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Revision as of 20:24, 26 September 2021
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://lithub.com/by-bullet-or-ballot-on-one-of-the-only-successful-coups-in-american-history/ - the US/NC/Wilmington insurrection
- 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 don’t 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/
“Nobody 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, we’re for a carbon tax,” 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 Trump’s 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 Iraq—that was a bonus—but really, ultimately, to destroy the 23rd floor, because that’s 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 couldn’t 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 couldn’t 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://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/2/2037975/-Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-attacks-me-and-Daily-Kos-This-is-my-way-too-much-fun-response
- 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: “Our 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 …”
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 “painted an image of protesters as ‘violent radicals,’ ” and “the government justified the expanded use of its authority and deployment of federal enforcement due to what it claimed was local and state leaders’ ‘abdication of their law enforcement responsibilities in deference to this violent assault’,” 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 you’re 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 don’t 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 wouldn’t 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 “nothing other than legal action seems to motivate Apple to reconsider pricing and reduce rates.” At other points, she says Apple “does a poor job of mediating disputes between a developer and its customer,” and it’s been “slow either to adopt automated tools that could improve speed and accuracy or to hire more reviewers” for its app review process." ... "she accepts that “Apple’s operating margins tied to the App Store are extraordinarily high.” And she specifically calls out a lack of competition as an issue. “The point is not that ... Apple provides bad services. It does not,” she writes. “The point is that a third-party app store could put pressure on Apple to innovate by providing features that Apple has neglected.”"
- 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, America’s 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 NC’s voter ID law is racially discriminatory and unconstitutional
- 2021-09-18 North Carolina judges strike down state’s 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 state’s 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 world’s 60 largest commercial and investment banks — aggregating their leading roles in lending and underwriting of debt and equity issuances — and finds that these banks poured a total of $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels from 2016–2020."
- 2020-12 WHO’S 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 can’t 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/