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* '''2021-10-27''' https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-warming-1-5-celsius/ Decades of Global Temperature Rise Are Not Baked in if We Cease All Emissions]
 
* '''2021-10-27''' https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-warming-1-5-celsius/ Decades of Global Temperature Rise Are Not Baked in if We Cease All Emissions]
 
** https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1453363548382433284
 
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* '''2021-10-26''' [https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049458617/kyle-rittenhouse-victims-arsonists-looters-judge-ruled Prosecutors cannot call those shot by Kyle Rittenhouse 'victims.' But 'looters' is OK] "...[Judge Bruce Schroeder] has ruled, while defense attorneys may be able to call them "arsonists" or "looters.""
 
 
* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/white-settlers-wiped-thousands-of-miles-of-cherokee-trails-off-the-map-this-man-is-reclaiming-them - overlaps between Left and Right; Native American genocide
 
* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/white-settlers-wiped-thousands-of-miles-of-cherokee-trails-off-the-map-this-man-is-reclaiming-them - overlaps between Left and Right; Native American genocide
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===10/28 Thu===
 
===10/28 Thu===
 
* https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/28/matt-powell-gets-a-promotion/
 
* https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/28/matt-powell-gets-a-promotion/
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** https://mastodon.social/@eff/107338649062396229
 
** https://mastodon.social/@eff/107338649062396229
 
* https://www.quora.com/Where-would-homeless-people-sleep-in-a-libertarian-country-if-everything-is-privatized/answer/Brandon-Ross-37 - credible argument that a more libertarian system would be, at least in one way, more friendly towards homelessness than our current system (mainly because of no zoning laws)
 
* https://www.quora.com/Where-would-homeless-people-sleep-in-a-libertarian-country-if-everything-is-privatized/answer/Brandon-Ross-37 - credible argument that a more libertarian system would be, at least in one way, more friendly towards homelessness than our current system (mainly because of no zoning laws)
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===11/26 Fri===
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* latest COVID mutation:
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** https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059272133/new-covid-19-variant-in-south-africa-raises-concern
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** https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-travel-europe-116ef818ac4a8e7bc23bb28d6511ecad
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** https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/americas/us-travel-restrictions-new-covid-variant-omicron.amp.html
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*** https://nextdoor.com/p/-RZ_Df3DhFTf?view=detail poster claims Biden is racist against Africans, i.e. that he's issuing this travel ban for the same reasons Trump did
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**** Tweets as evidence of Biden's about-face (which is obviously actually ''necessary''): [https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1223807268703043588] [https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1238254697695326209?lang=en]
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* https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/danger-critical-race-theory/ - [[Marc Thiessen]] vs. [[critical race theory]]
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** https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1459162217291595780
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* https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-rips-lauren-boebert-040740894.html
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* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lara-trump-turkey-prices-thanksgiving-b1964467.html - [[war on Thanksgiving]]
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* https://news.yahoo.com/michael-flynn-goes-full-tinfoil-052539928.html
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* https://news.yahoo.com/wind-power-risks-becoming-too-151456924.html
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/12/2063940/-Manchin-betrays-colleagues-who-helped-him-with-his-latest-Build-Back-Better-demands
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/politics/republican-violent-rhetoric.html Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream] {{icon/paywall}}
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/us/politics/republicans-backlash-infrastructure-bill.html House Republicans Who Backed Infrastructure Bill Face Vicious Backlash] {{icon/paywall}}
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** https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-house-republicans-bipartisan-infrastructure-support-lose-committee-assignments-2021-11
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** https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-rep-fred-upton-receives-death-threats-after-voting-for-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/2021/11/09/78fe5ac8-4195-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html
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** https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/politics/fred-upton-infrastructure-bill-voicemail-threat-cnntv/index.html
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* https://expmag.com/2021/10/words-got-us-into-the-anti-vaccine-crisis-heres-how-theyll-get-us-out/ - [[disinformation pandemic]]
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/6/2062761/-What-scares-the-shit-out-of-Republicans A: voting rights
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063011/-NY-Times-COVID-is-Getting-Even-Redder - COVID denial
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063118/-Paul-Gosar-tweets-out-video-that-depicts-him-killing-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-and-President-Biden
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2061318/-Good-News-Roundup-for-Tuesday-Nov-9-2021-Are-we-entering-a-new-political-era - covers a number of topics
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2063078/-Mitch-McConnell-s-daughter-tweeted-about-the-need-to-pass-the-Voting-Rights-Act
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* https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/03/988756973/cant-help-falling-in-love-with-a-vaccine-how-polio-campaign-beat-vaccine-hesitan
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062293/-History-teacher-caught-spewing-Hunter-Biden-conspiracy-theories-to-room-full-of-eighth-graders - stochastic terrorism, right-wing violence
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/4/2062188/--Youngkin-cucked-Trump-A-conversation-with-a-swing-voter-in-Virginia
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2060954/-Sens-Manchin-Sinema-release-grotesque-tweets-congratulating-themselves-Twitter-barks-back
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/29/2061046/-Hacked-Oath-Keepers-data-exposes-how-deeply-patriot-extremism-has-penetrated-the-mainstream
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* https://debunkingdenialism.com/
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** https://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/12/21/how-to-spot-a-pseudoscientific-paper/
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===11/27 Sat===
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* https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/26/omicron-covid-variant-us-to-restrict-travel-from-south-africa-7-other-nations.html - COVID omicron
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20211127172521/https://twitter.com/bootsriley/status/1464008290686234630 - US propaganda against [[North Korea]]
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===11/29 Mon===
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* https://mobile.twitter.com/heathersdesk/status/1464343254875328515 - white Mormon knitter fighting back against racism in the white Mormon knitter community
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* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-irish-subsidiary-paid-zero-corporate-tax-on-220bn-profit-last-year
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** https://toot.cat/@argon/106346585117043407
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* https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1465324057277173772?t=TNYDLIF-izl1XdXu30z5mg&s=19 - [[Richard Dawkins]] signs TERF manifesto
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===11/30 Tue===
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* https://twitter.com/cromolyboy/status/1465370062710312964 - NYT tries to build a narrative that millennials are now confronting inflation for the first time, but the reality is... otherwise.
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/29/2066665/-Anti-mask-parent-attacked-school-board-chair-by-outing-her-8-year-old-trans-daughter - things that happen in closed conservoid discussion groups
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==December==
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===12/1 Wed===
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* https://undark.org/2021/11/29/ecocide-5/ - Russian Arctic, pollution, Norilsk Nickel
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===12/2 Thu===
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* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sotomayor-suggests-supreme-court-won-t-survive-stench-overturning-roe-n1285166 [[Sonia Sotomayor]], [[Roe v. Wade]]
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* https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-better-alternative-to-capitalism/answer/Alexander-Finnegan - interesting take on capitalism vs. socialism, with quite a few deepread references
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066883/-Manchin-rewarded-by-Republican-group-with-ads-thanking-him-for-betraying-Biden-Democrats - Mitch McConnell loves Joe Manchin, and so does the GOP machine in the form of the [[Coalition to Protect American Workers]], a Republican group led by Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence's former chief of staff
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2067089/-Jen-Psaki-Shocks-FOX-News-Hack-Peter-Doocy-with-Trump-s-Deadly-Record-of-COVID-Mismanagement
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* https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos
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** https://twitter.com/laurenkgurley/status/1466519677731934208?s=21
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===12/3 Fri===
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* https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/2nd-us-omicron-case-just-traveled-to-nyc-anime-convention-with-53k-attendees/
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** https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/03/good-morning-omicron/
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*** https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107383167293939755
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* https://www.themarysue.com/donald-trump-positive-covid-test-before-biden-debate/
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** https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-agrees-with-trump-that-his-new-book-is-fake-news
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* https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/03/who-was-the-thief-here/ - [[Joel Osteen]]
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** https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107383545823184373
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* https://news.yahoo.com/jim-jordan-says-real-america-170017508.html - [[Jim Jordan]], lies
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* https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-blocks-gun-control-law-in-wake-of-michigan-shooting/ar-AARp9Fs?li=BBnb7Kz
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* https://www.yahoo.com/news/candace-owens-dubbed-mouthpiece-wing-133000605.html - [[Candace Owens]], black conservoid, says "Black Americans are the most murderous group in America by race and their victims are mostly other black people." (this is the [[black-on-black violence]] trope)
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* https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/12/02/politics/florida-state-guard-desantis/index.html - headline makes it sound worse than it is. I think.
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** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_WBSZKCozg Beau: it's a political stunt
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===12/4 Sat===
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* Those $450k payments:
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** https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2021/12/tillis-cotton-cornyn-and-mcconnell-introduce-legislation-to-prevent-settlement-payments-for-illegal-immigrants
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** https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-senators-introduce-bill-payments-separated-illegal-immigrants
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** '''2021-11-02''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJjFtQz2Zik Let's talk about Biden's $450,000 payments....] (video, 5:21: Beau of the Fifth Column)
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*** This is a settlement from a bunch of lawsuits which the government expects to lose in court.
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*** If the settlement doesn't go through, then each case goes to court, and it costs a lot more. "This is a lowball settlement offer." We'll also probably find out a lot of dirt about the Trump admin and the GOP. They should ''prefer'' the payoff.
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* https://secondnexus.com/madison-cawthorn-earthen-vessels-abortion - [[Madison Cawthorn]]
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** [[cwre:Woozle/2021/12/04/2]]
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* https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/01/1040802/how-bad-will-omicron-get/
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* https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/05/01/are-addicted-anger/SkrH8k390jgtkY0JBObJ0K/story.html
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* https://19thnews.org/2021/11/flight-attendants-unruly-violent-passengers/ "In all, there have been reports of 5,240 unruly incidents, 72 percent of them related to mask mandates." "...airlines have been struggling to manage the surge in demand for flights with labor force shortages and fewer flight attendants choosing to take on overtime hours. In October, that kind of breakdown led to about 2,000 flight cancellations at Southwest Airlines, for example."
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* https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-save-a-ski-town-west-tourism-economy/ - microcosm of the housing crisis, which is just a microcosm of [[economic disparity]]
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* Omicron:
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** https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/01/1040802/how-bad-will-omicron-get/
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** https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/face-masks-compulsory-covid-omicron-22297821
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** https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/boris-johnson-presser-omicron-covid-22296311
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** https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/new-radically-different-covid-variant-getting-footholds-now-as-media-and-officials-remain-complacent.html
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* https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/11/30/kimbal-musks-big-green-dao-is-a-big-step-for-web-3/
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* https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/would-you-manage-70-children-and-a-15-ton-vehicle-for-18-an-hour/
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* https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/afghanistan-taliban-rule-american-exit-photos-1258020/
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20211121100913/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/us/politics/manchin-sinema-republican-donors.html
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* https://money.com/pay-transparency-laws-employers-share-salaries/
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* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921 - wokeness in 1921
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* https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/
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* https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/the-great-organic-food-fraud
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* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-europe-became-so-rich
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* https://theconversation.com/congress-passes-1t-infrastructure-bill-but-how-does-the-government-go-about-spending-that-much-money-165376
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* https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-virginias-and-new-jerseys-elections-could-suggest-a-red-wave-in-2022/
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* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/too-many-jobs-feel-meaningless-because-they-are
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* https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-broadband-internet-congress-d89d6bb1b39cd9c67ae9fc91f5eb4c0d
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* https://juliaserano.medium.com/on-being-explicitly-named-in-a-violent-gender-critical-manifesto-e74ece76583d
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** https://juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephilia-and-anti-trans-activism-23c0c6ad7e9d
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** https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1455582444422262786
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** https://twitter.com/JuliaSerano/status/1457751383071883264
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** [https://godforsaken.website/@alex/107202668838440735 BBC transphobia article] - related, I think?
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* https://www.popsci.com/science/hail-mary-national-womens-football-leagueexcerpt/
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* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-rich-people-love-endurance-sports
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* https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107203870370524208 "The devastating human toll from the coronavirus reached another major milestone Monday when the worldwide death tally surpassed 5 million. Nowhere in the globe has the cost in lives been higher than in the United States, with over 746,000 Americans killed. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/11/01/covid-global-deaths-5-million-vaccines-cases/6227169001/"
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* https://lgbt.io/@celesteh/107213009144738340 "Stephen Whittle talking about transphobia in academia is kind of heartbreaking https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/03/kathleen-stock-trans-university-transphobia/"
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* https://chaos.social/@sofia/107237433409968587 - discussion about anger over NFTs
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* [https://anticapitalism.quora.com/?__ni__=0&__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=28808958084&__tiids__=43799318&hide_composer=1 Do conservatives even know what socialism is?]
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* [https://anticapitalism.quora.com/If-people-know-that-capitalism-has-failed-why-do-they-continue-to-live-under-it-helplessly-3 If people know that capitalism has failed, why do they continue to live under it helplessly?]
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* [https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-leftists-like-Israel-Israel-shares-a-lot-of-values-with-the-left-free-healthcare-free-abortions-free-gender-reassignments-and-100-government-owned-companies/answer/Jonah-Wood-8 Why don't leftists like Israel? Israel shares a lot of values with the left: free healthcare, free abortions, free gender reassignments, and 100 government-owned companies.]
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* https://weirder.earth/@hafnia/107295192709099314 - subtle transphobia in "female empowerment"?
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* https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107319969989727722 "In an adversarial legal system, no one represents 'externalities'."
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===12/5 Sun===
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* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/first-big-tranche-infrastructure-dollars-heading-states-water-lead-pipes-n1285253
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* https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressman-posts-family-christmas-picture-with-guns-days-after-school-2021-12-05/
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* guaranteed income initiatives:
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** [[US/CA/San Diego|San Diego]]: https://www.sandiegoforeverychild.org/guaranteed-income/
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** [[US/TN/Nashville|Nashville]]: https://www.movingnashvilleforward.org/
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*** video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDEQTyiYMEg
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* https://www.npr.org/2021/12/03/1061214253/bob-inglis-how-i-changed-my-mind-about-climate-change - Republican ex-climate-denier [[Bob Inglis]]
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* https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S326 - voter suppression bill vetoed by [[Roy Cooper]]
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* https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-president-biden-calls-intellectual-property-protection-waivers-covid-19-2021-11-26/
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* https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/politics/travel-restrictions-south-africa/index.html
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* https://www.propublica.org/article/they-took-us-away-from-each-other-lost-inside-americas-shadow-foster-system - how the foster-care system is broken
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* '''2009-04-01''' [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1940161208330904 The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report]: science proves that conservoidism kills satire
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===12/6 Mon===
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* https://twitter.com/xaviersonline/status/1467148938809516034 "polywork" appears on the internet
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** https://twitter.com/Hollyfox142/status/1467149460631261187 - apparently coordinated among multiple news-sources
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*** https://cybre.space/@devurandom/107400177789097779
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* https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/queen-elizabeth-barbados-relationship-change-symbolizes-generational-shift-ncna1285354
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* https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/05/japanese-latinos-us-war-hostages-history-523711 - US rounds up Japanese-looking but non-Japanese people ''in other countries'' to use in hostage exchange, then refuses to grant them citizen status when the hostage-exchange doesn't happen. [[history]]
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* https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/boycott-college-rankings/
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** https://twitter.com/thephilacitizen/status/1467861395471581188
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*** https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107400453322860379
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* [https://rys.io/en/157.html Blockchain-based consensus systems are an energy-waste ratchet]
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** https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107397754050756582
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* https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-supremacists-stage-bizarro-rally-021956089.html "[[Patriot Front]] was once known as [[Vanguard America]] but changed its name after a man affiliated with the group murdered a woman at the notorious [[2017/08/12/Charlottesville Nazi march|Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville]]."
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* https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-lifestyle-health-travel-ef7c250c58b90b9835a972d7ebd9556b - Omicron possibly less severe than initial fears
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* https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-wisconsin-voting-election-2020-5f799879afe2b8cad2daa0d7b494affa "The backing for a possible route around Gov. Tony Evers was revealed during a private meeting on elections hosted by the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]]..."
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** Hogan Gidley, [[Center for Election Integrity]] (vote-suppression org)
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** https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-legislature-0c51b390408cc8c3f73c20a57fa81110 - similar effort already underway in Michigan
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** apparently some of this is backlash against [[Mark Zuckerberg]] donating money to election offices: https://apnews.com/article/elections-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-d034c4c1f5a9fa3fb02aa9898493c708
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** [https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-arizona-phoenix-conspiracy-theories-d38321441bcd6cea58421f6871b4f74e GOP review finds no proof Arizona election stolen from Trump]: just a reminder
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* https://www.salon.com/2021/12/05/ilhan-omar-calls-kevin-mccarthy-a-liar-and-a-coward-for-refusal-to-condemn-boeberts-islamophobia_partner/
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* https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate - disinformation pandemic; COVID-19
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** https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/importance-of-partisanship-predicting-vaccination-status/ - Republicans are now the largest share of unvaccinated adults
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* https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/5/2067670/-Republican-Triggered-By-Uppity-Blacks-In-TV-Commercial - right-wingers claiming reverse racism again

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(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)

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<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

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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.

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Viewing post for Nextdoor:

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (8/9, 18m21s, LuckyBlackCat) "OK Boomer: Class War Not Generation War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY4pNGK7ccI
  4. (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.)
  5. (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.)

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My post on Nextdoor:

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".

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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.

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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:

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?

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