Issuepedia:Filing Room/to file/2020

January

01/01 (Wed)

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/01/australia-is-becoming-a-nation-of-dread-and-the-world-looks-on-with-pity-and-scorn

01/02 (Thu)

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-war-game-that-could-have-ended-the-world - another almost-war that happened right after Petrov Day; Able Archer
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everyone-hates-open-offices-here-s-why-they-still-exist
  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90170941/the-subtle-sexism-of-your-open-plan-office
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/01/new-civil-fosta-lawsuits-push-expansive-legal-theories-against-unexpected-defendants-guest-blog-post.htm
  • https://mastodon.social/@Y3WTREE/103414953814212574
• 2015-03-17 Pulling Back the Curtain on Airport Security: Can a Weapon Get Past TSA?
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/after-turbotax-shenanigans-irs-floats-possibility-of-offering-rival-service/

AU fire crisis

• Australia bushfires: Traffic jam as thousands flee "tourist leave zone" - but I guess we're not supposed to call it a "climate emergency" because that might hurt the conservatives' feelings
  • one comment:

How dumb are you people?

It is NOT global warming that caused this. It was the green activists who made it law for Australians not to be allowed to clear the overburden of dry wood that builds up every year. A man started this fire, he has been arrested.. he was trying to ‘protect his marijuana plants’ by burning 5000 acres and then when the wind picked up it was unstoppable.

You people are delusional.

• a little research finds that "According to Scientific American, the link between the 2019 extreme bushfire season and anthropogenic climate change is scientifically undisputable."
  • 2019-12-31 Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
  • 2019-11-12 Factcheck: Is there really a green conspiracy to stop bushfire hazard reduction? - No.
    • "Blaming 'greenies' for stopping these important measures is a familiar, populist, but basically untrue claim." - Greg Mullins, former NSW fire and rescue commissioner
    • The Greens have never been in power, so how could they have set policy?
    • The Greens support what the claim says they oppose.
  • NSW government has an entire web site about climate change, Understand climate change: "Temperature and rainfall fluctuate greatly, with large variability in seasonal and regional climatic conditions bringing heatwaves, storms, droughts, floods and bushfires, which can have devastating effects on the environment, human life and property."
• The propaganda:
  • 2019-11-12 Barnaby Joyce defends comments that fire victims were likely Greens voters
  • 2019-03-05 Green ideology, not climate change, makes bushfires worse - but they don't link to any sources, or even provide any quotes, for "green ideology"
    • is that VFFD even real? The two known VFDs for NSW are Template:L/mw and Fire and Rescue NSW

01/03 (Fri)

• Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention: an example of how large endeavors go awry because people can't agree on things -- even without disinformation being injected
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/03/i-thought-the-soy-boy-nonsense-had-run-its-course/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103420783196593032
• https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_3615c6d58cbd56d14338a9358d1d8900

01/04 (Sat)

• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn

01/05 (Sun)

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-surprising-reason-people-change-their-minds - implications for InstaGov
• https://www.vox.com/world/2020/1/3/21047989/iran-general-killed-qassem-soleimani-world-war-3
• https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/education/magnet-schools-college-admissions-scandal-booker-t-dallas/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909418/-Mike-Pence-demonstrates-vividly-just-how-much-contempt-he-holds-for-the-American-public - includes a bit of 9/11 non-trivia
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909376/-Trump-was-presented-multiple-options-in-Iraq-He-chose-them-all-including-the-worst
• https://twitter.com/tommchenry/status/1203425292188041216 - "proud to honor" cartoon, authoritarian followership
• Man gets history lesson after moaning about a woman fighting with a sword in The Witcher - Andrew Klavan
  • https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1213869014377586688
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/4/1909410/-Putin-is-Not-Happy-With-His-Puppet
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/5/1909531/-Top-Iranian-adviser-says-Iran-will-respond-militarily-to-death-of-Soleimani-calls-this-a-war

01/06 (Mon)

• https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/what-caused-opioid-epidemic/604330/ - seems likely it's both job-loss and pharma-driven overprescription
• https://www.newsweek.com/nathan-pyle-abortion-controversy-strange-planet-comic-twitter-tweet-alien-1392353 - this seems to have the most info on the whole Nathan-Pyle-pro-life drama
  • https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/strange-planet-nathan-pyle-christian-beliefs-tweet/
• https://myasstodon.xyz/@Bashabez/103437131467067408 - comments on a Bernie Sanders town hall & native Americans
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909714/-Pelosi-announces-war-powers-resolution-as-Trump-tries-to-bypass-Congress-and-start-war-with-Iran
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/3/1909069/-Virginia-governor-asks-legislature-to-remove-traitor-s-statue-from-U-S-Capitol
• https://therealnews.com/stories/iraqi-protesters-storm-the-american-embassy-in-baghdad-but-theres-more-to-the-story
• https://therealnews.com/columns/soleimanis-assassination-brings-us-closer-to-war-with-iran
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909740/-Republicans-try-to-use-Trump-s-Iran-conflict-to-derail-impeachment-because-of-course
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/5/1909619/-Pompeo-Awaiting-the-Rapture-Pushed-Trump-to-Strike-Iranian-General-Soleimani
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909746/-Defense-Secretary-s-chief-of-staff-tenders-resignation-as-Trump-team-moves-towards-war
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/us-allies-trump-suleimani-killing-reaction-response
  • https://toot.cat/@garbados/103438861258231968
  • https://toot.cat/@garbados/103439209399793680 - correction
• https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1214297036566253571 - us troop withdrawal announcement was a clerical error
• https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1214246027127119872 - private equity and the coming crash
  • https://toot.cat/@garbados/103438815127067475
• http://www.thehofellerfiles.com/
  • https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pked4v/the-anarchist-daughter-of-the-gops-gerrymandering-mastermind-just-dumped-all-his-maps-and-files-on-google-drive
  • https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/gops-worst-nightmare.html

01/07 (Tue)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/01/04/1909360/-What-Would-Our-World-Be-Like-Today-If-Exxon-Had-Told-The-TruthA-Case-Of-Failed-Leadership
• https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/us-iran-soleimani-tensions-intl-01-07-20

01/08 (Wed)

• 2020 Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Iraq
• https://splinternews.com/meet-the-woke-misogynist-1793859082
  • https://twitter.com/thomthomastoo/status/1214919223153242113
• https://twitter.com/RayBoomhower/status/1212691781680283648 “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/05/alarming-iranian-americans-reportedly-detained-asked-about-political-views-us-border
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/6/1909734/-Dozens-of-Iranian-Americans-returning-home-from-Canada-detained-interrogated-by-U-S-border-agents
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1910005/-Elizabeth-Warren-shuts-down-Meghan-McCain-s-whiny-Republican-talking-point-nonsense
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1910019/-Donald-Trump-talked-with-Saudi-officials-about-Iran-and-why-didn-t-we-know-that
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/7/1909976/-Assassinating-Soleimani-was-illogical-and-will-of-course-backfire-on-America

01/09 (Thu)

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-disability-benefits_n_5e14b935c5b6c7b859d17b97
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910255/-Trump-administration-proposes-rule-to-punish-disabled-people
• https://threader.app/thread/1214891868451938304 - a very plausible theory about what's going on, and how to fight it
• https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms - disinformation
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910217/-Why-Trump-s-revealing-that-the-United-States-is-developing-hypersonic-missiles-is-a-very-big-deal
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910265/-After-insulting-briefing-at-least-two-Republican-senators-to-vote-to-limit-Trump-s-Iran-actions
• https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/amazon-threatens-to-fire-employees-who-speak-out-on-climate-change.html - more suppression of climate speech
• http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/ - capitalist "innovation" is parasitical
• https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers
  • https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/cwa-launches-new-initiative-in-support-of-organizing-tech-and-game-workers
    • https://www.code-cwa.org/contact-organizer
• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
• https://www.outsports.com/2019/12/18/21028032/new-hampshire-washington-georgia-tennessee-missouri-restrict-transgender-athletes-sports

01/10 (Fri)

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/misleading-political-ads-are-the-users-problem-to-avoid-facebook-says/ - errorism by Facebook & the Trump administration: "Our ads are always accurate, so it's good that Facebook won't limit political messages." If their ads are always accurate, they would want inaccurate ads from their competition to be checked. (Also, note the co-opting of liberal terminology: "more involved in the process", "voter suppression", "uneven playing field".)
  • https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1215641461464731648
• https://twitter.com/fodderfigure/status/1215641761902747649 - actual autistic people do not overwhelmingly prefer "person-first language", though a few do prefer it. Workers should ask what the individual prefers.
• https://twitter.com/MAGAIsDead/status/1214709952775892993 - Trump regret
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910433/-Former-Trump-housekeeper-slams-Ivanka-Trump-s-pro-immigrant-talk-Like-her-father-she-is-a-liar
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910465/-Governor-under-fire-after-predicting-a-black-senator-will-launch-a-thousand-years-of-darkness
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/9/1910459/-Pete-Buttigieg-s-race-problems-are-a-lot-worse-than-anyone-outside-South-Bend-thought
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/10/1910517/-AZ-s-own-Republican-snowflake-wages-war-on-sex-education-and-the-word-homosexuality

01/11 (Sat)

• https://www.pinterest.com/pin/629659591639136706/ "Kaylen Ward has reportedly raised more than $700,000 in just two days after she asked fans to give $10 to charity in exchange for nudes"
• me on Facebook:

CNN, Jan 10: "Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani..." https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tech/instagram-iran-soleimani-posts/index.html

Me, Jan. 7: The US attack on General Soleimani disgusts me. We are a rogue nation now, and deserve any retaliation we get. Unfortunately, the troops are bearing the brunt and they largely do not deserve to have been put in the position they're in, following the orders of our insane leader. https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1214723434942533633

(Once again, the Right's silence on this proves that they only care about "free speech" when it's *their* speech being suppressed. #errorism)

• https://twitter.com/shava23/status/1215825286744330240 - false claim against AOC debunked
• https://www.quora.com/q/gmxbrurjysxqbumi - South Africa, pollution, Eskom, coal power
• https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-trade-war-is-making-lobbyists-rich-and-slamming-small-businesses - more Trump regret
  • https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1216112551177719808
• https://www.georgetakei.com/bruce-griffey-trans-sports-bill-2644666240.html - transmisia, errorism
  • https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1216160867949203456

01/12 (Sun)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/10/1910796/-Rachel-Maddow-Rips-NY-Times-on-Hillary-Coverage
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/college-wealth-premium-collapsed/604579/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/tax-patriarchy/601864/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/why-financial-confessionals-viral/600358/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/cancel-billionaires/599587/ - "A growing body of economic and political-science research demonstrates that Gilded Age–type inequality does not just mean having too many with too little. It is warping the very social fabric of the country, stifling mobility, innovation, investment, and growth, and putting the country at political risk." "Wealth inequality, in other words, is an anti-democratic force."
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/17/1644618/-The-photo-of-a-regretful-Trump-supporter-is-going-viral-on-Twitter-on-Donald-s-own-playing-field - more Trump regret
• http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html - global warming/effects/expected
• https://twitter.com/xenophrenia/status/1216812707535577088 - Elizabeth Warren smears Bernie Sanders?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs - climate denialism in Erik the Viking

01/14 (Tue)

• https://longreads.com/2020/01/10/the-price-of-dominionist-theology/
• https://boingboing.net/2020/01/14/dead-on-arrival-2.html
  • https://hub.toot.cat/display/b64.ODYxYzQ2NTAxOTU4MDEzODBjYmMwMDUwNTYyNjQ4MzU
• https://marker.medium.com/the-man-whos-spending-1-billion-to-own-every-pop-song-75df0024155b
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-life-of-einstein-s-first-wife - erasure of women

01/15 (Wed)

• https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796329598/cancelling-student-debt-is-easier-than-it-sounds
  • https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1217256351698706432
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/103488056328062755
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1910907/-Australian-fires-may-have-opened-the-gates-of-hell-by-changing-the-globe-s-climate-patterns
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/14/1911575/-I-Wrote-My-Senator-Requesting-a-Fair-Impeachment-Trail-with-Witnesses-etc-Here-s-his-reply
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/2/1908694/-It-s-degenerative-dementia-as-well-as-malignant-narcissism-And-the-public-tipping-point-is-coming -- actually, I don't think he is changing the subject; he just started on one rote thing and then realized it was inappropriate and segued to a related rote topic. This doesn't prove he's demented; he just doesn't care about coming across as sane.
  • That said, the preponderance of small bits of supporting evidence is starting to make a good case.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911693/-Kentucky-mom-says-Christian-school-expelled-daughter-over-photo-with-rainbow-cake-and-sweater - yes, Virginia, homomisia is still a thing

01/16 (Thu)

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/15/warren-sanders-debate-audio-transcript
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/12/iran-middle-eastern-problem-soleimani-figured-out-097350
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911841/-Wisconsin-Court-of-Appeals-reverses-course-on-voter-purge
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/15/1911539/-Democrats-file-ethics-complaint-over-Republican-trackers-roaming-House-halls
• https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/the-costs-of-inequality-increasingly-its-the-rich-and-the-rest/
• https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1210269371928580096 - homomisia is still a thing
• https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1209200245181222912 - good criticism of UBI
• https://twitter.com/ToddVierling/status/1197721567708536833 - anti-transition bill in SC
• https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/12/politics/oregon-joins-national-popular-vote-compact/index.html
• https://www.businessinsider.com/what-us-cities-looked-like-before-epa-regulated-pollution-2019-8?
• https://www.facebook.com/dasmith88/posts/10218622104637458 - pro-Trump denialism in the comments
• https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/08/06/30-years-ago-day-middle-class-died
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911814/-As-the-far-right-prepares-for-a-Boogaloo-Virginia-governor-declares-emergency
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911747/-Racist-dog-whistle-sounded-to-justify-having-homeless-moms-stormed-evicted-from-vacant-Oakland-home
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911941/-David-Attenborough-Warns-We-Have-Reached-Moment-of-Crisis-on-Global-Warming
• https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html
  • https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/against-the-cult-of-apple.html
    • https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/103489391348876832
• https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-death/283685/ -- repeats the "Google+ is an identity service" lie
  • https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103495991605519833

01/17 (Fri)

• https://twitter.com/catdana2/status/1215617610840268800 -- ad requesting fake supporters for Trump rally
• https://abcnews.go.com/Health/single-payer-save-country-money-health-care-costs/story - we already knew this, but here it is again
  • https://www.facebook.com/kayashley/posts/10156923212051931

01/18 (Sat)

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/18/only-stupid-hurtful-memes-about-trans-people-are-allowed/ - the whole "Identify as an Attack Helicopter" fiction kerfuffle
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103504479598278906
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912205/-Do-not-adjust-your-radio-We-are-controlling-transmission-Russian-propaganda-buys-hours-of-time - "conservatism" is now literally rebroadcasting Russian propaganda
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912142/-I-just-read-Leonnig-and-Rucker-s-Wash-Post-article-four-times-and-I-wish-all-of-you-could-read-it
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912176/-New-info-emerges-explaining-why-Tillerson-called-Trump-a-f-ing-moron
• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/trump-remorseless-advocate-crimes-against-humanity.html
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-home-of-the-transactional-marriage
  • https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465042333 "Losing Ground (by Charles Murray) argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities."
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomsday-glacier
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/13/1910718/-Not-OK-Racists-cynically-market-hate-by-hijacking-mainstream-symbolism

01/20 (Mon)

• https://twitter.com/voodoo_soviet/status/1218610820197834752/photo/1 - violent eviction in Palm Beach
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911926/-Rand-Paul-threatens-fellow-Republicans-if-they-vote-against-an-impeachment-trial-cover-up
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/20/flying-homosexual-chemtrail-fire-ants/ - insane right-wing site
  • http://liberaldarkness.com/2015/08/04/swarms-of-flying-homosexual-chemtrail-fire-ants-are-coming-for-england/
• https://mastodon.cloud/@FerdiZ/103518231663076977 - legality is not a good guide to morality
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extinction-rebellion-greenpeace-cnd-counter-terror-prevent-document-a9289476.html

01/21 (Tue)

• https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/41
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/103521409024550468
• https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/500m-People-Worldwide-Struggle-to-Find-Adequate-Paid-Work-Study-20200120-0008.html
• https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/15/the-myth-of-self-reliance/ - self-reliance
• https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZK1CT
  • https://mstdn.io/@deutrino/103521563801608956
• https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48885846 - NO/prison system (aka Norwegian prison system)
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/exit-interview-i-was-a-black-female-thru-hiker-on-the-appalachian-trail - racism: still not dead

01/22 (Wed)

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/22/now-im-physically-incapable-of-seeing-richard-jewell-because-of-all-the-projectile-vomiting/ - George Zimmerman, American Thinker
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103527885632321638
• https://www.burnsfordurham.com/
• Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment prior to European contact
  • https://myasstodon.xyz/@Bashabez/103529333054432153
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/21/1913060/-Lindsey-Graham-s-2020-opponent-releases-impeachment-statement-using-Lindsey-Graham-s-own-exact-quote - Republican hypocrisy (again), Lindsey Graham

01/23 (Thu)

• https://news.sky.com/story/simon-pegg-tax-millionaires-more-to-tackle-inequality-11915551 - the rich are saying "please tax us" in increasing numbers
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/23/wwii-was-comprehensible-as-adaptations-of-the-lineages-in-question-christ/ - Darwinian reductionism
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103534099652015451
• Prison time for Insys bosses puts opioid makers on notice
  • https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103535294935620498
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133265
• https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/23/health/transgender-puberty-blockers-suicide-study/index.html
  • https://girlcock.club/@maeve/103535362958493561
• https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078903/podcast-house-antitrust-chairman-cicilline-tech-monopoly-vergecast

01/24 (Fri)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913562/-Ocasio-Cortez-dismisses-calls-for-civility-I-feel-a-need-for-all-of-us-to-breathe-fire
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913482/-Indiana-Legislators-Propose-Making-Abortion-Murder-Arresting-Judges-Who-Strike-Down-Law - Curt Nisly
  • "The proposed new law, in an apparent attempt to thwart any constitutional challenges, proclaims that the state will ignore any federal rulings striking down the law."
  • "under the new law, the very act of trying to undermine the legislation now becomes a crime."
  • So much for free speech under the GOP.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913522/-Bank-calls-police-on-black-man-trying-to-deposit-checks-from-racial-discrimination-settlement - but racism is over
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913555/-Update-Navajos-Apaches-Working-to-Deny-Trump-Arizona-s-11-Electoral-Votes
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913532/-Trump-regime-finalizes-move-allowing-pollution-and-destruction-of-wetlands-protected-by-Obama-rule
• https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078828/report-saudi-arabia-hack-jeff-bezos-phone-fti-consulting

01/25 (Sat)

• https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbi - investigation of the 9-11/Saudi Arabia connection
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/25/goodbye-facebook-friends-up-yours-facebook/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103544157700905120
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/25/rainbows-are-so-wicked-and-perverted/ - but we shouldn't be afraid of religion, and also the Right supports free speech
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103544399679516925
• https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/ozone-layer-epa-united-states-pollution/
  • https://toot.cafe/@Alonealastalovedalongthe/103544811766649361
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1913264/--Home-Now-Somali-refugees-forge-new-lives-and-transform-a-dying-Maine-town
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913821/-Mike-Pompeo-got-backed-into-a-corner-about-Marie-Yovanovitch-during-NPR-interview
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913857/-Mike-Pompeo-explodes-after-NPR-interview-rages-harder-after-reporter-is-able-to-find-Ukraine-on-map
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913880/-Evangelical-Christian-s-song-about-the-betrayal-he-feels-from-evangelical-Trump-support-goes-viral

01/26 (Sun)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1913622/-Evangelical-scammers-praise-Trump-for-hastening-the-end-of-the-world-Well-they-re-not-wrong
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/24/1913752/--Right-matters-and-the-truth-matters-Read-Adam-Schiff-s-history-making-impeachment-trial-speech
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/25/1914023/-Pompeo-responds-to-reports-of-rage-filled-tirade-against-reporter-with-lie-filled-statement
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/03/19/1750281/-Former-congressman-says-hes-had-enough,-publicly-resigns-from-the-Republican-party-over-Trump
• https://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Nonprofits-worry-sale-of-dot-org-universe-will-15000509.php "They said in a statement that prices will remain low, the registry's managers will stay in place and the infusion of capital will ensure the long-term growth of dot-org."
  • https://mastodon.social/@eff/103552765348151119

01/27 (Mon)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/26/1914292/-Trump-s-Inner-Mob-Boss-Emerges-with-Alarming-New-Threats-to-Politicians-and-the-Press
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914375/-The-Big-Dog-Problem -- the "big dog" metaphor for handling unwanted privilege in a kind way
• https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
• https://blob.cat/objects/c4d90bdd-c1ea-46d7-9342-ea31efb65ebd - "Reminder that Switzerland dominates world pharmaceuticals because they didn't implement a patent system for medicine while everyone around them did."
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914492/-Washington-Post-suspends-reporter-for-pointing-out-that-Kobe-Bryant-was-not-a-god - WaPo silencing of discussion of rape
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914384/-Why-I-left-Team-Warren-and-why-I-am-back
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914475/--Get-your-facts-straight-Chris-Wallace-gets-testy-with-Fox-News-pundit-s-spin-on-Bolton
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914444/--I-am-now-proudly-a-registered-Democrat-standing-with-the-Constitution-ILeftTheGOP-goes-viral
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-grim-conclusions-of-the-largest-ever-study-of-fake-news
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/103558191996080959

01/28 (Tue)

• temporarily embarrassed millionaires:
  • https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/americans-class-politics-piston
  • http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/ - quote is actually somewhat misattributed -- it's similar to something Steinbeck once wrote, but what's quoted is a paraphrasing of that by someone else in 2004
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/28/china-a-major-polluter-of-the-scientific-literature/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103562134968764951
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/23/1913517/-Anti-trans-bill-that-hurts-both-patients-and-doctors-passes-committee-vote-8-5-in-South-Dakota
  • The bill, known as HB 1057, makes it a misdemeanor crime for physicians (though not nurses or medical assistants) to perform these medical procedures on people under 16 years old. The stakes are high, as the bill argues for the punishment of up to a year in jail and a fine not exceeding $2,000 for doctors, reports The Washington Post. An earlier version of this bill wanted to make it a felony.
  • Mind you, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics just came out today on the topic of transgender youth and puberty blockers. The findings? Transgender youth who are able to access puberty blockers report lower levels of mental health issues, including suicidal ideation.
  • Republican Rep. Fred Deutsch, who sponsored the bill, incorrectly suggests such treatments are "harmful" for youth. He also took to Twitter to suggest this is all about "protecting children."
• https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/we-re-nearing-a-tipping-point-for-renewable-energy-legislators/article_aa524556-7677-5207-9e42-f1e2d3655027.html via"South Carolina state [Republican] Sen. Tom Davis urged the nonprofit groups Conservatives for Clean Energy and Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy to consider what the two states might accomplish in tandem [...] noting that goals would include "breaking down territorial monopolies"..." -- thing to watch for: arguments that regulation causes monopolies, therefore we need less regulation so there can be more competition
  • https://www.cleanenergyconservatives.com/about/our-history/
  • http://www.chambersforinnovation.com/
• https://www.ncwarn.org/2020/01/big-fight-over-duke-monopoly/
• https://www.ncwarn.org/2020/01/lawmakers-utility-reform-plans-would-target-duke-energy-dominion-monopolies/
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/01/28/dishing-out-all-the-dirt/ - Richard Carrier, speech suppression, Lawrence Lessig
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103562262520299796
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/27/1914511/-UH-OH-Trump-s-Favorite-FOX-News-Shills-Admit-He-Extorted-Ukraine-to-Smear-Joe-Biden

01/29 (Wed)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914823/-Anti-Trump-Republican-group-drops-the-most-brutal-ad-of-all-time-against-Full-Trump-AZ-senator

01/30 (Thu)

• https://twitter.com/ThePoke/status/1222828964890189825 - snark about the Brexit bus
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/29/1914970/-Kamala-has-Trump-s-Access-Hollywood-comment-read-into-Impeachment-record-by-Chief-Justice-Roberts

01/31 (Fri)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915083/-Alan-Dershowitz-jumps-in-to-attack-the-ridiculous-theories-of-legal-muttonhead-Alan-Dershowitz
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915171/-Rand-Paul-continues-his-efforts-to-get-the-Ukraine-whistleblower-killed
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/30/1915127/-Why-has-this-not-made-news-Protestors-swarm-the-Senate-Capitol
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915456/-Murkowski-embraces-the-cover-up-In-her-own-words-There-will-be-no-fair-trial-in-the-Senate
• https://www.vox.com/2018/10/22/18009020/transgender-children-teens-transition-detransition-puberty-blocking-medication
  • https://octodon.social/@Lexi/103580625334555340
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/congress-must-stop-graham-blumenthal-anti-security-bill
  • https://mastodon.social/@eff/103580605055036930
  • https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/31/earn-it-act-bill-would-limit-encryption/
  • https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116788/earn-it-act-section-230-lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption
  • https://www.macobserver.com/link/lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption/
  • https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/01/31/210255/a-new-bill-could-punish-web-platforms-for-using-end-to-end-encryption
  • https://pressfrom.info/us/news/science-and-technology/-385091-draft-bill-could-penalize-companies-for-using-end-to-end-encryption.html
    • https://pressfrom.info/us/news/science-and-technology/-364611-congress-warns-tech-companies-take-action-on-encryption-or-we-will.html
    • https://pressfrom.info/us/news/science-and-technology/-364505-facebook-tells-us-attorney-general-it-won-t-remove-encryption-from-its-messaging-apps.html

February

02/01 (Sat)

• https://www.gem.wiki/Main_Page - Global Energy Monitor wiki (offshoot of SourceWatch)

02/03 (Mon)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/3/1916208/-Fascism-rises-Graham-says-Senate-GOP-will-summon-whistleblower-to-expose-how-this-crap-started

02/05 (Wed)

• https://therealnews.com/stories/corporate-democrats-target-sanders-as-his-popularity-rises

02/06 (Thu)

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/06/us-uk-are-in-a-race-to-the-bottom/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103612417037676348

02/07 (Fri)

• https://darkest-timeline.com/@paranoid/102885848775657342 - cartoon explaining how profit is theft
• https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/06/gitlab_sales_women/ - GitLab being problematic again
• https://twitter.com/degendering/status/1225551116101918720 - joingiggle.com uses problematic gender-determination software
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-models-are-running-red-hot-and-scientists-don-t-know-why -- this article keeps talking about temperature-rise projections but never mentions what the time-frame is

02/08 (Sat)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-51413724 - Apple caught slowing down old iPhones
  • https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/20/16800058/apple-iphone-slow-fix-battery-life-capacity - this is a bit more HTYPish, but related
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/6/1917311/-Racist-website-lays-off-staff-because-no-one-wants-to-give-it-money
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/tulsi-gabbard-votes-present-trump-impeachment-articles-n1104301 - Tulsi Gabbard did not vote to impeach
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917330/--He-broke-America-the-meme-about-Mitch-McConnell-s-tombstone-that-keeps-grasping-social-media
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917461/-Susan-Collins-now-a-national-laughingstock-has-concerns
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917546/-GOP-sending-out-fake-Census-mailers-to-trick-Americans-into-handing-over-their-money-data
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-04/no-city-hates-its-landlords-like-berlin-does - why is landlording even a thing in the first place? (...aside from feudalism, I mean)
• https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/07/Second-Raid-Wetsuweten/ - pipelines over people again
  • https://todon.nl/@sionadeer/103622295830364912
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/ - Buttigieg doesn't support whistleblowing
  • https://jorts.horse/@Zero_Democracy/103625491216225532
• https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/yes-free-will-exists/ - presumably the cited items have definitions of free will in them, somewhere?
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/7/1917643/-Carville-gets-it-right - James Carville on the 2020 election
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916988/-Romney-made-history-He-also-changed-the-news-cycle-and-the-anti-GOP-ads-to-come-in-2020
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/1/1915676/-Why-Jonathan-Turley-isn-t-just-wrong-about-the-House-impeachment-but-dangerously-wrong

02/09 (Sun)

• https://www.quora.com/Why-do-evangelicals-like-President-Trump/answer/Ryan-Overbeek-1 - what happened to evangelism in the 1980s/90s, and why they seem to ignore the New Testament
  • https://www.quora.com/After-all-is-said-and-done-what-is-your-biggest-take-away-from-the-fact-that-Donald-Trump-is-the-President-of-the-United-States/answer/Ryan-Overbeek-1 - related
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/02/03/eco-anxiety-is-overwhelming-kids-wheres-line-between-education-alarmism - there's some kind of blame-shifting or subject-shifting going on here, but I'm not exactly sure what. global warming eco-anxiety

02/10 (Mon)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51449739 - more US domestic atrocities
  • https://mastodon.social/@Y3WTREE/103637292257476000
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1917480/-Why-birth-strikes-aren-t-the-right-way-to-end-the-climate-crisis - at least the idea is finally being talked about
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-s-fears-about-vaccines-aren-t-just-about-vaccines - (unread) hopefully this makes my point about lack of transparency, accountability, & patient agency in the medical practice

02/11 (Tue)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51446463 - UK Post Office corruption
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/11/high-court-rules-aboriginal-australians-are-not-aliens-under-the-constitution-and-cannot-be-deported - the fact that this was even a question... :rageface:
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918326/-Mike-Bloomberg-secret-racist-tape-worse-than-you-think
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1917534/-For-shame-Washington-Post-and-all-the-other-reputable-newsgroups-that-misled-the-public-last-week - WaPo badly misrepresents what happened

02/12 (Wed)

• https://www.quora.com/Would-you-allow-your-14-year-old-to-have-a-sleepover-with-their-significant-other-Why/answer/Mel-Kartmazov - how abstinence-based education and other parental attempts to prevent teen sex can backfire
• https://www.liberationnews.org/los-angeles-palestineans-and-supporters-reject-trump-and-netanyahus-joke-of-the-century/
  • https://mastodon.social/@Y3WTREE/103646971339212810
• https://fox59.com/2018/07/31/no-more-snow-days-school-district-replaces-wintry-days-off-with-online-classes/ (region-locked; archive) - this is half a good idea. What do students with no internet do when a storm unexpectedly closes school?
  • https://twitter.com/fox59/status/1024559162800439296
• for CWRE: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MythsAboutGenderRoles
• https://github.com/shinigami-eyes/shinigami-eyes/issues/18 -- good example of a discussion crying out for InstaGov
  • https://twitter.com/NightinGem/status/1227738708306055168 "shin/igami eyes is owned/operated by laurelai bailey..." which is a valid conflict-of-interest point, but then it goes straight into ad hominem

02/13 (Thu)

• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-man-blocked-uk-home-office-passport-brussels-a9332311.html
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/13/senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-stop-trump-launching-illegal-attack-iran

02/14 (Fri)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/13/1919101/-Warren-shreds-Bloomberg-s-economic-mythology - Mike Bloomberg blamed the 2008 economic crisis on the end of redlining
  • Bloomberg once blamed end of 'redlining' for 2008 collapse (archive.is)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/14/1919211/-9-Senate-Democrats-call-on-Barr-to-resign-over-clear-violation-of-your-duty
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/8/1917821/-I-am-a-Black-woman-Trump-and-his-supporters-are-right-Democrats-are-destroying-America - the "America" they're destroying is kinda awful

02/15 (Sat)

• https://stopevictions.network/
• https://twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1228336805638000642 - feminist bookshop explains what they do and why trans women are women
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/Border-Patrol-ICE-Sanctuary-Cities.html
  • https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1228461796610248706
• https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/25/18225011/amy-klobuchar-president-prosecutor-criminal-justice-record
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/15/the-electability-business-is-bernie-sanders-americas-corbyn - Corbyn maybe-accidentally endorsed some anti-Jewish groups [1] [2], but Sanders actually is Jewish and presumably would be too aware to make that kind of mistake (and also can't as easily be accused of anti-Semitism).
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/10/1918166/-Chuck-Todd-sticks-Holocaust-sized-foot-in-his-mouth-when-talking-about-Bernie-Sanders-supporters - but the MSM tried anyway
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/14/1919145/-Oil-flowing-Bible-exposed-as-a-fraud -- "it comes from the Bible" is apparently valid evidence even when the "it" in question is mineral oil
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/appeals-court-seems-poised-to-reverse-landmark-qualcomm-antitrust-ruling/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/15/xi-critic-professor-this-may-be-last-piece-i-write-words-ring-true
  • https://mastodon.social/@natecull/103665604202940169
• http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/pdf.html - Anarchism FAQ book, in PDF (multiple documents)

02/16 (Sun)

• http://rc3.org/2014/08/25/the-difficulty-of-tracking-police-violence/
• http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/richard-feynman-creates-a-simple-method-for-telling-science-from-pseudoscience-1966.html - another method for solving the science/demarcation problem besides falsifiability: the jargonless explanation
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/103671713914368983

02/17 (Mon)

• https://myunwantedexistenceblog.wordpress.com/ Trans woman dealing with unsuccessful transition commits suicide by jumping in front of train - this was her suicide note
  • archive.is, archive.org of an earlier entry
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919697/-The-Unforgivable-Sins-of-Elizabeth-Warren
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919687/-Documentarian-Ken-Burns-warned-Trump-s-rise-would-be-Hitler-esque-here-s-what-else-he-predicted
• https://twitter.com/systemantix/status/1229458023925604352 - school is prison
• Fraud Case in Charleston, S.C., Shines Light on Web’s Dark Corners - sounds like all he did was sell VPNs, and he needed a way to get more IPv4 addresses...
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/17/reality-winner-nsa-whistleblower-russian-hacking-report-petition-clemency
• https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229054383540887555
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919814/-Ted-Cruz-commits-vasectomy-related-epic-self-own
    • The logic of the trolling is iffy -- but it seems telling that the "pro-life" side didn't come back with a firm statement of principle (i.e. they might be against unwanted pregnancies, at least in theory, but they're not in favor of mandatory sterilization)
• Medicare for All
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919769/-John-Oliver-DESTROYED-every-argument-against-M4A-tonight
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z2XRg3dy9k

02/18 (Tue)

• Sustainalytics chief: 'We are past the time of voluntary disclosures'
  • https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103680229333699723
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4270282/Sydney-200-000-homes-foreign-investors-blamed.html - empty homes + homelessness
  • https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community/community-support/homelessness/street-count
  • https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/thousands-of-empty-homes-adding-to-sydneys-housing-crisis-experts-say-20160323-gnpc52.html
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-11/sydney-apartment-market-hit-by-ghost-tower-phenomenon/11193132
• https://www.nhsforsale.info/
• https://myasstodon.xyz/@emsenn/103680258808761541 - voter intimidation
• Supreme Inequality – behind the unjust agenda of America’s highest court: book review
  • https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103680637948114015
• http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html - advertising is a cancer on society
  • https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103678701621387963
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/18/1920090/-Evening-Shade-We-Still-Have-a-Koch-Problem - Koch-related front groups
• federal judge intervention:
  • 2020-02-17 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919941/-Federal-Judges-May-Stage-an-Intervention
  • 2020-02-18 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/18/1919966/-Federal-judges-call-emergency-meeting-to-address-deepening-crisis-for-the-justice-system
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919899/-For-Republicans-in-Trump-s-cover-up-it-wasn-t-about-heads-on-pikes-it-was-all-about-the-money
• https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/banning-the-ability-to-evict-tenants-without-reason-could-be-final-straw-for-landlords-real-estate-institute-of-new-zealand.html - gee, maybe housing shouldn't be a for-profit business in the first place.
  • https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/1229547322620743681
• https://twitter.com/CorRaven/status/1229644582473715712 "If I spent one night as a patient in the hospitals I send my patients to; I'd be financially ruined."

02/19 (Wed)

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ - argues that primaries should let elites decide the vote
• https://twitter.com/Portaldrop/status/1229877780164177922 - Catholic student sit-in protesting firing of LGBT teachers
• https://www.upworthy.com/former-president-jimmy-carter-built-a-solar-farm-in-his-hometown-and-now-it-powers-half-of-the-city
• https://theslot.jezebel.com/maybe-we-shouldnt-nominate-a-billionaire-who-describes-1841778055 “If you go to the middle of the country, people would say, ‘If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,’” Bloomberg says in the video. “They care about healthcare, they care about education, they care about safety, and all those kinds of things.”
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/immigration-therapy-reports-ice/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/technology/kickstarter-union.html
  • https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1229925111739842560
• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/18/uk-to-close-door-to-non-english-speakers-and-unskilled-workers
  • https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/immigration-reforms-will-stop-firms-using-cheap-foreign-labour-l9pgxklrs
• https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/19/donald-trump-offered-julian-assange-pardon-russia-hack-wikileaks
• https://filtermag.org/overdose-prosecution-indiana-naloxone-hancock/ - how not to handle drug addiction
  • https://twitter.com/SessiBlanchard/status/1230181933063266304
• https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/18/21142306/patreon-capital-loans-jack-conte-cash-advances
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190212034828/https://www.dykehousecollege.com/file/dykehouse/8-531-net-behaviour-policy-2017-18.pdf - what fresh hell is this? Northern Education Trust, disciplinarianism (see p.41 for "Consequences Room Rules")
  • https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/02/barbaric-school-punishment-of-consequence-rooms-criticised-by-parents
    • https://twitter.com/Essieburton/status/1230073735648030721
• US Election 2020: Meet the voters behind Bloomberg's surge
• Are economically inactive people the answer to staff shortages?
• https://twitter.com/imrankhan/status/1230193712199802882 - Uber leasing scheme

02/21 (Fri)

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/20/kavin-senapathy-fired-by-cfi/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103694429697868305
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-cars-divide-america - car wars
• https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/policy_vs_techn.html
  • "Technologists don't try to consider all of the use cases of a given technology. We tend to build something for the uses we envision, and hope that others can figure out new and innovative ways to extend what we created" .. "Policy doesn't work that way; it's specifically focused on use."
  • "Policy is often driven by exceptional events, like the FBI's desire to break the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. (The PATRIOT Act is the most egregious example I can think of.)"
  • Policy is very slow to respond to technological change. "It's like tortoises and hummingbirds."
  • https://social.seattle.wa.us/@pnathan/103698061981382016
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/20/1920666/-Local-GOP-chair-shows-up-armed-outside-Virginia-lawmaker-s-house-to-show-we-know-where-you-live
  • https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/1230920911869685762
  • https://www.facebook.com/woozalia/posts/10157261049207695
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/20/1920626/-After-gutting-Bloomberg-Warren-lands-a-blow-against-a-Las-Vegas-billionaire-in-his-own-newspaper
• https://time.com/5784464/susan-fowler-book-uber-sexual-harassment/ - Uber, stalking, and harassment
• https://thecorrespondent.com/283/poverty-isnt-a-lack-of-character-its-a-lack-of-cash/37442933638-a4773584
• https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/us/california-mother-warning-white-supremacists-soh/index.html
  • https://www.facebook.com/david.lindes/posts/10157806173128828

02/22 (Sat)

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/15/why-presidency-cant-go-back-normal-trump-115362 - history of informal US Presidential conventions
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/21/if-you-thought-eugenics-was-only-an-abstract-notion/ - eugenics
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103697613300387353
• https://lgbt.io/@porsupah/103541072820654537 - popular resitance to Oakland eviction (I probably have other links about this)
• https://couragetoresist.org/manning-grand-jury-opposition/ - Chelsea Manning
  • https://weirder.earth/@LouInABox/103215851581069167
• https://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html - Anarchism FAQ
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets - what actually works for interrogation (hint: not torture)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/19/1920391/-White-House-spokesman-offers-bizarro-explanation-for-Donald-Lock-Her-Up-Trump-s-pardons - he's "against aggressive sentencing"
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/21/1920849/-The-intelligence-community-erupts-as-Trump-purges-everyone-opposed-to-Russian-election-interference
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1920705/-A-small-California-agricultural-community-defeats-ICE-for-now
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1921155/-NOAA-report-shows-January-was-the-warmest-ever-as-Great-Lakes-suffer-from-a-constant-high-tide
• http://www.criticalthinking.org/
• https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/a-defense-of-the-binary-in-human-sex/ - questionable. Why is it important to say that something is a "binary" when there are known classes of exceptions?
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bloomberg-tax-returns-debate_n_5e4df2a3c5b630e74c50142b
• https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-proposal - Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, EARN IT Act, William Barr
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs - apparently the "work ethic" philosophy is sometimes called "workism", but it seems to me that jobism is a better name, since "work" isn't necessarily paid.

02/23 (Sun)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-32199250 - Michael Bloomberg fighting smoking in Uruguay (2015)
• https://www.quora.com/q/collapsedquestionheaven?__ni__=0&__tiid__=5649573&sort=top -- good answer to creationist "gotcha" question
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsy1Y3HdfM - indigenous perspective on Mount Rushmore
  • https://sunbeam.city/@raye/103708940663365467
• https://octodon.social/@kensanata/103708849880291231
  • https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/02/nestle-admits-slave-labour-risk-on-brazil-coffee-plantations
  • https://blood-in-your-coffee.blogspot.com/2009/02/struggle-of-nestle-workers-in.html
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919697/-The-Unforgivable-Sins-of-Elizabeth-Warren

02/24 (Mon)

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/02/24/when-a-righteous-cause-enables-unrighteous-behavior/ - avoid hierarchy! concentration of power leads to problems
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103714051909483486
• Why People Think the World is Flat (video, 18:42) Flat Earth
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feCQPD9DSOA - all public transit will be free in Luxembourg starting March 1
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/21/1921045/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-Kentucky-GOP-moves-to-strip-Democratic-governor-of-his-power-after-election
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/24/1921479/-Krugman-and-Palley-signal-establishment-shift-on-Sanders - some of the Dem thought-leaders are finally pushing back against the "be more like the GOP" meme
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/24/1921604/-I-ve-Spent-4-Decades-Underestimating-Bernie-Sanders
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/here-are-the-urban-highways-that-deserve-to-die
  • https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/09/burying-a-1950s-planning-disaster/498203/

02/25 (Tue)

• https://twitter.com/WardQNormal/status/1206280031552454656?s=20 - charts of economic disparity factors and Reaganomics
• https://pleroma.site/objects/335e087b-168b-49df-abeb-0227f0d02d02 -- good point to bring up in the future whenever GOP complains about "who will pay for it" or "what about the deficit"
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/22/1921147/-Sonia-Sotomayor-Accuses-her-conservatives-colleagues-of-bending-over-for-Trump-in-Scathing-Dissent
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921927/-Friendly-reminder-that-Bloomberg-helped-Republicans-wreck-the-Senate - Michael Bloomberg
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921963/-Wow-Joe-Wash-I-never-liked-that-guy-but-still-you-should-read-this - a Republican on standing up to Trump

02/26 (Wed)

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-scotland-sanitary-idUSKBN20J1NZ
  • https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1232338082411745280
• HOLY SHIT - random msnbc ghoul “to young people, free healthcare, college debt forgiveness sounds good to them. think about it, you’re out of college, 25 or 26 years old, working your first job, earning 75,000 or 80,000 a year, that kind of thing appeals to them i guess.”
• https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/01/coronavirus-white-house-public-health-cdc-hospitals/
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/06/taiwan-shaken-64-magnitude-eathquake/ - lots of photos of how high-rise buildings actually collapse

02/27 (Thu)

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-did-america-give-up-on-mass-transit-don-t-blame-cars - mass transit can be profitable, but service needs to come first
• 2020-02-26 13:54 Bernie Sanders I don't think it's radical to say schoolchildren should not have "lunch debt." If we can give tax breaks to billionaires we can guarantee free, universal school meals to all our kids.
  • 13:57 Michael School 👏 children 👏 shouldn’t 👏 get 👏 lunch 👏 if 👏 they 👏 don’t 👏 pay 👏
  • 14:11 TexLady If you can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em
  • 13:56 Why stop there? Why not free dinner too? - I was bad and replied
  • 22:18 Nope. I was a single om working three jobs, but my daughter had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread every day. I was making $20,000 dollars, paying rent and maintaining a car. No handouts and proud of it. - also replied
  • 13:55 I don't think it's radical to say Bernie is a communist who would bankrupt the country.
  • 16:21 I don’t think it’s radical to ask parents to pay for their kids and ask charitable organizations to pay for kids that can’t afford lunch.
  • 20:06 To judge people based on their financial wealth is radically prejudice. / To dislike people just because they have money is prejudice. / To treat billionaires poorly because they are billionaires is discrimination. - omfg

02/28 (Fri)

• https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-podcast-trans-people-species-machine-paul-nathanson-1377906 (archive.md)

02/29 (Sat)

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-black-woman-was-once-the-biggest-star-in-jazz-here-s-why-you-ve-never-heard-of-her - badass piano genius Hazel Scott fights racial discrimination and Red Scare tactics
  • http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/what-happened-hazel-scott.html
    • https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1235236308756226048
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-singer-elliott-management-twitter-jack-dorsey
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921786/--Boogaloo-civil-war-talk-takes-on-a-life-of-its-own-as-far-right-extremists-coalesce
• https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/02/tenant-rights-rent-eviction-landlords-management-systems/606868/

March

03/01 (Sun)

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921933/-White-Parents-Force-Suspension-of-White-Studies-High-School-Course - racism/denial
• https://todon.nl/@jeroenpraat/103725328681082075 - map of areas in Poland that have signed the "LGBT-Free" pledge

03/02 (Mon)

• Climate change: Greenpeace stops Barclays from opening branches - aka Greenpeace gives climate activism a bad name
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/2/1923575/-Endorsements-continue-to-roll-in-for-Vice-President-Joe-Biden
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/27/1922428/-Teacher-suspended-for-showing-students-picture-of-her-fianc-e-receives-100K-settlement - anti-gay discrimination is still a thing
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dystopian-lake-filled-by-the-world-s-tech-lust - Mongolia, neodymium
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/business/laurene-powell-jobs-corner-office.html

03/03 (Tue)

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/chris-matthews-longtime-msnbc-host-of-hardball-announces-his-resignation/2020/03/02/9c4b3dfc-5ce0-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/2/1923688/-Chris-Matthews-surprises-everyone-by-announcing-on-air-that-he-is-retiring-from-MSNBC
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/02/bye-bye-tweety/
    • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103756978493691675
• https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced - this is complicated
  • https://twitter.com/JessicaLond0n/status/1234606350585548801
• https://twitter.com/iatemuggles/status/1234657804130103297 - compassion as a survival trait
• https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/19/21052356/norman-rockwell-the-problem-we-all-live-with-saturday-evening-post?utm_source=pocket-newtab

03/04 (Wed)

• https://www.complex.com/life/2020/03/black-owned-business-sales-jump-comment-target-ad-racist-white-people - reverse racism
  • https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1234896845551362048
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/2/1923731/-Once-again-Trump-insists-nobody-knew-a-thing-that-everybody-knew
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/04/bye-bye-michael-bloomberg/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103765443899045392
• Here's David Frum basically calling Bernie Sanders supporters poor David Frum
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/3/1923879/-Facebook-made-The-Daily-Caller-an-official-fact-checker-here-are-the-results
  • International Fact-Checking Network [3]
    • address matches SourceWatch, tho web site is different; Wikipedia
    • site does not seem to list certifications
    • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/17/facebook-teams-with-rightwing-daily-caller-in-factchecking-program - they did try to contact Poynter for confirmation
    • Fact-Checking on Facebook: What Publishers Should Know
• Did first female-majority legislature in US make a difference? - Nevada

03/05 (Thu)

• https://twitter.com/yanakuchirko/status/1235050702654672896 - the reality of the Left-Right range in the US
• https://hub.toot.cat/display/feb19b0018b001389da00f6db7d6371d - summary of negative reactions to UBI
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/bernie-sanders-polls.html - polls show Sanders can beat Trump
  • https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/137304
• https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/03/05/2024220/people-kept-working-became-healthier-while-on-basic-income-report

03/06 (Fri)

• https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/world/americas/03iht-scotus.1.5124385.html - Supreme Court ruled CO2 as a pollutant in 2007
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/6/1920991/-The-climate-and-all-of-us-may-have-dodged-a-big-bullet-all-thanks-to-Trump-s-incompetence -- Trumpco can't even get industry-pandering right
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/5/1924570/-As-COVID-19-cases-climb-in-the-United-States-so-is-the-threat-generated-in-the-White-House -- errorism teams up with Coronavirus
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/new-authoritarianism/607045/
• It turns out that Amazon and Google aren't nearly as different as I thought they were--I've just discovered The Fourteen Google Leadership Principles. I relay them to you now, in this thread:
• I wanna stop and explain the concept of "the establishment" to some people and why a lot of black Southern voters will NEVER vote for Bernie.
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/06/were-doomed-3/ - people who should know better, on camera not correcting Trump
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/103779188042688680

03/07 (Sat)

• https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols - I think this just underscores that we can't just let the Right's hateful usage of words and symbols take them away from us; we'd soon be unable to speak or function. We need to reclaim words, and find other ways to fight back besides allowing things to become tainted and unusable.
• https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615325/ravelry-ban-on-pro-trump-patterns-unraveled-the-online-knitting-world-censorship-free/

03/08 (Sun)

• https://www.facebook.com/david.lindes/posts/10157852838173828
  • https://www.fairvote.org/support_for_ranked_choice_voting_grows_rapidly_in_golden_state ranked choice voting
  • https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/19/what-really-happened-with-instant-runoff-voting-in-pierce-county-washington/ instant runoff voting
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/young-democrats-have-rejected-biden-and-it-could-cost-him-the-nomination/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/29/1923006/-Jimmy-Kimmel-brutally-exposes-Republican-voters-deep-ignorance-and-Ted-Cruz-s-devious-duplicity

03/09 (Mon)

• https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/09/the-bbc-was-just-caught-editing-a-headline-and-making-johnson-sound-better/
  • https://twitter.com/TheCanaryUK/status/1237067111610167298
• https://twitter.com/lessig/status/1237061708499152896 - Lessig confronts Biden about voting reformation
  • https://twitter.com/AdamEichen/status/1237068548268269568
• https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1236031092647313408 - some background on Shaun King
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/7/1925306/-Trump-steaks-Trump-Airlines-Trump-University-Trump-America-Failing-to-plan-is-planning-to-fail
• https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/a-stern-letter-from-the-desk-of-vanessa-a-bee - about the primary, and being aware of the influence that your feelings may be having on your choices
  • https://weirder.earth/@dzuk/103794900576817963
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/9/1925854/-Elizabeth-Warren-predicted-impending-economic-crash-last-year-Her-warnings-weren-t-heeded
• https://twitter.com/brenden77/status/1234361709571268610 -- possible source for the "how will Bernie pay for it" graphic -- and a typical response

03/10 (Tue)

• https://beach.city/@alva/103793462316499879 - good thread debunking some of the lies capitalism tells about itself

03/11 (Wed)

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2-5-trillion-reason-we-can-t-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid - smells of propaganda
• https://twitter.com/FlyerNews/status/1237597991826948096
  • students at the University of Dayton Ohio were ordered to leave their university housing due to fears of covid19 -- rendering many of them homeless (I've seen a fair number of students demand refunds for the $$$ they've paid for housing if they aren't allowed to live on campus) / a crowd of ~1k students blocked off a street in Dayton and campus cops shot pepper bullets at them
    • HubCat Facebook
    • https://twitter.com/IsOnFirst/status/1237693607664070656
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/10/1926156/-Biden-tells-gun-nut-that-he-s-full-of-shit-America-objectively-agrees
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-stay-sane-as-a-female-deckhand-in-alaska - gentle sexism
• https://thebestschools.org/magazine/brilliant-woman-greedy-men/ erasure of women

03/13 (Fri)

• https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/laurence-fox-question-time-performance-1-6559637 - it sounds like the Fox was basically "reverse racism!", for which he was rightly condemned by Equity people -- who wanted to stand behind their condemnation (which, as I see it, would have been the right thing to do), but higher-ups overruled them by deleting the tweets, so they felt they had to resign (in protest).
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/13/laurence-foxs-brave-victory-mob-can-show-us-fight-free-speech2/ by Toby Young, Conservative Party member -- basically another case of "people using their speech to criticize me violates my free speech".
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/qanon-4chan-rightwing-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1927078/-The-New-York-Times-has-obtained-CDC-s-worst-case-scenario-estimates
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/12/1927008/-The-editor-of-Science-magazine-is-pissed-off
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1927127/-AOC-goes-on-FOX-to-spew-garbage-about-Michigan-suppressing-Bernie-voters -- but she never said they were specifically suppressing Bernie votes, at least not in what was quoted.
• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/jamie-loftus-the-comedian-who-infiltrated-mensa
  • "Firehouse members accused him of being racist for suggesting that they were racist."
  • https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/103817765599394653
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/raj-chettys-american-dream/592804/ (via)
• https://therealdeal.com/2020/03/13/nyc-enacts-one-week-moratorium-on-evictions/?fbclid=IwAR1uSuix_vZx_KezjyMREczddSn4oyTDdD9XNcXERPYIXhVSX9TaHSSwLr4
  • https://mastodon.social/@Y3WTREE/103818382896311391
• https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/487453-louisiana-to-postpone-democratic-primary-over-coronavirus
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/

03/14 (Sat)

• https://eand.co/why-britains-coronavirus-strategy-is-literally-one-of-the-most-insane-things-in-modern-history-45c755f1db2d
  • https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1238097745971421184 - may be the source for the "herd immunity" thing
• This morning, in the middle of an evolving pandemic, I, a ER physician, am being charged in San Diego court with a federal misdemeanor for trying to vaccinate children in CBP custody against a deadlier disease for them.
  • https://twitter.com/hanjaneway/status/1237801855297581056 - charges dropped on a technicality