill free speech again
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/10/stonewall-founder-simon-fanshawe-bi-erasure-queer-lgb-alliance-gay-spot/ - current right-wing talking-points:
- "queer" is bad
- "the gender identity debate"
- "transphobia" is meaningless
- [something that isn't under attack] is under attack
- "gender" is attacking things
- "gender" threatens gayness
- "woke" in scare-quotes
- "oppression points"
- "sex-based rights"
- dumping on Stonewall
- LGB Alliance:
- https://futurehuman.medium.com/scientists-identified-a-green-poisonous-gas-used-by-federal-agents-on-portland-protesters-5b56ac20a624
- https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/ - insidious software Collaboratorship
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl8BwT76frY - "I don't make the law, I just enforce it" is false.
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/trump-texas-supreme-court-election/index.html - the Texas lawsuit against the election
- https://www.npr.org/2020/12/09/944744105/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-let-him-join-widely-scorned-texas-election-lawsuit
- https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1337421502535360513 - deliberate misinterpretation
- https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-concedes-that-joe-biden-will-be-president-but-begs-the-supreme-court-to-intervene/
12/11 (Fri)
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475
- https://www.vox.com/21557717/joe-biden-executive-order-student-debt-climate - things Biden can do without the Senate
- https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/wikipedia-september-11-breaking-news.html
- https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-peak-oil-era-is-suddenly-upon-us/
- https://www.patreon.com/posts/when-barack-met-44711327 - Barack Obama vs. defund the police
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-encounters-bipartisan-backlash-as-aoc-supports-trump-administrations-lawsuit
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/filters-do-more-just-block-content-they-dictate-it - YouTube ContentID, copyright, DMCA
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105360556894307900 - personal responsibility and distractivism
- https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-coronavirus-pandemic-80275870d7fca89bd38992a611b26616
12/12 (Sat)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201212033857if_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/11/trump-stephen-hahn-fda-covid-vaccine/ - Trump's threat accelerated the timeline, but by less than 24 hours.
- https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/the-painful-history-of-portland-s-red-house-6Ovr7AGzqUevb80pGq0YKg - the US/OR/Portland Red House
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iHNMf2d79Y - Kyle Rittenhouse is not innocent
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime
12/13 (Sun)
- https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ZDHgD9084 - conservative comedy, straw man, racism...
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/debating-the-electoral-college -- electoral college
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-kiwis-fight-back-after-nz-compared-to-nazi-germany/N5RCKEXHQACFT4RW3R7QNIDQKI/ - performative leftism
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-white-supremacist-origins-of-modern-marriage-advice
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-you-know-about-global-order-is-wrong - history of the liberal/global order
- http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/americas-herrenvolk-democracy-social-democracy-white-majority/
12/14 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/12/13/jane-orient-conservative-quack/ - mentions many tie-ins
- https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pro-trump-rally-dc-stabbing
- https://apnews.com/article/us-agencies-hacked-global-cyberspying-328b4936f2535418b27cb90afa858489
12/15 (Tue)
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/12/coronavirus-deaths-highest-us-rural-republican-leaning-county/3828902001/ - anti-masking even as friends & neighbors die
- https://themichiganstar.com/2020/12/15/after-examining-antrim-county-voting-machines-asog-concludes-dominion-intentionally-designed-to-create-systemic-fraud/ - The Michigan Star is part of a conservative chain with links to Breitbart
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/dominion-voting-systems-uses-firm-that-was-hacked_3617507.html
- https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/14/michigan-judge-allows-release-report-antrim-county-voting/6537394002/ ""If the Trump campaign had any actual evidence of wrongdoing – or genuine suspicion thereof – they could have requested a hand recount of every ballot in the state," Benson said in a Monday statement. "They did not, instead choosing to allow shadowy organizations claiming expertise to throw around baseless claims of fraud in an effort to mislead American voters and undermine the integrity of the election.""
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/no-dominion-voting-machines-did-not-delete-trump-votes.html
12/16 (Wed)
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/tucker-carlson-jill-biden-dr-pepper-b1774364.html - Tucker Carlson doesn't think that people with Ph.D.s should be called "Doctor"
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/16/1014634/google-ai-ethics-lead-timnit-gebru-tells-story/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/i-do-not-feel-safe-kansas-gop-mayor-resigns-after-n1251334
- https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-cuts-rich-trickle-down-income-inequality-study-2020-12 trickle-down economics economic disparity
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105391188035948503
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-proof-that-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-dont-boost-the-economy-11608136674
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/everything-we-ve-learned-about-modern-economic-theory-is-wrong?utm_source=pocket-newtab
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-venezuela-struck-it-poor (foreignpolicy.com)
- https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-pandemic-in-photos-one-year-2020-12#by-mid-december-the-us-had-authorized-two-coronavirus-vaccines-one-from-a-pfizer-biontech-collaboration-and-the-other-from-moderna-25
- https://www.businessinsider.com/lose-lose-mcconnell-as-trump-dems-support-2000-stimulus-checks-2020-12
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/fox-newss-maria-bartiromo-got-scammed-on-air-by-animal-1845943498
12/17 (Thu)
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/16/facebook-full-page-ad - Facebook Apple, Inc.
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1339287193278423040 - long Marla thread about white supremacy
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/12/17/61328/ - distorted priorities in Red America
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/12/17/ethics-in-journalism/ - life during pandemic times; New York Post
- 2020-12-13 Electoral College: The people who ultimately pick the US president
- https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/biden-moderate-democrats-republicans-conservative-study-john-kasich-aoc-a9699431.html - moderate Dems are basically Republicans
12/18 (Fri)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/when-finnish-teachers-work-in-americas-public-schools/508685/
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/how-internet-fuels-illegal-wildlife-trade/
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/nypd-report-george-floyd-protests - NYPD's actions "heightened tensions"
- https://www.vox.com/2020/12/18/22188781/supreme-court-census-undocumented-immigrants-trump-new-york-constitution
- https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1313848092924375040 - Google v. Oracle thread
- https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/08/921872526/past-cdc-director-urges-current-one-to-stand-up-to-trump
12/19 (Sat)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-helped-china-surveillance/
- https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/what-i-saw-at-the-jericho-march/
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/politics/trump-silence-cyber-hack/index.html
- https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/530962-pompeo-russia-pretty-clearly-behind-massive-cyberattack
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tip-off-from-a-nazi-that-saved-my-grandparents - history: WWII
12/20 (Sun)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/12/20/there-are-going-to-be-multiple-books-written-on-the-trump-response-to-the-pandemic/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/why-british-kids-are-school-american-kids-arent/617438/ -- the narrative on this feels odd; some facts to be checked
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/georgia-democrats-may-have-found-their-own-southern-strategy-a-black-centric-campaign/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-mississippi-once-banned-em-sesame-street-em - racism history
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/victory-new-yorks-city-council-passes-post-act
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/facebooks-election-week-war-accountability-wrong-wrong-wrong
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/12/school-reopening-teachers-unions-parents-brookline-massachusetts.html
- https://www.businessinsider.com/quibi-jeffrey-katzenberg-suggested-trolls-song-amid-layoffs-2020-10
12/21 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/12/21/scratch-a-rich-person-find-a-crook/
- https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/as-the-cdc-discouraged-holiday-travel-gov-kevin-stitt-urged-tourists-to-visit-oklahoma/article_8df0fee6-42f3-11eb-9e1f-1b2ba4f266e9.html
- https://twitter.com/clarfonthey/status/1341173822272225280 - video of people climbing Trump's border wall
12/22 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1341122230026178561 -- even Pat Robertson thinks Trump needs to move on
- https://features.propublica.org/covid-dialysis/for-years-jamarcus-crews-tried-to-get-a-new-kidney-but-corporate-healthcare-stood-in-the-way/ - medical racism
- 2020-12-21 Tanzania 'using Twitter's copyright policy to silence activists'
- https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1341330839993339905 - Nintendo corporate behavior
- https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1341538373412990979 - another ridiculous election lawsuit
12/24 (Thu)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stupefied - corporate enshrinement of stupidity
- https://johnpavlovitz.com/2019/02/04/when-someone-you-love-joins-a-cult/
- https://coppercourier.com/story/godaddy-employees-holiday-bonus-secruity-test/ - GoDaddy, Tribune Publishing, corporate cruelty
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sA3yoNZric - Thought Slime: "Crime and Legitimacy" -- the myth of liberal democracy
- https://toot.cat/@eryn/105436364246231973 - the Portland Red House
12/25 (Fri)
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/22/guatemala-protesters-set-congress-on-fire-during-budget-protests
- https://www.ebar.com/news/news//299760 - Netherlands to offer reparations to trans people
- https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-latin-america-55199058 - Argintina passes tax on wealthy to pay for COVID expenses
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/19/lou-dobbs-debunk-fact-check-smartmatic/
12/26 (Sat)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-important-scientist-you-ve-never-heard-of - how the lead industry stifled and delayed lead abatement
- https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/this-day-in-history-dec-26-1862-38-dakota-men-executed-by-order-of-abraham-lincoln
12/29 (Tue)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/police-misconduct-discipline.html - police brutality (haven't read)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55475433 - Brexit deal appears to be copy-pasta from old legislation
- https://www.coindesk.com/over-20k-why-is-bitcoin-worth-anything-at-all - some areas where Austrian economics seems surprisingly not-wrong
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/gohmert-suit-pence-overturn-trumps-defeat-451485
- https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article247919310.html - GOP cutting benefits for teachers in NC
12/30 (Wed)
- 2020-12-04 US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill - but did the Senate agree?
- https://reason.com/2020/11/25/cops-who-beat-and-killed-an-innocent-man-are-not-entitled-to-qualified-immunity/
- https://theappeal.org/two-rising-democratic-stars-may-be-vying-for-pennsylvania-governor-on-criminal-justice-theyre-very-different/
- https://www.newsweek.com/trump-lawyer-calls-ousted-cybersecurity-chief-taken-out-dawn-shot-1551337 - Trumper violence
- https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-1-028 - Trump atrocities
- https://www.salon.com/2020/11/29/we-will-exterminate-you-proud-boys-and-trump-diehards-confront-counter-protesters-in-raleigh_partner/
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/3/20677645/antifa-portland-andy-ngo-proud-boys - explanation of the assault on Andy Ngo (Andy Ngo)
- https://kansasreflector.com/2020/12/04/why-students-in-an-emporia-state-alternative-facts-class-are-not-happy-with-their-elders/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-election-lawsuit-witness-vote-problems-edison-county-2020-12 - There is no "Edison County"
- https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5c88gg/fortyfive_a_republic_if_you_can_keep_it/ - Morbius on the election of Trump in 2016
- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/01/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-2020-campaign/index.htmlhttps://social.isurf.ca/display/c443a55c-695f-9e63-bd40-23f236912122
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/10/31/the-horror-that-is-the-skeptic-atheist-movement/ - James Randi, Larry Krauss, Sam Harris
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34527140/minnesota-absentee-ballots-court-ruling/
- https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/27/us-is-already-defying-supreme-court-ruling-on-native-rights/
- https://www.ft.com/content/f36c3e2e-bd62-4d93-853f-0d09cd8d9079
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105041996630891450 "Partisan sites with no obvious revenue model and opaque owners have sprung up this year"
- http://www.businessinsider.com/report-china-threatens-detain-american-citizens-over-persecution-chinese-scholars-2020-10
- https://www.salon.com/2020/10/16/watchdog-group-accuses-amy-coney-barrett-of-unconscionable-cruelty-in-teen-rape-case/
- https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/18/violating-irs-rules-texas-pastor-tells-entire-church-to-vote-for-trump/ - Cowboy Church Of Corsicana
- 2020-10-17 Violence continues to escalate against Mi'kmaw lobster fishers on the East Coast as a fire destroyed a lobster pound in Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia.
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105017987171573228 - responses to Cory Doctorow; potentially useful thread
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/aoc-progressives-biden-cabinet-429736
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dznbz/how-to-talk-to-friends-consumed-by-conspiracy-theories-child-trafficking-qanon?utm_content=1602175879 - disinformation pandemic, child-trafficking, QAnon
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trumps-vote-by-mail-conspiracy-theories-decimated-the-republican-partys-early-vote-lead-in-florida-report/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-terror-trump-militias_n_5f832f7ec5b62f97bac42a7c - Trumpism
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/104983427560753031 - XKCD on appeal to worse problems
- 2020-10-07 Another top aide tests positive for COVID-19: List of those in Trump orbit to contract coronavirus
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/ep4yz4/a-principal-used-the-n-word-they-suspended-black-students
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-kkk-klan-wizard/
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/trump-preexisting-conditions-health-care-surprise-billing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indie/ecosteader/master/START-Decolonize.pdf - Decolonize Your Thinking
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/29/luke-letlow-covid-congress-452218 - congressman-elect dies of COVID
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/
- https://ecosteader.com/@emsenn/104842815761151525 "fucking kyriarchists will use any excuse to justify their prosperity before they'll admit "violent theft" is the primary cause."
- https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/really-scary-former-uk-ambassador-fears-america-will-soon-descend-into-political-violence/
- https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/shooting-the-messenger-activists-persecute-scientists-whose-findings-they-dont-like/ - Alice Dreger, Galileo's Middle Finger (suspicious of source, but claims need checking)
- https://memoriesofthepeople.wordpress.com/2020/11/08/intergenerational-supremacy-the-straight-line-from-pioneers-to-poor-white-support-for-trump/
- https://memoriesofthepeople.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/alt-history-part-1-the-mound-builder-myth-and-ethnic-cleansing/ - Cahokia
- https://tildes.net/~misc/szx/what_tips_or_tricks_do_you_use_when_researching_a_topic_to_find_actually_useful_information#comment-5sou - research methodology
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/11/1994857/-Trump-and-the-GOP-are-laying-the-groundwork-for-a-coup-Where-are-Democratic-leaders
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105356821573258968 - meme about the "Dems stole the election" conspiracy theory
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html - "yes, we mean literally abolish the police"
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105335000054861103 - Ad tech as a bubble overdue for bursting
- https://nohoneymoon.org/ activism: don't let Biden have a honeymoon
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/voter-fraud-doj-north-carolina_n_5bbf7393e4b040bb4e7ffe54 - first actual prosecution: was an accident
- https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/even-with-three-trump-appointed-justices-on-the-bench-scotus-declines-to-roll-back-marriage-equality/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/947632289/amazon-warehouse-workers-in-alabama-plan-vote-on-1st-u-s-union
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/why-protests-work/613420/
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/wisconsin-republicans-north-carolina-voting-tony-evers.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1987265/-There-s-nothing-sacred-about-nine-Supreme-Court-seats-and-nothing-original-about-that-number
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/journey-to-antarctica-is-this-what-a-climate-catastrophe-looks-like-in-real-time
- https://therealnews.com/stories/progressives-problems-with-kamala-harris - Kamala Harris
- https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901771780/report-59-confederate-symbols-removed-since-george-floyds-death
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/in-rich-countries-the-middle-class-is-getting-smaller-and-smaller-generation-by-generation
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/lessons-in-the-decline-of-democracy-from-the-ruined-roman-republic
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-24/a-34-million-student-debt-wipe-out-sets-up-a-perfect-economic-experiment
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/25/can-america-benefit-from-covid-ask-14th-century-florence-381130
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/09/why-police-pay-nothing-for-military-equipment.html
- https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/104490014448477696 - Cory Doctorow
- https://social.coop/@datatitian/104486404993323767 - Frederick Douglass on wage slavery
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/you-re-not-just-imagining-it-your-job-is-absolute-bs - corporate inefficiency
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-strikes-down-restrictive-louisiana-abortion-law-n1231392
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/104424237646431483 - one definition of normal
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-is-pocketing-the-money-hes-raising-for-georgia-gopers-hes-not-alone
- https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-marketplace-is-demanding-ethical-ai-51609102357
- https://www.mic.com/p/how-cars-became-a-deadly-anti-protest-weapon-53291831
- https://www.comicsands.com/stop-steal-leader-something-bad-dc-2649695033.html - faux progressivism ("civil rights!")
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-senator-who-stood-up-to-joseph-mccarthy-when-no-one-else-would