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January
1/1 (Fri)
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/healthcare-workers-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-access
- 2019-11-19 Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit: disinformation pandemic
- https://projects.propublica.org/hawaii-beach-loss/
1/2 (Sat)
- COVID spiking:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0C7_c8ylvk - Betty Bowers on GOP hypocrisy
- Eddie Izzard on JKR:
1/3 (Sun)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/health/covid-vaccine-hesitancy.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trump-berates-ga-secretary-of-state-urges-him-to-find-votes/2021/01/03/aba64f5f-8c3c-490f-af34-618ccea732d7_video.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJbtxuwyBc - Trump's weird GA tweets
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/kplhhf/8_months_ago_i_started_writing_code_to_scrape_and/ - analyzing stock market activity by politicians, most notably Richard Burr
1/4 (Mon)
1/5 (Tue)
- https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/01/02/0456221/among-2020s-most-underreported-stories-pharmaceutical-profiteering-may-accelerate-superbugs
- https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-host-society-is-rigged/ - yes. Most of society does not like Trump, and that's why he lost.
- https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/spl/jim-brewster-pennsylvania-senate-gop-refuse-to-seat-nicole-ziccarelli-20210104.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/05/hawley-protest-antifa-scumbags-virginia/ - GOP scumbag lies about peaceful protest
1/6 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/01/06/what-is-this-mania-about-cancel-culture/ - cancel culture
- election-related stuff:
- https://twitter.com/RepElaineLuria/status/1346890833266683904 - Trumpers invade Capitol
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/georgia-senate-election-results/
- https://mastodon.social/@fox_news/105510199520681268
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105510446341208929
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1346913445720051712 - more video
- https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1346929730407202822 - OAN claiming it was Antifa disguised as Trumpers
- https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346912780700577792 - Trump calls for peace, uh-huh, right, sure
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1346454323635527680 - Capitol is secure
- meta:
- https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1323739504046465025 - a relevant prediction
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105510805763291513 - comparison with anti-Native police violence
- https://twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1346947194335723522 - trying to blame leftian rhetoric for the violence
- https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1346903163849342987
- https://twitter.com/k_tea_cat/status/1346907065940283394
- https://twitter.com/RepDavidEPrice/status/1346905883561906186?s=20
- https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080
- https://twitter.com/HaleighHoffman/status/1346909775188152321
- https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1346905694155497472
- https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/saul-loeb?family=editorial&phrase=saul%20loeb&sort=newest
- https://twitter.com/jihanbit/status/1346909463660396550?s=20 - video of police letting the Trumpers through the barricade
- https://twitter.com/LinaRather/status/1346948599230451716 - GOP still refused masks
- https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346898433689399297 - photo after the break-in
- https://mobile.twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970430062485505 - Twitter suspends Trump
- https://twitter.com/mrjeffu/status/1346744290144206848 - pro-Trump march in Tokyo??
- https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1346959244051013634 - footage as mob went into Capitol
- https://people.com/food/whole-foods-ceo-best-solution-americans-eat-healthier/ - personal responsibility-adjacent; John Mackey being an amazing asshole again
1/7 (Thu)
- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/7/congress-affirms-biden-win-trump-vows-orderly-tran/
- https://twitter.com/Mr_Berman/status/1347020289947947008?s=19 - Matt Gaetz blames antifa for pro-Trump protests / break-in
1/8 (Fri)
- https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tells-pence-i-dont-want-to-be-your-friend-2021-1 - the delusional continues to be strong in this one
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/01/08/cheap-talk-skepticism/ - cheap talk skepticism
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/16/oann-what-is-tv-network-trump-is-pushing - One America News Network
- https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-for-weeks-in-plain-sight-the-police-werent-ready - more on the attempted coup
- https://twitter.com/duke_helena/status/1347267376488853508 - lesbian offspring of some of the Coup Kluxers posts IDs, receives instant widespread support
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/georgia-senate-election-results/
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1347328058911584256 - video: Trumpist rioters destroying AP equipment
- https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1347619335313960962 - man who broke into Pelosi's office arrested & charged on 3 federal counts
1/9 (Sat)
- https://twitter.com/JanetAnneLogan/status/1347929619765329930 - police found a pickup truck full of bombs near the Capitol
- https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/141
- https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1347908845281095680?s=20 - dissecting Trump's insurrection speech
- https://twitter.com/navybook/status/1347908922292768771?s=20 - DoD is buying into the "free speech" rhetoric
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1347959114228490240 - more evidence of right-wing incitement to violence
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-clyburn-says-somebody-on-the-inside-of-capitol-was-complicit/
1/10 (Sun)
- https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-99178053752 - video: riot was way worse than initially shown
- https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-omar-says-republicans-who-enabled-trump-have-blood-on-their-hands-99116613914
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-clyburn-says-somebody-on-the-inside-of-capitol-was-complicit/
- https://www.parents.com/news/how-to-explain-to-kids-the-difference-between-a-mob-and-a-protest/ - riots vs. protests
- https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9130119/Priti-Patel-tackles-woke-police-chiefs-let-mobs-tear-statues.html - "woke" = insufficiently authoritarian
- https://twitter.com/petermaer/status/1348231695913381891 - black Capitol Police officers
- https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240 - decent video message from Ahnold. Ends a bit sanctimonious, but that's appropriate for the people he's primarily trying to reach.
- https://mattmillr.medium.com/gregory-brothers-the-youtube-stars-behind-viral-rent-mashup-are-leaders-in-lbgtq-exclusionary-ea27ce032624 - Resurrection Williamsburg homophobia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mH9X4jQT8 - claim of 43000 Trump votes removed in PA
- https://twitter.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1348325143010017282 - apparently this one officer was critical in holding back the mob
- https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/corey-robin-what-impeachment-could-mean-trump
- https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1348384859291582465?s=19 - QAnon congresswoman faces calls for arrest after live-tweeting Nancy Pelosi's location to rioters
- https://twitter.com/SacredSHS/status/1348329777795653640 - more right-wing violent threats
- https://www.maxnewstoday.com/post/hold-the-traitors-accountable -- well-written argument
- https://www.livescience.com/22109-cycles-violence-2020.html - 2020 matches prediction from 2012 and earlier
1/11 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/01/11/a-little-glimmer-of-satisfaction-every-morning/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/01/10/how-to-wipe-a-cocky-grin-off-a-trumpkins-face/ - they don't understand what the words mean
- https://twitter.com/Antifagator/status/1348459922208546816?s=19 - "no no, we're the real nazis"
- https://www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirro-kristallnacht/
- https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466
- https://twitter.com/kimpossiblefact/status/1348560370810679297?s=19 - These People Don't Know What They're Doing, part one zillion
- https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2021/01/09/opinion-after-heinous-assault-time-reckon-reality/6599593002/
1/12 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/I_am_Endeavour/status/1348274945420382208 - so, what were the homophobic things Graham Norton said earlier?
- The Boogaloo Boys: A meme that kills people.
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/congressional-doctor-warns-insurrection-may-have-been-superspreader-event/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-briefed-plot-overthrow-government_n_5ffd29a4c5b691806c4bf199?cte
- https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1348869611203293184 - more terrorist threats
1/13 (Wed)
to post somewhere
(From Discord on 2021-01-10:
So now I've thought of two ways right-wingism gets its hooks into people:
- appeals to comforting beliefs: yes, you are in control of your life, you deserve everything you have, anyone who worked as hard as you would have achieved the same thing -- therefore anyone who isn't doing well is pretty much to blame for that (the Cult of Personal Responsibility)
- appeals to vanity: by always questioning any conclusion which is either widely accepted or seemingly inescapable, you are proving that you are cleverer and more open-minded than the Sheeple -- and you can prove your worthiness and non-sheeplyness by repeating ideas which articulately take down such widely-accepted and/or inescapable conclusions, regardless of whether those arguments make sense on closer examination, in the name of being sure to question everything and examine all sides (Cheap Talk Skepticism)(edited)
1/14 (Thu)
- https://mailchi.mp/3c87cdfd4243/dc-coup-attempt-part-3-stop-calling-them-terrorists - fascists are ultimately aligned with the capitalist oligarchy
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/tom-rice-south-carolina-impeachment/index.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/media/capitol-hill-insurrection-denial/index.html
- https://jezebel.com/i-was-raised-on-the-lie-of-the-reluctant-rural-insurre-1846006392
- https://phys.org/news/2021-01-indigenous-peoples-wary-biodiversity.html
1/15 (Fri)
- https://www.themarysue.com/donald-trump-wrong-alamo/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/there-is-no-covid-vaccine-reserve-trump-admin-already-shipped-it/
- https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1349920717639475203 - on claims that the insurgence was leftist
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/trump-tries-to-claw-back-billions-from-covid-vaccine-distributor/
- https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-01-14/architect-paul-r-williams-shaped-los-angeles-black-pioneer - nonwhite erasure
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tv-s-first-interracial-kiss-launched-a-lifelong-career-in-activism - Star Trek was always political
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/105562447120047856 - apparently they honestly believe that Medicare is a private service??
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/15/twitters-vision-of-decentralization-could-also-be-the-far-rights-internet-endgame/
1/16 (Sat)
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/fda-blindsided-as-trump-admin-cripples-agency-on-its-way-out/
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54691739 - autism and UK PoC communities
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1350556648788664322 - actual censorship, from the Right of course
- https://twitter.com/rebekahmiel/status/1350613336115830788 "pro-life" marchers in Raleigh without masks
- https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1350618959918206976 - apparently the Pentagon was one factor in why AT&T wasn't broken up sooner
1/17 (Sun)
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22232948/third-stimulus-check-update-aoc-biden
- https://www.gov.scot/policies/crime-prevention-and-reduction/hate-crime/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/16/2009646/--A-riot-that-killed-4-of-his-biggest-fans-How-Trump-supporters-trampled-one-of-their-own - perp blames Antifa
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/16/2009669/-Trump-may-be-going-but-he-s-leaving-behind-a-stain-that-goes-from-coast-to-coast - anti-masker rage
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/16/2009712/-Bundy-warns-he-will-walk-toward-guns-if-Biden-tries-to-collect-28-years-of-unpaid-grazing-fees - return of Cliven Bundy
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/16/2009675/-A-Shocking-List-of-30-Elected-Officials-at-Trump-s-Rally-Capitol-Insurrection-It-Keeps-Growing
- https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/
1/18 (Mon)
- https://www.businessinsider.com/parler-website-is-back-online-2021-1
- https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210115103830/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2020/03/01/bitcoin-using-electricity-per-transaction-british-household/ - The headline's conclusion seems spurious, but the article doesn't give enough information to tell how they reached it.
- https://twitter.com/ipvkyte/status/1350922562935681024 - further reasoning based on this conclusion
1/19 (Tue)
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/crash-landing-of-operation-warp-speed-459892 - Trump's vaccine program
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/rachel-levine-health-and-human-services/index.html
- People who were at the insurrection:
- https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/fact-check-dale-top-15-donald-trump-lies/index.html
- https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-2021/
1/20 (Wed)
- https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1040683616488103936 - UBI information thread
- https://twitter.com/lo_lifer/status/1351905046812905477 - negative reaction to Biden border camps
1/21 (Thu)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/20/2010668/--There-is-no-plan-Disillusion-sets-in-as-the-great-Q-conspiracy-crumbles
- Portland ICE protest:
- https://psyche.co/ideas/the-mathematical-case-against-blaming-people-for-their-misfortune - doesn't even mention that risk implies the possibility of failure
- https://twitter.com/MarlaCaldwell/status/1352368728885878784 - systemic racism continues to be real
- https://jezebel.com/dallas-county-scrapped-vaccination-plan-prioritizing-co-1846106804 - probably same news item
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/opinions/democrats-agenda-joe-biden-administration-sanders/index.html
1/24 (Sun)
- https://tech.lgbt/@amandag/105611303841893432 - actual examples of dishonesty in MSM
1/25 (Mon)
- https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/violence-at-the-united-states-capitol-3
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/18/2009719/-Cartoon-The-end-of-an-error - another listing of Trump's sins
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/20/2010689/-McConnell-s-obstruction-of-Biden-s-agenda-has-already-begun
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/22/2011195/-Corrupt-Texas-AG-Ken-Paxton-threatens-to-sue-Biden-admin-over-deportation-moratorium
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/22/2011075/-More-evidence-that-it-wasn-t-an-intelligence-failure
- https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/waiting-for-our-salazar/ - conservative advocacy against democracy
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/viral-video-forced-wealthy-texas-suburb-confront-racism-silent-majority-n1255230 - racism meets racism denial
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/24/2011561/-Dr-Deborah-Birx-claims-someone-gave-Trump-parallel-data-on-coronavirus-pandemic - unknown person made up charts with imaginary data for Trump to present
1/27 (Wed)
- https://toot.cat/web/statuses/105617386011571013 - Cory Doctorow: monopoly is a political issue, but policy treats it as economic
- https://globalvoices.org/2021/01/25/hypocrisy-vs-history-debate-follows-death-of-former-yugoslav-actress-mira-furlan/ - Mira Furlan, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Nazis...
- https://twitter.com/SulomeAnderson/status/1350568907019595790 -- America First (and Matt Goetz) retroactively pwned by Dr. Seuss
- http://peerproduction.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/anti-colonial-hacking-draft.pdf
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/26/2012039/-Georgia-Republican-is-kicked-out-of-chamber-and-loses-his-office-for-refusing-to-take-COVID-19-test
1/28 (Fri)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/blowout - Deepwater Horizon disaster
- Marjorie Taylor Greene:
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book - Russia cultivated Trump as an asset for 40 years
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/27/2012188/-McConnell-threatens-Senate-Democrats -- good responses
- https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944 - AOC calls out Ted Cruz for supporting the insurrection
February
2/1 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/01/the-christian-right-poisons-everything/
- https://twitter.com/UglySexy/status/1356050289485344770 - memes and thoughts on "racism is over"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013246/-Myanmar-has-fallen
- US/NY/Rochester PD
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/31/2013015/-It-s-Happening-Proud-Boys-And-Oath-Keepers-Get-Federal-Charges-Upgraded-To-CONSPIRACY - what about the elected officials who helped and encouraged them?
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013315/-Democrats-force-Republicans-to-decide-whether-they-want-to-be-the-QAnon-party-with-Greene-ultimatum - Marjorie Taylor Greene is way over the top
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013254/-PA-Sen-Lt-Gov-John-Fetterman-D-Tells-PA-GOP-To-F-Off-Over-Flying-LGBTQ-amp-Marijuana-Flags - John Fetterman, GOP anti-free-speech
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013261/-Republicans-bring-insultingly-underfunded-COVID-19-plan-to-Biden-in-the-name-of-unity - GOP deliberately makes their offer a poison-pill
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013265/-Remember-the-Wisconsin-pharmacist-who-deliberately-ruined-vaccines-He-s-a-flat-Earther
2/2 (Tue)
- https://www.patrick-breyer.de/?p=594996&lang=en - EU wants private email to be scanned for child porn, oslt
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/01/trump-campaign-autopsy-paints-damning-picture-of-defeat-464636
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/30/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections-463976
- https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/how-one-polygamous-family-changed-the-law
- Transnegation:
- https://deadstate.org/capitol-stormer-asks-judge-if-she-can-go-on-mexico-vacation-she-booked-before-jan-6/
- https://daringfireball.net/2021/02/whats_the_downside - "humoring T****"
- https://twitter.com/alfredwkng/status/1356717392961937413 - translation: Amazon doesn't want to lose law enforcement as a customer base
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/03/do-the-covidiots-even-understand-actuarial-statistics/ - COVID deaths in US/MN
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/realestate/luxury-high-rise-432-park.html
- http://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/3/biden_immigration_changes
2/3 (Wed)
- https://www.pewresearch.org/2021/01/29/how-america-changed-during-donald-trumps-presidency/
- https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/03/could-megafarmcorps-do-good-for-the-land/
- https://lgbt.io/@porsupah/105667617742596512 - Toilets of Terror in the UK
- https://mailchi.mp/3c87cdfd4243/dc-coup-attempt-part-3-stop-calling-them-terrorists
2/4 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1357053626192064513 - House to vote on removing Greene
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/2/2013479/-Biden-turns-Republican-unity-game-on-its-head-in-meeting-with-senators
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/congress-frustrations-capitol-riot-463619
- https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1357411918919700491?s=19 - T**** resigns from Screen Actors' Guild
- https://twitter.com/FullCycle - the environmental crisis as an investment opportunity
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/parler-financial-backers-oust-founder-and-ceo-matze-from-company/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-suggests-insults-for-aides-tweet-report-2021-2
- https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1357681289009233926?s=21
2/6 (Sat)
2/7 (Sun)
- https://djtrumplibrary.com/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/07/lewis-wolpert-yikes/ Lewis Wolpert, sexism, gender reductionism oslt...
- https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/covid-tracking-project-end-march-7 - this really highlights how badly 45 fell down on pandemic response
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/politics/janet-yellen-unemployment-rate-biden-stimulus-cnntv/index.html
2/8 (Mon)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/7/2014589/-Trump-s-D-C-hotel-nearly-triples-its-rates-for-his-second-inauguration-on-March-4
- https://jezebel.com/parents-at-mostly-white-utah-montessori-school-tried-to-1846220536 - black history opt-out
2/9 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/MajinJessUchiha/status/1358865726715682828 - MSNBC's anti-lockdown propaganda
2/11 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/11/its-the-fallacy-abuse-fallacy/
- http://www.wendycarlos.com/pruri.html
- https://scicomm.xyz/@ailurocrat/105713071373381649 - a good counter to "pro-life" arguments
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqnag/trapped-women-working-as-fishery-observers-allege-sex-harassment-assault-at-sea
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/11/nigeria-finally-unfreezes-protesters-bank-accounts
2/12 (Fri)
- https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/02/11/google-has-been-allowing-advertisers-to-exclude-nonbinary-people-from-seeing-job-ads
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105720961547142476 - the IMF's plan to burrow ever-deeper into our private lives, and the names behind it
2/13 (Sat)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/12/2015559/-This-senator-who-calls-herself-a-Democrat-wants-you-to-know-she-s-blocking-your-living-wage - Kyrsten Sinema
2/15 (Mon)
2/16 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/17/remember-milo-yiannopoulos/
- https://twitter.com/lucasbrowneyes/status/1360694439610445824?s=21 - judge asserts right to exterminate Native Americans by sword
- https://www.wired.com/story/billionaires-use-vr-avoid-social-change/
2/17 (Thu)
- https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/aug/25/occupy-democrats/liberal-group-tags-jindal-anchor-baby/ - Occupy Democrats may not be reliable source
- TX power outage:
- https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/texas-frozen-wind-turbines-john-cornyn-b1803193.html
- https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/texans-are-dying-without-power-and-heat-while-their-gov-1846286717
- https://www.kxan.com/news/ex-mayor-blasted-for-telling-texas-residents-without-power-quit-crying-and-looking-for-a-handout/
- https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-mayor-resigns-after-controversial-post/500-b12e07ec-7ace-4d3f-b6c9-645d9ffacfa3
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/what-went-wrong-with-texass-main-electric-grid-and-could-it-have-been-prevented/
- https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/18/texass-blackouts-are-the-result-of-unreliable-green-energy/ - the right-wing take
- https://twitter.com/futtigue/status/1362437175263064067 - things governments have done to help during massive power-outages
- https://twitter.com/ConorKenny/status/1362274022709420033 - a resident describes the problem
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/ted-cruz-flees-texas-for-cancun-ditches-family-poodle.html
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242676/instacart-firing-every-union-employee-coronavirus-pandemic
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/15/2016132/--Gas-em-I-don-t-give-a-s-t-says-cop-from-same-force-that-wanted-BLM-protesters-charged-as-gang - more evidence emerges from the George Floyd uprising
2/20 (Sat)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/20/a-defense-of-adnan-oktar/
- https://twitter.com/SamEdwardsTO/status/1362837195007090690 - Toronto sues maker of homeless shelters
2/22 (Mon)
- https://inews.co.uk/news/real-life/buying-a-house-with-a-white-man-privilege-874473?ito=smart-news
- https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/literacy/ - disinformation pandemic
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/14th-amendment-section-2-mass-incarceration/
2/23 (Tue)
- https://www.themarysue.com/ted-cruz-neighbors-bring-the-receipts/
- https://www.themarysue.com/heres-who-ted-cruz-is-blaming-now/
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/biden-cuts-medicare-farm-aid-468895
2/25 (Thu)
2/26 (Fri)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/02/26/is-there-some-kind-of-epidemic-of-stupidity-right-now/ - PZ comments on Rebecca's snow-conspiracy video
2/28 (Sun)
- https://steady.substack.com/p/jim-crow-is-not-dead-and-why-we-should
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-stop-being-filmed-just-tip-iceberg - YT's implementation of copyright is broken and weaponizable
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/25/2018092/-Rachel-Levine-expertly-shuts-down-Rand-Paul-s-anti-trans-diatribe-during-confirmation-hearing - Rand Paul conflates SRS with genital mutilation, erroneously applies true statement about the latter to the former
- /Epoch Times
- https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1366489983574413317?s=21 - Jennifer Bilek, Kara Dansky (TERFism)
- https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1366775939087142914 - the FBI has not seen any evidence that the Jan. 6 attack was anything other than genuine Trump supporters
- https://theappeal.org/the-point/america-needs-a-civilian-climate-corps/
March
3/2 (Tue)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8jWioayXc - flirting and consent
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Nii5w2FaI - the tea analogy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7EtIeWrPs - a detransition story
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/1/2018788/-Hyatt-Hotels-releases-statement-further-distancing-company-from-CPAC-s-Nazi-stage
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/1/2018752/-New-photos-could-prove-Oath-Keepers-reaction-force-with-weapons-just-outside-Capitol-on-Jan-6
3/3 (Wed)
3/4 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/brotherjones_/status/1367248106371215361 - the right-wing war on speech
3/6 (Sat)
3/7 (Sun)
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/07/joe-manchin-filibuster-senate-474197
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/3/2018998/-Alumni-get-vicious-in-emails-to-make-sure-Texas-Longhorns-cling-to-racist-alma-mater - wow, rich-people entitlement
- https://www.propublica.org/article/after-a-wave-of-violent-threats-against-election-workers-georgia-sees-few-arrests
3/10 (Wed)
3/12 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1370246786925887490 - more Portland violence
3/16 (Tue)
3/18 (Thu)
- https://nypost.com/2021/03/17/the-border-mess-is-only-going-to-get-worse/ - image widely repeated in right-wing media, but the image is from 2019
- https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1846494525
April
04/17 (Sat)
- Beau:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyOhTOG70i4 - on the question of whether governmental laws create social order
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEwtGgWFxHA - walmart and minimum wage
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxDtc1Q6hWo - why Dems won't get the minimum wage increase passed
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yurGxoqjswM - how passing the stimulus bill was a big win
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52Yj1wkSIs - Biden's reforms of the american asylum system
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c47rKtuJl_Q - Let's talk about the stimulus going mostly to Republicans....
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9YKT0dItk - Unemployment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/patrisse-cullors-topanga-house/ - smear against "Marxist BLM group"
- the smears:
- https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/
- https://wbckfm.com/blm-founder-patrisse-cullors-4-million-home/
- https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/blm-official-calls-investigation-founder-114017918.html
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-black-lives-matter-houses-kass-20210415-5a7cspw3irbu3p6pmgjedknp74-story.html
- https://www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/marxist-blm-leader-buys-1-4-million-home-in-ritzy-la-enclave
- https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-million-dollar-real-estate-buying-binge
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9473431/BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors-consulting-firm-paid-20K-month-LA-jail-reform.html
- the smears:
May
05/15 (Sat)
time to catch up...
- https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-public-health-race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-pandemic-585b21bb229c0049f2dec94927cc9789
- 2021-04-05 The National Debt: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- 2011-08-27 It's Class Warfare - The Poor (and the rest of us) Have Lost (Civic Lab)
- 2021-03-12 David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything (The Gravel Institute)
- 2021-03-12 Let's talk about Biden, the stimulus, and the midterms.... (Beau)
- 2021-03-12 We are losing the culture war and I cannot stress enough that as a result society is doomed. (Thought Slime)
- 2021-03-09 Nicolle Wallace: The GOP Is Built On A Foundation Of BS
- 2021-03-10 Let's talk about changing society and a lesson from Nevada.... (Beau)
- 2021-03-03 Ask Prof Wolff: Does Capitalism Increase Wealth?
- 2021-02-22 Economic Update: Why Capitalism Reproduces Inequality & a Solution
- 2021-02-04 The roads to funding your community network projects.... (The Roads with Beau)
- 2021-04-17 Let's talk about where his parents were.... (Beau)
- 2021-04-15 Mask Off (Lindsey Ellis, 1:40:31 - her "past sins")
- 2021-04-19 Moby: A Vegan World Would Have No Pandemics??? (Rebecca Watson)
- 2021-04-22 Let's talk about LA having to find houses.... (Beau)
- 2021-04-19 Bankruptcy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- 2021-04-22 Study: Fundies Use "Science" to Try to Ban Porn (Rebecca Watson)
- 2020-07-17 Fake Materialism for Real Transphobes (Thought Slime)
- 2021-04-16 Matt Gaetz, Explained (LegalEagle)
- 2021-05-03 Let's talk about Ted Cruz's wild op-ed on contributions.... (Beau)
- 2018-11-26 Deconstructing a Genius Climate Change Argument (hankschannel)
- 2021-05-13 Study: Gender-Affirming Surgery Improves Trans Lives (Now With Audio) (Rebecca Watson)
- 2021-05-13 Let's talk about Ted Cruz and something funny.... (Beau)
- 2021-05-14 Let's talk about 1033 and nuance.... (Beau)
- 2021-04-29 Let's talk about Biden's speech, autocracy, and democracy....
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-biggest-challenge-lack-of-imagination-the-scientists-turning-the-desert-green
- 2021-04-14 How Amazon Strong-Arms Partners Using Its Power Across Multiple Businesses (WSJ)
- https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/18/lessons-learned-forgotten-horrific-epidemics-us-civil-war/
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/columbus-police-fatally-shoot-a-person-as-derek-chauvin-guilty-verdict-comes-down
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2021/05/11/just-as-the-u-s-government-helped-create-al-qaeda-the-israeli-government-helped-hamas/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2021/05/08/mitigating-the-harm-of-climate-change-using-changes-in-the-climate/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2021/05/06/renegade-cut-why-riots-happen/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2021/05/04/a-video-and-some-thoughts-on-the-current-state-of-u-s-fascism/ - how today's GOP is fascist
- https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
- https://news.yahoo.com/columbus-police-fatally-shoot-person-222318319.html
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/u-s-military-takes-ufos-seriously-why-doesn-t-silicon-ncna1264107
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-not-just-young-white-liberals-who-are-leaving-religion/
- https://aeon.co/essays/why-humans-find-it-so-hard-to-let-go-of-false-beliefs
- https://www.newschannel5.com/news/nashville-man-helps-hundreds-of-people-in-need-get-a-free-pizza-every-week
- https://thebaffler.com/latest/must-love-bogs-emory -- saving bogs greatly helps against global warming
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/an-oral-history-of-the-indoor-rainforest-iowa-almost-built
- So i'm the one who forbid WTFPL at Google...
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/electric-cars-are-changing-the-cost-of-driving
- https://qz.com/186432/why-hydrogen-powered-cars-will-drive-elon-musk-crazy/
- https://qz.com/1136533/a-radical-startup-has-invented-the-worlds-first-zero-emissions-fossil-fuel-power-plant/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-flood-savaged-hamlet-proves-climate-change-isn-t-just-a-coastal-concern
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/20/vice-president-walter-mondale-obituary-1984-democratic-campaign-483448
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/22/9-0-supreme-court-ruling-guts-ftcs-ability-to-seek-redress-for-consumers-484194
- 2021-04-23 Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/houston-based-utility-wants-minnesotans-to-pay-for-texas-deep-freeze-problems/
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/102813/wyoming-dao-law-to-go-into-effect-in-july-after-receiving-final-approval
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-low-skill-worker/618674/
- https://twitter.com/TeresaPalomar1/status/1386298315117981702 - an HRT/transition personal story from 1980
- https://theslot.jezebel.com/alaska-state-senator-barred-from-alaska-airlines-after-1846762358
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-outrageous-deeply-sexist-history-of-the-pantsuit
- https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1386837979453399049 - Tucker Carlson and masks as child abuse
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/it-s-time-to-start-wasting-solar-energy
- https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/rembert-browne - personal debt in the US
- 2021-04-27 Biden 100 days: What we all got wrong about him
- 2021-04-28 Mon Laferte: The Chilean pop sensation challenging repression
- 2021-04-29 India Covid: Hospitals overwhelmed as deaths pass 200,000
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/24/forgotten-precedent-unprecedented-politics-age-of-acrimony-484072
- https://www.wired.com/story/35-years-later-studies-show-a-silver-lining-from-chernobyl/
- https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1387416760505315332 - Forstater appeal, "gender critical"
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22387601/smart-fridge-car-personal-ownership-internet-things - capitalists are taking away personal ownership
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/ "Why Democrats have to win large majorities in order to govern while Republicans donât need majorities at all"
5/16 (Sun)
- https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1392923544753872896 - the pipeline shutdown was entirely about money, not physical conveyance
- Israeli airstrike destroys building housing The Associated Press, Al Jazeera offices
5/17 (Mon)
- Bitcoin energy consumption:
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/21/the-debate-about-cryptocurrency-and-energy-consumption/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/lvwjis/energy_consumption_bitcoin_mining_vs_financial/
- https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-energy-consumption-is-far-more-efficient-and-greener-than-todays-banking-system/ (cites Medium link below)
- https://medium.com/@zodhyatech/which-consumes-more-power-banks-or-bitcoins-8302750fe2bc
- https://decrypt.co/71228/71ark-invest-defends-bitcoins-environmental-impact-following-elon-musk-tweets228?
5/18 (Tue)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/05/18/finally-bill-gates-gets-called-on-his-bs/
- https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukraine-seized-vodka-made-chernobyl-apples-scientists-made/story?id=77687304
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/liz-cheney-regrets-voting-trump-2020/story?id=77695446
- https://www.businessinsider.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-definitely-screamed-at-aoc-wapo-reporter-2021-5
5/19 (Wed)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/verizon-uses-fcc-pandemic-subsidy-to-upsell-customers-to-pricier-plans/ - Verizon
5/23 (Sun)
- https://twitter.com/mathcolorstrees/status/1396271456393175041 - techbros vs. stopping online abuse; "just ignore them" does not work
- https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/23/ryanair-flight-diverted-to-belarus-journalist-arrested-on-arrival
5/24 (Mon)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57066275 - Palestine fires back
5/25 (Tue)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM010qUUl5M
- weird uptick in Shelby County, AL is probably a statistical fluke
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ59WoQ2574 - Greg Abbot's inconsistency on abortion
5/26 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/05/26/the-marjorie-taylor-greene-disease/
- Caitlyn Jenner opposes trans girls participating in female sports:
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-girls-sports_n_608fd270e4b09cce6c209aa4
- https://www.reuters.com/article/california-politics-jenner-transgender/caitlyn-jenner-says-she-opposes-trans-girls-in-female-school-sports-idUSL8N2MP0HB
- https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national-politics/caitlyn-jenner-opposes-transgender-girls-in-girls-sports-calls-it-a-question-of-fairness
- https://www.tmz.com/2021/05/01/caitlyn-jenner-trans-girls-ban-sports-biological-boys/
- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/may/02/caitlyn-jenner-opposes-transgender-girls-in-girls-school-sports
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/02/caitlyn-jenner-says-she-opposes-transgender-girls-competing-girls-sports/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-girls-sports/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/caitlyn-jenner-says-transgender-girls-women-s-sports-unfair-n1266138
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56960011
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/02/politics/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-athletes-california-recall/index.html
- https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/caitlyn-jenner-opposes-trans-girls-competing-girls-sports.html
- Caitlyn Jenner competes in women's golf tournament:
- https://instinctmagazine.com/caitlyn-jenners-hypocrisy-on-blast-for-her-competing-in-womens-golf/
- https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/caitlyn-jenner-golf-sorts-trans-b1841312
- https://www.joe.co.uk/news/caitlyn-jenner-criticised-for-playing-in-womens-golf-league-272229
- https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/05/06/caitlyn-jenner-womens-golf/
- https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/caitlyn-jenner-particpate-women-golf-tournament-article-1.2580185
- Apparently the feds are in the midst of another round of Aaron Swartz-esque persecution, this time against the founder of a sci-hub
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/551255-florida-passes-bill-prohibiting-social-media-companies-from-banning?rl=1 - so much for respecting private property
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJtvKSUPICA - history of AIDS
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/25/lgbt-action-plan-liz-truss-tory-women-equalities/
5/28 (Fri)
- https://www.cpiml.net/liberation/2020/08/chinas-concentration-camps-for-uyghurs-in-chinas-own-words
- 2019-10-23 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/cleaned-out-ongoing-ethnic-cleansing-rojava
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-QNwHFGSn8 - how statistics can be used for propaganda
- Ask Prof Wolff: Media Bias & Capitalism
- https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1398127443047858179 - anecdotes about the effectiveness of police
5/29 (Sat)
- Rutgers University vs. anti-semitism:
- the pro-Israel claim:
- https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/28/rutgers-university-chancellor-christopher-j-molloy-condemns-the-rise-in-antisemitic-violence-and-then-apologizes-for-doing-so/
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/rutgers-university-condemns-antisemitism-then-apologizes-for-doing-so/
- https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/rutgers-universitys-chancellor-condemned-antisemitism-then-apologized-669521
- the actual posts (directory):
- denial of the denial:
- the pro-Israel claim:
- https://mobile.twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1393599986319958020 - senior Israeli officials proudly declaring their fascism
- https://twitter.com/RobertGReeve/status/1397032784703655938 - data aggregation and selling you things
5/30 (Sun)
- https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1398709369391419395 - the Republican Slow Coup Attempt continues
5/31 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/schnedwob/status/1398086928138911745 - pretty sure this pro-life billboard, aside from being irrelevant, is also completely untrue
- https://twitter.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1399047955072626690 - Tory ableism
- Kamloops Indian Residential School -- treatment of American indigenous people
June
6/1 (Tue)
6/2 (Wed)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/06/02/local-is-global/ - dairy farming practices, consolidation
- https://twitter.com/jholbo1/status/1399950154141028354 - long thread about sundown towns
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/1/2033116/-Matt-Gaetz-and-other-conservatives-duped-into-retweeting-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-for-Memorial-Day
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/06/03/i-see-right-through-you-conservatives/ - critical race theory and conservoidism
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/106346965838363116
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZ_3-i5FY4 - Thought Slime on this topic
6/3 (Thu)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/06/03/racism-comes-in-many-forms/
- https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senators-collins-coons-lead-effort-preserve-60-vote-threshold-legislation
- https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/12/05/478199/impact-filibuster-federal-policymaking/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/2/2033319/-Trump-loving-West-Virginia-governor-admits-he-s-on-the-hook-for-700-million-loan - WV governor Jim Justice
- https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002831545/high-school-valedictorian-swaps-speech-to-speak-out-against-texas-new-abortion-l
6/4 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/SnarlsDeGaulle/status/1400534377487081479 - profit-backed violence
- https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/maggie-haberman-is-right/
- https://www.nationalreview.com/news/a-trumpian-college-republican-splinter-group-shows-the-intra-gop-fight-is-just-beginning/
- https://twitter.com/JORGE_C_NY/status/1400535357834338308 - Republicans criticizing Trump before he was elected
6/5 (Sat)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/4/2033624/-White-women-tried-to-police-queer-affection-in-a-crowded-pool-It-didn-t-go-how-they-expected - some people are still homophobic jerks, but they are the exception
6/6 (Sun)
- https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/06/texas-attorney-general-admits-trump-would-have-lost-the-state-in-2020-if-he-hadnt-blocked-mail-in-voting/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/2/2033319/-Trump-loving-West-Virginia-governor-admits-he-s-on-the-hook-for-700-million-loan
- https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1401150079138996225 - Ken Paxton admits that Trump would have lost TX with fair voting
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2021/6/3/22463776/guaranteed-universal-basic-income-charity-policy
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/1/2033137/-Republican-governor-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-into-law-on-the-first-day-of-Pride-Month
- https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/06/chick-fil-profits-used-push-anti-trans-state-laws-kill-equality-act/
6/7 (Mon)
- https://twitter.com/efrostee/status/1401952522319843329 - DHS helicopter being used to terrorize pipeline protesters
6/8 (Tue)
- https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-10-16/juul-labs-faces-lawsuit-over-18-year-olds-death
- 2021-06-07 The fight to find work: 'I've applied for 200 jobs'
- 2021-06-08 ANOM: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting using messaging app
- https://www.wired.com/story/wait-vaccine-lotteries-actually-work/
- https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a36501873/gamestop-barbarians-at-the-gate/ - "crazy money"
- https://www.themarysue.com/swalwell-mo-brooks-lawsuit-email-password/
- https://www.themarysue.com/mexican-student-ever-lopez-diploma/ - US/NC/Asheboro
- https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/striking-alabama-coal-miners-endure-arrests-see-little-progress-were-just-standing-together.html
- https://www.equaljusticeproject.co.nz/articles/burdens-and-borders-disability-discrimination-in-new-zealand-immigration-law2020
- https://www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_ed_commentaries/joe-manchin-why-im-voting-against-the-for-the-people-act/article_c7eb2551-a500-5f77-aa37-2e42d0af870f.html
6/9 (Wed)
- https://twitter.com/midnucas/status/1401634445958860801 - LUMA, Puerto Rico's new US-imposed electricity monopoly, sends armed guards
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/i-promised-brando-i-would-not-touch-his-oscar-secret-life-sacheen-littlefeather#Echobox=1622700648 - historical moment
- El Salvador, Bitcoin, US dollar:
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-peaceplan-idUSKBN2B02MQ
- 2021-05-21 Chile Elects Progressives to Rewrite Pinochet-Era, Neoliberal Constitution
- https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1402646586379878409 - the vaccine causes magnetism, apparently some people think
6/10 (Thu)
- https://thehill.com/policy/finance/banking-financial-institutions/535282-florida-bank-says-it-has-closed-trumps-accounts?amp
- https://crooksandliars.com/2021/06/grizzly-scouts-plotted-cop-attacks - far-right involvement in violence during the Floyd protests
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-hardly-pays-taxes-and-is-going-to-space-and-hell-no-we-are-not-in-this-together
- https://crooksandliars.com/2021/06/lauren-boebert-shalanda-young
6/13 (Sun)
- https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/ACCESS%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf - the ACCESS Act
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/switzerland-dangerous-yes-vote-gives-police-sweeping-powers-to-target-people-including-children-without-charge-or-trial/
- https://notbird.site/@deletescape/106346850396548895 - Switzerland and the problems with canonical direct democracy
- https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/106405359278957444 - the Freenode takeover saga continues
<root> is andrew lee, some select quotes from today:
<root> wizardess: Thank you just keep supporting the movement of freedom!!!
<root> MAKE FREENODE GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!
<root> MFGA!!!!!
<GreenJello> root, and you wonder why people associate you with Trump?
<root> GreenJello: That's a huge compliment to be associated with such a great former President.
<root> <3
<root> jane_doe: hint the freenode network is its own sovereign state
<root> jane_doe: we have an agreement with the uk
<yanmaani> <@root> you guys are fucking stupid af. stop talkin like that u fucktards.
<wizardess> yanmaani: omg fake!!
<root> thats not fake
<root> This isn't the IRC wars.
<root> Communists are attacking freenode.
<root> This is the end of the cancel culture wars.
<root> This is the beginning of the power of unity.
<root> We are at the cusp of a new era... for the world.
<root> freenode is the very definition of freedom
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/fatal-error-inspired-plan-to-reduce-friendly-fire/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-misinformation-is-killing-people1/
- https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56311912 - how gendering of toilets affects one cis woman
- 2020-12-04 Do We Really Need a Border Wall? (Gravel Institute)
- 2021-02-12 Why America Throws the Poor in Prison (Gravel Institute)
- 2021-03-17 Ask Prof Wolff: Corporate Threats to Leave are Empty (AskProfWolff)
- 2021-03-17 Let's talk about Biden, McConnell, and the filibuster.... (Beau)
- 2021-04-14 Proving The World is Flat! (74 Gear)
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-execs-polarization-playbook
- 2021-03-16 UK builds up nuclear arsenal to counter cyber threat
- https://www.hcn.org/articles/race-racism-the-long-western-legacy-of-violence-against-asian-americans - US history, racism
- Darktown Comics: history of US racism
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_WPVZMVI-g - racist issues around Harry Potter (Cho Chang)
- 2021-03-12 David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything (Gravel Institute)
- 2021-03-09 The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization (Wendover Productions)
- https://jezebel.com/not-all-votes-are-equal-says-arizona-politician-who-s-1846467607 - politician who doesn't believe in democracy
- https://bofa.substack.com/p/breaking-hacktivist-donk_enby-had
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-anniversary-legacy-idUSKBN2B103H
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/swiss-police-raid-apartment-of-verkada-hacker-seize-devices -- Tillie
- 2011-08-27 It's Class Warfare - The Poor (and the rest of us) Have Lost (Civic Lab) -- haven't watched yet
- https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf - Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor
- https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-public-health-race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-pandemic-585b21bb229c0049f2dec94927cc9789 - Ted Nugent, COVID-19
- 2021-04-05 The National Debt: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- 2021-03-12 We are losing the culture war and I cannot stress enough that as a result society is doomed. (Thought Slime)
- 2021-03-09 Nicolle Wallace: The GOP Is Built On A Foundation Of BS
- 2021-03-10 Let's talk about changing society and a lesson from Nevada.... (Beau)
- 2021-03-03 Ask Prof Wolff: Does Capitalism Increase Wealth? (AskProfWolff)
- 2021-02-22 Economic Update: Why Capitalism Reproduces Inequality & a Solution (Wolff, Economic Update)
- 2021-04-19 Bankruptcy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- 2021-04-22 Study: Fundies Use "Science" to Try to Ban Porn (Rebecca Watson)
- 2020-07-07 Fake Materialism for Real Transphobes (Thought Slime)
6/14 (Mon)
- 2020-02-11 'Post Office false theft claim left me bankrupt'
- https://www.truthorfiction.com/mike-barnicle-college-graduates-75000-a-year/
6/16 (Wed)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-16/bitcoin-is-now-legal-tender-in-el-salvador-is-that-really-a-good-thing
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/108643/sec-more-comment-bitcoin-etf-vaneck
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/108614/new-crypto-working-group-in-congress-will-feature-blockchain-caucus-fintech-task-force-leadership
6/18 (Fri)
- https://www.rawstory.com/conservative-caught-in-juneteenth-hypocrisy/
- https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1405659872457334786 - video of black parent probably misrepresenting critical race theory
- https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/558925-supreme-court-sides-with-catholic-adoption-agency-that-turned-away
- https://time.com/6072141/alamo-history-myths/ - we don't remember The Alamo correctly
6/20 (Sun)
- https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1988/labour/01-birth.html - Marxism on UK Labor Party
- https://twitter.com/cigsender/status/1405853659167088641 - Factorio, kovarex, bad behavior, cancel culture
6/21 (Mon)
- https://inthesetimes.com/article/workers-world-unite-amazon-union-busting-organizing-labor-rights
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/06/21/tom-cotton-is-proud-of-his-paranoia/ - Tom Cotton
- Fall of Civilizations Podcast
- https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ - wealth shown to scale
- is a side-scroller; would be easier to deal with if it scrolled vertically...
- https://angrystaffofficer.com/2021/06/20/we-believe-in-making-treason-odious-u-s-veterans-of-the-civil-war-attack-the-lost-cause/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/police-reform-failure/
6/22 (Tue)
- https://jezebel.com/alabama-would-like-to-make-it-possible-to-prosecute-pre-1847149305 - the Right is obsessed with control over reproduction
- https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-we-survive-extreme-heat - global warming
6/23 (Wed)
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/2021/06/17/is-bitcoin-more-wasteful-than-bank-bailouts-were/
6/24 (Thu)
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/20/barstool-sports-republican-politics-portnoy-trump-495221
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/06/24/nicholas-wade-is-the-andrew-wakefield-of-molecular-virology/ - Nicholas Wade and the Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory
- https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/1407861007209222151?s=20 - disinformation on CNN
- https://jezebel.com/arkansas-leads-the-country-in-denying-trans-kids-basic-1846578978
- https://gizmodo.com/how-star-wars-biggest-fan-wiki-found-itself-in-a-fight-1846578173
- https://gizmodo.com/fandom-launches-new-lgbtqia-guidelines-for-all-its-wik-1847166009
6/26 (Sat)
- Surfside condominium building collapse -- evidence for comparison of steel-frame collapses
- Marieval Indian Residential School -- more unmarked graves at an assimilation school
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/does-the-trolley-problem-have-a-problem
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-war-game-that-could-have-ended-the-world
- https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1407799795603808258?s=20 - former NRA president gives "rehearsal" graduation speech to empty chairs
6/27 (Sun)
- https://twitter.com/near_koukai/status/1408940057235312640 - probable suicide, aided by Kiwi Farms
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us/police-resignations-protests-asheville.html
6/29 (Tue)
6/30 (Wed)
July
7/1 (Thu)
- https://twitter.com/ClayShentrup/status/1410108700090454019 - Approval Voting vs. RCV
- 2021-07-01 Why Capitalism Doesn't Work: Response to PragerU (LuckyBlackCat)
- 2021-06-23 The Abuser Logic of PragerU (LuckyBlackCat)
7/2 (Fri)
- Madden v. Southwest Airlines (h/t):
- the filing:
- the result:
- https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/kolyma-highway-in-yakutia-also-known-as-the-road-of-bones-is-on-fire-and-temporarily-shut/ - Siberia on fire
- https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/02/us_government_cloud/ - Microsoft receives multiple secrecy orders per day
- https://puri.sm/posts/the-future-of-computers-the-neighborhood-and-the-nursing-home/
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/110335/bitcoin-mining-council-sustainable-energy-survey
7/5 (Mon)
- https://apnews.com/article/california-gun-politics-government-and-politics-3d72caa3b52667b2a450cae41a087468 - example of how one group's freedom infringes on that of another
- https://nextdoor.com/p/kZf9by4TXycg?view=detail - "defund the police" discussion
- 2021-07-03 These Chinese Millennials Are 'Chilling,' and Beijing Isn't Happy: other sources suggest that there is actually intention and purpose behind this movement, and the NYT is actually trying to ridicule it
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/27/2037382/-Barr-thought-trump-was-saying-that-he-had-been-denying-him-his-essence
- https://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2021/07/04/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-minor-amendments-or-an-attack-on-human-rights/
- Violette Morris: a disobedient woman
7/6 (Tue)
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/03/they-said-i-dont-exist-but-i-am-here-one-womans-battle-to-prove-she-isnt-dead - dependency on an unaccountable system
- https://decrypt.co/75222/americas-first-dao-approved-in-wyoming
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub/
- https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1412525522056364032 - they made t-shirts for the "spontaneous, unplanned" insurrection
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/3/2038146/-White-men-even-Republican-ones-are-starting-to-sour-on-Trump
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/02/1012317032/hospitals-have-started-posting-their-prices-online-heres-what-they-reveal
7/7 (Wed)
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/5/22559961/heat-roads-washington-oregon-climate-infrastructure - climate change means redesigning roads
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/blast-from-the-past - Carter administration covered up 1979 Israel nuclear test
- NSW may have to give up on lockdown and live with Delta variant, government admits - I seem to recall predicting that something like this would happen...
7/8 (Thu)
- Graduated electronic decelerator
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avqqn/reporters-survived-capitol-riot-struggling
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/8/2038862/-Tennessee-Republicans-deem-Ruby-Bridges-story-critical-race-theory-in-effort-to-ban-it-in-schools
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/6/2038603/-Stephanie-Ruhle-knocks-crybaby-businesses-that-claim-they-can-t-afford-to-pay-a-living-wage-EPIC
- https://www.counterhate.com/pandemicprofiteers
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/05/politics/trump-disinformation-strategy/index.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/28/2037468/-Toyota-digs-in-sees-no-problem-in-funding-insurrectionist-Republican-lawmakers-campaigns
7/9 (Fri)
- https://twitter.com/MassAGO/status/1413090524601409536 - Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, opioid crisis
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57763037 - Wozniak backs right-to-repair
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-spy-known-as-the-limping-lady-helped-the-allies-win-wwii
7/10 (Sat)
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/07/college-essay-writer-diary.html - the economics of college essay "cheating"
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/haiti-president-assassinated-moise-covid.html
7/11 (Sun)
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-resurrection-of-bass-reeves/ -- unwhitewashed history
7/12 (Mon)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/dr-luke-doja-cat-pop-music-ethics/619366/ -- cancel culture isn't really a thing (even sometimes when it should be)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/tucker-carlson-today-americana-fake-log-cabin/619411/ - Fox News continues to invest deeply in Tucker Carlson
- Cuba:
- https://news.yahoo.com/7-point-plan-reinstate-donald-144559048.html
- https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014686526/a-houston-man-is-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-voting-as-texas-gop-seeks-tighter-
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/8/2038909/-John-Dean-Trump-has-set-quite-the-trap-for-himself-with-lawsuit-against-Facebook-and-Twitter
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2039324/-Former-Saturday-Night-Live-Comedian-Advocates-2nd-Amendment-Remedy-To-Stop-Covid-Vaccine - multiple SNL veterans are apparently politically unhinged
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/05/black-farmers-left-out-usda-497876
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/29/trump-white-house-covid-taskforce-fauci - Trump COVID response
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/24/2036868/-Rep-Matt-Gaetz-owned-by-a-general-s-testimony-gets-owned-even-harder-on-Twitter
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pirate-radio-broadcaster-who-occupied-alcatraz-and-terrified-the-fbi
7/14 (Wed)
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-senate-expected-to-take-up-vote-on-election-legislation-11626176054
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22547185/consumerism-competition-history-interview
- bystander apathy:
- https://slate.com/culture/2021/07/conservative-book-publisher-interview-editor-eric-nelson.html
- https://www.reagan.com/ - email service which may serve as a useful source for Reagan hagiography
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored
7/15 (Thu)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/14/2039887/-Democrats-Warren-Whitehouse-demand-investigation-on-tax-avoidance-by-the-ultrawealthy
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/15/2040004/-NASA-warns-of-a-surge-in-rapid-coastal-flooding-due-to-a-moon-wobble-amplified-by-the-climate-crisis
7/16 (Fri)
- https://www.theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chronicles/
- https://twitter.com/i/events/1415951407937585154 - journalist Danish Siddiqui killed in Afghanistan by Taliban ambush
- https://www.vox.com/2021/7/15/22577876/macys-ace-hardware-fight-for-the-future-facial-recognition-artificial-intelligence-stores
- https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/return-to-office-wfh-remote-problem-future.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/jul/14/food-monopoly-meals-profits-data-investigation -- the conflict between efficiency and accountability
7/17 (Sat)
- domestic terrorism federal response:
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fact-sheet-national-strategy-for-countering-domestic-terrorism/
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1178 Commission on Domestic Terrorism Act of 2021
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/964 Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021
- https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/10/24/9-views-on-religion-and-social-issues/
- https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-tell-police-they-cant-lie-to-minors-in-interrogat
- Wow. The first, huh. Slow clap, I guess.
- How about "police shouldn't be allowed to lie to anyone, period"? That seems like a good law to me. Confessions made under coercion are generally held to be invalid, and it has always seemed to me that lying to someone is a form of coercion. This is especially true when you have them in your power so they can't check your claims.
7/18 (Sun)
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/akg495/donald-jr-black-women-voting-rights
- https://palladiummag.com/2021/07/15/the-myth-of-panic/ - apparently we only panic about imaginary things, not actual threats
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUE6ZW9Zrs - recap of what happened in US/OR/Portland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0RPX3mpmuo - Tucker Carlson
7/19 (Mon)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/self-control-is-just-empathy-with-your-future-self - for anyone who says that too much empathy is bad
- https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/1417140807887462400 - "The Texas Senate has voted to remove civil rights and women's suffrage from public school curriculum." - so much for their dedication to history
7/20 (Tue)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/12/2039380/-Why-is-Trump-so-eager-to-unmask-the-Capitol-officer-who-shot-Ashli-Babbit-Racism
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 - just a reminder that this is a thing
7/21 (Wed)
- https://news.yahoo.com/dr-fauci-to-rand-paul-if-anybody-is-lying-here-senator-it-is-you-181509085.html - some background on the Paul-Fauci exchange
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tried-to-terrorize-stalk-and-silence-couple-that-ran-news-site/
- https://time.com/6076035/erik-prince-ukraine-private-army/
7/22 (Thu)
- https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/06/visibility-mixes-with-vulnerability-for-many-transgender-travellers
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/18/2016657/-With-conservatives-it-s-always-someone-else-s-fault
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDZ6kL95JA - Juul, vapes, history of smoking health research
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB1OVMCZI0s - Beau on Tom Barrack
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/22/so-many-layerswho-would-have-thought-aig-could-be-this-sophisticated/ - right-wing cartoon shows how rights conflict with each other
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-removes-requirement-teach-ku-klux-klan-n1274610
- AllSides [1] CEO John Gable:
7/23 (Fri)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-new-yorkers-were-menaced-by-banana-peels -- street cleaning in NYC
- 2021-07-21 Facts about slavery never mentioned in school | Thomas Sowell: needs fact-checking and probably debunking
7/24 (Sat)
- https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/ - why bigcorps remain so adamantly opposed to reducing hours in white-collar jobs
- https://twitter.com/KevinARNG11BVet/status/1418767518261448705 - memes with checkable criticisms of Fox News
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/22/2041345/--Tone-it-down-b-h-Cori-Bush-is-threatened-and-called-the-N-word-for-doing-her-job - Cori Bush vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene
- https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud - the myth of voter fraud
7/25 (Sun)
- https://www.propublica.org/article/operation-fox-hunt-how-china-exports-repression-using-a-network-of-spies-hidden-in-plain-sight - one has to wonder if the US does this too
- https://transsafety.network/posts/shelter-murder-fake-news/ Yardley MP Jess Phillips, Mumsnet
7/26 (Mon)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/26/reap-what-you-sow/ - more wounded Catholic outrage
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/26/2041900/-GOP-lawmaker-booed-off-stage-by-her-own-party-for-refusing-to-placate-Trump-s-ego-this-time
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/20/2041000/-Woman-runner-s-outfit-deemed-too-revealing-while-female-team-fined-for-NOT-revealing-enough
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/23/2041576/-Burnt-parts-of-Pacific-forests-are-landing-on-the-Atlantic-This-is-climate-change
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/25/2041892/-Pelosi-appoints-Rep-Adam-Kinzinger-as-second-Republican-member-of-January-6-investigation
- https://news.yahoo.com/rep-madison-cawthorn-baselessly-accuses-163943291.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/21/2041107/-Republicans-freaking-out-that-the-Delta-variant-they-created-is-killing-Republicans
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/audio-reveals-trump-gushing-over-loving-jan-6-crowd
7/27 (Tue)
- https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1419803043969732634 (middle of thread) - autogynephilia, the DSM, bad counterargumentation...
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/26/2041592/-Republican-says-he-wasn-t-involved-in-fatal-crash-despite-motorcycle-stuck-to-the-front-of-his-car - will be interesting if this guy (Charlie Gerow) continues to be active politically, after this
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fbi-agent-turned-cnn-analyst-asha-rangappa-wants-to-restore-your-faith-in-america
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210513100206/https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ - how even the smart sincere people get fooled
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2XDad8sAxI - Rebecca Jones, the supposed Florida COVID whistleblower
7/28 (Wed)
- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heritage-dispute-engulfs-site-chosen-amazons-new-african-hq-2021-06-03/
- https://www.propublica.org/article/not-allowed-to-hang-up-the-harsh-reality-of-working-in-customer-service
7/29 (Thu)
- https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/01/ama-journal-masks-are-bad-for-your-kids-quit-forcing-them-to-wear-them/ - cites another one of those self-selected-participation studies, which has been retracted and which pointedly said that "...this study cannot demonstrate a causal relationship..."
- https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/ian-duncan-deputy-speaker-house-lords-interview-brother-died-ovarian-cancer-1125221
- https://twitter.com/AnemoneAndMe/status/1420540789734612992 - DRM in fast-food drink cups
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90658442/this-woman-was-the-first-scientist-to-chart-the-physics-of-climate-change-in-1856 - Eunice Foote, erasure of women, greenhouse effect
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/28/2042539/-Watch-Warren-educate-the-masses-on-taxes-and-loop-in-Jeff-Bezos-for-a-fresh-zinger-in-mere-minutes - the rich want us to think of Social Security as a handout
- https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/06/30/exxon-climate-change-undercover/
âNobody is going to propose a tax on all Americans and the cynical side of me says, yeah, we kind of know that but it gives us a talking point that we can say, well what is ExxonMobil for? Well, weâre for a carbon tax,â McCoy said.
- https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/killer-heat-united-states-0 - expected results of global warming in the US
- https://archive.is/aH0KI - Lauren Berlant "...Berlant also clearly called for a form of social democracy in which the state would provide basic public goods to everyone rather than leave its own population abandoned and morally vilified."
- https://twitter.com/deportablediz/status/1420681481110818816 - theory about why TERFism thrives in British culture
7/30 (Fri)
7/31 (Sat)
- https://lakotalaw.org/news/2021-07-28/hr-1374
- https://rage.love/@maloki/106673999788819630 "The bill, innocuously titled the Enhancing State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2021, would create a federal law that potentially weaponizes state forces and codifies a money pipeline for states to accept and solicit private funding from anyone, including mega-donors and private corporations."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/30/2042931/-Who-s-Gonna-Tell-Her - conservoid uses "socialist" to mean "anything we don't like"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/30/2042861/-Internal-CDC-document-says-Delta-should-be-treated-as-whole-new-virus-More-contagious-more-deadly
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/30/2042891/-Civiqs-poll-80-percent-of-Republicans-believe-election-was-stolen-from-Trump
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/30/2042948/-Trump-pressured-Justice-Department-daily-to-help-him-steal-the-2020-election-from-Biden
- https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/state/2021/07/30/florida-ghost-candidate-election-corruption-frank-artiles-republican-lawmakers-third-party/5391308001/ - once again, Republicans engaging in the voter fraud they're so sure everyone else is doing
- https://tastecooking.com/we-cant-quit-the-ziploc/ - how even a beneficial technology has externalities; also some interesting history
- 2021-07-30 A video about Nicole Arbor for some reason. (Thought Slime): right-wing "comedy", Activision Blizzar (I think); many topics
August
8/1 (Sun)
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/30/cawthorn-mckinley-gop-house-floor-501796
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/botched-arizona-gop-s-ballot-count-ends-troubles-persist-n1275593 - the Arizona "audit"
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/graisondangor/2021/07/29/3-members-of-congress-failed-to-properly-disclose-up-to-22-million-of-stock-trades-watchdog-says/
8/2 (Mon)
- https://act.oxfamamerica.org/page/30749/petition/1 - petition about Biden's border policies
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/31/2043102/-Former-RNC-Chair-Michael-Steele-merrily-rips-into-Jim-Jordan-s-selective-Jan-6-amnesia
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/30/2043006/-Post-insurrection-strategy-for-Proud-Boys-manifests-Aim-for-local-controversies-hijack-them
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/1/2043212/-WOW-Republican-Senator-throws-Trump-completely-under-the-bus-as-she-says-he-is-culpable-for-Jan-6 - Susan Collins
- corporate sponsors of Jan. 6:
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/08/toyota-stop-giving-election-objectors-political-donations/7908742002/
- https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/this-sedition-is-brought-to-you-by/
- https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/01/general-motors-suspends-all-political-contributions-for-now/
- http://www.ultrakulture.com/2016/01/01/what-if-aborigines-had-colonized-england-2/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/2/2043347/-USCIS-has-a-Senate-confirmed-director-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-two-years
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/2/2043358/-McCarthy-Jordan-top-the-list-of-GOP-members-begging-for-subpoenas-in-Jan-6-probe?detail=emaildkre2
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/31/2043076/-Trump-s-COVID-19-testing-czar-warns-the-unvaccinated-You-re-going-to-get-the-delta-variant
8/5 (Thu)
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie "Donald Trumpâs attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs." ... "One night in June, a few hundred people gathered for the première of The Deep Rig, a film financed by the multimillionaire founder of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, who is a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump. Styled as a documentary, the movie asserts that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen by supporters of Joe Biden, including by Antifa members who chatted about their sinister plot on a conference call."
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/05/us-healthcare-system-ranks-last-11-wealthiest-countries
8/6 (Fri)
- effectiveness of mockery in effecting social change:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion/17kristof.html
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XuzNqCuecsGHvKxiA/are-we-right-about-how-effective-mockery-is-1 - not sure how useful this is, but it should probably be included
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201810/the-right-and-wrong-ridicule - talks about Trump ridiculing people
- http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/DigitalRhetoricCollaborative/index.php/Satire_in_Rhetoric
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/politics/eviction-moratorium-high-covid-spread/index.html
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/06/north-dakota-republicans-oil-fracking-environment-502308 - Department of Returning Chickens
8/7 (Sat)
- https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/08/congee-karen-taylor-food-appropriation-conversation.html - how the mass media shaped a narrative in order to stoke flame wars
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044174/-Republican-congressman-who-filed-a-lawsuit-over-masks-last-week-tests-positive-for-COVID-this-week
- https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/musical-instruments-wood-trees-italy-climate-change.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044197/-Team-Trump-was-really-planning-a-coup-It-s-past-time-to-take-it-seriously
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044168/-Steve-Scalise-finally-got-vaccinated-Now-he-s-gaslighting-voters-about-why-red-states-fell-behind
8/8 (Sun)
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/deep-dive-into-stupid-meet-the-growing-group-that-rejects-germ-theory/ -- germ theory denialism
- https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/space-strike-nasa-1973 - labor history (not really a strike, but still important in understanding workplace power-dynamics)
- https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/union-miner-strike-picket-brookwood-alabama-union-united-mine-workers-umwa-warrior-met-coal-blackrock/ - mine strike in Alabama
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored - "In August 1974, the CIA produced a study on "climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems". The diagnosis was dramatic. It warned of the emergence of a new era of weird weather, leading to political unrest and mass migration (which, in turn, would cause more unrest)."
- https://www.curbed.com/2021/08/p-e-moskowitz-parallel-parking.html - how Twitter and other social media are designed to fan flame-wars
- p.e. moskowitz - Twitter
- https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/566819-usps-to-slow-certain-mail-deliveries-starting-in-october
- https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/566849-missouri-taxi-company-refuses-vaccinated-masked-customers
- https://www.vox.com/22442407/care-for-caregivers-mental-health-covid - unpaid caregivers
- https://twitter.com/wfaa/status/1423418544767787017 - the Texas Education Agency doing everything it can to help COVID spread among schoolchildren
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/opinions/sleep-on-capitol-steps-for-eviction-moratorium-motivation-cori-bush/index.html - Cori Bush, homelessness
- Dr. Webberly (Shadowchoir is working on a transcription):
- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/tenacious-unicorn-ranch-colorado - Tenacious Unicorn Ranch
8/9 (Mon)
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58017429 -- Activision Blizzard; World of Warcraft
- https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/8/5/22611031/chip-shortage-cars-electronics-automakers-gm-tesla-playstation-xbox -- 2021 chip shortage
- 2015 Court-Ordered Law Breaking: U.S. Courts Increasingly Order the Violation of Foreign Law
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma - six sigma and General Electric
8/10 (Tue)
- Report: Georgia Ballots Rejected By Machines Were Later Altered By Election Workers To Count - more election disinformation
- https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/10/texas-greg-abbott-democrats-special-session/
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/american-anger-polarization-fox-news/
My Nextdoor editorial on this:
I think I disagree a little, here. I think Faux News is more an opportunistic exploiter of the situation -- a symptom -- than the cause.
Likewise, social media is just the latest iteration in the problem of information overwhelm -- although it may be the one which tipped the system over into chaotic behavior.
The cause, I would say, is the ever-increasing amount of information people have to sift through in order to understand the realities beyond their front door. Some people are better equipped (by whatever combination of nature and nurture) to handle this than others.
...which means that as the complexity continues to rise, the number of people do *not* handle infoglut very well goes up, and the opportunities to exploit those people for political gain increase correspondingly.
We need to establish some trustable, democratically-operated institutions for processing and distilling the transfinite complexities of reality, and we need to do it NOW.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html - global economic disparity
8/11 (Wed)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/dominion-voting-files-scorching-1-7b-defamation-lawsuits-against-newsmax-oan/ - Newsmax, OAN, Patrick Byrne, election fraud claims
- https://www.vox.com/22613027/un-ipcc-climate-change-report-ar6-disaster - IPCC climate report
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/ "A controlled demolition, he means. That is how he thinks Bobby died that day, and how the towers eventually fell: from a controlled demolition. It was an inside job, planned by the U.S. government, not to justify the war in Iraqâthat was a bonusâbut really, ultimately, to destroy the 23rd floor, because thatâs where the FBI was investigating the use of gold that the United States had unlawfully requisitioned from the Japanese during World War II, which it then leveraged to bankrupt the Soviet Union. The planes were merely for show."
- "...is the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which popularized the idea that jet fuel couldnât burn at a high enough temperature to melt beams into molten steel. This is, it should go without saying, contrary to all observable fact." Ummmmm... my understanding is:
- It is indeed true that jet fuel cannot burn hot enough to melt steel, especially not in an uncontrolled fire.
- ...and even the official 9/11 Report acknowledged this (there's a page about simulations of the fires on each floor, with predicted temperatures -- none get anywhere near steel's melting point)
- "Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth" is a group in fact composed of actual licensed architects and engineers, people who have expertise on this subject.
- "contrary to all observable fact" -- this rather presumes the conclusion, doesn't it?
- "...is the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which popularized the idea that jet fuel couldnât burn at a high enough temperature to melt beams into molten steel. This is, it should go without saying, contrary to all observable fact." Ummmmm... my understanding is:
Viewing post for Nextdoor:
- (today, 5m42s, Beau): "Let's talk about Rand Paul needing a remedial civics lesson...." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag_NJEc5cI4 Confession: I used to think Rand's dad was possibly okay, but it turned out I was wrong... and Rand is worse.
- (today, 9m07s, Rebecca Watson) "I Am Dealing With the IPCC Global Warming Report" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuIJzO9AI4
- Listen to Rebecca. She knows what's up. Here's a text article about that same report: https://www.vox.com/22613027/un-ipcc-climate-change-report-ar6-disaster
- She also makes a very good comparison between the global warming crisis and the COVID crisis.
- (8/9, 18m21s, LuckyBlackCat) "OK Boomer: Class War Not Generation War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY4pNGK7ccI
- (today, 19m13s, StepBack) "Cryptocurrency Is the Perfect Commodity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THDsfQaeuiQ - I only disagree with about 5% of what he says, and it's mostly quibbling.
- Full disclosure: I got a couple of donations in BTC back in the early days, which of course blew up in value over the next decade. I managed to cash out $1000 of it during the last peak, and still have about $1000 worth -- but that only proves his point: the game rewards early-adopters, at the expense of everyone else. (I have never put any money *into* crypto, nor do I plan to.)
- (8/9, 41m01s, Rachel Maddow) "MSNBC Breaking News Today August 9, 2021" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5U7vFBbypU - interview with Dr. Fauci, where he answers a lot of questions about Delta, masks, and vaccination (Note: there's an annoying technical issue where the video is noticeably out of sync with the audio.)
- https://conservativebrief.com/judge-blocked-48051/ - more disinfo (see also National Review)
- https://www.yahoo.com/now/federal-judge-blocks-biden-mandate-165254585.html "The Obama administration attached a mandate to the Affordable Care Act in 2016 stating that health care providers must perform and provide insurance coverage for gender transition surgery. The mandate interprets the ACA non-discrimination clause, known as Section 1557, to cover transition surgery and does not provide a religious exemption for providers."
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/18/2016-11458/nondiscrimination-in-health-programs-and-activities - this seems to be the mandate, and it applies only to organizations receiving federal funding.
- https://tuttletwins.com/ - anti-socialist propaganda
8/12 Thu
- mass media fawning over Cuomo(?)
- https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/539712-medias-gushing-promotion-of-gov-cuomo-looks-pretty-bad-now - opinion piece by Jeffrey M. McCall, who appears to be a fan of the "universities are destroying free speech" narrative
- The New Yorker (rated as "Left" by AllSides) throwing a bit of shade on Cuomo last year: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/19/andrew-cuomo-the-king-of-new-york
- NY Post (right-leaning but still mainstream/mass-media) in February 2021 noting factual discrepancies in Cuomo's claims about hospital beds: https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/government-memo-crushes-cuomos-defense-in-nursing-home-scandal/
- https://www.thebulwark.com/voting-machine-tampering-is-coming-from-inside-the-maga-house/ - once again, GOP creating voter fraud so they can complain about it
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jdB7Apk-R4 - Paul McCartney interview montage: how the music industry kinda screwed over even The Beatles
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I - Dubai and modern slavery
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-must-peak-within-4-years-says-leaked-un-report
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avpe3/ann-wagner-fosta-onlyfans-csam-doj-letter
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KowlDatVNUM - communist manifesto explained
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/10/2044611/-Texas-House-Republicans-Say-Quiet-Part-Out-Loud-W-Regard-To-Voting-Rights-And-Lordy-There-Is-A-Tape - TX Republicans copying the GA model
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/11/2045122/--Long-record-of-negligence-and-abuse-ACLU-tracks-nearly-180-fatal-encounters-with-CBP-since-2010
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/mike-lindell-mypillow-ceo-election-claims-invs/index.html
8/13 Fri
- https://longreads.com/2021/08/05/table-racism-bernice-l-mcfadden/ - racism
- https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/ - wage theft, economic disparity
- https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2021-08-13/tmh-confirms-pediatric-covid-related-death - FL COVID
- IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
8/14 Sat
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/florida-covid-delta-variant-surge - from the Dept. of who could have foreseen
- https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/gender-ideology-run-amok/ - Shrier rides again, welcomed by Hillsdale
- https://www.kcra.com/article/sutter-creek-parent-assaults-teacher-over-mask-dispute-at-amador-county-school-superintendent/37295267 (also NBC)
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/the-perl-foundation-is-fragmenting-over-code-of-conduct-enforcement/ - better project-collaboration software is needed
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/13/activision-blizzard-trans-deadnamed/ - more Activison Blizzard hijinks
- https://www.psypost.org/2021/08/new-research-indicates-trump-contributed-to-americans-embracing-beliefs-that-neutralized-social-distancing-norms-61687
8/15 Sun
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702 - fashion waste
- https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-mackenzie-scott-donations/ - philanthropy
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/editorials/os-op-florida-schools-rebellion-masks-ron-desantis-20210811-wanul5o5ofhcraynddi3su4iui-story.html (house editorial) "School districts are defying [DeSantis's] July 30 executive order prohibiting schools from requiring students to minimize the spread of COVID by wearing masks." DeSantis threatened to dock the salaries of superintendents and school boards who don't comply, and some are backing down.
DeSantis is actively preventing these schools from exercising their best judgement.
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/politics/2021/08/11/desantis--would--fight-back-vociferously--against-any-biden-mask-overrule Quoth DeSantis: âOur view, of course, is that we believe this is a decision for the parent to make, just given the uncertainty about what it means, particularly for the young kids âŚâ
WTF? What "uncertainty"? Wearing a mask is safer, period.
Also, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki notes that Florida has not distributed any of the money set aside for them in the American Rescue Plan to help schools reopen safely.
What's the denialist justification for *that*?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/school-mask-fights-heating-conservative-states-79407587 "With the highly contagious delta variant fueling a surge in coronavirus cases just as students return to classrooms, major school districts in Arizona, Florida, Texas and beyond are increasingly defying Republican leaders who banned school mask mandates in several states."
Once again, Republican leaders prove they don't give an actual fig about anyone's "right to life".
- https://republicans.quora.com/Does-George-Floyd-deserve-statues-and-parks-named-after-him-67 - is this even true?
8/16 Mon
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/11/los-angeles-long-beach-natural-gas-trucks
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/16/lindsey-graham-joe-biden-hunter-call-trump-support
- https://discourseblog.com/nyt-tech-workers-work-stoppage-union-busting/ - New York Times
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/13/2045619/-Dallas-Judge-to-anti-maskers-There-are-no-ICU-beds-your-child-will-wait-for-another-child-to-die - TX judge defies Abbott's anti-mask order
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io_0t3hpz00 - Beau on "consent-based policing" (what is that, in fact?)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/16/2045999/-Experts-urge-third-shot-for-immune-compromised-vaccines-for-pregnant-women-but-some-still-in-denial
8/17 Tue
8/18 Wed
- https://www.inquirer.com/education/bucks-county-damsker-school-mask-mandate-20210817.html via via
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dorothy-thompson-the-journalist-who-warned-the-world-about-adolf-hitler - Dorothy Thompson
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/17/2046441/--This-is-about-solidarity-why-Daily-Kos-Guild-members-are-going-public - logistical obstacles with unionizing DailyKos
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/17/2046414/-Trump-loving-county-clerk-faces-consequences-after-massive-security-breach-of-election-equipment - more Republican-created voting fraud
- https://honeypot.net/post/quackbooks/ - several posts on Intuit
- 2018-08-13 Reality An Unwelcome Guest At 'Pillow Guy' Big Reveal Event To Restore Trump Presidency: the scammer scammed
- 2018-08-13 How We Fix the Climate (video: Hank Green)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHR7alzXiY - US-only follow-up
8/19 Thu
- Beyond crime rates and community surveys: a new approach to police accountability and performance measurement "...we argue that the current approach to police performance measurement typically based on the use of traditional police metrics has failed to achieve the desired results and that a different strategy is required."
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-makes-masks-part-dress-code-get-around-n1277040
- https://kotaku.com/boyfriend-dungeon-is-being-subjected-to-tumblrs-messies-1847506425 - issues with social media discourse, especially tagging systems, and how quickly language changes online
- https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/ "They asserted that audiences, like the workers in a Taylorized workplace, need not be persuaded through reason, but could be trained through repetition to adopt the new consumption habits desired by the sellers." This may be the source of a lot of claims that people don't make political decisions rationally, as well as a lot of the reality that this is true for many people.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/18/2046795/-Donald-J-Trump-pardoned-a-cyberstalker-Now-he-s-arrested-again-for-cyberstalking - these people really just aren't very smart
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/18/2046659/-Parent-rips-mask-off-of-teacher-s-face-at-back-to-school-event-in-Texas - people dealing sensibly with masking decisions /s
- https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-How-can-Abbott-protect-Texas-from-16394012.php
- https://www.houstonchronicle.com/coronavirus/article/covid-interactive-map-houston-texas-us-case-virus-15142609.php - TX COVID charts
- https://mastodon.social/@yogthos/106784659472740246 - US foreign policy meme
8/20 Fri
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/us-capitol-police-respond-to-report-of-suspicious-vehicle-near-library-of-congress.html - North Carolina Man apparently wants Florida Man's job
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/20/onlyfans-bans-sexually-explicit-content.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/20/that-peculiar-plural/ - right-wing verbal shibboleths / dogwhistles
- useful bit from Nextdoor:
there are probably multiple factors which taken together add up to strong political belief preferences:
- that which absolves them of responsibility
- that which gives them more choices ("freedom")
- that which paints the world as less scary
- that which negates the need for social/political change
Anti-masking: denial of responsibility for spreading a deadly pandemic if they choose not to wear masks (because masks are uncomfortable and weird-looking). Voting for mask-deniers helps reinforce the belief that they're not to blame, and reduces this rather terrifying pandemic to something commonplace and mundane.
Climate denial: refusing to accept that something needs to be done, and absolution from culpability for any environmentally-damaging things they may have done (as Americans, this is pretty much unavoidable, but some have actively embraced environmental destruction as their manifest destiny), denial that the world is being affected in irreversible ways which are going to have huge consequences (and that the consequences we're seeing are in any way connected)
Shooting denial (e.g. Sandy Hook): refusing to accept responsibility for controlling the spread of guns, the tiny loss of freedom this might represent for gun-owners, the idea that something so terrible could actually happen (much less again and again)
Aporophobia (hatred of poor people): pretends that poverty is a choice, making the world less scary; denying responsibility to deal with the problem; denying the need for social change.
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/if-you-re-so-smart-why-aren-t-you-rich-turns-out-it-s-just-chance - meritocracy undone
- https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027370891/climate-change-solutions-global-warming-computer-models-paris
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/politics/mo-brooks-capitol-hill-bomb/index.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/20/2047036/-School-kids-score-a-big-victory-over-Gov-Greg-Abbott-as-Texas-admits-it-can-t-defend-its-mask-ban
8/21 Sat
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8jvg/a-homeless-amazon-warehouse-worker-in-new-york-city-tells-her-story - homelessness, Amazon.com
8/22 Sun
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/22/aubrey-de-grey-couldnt-leave-well-enough-alone/ - Aubrey de Grey
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/12/2045360/-Trans-youth-just-want-basic-dignity-and-respect-and-this-Virginia-teacher-quit-her-job-over-it - transmisia
- https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-booed-alabama-rally-090017829.html - Trump got some booing when he told his supporters to get vaccinated
- 2021-07-20 'I Felt Like A F*cking Nazi': An Ex-Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out (video, 10:57)
8/23 Mon
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/20/2046977/-Maine-lawmaker-s-wife-dies-of-COVID-19-he-survives-to-attend-maskless-anti-vaxxer-rally-days-later
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/20/2046932/--Racism-plays-a-role-New-report-says-feds-targeted-Black-Lives-Matter-protesters
In describing BLM protests in its directives and statements, the DOJ âpainted an image of protesters as âviolent radicals,â â and âthe government justified the expanded use of its authority and deployment of federal enforcement due to what it claimed was local and state leadersâ âabdication of their law enforcement responsibilities in deference to this violent assaultâ,â the report said.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/19/2046948/-ICE-takes-advantage-of-stalled-New-Jersey-bill-banning-contract-renewals-and-renews-contract - for-profit imprisonment; CoreCivic
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/23/guns-protests-increase-likelihood-violence/8188602002/ More people are bringing guns to protests -- and the overwhelming majority of the time, it's because those people are misinformed (either supporting a bogus cause, or opposing a legitimate one).
- https://nomoretrump.quora.com/?__ni__=0&__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=25060000398&__tiids__=34948281 - thoughts on why Trump voters exist
- https://nomoretrump.quora.com/Why-are-Trump-voters-portrayed-as-backward-idiots-by-the-other-side-How-can-such-narrative-be-credible-for-half-a-count-357?comment_id=215822415&comment_type=2 "I think youâre maybe too forgiving. / One reason people voted for Trump was because they fell for the con. / Another, I think equal, reason is that he gives them license to be as greedy, cruel, bigoted, and petty as their darkest desires. That in comparison to him, they donât feel small, foolish, or mean. His inherent nastiness makes them feel good about themselves."
- https://nomoretrump.quora.com/Why-are-Trump-voters-portrayed-as-backward-idiots-by-the-other-side-How-can-such-narrative-be-credible-for-half-a-count-357?comment_id=216006603&comment_type=2 "Trump also represents a lot of wish fulfillment for them. They wish that they could get away with everything that Trump has done, live a lavish lifestyle with no responsibilities, sleep with porn stars, etc. They know that if they did have money they would be just as boorish, crass and obnoxious as Trump. As long as Trump is living out their fantasy, they will support him."
- https://nomoretrump.quora.com/Why-are-Trump-voters-portrayed-as-backward-idiots-by-the-other-side-How-can-such-narrative-be-credible-for-half-a-count-357?comment_id=216807502&comment_type=2 "The amazing thing to me is if a guy can lie and cheat and screw over his wives and business partners, how can you honestly vote for the guy? He will certainly do the same to you. You can see he is dishonest to everyone, including his own partners and family, yet you think he will be honest with you? Only a true idiot could trust the guy, and only an idiot would hire him, much less put him in charge. I would never even hire him as a salesman, because he would ruin your reputation in a week."
8/25 Wed
- https://hbr.org/2021/04/the-fear-black-employees-carry
- https://prolifewhistleblower.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPgdlFeHqMg 3rd segment: in 2018, Trump released a Taliban leader who had been very ceremoniously apprehended in 2010, so that said leader could be present for the withdrawal negotiation in 2020
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrufHYHdatk - looks to be just the segment in question
- 2019-12-26 Where's the Proof of Racism? (29:59, LuckyBlackCat)
- 2021-08-17 Who Pays for Capitalism? (17:37, LuckyBlackCat)
- 2021-08-01 Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: A Miffed Response (30:15, PsychoSocialism)
- https://twitter.com/NoDemLeftBehind/status/1430530655696343048 - Erik Prince charging $6500/seat for flights out of Afghanistan
8/26 Thu
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/26/portland-proud-boys-rally-gunfight-protest-violence
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/23/oregon-portland-pro-trump-protests-violence-texts
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/portland-oregon-clashes-protests-proud-boys-antifascist
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-rock-bottom-afghan-visas-b1907871.html
8/27 Fri
- 9/11 hijackers:
- https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a37258757/femme-fatale/ - femme invisibility
- https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/26/president-trump-has-been-a-champion-for-americas-veteran-community/ - questionable claims
8/28 Sat
- https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-professor-resigns-mid-class-after-student-refuses-to-wear-mask/article_598ba244-077b-11ec-ba9b-cb3534ab07cc.html
- sex work:
- https://newrepublic.com/article/161525/sex-workers-win
- https://www.hips.org/sex-worker-advocates-coalition-swac.html
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/sex-work-legalization-congress-kate-dadamo-lobby
- https://twitter.com/AshleyLatke/status/1406323704401911814?s=19 "It was coded by sex workers and run by long time industry site managers. But now the PornHub leadership is having their houses burned down and sites are dropping left and right. PocketStars just lost banking - a site expressly for sex work by sex workers."
- https://twitter.com/PostCultRev/status/1428584131835748359 "A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers and online freedom in general."
- https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/
- https://twitter.com/samleecole/status/1430195995443437570?s=19
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd5eb/onlyfans-suspicious-activity-reports-leo-radvinsky
- https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1428469929288871946 - Twitter unchecks Danny DeVito for solidarity with striking Nabisco workers
- https://www.thewrap.com/current-affairs-fires-staffers/ "Yes, we were fired by the editor-in-chief of a socialist magazine for trying to start a worker co-op." Current Affairs
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/22/argentina-capybaras-giant-rodents-gated-community - seems like a capybara might make a good mascot (suggestion in Digital Workers' Guild)
8/29 Sun
- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/27/opinions/america-should-welcome-afghan-refugees-ilhan-omar/index.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/business/the-hill-sale-nexstar-media.html - The Hill has been sold
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/media/politico-sale-axel-springer/index.html - Politico sold to Axel Springer
- Wickard v. Filburn: since 1942, the FedGov has had the power to regulate what you grow for your own use; reeks of the right to profit
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/29/tennessee-trans-bathroom-bill-bullying/ "In May, Republican Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed horrific anti-trans legislation which allows students and parents to sue if a trans person is allowed to share bathrooms and changing rooms with them."
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/29/pride-flag-kristen-pitzen-california/
- Me on Nextdoor:
oh noes more liberal indoctrination of children. Seems like everything is indoctrination to these people... well, anything except actual indoctrination, which they support.
It's almost like they want to make sure kids don't learn about any ideas except those which are suitably right-wing. :thinking:
- Me on Twitter:
I agree with the comment that said enforcing pledges of allegiance to *anything* is problematic. We don't want to be a totalitarian state.
...and to the military person who expressed dismay: Are you fighting for freedom, or enforced obedience?
- https://twitter.com/vikenistic/status/1432012708883410946 - New York Times definitely has right-wing inclinations
- https://twitter.com/gregolear/status/1431769620244045834 "Pray for Mississippi. The governor is a death cultist who doesn't prioritize keeping his constituents alive, because Jesus. / When @tatereeves says he's "pro-life," he really means "pro-eternal-life.""
8/30 Mon
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210830170728/https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1431045305592545280?s=19 - Abigail Schrier basically outing some poor trans kid in NY
September
9/1 Wed
- https://dissidentvoice.org/2016/07/iceland-is-where-bankers-go-to-jail/
- https://twitter.com/TweetsPamela/status/1433075161117257731 - "America is a Christian nation" rebuttal meme, sources to be checked
- https://www.thenation.com/article/society/post-roe/ - Roe v Wade in danger
9/2 Thu
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-24/wall-street-s-lesson-from-covid-sometimes-we-re-all-clueless-about-stock-market - I feel like this has to be the result of too few people with too much money. The financial event horizon approacheth.
- 2021-08-31 'Durham is ready.' City and county officials publicly welcome Afghan refugees
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210729195709/http://www.saveoursisk.org/p/sisks-story.html - treatment of a suspected sex offender
- https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033048958/supreme-court-upholds-new-texas-abortion-law-for-now
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-johnson-caught-on-hidden-camera-blaming-trump-for-2020-defeat - Ron Johnson
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/27/2048603/-Rudy-Giuliani-did-an-interview-to-counter-his-declining-reputation-but-confirmed-it-instead
- Afghanistan withdrawal:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/28/2048870/-Sabotage-in-the-White-House-How-Trump-successfully-orchestrated-Biden-s-incompetence
- 2021-08-31 Veteran Lucas Kunce Talks Afghanistan on Last Word | MSNBC (unlisted; 0:54)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/29/2049016/-Lindsey-Graham-Goes-After-Biden-on-Afghanistan-and-Gets-Literally-EVERYTHING-Wrong
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-makes-masks-part-dress-code-get-around-n1277040
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/19/oregon-school-pride-black-lives-matter/ - war on Black Lives Matter
9/3 Fri
- 2021-09-02 Wolff Responds: Stopping Immigrants Worsens Inflation
- 2021-08-30 Afghanistan Veteran: 'The Taliban Taking Over Was Absolutely Inevitable' - Lucas Kunce
- 2021-08-31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYd5cK7ZHaM - shorter version
- 2021-09-01 Let's talk about that law in Texas and tattoos.... (Beau)
- 2021-09-01 New Data Shows Just How Hard Covid Hit Trump Counties (MSNBC)
- 2021-08-31 Let's talk about the US exit and criticism.... (Beau)
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/24/four-day-workweek-legislation
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nabisco-strike-workers-call-a-fight-for-the-american-middle-class/
- 2021-08-25 https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1430564375195095045 "Nabisco strike expands to 5 states"
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/25/great-resignation-55-percent-are-looking-to-change-jobs-over-the-next-year-.html
- 2021-08-25 Welfare for the 21st century (video, 6:52, The Canary)
- https://twitter.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1430621001277087745 "Successive governments have decimate[d] the welfare state. Curtis Daly takes a look at what happened and how we can build at a fair system that's fit for the 21st Century and beyond."
- https://twitter.com/LouisatheLast/status/1430503958968209410 - example of dishonest graphic on MSNBC
- https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1430583676367081475 "The TSA wouldnât let a 15-year-old trans girl fly unless she would let an adult agent inspect her genitals."
- https://twitter.com/JanetAnneLogan/status/1430624108744691714 "South Dakota Covid cases quintuple after Sturgis motorcycle rally"
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/23/2047752/-BREAKING-The-NAACP-scored-a-huge-victory-for-voting-rights-today-really
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/21/2047367/-White-Privilege-explodes-around-the-DC-Bomb-Suspect-MagaTerrorist
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/24/2047994/-New-poll-shows-Floridians-think-Gov-DeSantis-is-kneecapping-efforts-to-stop-COVID-19
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/24/2047868/-Portion-of-previous-president-s-border-fencing-in-shambles-following-recent-monsoon-flooding - so much for the greatest wall ever
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/26/2048176/-Hillary-Clinton-has-been-arranging-flights-for-at-risk-women-and-children-to-leave-Afghanistan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/26/2048353/-An-open-letter-to-the-Republican-warmongers-criticizing-Joe-Biden-s-Afghanistan-withdrawal
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/26/2048385/-Illinois-Governor-Pritzker-Shuts-Down-Lie-Spewing-Talk-Radio-Host
- https://madison.com/capital-w-republicans-triple-quadruple-down-on-investigating-the-2020-election/article_baec8684-b245-11ea-95d6-37a2ada3b87a.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/21/2047330/-Real-Time-with-Bill-Maher-has-become-unwatchable
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3x7y4/trump-biden-woke-generals-afghanistan
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/nra-failed-to-clean-up-misconduct-must-be-dissolved-n-y-says
- https://www.eenews.net/articles/people-can-die-texas-bill-would-strip-worker-water-breaks/ - US/TX/2021/SB/14
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-poison-control-anti-parasite-drug-covid/
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/22/politics/adam-kinzinger-afghanistan-crisis-trump-administration-cnntv/index.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/30/2049139/-Liberty-University-bucked-vaccine-and-mask-requirements-now-entire-campus-is-in-quarantine
- anti-abortion BS research:
- https://www.lifenews.com/2021/01/18/62502904-babies-have-been-killed-in-abortions-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973/
- https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2019/09/us-abortion-rate-continues-drop-once-again-state-abortion-restrictions-are-not-main
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/abortion-rates-don-t-drop-when-procedure-outlawed-it-does-ncna1235174
- https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-worldwide
- https://www.scidev.net/global/news/abortion-rates-highest-where-legally-restricted-study/
- https://lozierinstitute.org/how-the-legal-status-of-abortion-impacts-abortion-rates/ - to be examined; may be propaganda
- Abortion statistics in the United States
- abortion photos:
- https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/behind-19/ - purports to be a story of real fetuses being found
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/10/where-do-anti-abortion-protesters-get-those-grisly-photos.html
- https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/carly-fiorina-planned-parenthood-graphic-abortion-images
- https://thelifeinstitute.net/learning-centre/abortion-facts/photographs/are-they-real - claims that they are real
- https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-dishonest-images-of-the-anti-abortion-movement/
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/how-photo-one-woman-s-stillborn-son-was-used-viral-anti-abortion-video-a6681106.html
- https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/jul/29/viral-photo-doll-not-12-week-fetus/
9/4 Sat
- https://www.quora.com/Which-United-States-political-party-is-more-willing-to-compromise-Republicans-or-Democrats/answer/Habib-157 - Trump was the final nail in the coffin
- https://apnews.com/article/taliban-special-forces-1fa9a87c8fde6e7c947944212bb80241
- https://crooksandliars.com/2021/09/miami-teachers-dead-covid
- http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/richard_mourdock_rape_scandal_spot_the_difference_between_the_christian.html
- 2021-09-01 Trans Guy Reacts to Transphobic Video (video, Jammidodger): refutes a lot of transphobic myths
9/5 Sun
- https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks
- https://conservativebrief.com/liberals-panic-50415/ - conservoid reaction to ProPublica piece about Steve Bannon's strategy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_TQdMI4A6A - actual lib/prog reactions
- https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/warren-county-plan-to-keep-students-in-school-who-are-unvaccinated-unmasked-gets-nod-from-ohio-governor/CLQV7AFM2VFVBB23OP6DIDRZT4/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/ethiopia-ethnic-tigrayans-put-into-concentration-camps-reports-say-2021-9 - ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia
9/6 Mon
- TX abortion law:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9yG2DGFMU - copyright lawyer reviews it
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO7pL-QWyc - LegalEagle
- https://www.scholarsresearchlibrary.com/articles/effects-of-ivermectin-therapy-on-the-sperm-functions-of-nigerian-onchocerciasis-patients.pdf
- https://twitter.com/jeek/status/1434693778246340610?s=19 "Ivermectin apparently sterilizes the majority (85%) of men that take it."
- https://twitter.com/KathrynTewson/status/1434975471146389505 - the study is dubious, however
- https://twitter.com/jeek/status/1434693778246340610?s=19 "Ivermectin apparently sterilizes the majority (85%) of men that take it."
9/7 Tue
9/8 Wed
- https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/old-testament-god-pro-life-texas-abortion-b1915844.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading - seasteading, libertarian dreams; the problems with "freedom"
- https://reallifemag.com/conspiracy-wall/
- https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/09/02/automation-revolution-america-labor-work-history/ideas/essay/
- https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/warren-county-plan-to-keep-students-in-school-who-are-unvaccinated-unmasked-gets-nod-from-ohio-governor/CLQV7AFM2VFVBB23OP6DIDRZT4/
- https://www.propublica.org/article/40-million-people-rely-on-the-colorado-river-its-drying-up-fast - Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Colorado River
- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/29/pride-flag-kristen-pitzen-california/ - conservoid furor about teacher not having an American flag handy for pledging to, and offering a pride flag instead
- https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/08/24/1030151330/a-unicorn-startup-is-turning-houses-into-corporations
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-embarrasing-gaffes-speeches-twitter-a9659916.html
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22596072/irs-turbotax-hr-block-free-file-tax-return
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ymxz/zillow-other-tech-firms-are-in-an-arms-race-to-buy-up-american-homes
- https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/ - fake news
- Ashli Babbitt:
- 2021-08-30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighcrYZnWZ0 Afghanistan Veteran: 'The Taliban Taking Over Was Absolutely Inevitable'] (video, MSNBC) Lukas Kunce
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-a-survivor-s-story-of-shipwreck-and-salvation - human nature
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women "In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them."
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/19/book-psychology-pandemics-steven-taylor - pandemic psychology, pre-COVID
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-teenage-girl-gang-that-seduced-and-killed-nazis
- https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/09/08/clear-and-present-danger-burlington-missile-plant-english/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/7/2050894/-Pillow-Man-s-latest-gaffe-could-put-Dominion-lawsuit-on-downhill-slope-to-success-expert
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/31/2049405/-Black-principal-first-targeted-for-photos-of-him-kissing-white-wife-then-for-anti-racism-lesson
- http://sgrtoday.com/categories/the-campaign-trail/9760-justice-center-says-bill-that-would-increase-penalties-for-rioters-would-curb-first-amendment-rights.html
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/08/boghossian-quits-psu-students-can-celebrate/ Peter Boghossian
9/9 Thu
9/10 Fri
- 2021-09-10 20 Years of 9/11 "Truther" Conspiracy Theories (Rebecca Watson)
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/revealed-los-angeles-police-officers-gathering-social-media
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58519997 - food shortages in UK
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/carry-nation-biography-reasons-for-activism.html - Carrie Nation
- https://jezebel.com/how-disney-channel-sold-patriotism-to-kids-after-9-11-1847593222
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/02/spyfone-ftc-stalkerware/
9/11 Sat
- 9/11 stuff:
- https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/9/9/22663301/music-plagiarism-copyright-infringement-lorde-olivia-rodrigo-blurred-lines - nobody is saying it, but the real problem here is capitalism: how everyone who makes art for a living has to scramble to get a reasonable share of the revenue
9/12 Sun
- https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/09/02/twelve-hours-in-a-florida-covid-19-icu/
- https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/
- The USPS "exemption":
- 2021-09-09 21:01 Biden announces new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans
- 2021-09-09 20:59 https://twitter.com/jacobbogage/status/1436132263041843200 "White House official now says USPS workers ARE part of the federal vaccine mandate under OSHA jurisdiction, though technically not under the executive order."
- 2021-09-09 Confusion over Whether Postal Workers Exempt from Vaccine Mandate
- 2021-08-03 USPS, exempt from vaccine requirements, sees uptick of employees in quarantine -- and this is why they need that mandate
- 2021-09-10 This report is incredible!! Meticulously tracing the connections between big tech, big tech subsidiaries, and the military. It shows conclusively that we need to understand Big Tech as (also) defense contractors, and keep resisting accordingly.
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/09/12/fear-and-loathing-in-america - what Hunter S. Thompson wrote the next day
- 9/11 stuff, part 2:
- https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/the-great-boat-lift-of-911.html
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/10/9-11-attacks-20th-anniversary-reassessing-20-years-of-war-506924 - I expect this is full of narrative apologia, but it could be interesting anyway
- https://getpocket.com/collections/essential-reading-remembering-september-11-2001 - link/summary collection
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-10/mapping-the-second-life-of-the-world-trade-center
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-italy-origins-theory - not a conspiracy theory, but still tenuous
- the digital communication crisis:
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/time-wasted-slack-microsoft-teams -
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/exponential-age-azeem-azhar - the exponential age (large orgs can't process decisionmaking info fast enough anymore)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aius0vavTEs - Rachel Maddow: Idaho GOP making the problem worse
- https://fortune.com/2021/08/30/denmark-to-scrap-all-coronavirus-restrictions-as-it-declares-covid-19-under-control/ - Denmark does medical crisis correctly
9/13 Mon
- 9/11 stuff, part 3
- https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2021/09/pa-school-mask-mandate-lawsuit-amistad-project-trump/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuQEfEvFJfc - debunking "the vaccine caused Delta"
- https://www.newsweek.com/more-160-billion-lost-annually-wealthiest-americans-not-paying-taxes-report-1627181 - and that's just evading our already-ridiculously-low taxes
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Tulsi-Garbbard-so-popular-to-so-many-right-wing-people-appearing-on-FOX-news/answer/Ashley-Lande-2 - why some on the Right like Tulsi Gabbard
9/14 Tue
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/14/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-i-lie - without looking at the video, it looks like this overstates what he said
- https://www.quora.com/President-Trump-tweeted-that-45-countries-were-getting-prepared-to-build-walls-What-are-some-of-these-countries/answer/O%C4%9Fulcan-Acar - Trump tweets (in 2019) about other countries building walls
- https://www.quora.com/Conservatives-sometimes-say-they-are-logical-and-rational-compared-to-liberals-who-are-just-emotional-but-liberals-often-say-that-they-are-rational-compared-to-conservatives-who-are-very-emotional-Is-there-any/answer/Ernest-W-Adams - rationality in "conservatives" vs progressives
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/9/2051206/-Trump-s-weird-rant-praising-Robert-E-Lee-is-about-changing-history - Robert E. Lee
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/14/2052199/-Senate-Democrats-newly-tweaked-voting-rights-bill-is-solid-and-could-get-a-vote-next-week - what's in the Voting Rights bill
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/12/2051781/--Conduct-unbecoming-Six-disciplinary-cases-launched-against-cops-in-Capitol-riot
9/15 Wed
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-wild-conspiracy-theory-that-the-titanic-never-sank -- conspiracy theory or is that conspiracy theories
- https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-delivery-workers.html - delivery workers band together against theft (also, interesting how much tech is involved)
- "They know they go too fast, any worker will say, but it's a calculated risk. Slowing down means being punished by the apps."
- How long will it be before they have the numbers to organize their own app?
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/13/covid-crushed-las-vegas-revive-510204 - low vaccination rates hit town dependent on personal service industry
- https://www.facebook.com/wgawriter/posts/10222632836183795 - police can't tell the difference between someone open-carrying a gun because they like guns and someone carrying guns because they're about to commit violence (need to find source)
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/571462-anti-mask-parents-mock-tennessee-student-describing-loss-of-grandmother
- http://moravings.blogspot.com/2019/09/quote-of-day-on-america-and-universal.html - quote about insurance being a bad fit for healthcare
- https://www.facebook.com/CommunityOfIndependentHumanBeings/posts/2447495208677322 - quote with meme-image
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/politics/tom-barrack-bail-hearing/index.html - the Trump swamp
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/12/22667694/epic-v-apple-trial-fortnite-judge-yvonne-gonzalez-rogers-final-ruling-injunction-breakdown "Gonzalez Rogers notes that ânothing other than legal action seems to motivate Apple to reconsider pricing and reduce rates.â At other points, she says Apple âdoes a poor job of mediating disputes between a developer and its customer,â and itâs been âslow either to adopt automated tools that could improve speed and accuracy or to hire more reviewersâ for its app review process." ... "she accepts that âAppleâs operating margins tied to the App Store are extraordinarily high.â And she specifically calls out a lack of competition as an issue. âThe point is not that ... Apple provides bad services. It does not,â she writes. âThe point is that a third-party app store could put pressure on Apple to innovate by providing features that Apple has neglected.â"
- https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-14/5-takeaways-from-the-recall-election-newsom-blowout - Gavin Newsom, Larry Elder
- https://www.wbtv.com/2021/09/14/union-county-school-board-doing-away-with-contact-tracing-flies-face-health-officials-group-says/
9/16 Thu
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-don-t-take-it-so-personally-is-the-ultimate-gaslighting-insult-according-to-psychology-experts - gaslighting
- https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1438114414281035783?s=21 "accine manufacturers are not able to meet demand. Production is already maxed out. If we hoard or have vaccines expire rather than share, that doesn't make it a non zero-sum game, it just makes us morally bankrupt."
- https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1438100749515382789?s=21 - boosters work especially well with the elderly, data from Israel shows
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/16/i-do-enjoy-a-good-evolutionary-psychology-take-down-in-the-morning/
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/book-ban-controversy-pennsylvania/index.html - conservoids vs. free speech and critical race theory, again
- https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/09/15/majority-in-u-s-says-public-health-benefits-of-covid-19-restrictions-worth-the-costs-even-as-large-shares-also-see-downsides/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/doctors-tell-patients-not-vaccinated-covid-19/620024/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/women-once-ruled-the-computer-world-when-did-silicon-valley-become-brotopia - erasure of women
- 2021-04-03 Sexual Predators in Contest for Public Office: How the American Electorate Responds to News of Allegations of Candidates Committing Sexual Assault and Harassment
- 2021-08-20 House Democrats Just Got Serious About Reining In the Supreme Court
- 2021-09-16 How to end the American obsession with driving
- https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/07/economy/china-trade-august-covid-intl-hnk/index.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/shipping-containers/index.html
- 2021-09-05 Like Washington and Jefferson, he championed liberty. Unlike the founders, he freed his slaves
- https://www.consumerreports.org/environment-sustainability/the-big-problem-with-plastic/
- https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/ -- appears to be on the side of truth
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/11/bush-calls-americans-confront-domestic-and-foreign-terrorists/8299807002/ - compares 9/11 terrorists to Jan. 6 terrorists
- guaranteed income:
- https://www.insider.com/mississippi-teachers-want-mask-mandate-after-thousands-kids-get-covid-2021-8
- https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/09/how-presidents-used-the-2001-aumf-to-justify-wars-unrelated-to-9-11/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/10/2051424/-Garland-makes-strong-case-against-Texas-abortion-ban-but-is-unlikely-to-win-in-Trump-packed-courts
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/10/2051489/-Democrats-introduce-tax-proposal-to-start-clawing-back-taxes-from-megacorporations
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/11/2049889/-How-warped-are-Trump-loving-white-supremacist-Christian-nationalists-Enough-to-idolize-the-Taliban
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/9/2051281/-Missouri-teacher-resigns-after-school-district-ordered-him-to-remove-Pride-flag-from-classroom
- https://www.quora.com/In-US-why-do-only-6-of-the-scientists-identify-as-conservatives
- https://anticapitalism.quora.com/Socialism-is-when-the-means-of-production-is-socially-owned-so-why-do-many-American-conservatives-equate-it-to-authorit
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/8/2051068/-Farmworkers-invited-all-100-senators-to-work-alongside-them-for-one-day-These-two-accepted
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/8/2051124/-A-shooting-in-Olympia-Proud-Boys-went-hunting-antifa-in-streets-ending-with-Toese-wounded
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/31/2049405/-Black-principal-first-targeted-for-photos-of-him-kissing-white-wife-then-for-anti-racism-lesson
- https://www.quora.com/Why-are-communists-against-the-common-people-owning-property
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/6/2049847/-There-is-an-antibody-treatment-that-stops-every-COVID-19-variant-and-possibly-all-future-variants
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/31/2049360/-Anti-vaxxers-shut-down-Georgia-vaccination-event
- http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/richard_mourdock_rape_scandal_spot_the_difference_between_the_christian.html - Taliban vs. Christian fundie
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/3/2050097/-Caught-in-a-lie-twice-Jim-Jordan-claims-he-never-said-what-two-separate-videos-show-him-saying
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/2/2050020/-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Loses-Sponsorship-for-Calling-Out-Anti-Maskers
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/29/2048872/-Maskhole-Misogynist-Blind-To-His-Own-White-Privilege-Loses-Mind-At-Miami-Airport
- https://indyweek.com/news/durham/workers-at-durham-restaurant-freddys-strike-for-the-third-time-in-one-year/
- https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/state-senate-approves-bill-to-curb-what-taught-about-race-in-public-schools/ - conservoid censorship
- https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/protections-for-struggling-tenants-ends-supreme-court-voids-eviction-moratorium/
- Durham elections:
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/20/supreme-court-refuses-to-block-construction-of-obama-library-in-chicago.html -- why did they want to block it?
- Afghanistan war neocons like George W. Bush would like you to know this isn't their fault "Neoconservatives are directly responsible for the failures of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But to be fair, Americaâs imperial overreach was brought to you by bipartisan consensus."
- Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt exonerated in internal probe
- https://www.salon.com/2021/08/21/staunch-atheists-show-higher-morals-than-the-proudly-pious-from-the-pandemic-to-climate-change/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-blames-covid-surge-african-americans-n1277254
- https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/17/2046441/--This-is-about-solidarity-why-Daily-Kos-Guild-members-are-going-public - unionizing Daily Kos
- https://www.quora.com/What-led-to-the-collapse-of-the-private-tutoring-industry-in-China - capitalist theft from the commons
- https://www.quora.com/Has-Bernie-Sanders-won-the-war-on-income-inequality/answer/Jonah-Wood-8 - economic disparity
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/16/2046228/-Colorado-sheriff-s-office-sends-police-to-schools-so-kids-don-t-get-harassed-by-anti-maskers
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/17/2046375/-There-would-be-no-Taliban-without-Pakistan-and-Saudi-Arabia-We-need-to-reconsider-the-word-allies
- https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/08/far-right-view-climate-ipcc/619709/
- 2021-08-05 Republicans' Actions and Policies Are Toxically Unpopular
- https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/09/muslim-americans-after-9-11-aymann-ismail.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/12/2051849/-Fascism-Majority-of-Republicans-say-belief-in-Trump-election-hoax-important-part-of-Republicanism
9/17 Fri
- https://www.wral.com/state-court-boots-nc-s-voter-id-law-again/19881374/
- 2021-09-17 Is Elon Musk the SMARTEST MAN OF ALL TIME?! (video, Thought Slime): Elon Musk
9/18 Sat
- https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax - economic disparity
- https://www.quora.com/Is-what-Trump-s-threatening-to-do-to-Twitter-considered-censorship/answer/Chris-OLeary-19 - Trump's attempted censorship of Twitter in 2020
- https://www.themarysue.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-covid-aids-vaccine-what/ - confirmed: Republican Governor makes shit up
- Obama FDA buying fetal heads:
9/19 Sun
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2021/08/18/has-student-loan-cancellation-already-stimulated-the-economy-even-without-wide-scale-student-loan-forgiveness/ - notes that the suspension has in fact stimulated the economy, even while arguing that it shouldn't be permanent because it's already helped -- so it's time to make those ingrates go back to work for Wall Street.
- Why some people, especially poor and non-white, can't get state ID:
- (2012) https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/challenge-obtaining-voter-identification
- (2012) https://www.npr.org/2012/02/01/146204308/why-millions-of-americans-have-no-government-id -- references Brennan, but gives some specific examples
- (2014) https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/2014/10/16/well-actually-pretty-hard-people-get-photo-id-just-vote/
- (2014) https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/4/7157037/us-voter-id-requirements
- (2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-17/in-red-texas-right-to-life-evolves-into-legal-cry-over-masks - exposing the hypocrisy of right to life into the bargain
9/20 Mon
- https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/dems-support-florida-landowner-evicting-unvaccinated-tenants
- I did a tweet thread: https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1439927132264800259
- https://www.kcci.com/article/south-florida-landlord-requires-new-tenants-and-those-renewing-their-leases-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19/37620951
- https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2021/09/15/florida-landlord-says-tenants-must-get-the-covid-vaccine-you-dont-want-to-get-vaccinated-you-have-to-move/
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/florida-landlord-vaccine-requirement/index.html
- I did a tweet thread: https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1439927132264800259
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/20/democrats-blocking-lower-medication-prices-bill - did a Nextdoor post about this
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/20/eat-the-rich-why-millennials-and-generation-z-have-turned-their-backs-on-capitalism
- poster adds: "because our parents' generation had those things, prospered and then pulled the rug from under us" seems like a p reasonable, succinct answer to me
- https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1440044061872648200 - COVID deaths have now surpassed estimated deaths from the 1918 pandemic.
- https://therealnews.com/cuba-and-the-us-a-tale-of-two-prison-systems
9/21 Tue
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/heidiblake/conservatorship-investigation-free-britney-spears - legal guardianship industry
9/22 Wed
- https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-praises-fox-strict-new-covid-19-vaccine-test-policy-2021-9 - Fox implements vaxx policy stricter than Biden's mandate, while criticizing Biden's mandate for being too strict. Biden then praises Fox for their stricter policy.
9/23 Thu
- https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1441052899430191117 "Lead Florida GOP Senator, Manny Diaz calls for a review of all vaccine mandates, including polio, mumps, and rubella." Because if you're going to dig into the crazy, might as well dig at least 6 feet down.
9/24 Fri
- https://decrypt.co/81631/president-biden-expected-nominate-crypto-critic-occ
- https://apnews.com/article/business-fires-environment-and-nature-crime-california-a91f9697708a75fab39caf5a340c9fbf
- https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/why-do-we-think-that-inflation-expectations-matter-for-Inflation-and-should-we.htm
9/25 Sat
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/norbertmichel/2016/07/26/dodd-frank-and-glass-steagall-consumer-protection-for-billionaires/
- NC voter ID law takedown:
- 2021-09-20 Why a state court ruled NCâs voter ID law is racially discriminatory and unconstitutional
- 2021-09-18 North Carolina judges strike down stateâs voter ID law
- 2021-09-17 Court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law as racially biased
- 2021-09-17 North Carolina judges strike down stateâs voter ID law
- 2021-09-17 N.C. Judges Strike Down A Voter ID Law They Say Discriminates Against Black Voters
9/26 Sun
- https://virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/please-stop-romanticizing-your-childs - school lunches, social stigma, diet myths
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/five-ways-donald-trump-tried-coup/620157/ - yes, Virginia, it really was a coup attempt
- Wells Fargo:
- https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/letters/warren-slams-wells-fargo-ceo-calls-on-fed-to-revoke-banks-status-as-financial-holding-company-amid-ongoing-failure-to-meet-regulatory-requirements
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-settlement-wells-fargo-resulting-more-175-million-relief
- https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Banking-on-Climate-Chaos-2021.pdf "This report analyzes fossil fuel financing from the worldâs 60 largest commercial and investment banks â aggregating their leading roles in lending and underwriting of debt and equity issuances â and finds that these banks poured a total of $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels from 2016â2020."
- 2020-12 WHOâS BANKING LINE 3 AND KEYSTONE XL: TAR SANDS PIPELINES BEING RAMMED THROUGH IN A PANDEMIC
- If socialism is considered to be a form of authoritarianism by many conservatives, what do they consider the predominate ownership of the majority of wealth by a small minority? "Conservatives are historically and politically illiterate. They are completely alien to political philosophy and theory, and have no desire to learn. They literally canât tell the difference between socialism and an oligarchy, which is what would describe the predominate ownership of the majority of the wealth by a small minority." Key point: capitalism is authoritarian, because of the owner-manager-worker hierarchy.
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/floridas-new-surgeon-general-skeptical-of-vaccines-opposes-masks/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrivers/2021/09/25/chinas-supposed-bitcoin-ban-fails-to-crash-market-as-twitter-adds-crypto-payments-in-historic-first/
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/oakland-pd-is-ignoring-law-governing-surveillance-according-to-lawsuit/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/26/heather-heying-bret-weinstein-have-no-credibility-left/
- https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1442174627757756421 - fact-check of Biden's clean energy plan
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/oakland-pd-is-ignoring-law-governing-surveillance-according-to-lawsuit/
- https://think-boundless.com/the-boomer-blockade/
9/27 Mon
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/my-wife-was-dying-of-brain-cancer-my-boss-at-amazon-told-me-to-perform-or-quit/ - Amazon.com
9/28 Tue
- https://twitter.com/scattermoon/status/1442914710328733704 - signs of food shortage in UK
- 2021-09-28 N.C. hospital system fires about 175 workers in one of the largest-ever mass terminations due to a vaccine mandate: less than 1% of their workforce, though
- https://twitter.com/Judson4Congress/status/1442862491751444485 Mark Judson for Congress, "F Donald Trump"
- 2021-09-28 Trans woman stabbed in horrific Birmingham attack, say police
9/30 Thu
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-woman-whose-invention-helped-win-a-war-and-still-baffles-weathermen - erasure of women
October
10/2 Sat
- https://twitter.com/LiamODellUK/status/1443975256419573760?s=19 - supposed cost of autism in the UK
- https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1444047949948915716?s=19 - how they ginned up those numbers
- Spectrum10K is a DNA harvesting operation trying to find a "cure" for autism, but really, they just want a genetic test that enables easy discrimination for employers, insurance, etc...
- https://twitter.com/AnnMemmott/status/1444047949948915716?s=19 - how they ginned up those numbers
- https://jezebel.com/heads-up-sesame-street-is-part-of-the-prison-industria-1847784682
- https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/01/28/i-did-340-pushups-a-day-to-prepare-for-the-tv-version-of-prison-then-i-got-there - US prison system
10/3 Sun
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bad-thinkers - once again, starts with a straw-man 9/11 truther
- https://abc11.com/texas-abortion-law-reproductive-rights-womens-laws/11073341/ - TX abortion law inspires protests in many places, including Raleigh
- https://abc11.com/akilia-jones-durham-eviction-rent-assistance-landlord-wont-accept/11071728/ - practical issues with rent assistance and landlording
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/03/twisting-the-story-to-fit-your-weird-obsession-is-disrespecting-the-victim/ - UK mass media twisting the story to fit TERF narrative
- https://twitter.com/daalpacagirl/status/1444479109514530820 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Mechwarrior Online Edition Piranha Games(PGI) renames competitive MWO teams that mention the existence of trans people, suspends+threatens to ban players who say "trans rights" in chat without telling them what they're being warned for beforehand. 1/"
- https://www.fox4news.com/news/arlington-police-searching-for-killer-of-transgender-woman
- https://abc11.com/covid-19-vaccination-survivor-hospitalization/11061002/
- https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2021/09/low-oxygen-levels-along-pacific-northwest-coast-a-silent-climate-change-crisis.html
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/10/01/1540250/apple-amazon-microsoft-and-disney-among-companies-backing-groups-against-climate-bill
10/4 Mon
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mystery-of-the-wheelie-suitcase-how-gender-stereotypes-held-back-the-history-of-invention - sexism vs. innovation
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/iatse-workers-studios-strike-plans-1235023970/
- https://twitter.com/iatse/status/1445090649624268801?s=21 - voted to strike
- https://twitter.com/iatse/status/1445093837433626633?s=21 - still collecting sigs
10/5 Tue
10/6 Wed
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/dave-chappelle-says-hes-a-terf-and-is-quitting-lgbtq-jokes-in-netflixs-the-closer
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/5/2056363/-Oh-Pillow-Man-Sad-sad-Pillow-Man-What-fresh-hell-is-this - Mike Lindell floats voter fraud conspiracy-theory that is too wild for even Steve Bannon
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/5/2056056/-Rep-Madison-Cawthorn-posts-clip-calling-for-holy-war-Twitter-mocks-him
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/5/2056068/-Trump-s-big-mouth-offers-key-evidence-the-in-criminal-case-GA-prosecutors-are-building-against-him
- https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1445792712351838214?s=21 Jane writes: Rafael Cruz pivots during a news conference from offering thoughts and prayers for the latest school shooting to saying, "we are here today because of the Biden border crisis."
- Woozle: 'We are here because of the border crisis -- people have stopped talking about it because it doesn't exist, and we need to fix that!'
- Jane: âI have but these few moments to exploit this opportunity in the national spotlight.â
- Woozle: Won't someone think of the poor neglected right-wing narratives? Handicapped by the mere mischance of not being "true", they have to fight so hard to survive against the ceaseless onslaught of progressive "fact-checking"! This insistence on criticizing words simply for being baldfaced lies and nothing more is discriminatory and unfair!!
- Idaho Lt. Gov mini-coup:
- https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/lockdown-issued-at-timberview-high-in-arlington-possible-shots-fired/2759727/
- Facebook whistleblower:
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/03/tech/facebook-whistleblower-60-minutes/index.html
- https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/10/3/22707940/frances-haugen-facebook-whistleblower-60-minutes-teen-girls-instagram
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036519/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-algorithms/
- 2021-10-07 What if Facebook Disappeared? (video, 21:41, Hank Green)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-05/tenants-struggle-with-red-hot-u-s-rental-market - housing market
10/7 Thu
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/the-ship-that-became-a-bomb - Yemen, Red Sea
- Federal judge (DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan) rejects comparisons between Floyd uprising and Jan. 6 insurrection
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/04/capitol-riot-jail-deter-mazzocco/ "But to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores the very real danger that the Jan. 6 riots posed to the foundation of our democracy"
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/judge-tanya-chutkan-capitol-riot/index.html
- https://www.wicz.com/story/44884792/federal-judge-rejects-comparisons-between-capitol-insurrection-and-racial-justice-unrest "To compare the actions of people around the country protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights, to a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and downplays the very real danger that the crowd on January 6 posed to our democracy"
- $ https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/10/04/sentencing-jan-6-defendant-judge-slams-comparisons-between-capitol-riot-and-george-floyd-protests/
- https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/judge-says-slap-on-the-wrist-wont-cut-it-sentences-capitol-rioter-to-jail-time-matthew-mazzocco-donald-trump-january-6-tanya-chutkan-texas/65-374c3d8b-5b39-4670-8f45-74768d6d3952 "What happened that day was nothing short of a violent mob attempting to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. That mob was trying to overthrow the government. There have to be consequences."
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/judge-slams-claims-jan-rioters-treated-unfairly-80399343
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/judges-split-growing-debate-harshness-punishment-jan-defendants/story?id=80416335
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/judge-capitol-rioter-prison-harsher-sentence "There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government, beyond sitting at home."
- Tanya Chutkan:
10/8 Fri
- Myanmar coup opposed by some police:
- The Durham pseudoaudit:
- The border crisis:
- 2021-04-08 EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?
- 2021-03-25 Thereâs an Immigration Crisis, But Itâs Not the One You Think
- 2021-04-24 The real immigration crisis is not at the border (opinion)
- 2021-08 The Disaster at Our Southern Border: the haute-conservoid view: "In just a few short months, the Biden administration has created a disaster on the southern border of the United States. It did so by methodicallyâand by all indications intentionallyâundoing every meaningful border security measure that had been in place. As a result, we have had five straight months of over 170,000 illegal immigrants apprehended at the border."
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/2/2055717/-Giuliani-Deposition-The-Madness-Continues - obvious lying, for the purpose of narrative-nurture
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-women-violence-police-crime-b1932431.html - but is he going to increase the budget for whatever group he thinks should be handling the problem? Or is this just avoidance of solving the problem?
- https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/01/texas-election-official-hood/ - attack on election official
- https://www.axios.com/south-dakota-global-tax-haven-5120d206-20ab-4cc1-ba91-d1d59fe22487.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-nazi-werewolves-who-terrorized-allied-soldiers-at-the-end-of-wwii - post-WWII Nazis
10/9 Sat
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/the-forgotten-city-hall-riot.html - history: 1992-09-16 -- Mayor David Dinkins attempts to make police more accountable by changing the review board from a 50-50 police/civilian to all-civilian; police respond with protest, including racist images of Dinkins, thus proving his point.
10/11 Mon
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211008141547/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/economy/california-housing.html - turning single-family homes into multi-dwelling units (archive does not include the photos)
- https://www.bettermorningmessages.com/ - I've downloaded all the English-language material, and this domain will probably go away at some point, but it may be useful in the near term.
- https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/7/2055974/-The-first-major-city-in-the-United-States-passes-a-dark-sky-ordinance - US/PA/Pittsburgh
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/11/22720724/netflix-suspends-trans-employee-tweeted-dave-chappelle-the-closer
10/13 Wed
- Manchin's obstructionism [2]:
- https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/10/13/scoop-manchin-sinema-split-vexes-the-white-house-494684
- https://www.wonkette.com/joe-manchin-and-kyrsten-sinema-being-dicks-about-totally-different-things-so-that-s-fun-for-everyone
- https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/10/13/here-are-the-two-major-issues-holding-up-the-dems-spending-bills-and-its-driv-n2597374 (right-wing/counterfactualist source)
10/14 Thu
- https://deadspin.com/when-you-have-to-say-something-isn-t-a-swastika-ya-kin-1847857765
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/11/2057458/-Anti-vaxxers-yelling-at-school-kids-get-a-response-they-weren-t-expecting
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-gov-abbott-issues-order-banning-covid-vaccination-mandates-rebuke-n1281290
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107089567562782648 - anti-vax self-own
10/15 Fri
10/16 Sat
- https://apnews.com/article/riots-capitol-siege-indictments-obstruction-of-justice-36f12a272f9b955e6524aa1d8e55776e
- https://www.quora.com/Is-it-okay-to-express-conservative-opinions-on-Quora-I-have-been-censored-in-the-past-for-doing-so-What-do-YOU-believe-Is-the-First-Amendment-still-applicable-in-America/answer/Mike-Jones-169 - "conservative" thinks they're being "censored" because their disinformation got downvoted
- https://www.quora.com/Will-America-ever-be-a-democracy-again/answer/John-Cate-2 - reply claims that it is not
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/11/pure-evil-report-on-trump-administration-draining-fund-for-fdnys-911-responders-draws-outrage/amp/
- nurses demanding "medical freedom":
- https://www.newsweek.com/unvaccinated-nurse-escorted-california-hospital-viral-video-1638370
- https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/07/17/covid-19-vaccine-mandate-protest-henry-ford-hospitals/7985941002/
- https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/ohio-nurse-facebook-post-announcing-job-loss-due-to-vaccine-choice-goes-viral/530-b8274b0c-dc36-44d8-a1a3-2523ec074a4f
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/disagree-medical-professionals-counter-coronavirus-lockdown-protesters/story?id=70293830
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/houston-methodist-nurse-vaccine-refusal/
- https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040983300/the-vaccine-mandate-for-healthcare-workers-means-hospitals-are-losing-staff
- https://www.pe.com/2021/08/09/nurses-protest-mandatory-coronavirus-vaccinations-at-riverside-rally/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/vaccine-mandates-spread-protests-follow-spurred-nurses-rcna1654
- nurses supporting anti-COVID measures:
- protestors occupy federal building:
- https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/bureau-of-indian-affairs-headquarters-occupied
- https://twitter.com/MSchwartz3/status/1448762925653581825 -- cannot find anything about this on doi.gov; apparently these tweets are the official statement?
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reminiscent-of-jan-6-violent-protesters-arrested-after-storming-interior-department-injuring-officers - the propaganda view
- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/576934-protesters-arrested-after-sit-in-at-interior-department
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/15/indigenous-protest-dc-climate-change/ "Police and climate activists clashed Thursday during protests at the Interior Department, with security personnel sustaining âmultiple injuriesâ and one officer being taken to a hospital, agency spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said." ... "A spokesperson for the Federal Protective Service, which Schwartz said responded to the protest to "mitigate the situation," did not immediately respond to a request for comment on police tactics and arrests."
- https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org/bia-occupation/ "Police acted aggressively with the water protectors and Indigenous leaders, tasing at least two people and hitting others with batons. An independent Indigenous media person was assaulted by the police and had his equipment broken. 55 people were arrested and taken away to DC Metro police stations."
- Thank you to all the right wing nut jobs who talked about critical race theory ALL summer. / My students could not wait for me to explain it to them & talk about structural racism. / The topic of CRT never came up in class until this year. / Gen Z is going to vote you all out @GOP
- The Frederick Douglass Foundation -- not what it sounds like:
- (FDF) "is a public policy and educational organization which brings the sanctity of free-market and limited government ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing our nation"
- "The Frederick Douglass Foundation of Missouri has created an award for President Donald J. Trump for his outstanding leadership and magnificent accomplishments that ushered in more liberty and prosperity during his tenure."
- furor around maybe-trans school assailant in Loudon County, VA:
- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/13/virginia-father-says-school-board-covered-sexual-a/
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says
- https://wjla.com/news/local/parents-want-answers-after-two-alleged-assaults-10-13-2021
- https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/school-boards-letter-suggests-arrested-dad-a-domestic-terrorist/
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/loudoun-county-father-school-cover-up-bathroom-assault-daughter
10/18 Mon
- https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/biketoberfest-nazi-symbol-hats-spark-outrage-at-florida-bike-festival-682214
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/15/2058273/-FBI-releases-newly-obtained-videos-showing-just-how-violent-the-mob-was-on-Jan-6
10/19 Tue
- 2021-10-09 The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State (27:50 video): Steven Donziger, Chevron, Ecuador, making an example, Judge Loretta Prescott, Judge Lewis(?) Kaplan, show trial, rule of law, abuse of power, Powell memo, Federalist Society, legit criticism of Democratic Party; video of protests at 10:36
- https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1449795379449446406 - Wall Street and water futures; thread has video of NestlÄ CEO arguing that water should not be a right.
- https://autonomy.work/portfolio/icelandsww/ - Iceland's Journey to a Shorter Work-Week
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/big-oil-and-gas-kept-a-dirty-secret-for-decades-now-they-may-pay-the-price?utm_source=pocket-newtab
- Assessing ExxonMobilâs climate change communications (PDF, presentation), Geoffrey Supran, PhD
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f - the paper (Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes)
- Assessing ExxonMobilâs climate change communications (PDF, presentation), Geoffrey Supran, PhD
10/21 Thu
- 2021-10-20 China: The patriotic 'ziganwu' bloggers who attack the West
- 2021-10-19 The shortages hitting countries around the world
10/22 Fri
- https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2021 - Heather Cox Richardson on Trumpism and building things
- https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-ford-fall-from-grace/
- https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/director-squid-game-says-about-capitalism-actually-about-communism - anticommunist propaganda, really; the whole conflict is driven by needing money, which doesn't happen under communism. There is a nugget of truth in here in that leaders of countries which claimed to be communist did dangle communism/socialism like a carrot for the masses -- but that's not a problem with actual communism; it's a problem with (a) leaders f'kin lying, and (b) people being gullible or inadequately informed about what they were buying.
10/23 Sat
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/21/2059503/-Students-were-suspended-from-Texas-schools-because-of-a-dress-code-violation-Guess-what-it-was - long hair
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/21/2059482/-Louie-goes-full-Gohmert-compares-Jan-6-insurrectionists-to-a-civil-rights-icon - more Jan.6 equivocating
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/21/2059478/-Psaki-sets-the-record-straight-after-McCarthy-tries-to-mislead-and-confuse-on-supply-chain-problems -- supply chain
- tromp.social:
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/21/2059403/-Donald-Trump-s-new-social-media-platform-isn-t-a-Twitter-rival-It-s-an-investment-scam
- 2021-10-21 Let's talk about Trump's Truth network.... (Beau)
- https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-truth-social-broke-software-rules-30-days-to-comply-2021-10 - confirms that the software is Mastodon
- https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2021 tromp.social as an example of the larger problem of right-wing problem-solving methdology:
- "When those accustomed to breaking things try to build them, they seem to have little idea of how much work it actually takes. They seem to think that actual accomplishments are there for the taking, and that splashy announcements and dramatic actions can solve intricate problems."
- cursing and incivility:
- https://www.c-span.org/video/?511507-1/john-mcwhorter-discusses-evolution-profanity
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/13/2057922/-Black-American-flags-at-right-wing-protests-on-front-porches-vow-no-quarter-against-liberals
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/14/2058156/-Christina-Nance-reported-missing-two-weeks-ago-found-dead-inside-a-police-van-in-Huntsville-Ala - why is the right not offended by this kind of thing?
- https://dearfuckers.substack.com/p/oops-i-was-too-fucking-much-again
- Madison Cawthorn
- 2021-10-19 Meet the companies funding Fox News' vaccine conspiracies, homophobia, and Insurrection
- https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/dr-rachel-levine-becomes-nations-first-transgender-four-star-officer-rcna3283
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/coronavirus-public-health.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqohlSFUaCybIRp8sqQeBg_HRwaYhnTrmMSKRSD0Hz-kcB5SAvUfRYK4pL_0C4wOmfv4Terk-WK41ieZFI01mTwTvr8uKlc1aeHpwpNy6ACZr1sqdGOEyrGavPjfgduolzeflsRmMenCqDPKEqQApIA1lo5Nmc0j7miBbg_eYTZMmn4V2zvwjBZhlRT4fZCnsvvbgDxp2ONnufQiLo0BtGLkfAWeP6Ibav7EQcwxSCUbFTGd94gs-79BbP9AUO8XvPqlTKZpqVcNUQ5NohxqBmoI&referringSource=articleShare
- https://peoplevsfossilfuels.org/bia-occupation/
- https://www.axios.com/trump-records-jan-6-lawsuit-b9cd460a-8ce1-4f7f-89a4-7a380d64b2e7.html - Trump sues National Archives
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/15/2058273/-FBI-releases-newly-obtained-videos-showing-just-how-violent-the-mob-was-on-Jan-6
- https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-school-says-vaxxed-kids-quarantine-30-days-each-dose-2021-10 - COVID disinformation
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/14/2058066/-Let-s-just-appreciate-Trump-already-totally-blowing-up-Republicans-2022-strategy
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female-led-domestic-terrorism-group-bombed-us-capitol-180973904/ - history
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLhh5GSxsQ - (unwatched) Pandora Papers explanation
- https://flux.community/samuel-hoadley-brill/2021/07/chris-rufo-obsessed-critical-race-theory-he-also-doesnt-understand-it - Chris Rufo, critical race theory
- Dan Patrick's payout:
- Jan.6:
- https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-joe-biden-business-health-c1645564f5ced76356e8423b5e12f103 - "Steve Scalise repeatedly refused to say on Sunday that the 2020 election wasnât stolen"
- https://news.yahoo.com/fiona-hill-says-january-6-162044273.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/10/politics/us-capitol-police-whistleblower-january-6/index.html
- https://news.yahoo.com/former-treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchin-181305988.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/6/2056508/-Protester-brutalized-by-St-Louis-cop-City-still-tries-to-stick-her-with-legal-bill-following-suit
- Haiti
- conservoid takeover
- https://therealnews.com/its-not-just-roe-conservatives-are-looking-to-overturn-gay-marriage-and-more
- https://www.democracydocket.com/news/how-the-gop-will-try-to-subvert-our-elections/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-campaign-2020-voter-suppression-consent-decree-1028988/
- TX abortion ban
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/debt-ceiling-temporary-deal-mcconnell-schumer-biden/ - temporary debt ceiling agreement
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/1/2055502/-Idaho-officials-tell-Pillow-Guy-to-get-stuffed-after-he-claims-massive-vote-flips-in-Gem-State
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/1/2055528/-Current-and-former-Blue-Origin-employees-say-it-s-a-hellish-workplace-like-another-Bezos-company
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-warriors-of-a-failed-revolution - history
- https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/google_facebook_antitrust_complaint/
10/24 Sun
- 2017-12-01 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/code-girls-the-untold-story-of-the-women-cryptographers-who-fought-wwii-at-the-intersection-of - tech women vs. erasure of women, in case I don't already have it stashed
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/19/2059073/-Psaki-forcibly-acquaints-Fox-News-mouthpiece-with-the-numbers-on-police-and-COVID-19 - Psaki mentions police officer deaths from COVID-19
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/23/us-capitol-attack-minnesota-fundraiser-mark-koran - Republican state senator Mark Koran
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/18/2058784/-Climate-change-has-made-Lake-Tahoe-terminal-and-altered-the-way-salmon-spawn-this-year
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/20/2059267/-Jim-Jordan-and-Matt-Gaetz-ride-to-Steve-Bannon-s-defense-and-get-so-so-roasted
- https://www.quora.com/Do-socialist-countries-have-lower-poverty-rates-than-capitalist-countries/answer/Alexander-Finnegan - charts and graphs about how socialist countries fare economically
10/25 Mon
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/all-career-advice-for-women-is-a-form-of-gaslighting -- Lean In and self-empowerment seem related to personal responsibility and distractivism, not to mention victim-blaming
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/24/1994550/-Anti-vaxx-Chronicles-He-wasn-t-afraid-of-any-COVID-but-Black-people-Terrified-of-those - COVID denialism memes
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/22/2059729/-The-states-where-most-people-are-quitting-their-jobs-all-seem-to-have-two-things-in-common - the Great Walkout was most prevalent in states with the worst COVID rates, not states with the most safety-net. By making workers replaceable, employers have made jobs replaceable too.
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/16/its-the-arrogance-of-creationists-that-gets-me/ - creationism is still a thing
10/26 Tue
- https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-the-bbc-regarding-an-article-published-by-catherine-lowbridge-9223a3ca - more transnegation at the BBC
10/27 Wed
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211022090326/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/world/europe/russia-arctic-climate-change-putin.html - positive effects of global warming
- 2021-10-27 https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-warming-1-5-celsius/ Decades of Global Temperature Rise Are Not Baked in if We Cease All Emissions]
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/white-settlers-wiped-thousands-of-miles-of-cherokee-trails-off-the-map-this-man-is-reclaiming-them - overlaps between Left and Right; Native American genocide
10/28 Thu
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/28/matt-powell-gets-a-promotion/
- https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107179149831803163
- note the "whack an atheist shirt" shirts (similar shirts found, screenshots downloaded)
10/29 Fri
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/28/2060766/-Ron-DeSantis-runs-yet-another-victory-lap-on-a-track-paved-with-the-bodies-of-dead-Floridians
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/28/2060737/-After-Biden-baits-Trump-into-weighing-Virginia-visit-Youngkin-camp-hits-the-panic-button
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/impossibleme/2021/10/28/the-unexamined-hypocrisy-of-fake-allies/ - transnegation
- DeSantis was for vaccines before he was against them:
- https://news.yahoo.com/record-breaking-california-bomb-cyclone-linked-to-climate-change-183607985.html - negative effect of climate change
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/29/billionaires-are-a-plague-on-the-planet/comment-page-1/
- https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-compromise/ "Business interests invaded the environmental policy realm even before climate change emerged as a key issue. Itâs time to kick them out."
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/29/trouble-dems-economy-517513
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/26/1046432435/ers-are-now-swamped-with-seriously-ill-patients-but-most-dont-even-have-covid
- Nick Hanauer's TED Talks:
- 2012-05-18 Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs": does in fact seem to be missing from TED
- 2014-08 Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
- 2019-07 The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-29/supreme-court-will-hear-bid-to-curb-epa-s-climate-change-powers
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/29/apocalypse-soon-reluctant-middle-east-forced-to-open-eyes-to-climate-crisis - "It is a really tough issue because the interests of the ruling elites run contrary to the interests of citizens. The ruling elites are all dependent on oil rents for the survival of their regimes. They need the oil business to stay alive for them to stay in power. Their system is based on continued oil rent, but ultimately, the citizensâ long-term interests are with a liveable climate."
10/30 Sat
- https://anticapitalism.quora.com/?__ni__=0&__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=28171303353&__tiids__=42352273&hide_composer=1 - anti-socialist propaganda meme
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/10/28/bat-viruses-puppy-experiments-heres-why-people-are-angry-at-fauci-this-week/ - fake Fauci news debunked
- https://laurakbuzz.com/2021/10/29/trans-activism-uks-finalised-open-letter-to-the-bbc/
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/22/javier-ortiz-florida-police-misconduct-protections-516231
November
11/1 Mon
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-kinzinger-vows-to-fight-trump-cancer-after-leaving-congress
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/25/2060122/--We-don-t-negotiate-with-terrorists-high-school-math-teacher-tells-Muslim-American-student
- Loudon County, VA vs. critical race theory:
- https://www.cjr.org/special_report/ramsey-debt-iheart.php - dealing with economic disparity in the US; brief history of talk-radio since the 1970s
- https://www.edgemedianetwork.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=national&id=310191&supreme_court_wont_hear_case_involving_transgender_rights
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22725031/buying-less-supply-chain-holiday-shopping - the supply-chain crisis
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-dont-trust-their-congressional-maps-to-be-drawn-fairly-can-anything-change-that/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/29/apocalypse-soon-reluctant-middle-east-forced-to-open-eyes-to-climate-crisis - global warming negative effects
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/26/we-are-so-divided-now-how-china-controls-thought-and-speech-beyond-its-borders
- https://twitter.com/govrondesantis/status/1454493304377135109 - DeSantis ends mandates for other vaccines in schools too
11/2 Tue
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/these-1930s-housewives-were-the-godmothers-of-radical-consumer-activism -- successful consumer protest, 1935
11/5 Fri
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ethiopia-s-chosen-one-a-brutal-war-waged-by-a-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-a-d2f4d03e-90e4-49a4-918b-96d4543f722b
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/the-second-amendment-didnt-protect-your-right-to-own-a-gun-until-2008/
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-republicans-won-the-virginia-governors-race/
- 2021-11-04 lily cade is gone from the bbc article. no apology, just this vague note. we acknowledge that we platformed a serial rapist who has published death threats against trans women, but fuck you, no apology, and the rest of the article stays? bullshit -- is this about the anti-trans BBC article?
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-ill-fated-idea-to-move-the-nation-s-capital-to-st-louis - US history
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/23/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccines-do-not-contain-luciferase-enzymes/7260660002/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-outrageous-deeply-sexist-history-of-the-pantsuit - reprint, for history of sexism
11/6 Sat
- https://twitter.com/robertjbennett/status/1456362488782598155 - thread about perfectionistic cynicism
11/7 Sun
- https://www.mediaite.com/news/exclusive-newsmax-tells-staff-it-will-implement-vaccine-mandate/
- https://www.quora.com/Would-John-F-Kennedy-be-considered-a-left-leaning-libertarian-if-he-were-alive-today/answer/Mike-Jones-169
11/8 Mon
- https://twitter.com/teaberryblue/status/1380347644963393540/photo/3 - Popeye demonstrates that gender fluidity is not new
- https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdf - found that just a dozen people are responsible for 65% of the COVID-19 disinformation being spread on social media platforms. Robert Kennedy Jr. and his organization The Children's Health Defense were listed as the second-biggest offender.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063017/-Fascism-porn-and-ambition-Sen-Josh-Hawley-says-he-ll-make-masculinity-a-major-political-theme
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/5/2062544/-Small-town-in-California-declares-itself-free-of-federal-state-rule-as-a-constitutional-republic
- https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-going-own-13-voted-042437034.html - GOP turning on the ones who voted for the small infrastructure bill
11/9 Tue
- https://anticapitalism.quora.com/Why-are-American-conservatives-so-afraid-of-socialism-1
- https://twitter.com/JackShawhan/status/1457951413368016899 -- apparently some NFT traders really don't understand how NFTs work
- https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-broadband-internet-congress-d89d6bb1b39cd9c67ae9fc91f5eb4c0d -- the small infrastructure bill
11/10 Wed
- https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debunked-masks-rapid-tests-vaccines-safety.html - misuse of science in policy
- https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/secret-court-case-50-years-ago-robbed-transgender-people-rights-1291857 - primogeniture, and some myths about transness
11/11 Thu
- critical race theory panic
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063258/-Texas-town-s-first-Black-principal-fired-over-CRT-which-school-district-admits-was-never-taught
- https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1458563907837038595 - Christopher Rufo makes a valid point, but then apparently uses it to attack critical race theory
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/10/2063417/-Kansas-school-district-pulls-29-books-off-library-shelves-after-parent-complains
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-detroit-residents-pushed-back-against-tree-planting - urban tree planting
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did - history: the nuclear bombing of Japan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2058087/-Fetal-Heartbeat-Policy-Kills-Another-Woman - forced-birth movement in Poland
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/solar-power-got-cheap-so-why-aren-t-we-using-it-more
11/12 Fri
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/10/2063484/-Trump-s-ex-ambassador-to-Iceland-revealed-as-an-unqualified-erratic-paranoid-lying-sadist - and he wasn't the only hopelessly-unqualified ambassador under Trump
11/13 Sat
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/27/politics/paid-leave-falls-out-of-biden-agenda/index.html - Manchin blocked paid family leave, apparently
- https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/commerce-adds-nso-group-and-other-foreign-companies-entity-list
- https://www.axios.com/trump-hang-mike-pence-january-6-audio-4f147245-becf-4766-ac60-7acece6862be.html - Trump defends people who called to "hang Mike Pence"
11/14 Sun
- https://social.coop/@jonny/107273591462803089 - SciHub, copyright in India, and the public good as grounds for fair use
- 2021-10-29 The Hypocrisy of Bailouts | The Problem With The Economy | The Problem With Jon Stewart | Apple TV+
11/15 Mon
11/16 Tue
- https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis.html - effectiveness of various gun policies
- https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/firearm-safety-training-requirements.html - "We found no qualifying studies showing that firearm safety training requirements [increased or decreased] any of the eight outcomes we investigated."
11/17 Wed
- https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128696&page=1 - racial demonization in a non-US context (Roma "gypsies")
- https://indyweek.com/news/durham/pioneers-church/ - new liberal-ish church failing to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyregion/malcolm-x-killing-exonerated.html
11/18 Fri
- https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/white-anti-racism-must-be-based-in-solidarity-not-altruism/
- COP26:
- https://theweek.com/politics/1007325/democrats-are-in-denial-about-what-theyre-up-against - electoral fraud as a strategy
11/21 Sun
- https://msmagazine.com/2021/11/15/anti-trans-legislation-transgender-sports-gender-affirming-healthcare/ - the best bullying is invisible
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/18/2065025/-Eric-Swalwell-teaches-Lauren-Boebert-that-people-who-live-in-MAGA-houses-shouldn-t-throw-stones
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/18/2065023/-QAnon-Congresswoman-at-odds-with-Republican-Party-chair-over-rainbows - MTG uses identity politics against LGBTQ+ people while claiming that only Democrats use identity politics against people
- https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/ - majority of BLM protests were peaceful
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/20/2065364/-MAGA-Land-Is-Now-Realizing-That-VA-GOP-Establishment-Duped-Them-Into-Voting-For-A-RINO - MAGA voters unhappy that Glenn Youngkin is insufficiently MAGA
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/19/2065229/-The-week-gets-even-better-Biden-is-replacing-DeJoy-crony-on-the-Postal-Service-board - finally some movement on the DeJoy problem
- https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-legislature-tennessee-12ab6a11c6c57237bc117c2ece8530e6
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/politics/pentagon-climate-change-warning/index.html - global warming readiness
- https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-10/cargo-jam-in-la-ports-begins-to-ease-as-hefty-fines-loom
- https://www.nrdc.org/about - Natural Resources Defense Council
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/if-you-re-so-smart-why-aren-t-you-rich-turns-out-it-s-just-chance
- https://restofworld.org/2021/singapores-tech-utopia-dream-is-turning-into-a-surveillance-state-nightmare/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/these-rebel-reporters-harnessed-90s-dial-up-internet-to-resist-a-nationalist-dictator - Serbia, history, online journalism, online activism
11/22 Mon
- great moments in UK history: 2021-05-13 protesters in Scotland prevent police from deporting immigrants:
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/
11/23 Tue
- https://labornotes.org/blogs/2021/10/interview-mexican-auto-worker-fight-real-union-gms-silao-plant
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/11/22/0426201/how-facebook-and-google-actually-fund-the-creation-of-misinformation
11/24 Wed
- https://indyweek.com/news/wake/hate-groups-are-getting-millions-through-raleigh-based-fidelity-nonprofit-fund/
- https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Navigator-Update-09.21.2021.pdf "Costs and Weather: A Guide for Advocates" - stats on what people find credible
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/23/2065993/-The-Washington-Post-hits-rock-bottom - Marc Thiessen rides again. "There are plenty of venues online for trolls, but they shouldnât include The Washington Post. Thereâs something seriously awry, something seriously wrong with the outletâs editorial decision-making."
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CWZplj6FR98/?utm_medium=copy_link - light supremacy
11/25 Thu
- https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/24/nancy-pelosi-florida-beach-road-house-mansion-talk-false-rumor/8748197002/ - also, buying a beach house doesn't mean you don't believe in climate change. (Belief in climate change would at worst lead only to an expectation that the property's value might go down, or that the property might be condemned at some point. Either way, insurance should cover any physical risks.)
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict
- https://news.yahoo.com/lawyers-challenged-2020-election-ordered-193108732.html
- https://qz.com/2094598/the-us-economic-recovery-is-on-track-to-pick-up-in-fourth-quarter/ - lowest unemployment claims in 50 years
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF5dVrnSbyU - Hillary Clinton talks about that article in the first segment
- https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
- https://www.quora.com/Where-would-homeless-people-sleep-in-a-libertarian-country-if-everything-is-privatized/answer/Brandon-Ross-37 - credible argument that a more libertarian system would be, at least in one way, more friendly towards homelessness than our current system (mainly because of no zoning laws)
11/26 Fri
- latest COVID mutation:
- https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059272133/new-covid-19-variant-in-south-africa-raises-concern
- https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-travel-europe-116ef818ac4a8e7bc23bb28d6511ecad
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/americas/us-travel-restrictions-new-covid-variant-omicron.amp.html
- https://nextdoor.com/p/-RZ_Df3DhFTf?view=detail poster claims Biden is racist against Africans, i.e. that he's issuing this travel ban for the same reasons Trump did
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/danger-critical-race-theory/ - Marc Thiessen vs. critical race theory
- https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-rips-lauren-boebert-040740894.html
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lara-trump-turkey-prices-thanksgiving-b1964467.html - war on Thanksgiving
- https://news.yahoo.com/michael-flynn-goes-full-tinfoil-052539928.html
- https://news.yahoo.com/wind-power-risks-becoming-too-151456924.html
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/12/2063940/-Manchin-betrays-colleagues-who-helped-him-with-his-latest-Build-Back-Better-demands
- Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream $
- House Republicans Who Backed Infrastructure Bill Face Vicious Backlash $
- https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-house-republicans-bipartisan-infrastructure-support-lose-committee-assignments-2021-11
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-rep-fred-upton-receives-death-threats-after-voting-for-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/2021/11/09/78fe5ac8-4195-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/politics/fred-upton-infrastructure-bill-voicemail-threat-cnntv/index.html
- https://expmag.com/2021/10/words-got-us-into-the-anti-vaccine-crisis-heres-how-theyll-get-us-out/ - disinformation pandemic
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/6/2062761/-What-scares-the-shit-out-of-Republicans A: voting rights
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063011/-NY-Times-COVID-is-Getting-Even-Redder - COVID denial
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063118/-Paul-Gosar-tweets-out-video-that-depicts-him-killing-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-and-President-Biden
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2061318/-Good-News-Roundup-for-Tuesday-Nov-9-2021-Are-we-entering-a-new-political-era - covers a number of topics
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063078/-Mitch-McConnell-s-daughter-tweeted-about-the-need-to-pass-the-Voting-Rights-Act
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/03/988756973/cant-help-falling-in-love-with-a-vaccine-how-polio-campaign-beat-vaccine-hesitan
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062293/-History-teacher-caught-spewing-Hunter-Biden-conspiracy-theories-to-room-full-of-eighth-graders - stochastic terrorism, right-wing violence
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062188/--Youngkin-cucked-Trump-A-conversation-with-a-swing-voter-in-Virginia
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2060954/-Sens-Manchin-Sinema-release-grotesque-tweets-congratulating-themselves-Twitter-barks-back
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2061046/-Hacked-Oath-Keepers-data-exposes-how-deeply-patriot-extremism-has-penetrated-the-mainstream
- https://debunkingdenialism.com/
11/27 Sat
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/26/omicron-covid-variant-us-to-restrict-travel-from-south-africa-7-other-nations.html - COVID omicron
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211127172521/https://twitter.com/bootsriley/status/1464008290686234630 - US propaganda against North Korea
11/29 Mon
- https://mobile.twitter.com/heathersdesk/status/1464343254875328515 - white Mormon knitter fighting back against racism in the white Mormon knitter community
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year
- https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1465324057277173772?t=TNYDLIF-izl1XdXu30z5mg&s=19 - Richard Dawkins signs TERF manifesto
11/30 Tue
- https://twitter.com/cromolyboy/status/1465370062710312964 - NYT tries to build a narrative that millennials are now confronting inflation for the first time, but the reality is... otherwise.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/29/2066665/-Anti-mask-parent-attacked-school-board-chair-by-outing-her-8-year-old-trans-daughter - things that happen in closed conservoid discussion groups
December
12/1 Wed
- https://undark.org/2021/11/29/ecocide-5/ - Russian Arctic, pollution, Norilsk Nickel
12/2 Thu
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sotomayor-suggests-supreme-court-won-t-survive-stench-overturning-roe-n1285166 Sonia Sotomayor, Roe v. Wade
- https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-better-alternative-to-capitalism/answer/Alexander-Finnegan - interesting take on capitalism vs. socialism, with quite a few deepread references
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066883/-Manchin-rewarded-by-Republican-group-with-ads-thanking-him-for-betraying-Biden-Democrats - Mitch McConnell loves Joe Manchin, and so does the GOP machine in the form of the Coalition to Protect American Workers, a Republican group led by Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence's former chief of staff
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2067089/-Jen-Psaki-Shocks-FOX-News-Hack-Peter-Doocy-with-Trump-s-Deadly-Record-of-COVID-Mismanagement
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos
12/3 Fri
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/2nd-us-omicron-case-just-traveled-to-nyc-anime-convention-with-53k-attendees/
- https://www.themarysue.com/donald-trump-positive-covid-test-before-biden-debate/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/03/who-was-the-thief-here/ - Joel Osteen
- https://news.yahoo.com/jim-jordan-says-real-america-170017508.html - Jim Jordan, lies
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-blocks-gun-control-law-in-wake-of-michigan-shooting/ar-AARp9Fs?li=BBnb7Kz
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/candace-owens-dubbed-mouthpiece-wing-133000605.html - Candace Owens, black conservoid, says "Black Americans are the most murderous group in America by race and their victims are mostly other black people." (this is the black-on-black violence trope)
- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/02/politics/florida-state-guard-desantis/index.html - headline makes it sound worse than it is. I think.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_WBSZKCozg Beau: it's a political stunt
12/4 Sat
- Those $450k payments:
- https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2021/12/tillis-cotton-cornyn-and-mcconnell-introduce-legislation-to-prevent-settlement-payments-for-illegal-immigrants
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-senators-introduce-bill-payments-separated-illegal-immigrants
- 2021-11-02 Let's talk about Biden's $450,000 payments.... (video, 5:21: Beau of the Fifth Column)
- This is a settlement from a bunch of lawsuits which the government expects to lose in court.
- If the settlement doesn't go through, then each case goes to court, and it costs a lot more. "This is a lowball settlement offer." We'll also probably find out a lot of dirt about the Trump admin and the GOP. They should prefer the payoff.
- https://secondnexus.com/madison-cawthorn-earthen-vessels-abortion - Madison Cawthorn
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/01/1040802/how-bad-will-omicron-get/
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/05/01/are-addicted-anger/SkrH8k390jgtkY0JBObJ0K/story.html
- https://19thnews.org/2021/11/flight-attendants-unruly-violent-passengers/ "In all, there have been reports of 5,240 unruly incidents, 72 percent of them related to mask mandates." "...airlines have been struggling to manage the surge in demand for flights with labor force shortages and fewer flight attendants choosing to take on overtime hours. In October, that kind of breakdown led to about 2,000 flight cancellations at Southwest Airlines, for example."
- https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-save-a-ski-town-west-tourism-economy/ - microcosm of the housing crisis, which is just a microcosm of economic disparity
- Omicron:
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/01/1040802/how-bad-will-omicron-get/
- https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/face-masks-compulsory-covid-omicron-22297821
- https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/boris-johnson-presser-omicron-covid-22296311
- https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/new-radically-different-covid-variant-getting-footholds-now-as-media-and-officials-remain-complacent.html
- https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/11/30/kimbal-musks-big-green-dao-is-a-big-step-for-web-3/
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/would-you-manage-70-children-and-a-15-ton-vehicle-for-18-an-hour/
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/afghanistan-taliban-rule-american-exit-photos-1258020/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211121100913/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/us/politics/manchin-sinema-republican-donors.html
- https://money.com/pay-transparency-laws-employers-share-salaries/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921 - wokeness in 1921
- https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/the-great-organic-food-fraud
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-europe-became-so-rich
- https://theconversation.com/congress-passes-1t-infrastructure-bill-but-how-does-the-government-go-about-spending-that-much-money-165376
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-virginias-and-new-jerseys-elections-could-suggest-a-red-wave-in-2022/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are
- https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-broadband-internet-congress-d89d6bb1b39cd9c67ae9fc91f5eb4c0d
- https://juliaserano.medium.com/on-being-explicitly-named-in-a-violent-gender-critical-manifesto-e74ece76583d
- https://www.popsci.com/science/hail-mary-national-womens-football-leagueexcerpt/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-rich-people-love-endurance-sports
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107203870370524208 "The devastating human toll from the coronavirus reached another major milestone Monday when the worldwide death tally surpassed 5 million. Nowhere in the globe has the cost in lives been higher than in the United States, with over 746,000 Americans killed. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/11/01/covid-global-deaths-5-million-vaccines-cases/6227169001/"
- https://lgbt.io/@celesteh/107213009144738340 "Stephen Whittle talking about transphobia in academia is kind of heartbreaking https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/03/kathleen-stock-trans-university-transphobia/"
- https://chaos.social/@sofia/107237433409968587 - discussion about anger over NFTs
- Do conservatives even know what socialism is?
- If people know that capitalism has failed, why do they continue to live under it helplessly?
- Why don't leftists like Israel? Israel shares a lot of values with the left: free healthcare, free abortions, free gender reassignments, and 100 government-owned companies.
- https://weirder.earth/@hafnia/107295192709099314 - subtle transphobia in "female empowerment"?
- https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107319969989727722 "In an adversarial legal system, no one represents 'externalities'."
12/5 Sun
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/first-big-tranche-infrastructure-dollars-heading-states-water-lead-pipes-n1285253
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressman-posts-family-christmas-picture-with-guns-days-after-school-2021-12-05/
- guaranteed income initiatives:
- https://www.npr.org/2021/12/03/1061214253/bob-inglis-how-i-changed-my-mind-about-climate-change - Republican ex-climate-denier Bob Inglis
- https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S326 - voter suppression bill vetoed by Roy Cooper
- https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-president-biden-calls-intellectual-property-protection-waivers-covid-19-2021-11-26/
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/politics/travel-restrictions-south-africa/index.html
- https://www.propublica.org/article/they-took-us-away-from-each-other-lost-inside-americas-shadow-foster-system - how the foster-care system is broken
- 2009-04-01 The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report: science proves that conservoidism kills satire
12/6 Mon
- https://twitter.com/xaviersonline/status/1467148938809516034 "polywork" appears on the internet
- https://twitter.com/Hollyfox142/status/1467149460631261187 - apparently coordinated among multiple news-sources
- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/queen-elizabeth-barbados-relationship-change-symbolizes-generational-shift-ncna1285354
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/05/japanese-latinos-us-war-hostages-history-523711 - US rounds up Japanese-looking but non-Japanese people in other countries to use in hostage exchange, then refuses to grant them citizen status when the hostage-exchange doesn't happen. history
- https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/boycott-college-rankings/
- Blockchain-based consensus systems are an energy-waste ratchet
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-supremacists-stage-bizarro-rally-021956089.html "Patriot Front was once known as Vanguard America but changed its name after a man affiliated with the group murdered a woman at the notorious Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville."
- https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-lifestyle-health-travel-ef7c250c58b90b9835a972d7ebd9556b - Omicron possibly less severe than initial fears
- https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-wisconsin-voting-election-2020-5f799879afe2b8cad2daa0d7b494affa "The backing for a possible route around Gov. Tony Evers was revealed during a private meeting on elections hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council..."
- Hogan Gidley, Center for Election Integrity (vote-suppression org)
- https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-legislature-0c51b390408cc8c3f73c20a57fa81110 - similar effort already underway in Michigan
- apparently some of this is backlash against Mark Zuckerberg donating money to election offices: https://apnews.com/article/elections-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-d034c4c1f5a9fa3fb02aa9898493c708
- GOP review finds no proof Arizona election stolen from Trump: just a reminder
- https://www.salon.com/2021/12/05/ilhan-omar-calls-kevin-mccarthy-a-liar-and-a-coward-for-refusal-to-condemn-boeberts-islamophobia_partner/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate - disinformation pandemic; COVID-19
- https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/importance-of-partisanship-predicting-vaccination-status/ - Republicans are now the largest share of unvaccinated adults
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/5/2067670/-Republican-Triggered-By-Uppity-Blacks-In-TV-Commercial - right-wingers claiming reverse racism again
12/7 Tue
- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211201-family-estrangement-why-adults-are-cutting-off-their-parents
- https://www.wired.com/story/peng-shuai-censorship-china/ «This censorship is fundamentally about the dismantling of social resources. Content takedowns not only address the shorter-term problem of text or images that government actors want to remove, they also weaken activists' ability to rebuild by isolating them and dampening their ability to create new resources.» ... «In 2013, amidst a flurry of blogger crackdowns, novelist Hao Qun summarized the trend aptly: âThey want to sever those relationships and make the relationship on Weibo atomized, just like relations in Chinese society, where everyone is just a solitary atom.â»
- https://www.vox.com/22797395/antarctica-was-once-a-rainforest-could-it-be-again
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/03/climate-change-warming-planet-slows-jet-stream-causing-downpours-drought/8829944002/
- https://twitter.com/skepticalspice/status/1467055081300312068 - Kim Iversen sets up a clear case and then reaches the exact opposite conclusion
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbDPvUOsXU - longer piece on this topic
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6408835 - WikiData entry
- https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/11/25/florida-state-senator-files-bill-to-allow-employers-to-offer-sub-minimum-training-wage/#// "employers would be able to offer the training wage to any employee for the first six months of their employment."
- https://nautil.us/issue/108/change/a-lab-of-her-own - women in science: Rita Levi-Montalcini «Today, few peopleâeven very few scientistsâknow what it was that Levi-Montalcini uncovered in her bedroom lab in Turin. Textbooks cite her courage but rarely her wartime discoveries, which are usually credited to others. Levi-Montalcini earned a Nobel Prize for scientific accomplishments that she made after the war.»
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-scrooge-whose-thrift-blessed-the-world-11608762986 $ - by Phil Gramm and Mike Solon (who?): doubtless a rich source of capitalist narrative myths
- https://www.uspolicystrategies.com/wsj-in-defense-of-scrooge-whose-thrift-blessed-the-world/ - unpaywalled copy
- The key point here is the classic move of assigning credit to capitalism for all the progressive action against capitalist tendencies
- There needs to be a word or phrase for using association to prove equivalency. S&M "created wealth" and hoarded the profits; the wealth was beneficial to everyone (given the premise that social gains were because of capitalism rather than in spite of it), therefore the fact that they didn't spend their profits, which we will also call "wealth they created", was good. ...therefore it's good that they didn't give any of it away.
- ...even though their hoarded wealth and the social wealth they supposedly created are completely different things.
- https://www.uspolicystrategies.com/wsj-in-defense-of-scrooge-whose-thrift-blessed-the-world/ - unpaywalled copy
- 2021-11-12 Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
- 2021-11-09 https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers/
- https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-indicts-two-men-for-running-a-20-million-youtube-content-id-scam-211203/ - copyright abuse
- https://proteanmag.com/2021/11/29/the-american-prison-systems-war-on-reading/ - prison-industrial complex
- 2021-11-22 Pastor Promotes Rape & Abuse from the Pulpit
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/verizon-ignored-users-previous-opt-outs-in-latest-push-to-scan-web-browsing/
12/8 Wed
- https://humanpsychologyfacts.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-What-is-an-interesting-fact-of-history-that-most-people-dont-know-answer-Akram-Odaily -- according to The Prisoner in His Palace (book) by Will Bardenwerper, some of the soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein in his last days felt close to him
- https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/how-the-global-chip-shortage-led-to-covid-tragedy-for-one-malaysian-town - capitalist abuses, COVID-19, STMicroelectronics NV, Malaysia
- https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2021/11/09/community-mourns-utah/ - 10yo black autistic girl suicides because of racist bullying
- https://indyweek.com/culture/stage/comedian-joseph-richards-on-breaking-up-with-jesus/
- omicron:
- 2019-04-01 Letting Go Of God (video, 2:10:11, Julia Sweeney)
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-liberals-think-all-conservatives-deny-the-southern-strategy-Im-conservative-and-dont-deny-it/answer/Daniel-Whose-Favorite-City-is-Kamakura-Kanagawa
12/9 Thu
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/8/2068166/-Apology-amp-confession-from-one-of-the-architects-of-the-Right-Wing-misogynistic-pro-life-movement - Frank Schaeffer, forced-birth movement
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2067777/-In-seven-days-Trump-gave-us-all-a-lesson-into-the-behavior-of-cornered-rats «Imagine testing positive for COVID-19, then deliberately not telling anyone for a week that you tested positive while continuing to go about your normal routine, knowingly putting others at risk. Then imagine being so cowardly and venal that rather than admitting to that test, you instead decided to blame the grieving families of dead U.S. soldiers for exposing you...»
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/8/2068074/-Man-who-climbed-up-government-funded-ladder-endorses-burning-ladder-now-that-he-s-safely-at-the-top - having benefited from government subsidies for electric cars, Elon Musk wants to end all government subsidies
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/8/2068191/-Over-400-books-pulled-from-Texas-school-district-following-demand-for-review-from-GOP-lawmaker right-wing freedom of speech, US/TX/San Antonio
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/8/2068091/-Thanks-for-the-report-Now-expand-the-Supreme-Court
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/8/2068218/-After-his-latest-pro-Putin-rant-it-s-fair-to-ask-whether-Tucker-Carlson-is-an-actual-Russian-asset
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/3/2067353/-The-right-wing-s-poisoning-of-the-Federal-judiciary-will-extend-far-beyond-simply-overruling-Roe
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/6/2067839/-Openly-trans-high-schooler-says-school-officials-told-him-he-can-t-use-boys-bathroom-anymore
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066974/-Critical-race-theory-Nah-these-racists-want-to-ban-kids-books-about-the-civil-rights-movement «We can say until weâre blue in the face that critical race theory is a graduate-level school of thought not taught in K-12 schools, and along comes an anti-CRT group to show that what they really object to is any teaching that shows that racism is or has ever been a real thing.» Moms for Liberty
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/3/2067360/-Black-parents-see-a-problem-with-how-race-is-taught-in-schools-but-it-s-not-CRT
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066931/-Greg-Abbott-scapegoating-South-Africans-for-crossing-the-southern-border
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/2/2067213/-Abortion-pill-ban-you-might-not-have-heard-of-goes-into-effect-in-Texas
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2067040/-Justice-Sotomayor-makes-the-case-for-expanding-the-Supreme-Court «Sotomayor homed in on that in her questioning of Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart. âWill this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?â she asked. âI donât see how it is possible.â With that one question, Sotomayor just explained why her institution has to be reformedâand why court expansion is so essential.»
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/7/2068128/-Manchin-has-succeeded-in-hacking-off-big-hunks-of-Build-Back-Better-bill-and-he-STILL-isn-t-happy
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/2/2067175/-Apparently-we-ve-been-lying-to-girls-for-a-long-time Template:Tm/quote
- https://www.vogue.com/article/anti-birth-control-movement
- 2015-05 Contraception and abortion: Fruits of the same rotten tree? - is this even science?
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/09/they-read-science-articles-they-just-dont-understand-them/
- https://redgreenandblue.org/2021/12/09/man-thinks-abortion-punished-hanging-worried-climate-totalitarianism/
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/amazon-fined-e1-1-billion-by-italy-for-antitrust-abuse/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdy43/buffalo-starbucks-union-election-victory
12/10 Fri
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/10/anger-boils-as-uk-parliament-endorses-obscene-nationality-bill «Clause 9 of the bill is of particular concern as it will allow the government to deprive a person of citizenship without having to notify them. This can be done if officials either do not have the subjectâs contact details or if doing so is not âreasonably practicalâ.»
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/10/boys-will-be-boyscall-in-the-exterminators/ - misogyny in science, Smithsonian
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-08/torrance-police-traded-racist-homophobic-texts-it-could-jeopardize-hundreds-of-cases
- https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/12/09/how-cryptocurrency-revolutionized-white-supremacist-movement
- 2021-12-09 State judge declares Texas abortion law unconstitutional â but does not stop it from being enforced
- https://www.npr.org/2021/12/09/1062791666/new-york-attorney-general-seeking-to-question-donald-trump
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/9/2068404/-Flight-attendant-goes-Karen-demands-pilot-kicks-Black-mother-holding-a-newborn-off-the-plane
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/9/2068431/-Hundreds-of-high-schoolers-walkout-of-class-in-solidarity-with-students-of-color-after-viral-TikTok - a few people are racist and think that's ok, but most people disagree
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/10/1939430/-Conservatives-fret-why-are-young-liberals-so-intolerant-of-plague-spreading-democracy-killers
- this seems related: 2021-11-25 Is society coming apart?
- 2022 NC primary elections
- North Carolina's Supreme Court temporarily stayed candidate filing for all races in an order on Wednesday and also pushed out the state's primary from March 8 to May 17, due to a pair of lawsuits challenging the state's new congressional and legislative maps that are currently pending.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/9/2068265/-Torrance-police-under-investigation-after-slew-of-racist-homophobic-anti-semitic-texts-surface
- https://anticapitalism.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-What-is-really-responsible-for-the-poverty-in-African-countries-answer-Jonah-Wood-8
- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-463_3ebh.pdf#page=36 - Sotomayor's dissent
12/11 Sat
- https://wir2022.wid.world/ - World Inequality Report 2022
- 2021-12-18 Wolff Responds: World Inequality Report 2022 (video, 11:58, Richard Wolff)
- https://www.businessinsider.com/how-bad-is-inequality-trickle-down-economics-thomas-piketty-economists-2021-12
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/25/2060106/-A-tiny-percentage-of-people-leave-their-jobs-over-vaccine-mandates-but-they-dominate-the-headlines
- https://nextdoor.com/p/p-G5fTk5XcNF?utm_source=share&extras=MzAxNTk5NDg%3D - seems like a fairly typical discussion about affordable housing, poverty, etc. with a sprinkling of NIMBYism and fair world fallacy
- https://www.quora.com/What-is-left-wing-accelerationism/answer/Shayn-McCallum - leftist accelerationism
12/12 Sun
- 2021-12-11 from Gavin Newsom: «If states can shield their laws from review by federal courts, then CA will use that authority to help protect lives. / We will work to create the ability for private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in CA.»
- That countermove was totally predicted by a lot of people. It's almost like gun-rights advocates don't think these things through for even half a second.
- 2021-12-10 Greg Abbott (video): «This is whether or not somebody is going to have something put into their body that they do not want put into their body. Thatâs more than freedom, thatâs the right to control and secure your own body.»
- 2021-11-27 «The Neo-fascist Proud Boys marched through Rockville Centre today, close to my office. I think the latest elections emboldened them-I donât remember this happening before. I will not be silent. Their hatred has no place here-this is not the Nassau I know. Who else will speak up?»
- https://www.quora.com/Did-fascism-start-as-left-wing-but-become-more-right-wing-over-time/answer/Shayn-McCallum
12/13 Mon
- https://www.eater.com/22823035/union-organizing-fast-food-chains-chipotle
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gqgp/mouse-mover-jiggler-app-keep-screen-on-active
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/10/2068642/-Florida-man-faces-15-years-after-violent-threats-to-powerful-women - right-wing violence
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-gop-2022-threat_n_61b06df0e4b07c4c95c4dd9e
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-democratic-party-ad-2022_n_61b2fc78e4b068effec861c5 -- commercial using Gaetz's prediction against him
- Thom Tillis: OpenSecrets
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-liberals-believe-in-the-things-they-support/answer/Michael-Barnard-14
12/14 Tue
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22826114/takedown-notices-online-thrift-shops-copyright-trademark - copyright abuse (probably)
- https://twitter.com/jonasgoonface/status/1470109582315900936?s=21 - cartoon about an event during the Kellogg's strike
12/15 Wed
- global warming:
- https://www.nrdc.org/stories/these-photographs-show-how-rising-sea-connects-us-all - global
- https://www.nrdc.org/stories/can-miami-beach-hold-its-ground-against-king-tides - US/FL/Miami Beach
- https://www.nrdc.org/stories/carolinas-face-climate-trifecta-floods-fire-and-heat - US/Carolinas
- https://www.nrdc.org/stories/climate-change-floods-north-carolinas-housing-market - US/NC
- https://www.nrdc.org/stories/people-isle-jean-charles-are-louisianas-first-climate-refugees-they-wont-be-last - US/LA
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832647/tornadoes-science-behind-climate-change - higher temps means more tornadoes
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/12/14/1918216/her-instagram-handle-was-metaverse-last-month-it-vanished - more corporate theft from the social commons
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/13/2069034/-Dolly-Parton-told-President-Trump-to-go-away-twice
- Foxmas tree fire
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-18th-century-gay-bar-survived-and-thrived-in-a-deadly-environment - LGBTQ history
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-hes-deeply-troubled-224949294.html - Kellogg's strike
- https://therealnews.com/inflation-panic-is-the-new-deficit-hawkery
- https://therealnews.com/rights-groups-decry-farcical-and-corrupt-verdict-as-myanmars-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison
- https://therealnews.com/cops-tried-to-tase-him-during-a-routine-traffic-stop-but-a-video-turned-the-tables
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/elephants-poaching-war-tusklessness/620447/
12/16 Thu
- https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article256075082.html - Hayti, Durham, NC; urban removal; gentrification
- https://www.thenation.com/article/society/taxi-driver-strike/
- https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064598531/the-fda-could-permanently-lift-some-restrictions-on-abortion-pills «Before the coronavirus pandemic, doctors could prescribe the pills only to patients who were able to pick them up in person. But in response to COVID-19, the Biden administration suspended that requirement, allowing them to be mailed to patients instead. The decision by the FDA on Thursday makes that change permanent.»
12/17 Fri
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-critical-race-theory-training-schools-corporate-america
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-clockwork-universe-is-free-will-an-illusion -- again, which definition of free will are they using?
- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/15/biden-manchin-megabill-524776 - Manchin seems to be the holdup with Build Back Better
12/18 Sat
- https://www.essence.com/culture/bell-hooks-books/ bell hooks
- https://medium.com/history-of-women/the-woman-who-helped-debunk-a-fatal-covid-19-misconception-a5679b96eb5d -- COVID-19
- references this article - https://web.archive.org/web/20210603022358/https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ - which apparently is widely referenced by epidemiologists as being accurate
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/dominion-defamation-suit-against-fox-gets-go-ahead-from-judge
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-white-house-made-deliberate-efforts-undermine-covid-response-report-n1286211
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869.Nickel_and_Dimed - poverty in America
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069593/-MyPillow-guy-says-he-s-spent-25-million-trying-to-prove-Trump-won-the-election-Trump-lost
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/17/2069688/-Boris-Johnson-suffers-massive-by-election-upset
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069581/-South-Dakota-governor-reminds-us-she-hasn-t-forgotten-her-mission-to-keep-trans-girls-out-of-sports
- https://revealnews.org/article/dc-police-tried-to-fire-24-current-officers-for-criminal-offenses/
- https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/fox-news-fake-images-seattle/
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/12/17/2222250/amazon-driver-was-warned-shed-be-fired-for-returning-with-packages-during-a-tornado - worker endangerment
- 2021-12-03 How PragerU Creates Transphobia (in Trans-Affirming Folks) (video, 56:32, Jesse Gender)
- https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant/status/1472276669247500297 - solution-aversion as a barrier to solutions
12/19 Sun
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g - how extreme wealth leads to empty living spaces
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/19/sen-joe-manchin-says-he-wont-vote-for-bidens-build-back-better-act.html - does Manchin honestly believe BBBA will add to the national debt? If so, he's a twit. So either he's a twit or he's lying.
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-manchin-privately-told-colleagues-104509135.html - turns out both are true: «Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children...»
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/17/pfizer-executives-say-covid-could-become-endemic-by-2024.html
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sarah-palin-covid-fauci-vaccine-mandates-b1979014.html
- https://twitter.com/independent/status/1472637957576314886?s=21 - isn't that kind of literally "asking for it"?
12/20 Mon
- https://www.quora.com/How-did-Iran-turn-from-a-modern-developed-country-into-a-corrupt-underdeveloped-stink/answer/Toma%C5%BE-Vargazon - parallel between Iran and US, Khomeini and Trump «Iran had a liberal elite centered in large cities who gave the country a modern, vibrant vibe. It also had a rural majority that was religious, conservative and outraged at the liberal elites. Ayatolah Khomeini did not change Iran, he merely empowered the rural and religious folks to take up arms and explain to the liberals in cities their ways were mistaken and they would have to follow their rules from now on - at gunpoint, if needed be.»
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/betrayed-house-progressives-erupt-over-manchin-build-back-better-opposition-n1286287
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/and-now-for-the-good-news-about-omicron.html
12/21 Tue
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/21/sexual-harassmentin-my-own-back-yard/ - sexual predators in positions of power get rewarded
- History of the cooperative movement
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/verizon-ignored-users-previous-opt-outs-in-latest-push-to-scan-web-browsing/
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/20/2070233/-Anchorage-s-anti-vaxxer-mayor-lies-about-turning-off-city-s-fluoridation-system-for-several-hours
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/20/2070368/-Pictures-Antivaxxers-Must-See - what SARS-CoV-2 actually does to your lungs
- https://grist.org/business-technology/none-of-the-worlds-top-industries-would-be-profitable-if-they-paid-for-the-natural-capital-they-use/
- https://twitter.com/bctgm/status/1473316163635580936?s=21 - Kellogg's strike ends successfully
- 2007-04-25 Misquoting Jesus in the Bible - Professor Bart D. Ehrman
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29637686 - a problematic debate methodology. bubble argument?
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069578/-Did-Jimmy-Carter-really-get-lowered-into-a-nuclear-reactor-to-help-save-Canada-Hell-yes-he-did - apparently his inability to pronounce "nuclear" was not an indication of his level of knowledge on the subject
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/14/2069228/-Truck-driver-sentenced-to-110-years-in-jail-for-fiery-accident-that-killed-four-too-much - examples of judicial malfunction
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/20/2070366/-In-rural-precincts-right-wing-extremists-wage-a-campaign-of-intimidation-against-the-mainstream
- https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107488003000321712 - could it be that Jack Dorsey is sincere?
12/22 Wed
- the current right-wing push for an Article V constitutional convention:
- https://www.gastongazette.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/04/08/https-www-gastongazette-com-story-news-2021-03-29-nc-house-speaker-tim-moore-backs-convention-term-l/7147221002/
- https://www.aucd.org/docs/BBA%20Constitutional%20Convention%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf (no date)
- https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/TR/Transcripts/2019_0134_0021_TSTMNY.pdf - Mark Meckler's 2019 testimony
- https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-movement-nears-success/
- https://www.newsweek.com/mark-meckler-addresses-critics-parler-convention-states-1579629
- Manchin vs. BBBA:
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/business/coal-miners-joe-manchin/index.html - coal miners want him to support it
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-said-manchin-going-something-211822447.html
- 2021-12-08 Let's talk about the thing we missed in Crenshaw's speech....: what to be afraid of, and who to blame for it
- https://twitter.com/sara__pequeno/status/1473056750605680643 - holiday mass eviction in Durham
- https://twitter.com/javiera4durham/status/1473753307390824461?s=21 - except not (but it's not clear whether they might still be evicted after that)
- https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/100-of-duke-health-patients-in-icu-or-on-life-saving-treatment-are-unvaccinated-hospital-cases-rising/20045587/
12/23 Thu
- https://twitter.com/ladydoctorsays/status/1473750964398030848?s=21 - good thread on trickle-down economics (scroll down)
- https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35003571/trump-health-appointee-we-want-them-infected/ - Trumpco mishandling of COVID was an incredibly bad but deliberate strategy
- https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-churches-house-the-homeless/answer/Adrienne-Kern-McClintock
- https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/madison-cawthorn-divorce/ «Earlier this week, Cawthorn told a group of young conservatives that they should drop out of college and get married young.»
- https://www.propublica.org/article/the-dirty-secret-of-americas-clean-dishes - BASF, corporate environmental abuse, Cascade dishwasher detergent
- https://thehill.com/changing-america/video/529879-loop-rolls-out-reusable-packaging-system-with-aim-to-revolutionize - environmentalism as a profit-center
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59764029 - Tiananmen Square massacre, China/anti-dissent
- https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/guarantee-clause/ - «âThe United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..."» - meaning that if any state (such as Wisconsin) is taken over by a faction which deprives the citizens of their right to vote, the federal government has the right to intervene. Article also gives a summary-list of what's in The Freedom To Vote Act
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/the-truth-about-joe-manchin-and-build-back-better.html - basically, it sounds like he's betting more on his coal-business supporters than on his actual constituents
12/24 Fri
- Amazon settlement:
- https://twitter.com/laurenkgurley/status/1474077932188364802?s=21
- https://twitter.com/laurenkgurley/status/1474079358310486017?s=21
- https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1473765015689863176 - Amazon deaths coverup (video)
- https://twitter.com/paulmgoyette/status/1473649193734574081 - 12/22 walkout
- https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/1474154949927968770 - the scammyness of NFTs
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/24/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-tofire-the-police/ - police accidentally kill bystander when aiming at unarmed suspect
- Jesse Watters vs. Anthony Fauci:
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/fauci-fox-news-should-fire-host-who-urged-interview-kill-shot-in-ambush-deadly/ - conservoidspeak: "taken out of context" means "taken into a context where people don't agree with it"
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-22/fauci-calls-for-fox-news-host-jesse-watters-sacking/100720590
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/joe-biden-filibuster-voting-rights/index.html
- https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/ - mob psychology as a weapon
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hESLPB3FiyY (2018) - big think is apparently associated with the Charles Koch Foundation
- That said, this mostly seems on target -- except for a bit of "both sides"ism around partisan media bubbles, and "we don't have the budgetary space to give everyone a tax break". Seems to be anti-globalism, but only puts the lens on certain aspects of globalism (wars and immigration), ignoring the main problem (offshoring). Also, during the first half, he seems to be acknowledging that immigrant phobia is unreasonable, but during the second half he seems to be arguing that the solution is to cut immigration.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfWv0EnHQw (2017) - liberals are to blame for creating the market for Trump, says Van Jones. Liberals wrongly think their news sources are more accurate than conservoid news sources (this is incorrect).
- Contract With America
12/25 Sat
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/23/christmas-weather-forecast-heat-wave/9007814002/
- https://apnews.com/article/florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-ku-klux-klan-fa0ec4120b1457f56c527108074795b5
- https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-project-veritas-legal-memo-charles-wood-first-amendment-2021-12
- https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/21/ukraine-front-line-russia-war-525804
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/23/puerto-rico-agroecology-farmers [regwall]
12/26 Sun
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-claims-trump-defended-covid-vaccine-because-hes-too-old-to-understand-the-internet
- https://nabig-conference-website.webflow.io/ - UBI
- https://getpocket.com/collections/tracking-the-escalation-of-the-la-riots - history, 1992, Los Angeles
- 2021-11-30 David Frum On Why Trump-Russia Wasn't A Hoax (video, MSNBC/Morning Joe, 09:46)
- https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-give-the-homeless-a-place-to-stay/answer/TerryLynn-Zempel - unfortunately, this seems all too likely.
- People do take in homeless people, and sometimes it works out -- but this is the kind of risk you run. This is why we need systemic solutions, not individual charity.
12/27 Mon
- https://www.wral.com/residents-at-durham-apartment-complex-relieved-to-learn-they-won-t-be-evicted/20050943/ Braswell Properties
12/28 Tue
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/27/2071394/-Something-just-doesn-t-add-up-with-Madison-Cawthorn-s-story-of-how-he-met-his-soon-to-be-ex-wife
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/28/2071398/-Ex-Arizona-teacher-peddles-white-nationalist-homeschool-curriculum-to-fight-anti-white-propaganda - wow. More and more blatant.
12/29 Wed
- https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rqkpub/employer_mistreating_employees/ - wage theft in Durham
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wz5a/people-got-sick-at-a-conspiracy-conference-theyre-sure-its-anthrax
12/30 Thu
- https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/article250944639.html - Disaster Girl: yes, Virginia, NFTs can return a portion of subsequent sales to the original artist.
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/dr-oz-senate-pennsylvania.html - Dr. Oz, 2022 elections
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-23/shopify-amazon-retail-rivalry-heats-up-with-covid-sparked-online-shopping-booma
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/oregon-secession-idaho-move-border/621087/
- Gaetz & Bannon takeover plans:
- https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-steve-bannon-shock-troops/
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10298051/Matt-Gaetz-Steve-Bannon-Discuss-Raising-4-000-Shock-Troops-Trump-wins-2024.html
- https://www.newsweek.com/bannon-gaetz-call-shock-troops-take-control-government-if-trump-returns-24-1657916
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/28/2071549/-Anti-vaxxers-take-over-a-Burger-King-and-yes-it-s-even-more-ridiculous-than-it-sounds
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/28/1625498/-Anti-vaxx-Chronicles-Pure-blood-gunslinger-dies-family-member-threatens-hospital-with-violence - don't these people realize they sound like the villains in Harry Potter?
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/28/2071563/--They-chased-him-13-year-old-boy-dies-after-police-tried-to-stop-him-for-riding-a-dirt-bike
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/28/2071541/-Rand-Paul-makes-an-ass-of-himself-accusing-Dems-of-stealing-elections-by-mobilizing-voters - Rand Paul vs. democracy
- https://anticapitalism.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-Are-liberals-communists-answer-Jonah-Wood-8 - liberalism vs. communism/socialism
- 2021-12-24 Trump dismantles REPUBLICAN pundit during her OWN interview (video, 08:01, Brian Tyler Cohen)
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/29/apple-foxconn-india/ - Apple: always keeping ethics in their thoughts (not)
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/shining-light-black-box-technology-used-send-people-jail-2021-year-review
- https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1476680247785529344 - what's outrageous is (a) conservoids complaining about social underspending, and (b) complaining about underspending on a plan that was only just passed into law a week or two ago and is ten years long.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/29/1840084/-Anti-vaxx-Chronicles-Husband-wife-team-put-their-faith-in-Jesus-mocked-science - anti-vax conspiracy memes; COVID schadenfreude
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/a-federal-ban-on-surprise-medical-bills-takes-effect-jan-1.html - the No Surprises Act
12/31 Fri
- https://xtramagazine.com/culture/dave-chappelle-transphobia-closer-210159 - more about Dave Chapelle
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/29/2055048/-As-subpoenas-arrive-for-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-s-inner-circle-she-rants-on-Twitter-about-BLM - more Jan6-equvalencing
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/11/2057458/-Anti-vaxxers-yelling-at-school-kids-get-a-response-they-weren-t-expecting
- https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/nc-covid-cases-reach-record-high-on-new-years-eve-as-omicron-surges/