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January

1/1 Sat

• https://www.theverge.com/22858437/2021-mining-critical-minerals-clean-energy-renewables-climate-change
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-future-encyclopedia-of-luddism - luddism
• inflation under Biden:
  • https://reason.com/video/2021/12/30/how-bidens-agenda-is-causing-inflation/
  • https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177
    • https://nextdoor.com/p/gdtgsYHF-Zch/c/708011794

1/2 Sun

• https://www.quora.com/What-assumptions-do-Conservatives-tend-to-make-about-the-world-which-Liberals-are-less-likely-to-make/answer/Jon-Davis-10
• https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1477420461122375683 «During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina. / Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.» Someone needs to figure out how much energy those transactions would have used if done via traditional banking, though.
  • https://twitter.com/jjcollinsworth/status/1477460188739297285?s=21

1/3 Mon

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/31/2072091/-Man-with-plan-to-assassinate-former-Dem-presidents-detained-in-IA-swore-to-resume-plan-if-released
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/31/2072067/-Pro-COVID-Pervert-Jim-Jordan-and-His-GOP-Judiciary-Jackasses-Throw-Toxic-Twitter-Tantrum

1/4 Tue

• https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2021/12/30/apple-nc-incentives-labeled-worst-deal-of-2021.html$

The Center for Economic Accountability, a 3-year-old nonprofit based in Michigan that says it approaches topics 'from a free-market, limited-government "classical liberal" perspective,' called out the incentives package as going 'further than any other ... to exemplify the massive wastefulness and ineffectiveness of state government subsidy programs.'

North Carolina officials from multiple agencies had engaged with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) for years about a site in RTP. Talks resumed this past spring$ and in April the project – code named "Project Bear" – was announced as a huge win$ for the Triangle and the state.

Apple committed to developing a 3,000-job campus on 281 acres the company controls.

The campus and engineering hub will focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence and software engineering. The high-paying jobs – with average annual salaries of at least $187,000, according to Apple – come at a cost, however. To ensure a win over Ohio, North Carolina put forward its biggest-ever incentives package.

[...]

Earlier this year Michael Farren, an economist with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, also called the sum exorbitant.

Farren said subsidies – even those in the form of reimbursements – are not free money, and that the majority of incentives are unnecessary, pointing to research that estimates just one out of every eight subsidies is actually responsible for changing a company's decision on where to locate.

'And in situations where it does cause a company to change where it locates, it causes the company to choose a less efficient spot for production,' Farren said.

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/3/2072448/-Devin-Nunes-Resigns-from-Congress
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/04/the-kent-hovind-challenge/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107566454301813595

1/5 Wed

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/05/elizabeth-holmes-goes-down-but-not-as-hard-as-she-deserves/ «she was found guilty of crimes against investors, but not crimes against all the people who were misled by Theranos’s claims. It was all those gullible Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were hurt, not all the people who went into Walgreen’s and got misleading, false test results.»
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107569996449897103
• https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/588148-republicans-lose-edge-on-generic-congressional-ballot-poll
• https://magazine.atavist.com/we-wish-to-be-able-to-sing-easter-island-chile-revolution/ - history: Rapa Nui
• https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/587388-democrats-should-make-social-security-a-top-issue-in-the - conservoids have been taught that SS is a pyramid scheme and costs taxpayers money, so of course they'll oppose this
• DeSantis assholery:
  • https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-vows-no-lockdowns-or-mandates-over-reports-of-omicron-in-state
  • https://www.foxnews.com/us/ron-desantis-legislation-florida-companies-vaccine-mandate-rescind-termination
  • https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/579886-desantis-floats-formation-of-police-force-to-crack-down-on-election
• https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/01/04/no-icu-beds-left-massachusetts-hospitals-are-maxed-out-as-covid-continues-to-surge
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107571751914202067
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/6/2067897/-The-Trump-Cult-Has-Much-Higher-COVID-Death-Rates-and-FOX-News-Isn-t-Telling-Them
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066883/-Manchin-rewarded-by-Republican-group-with-ads-thanking-him-for-betraying-Biden-Democrats
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220105202004/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/jan-6-jimmy-carter.html - Jimmy Carter on voting rights
  • https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1478824149904732171?s=21
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/politics/jimmy-carter-democracy-jan-6-oped/index.html

1/6 Thu

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220106011536/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/05/hbcu-bomb-threats-howard-university/
• https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/107572209147454125 - discussion: media industry BS claims of "theft" due to "piracy"
• 2022 Kazakh protests
• Stand News raids and arrests: anti-democracy in Hong Kong
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/internet-shut-down-in-kazakhstan-amid-unrest/
• https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107575554147374363 «France fines Google and Facebook €210m over user tracking»
• https://apnews.com/article/health-fires-tennessee-knoxville-planned-parenthood-524edc1a8bd12e46774c1fcdf37c6c72
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/4/2072597/-Schumer-to-force-Sinema-Manchin-to-take-a-stand-for-democracy-in-coming-weeks
• https://therealnews.com/corporations-are-making-millions-of-dollars-from-us-prison-labor
• https://therealnews.com/why-us-prisons-dont-want-prisoners-to-read
• https://therealnews.com/robin-dg-kelley-on-fighting-for-freedom-in-the-darkness-of-capitalist-dystopia - long read/interview
• https://www.quora.com/As-a-liberal-have-you-ever-thought-that-conservatives-have-a-point/answer/Siddharth-Paratkar - soft conservoid misrepresentation of "liberal" views
• https://www.quora.com/Libertarians-why-are-you-not-a-Republican/answer/Alex-Mann-32
• https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-tragic-moment-ever-caught-on-film/answer/Ella-Harlow-3 - Holocaust photos and videos, in case it's important
• https://blacksocialists.us/resource-guide - key socialist literature

1/7 Fri

• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/05/mcconnell-electoral-count-act-reform-526542
• https://apnews.com/article/business-europe-russia-moscow-kazakhstan-3349e68089ccdbcd08e76a5e8fd4a909
• https://jezebel.com/lawyers-challenging-bidens-covid-vaccine-rules-both-hav-1848322407
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-loses-sonos-patent-case-starts-stripping-functionality-from-speakers/ - Even with as much as I'm glad to see Google losing to a smaller company, this is kind of sounding like ideas which have no business being patentable.
• https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/22/wide-partisan-divide-on-whether-voting-is-a-fundamental-right-or-a-privilege-with-responsibilities/

1/8 Sat

• MTG "national divorce" thing:
  • https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-divorce-scenario-marjorie-taylor-greene-floats-tax-and-voting-penalties-for-those-fleeing-blue-states - conservoid paper
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce-states-b1984460.html
  • https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce-civil-war-days-before-twitter-ban/
  • https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/rep-greene-suggests-a-national-divorce-between-red-and-blue-states/
  • https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Rep.-MTG-Proposes-National-Divorce-of-Blue-and-Red-States-20211230-0016.html

1/9 Sun

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/5/2072817/-Four-National-Guard-sent-to-border-as-part-of-Greg-Abbott-s-racist-scheme-die-by-apparent-suicide
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/3/2062637/-Anti-vaxxer-yells-sieg-heil-repeatedly-at-West-Hollywood-restaurant
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/4/2072495/-Texas-Gov-Greg-Abbott-asks-for-federal-bailout-for-COVID-surge-he-helped-foster
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/08/cyprus-reportedly-discovers-a-covid-variant-that-combines-omicron-and-delta.html
  • debunking:
    • https://qz.com/2110931/deltacron-variant-is-probably-a-lab-mistake-not-a-new-variant/
    • https://myfox8.com/news/coronavirus/reported-deltacron-variant-likely-error-caused-by-cross-contamination-virologist-says/ -- Even Fox agrees -- but I guess it plays into the "libs are getting hysterical about COVID but it's actually harmless" narrative.
• List of nicknames used by Donald Trump
• Omicron explosion spurs nationwide breakdown of services
• https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/forced-by-shortages-to-sell-chipless-cartridges-canon-tells-customers-how-to-bypass-drm-warnings.html
  • https://hackers.town/@float13/107590286747871770
• https://hackers.town/@Anarkat/107594023044874250 - hypernormalization (Is this actually a problem here? Agreed about society being broken, but complacency doesn't seem like the issue.)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069590/-Republicanism-claims-more-victims-Pandemic-deaths-among-pregnant-Americans-are-now-surging
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/6/2073039/-Republicans-propose-new-compromise-Three-fifths-the-vote-will-count-Sound-familiar
• https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1479941108939608067?s=21 - recent history of racial voting restriction
• https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10158464629673807 - a Republican calls the January 6 insurrection shameful, which causes an uproar

1/10 Mon

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-confirms-many-1-million-covid-tests-expired-state-stockpile-n1287174
• https://www.axios.com/jim-jordan-jan-6-panel-capitol-riot-ad422f5b-033f-40c1-b0b3-22fd5b275592.html
• https://news.yahoo.com/lawmaker-indiana-walked-back-comments-055635516.html
• https://911events.quora.com/Inside-The-Towers - eyewitness photos and accounts from inside the towers
• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/

1/11 Tue

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/11/madison-cawthorn-trump-republican-north-carolina-voters
• https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/01/10/conservative-groups-target-state-local-voter-registration-rolls-with-multiple-lawsuits/
  • my comments:

I keep finding myself kind of in agreement, at least on an emotional level, with MTG's "national divorce" idea. It would be a huge mess even if it was done right, and they probably won't want to do it in any way that's even remotely fair, and then when it's done they'll blame us for the whole thing and especially the negative consequences, but still -- I can see the appeal.

We just want very different things. They want a deeply hierarchical society with winners and losers and little value placed on individuals for their own sake -- basically an authoritarian / r-selection society -- where as we want, like, the exact opposite...

...and I do like the idea of allowing people to choose which type of society they'd prefer to live in -- see https://instagov.com/wiki/Opt-in_market_socialism -- but there are huge logistical issues to work out in doing this... and I don't think the kindergartners whose views I'm trying to accommodate have the first clue about any of that.

As I've said many times, they're kind of proving that democratic republicanism doesn't work in the information age. We need a better system if we want to keep moving towards an egalitarian/horizontalist society.

• https://grist.org/energy/coal-use-was-dying-then-2021-happened-carbon-emissions-rise/
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/30/1043133/afghanistan-coding-bootcamp/
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cyber-ninjas-says-farewell/ar-AASCIT6

1/12 Wed

• https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072204478/donald-trump-npr-interview-presidential-election-lies-vaccines
• https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/qvc-to-lay-off-1900-following-fire-that-destroyed-rocky-mount-distribution-center/ - The Right always loves to talk about "job creators", forgetting that the same companies are often job destroyers.
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/WjcC2QW5Yctj?view=detail
• https://www.times-standard.com/2022/01/10/gavin-newsom-unveils-286-4-billion-budget-plan/ - state plans to produce its own insulin, among other things
  • https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1480940065123713024?s=21
• https://twitter.com/jemmaisOKeh/status/1480799080401932289 «The trans district was initiated by real estate developers who created a nonprofit to Trojan horse in their redevelopment of this poor immigrant queer/trans neighborhood. Activists fought against the increased policing & luxury condo development the district has openly encouraged»
  • https://cybre.space/@devurandom/107610707912058433
• https://thehill.com/homenews/house/589011-north-carolina-voters-file-suit-to-disqualify-cawthorn-from-running-for - yes please
• https://time.com/6138552/charities-funded-anti-muslim-groups-report/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107611991455352777
• https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072462477/grocery-shortage-shelves-reasons - supply-chain issues Vol. 2
• https://meduza.io/news/2022/01/12/na-yurista-ekaterinburgskogo-lgbt-tsentra-sostavili-dva-protokola-o-gey-propagande-sredi-detey
  • https://icosahedron.website/@oreolek/107612562216690408

A lawyer of the Yekaterinburg LGBT Center was reported on gay propaganda because of the mention of "hospitable administrators, free tea and snacks"

In Yekaterinburg, two protocols were drawn up against the lawyer of the Resource Center for LGBT people, Anna Plyusnina, on the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations among minors (part 2 of article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Plyusnina told about this on Facebook.

The protocols for the lawyer were drawn up on December 29, 2021. According to a copy of one of them, Plyusnina was accused of creating a website for the Queer Line of Yekaterinburg, available "for viewing by an indefinite circle of people, including those who have not reached the age of majority," and published information on events for people of "non-traditional sexual orientation" ... Thus, according to the police, the lawyer "carried out" gay propaganda.

1/13 Thu

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/mitch-mcconnell-biden-speech-reaction/index.html - building the anti-Biden narrative
• Trump Calls Out 'Gutless' Politician Who Is Definitely Not Ron DeSantis
• https://www.theroot.com/sen-mitch-mcconnell-has-convenient-short-term-memory-a-1848351619
  • https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1481647002270121986
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107615852510247363
• https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-analytics-illegal
  • https://octodon.social/@spacekookie/107615123016147748 - some discussion
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/12/1609128/-Unvaxxed-father-of-11-dies-of-COVID-You-can-t-make-up-what-happened-next - antivax wingnuttery
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/11/2074054/--A-great-triumph-for-us-California-law-giving-farmworkers-overtime-time-pay-fully-kicks-in - more good governance in CA
• https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1481082326318989312 - sketchy COVID testing site in Bellevue WA seems to be owned by Nazis
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/07/center-covid-control-testing-americans-describe-long-waits/9133310002/ - another sketchy testing outfit
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/qanon-2pac-jfk-rally-b1991777.html

1/14 Fri

• https://slate.com/business/2021/12/staircases-floor-plan-twitter-housing-apartments.html - this seems to be arguing that sacrificing safety is a good solution to the rising cost of housing...?
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/stop-fetishizing-old-homes-new-construction-nice/621012/ - ...and this feels suspicious, too.
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/13/trans-women-sports-uncomfortable-questions/ - the soft-Right (Megan McArdle) starting in again with the transmisia
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/14/a-tempting-offer/ - Minnesota still seeking settlers
• https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-13/patrisse-cullors-black-lives-matter (possibly paywalled; haven't looked)
  • https://mastodon.social/@Y3WTREE/107623475776154375 - commentary
• https://twitter.com/LifesHourGlass/status/1478932505323528192 - helpful meme about how Trump was not a great dealmaker actually
• https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/1482142802108510209 - DirecTV to drop OANN
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/directv-to-drop-one-america-news-in-blow-to-conservative-channel
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/13/2072619/-Joe-Biden-begged-people-to-vaccinate-Guess-who-she-blames-when-COVID-hits-her-hard
• 'We're not neutral on Nazism,' Indiana teacher says. Republican state senator disagrees
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/13/2074384/--Anarchy-cannot-exist-Judge-zeroes-in-on-outside-influences-in-cases-of-Derek-Chauvin-s-peers - George Floyd
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/1/2069030/-Don-t-forget-Elijah-McClain-Forced-into-chokehold-injected-for-looking-sketchy-He-is-dead-now - another police killing

1/15 Sat

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rnc-threatens-bar-candidates-participating-official-presidential-debates-n1287427 «The RNC said it wants the commission to commit to hold a debate before the start of early voting and agree not to hold any matchups after the state deadlines to mail absentee ballots to military personnel and overseas voters. The RNC is also seeking term limits for the commission's board members and a ban on partisan political activity by officials and staffers of the commission.» -- what what what?
• https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/01/12/why-doesnt-nc-have-rent-control-why-rent-control-illegal-nc/8838065002/ (alt)
• https://www.convenience.org/Media/conveniencecorner/Does-the-President-Control-Gas-Prices
• https://www.reuters.com/business/meat-packers-profit-margins-jumped-300-during-pandemic-white-house-economics-2021-12-10/
• https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/01/12/what-happens-when-the-worlds-most-populous-country-starts-to-shrink/ -- China, capitalism
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2015/08/07/our-current-tax-v-the-flat-tax-v-the-fair-tax-whats-the-difference/ - flat tax vs. FAIR Tax

1/16 Sun

• https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073338121/2020-census-interference-trump
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/Jc4SHTPw6J8h
  • https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/2020-census-data-collection-ending.html
  • My comment on ND:

It's a sign of government competence that they were able to get so much of it completed in *spite* of Trump's interference. This really gives the lie to the people who love to say that government can't do anything, government is inefficient, government is the problem, etc.

Also, it's deeply troubling that a sitting president would try to interfere with the census -- and that he would be able to do so. No executive should have that much power, GOP or Dem.

The census is an essential institution of our representative democracy; protecting it should be a priority for anyone who identifies as conservative.

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/15/texas-county-rejects-half-of-mail-in-ballot-applications-amid-new-voter-restrictions
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2015/08/07/our-current-tax-v-the-flat-tax-v-the-fair-tax-whats-the-difference/ - an explainer, mainly
• https://undark.org/2021/12/15/the-long-legacy-of-a-company-town/ - US/NC/Baden, company town, Alcoa
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90703615/i-was-rejected-357-times-before-landing-my-dream-job-heres-what-i-learned - job-hunting sucks
• https://www.wired.com/story/phones-connectivity-tax-policy/ - smartphones are effectively a tax on the poor
• https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22837830/covid-pandemic-climate-change-great-resignation-2021

1/17 Mon

• https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx - I guess people are buying the disinfo and we are doomed
• https://www.them.us/story/spironolactone-covid-19-hrt-fox-news
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-fbi-destroyed-the-careers-of-41-women-in-tv-and-radio
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/after-years-delays-and-alarmingly-flimsy-evidence-security-expert-ola-binis-trial

1/18 Tue

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/14/brian-wallach-als-advocacy-527094
• https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/ (archive.ph, archive.org)
• Durham police violence:
  • https://abc11.com/duke-hospital-shooting-at-university-durham/11471589/
  • https://abc11.com/charles-piquet-circle-k-clerk-attacked-officer-involved-shooting-durham-officer/11468994/
  • https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article257432977.html?ac_cid=DM594674&ac_bid=-1330364679
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/17/2074429/-Why-doesn-t-the-government-mandate-an-annual-flu-shot-The-answer-can-be-found-in-one-word : effectiveness not as high; also, some places do mandate it
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60015294
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107645426207479038
• https://twitter.com/l78lancer/status/1483146388846399488 «Crystal Mason casted ONE ballot unaware that her voting rights hadn't been restored and she was IMMEDIATELY sentenced to 5 years. Meanwhile, a bunch of folks tried to steal entire elections in 5 states with fake electors and STILL aren't arrested. / In 3 words or less tell me why?»
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107645426271747996
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/copyright-shouldnt-stand-way-your-right-repair
  • https://mastodon.social/@eff/107645554180659266
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/exxon-texas-courts-critics-climate-crimes «claiming that lawsuits against the company over its long history of downplaying and denying the climate crisis violate the US constitution’s guarantees of free speech.» ... «The oil giant also makes the curious claim that legal action in the California courts is an infringement of the sovereignty of Texas, where the company is headquartered.» They've obviously been studying conservoid psychology...
  • https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/107645703395763925
• https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/job/New-York-NY/Politics-Reporter--Trump-and-Trumpism_REQ-011524-1 - Trumpism
  • archive.is archive.org

1/19 Wed

• https://www.lawfirms.com/resources/environment/environment-health/cdc-members-own-more-50-patents-connected-vaccinations - this link was being used as evidence that "the CDC owns patents on the [COVID] vaccine", but it's not. The patents are owned by individuals employed by the CDC, and are patents on general techniques -- not any particular vaccine.

GOP: forcing people to do stuff is bad and unAmerican and anti-freedom!

also GOP: [wants to require sports teams to play national anthem]

• https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1483611563378499584
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107646568888227747

• 2022-01-16 MSNBC: As State Republicans Pare Back Voting Access, Manchin Blurts Obtuse Excuses (video, 6:56)
• 2022-01-19 MSNBC: NY Attorney General Taking Legal Action To Force Trumps To Answer Questions (video, 6:26): Trump organization fraud
• DeSantis's election police:
  • https://digbysblog.net/2022/01/18/election-gestapo/
  • https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/261-politics/79859507
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/18/2075392/-Special-Police-Polling-places-proposed-by-DeSantis-for-elections-in-Florida
  • https://electionlawblog.org/?p=126994
• https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-individual-income-tax-rates-and-brackets/
• https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4472

1/20 Thu

• https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html - policing for profit
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/ - Google service paywalling
• https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1483589784903712769?s=20 «Need proof that corporate mega-mergers are bad? Pull up a chair while I tell you the story of how a merger killed not just my show, but also put an entire TV network worth of workers out of a job.» AT&T Ruins Everything
• https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-electric-grid-failure-warm-up/
• https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/18/how-to-kill-a-god-captain-cook-myth-shows-how-heroes-of-empire-will-fall
• https://aeon.co/essays/economics-is-once-again-becoming-a-worldly-science - how economic theory is often just wrong

1/21 Fri

• https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fulton-supreme-court/
  • https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1484197581416771590
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107655743182084380
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/14/we-found-the-one-group-of-americans-who-are-most-likely-to-spread-fake-news-526973 «In newly published research, we found that it’s not conservatives in general who tend to promote false information, but rather a smaller subset of them who also share two psychological traits: low levels of conscientiousness and an appetite for chaos.» "low-conscientiousness conservatives"
• https://www.parents.com/kindred/black-millennial-parents-are-leaving-a-legacy-of-generational-health/
• https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/590554-bill-to-ban-lessons-making-white-students-feel-discomfort-advances-in
• https://twitter.com/TheDemCoalition/status/1484239915659534342 - taking credit for things they opposed
• https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-exposes-nationwide-racist-campaigns/ - Patriot Front
  • https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/data-leak-from-neo-nazi-site-shows-members-conspiring-in-hate-crimes/
  • https://hackers.town/@thegibson/107662242952788539
• https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/organized-facebook-s-anti-vaccine-activists-head-dc-rcna12806
  • https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/107662487109739233 - superspreader event incoming :-P

1/22 Sat

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/20/lawsuit-claims-tennessee-adoption-agency-refused-jewish-couple-discrimination/6590070001/
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200918-why-some-deadly-viruses-vanish-and-go-extinct «The strain that caused the 1918 pandemic has also disappeared...» ... «certain virus strains, like the types of Covid-19 – of which there are already at least six – might amass enough mutations that are harmful to themselves so that they disappear altogether. In India, there’s already evidence that this could be happening naturally. The virus is mutating at a staggering pace, and it’s been suggested that it might be heading for an evolutionary cliff all on its own.»
• 2022-01-20 So...TikTok Sucks (video, 24:46, Hank Green)

1/23 Sun

• outrage farming: conservoids trigered by "woke" M&Ms
  • https://au.news.yahoo.com/m-ms-fans-blast-woke-changes-to-animated-characters-005006850.html
  • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10423249/M-Ms-woke-new-versions-characters-reflect-dynamic-progressive-world.html
  • https://www.scarymommy.com/mm-characters-woke/
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-compares-vaccine-mandates-to-nazi-experiments - because of course he did. outrage farming
• https://www.axios.com/youtube-shuts-down-oath-keepers-channels-fc59ea6d-f01e-44ac-8f40-8a9cc14829a5.html
• https://www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-black-american-voters-2c108180-a8e7-412d-9473-e84cd62d609c.html
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/arizona-democratic-party-board-votes-censure-sinema-after-pro-filibuster-n1287890
• Arizona sues Biden to keep school anti-mask rules

1/24 Mon

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177 - quantitative easing
• Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science DOI: 10.1177/0963721420969364
  • https://ifp.nyu.edu/2020/journal-article-abstracts/0963721420969364/
  • https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/why-facts-are-not-enough-understanding-and-managing-the-motivated-wHjkZN0HaM?key=sage
  • https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2021/01/why-facts-are-not-enough-understanding.html
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963721420969364
• California grocery worker arrested in Iowa on charge of threatening Obama, Clinton, Fauci: stochastic terrorism and/or inductive violence
• https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/rep-plaskett-on-sen-tim-scott-who-told-him-that-black-people-voted-for-him-in-the-first-place-131501637560
  • https://twitter.com/brat2381/status/1485318434120298497
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107677980419256357
• https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/nichols-coronavirus-criminals/ - how deep-seated hierarchism got us Trump and COVID
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107677968554625620
• stochastic terrorism, COVID edition:
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2076023/-Covidiot-who-forced-London-bound-plane-to-turn-back-around-was-in-first-class
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2076142/-Another-airline-passenger-loses-it-but-this-one-is-going-down
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2075822/-Tennessee-juvenile-court-judge-who-disproportionately-jailed-Black-youth-announces-retirement -- keeping Black children in jail until their hearing date
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2075596/-Czech-folk-singer-and-anti-vaxxer-dies-after-purposefully-exposing-herself-to-COVID-19 - dunno if this quite qualifies for COVID-19/schadenfreude
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2076035/-Newly-revealed-texts-show-Sean-Hannity-knew-Trump-s-actions-after-Jan-6-were-impeachable
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2075957/-Michigan-based-company-does-right-thing-Antivaxxers-let-s-boycott-it - Carhartt
• https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dc-statehood-democrats/
  • https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1485610842817277954
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107677968491557147
• https://twitter.com/dscc/status/1485616366162001926 «Your regular reminder that ALL Republican senators voted against the American Rescue Plan and its tax cut for over 36 million American families that reduced child poverty by 40%.»
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107677968420635516
• https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/national/defense-chauvin-called-all-of-the-shots-when-floyd-killed
  • https://twitter.com/KYWNewsradio/status/1485673109655072770
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107679032782627967
• https://www.quora.com/Looking-into-being-homeless-by-choice-What-havent-I-thought-about/answer/Riley-Muriatta - voluntary homelessness
• https://www.quora.com/What-can-the-liberals-and-conservatives-do-to-settle-their-differences-and-find-common-ground/answer/Ghost-Orange
• https://rachelnstephens.com/2018/08/02/13-reasons-jesus-was-not-a-socialist/
• 2022-01-23 Take PART Presents: Toby Asai Loftus - Japanese-American Incarceration; My Mother's Story (video, 1:59:36, Toby Asai Loftus)

1/25 Tue

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/22/1564112/-This-cop-just-couldn-t-admit-the-COVID-he-mocked-was-taking-him-down - COVID schadenfreude and COVID denialist memes
• https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/01/25/nc-gops-judicial-impeachment-threats-are-a-new-low-in-trump-like-lawlessness/
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/JyhMrLygGfkF?view=detail

Gotta love the hypocrisy. "Law and order! But also LOCK HER UP and HANG HIM!" -- and now this.

[quote] Republican legislators are [...] seriously discussing the idea of impeaching Democratic members of the Supreme Court should it strike down the gerrymandered legislative and congressional maps those same lawmakers enacted late last year.

It’s hard to overstate what a treacherous act this would be. Simply put, handing down rulings with which legislators disagree is not an offense of any kind – much less an impeachable one. Indeed, few things are better established in our system of government than the right of the judiciary – and especially the Supreme Court – to determine whether acts of the General Assembly are constitutional. To strike down unconstitutionally gerrymandered electoral maps is not just the Supreme Court’s right, but its duty. [/quote]

"Law and order, but only the laws and orders we like!"

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/24/2076569/-Joe-got-caught-on-a-hot-mic-It-is-awesome - "stupid sonofabitch", but you can hear the questions better
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZHdUs3BqQ - Beau's commentary
• https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/01/24/1527214/facebook-promised-free-internet-access-but-users-got-charged-anyway
• https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/01/22/1958245/amazon-activists-firing-deemed-illegal-by-labor-board-officials
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminwolff/2022/01/14/what-is-the-value-of-an-artist-for-tech-consultancy-thoughtworks-its-a-lot/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/24/2076475/-Sarah-Palin-ordered-to-take-a-COVID-test-ahead-of-trial-in-NYC-and-y-all-know-what-happened-next - more law-and-order
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbzpw/joe-biden-formally-backs-right-to-repair
  • https://twitter.com/DrAndrewThaler/status/1486021570023804929?s=20

1/26 Wed

• https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/24/mark-cuban-cost-plus-pharmacy-lower-prices-reduce-stress/
• https://twitter.com/SusanWeindel/status/1486223175386112003 - person claiming that vaccine deaths are a serious issue
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107689229183702324
  • Following the thread back up to AFP's original tweets (AFP = Agence France-Presse), the first tweet sounds like it's claiming the CDC has been reporting unreliable information -- but the follow-up tweets seem to support the idea that there has been a lot of disinformation around those reports.
  • https://gnusocial.net/notice/10797544 : A theory about the "vaccine injury" claim
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/child-tax-credit-brain-function.html
• https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073215412/christian-nationalism-donald-trump
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/xk_KwdtyyY8-?view=detail
• https://www.si.com/golf-archives/2022/01/25/luc-esquivel-trans-sports-ban-boys-and-mens-teams-daily-cover - more sports transmisia
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/25/2076717/-Linda-Willis-found-a-crane-operator-poised-to-tear-down-her-home-Only-it-wasn-t-hers-anymore - home theft
• https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL%5B1%5D-ben_1468872234.pdf - GOP 2016 platform (there was no 2020 platform, afaik) containing numerous errors of fact
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/25/vaccine-mandate-supreme-court-covid/ «It’s abundantly clear that vaccines at the very least help reduce the intensity of covid-19. The booster helps even more. Most vaccinated people evade infection entirely, probably in part because they also take other precautions, such as distancing and masking. Those who’ve died of covid over the past several months were almost exclusively unvaccinated. / All of this is known to nearly everyone by now — and the scientific evidence has been convincing enough for me to endure a few hours of inconvenience. Beats dying. Yet, only 62 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, and many are rabidly opposed to getting a shot. “This is war,” I’ve heard people say on both sides of the issue. Sensibly speaking, are you people insane?» -- "conservative" columnist Kathleen Parker
  • https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1474984609045692418
• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/american-insurrection/ American Insurrection PBS documentary
  • https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=213096406&is=neighbor_profile
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/25/2076732/-Borough-council-in-Pennsylvania-becomes-first-in-state-to-revoke-LGBTQ-protections
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/26/2076867/--This-is-a-ban-on-Black-history-Dozens-of-Republican-bills-aim-to-gag-teachers-and-censor-history
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/26/2076709/-California-redwood-forest-returned-to-Indigenous-tribes-for-protection

1/27 Thu

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/25/2076550/-New-York-woman-who-spat-on-children-said-Hitler-should-have-killed-you-all-has-been-arrested - antisemitism
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/27/2077091/-When-you-re-under-investigation-for-malpractice-just-legalize-it-a-Kansas-Republican-decides «Republican senator Mark Steffen admitted that his license as an anesthesiologist was under investigation after he had prescribed COVID positive individuals drugs, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and found himself in hot water with the Kansas board of Healing Arts. There is a solution to this problem: create a piece of legislation that forces pharmacists to fill a prescription for ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine they disagree with, and immunize the doctor and the pharmacy from any liability from adverse effects. Also, lay void to any claim by the board of healing art against a doctor who made prescriptions against recommendations for COVID.»
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/26/2076836/-From-The-Atlantic-The-anti-vaccine-right-has-literally-brought-human-sacrifice-to-the-United-States - there's no longer even a pure-greed profit-motive reason for opposing mask/vaccine mandates

1/28 Fri

• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stephen-breyer-tried-to-compromise-on-an-increasingly-uncompromising-supreme-court/
• https://www.vox.com/22894978/covid-19-vaccine-lives-saved-deaths-avoided-omicron-chart
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-says-kamala-harris-vp-struggles-are-typical-female-problem - misogyny
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pittsburgh-bridge-collapses-ahead-bidens-visit-talk-infrastructure-rcna13934
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10438243/New-Virginia-Governor-launches-tip-line-report-teachers-teaching-divisive-subjects.html
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/25/2076795/-Virginia-Gov-Youngkin-set-up-email-hotline-to-expose-CRT-teachers-it-s-not-going-as-planned
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/ghost-forests-are-sprouting-up-along-the-atlantic-coast - ghost forests, a result of sea-level rise, largely due to global warming

1/29 Sat

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/27/2077163/-Sixth-grader-who-wrote-to-Tennessee-governor-opposing-permitless-gun-law-is-killed-by-stray-bullet - gun control
• https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/01/28/2226244/samsung-spilled-up-to-763k-gallons-of-sulfuric-acid-waste-into-austin-tributary
• rising water levels:
  • https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure/
  • https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-great-lakes-are-higher-than-they-ve-ever-been-and-we-re-not-sure-what-will-happen-next
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/21/2047330/-Real-Time-with-Bill-Maher-has-become-unwatchable

1/30 Sun

• 2021-10-07 Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948–2020
• COVID disinfo: https://www.oann.com/non-covid-deaths-among-americans-in-prime-of-life-are-up-140-above-normal-since-vaccines-introduced/ -- this is a video, so I can't quickly check how they're claiming this
• https://www.oann.com/election-irregularities-loom-large-in-mich-ahead-of-2022-primary/ - drumming the beat for voter fraud
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/farmers-flourish-under-biden-see-recovery-trump-era-trade-wars-n1288044 - farmers doing well under Biden
  • https://www.oann.com/u-s-crop-insurance-payouts-rise-sharply-as-climate-change-worsens-droughts-floods/ -- farmers doing poorly under Biden, because of climate change, which is now apparently an actual problem that they will admit to.
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/08/02/hot-car-deaths-why-they-keep-happening-and-how-stop-them/1861389001/ «More than 900 children have died in hot cars in the U.S. since 1990. Yearly, 38 kids die on average. That's one every nine days, according to KidsAndCars.org, which tracks hot car deaths.»
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/10/baby-left-car-dies-texas-20th-hot-car-death-year/8279543002/ «A majority of this year's hot car deaths have been the result of parents or caregivers accidentally leaving their children unattended inside cars.»
  • manslaughter charges:
    • https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article254268498.html - charged with involuntary manslaughter
  • murder charges:
    • https://people.com/crime/toddler-heatstroke-hot-car-2020-mom-charged-murder/ «Natalie Broussard was indicted last month on a second-degree murder charge in connection with her son's 2020 death.»
  • The one example of a murder conviction seems to be Murder of Cooper Harris:
    • https://www.wtoc.com/2022/01/18/court-hear-appeal-ga-man-convicted-sons-hot-car-death/
    • https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/lawyer-argues-justin-ross-harris-wrongly-convicted-in-hot-car-case/VIKLC5LOTRBLLAIUUFG72FIOOA/
    • https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/five-years-later-hot-car-death-saga-still-haunts/8PODkIzEC0TWS1EtWDSiuK/
• troll phrases to add: legislating common sense, legislating morality

1/31 Mon

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/us/politics/democrats-dark-money-donors.html
  • https://twitter.com/i/events/1487828169474277377
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/dark-money-sixteen-thirty-fund-522781
  • https://www.sixteenthirtyfund.org/
• https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/nc-nonprofit-hospitals-under-scrutiny-for-billing-millions-to-poor-patients/ «State Treasurer Folwell said after surviving a battle with COVID, he allowed his own medical bills to go into collections to try to better understand the plight of those struggling to payoff a sizable hospital bill.»
• https://twitter.com/facingsouth/status/1488145541762539527?s=21 - COVID aid helped rural hospitals in the South stay open
• https://jezebel.com/florida-judge-tried-to-deny-teen-abortion-over-her-gpa-1848419163 (original URL
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/26/2076959/-Right-wing-terrorists-increasingly-have-eye-on-electrical-infrastructure-as-target-DHS-warns
• 2022-01-31 A new law expanding access to birth control is about to take effect in North Carolina «Under a new law, passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, North Carolina will join more than a dozen other states in allowing pharmacists to dispense birth control pills and patches without the signature of a patient’s physician.» Who knew NC Republicans were still capable of reasonable legislation?
  • https://twitter.com/newsobserver/status/1488166043356995585?s=21
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/29/2076482/-Woman-Gets-Accosted-Buying-A-Homeless-Man-Water-And-Started-A-Revolution-In-The-Convenience-Store

February

2/1 Tue

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/31/2077870/-previous-guy-is-the-bane-of-the-National-Archives-keeping-records-and-taking-names
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/1/2077968/-Donald-Trump-vs-Scotch-tape-a-true-tale-of-transparency
• The cost of COVID disinfo:
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/28/1543287/-She-didn-t-feel-led-to-vaccinate-but-was-totally-fine-with-sketchy-India-sourced-Ivermectin
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/29/2077533/-Anti-vax-WA-state-trooper-dies-of-COVID-after-telling-the-Governor-to-k-my
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/30/2077665/-Another-desperately-ill-anti-vaxxer-says-no-to-an-organ-transplant-because-he-was-born-free

2/2 Wed

• https://www.axios.com/coup-attemps-countries-around-world-e14f76d2-16b1-43da-8411-6f8fc07cec84.html -- the chart doesn't really support this claim, tho.
• https://therealnews.com/international-support-grows-for-mexicos-lawsuit-against-us-gun-makers
• https://therealnews.com/south-african-healthcare-workers-battle-covid-and-workplace-violence
• https://therealnews.com/california-single-payer-bill-withdrawn-at-the-last-minute-progressives-vow-to-fight-like-hell
• https://therealnews.com/court-blocks-railroad-workers-from-striking-over-draconian-attendance-policy
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/u-s-postal-workers-were-on-the-front-lines-before-they-were-ignored
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qphg5DhDdyw - DeSantis sees Nazis as a Dem political game
• https://news.yahoo.com/dangerous-trump-burn-down-mode-002648578.html

2/3 Thu

• https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-01/biden-reagan-supreme-court-politics - Reagan only nominated Sandra Day O'Connor in order to deal with his approval gap among women

2/4 Fri

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/1/2076551/-Michigan-GOP-candidates-suggest-unplugging-tabulation-machines-showing-up-armed-at-polling-places - Known insurrectionist and ally of Trump (and other Confederate statues) Ryan Kelley has «urged voters to unplug tabulation machines if something doesn’t look right.» Another candidate, Mike Detmer, has urged voters to show up armed when voting.
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/uk/boris-johnson-aides-quit-intl/index.html «just days after a damning investigation revealed that multiple parties took place at Downing Street while the rest of the United Kingdom was living under strict Covid-19 lockdown rules.»
• 1993-03 The Psychological Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident: Findings from the International Atomic Energy Agency Study
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/fourth-school-accused-of-secretly-helping-children-turn-transgender_4243398.html - facepalm
• https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/413PA21.pdf - NC Supreme Court strikes down gerrymandered maps
  • https://twitter.com/EveryVoiceNC/status/1489745075668193280
  • https://twitter.com/joshstein_/status/1489735069422002180?s=21
  • Nextdoor comment:

It turns out there's an amusing, hoist-by-their-own-petard story to this too.[1]

Basically, the GOP tried to stack the NCSC by splitting the Dem vote -- they funded efforts to recruit more Dem candidates, then changed the rules just for 2018 to eliminate the judicial primary, so there would be one GOPer running against several Dems.

They also added partisan labels (R/D) for the judge seat, so naive GOP voters would know who to vote for.

But then the Dems coalesced around Anita Earls, and the one other Dem candidate (Chris Anglin) apparently switched parties at that point[2] -- leaving the ballot as 2 Rs vs 1 D.

...and remember, it was the the Rs who got rid of the primary, because they were hoping the lack of winnowing would favor them.

If they had succeeded, we would be looking at a win today for the gerrymandered maps, instead of the well-deserved loss we thankfully got.

-- Footnotes --

1. https://twitter.com/taniel/status/1489756692632031233?s=21
2. https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/anglin-will-appear-on-ticket-as-republican-judge-rules/(edited)

• Chris Anglin:
  • https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/anglin-will-appear-on-ticket-as-republican-judge-rules/
  • https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/ncgop-chris-anglin-ninth-congressional-district/
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Chris_Anglin

2/5 Sat

• https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber - sexist gaslighting at Uber
• https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-thomas-jefferson-created-his-own-bible
  • wikisource:The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

2/6 Sun

• https://www.cityam.com/mark-zuckerberg-and-team-consider-shutting-down-facebook-and-instagram-in-europe-if-meta-can-not-process-europeans-data-on-us-servers/ - oh please oh please...
  • https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107750951652610238

2/7 Mon

• https://www.aei.org/op-eds/remembering-the-black-woman-biden-blocked-from-the-supreme-court/ - the Right trying to prove that Biden is a hypocrite for being all about nominating the first Black female USSC justice after having opposed Janice Rogers Brown...
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-is-janice-rogers-brown-black-dc-circuit-judge-biden-blocked-from-appointment/ar-AATg3t3 - when actually, he blocked JRB for good reasons, and we're glad he did
• This seems like an important object lesson in the dangers of ignorance: Goiânia accident -- "what you don't know can't hurt you" -- well, actually...
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/hbcus-long-target-racial-backlash-rcna14382 - historic racism

2/8 Tue

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/02/08/youd-think-harvard-professors-would-be-more-thoughtful-than-this/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107762429160367668
• https://rachelnstephens.com/2018/08/02/13-reasons-jesus-was-not-a-socialist/ - I wonder if Bart Ehrman has anything to say about this...
• conservoid takes:
  • https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-administration-distributes-syringes-and-crack-smoking-kits-for-equity
    • https://www.thedailybeast.com/free-crack-pipes-myth-rooted-in-false-free-beacon-report
      • probable source: https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/
  • reality: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2022/02/23/nc-experts-explain-how-safe-smoking-kits-reduce-harm-from-drug-use/
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/tell-copyright-office-who-really-affected-filters - filters take money from artists and give it to corporations
  • https://retro.social/@ajroach42/107765279491776124

2/9 Wed

• https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220127/11095248368/australia-pays-20-million-to-buy-copyright-aboriginal-flag-still-not-public-domain.shtml - (see moral rights)
  • The problem is the discrepancy between how the flag was presented to the public (representative of Aboriginees) and how it was viewed by the law (property of Some Dude).
  • https://slashdot.org/story/22/02/07/1920257/australia-pays-20-million-to-buy-the-copyright-of-aboriginal-flag-but-its-still-not-public-domain
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/02/09/every-time-jesus-this-pandemic-will-never-end/ - the mandates are working, so let's stop doing them
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107768441957720967
• https://genderanalysis.net/2022/02/contra-social-contagion-why-online-community-among-trans-people-saves-our-lives-and-terrifies-our-enemies/ by Zinnia Jones
  • https://lgbt.io/@porsupah/107769560297531076

2/10 Thu

• labor abuse:
  • https://www.upcounsel.com/mandatory-overtime
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/ $
  • https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018634768/frito-lay-workers-are-in-the-third-week-of-a-strike-over-wages-and-working-condi
• https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127541835/customer-backlash-for-grocery-store-owners-on-stewart-island - a pair of shop owners in NZ have apparently swallowed COVID denialism
  • https://mastodon.social/@natecull/107771673782635508
• the COVID-denialist trucker blockade in Ottawa
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60293708
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJzFo6-xO4Q Beau 1/3
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOHGhn0o_pI Beau 2/3
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw2CDzAU7EA Beau 3/3
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/10/2079624/-The-truck-convoy-protest-in-Canada-is-more-frightening-exactly-because-it-is-so-small - is this a form of asymmetric warfare / terrorism?
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/14/2080366/-Sheeple-ranching-rams-on-the-convoy-ranchettes-like-pigmy-ponies-and-the-dental-floss-bushes - pwned by counterprotesters
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/15/2080586/-Canadian-truckers-with-guns-make-the-terms-of-disobedience-clearer-or-not
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-may-taken-classified-documents-120402679.html
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/9/2079412/-Evangelical-preacher-given-carte-blanche-access-to-minors-at-Christ-or-hell-style-school-revival separation of church and state wuts that
• https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/535291-biden-changes-white-house-website-to-be-more-inclusive
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/6Yb8ynJPfbCb?view=detail
• https://twitter.com/ExileGrimm/status/1491496240214913029 - yes, Dave Chappelle actually is a problem.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/15/2080457/-Miami-Police-stopped-drivers-and-gave-them-fliers-taking-them-to-a-Trump-merch-website - Miami police like Trump (multiple incidents)
• https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1080890000/senate-republicans-nominations-federal-reserve-sarah-bloom-raskin-inflation - GOP blocking Dem nominations again
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sandy-hook-families-reach-settlement-gunmaker-remington-rcna16274 - the Remington settlement

2/11 Fri

• https://twitter.com/dupworkersunion/status/1492169781016997895?s=21 Duke University Press votes to unionize

2/12 Sat

• https://www.quora.com/If-you-think-CRT-is-taught-in-K-12-What-is-something-that-CRT-actually-teaches-in-K-12-that-you-are-against-and-why/answer/Matthew-Bates-27 - a teacher misunderstands privilege
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/10/2079719/-Trump-boxes-taken-from-White-House-included-top-secret-and-above-top-secret-documents - but isn't there a process for declassifying?
• https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-considers-database-pregnant-people-104500069.html - not totalitarian at all, nope
• https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-marco-rubio-teamed-065321767.html - driving the "free crack pipes" narrative (TheHill, Business Insider)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8DA1LuZFk
    • https://nextdoor.com/p/nQgzHzNJ-LFS
  • https://goodwordnews.com/democrats-please-stop-falling-for-bad-faith-attacks/
• AZ HB2161:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXljyJIXmzU - Beau
  • https://legiscan.com/AZ/research/HB2161
  • https://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/arizona-bill-would-punish-teachers-for-keeping-student-confidences-from-parents/article_432c7416-7df9-11ec-8041-a758bafa88a6.html
• IN HB1134:
  • https://twitter.com/karenh7463/status/1492142607740248064 - a teacher in NW Indiana describes how it will impact teaching
• FL HB 1557:
  • flsenate.gov
  • https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/590838-house-committee-in-florida-passes-dont-say-gay-bill
  • https://www.hrc.org/news/florida-senate-passes-dont-say-gay-or-trans-bill-legislation-heads-to-desantis-desk-for-signature-or-veto
• https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/592851-mississippi-library-denied-funding-over-lgbtq-books-raises Mississippi library was ordered to remove LGBTQ+ books («Mayor Gene McGee, of Ridgeland, Miss., late last month said he would be withholding public funds totaling $110,000 from the library until it removes the books, citing his personal religious beliefs.»), refused, had its funding taken away -- fundraiser has replaced that
• https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/593084-tennessee-pastor-burns-witchcraft-harry-potter
• https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/593686-texas-gop-candidate-says-she-is-not-comfortable

2/13 Sun

• https://medium.com/@fullrev_82887/attack-on-portland-police-during-2020-protests-was-grossly-exaggerated-b56b339e477a «More than a third of the 34 reports of injuries were self-inflicted injuries. These injuries consisted of tripping, falling, injuring self when tackling protesters, and pain due to wearing protective and duty gear for prolonged periods of time»
  • https://newsbots.eu/@itsgoingdown/107789558796033958
• https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1492276418771832832 - Russia's information war against the US

2/15 Tue

• techsploitation:
  • https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
    • https://dragon.style/@anthracite/107804295795566925
  • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now
    • https://mastodon.social/@eff/107804688608819753
• https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becomes-your-landlord - equity ownership of everything
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z - global warming/effects
• https://assemblyfour.com/switter-public-statement - switter, information laws
  • https://tenforward.social/@packetcat/107799419055231256

2/16 Wed

• https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/02/15/2239206/sfpd-puts-rape-victims-dna-into-database-used-to-find-criminals-da-alleges - industrial-strength victim-blaming
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcsA2q37p7s
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tip-off-from-a-nazi-that-saved-my-grandparents - history (might have already stashed this story in its original publication)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/16/1457876/-Racist-woman-left-the-hospital-died-alone-begging-for-someone-to-call-her-priest - wingnuttery roundup
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/16/2080630/-Owning-a-home-in-FL-becomes-a-thing-of-the-past-as-costs-skyrocket-out-of-control - we didn't need to wait for global warming to accomplish this, because capitalism got there first!

2/17 Thu

• all the John Durham stuff:
  • https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-white-house-spying
  • https://yallpolitics.com/2021/11/09/lipson-john-durham-is-getting-close-to-the-jugular/
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/15/2080427/-Latest-filing-from-Durham-adds-no-indictments-to-anyone-Trump-is-calling-for-the-death-penalty - narrative-building through abuse of power
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220218024426/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/us/durham-right-wing-media-trump.html
    • https://nextdoor.com/p/5MKDcqKS2FWs?view=detail
• https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-02-16/bryan-cranston-interview-power-of-sail-geffen-playhouse - white privilege
• https://twitter.com/sbworkersunited/status/1493712624898433033?s=21 - Starbucks union: Carolinas are now on the map
• https://twitter.com/DrSprankle/status/1494388724217569287 - running for governor on the "Jesus, Guns, Babies" platform
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfrXuaIkqE - Tina Peters
• https://t.co/RaaEGNbmvu - masks will be optional in NC schools by March 7

2/18 Fri

• Defendant tests positive for COVID-19 after judge refuses mask and bans doctor from using one
• https://mississippitoday.org/2022/02/02/mississippi-only-critical-race-theory/ - critical race theory
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856HTuk1Spo - anti-mask-mandate protest
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/briefing/red-covid-partisan-deaths-vaccines.html - the partisan deaths-gap is still widening
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/who-created-maslow-s-iconic-pyramid - hierarchy of needs
• https://twitter.com/beautfc/status/1493781019375276037 - it'd be difficult to find a clearer example of racial profiling. Who initiated physical contact? And who was the one taken away as being the problem?

2/19 Sat

• https://nypost.com/2022/02/13/hillary-clinton-campaign-paid-tech-workers-to-dig-up-donald-trump-russia-connections/ - apparently this is a problem for the conservoids
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/Db98LwGPb7y7?view=detail
• https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/02/duke-university-durham-ifc-alpha-delta-phi-fraternities-parties-durham-residents-petition-trespassing
• https://maxread.substack.com/p/mapping-the-celebrity-nft-complex
• https://twitter.com/wellslucassanto/status/1488372471900168193?s=21 - racist NFTs
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/youtube-wants-to-bring-nfts-to-its-platform-touts-it-as-a-way-for-creators-to-make-more-money/ar-AATJd7C?ocid=BingNews

2/20 Sun

• https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/press-release-on-the-eve-of-washington - COVID wingnuttery
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/eighty-years-late-groundbreaking-work-on-slave-economy-is-finally-published-in-uk - Capitalism and Slavery

2/21 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/I-thought-the-USA-was-a-democracy-yet-some-answers-I-have-received-state-that-the-USA-is-not-a-democracy-What-is-correct/answer/Alex-Denethorn -- good answer to "the US is a republic, not a democracy"
• https://www.axios.com/january-jobs-report-omicron-0dad51ce-6bec-4890-a413-20b790015f65.html - jobs soar in January

2/22 Tue

• https://twitter.com/ur_ninja/status/1496193496323354624 «Today the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Energy Transfer, the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). / This leaves in place a federal ruling that DAPL was illegally permitted and a new Environmental Impact Study (EIS) is needed.»

• https://www.knoe.com/2022/02/17/fight-over-subpoena-trumps-testimony-heads-court/
  • https://www.sperrybaseballlife.com/stay-at-17-inches/ «The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate!» ...so we should increase public school funding, right?
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/starbucks-tries-to-delay-union-elections-but-misses-legal-deadline-by-8-minutes_n_62104854e4b0f2c343f48992?1agq
  • https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1496141751656062976?s=21
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/11/watergate-secret-history-garrett-graff-gordon-liddy-operation-gemstone-00007927 - [[Watergate], G. Gordon Liddy
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/17/inside-taliban-return-to-power-afghanistan-mazar-i-sherif

2/23 Wed

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/02/23/new-creationist-arguments-same-as-the-old-creationist-arguments/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107847418385244435
• https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1496273533722316803 - Republican dissent from Adam Kinzinger
• https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/medicaid-expansion-committee-ncga/ - issues around Medicaid expansion in NC (TLDR: errorism)
  • https://twitter.com/indyweek/status/1496560634716172294
• book burning:
  • https://www.ns-dokuzentrum-muenchen.de/en/documentation-center/historical-site/memorial-the-blacklist/book-burnings-1933/
  • https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/50038/11-book-burning-stories-will-break-your-heart
  • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/11/virginia-school-board-members-call-public-book-burning-gay-books/
  • https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/2/07/gay-man-burned-bible-protest-tennessee-book-burning
• https://talentculture.com/a-modern-day-book-burning-why-is-diversity-training-so-controversial/
• the rentsplosion:
  • https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-us-news-miami-florida-a4717c05df3cb0530b73a4fe998ec5d1
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/business/economy/spokane-housing-expensive-cities.html $

2/24 Thu

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/23/2081997/-100-000-MAGA-tricked-into-getting-fake-Trump-app-that-charges-29-for-Premium - Truth Social: it is proven yet again that Trumpism's market is gullible people
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107853116243119054
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/22/2081727/-Fox-News-Neil-Cavuto-says-second-round-of-COVID-19-almost-killed-him-vaccine-saved-his-life
• https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-1cf5-d281-a7ff-3ffd5f4a0000
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/22/2081670/-Rick-Scott-makes-the-Republican-fascist-agenda-public
• https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1048522086/border-patrol-apprehensions-hit-a-record-high-but-thats-only-part-of-the-story
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/23/2081929/-Prosecutors-Resign-from-NY-DA-Case-Against-Trump
• 2022-02-19 Google employees protest company’s Durham wage policy. Here’s why they’re upset.
• https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/hiking-and-backpacking/thru-hike-appalachian-trail-transgender-woman/
• https://trumpersaretraitors.quora.com/If-Dems-don-t-understand-the-Border-how-could-they-grasp-Climate-Change-Inflation-or-Military-Operations-76 - excellent takedown of Trump's Mexico border wall
• https://trumpersaretraitors.quora.com/Why-do-liberals-support-public-housing-even-though-it-would-harm-the-character-of-our-neighborhoods-and-introduce-more-c
• https://www.splcenter.org/search?keyword=antifa - SPLC has a lot of articles about antifa
• https://www.news9.com/story/6217ebdf3ab0b60729551579/reports:-us-sen-jim-inhofe-to-resign-seat-next-week - Jim Inhofe
• https://www.salon.com/2022/02/11/joe-walsh-on-what-the-left-doesnt-get-trumpworld-would-happily-this-country-down/ «These people, the Trump folks, the Republican voters of today, they would happily burn this country down to get the country they want. They would happily do it. And they tell me that. I don't think the folks who watch CNN and MSNBC every night really understand that fact.» Actually, I got that message sometime during 45's reign of error, I believe.

2/25 Fri

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220127133156/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/redistricting-mini-golf/ how politicians tilt elections using maps

2/26 Sat

• Russia/invasion of Ukraine (links now moved there)
• https://www.myeasternshoremd.com/dorchester_star/news/cambridge-based-safe-chain-solutions-implicated-in-massive-counterfeit-hiv-drug-scheme/article_e0fb7251-601d-552a-8f41-aefa07e15def.html - yet one more reason why pharma regulation is important
• Starbucks unionizing:
  • 2022-01-06 Arizona Starbucks Workers EXPOSE Union-Busting Tactics
  • 2021-12-14 @SBWorkersUnited: Starbucks trying psyops against 3 Buffalo stores
  • https://perfectunion.us/map-where-are-starbucks-workers-unionizing/
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/12/rhodes-scholar-barista-fight-unionize-starbucks/ $
• 2022-02-26 6:45 / 13:46 BRIAN TYLER COHEN INTERVIEWS PRESIDENT BIDEN: Ukraine is a big topic

2/27 Sun

• https://www.vox.com/22939038/rents-rising-home-prices-americans-moving-residential-stagnation-stuck-mobility-freedom - Just from the title and a quick skim, this seems to be promoting a narrative that residential stability is bad and residential stability is a cause of economic stagnation -- rather than the reality:
  • residential stability is good (more sustainable, more efficient, more mentally healthy)
  • the existence of the "housing market" creates the real-estate industry, which actively promotes residential instability (via instability-promoting laws and via profit-driven bank loans which raise prices for everyone) and feeds off the resulting waste
  • the specific residential stability it's talking about is a result of economic chaos: people being unable to leave even though they want to
  • people only want to leave where they currently live when economic conditions have declined there. Obviously they (or their parents) originally *wanted* to be there.
• https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107871092861720121
  • https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/01/you-are-here/ - the antitrust case against Amazon
  • https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/amazon-primes-free-shipping-promise

2/28 Mon

• https://www.judicialwatch.org/jw-victory-asheville/ - conservoid take on something (what?)
• 2022-02-26 The COVID Blackout Has Begun (archive.org): this doesn't seem exactly wrong, but it feels like it might be an exaggeration. Does present evidence, though.
• https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/107877455689228050
  • https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/un-climate-report-urges-world-adapt-now-or-suffer-later-2022-02-28/
  • https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/epa-supreme-court-power-plant-clean-air-act-agency - West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency

March

3/1 Tue

• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/02/australias-anti-vaccine-groups-switch-focus-to-putin-praise-and-ukraine-conspiracies - because some people just have no sense
  • https://mastodon.social/@natecull/107884124244202322

3/2 Wed

• https://www.wired.com/story/trapped-in-silicon-valleys-hidden-caste-system/ - India's caste system follows workers even when they move to the US
  • https://mastodon.social/@Y3WTREE/107887076632222940
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/03/02/boebert-state-of-union-heckle-disrespected-veterans/9336615002/
  • https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/lauren-boebert-2656827455/
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107888331362716812
• https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1499028265817755649 - Newsmax praising Putin in December
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107888092250783708

3/3 Thu

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-invasion-deepens-republican-divide - is there any real difference between this and the Trump schism?
• https://abc13.com/us-rep-van-taylor-plano-texas-reelection-campaign-isis-bride/11615236/
• https://twitter.com/nyguild/status/1499514958597574663?s=21 - New York Times union
• https://twitter.com/moderna_tx/status/1486702116102193161 - mRNA vaccine for HIV

3/4 Fri

• https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fox-weather-murdoch/2021/10/23/id/1041707/ - Woke Fox News planning to embrace global warming, shock horror
• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/sacklers-will-pay-up-6-bln-resolve-purdue-opioid-lawsuits-mediator-2022-03-03/
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/politics/florida-senate-abortion-bill-15-week-ban/index.html - Florida bans abortions after 15 weeks
• https://religionnews.com/2022/03/03/in-l-a-atheist-lookouts-remove-religious-signage-from-streets-and-freeway-overpasses/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107898785005129972
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP74RBTE8kI Jon Stewart on how Redditors exposed the stock market (GameStop, among other things)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhWOOwhVjig Rebecca Watson on the science behind puberty blockers (spoiler: they are reversible with no known long-term adverse effects)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/27/2082599/-Heritage-continues-pushing-and-grifting-the-Critical-Race-Panic-Hoax
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/3/2083576/-Trump-turns-on-Putin-calls-invasion-holocaust
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/3/2083448/-Ex-Pompeo-spokesperson-congressional-wannabe-owned-on-questions-about-the-district-she-s-running-in - Morgan Ortagus
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/4/2083830/-Ukraine-update-The-level-of-hate-to-Ukrainians-is-mind-boggling - even if a lot of Russians are against the invasion, a lot of Russians are for it (for bad reasons).
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: «proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved she was correct.» This might not be sexism; think of what happened to the guy who discovered continental drift.
• https://www.kcrg.com/app/2022/03/03/live-gov-reynolds-sign-transgender-sports-bill-into-law/ - transmisia in Iowa

3/5 Sat

• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/floridas-desantis-scolds-students-for-wearing-masks-weve-got-to-stop-with-this-covid-theater-01646259603 - the Right is learning to misappropriate terms from the Left
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/3/2083617/-DeSantis-in-hot-water-with-parents-after-video-of-him-pressuring-students-to-remove-masks-goes-viral
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/3/2083557/-Tucker-Carlson-unloads-racist-rant-on-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083151/-Black-father-shot-killed-after-Texas-bounty-hunters-in-plainclothes-blocked-his-car
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083239/-Idaho-s-lieutenant-governor-wants-you-to-know-she-doesn-t-agree-with-antisemites-just-their-ideas
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/1/2033207/-TRUE-BLUE-REPORT-Learning-the-real-history-of-this-country-would-break-you - American dishonor
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/3/2083667/-These-are-the-reports-coming-out-no-doubt-in-my-mind-Ukraine-has-Putin-by-the-nuts-man
• https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-just-endorsed-an-oath-keepers-plan-to-seize-control-of-the-republican-party - the Trump self-coup continues
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107898832699522620
• https://www.rawstory.com/putin-invasion-ukraine/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107898774449225746
• https://www.businessinsider.com/capitalism-tiktok-america-productivity-job-mental-health-great-resignaton-antiwork-2022-2
• https://www.axios.com/trump-blowing-truth-social-launch-c2d4f1f0-5440-478a-acfa-b9462b64568c.html
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107887790135621737
• Russia/Ukraine:
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083241/-Putin-didn-t-invade-Ukraine-during-Trump-s-term-because-Trump-was-already-doing-the-damage-he-wanted
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083087/-Cartoon-Bad-Ukraine-takes
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083156/-Fiona-Hill-on-Putin-Every-time-you-think-No-he-wouldn-t-would-he-Well-yes-he-would
  • https://www.quora.com/If-Putin-is-indeed-the-real-aggressor-here-and-I-can-show-you-that-he-is-not-wouldnt-this-be-just-another-imperialist-war-one-of-which-was-the-US-aggressor-war-on-Iraq-and-another-one-the-US-aggressor-war-on-Vietnam/answer/Alexander-Finnegan - Russia/Ukraine history
  • https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/thursday-feb-24-scoreboard-fox-news-is-no-1-during-ukraine-coverage-has-highest-rated-day-in-more-than-1-year/501943/
  • https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-praise$
  • https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/
  • https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-steering-republican-opinion-support-vladimir-putin-polling-shows-he
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbdqq/crypto-exchanges-refuse-to-freeze-all-russian-accounts
    • https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107878181510091900
  • https://kyivdeclaration.org/
    • https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107877756315490330
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083264/-Far-right-convoy-ends-up-a-near-total-bust
• https://transmom.love/@elilla/107840552732818191 - Kenya speech at the UN (YouTube link)
• https://19thnews.org/2022/02/ken-paxton-texas-trans-kids-families/
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107887790065136150 - ProPublica «The state subjected Arianna to a humiliating & expensive child welfare case. / She had to take an IQ test & a word-recognition test, checking her for “mental deficiency/retardation.” / She was also asked whether she binge eats or “gets very sexual.”»

3/7 Mon

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-20th-century-history-behind-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-180979672/
• https://crimethinc.com/2022/03/07/war-in-ukraine-ten-lessons-from-syria-syrian-exiles-on-how-their-experience-can-inform-resistance-to-the-invasion
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/lord-of-the-rings-debunking-the-backlash-against-non-white-actors-in-amazon-s-new-adaption

3/9 Wed

• https://apnews.com/article/dont-say-gay-bill-passes-florida-legislature-b173917e985833963e45a8d0464a4399
• https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-blames-biden-gas-prices-pushing-russian-oil/story?id=83324400
• Truth Social:
  • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/unlike-the-congressman-devin-nunes-cow-account-wont-quit.html
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/5/2084082/-Surprise-Trump-s-Truth-Social-is-floundering-and-the-big-ocher-oaf-is-fuming-about-it

3/10 Fri

• https://chinaworldleader.quora.com/VERY-VERY-LONG-POST-ON-THE-RUSSIAN-SITUATION-AFTER-DELETING-ALL-MY-RUSSIAN-CONTENT-When-the-Russian-offensive-in-Ukra - example of a staunchly pro-Russian take (is this actually someone with a history of pro-Russian posting, or are they just claiming they had some in order to give themselves plausibility, conveniently "taken down" now so its nonexistence can't be used as evidence of them being a fly-by-night?)
  • Also note the nationalism of talking in terms of a unitary Russia (as if the people all agree with Putin, and as if the hate against Putin's actions is hate against Russians).
• Brittney Griner:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/opinions/brittney-griner-detainment-russia-joseph/index.html
  • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/why-isnt-brittney-griner-the-biggest-sports-story.html
• https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220307-janet-sobel-the-woman-written-out-of-history - erasure of women
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/10/2085245/-Hannity-you-also-recognize-Putin-is-evil-do-you-not-Previous-guy-crickets
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/10/2085142/-Grand-Canyon-Sized-Cracks-Forming-On-Russian-State-TV
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-russias-state-tv-admits-ukraine-disaster-has-putin-in-trouble
• https://www.quora.com/Do-libertarians-seriously-believe-that-homelessness-is-not-a-problem-that-needs-fixing-because-homeless-people-should-just-get-a-job/answer/Murphy-Barrett - yep, that indeed sounds like the libertarian non-solution to homelessness
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/9/2084734/-Tennessee-Rep-Robin-Smith-resigns-after-being-charged-with-wire-fraud
• https://octodon.social/@Taweret/107930961903114793 - Ben Shapiro being anti-gay
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/09/idaho-stupid-as-potatoes-evil-as-black-scurf/ - Idaho anti-trans bill
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107926598359430150
• https://twitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1502424728572764161?s=21 - TX court rules against the state's "trans care is child abuse" law; on to the State Supreme Court next...

3/12 Sat

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/they-have-broken-my-spirit-chair-of-oregon-republican-party-quits-over-wickedness-within-gop/ar-AAUWH2w

3/13 Sun

• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/1083732104/2020-census-accuracy-undercount-overcount-data-quality
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-03-11/gender-pay-gap-bot-international-womens-day-twitter/100898172
• https://locusmag.com/2022/03/cory-doctorow-vertically-challenged/ - break up tech vertical integration

3/14 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-poor-people-still-believe-in-capitalism/answer/James-Thayer-12 - more capitalist propaganda. When does this ever happen?
• 2021-01-21 SO BLACK CULTURE IS A PROBLEM?| REACTION to THOMAS SOWELL ON THE CURRENT BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA
  • 00'38" Host: "When white people call out black people on something, they're called a racist." How are "black people" a unitary entity to be called out?
  • 01'42" Video clip of Sowell talking about southern blacks moving north, and how this somehow has become "the authentic Black Culture, and therefore you're not to interfere with it". (I've no idea what he's talking about.)
  • 02'17" Presumably as evidence of this, a series of short clips are played: Kamala Harris, AOC, Hilary Clinton, Noam Chomsky. Admittedly the Harris and especially Clinton clips are a bit cringey.
  • 02'45" Newer interview with Sowell by some middle-aged white guy (call him MAWG for now). MAWG paraphrases Sowell as arguing that the idea of Black Standard English is holding black people back; Sowell agrees.
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/racial-stereotypes-drive-students-of-color-away-from-stem-but-many-still-persist - cultural racism

3/15 Tue

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/15/more-short-sighted-stupidity-from-an-institution-of-higher-learning/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107960681162673497
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-trump-putin-relationship-sean-hannity_n_623004b5e4b020d1596a7f5a
• https://therealnews.com/we-are-seeing-the-rise-of-a-global-right-wing-force-decades-in-the-making
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ginni-thomas-january-6-clarence-admits-she-supreme-court-stop-the-steal-rally/ (Ginni is Clarence's wife)
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107960956375046705
• https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1503533780333740037 «Stephen Miller tells Tucker Carlson that undocumented immigrants may collapse American civilization, blames immigrant children for poor educational outcomes in the US.»
  • https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1503555708935028738 Popehat: «If these guys represent American civilization, then collapse away.»
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/15/thats-how-much-smug-costs-i-guess/ - MTG stands her ground but loses
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107961057104202072
• https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107957536762180335 «The editor of Rossiya 1, who protested live on-air with a "No War" banner, has not been heard from since. Her lawyer apparently is not able to contact her either.» Follow-up: she is with her lawyer
• https://twitter.com/melsangels711/status/1503748016007692288 - Trucker convoy: racist, blaming others for the problems they caused
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10610553/Woke-brat-Emma-Watson-blasted-witches-BAFTAs-barb-JK-Rowling.html - article widely circulated in wingnuttia
  • https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1503582230093996032 «she is 31, an age where calling someone a brat is weird if you aren't close friends»
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107961252655791861
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/15/somebody-is-going-to-have-to-revise-the-faq/ - creationism FAQ
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107961381589133847
• https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/russia-2656961867/ - soldiers are refusing to fight for Putin
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107961511801286891
• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085452644/colorado-clerk-indicted-on-13-counts-of-election-tampering-and-misconduct - election fraud
• ongoing coup: building the narrative
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/politics/arizona-trump-rally-voting-rights-democracy-in-peril/index.html - building the narrative and farming the rage
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-jan-6-election-lie/2022/01/05/82f4cad4-6cb6-11ec-974b-d1c6de8b26b0_story.html
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/14/2085835/-Trump-prot-g-Kari-Lake-gets-flustered-crumbles-in-an-interview-and-runs-away?detail=emaildkre
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/15/2085805/-What-if-fanaticism-and-extremism-breaks-it-all-dragging-the-rest-of-us-down-with-them
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/14/2085722/-Morning-Digest-Renegade-Washington-Democrat-who-bolstered-GOP-for-years-finally-calls-it-quits
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/14/2085846/-Cawthorn-called-into-conservative-show-to-brag-about-weapons-during-Jan-6-siege
• https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/14/it-is-not-surprising-empire-stole-afghan-money - unfavorable view of US seizure of Afghan foreign assets

3/16 Wed

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/16/did-i-really-need-to-spend-an-hour-to-hear-kent-hovind-debunked/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107966894697864121
• https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kehinde-andrews-interview/ - critical race theory
  • https://newsbots.eu/@thenation/107966603099966945
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/15/raskin-withdraws-as-bidens-fed-nominee-00017476 - thanks, Manchin
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/15/thats-how-much-smug-costs-i-guess/ - MTG
• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/conservative-candidates-flip-school-boards-across-the-country - part of the right-wing coup?
• political party vs. crime rates:
  • the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice show that crime trends and violence worse in California’s Republican-voting counties than Democratic-voting counties http://www.cjcj.org/news/13186
  • Red states have higher crime rates than blue https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2009/09/16/red-states-have-higher-crime-r/
  • Looks like a lot of the misunderstanding about this on the part of GOPers stems from an old Facebook post that offered mis- or half- correct information. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/24/fact-check-linking-city-violence-democratic-politics-reach/3248102001/
• PermaDST:
  • https://apnews.com/article/biden-united-states-congress-749d458d09882c6e6479559bc0327bde - permaDST
    • https://toot.cat/@woozle/107969024128493046
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/03/16/daylight-saving-bill-health-effects/ (non-paywall)
  • https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/11/04/daylight-saving-time-americans-want-stay-permanent
    • «Nearly twice as many Americans who prefer not changing their clocks would prefer that Daylight Saving time – not Standard Time – be the one that is kept.»
    • «Again, which time one picks isn’t a matter of politics. Instead, it appears age matters more. Adults under the age of 30 are closely divided on whether they want sunlight later into evening (which happens with Daylight Saving Time) or in the morning. Older adults have a clear preference for Daylight Saving Time. So do people from every region.»
    • I wonder what the poll results would have been if they'd asked people right before or after the spring-forward instead of the fall-back.
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-19/maps-show-where-daylight-saving-leaves-cities-dark

3/18 Fri

• https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-support-Russia-in-this-war-against-Ukraine/answer/Jonah-Wood-8 - another bad pro-Russia take
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/crocodiles-could-spell-the-end-of-japans-tradition-of-nude-mixed-bathing
  • https://mastodon.social/@kgerloff/107980127857031980

3/20 Sun

• https://www.hackread.com/anonymous-leak-79gb-russia-oil-pipeline-email-data/
  • https://mstdn.social/@YourAnonRiots/107986438433747536
• https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/antarctica-arctic-undergo-simultaneous-freakish-extreme-heat-rcna20747 - the scientists involved are quick to point out that this isn't a sign of global warming
• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1087723875/kim-davis-court-same-sex-marriage
• https://news.yahoo.com/lindsey-graham-called-putins-assassination-100011342.html
  • Apparently the Russian ambassador to the US posts important stuff on Facebook. Shouldn't there be a better platform for this kind of thing?
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/15/2086091/-Citing-humiliated-white-people-Mississippi-governor-signs-anti-critical-race-theory-law
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/18/2086789/-DC-tiny-trucker-convoy-tries-to-to-seize-BLM-Plaza-because-reasons
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/17/2086441/-Putin-launches-a-fascist-dictatorship-and-oligarchs-flee

3/21 Mon

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/21/while-the-mask-mandates-are-going-down/ - 10 pieces of scientific evidence in support of airborne COVID-19 transmission
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107994267281132699
• https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/world/live-updates-uk-says-russia-behind-hoax-calls-to-officials
  • https://twitter.com/KYWNewsradio/status/1505902774483140612
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107994896840532002
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/21/worst-school-mascot-ever/ - anti-amerindian racism
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/107994922663667538
• https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-valley-manufacturers-booming-business-hiring-problem/
  • https://twitter.com/WHYYNews/status/1505914645063864327
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/107995224609782209
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/20/2086949/-D-C-Protest-Truckers-Bully-Third-Motorist-But-Are-Defeated-By-Bicycle
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/21/2086751/-Atlanta-pastor-used-science-with-scripture-to-keep-his-all-Black-congregation-COVID-19-free - using religion to promote science
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/19/2086950/-As-Republicans-desperately-try-to-Rewrite-their-MAGA-History-just-Remind-them-what-TI1-was-All-About - Trump trying to extort Ukraine in 2019
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/tf8xrb/idaho_ltd_governor_runs_away_from_interview_after/

3/22 Tue

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/22/peak-atlantic/ - the ultimate "I'm being silenced" whine
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108000189147728463
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/22/no-excuses-acceptable/ - Bob the Angry Flower and Russian apologetics
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108000305746604507
• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1086733010/bat-mitzvah-turns-100-coming-of-age-jewish-girls - bat mitzvah, feminism, inclusion
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/21/2087234/--It-s-past-time-to-end-inhumane-Title-42-order-advocates-say-on-policy-s-second-anniversary
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/22/you-wont-be-surprised-to-learn-where-freethoughtbloggers-stand-on-the-ukraine-war/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108000847610183931

3/23 Wed

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/22/2087568/-Idaho-based-neo-Nazi-terrorism-cell-wanted-to-attack-power-grids-as-diversion-for-assassinations
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/23/2087592/-Republicans-went-low-at-Judge-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-s-confirmation-hearing-Josh-Hawley-went-lowest
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/22/2087437/-Parent-pulls-child-from-school-after-teacher-led-preschoolers-in-anti-Biden-chant - speaking of "indoctrination"...
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/23/2087637/-Ukraine-update-Russia-s-cash-crunch-results-in-a-move-that-could-destabilize-the-world-economy
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/23/2087657/-MacKenzie-Scott-gives-millions-to-save-abortion-in-Missouri-build-housing-for-communities-of-color
• https://twitter.com/kylesockwell/status/1505633212231524360 - is this person sincerely trying not to be transphobic and just Not Getting It, or...?

3/24 Thu

• https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-23/card/russia-lost-up-to-40-000-troops-in-ukraine-nato-estimates-xyZjWxinMDHzdeRZvAeD
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/24/an-ugly-way-to-lose-a-war/
    • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108011374714712588
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/24/thats-an-interesting-way-to-lose-tenure/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108011713472016157
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-repeatedly-deadnaming-and-misgendering-rachel-levine
  • https://cwre.org/w/Woozle/2022/03/24
  • https://twitter.com/maddenifico/status/1506442740707606532
• Kentaji Brown Jackson experience comparison matrix: https://twitter.com/dpoceana/status/1506751690141220869

3/27 Sun

• https://chaos.social/@bad_immigrant/108028418785514836 scenes from Mariupol: graves everywhere
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/27/ive-never-been-to-mississippi-i-guess-i-never-will/ - scary right-wing pol
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108028951116742455
• https://www.quora.com/What-the-heck-does-a-conservative-really-believe-in-What-would-a-true-conservative-list-of-policies-be/answer/Brandon-Ross-37 - yet another explanation of "conservatism" which buys into (and does not analyze) certain assumptions... and also accepts Haidt as valid
• https://www.quora.com/Is-Noam-Chomskys-comment-that-NATO-should-not-have-moved-an-inch-east-of-Germany-ignoring-the-desires-of-the-eastern-European-states/answer/Tadeusz-M-4 - what actually is the argument, here?
• https://hackers.town/@mc/107645056352387553 EU: There is a really bad use of $tool, so we must ban it.

3/29 Tue

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/25/2088149/-After-sustaining-heavy-losses-Russian-soldiers-attack-commander-by-running-over-him-with-a-tank
• https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/27/chris-wallace-fox-news-cnn
• https://www.quora.com/Was-Trump-s-big-Wisconsin-Foxconn-factory-a-hoax/answer/Paul-Madden-86
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/26/fortenberry-resigns-from-congress-after-felony-convictions-00020677
• https://ubuntu.buzz/@oya/108022800956828029 - misuse of cancel culture
• https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jan6-trump-mark-meadows-capitol-attack-republicans-1324218/
• right-wing coup:
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/24/trump-secretary-of-state-campaigns-00000473
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abpw3/trump-pence-steal-election
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpwzm/trump-on-putin-i-dont-know-her
• 2022-02-16 Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore
  • https://octodon.social/@susannah/108023172154277843
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/25/how-about-if-we-just-call-it-the-homophobic-space-telescope/ - history of homophobia at NASA
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/25/you-knew-it-was-going-to-come-down-to-this/ - pro-life means killing potential mothers
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108019459954731307 - cartoon illustrating "medical autonomy" hypocrisy
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/24/2087912/--Done-playing-with-you-idiots-North-Carolina-teacher-resigns-after-outburst-is-caught-on-video
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/kenya-quiet-slide-underwater-great-rift-valley-lakes-east-africa-flooding - global warming
• Ginni Thomas / Mark Meadows:
  • https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39531967/ginni-thomas-mark-meadows-texts-2020-election/
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/ginni-thomas-mark-meadows-text-messages/index.html
• https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jan6-trump-mark-meadows-capitol-attack-republicans-1324218/
• https://www.axios.com/jonathan-martin-alex-burns-book-biden-sinema-94352832-b1e8-465f-ada0-521729691c73.html This Will Not Pass
• https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin
• http://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/hrlr/fosta-in-legal-context/ - FOSTA
  • https://octodon.social/@cwebber/108039924162221470 « the upshot seems to be (unshockingly) that the main effects of the bill have been to harm speech, advocacy, and people already marginalized and at risk of discrimination»

3/30 Wed

• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/there-are-now-a-record-5-million-more-job-openings-than-unemployed-people-in-the-us.html
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108045737392740512
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/Jyc_RjT_CD_5
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/conscripted-into-the-emperor-s-private-orchestra - Central African Republic, Jean Bokassa

3/31 Thu

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/03/31/shut-up-meyer-your-schtick-is-getting-old/ «This is the thing that bugs me about Meyer. He claims to be a philosopher, yet all of his books, every long-winded one of them, rests on a logical fallacy, his unsupported claim that all information is a product of intelligent design, and that therefore all information is a product of intelligent design.»
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108052037347161895
• https://kolektiva.social/@riotmuffin/108052275051696651 - George Floyd protests

April

4/1 Fri

• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/30/dnc-clinton-campaign-fine-dossier-spending-disclosure-00021910

4/2 Sat

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/7/2084370/-BAM-Right-Wing-Trump-tougher-on-Russia-narrative-blown-up-in-pundits-face-on-show-in-real-time
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/7/2084521/-GOP-candidate-for-a-Michigan-House-seat-tells-his-daughters-to-enjoy-being-raped
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/31/2088181/-CBS-News-executive-explains-Mulvaney-hire-It-s-all-about-access-to-Republicans
• https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ginni-thomas-trump-white-house-foreign-spy-1331151/
• https://apnews.com/article/amazon-union-vote-staten-island-34a656411e0e2ba4eeedccaaac34e62b
  • https://therealnews.com/staten-island-amazon-workers-pull-into-the-lead-while-bessemer-re-vote-is-too-close-to-call
• https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/1090125988/jared-kushner-provided-helpful-details-to-jan-6-committee
• https://www.wral.com/durham-launches-long-awaited-guaranteed-basic-income-program/20214019/
• https://twitter.com/jdavidgoodman/status/1498710608958611460 «Texas has begun investigating parents of transgender children for possible child abuse for providing them with gender-affirming care.» (thread)
• https://twitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1503875729108480002?s=21 «Idaho Senate GOP's statement on HB 675: "HB 675 undermines parental rights and allows the government to interfere in parents' medical decision-making authority for their children." It would give life sentences for gender affirming care for trans youth. It's effectively dead!»
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/politics/utah-trans-sports-ban-cox/index.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/trump-used-white-house-phone-call-capitol-attack-jan-6-not-official-log
• https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1507466497035149313 «By overriding the veto, Utah has created a political commission of adults who will inspect and analyze the bodies and genitals of trans children wanting to play sports. They are immune from suit under this bill. Let's call this what it is, government sponsored child molestation.»
• https://octodon.social/@cwebber/108047728679659833 - links to anti-trans legislation
  • https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1509246564967006213
  • https://www.acluidaho.org/en/legislation/2020-hb-500-barring-transgender-girls-sports
  • https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/victory-u-s-district-court-grants-injunction-against-enforcement-of-idahos-discriminatory-anti-transgender-hb-500
  • https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2020/legislation/h0500/
• https://bostonreview.net/articles/on-antitrust-dont-take-big-techs-word-for-it/
  • https://hackers.town/@crazypedia/108046927056822723
• It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School: 1996 documentary film
• https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/federal-judge-trump-probably-broke-law-jan-6-scheme-rcna21872
• https://www.sfgate.com/politics/amp/Kamala-Harris-new-excerpts-NYT-book-17021423.php

4/3 Sun

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/29/2088926/-Ukraine-update-How-did-Kherson-fall-so-quickly-Betrayal-looks-like-a-good-bet
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-casually-suggests-returning-to-afghanistan-at-michigan-save-america-rally
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/02/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/02/trump-conservatives-emergency-meeting-gop-russia-00022419
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/28/2088669/-Joe-Manchin-got-rich-off-of-self-dealing-and-waste-coal-and-he-s-determined-to-make-that-his-legacy

4/4 Mon

• https://legal-planet.org/2019/02/13/more-tree-huggers-please/ the "tree-hugger" put-down actually originated in an act of sacrifice
• https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-02/trump-s-gdp-record-was-the-worst-since-hoover
• https://apnews.com/article/chris-sununu-donald-trump-new-hampshire-002278062fb3e2fb11a27edd458ebd1f
• https://www.wired.com/story/mariupol-ukraine-war/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/1/2089520/-Hal-Sparks-Expertly-Destroys-WaPo-Story-on-Hunter-s-presumed-Laptop
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/1/2089496/-Ukraine-update-This-is-what-the-Russian-army-left-behind

4/5 Tue

• https://jezebel.com/the-most-accessible-tuition-free-college-plan-just-beca-1848748535
• https://theintercept.com/2022/04/04/amazon-union-living-wage-restrooms-chat-app/
• https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-quit-truth-social-after-troubled-app-launch-2022-04-04/
• https://www.propublica.org/article/hell-at-abbey-gate-chaos-confusion-and-death-in-the-final-days-of-the-war-in-afghanistan
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/4/2090053/-Republicans-If-we-win-again-get-back-in-there-won-t-be-any-more-Supreme-Court-seats-for-Biden
• Truth Social
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/4/2089999/-Trump-s-Truth-Social-is-quite-a-disaster-Top-execs-try-to-quietly-jump-ship
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/22/2081687/-Trump-s-new-social-media-site-may-be-getting-sued-less-than-a-week-after-launching
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Axsi1O5cU - Beau
• https://politicaldog101.com/2022/04/florida-gop-gov-desantis-doubles-down-against-disney/
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/5/2090181/-DeSantis-war-against-Disney-Don-t-piss-off-Donald-the-lovable-one-Mickey-and-their-friends
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/4/2089984/-Openly-gay-teacher-with-decades-of-experience-fired-after-giving-Pride-bracelets-to-high-schoolers
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-the-first-women-voters-experienced-when-registering-for-the-1920-election - the system has always been designed to minimize participation
• https://nleomf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2021-EOY-Fatality-Report-Final-web.pdf - police fatalities
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/04/biden-obamacare-family-glitch-coverage-00022798
  • https://twitter.com/repmarienewman/status/1511438097585692681
• https://mastodon.social/@natecull/108075966638144527 - actual genocide in Ukraine
  • https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/@werekat/108074806597255185

4/6 Wed

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity - stupidity
• https://democracy.town/@SteveRogers/108059487119254024 - Florida don't-say-gay law
• https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108057090056835459 - Trump vs. Ukraine (in case I didn't save this earlier)
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering/
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/congress-found-an-easy-way-to-fix-child-poverty-then-it-walked-away/
• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1511371509939548180.html - the idea that opposition to Russia will lead to WWIII is a long-time Russian propaganda tool
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/06/how-to-destroy-a-prestigious-career-in-less-than-a-year/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108085210623671055
• https://marker.medium.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-afd48f994c05
• https://hackers.town/@calcifer/108081933415029630 - talking about sexuality-related stuff with young kids
• https://tilde.zone/@dudenas/108084399140938810 - TikTok is, unsurprisingly, cooperating with Russian censorship
• https://www.businessinsider.com/us-health-care-scam-2011-4
• https://www.sfgate.com/politics/amp/Kamala-Harris-new-excerpts-NYT-book-17021423.php - used by the Right as evidence that Biden and Harris don't work well together
• https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/ukrainian-tales - history of Ukraine
  • https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/12/putins-thousand-year-war/ - probably related
• https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texan-face-of-rt-america/
• https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/ - PermaDST
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/
• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-to-send-800-million-in-military-hardware-to-ukraine-885r9f68q
  • https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-detail-military-aid-ukraine-zelenskyys-appeal-congress/story?id=83479550
• https://twitter.com/_wayneburkett/status/1503239231099084803 - poverty and extreme economic disparity
  • https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1503626876182753283
• https://nypost.com/2022/03/07/russians-plant-landmines-in-ukraine-safe-corridor-report/
• https://newsable.asianetnews.com/video/india/russia-ukraine-war-russian-soldiers-taking-away-girls-indian-student-pleads-for-help-dnm-r80cws

4/7 Thu

• https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/04/05/1090920442/how-russia-rescued-the-ruble
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/07/a-wrist-is-slapped/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108091721555357039
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/07/whatever-happened-to-id/ - the twilight of intelligent design
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108091370205557530
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/6/2090502/-Behold-Another-law-and-order-Republican-who-doesn-t-seem-to-get-how-the-law-works

4/8 Fri

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/7/2090659/-Ukraine-update-Lies-damn-lies-and-WTF-is-that
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html - «Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump's eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that "we have operational control" to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.»

4/9 Sat

• https://thehill.com/news/3262400-ex-gop-senate-staffer-sentenced-to-more-than-12-years-in-child-porn-case/
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/n9JfhkZWwd-j?view=detail
• https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/04/04/what-we-can-learn-from-people-who-take-the-flat-earth-theory-seriously/ - flatearthism

4/10 Sun

• https://slashdot.org/story/22/04/09/0339236/how-amazon-will-fight-that-first-successful-unionization-vote
  • https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21124124&cid=62432336

4/11 Mon

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/11/a-trans-tory/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108113228145568835
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/108086179424617901 - did they, perchance, consider the cost of disposal when deciding how large to make these things?
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/republican-donors-rockbridge-network-trump.html - Rockbridge Network, Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer; Chestnut Street Council organized by the Trump-allied lobbyist Matt Schlapp; New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer
  • https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21574825-the-rockbridge-networks-plan-to-remake-the-right-fall-2021
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/investing/russia-default-sp/index.html
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/exclusive-kremlin-putin-russia-ukraine-war-memo-tucker-carlson-fox/
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-suggests-dads-should-thrash-kids-teachers
• https://pressrun.media/p/is-the-press-rooting-against-biden
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108115616095539802

4/12 Tue

• https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/11/texas-trans-child-abuse-investigations/ - more Texas War on Trans
• https://getpocket.com/collections/wait-why-are-american-taxes-still-like-this - several useful-looking links
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/
• Ted Budd:
  • https://www.wral.com/budd-leads-mccrory-in-us-senate-race-wral-news-poll-shows/20231606/
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/11/trump-ted-budd-north-carolina-senate-00024322
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-11/-vision-zero-at-a-crossroads-as-u-s-traffic-death-rise - car-centric culture in the US prevents safety measures from working
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/11/2091364/-OANN-says-John-Oliver-calling-them-a-ragtag-band-of-fascists-breached-its-AT-T-contract
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/11/2091339/-Joe-Manchin-has-finally-worn-out-his-welcome-with-fellow-Democrats
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/12/2091530/-The-Highly-Secretive-Council-for-National-Policy-Sets-Anti-Democratic-Election-Year-Agenda
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/12/2091600/-Ever-wondered-why-we-file-taxes-the-way-we-do-According-to-Elizabeth-Warren-we-can-thank-the-GOP
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/11/2091310/-Fiona-Hill-Trump-said-he-wanted-more-than-two-terms-in-the-White-House-and-he-wasn-t-joking

4/13 Wed

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/11/how-do-people-actually-listen-to-ben-shapiro/
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/13/i-get-email-oh-no-i-have-tugged-on-the-lions-tale/
    • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108124825961363153
• https://twitter.com/CateSpice/status/1514163561714491393 «Funny how the people mocking trans women for being upset over “just a luncheon with JK Rowling and a few women” are the same people saying that me just being trans and existing is “literally raping women”» (see screenshot in follow-up tweet)
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108124881221597872

4/14 Thu

• 2022-04-12 Human well-being and per capita energy use
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/work-week-32-hours-four-days-california-cristina-garcia/ - CA considering 4-day work-week
• https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/the-death-of-hong-kongs-university-student-unions/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108131059071345421
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/13/2091801/-Brooklyn-subway-shooting-suspect-s-videos-reveal-a-Black-man-in-the-grip-of-far-right-extremism
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-arrive-dc-buses-sent-gop-texas-gov-greg-abbott-rcna24229 -- apparently this political stunt was actually helpful?
• https://twitter.com/liv_agar/status/1514615018750324750 - Hitler overcame poverty, so anyone can (Nicholas J. Mullen, R-TN)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/13/2091736/-Florida-teen-who-gave-presentation-on-Stonewall-shows-concerning-photo-from-new-classroom
• https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/opinion-time-to-obliterate-the-myth-that-republicans-are-solving-crime-and-overdose-deaths/ -- the myth of "tough on crime"

4/15 Fri

• https://www.chess.com/news/view/kasparov-ted-talk-russia-war-ukraine-putin - Kasparov points out the "only half the kittens" fallacy, it sounds like
  • https://sunbeam.city/@derek/108133138412861074
• https://www.themarysue.com/fox-news-cnn-study/ - deprogramming Fox viewers
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cv09y432x8
• transmisia / war on transgendrity:
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/kentucky-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-transgender-sports-ban-rcna24303
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/floridas-not-alone-19-states-eye-lgbtq-school-bills-rcna23304
  • https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2022/04/13/gordon-monson-if-you-are/
• https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article260159540.html
• Durham School Board takeover attempt:
  • https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/04/13/gops-stealth-slate-of-candidates-seeks-to-shift-school-board-balance-of-power-in-one-of-ncs-most-democratic-counties/
  • http://eqvanalytics.com/durham-gop-fool.html
    • https://9thstreetjournal.org/2022/04/14/nonpartisan-school-board-candidates-downplay-partisan-ties/
      • https://nextdoor.com/p/L6XZwqkMZ4qT?view=detail
• https://www.facebook.com/noah.lugeons/posts/4955128867911881 - "Christians stand up for Jesus now! Vote straight Republican."

4/16 Sat

• https://www.propublica.org/article/americas-top-15-earners-and-what-they-reveal-about-the-us-tax-system
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/pandemic-failed-economic-forecasting/629498/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/10/russia-ukraine-war-postwar-global-order-civilization/
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/europe/chernobyl-russian-withdrawal-intl-cmd/index.html
• https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3262448-da-clears-officers-after-they-sat-on-back-of-california-man-for-3-5-minutes-killing-him/
• 2022-03-22 Nature: Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/14/2091915/--Delivering-newspapers-while-Black-Off-duty-cop-aims-gun-at-delivery-man-faces-felony-charges

4/18 Mon

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/16/2092383/-Ukraine-update-Goodbye-to-Moscow
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/10/2091178/-Trump-draws-MAGA-flak-over-endorsement-of-dodgy-quack-Dr-Oz
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/8/2090686/-The-horror-of-Bucha-finally-shakes-Russia-trade-bill-loose-from-Senate-Republicans
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/15/2092117/-NOAA-Methane-feedback-loop-from-rainfall-over-tropical-wetlands-methane-levels-shatter-all-records
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/14/2091964/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-51-Moskva-sinks-in-stormy-seas-like-Falklands-General-Belgrano
• https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1514339222118883334 «Meanwhile on Russian state TV: head of RT Margarita Simonyan remembers her days as a proud pioneer drummer, demands less freedom, more censorship—just like China or the USSR. "We're all waiting for this," she claims.»
  • https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1514487851903172610 «When I was U.S ambassador to Russia, @M_Simonyan & other Putin propagandists tried to convince us & their citizens that Russia was a democracy. No longer. Today, they openly defend & celebrate dictatorship. Listen:»
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/arts/barnes-noble-bookstores.html$ - how B&N went from villain to hero
• https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/04/zelensky-kyiv-russia-war-ukrainian-survival-interview/629570/$
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/12/2091371/-Trump-s-North-Carolina-rally-on-Saturday-was-a-total-bust-Here-s-why
• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/opinion/what-should-conservatives-conserve.html$(archive.org)
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/14/us-congressman-jim-jordan-echoes-trump-clinton-aides-executed
• https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-us-court-2022-04-18/
• https://news.yahoo.com/nc-investigates-election-fraud-allegation-130844933.html
  • https://democracy.town/@Heimdall/108125220237646279

4/19 Tue

• https://anotherpointofview.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-Ukrainians-lied-about-their-Holy-Holodomahoax-to-smear-Stalin-and-American-libtard-Walter-Duranty - Ukraine history, genocide denial
• https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-freest-little-city-in-texas/ - libertarian utopia
  • https://www.quora.com/How-would-those-who-see-taxes-as-theft-fund-communal-needs-such-as-infrastructure-education-basic-healthcare-security-and-fiscal-governance/answer/Franklin-Veaux
• https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/19/kremlin-says-not-authorized-to-discuss-moskva-warship-missing-crew-a77408
• https://smokymountainnews.com/news/item/33441-complaint-filed-against-cawthorn-by-fired-staffer

4/20 Wed

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-ukrainian-air-force-just-got-bigger-it-seems-someone-gave-kyiv-more-mig-29s/ar-AAWo27F
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/netflix-s-collapse-is-a-warning-sign-for-stocks/ar-AAWpmar
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-professor-wins-400-000-payout-after-refusing-to-call-trans-student-a-woman/ar-AAWoHaL
• https://cyrenesavage.com/@CyclopsCaveman/108161994496773226 - Amazon bans use of the word "union" on its subreddit
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/19/2092666/-Meet-Gary-Chambers-Jr-Louisiana-s-Confederate-flag-burning-marijuana-smoking-Senate-candidate

4/21 Thu

• https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-unpopular-political-opinion-you-have-that-is-most-likely-to-create-an-outcry-among-your-friends-colleagues/answer/Chris-OLeary-19 - the poster draws the line between mechanical and creative participation; I think I'd draw the line more between religion and politics: perhaps religious beliefs should be protected (but why, if they cause one to discriminate unfairly?), but should one be required to participate in the support of a political opponent? This does illustrate some interesting wrinkles to the question, anyway.
• https://nypost.com/2022/04/20/trump-walks-out-of-piers-morgan-interview-after-being-pressed-on-2020-election/ - in case anyone thinks Trump has been at all humbled since leaving office
  • https://news.yahoo.com/trump-ends-piers-morgan-interview-215458973.html
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/19/2092800/--No-place-in-New-York-City-Big-city-cutting-ties-with-Wells-Fargo-over-brazen-and-illegal-acts
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/15/2092150/-Fox-News-says-verified-account-on-Trump-s-Truth-Social-is-fake-news
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/19/2092951/-Ukrainian-Marine-commander-in-Mariupol-We-will-not-lay-down-our-weapons
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/19/2092823/-Washington-Post-outs-author-of-Twitter-site-fueling-LGBTQ-hate-laws-harassment-on-the-right
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/how-elon-musk-and-his-trolls-attacked-a-duke-professor-on-twitter/
• https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/raleigh-durham-police-vacancies-continue-to-climb-despite-efforts-to-recruit-more-officers/
• https://www.wral.com/a-roundup-of-controversial-red-state-actions-restricting-abortion-lgbtq-rights-and-more/20223601/
• https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/13/bumbling-joe-biden-is-a-threat-to-world-peace/ - propaganda
• https://www.city-journal.org/proving-the-point-at-saint-vincent-college - a conservoid apparently believes this explains why people don't like the BBBS School Board slate, but I'm struggling to see the connection
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093192/-Greg-Abbott-s-disastrous-policy-cost-his-state-more-than-4-billion-economists-say
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7zrUiq1BL4 - Beau
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/14/2091905/-Republican-lawmaker-gives-inspirational-story-about-Hitler-to-pass-bill-criminalizing-homelessness
• https://theap.substack.com/p/they-know-how-journalism-works-theyre?s=r - they're just against it
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/Dd5Lk6NkDMQK?post=223901584
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/20/2092953/-Ukraine-Update-The-heavy-weapons-spigot-has-finally-opened-for-Ukraine
• https://deadline.com/2022/04/republicans-withdraw-from-presidential-debates-1235002479/
• https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/04/21/judge-temporarily-blocks-2022-kentucky-abortion-law/7318975001/

4/22 Fri

• 2022-04-20 We’re In Hell tweet «In an unbelievably “are we the baddies” move jk Rowling qt’ed someone saying that no one actually believes trans women are women adding that that’d be as ridiculous as someone supporting unions/workers rights»
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tobacco-country-s-dirtiest-open-secret - farmers scamming the government (shouldn't crop insurance require receipts?)

4/23 Sat

• https://www.quora.com/Do-conservatives-in-general-believe-theyre-smarter-than-liberals-simply-based-on-this-group-affiliation/answer/Matthew-Bates-27 - a conservoid offers what seems like a reasonable argument; a responding comment points out what I suspected:

FYI There us probably not a crime wave happening. The supposed increases in crime only appear to be huge or even there, because 2021 crime figures are being compared to 2020’s depressed crime figures.

According the FBI’s annual report of crime statistics. in 2020 nationwide, compared with 2019, violent crime increased by 5.6%, burglaries dropped 7.4 percent, larceny-thefts decreased 10.6 percent, while motor vehicle thefts rose 11.8 percent.

2021 not yet being ended it is no surprise that the FBI has not yet released final figures for 2021.

ALL the reports of increased crime are, according to the FBI and multiple media outlets “preliminary data from non-federal sources.”

I will wait until the real figures are released before I believe these inflammatory reports from outlets with a political ax to grind.

The responses kinda show that conservoids don't know how to dig down and see who's telling the truth (but I didn't spend much time reading them).

---

• https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-testimony-nancy-pelosi-traitor-1700187
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/latvian-estonian-parliaments-say-russia-committed-genocide-ukraine-2022-04-21/
  • https://mastodon.social/@lufthans/108171554923144446
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093286/-Ukraine-update-Russia-captures-small-towns-along-frontlines-but-no-major-breakthroughs
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093270/-Trump-judges-say-Ohio-should-use-maps-that-the-state-Supreme-Court-ruled-were-unconstitutional - the law-and-order guy strikes again
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093192/-Greg-Abbott-s-disastrous-policy-cost-his-state-more-than-4-billion-economists-say
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/201705/psychological-science-says-trump-is-four-year-old (2017) - politics of emotional immaturity
• https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094257492/russia-ukraine-war-what-happened-today-april-22
• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-digital-services-act-industry-and-government-interests-prevail-over-citizens-digital-rights/

4/24 Sun

• https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/108182969854551495 - Russian politics

4/26 Tue

• https://www.quora.com/Do-any-9-11-survivors-have-pictures-of-the-twin-towers-on-fire-from-the-inside/answer/Kim-Eojin-3

4/27 Wed

• https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article260783972.html - Disney special-district revocation hits legal snag
  • https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1519123483153866753?s=20&t=H9VaiB43M4mW4UlAQHaj2Q
• https://www.npr.org/2022/04/27/1094833774/danica-roem-book-burn-the-page - Danica Roem and radical openness

4/28 Thu

• https://www.politicsnc.com/above-the-law/ - Madison Cawthorn
• https://www.politicsnc.com/ugly-right-wing-nationalism-is-on-the-rise/
• Fauci on the status of the pandemic:
  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dr-fauci-on-why-the-u-s-is-out-of-the-pandemic-phase-2 - US is "out of rampant pandemic phase", but...
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fauci-covid-19-pandemic-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ ,,,"pandemic is not over"
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMoQWuNCrY - Beau

I'm not sure exactly what these are supposed to prove, but they are from a conservoid:

interesting how it disappeared but that’s OK here it is again.

Undercover videos

• Anchor caught on hot mic claiming ABC spiked Epstein bombshell https://youtu.be/vjwf9F_v5cI
  • The link to this video is to support the above video https://youtu.be/LxYstvg3SaE
• Reporter caught on camera discussing CIA and NSA Fabricating allies against Trump. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223864793840884/?d=n
• FDA budget part 2. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223762622486664/?d=n
• homeless people taking the Covid shot multiple times so they can get the incentives offered for taking vaccine. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223762622486664/?d=n
• Video Reveals Disadvantaged Populations Taking Excessive Vaccines for Tax Funded Gift Card Incentive https://youtu.be/1zkUeEypVxE
• Project veritas exposing CNN https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223753993350941/?d=n
• FDA executive caught on camera Watch it and decide what to believe. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223753934869479/?d=n
• Congress hearing Ted Cruz regarding not passing an anticorruption bill by Pelosi.. https://fb.watch/cGx9gYKPbS/
• DeSantis an elected official not some Joe Shmo off the street who should be dismissed. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223659374865538/?d=n

Border crisis issues

• Biden official makes stunning statement on Biden‘s border policies. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223812655697463/?d=n
• All about the border crisis
  • Border agents confront CBP chief over Biden’s policy in leaked video https://youtu.be/p4ER-FoeGHA
  • https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223742064932738/?d=n
  • https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223696573715486/?d=n

• Congress hearing on spending https://fb.watch/cGuk11JT97/
• Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifies in House hearing https://youtu.be/Xs6NoXHHtog

Hunter Biden and family

• Hunter Biden sitting on bored of a corrupt oil company in Ukraine https://youtu.be/ILb8RkPTBPg
• Hunter Biden artwork being discussed at a congressional meeting.. https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223854671627835/?d=n
• Senator Charles Grassley-Biden family investigation. https://fb.watch/cGtvG_3DpF/
• Hunter Biden‘s laptop jack Maxi https://rumble.com/vycyay-bombshell-info-jack-maxey-on-hunter-bidens-laptop.html
• Hunter Biden crack pipe video https://www.facebook.com/1626817975/posts/10223950722669051/?d=n

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/jim-jordan-republicans-memo-immigration.html
  • https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1519712052247359489
  • ND comment:

Republicans literally have a 60-page memo containing misleading talking points intended to get them on fox news and portray democrats as wanting to "abolish all immigration enforcement"

So when I say republican talking points are disingenuous I'm being generous

Meanwhile our conservative friends and neighbors hear nothing but these talking points and believe - truly believe - that democrats want to "encourage illegal immigration"

Because the people they trust are literally and explicitly and cynically and most importantly purposefully telling them those lies.

4/29 Fri

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/04/29/its-been-obvious-for-a-long-time-that-the-minneapolis-police-are-rotten-to-the-core/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108215572363463467
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/28/2094562/-Ukraine-update-Mariupol-has-become-a-true-concentration-camp-and-a-hideous-ongoing-crime-scene
• https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/04/28/cnns_acosta_confronts_rep_marjorie_taylor_greene_on_marshall_law_text_youre_just_one_of_those_liars_on_television.html
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/crypto-probe-thom-tillis-urges-probe-of-madison-cawthorn-over-possible-insider-trading.html
• https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-republican-lawmaker-says-pregnancy-142814884.html - Jean Schmidt: «It is a shame that it happens, but there's an opportunity for that woman, no matter how young or old she is, to make a determination about what she's going to do to help that life be a productive human being.»
• https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/174604/boeberts-fearful-pot-shot-at-don-corams-petitions-dismissed
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/politics/oklahoma-heartbeat-act/index.html
• https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/herschel-walker-spent-years-promoting-health-products-with-dubious-claims/63CWNAXVFFGDTD7F7JSTJB5UWU/
• https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/conservatives-declare-war-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-call-pedophilia/
• https://www.kctv5.com/2022/04/26/city-shawnee-bans-co-living-rentals/
  • https://weirder.earth/@twistylittlepassages/108216070206697430 - Kansas City bans co-living
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/28/2094645/-Roger-Stone-announces-he-s-back-on-Musk-s-Twitter-is-banned-again-in-record-time
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/4-new-myths-about-climate-change-and-how-to-debunk-them
• https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1519902828700979200 - low-information voters
  • Nextdoor
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/politics/hannity-text-messages-meadows-trump-white-house/index.html
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/post-election-rally-organizer-spoke-to-january-6-select-committee-for-up-to-eight-hours/
• https://www.rawstory.com/end-of-american-democracy/
• https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/pinterest-moderation-sexual-anti-vaxxer-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-a9616386.html

4/30 Sat

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/11-year-old-transgender-activist-fighting-for-right-to-medical-care-texas-183005939.html
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/uepjwv/why_this_11yearold_transgender_activist_is/
• 2022-05 AEJ: The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ueoe8i/since_1982_all_alaskan_residents_have_received_a/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/25/2093879/-FBI-arrests-man-for-threatening-Merriam-Webster-over-its-definition-of-girl-female-and-woman
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/21/2093254/-A-look-inside-banned-Florida-math-textbooks-suggests-Republicans-simply-lied-about-what-s-in-them
• https://popular.info/p/musk-is-a-free-speech-absolutist - and, like any other freeze peach absolutist, his absolutism is highly selective
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/25/2093879/-FBI-arrests-man-for-threatening-Merriam-Webster-over-its-definition-of-girl-female-and-woman
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/28/2094593/-Bisexual-Brigham-Young-University-student-protests-school-s-anti-queer-policies-on-graduation-stage
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/29/2094885/-Russian-Army-Self-Destructing-Firefight-breaks-out-between-Russian-Units-Over-Loot
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/29/2094910/-People-s-Convoy-fires-live-rounds-at-anti-fascists-in-Oregon
• https://www.quora.com/Jan-6-rioter-Robert-Palmer-sentenced-5-years-wrote-to-the-judge-Trump-supporters-were-lied-to-They-kept-spitting-out-the-false-narrative-about-a-stolen-election-and-how-it-was-our-duty-to-stand-up-to-tyranny-What-do
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/kamala-harris-positive-covid/index.html
• Conservoidery:
  • https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/3-colleges-get-their-just-deserts «Marxism has infected American colleges and universities and other institutions that are purveying cancel culture, wokeism, censorship, and gender dogma.»
  • https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secretive-soros-funded-group-works-behind-scenes-biden-admin-policy-documents
  • https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-desantis-warning-biden-illegal-immigrants - but would that actually be a problem?
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/24/1089786147/covid-conspiracy-theories - errorism kills in many ways

5/1 Sun

• https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-tucker-carlson-minute-014055697.html «ratings [...] show there's an appetite among its audience for talking points embraced by white nationalists, according to a report published Saturday by The New York Times.»
• https://local12.com/news/nation-world/exxon-mobil-doubled-its-profit-from-last-year-to-nearly-55-billion-oil-and-gas-prices-rose-steadily-russian-operations-gasoline-energy - while the Right blames Biden for gas prices
• https://apnews.com/article/business-elections-jeff-merkley-congress-79c2449c353a55242c3003afa029e464 - there's a growing appetite for a stock-trades ban in Congress
• https://www.npr.org/2022/05/01/1095802509/nancy-pelosi-meets-zelenskyy-kyiv-civilians-leave-mariupol-steel-plant
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/fox-maria-bartiromo-donald-trump-election-2020-mark-meadows/
• https://www.rawstory.com/rnc-biden-whca-dinner-speech/ - Republicans can dish it out but not take it

5/2 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-cancel-culture - takes on what cancel culture means
• https://www.axios.com/mark-esper-book-trump-protesters-24e93272-2af5-423d-be3b-164daab7b43d.html - Trump argued for shooting the George Floyd protesters
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/29/2094776/-Thanks-to-Republican-hate-Oklahoma-is-the-first-state-in-the-nation-to-do-a-very-bad-thing - nonbinary birth certificates banned
• https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article245636390.html - has the story of Biden changing his mind about Helms because Helms adopted a disabled boy
• https://twitter.com/ArmandDoma/status/1521162613689790466 - Scott Adams uses his first-ever Black character to make fun of trans people. When newspapers decline to run the strip, he plays the race card. ...and it turns out he forgot that weekday strips don't run in color, meaning that his anti-trans jab is lost on many readers anyway.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/1/2095085/-In-video-reeking-of-privilege-Kirk-Cameron-says-public-school-system-is-public-enemy-number-one - link includes video with CRT fearmongering
• https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095917118/a-former-philadelphia-police-officer-is-charged-with-murder-in-a-12-year-olds-de
• https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/108229942932816092 - the damage wrought by highways, who could have foreseen

5/3 Tue

• https://www.vox.com/2022/4/30/23050242/sri-lanka-50-billion-debt-protests-loan-default-china-india-imf
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/2/2095402/-Michelle-Bachmann-says-she-is-struggling-with-COVID-just-months-after-saying-don-t-get-vaccinated
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/2/2095267/-Ukraine-Update-Ukraine-may-have-taken-key-city-near-Kharkiv
• charter schools:
  • https://www.wral.com/audit-nc-charter-school-falsified-student-records-misused-school-funding/20254574/
  • https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/charter-schools-have-failed-bryant-200817/
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/27/5-most-serious-charter-school-scandals-2019-why-they-matter/
  • https://ourfuture.org/20191213/charter-schools-billion-dollar-scam-stinks-worse-than-we-thought - Betsy DeVos
• https://www.yahoo.com/now/gop-strong-crime-boosted-trust-040000261.html - too many people just go by what Fox tells them, I guess, rather than looking at the evidence
• https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/in-audiobook-takeover-noah-feldman-lidia-jean-kott-explore-how-federalist-society-captured-supreme-court/
• https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/02/14/ayanna-pressley-wants-biden-to-do-more-than-name-a-black-woman-to-the-supreme-court/
• https://jezebel.com/a-data-firm-is-tracking-people-who-visit-abortion-clini-1848875722

5/4 Wed

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/student-loan-forgiveness-unfair-americans-162228849.html «Some right-leaning academics, including Andrew Gillen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, argue that there are a variety of problems with cancelling student loan debt. These include the overall cost and the fact that forgiveness does not directly address the core issue of rising college costs.» He's actually correct about that... but it doesn't mean we shouldn't do this now, however. An inadequate bandage is better than saying "no, we need to wait for the surgery in 3 weeks before we do anything."
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095487/-Ukraine-update-Surprise-Ukrainian-gains-north-of-Kharkiv-could-impact-Battle-for-Donbas
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095528/-Following-major-loss-last-fall-California-s-ban-on-private-prisons-will-get-a-new-day-in-court
• https://theintercept.com/2022/04/30/kelloggs-union-terrorists-more-perfect-union/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/29/2094637/-Solidarity-is-strong-at-Starbucks-as-union-wins-mount-despite-company-s-union-busting-campaign
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/turbotax-forced-to-stop-misleading-free-free-free-ads-and-pay-back-141m/

5/5 Thu

• https://thegrio.com/2022/05/04/smithsonian-smith-looted-unethically-procured-items-return/
• https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-school-police-tickets-fines

5/6 Fri

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/05/05/trump-wanted-to-secretly-launch-missiles-into-mexico-to-blow-up-drug-labs-ex-defense-secretary-reportedly-claims/ - law and order, yup
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220506140648/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/politics/mark-esper-book-trump.html
• https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/disney-district-repeal-lawsuit-desantis-1234722268/
• https://www.hstoday.us/federal-pages/dhs/dhs-standing-up-disinformation-governance-board-led-by-information-warfare-expert/
  • https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/are-you-ready-for-the-dhs-disinformation-governance-board/ (right-wing take)
    • https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dhs-secretary-pleads-ignorance-on-disinformation-czars-background/ (right-wing take)
• https://www.nrdc.org/stories/climate-misinformation-social-media-undermining-climate-action
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/german-thinkers-war-of-words-over-ukraine-exposes-generational-divide
  • https://octodon.social/@siege/108256629789110624 - actually it's more of a TERFish divide

5/7 Sat

• https://news.yahoo.com/u-judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-212350928.html «Trump's lawyers alleged in a court filing last year that Twitter "exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate."» For once, they weren't wrong.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/5/2096018/-Ukraine-update-Russia-may-have-found-something-appropriate-to-celebrate-on-May-9 - tanks & other situational details
• Hunter Biden's laptop, still don't know why it's important
  • https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/gop-will-want-joe-and-hunter-biden-to-explain-these-5-laptop-reveals-if-they-take-congress/
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secretive-soros-funded-group-works-behind-scenes-biden-admin-policy-documents - what the conservoids fear
• https://twitter.com/breitbartnews/status/1520101471508967426?s=21&t=KvsJACaGC5-mdZ1smFTlaA - Breitbart thinks this makes her look bad (view later)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/5/2096164/-Karine-Jean-Pierre-makes-history-and-Jen-Psaki-doesn-t-disappoint-as-she-chides-Doocy-one-last-time
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/15/2086036/-A-tiny-largely-unknown-Christian-college-is-at-the-epicenter-of-today-s-dark-conservative-movement - Hillsdale College

5/8 Sun

• https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/space-jam-pro-union-labor-rights - history of unionization in the Hollywood animation industry
• https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8 - this goes way beyond John Deere
  • https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108266727100525753
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/2/2095311/-Biden-smacks-down-Georgia-Gov-Brian-Kemp-s-plan-to-block-ACA-website-from-residents

5/9 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-effectively-put-an-end-to-the-welfare-dependency-culture-in-the-United-States/answer/Emery-Larick - a good response, though it doesn't mention the fact that recipients effectively aren't allowed to earn outside income (because it's deducted from the welfare payments, and may result in welfare being terminated because it proves they don't need it anymore)
• 2022-05-08 Tax errors took everything from a disabled Charlotte woman and left her sleeping in a parking deck: dystopian state of america
• https://www.wral.com/man-shot-killed-by-raleigh-police-after-throwing-molotov-cocktails-at-officers-vehicles-outside-station/20270536/
• https://www.undrr.org/news/humanitys-broken-risk-perception-reversing-global-progress-spiral-self-destruction-finds-new
• https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-worries-respect-institutions-ginni-wife-ethics-roe-wade-2022-5 - Clarence Thomas is unhappy about the disrespect his Court's actions have earned for it
• https://www.quora.com/Is-trickle-down-economics-a-scam-that-destroyed-the-middle-class-or-is-it-a-valid-theory/answer/Mats-Andersson-16
• history of the war on abortion:
  • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion-clinic-violence.html
  • https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-oreillys-dangerous-war-against-dr-tiller-107722/
  • https://newrepublic.com/article/138950/making-american-terrorist-robert-dear-planned-parenthood
  • https://prochoice.org/national-abortion-federation-releases-2020-violence-disruption-statistics/
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-wave-this-fall-could-infect-100-million-administration-warns/ar-AAX01yP
• https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/05/while-1-million-americans-died-covid-19-us-billionaire-wealth-shot-17-trillion
• https://deadline.com/2022/05/elon-musk-says-expectations-of-twitter-employees-will-be-extreme-1235018677/
• Republicans on student debt forgiveness:
  • https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/mitt-romney-lambasts-biden-for-considering-broad-student-loan-forgiveness-and-calls-it-a-bribe-for-voters/articleshow/91135018.cms - clearly he doesn't understand that giving voters what they want is his job; this kind of pulls off the mask on who he really thinks he is working for
  • https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-panicking-biden-student-debt-1343857/
  • https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1519658467652521984 Laura Ingraham: «My mom worked as a waitress until she was 73 to help pay for our college, even helped with loan repayment. Loan forgiveness just another insult to those who play by the rules.»
• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/broadband-companies-are-spending-an-unseemly-amount-of-money-to-sink-key-nominee-to-fcc-critics-allege-11650914134
  • https://mastodon.social/@eff/108272930286191989
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/6/2096258/-Ukraine-update-Russia-redefines-Nazi-as-anyone-who-resists-their-assault - but we already knew that, didn't we?

5/10 Tue

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/09/trump-mark-esper-memoir-missiles-mexico-book
• https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary
• https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/hassanabad-bridge-collapse-pakistan-heatwave-b2075513.html - effects of global warming
• https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3468075-republicans-file-fec-complaint-over-alleged-google-censorship-of-fundraising-emails/ - are they suggesting that the tech industry needs more government regulation?
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-finally-admits-no-widespread-voter-fraud-by-georgia-election-workers-after-settling-defamation-lawsuit
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/9/2096954/-Parents-outraged-after-one-of-just-five-Black-reading-specialists-in-district-removed-from-her-job
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/9/2096890/-Ex-GOP-strategist-fumes-Sarah-Palin-is-a-degenerate-liar-and-Megan-McCain-is-an-entitled-bully
• https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/7319044 - Google Trends as a predictor of presidential elections

5/11 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-real-ideological-differences-between-the-Democratic-Party-and-the-Republican-Party/answer/Randy-Weir-3 - good answer, actually
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097109/-Senate-hastily-passes-bill-expanding-security-for-Supreme-Court-justices - and there's a false rumor being spread by the RWNJ media that Alito & family had to move to an undisclosed location
• https://donewiththebullshit.quora.com/Is-there-anyone-who-can-tell-Biden-that-we-cannot-survive-supporting-never-ending-rivers-of-millions-flocking-here-at-th-41 - as usual, the Right has got it exactly wrong
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097247/-Ukraine-update-Russian-army-has-reportedly-begun-to-withdraw-from-Kharkiv-area-across-the-border

5/12 Thu

• https://www.vox.com/recode/23056251/nurdles-plastic-pollution-ocean-microplastics - unregulated pollution
• https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/dea-investigating-breach-of-law-enforcement-data-portal/
• https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/it-rises-again-bleach-as-an-early-treatment-alternative-to-vaccines-and-a-cure-for-covid-19/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097089/-Susan-Collins-makes-a-play-for-victim-status-after-very-scary-sidewalk-chalk-incident
  • https://jezebel.com/susan-collins-called-the-cops-over-a-chalk-drawing-on-h-1848905684
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/11/2090894/-After-she-called-the-police-more-chalk-messages-appeared-outside-of-Maine-Sen-Susan-Collins-home
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/09/samuel-alito-home-protest-abortion-rights-00031285
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/11/2097396/-Rep-Hakeem-Jeffries-slams-Clarence-Thomas-whining-tells-him-to-talk-to-his-wife-about-sedition «Jeffries didn’t mince words, going right for Thomas, saying that if he "really wants to deal with bullying in America, or this problem of people supposedly unwilling to accept outcomes that they don’t like, I've got some advice for Justice Thomas. Start in your own home." [...] "[Ginni Thomas] refused to accept the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. Why? Because she didn’t like the outcome. And so instead, she tried to steal the election, overthrow the United States government, and install a tyrant. That’s bullying."» ...and that's putting it mildly.
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/05/12/the-american-way-of-life/ - the American experiment with suburbia
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108289133781178734
• 2022-05-12 NC Supreme Court justice criticizes a fellow GOP judge for not weighing party in hiring: GOP judge thinks there's not enough partisan favoritism
• https://therealnews.com/they-fcked-us-illinois-ironworkers-laid-off-after-unionizing
• https://therealnews.com/our-house-is-truly-on-fire-earth-now-in-danger-of-hitting-1-5c-warming-limit-by-2026
• https://therealnews.com/what-happens-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned-lgbtq-legal-experts-are-worried-about-civil-rights
• https://therealnews.com/railroad-workers-are-being-ground-to-dust-who-will-help-them
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097099/-Ukraine-update-Russian-soldiers-reported-missing-in-action-actually-piled-high-in-body-dump
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097147/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-spent-92-000-of-her-fundraiser-money-on-luxury-campaign-vehicle
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097166/-OAN-broadcasts-terse-statement-admitting-they-lied-outright-about-Georgia-election-workers
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/10/2097110/-We-finally-found-the-welfare-fraud-in-Mississippi-yep-it-was-the-Trumpers-including-Brett-Favre

5/13 Fri

• https://twitter.com/therealhoarse/status/1524875722405433345?s=21 - baby food shortage due to uber capitalism
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/india-heat-wave-climate-change/629786/
• https://therealnews.com/israeli-police-attack-shireen-abu-aklehs-funeral-in-jerusalem
• https://therealnews.com/the-fire-that-wynn-bruce-lit
• https://phipps.space/2022/05/12/sex-based-rights/ - about TERFian philosophy
  • https://mythago.space/@ghost_bird/108295160692636924
• https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-fires-employees-at-unionized-warehouse-as-its-tactics-come-under-scrutiny/
• https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/economics-in-brief-new-mexico-to-provide-free-child-care-for-most-residents
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/5Skp9MyKSGN3?view=detail
• https://nextcity.org/podcast/the-first-city-to-launch-its-own-bank
• https://www.thecut.com/article/marjorie-dannenfelser-abortion-roe-v-wade.html - apparently a big factor in the war on choice
• https://twitter.com/laurajedeed/status/1524025660079026177 - torching of anti-choice clinics
  • https://mastodon.social/@fox_news/108278444512410613
• https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/hassanabad-bridge-collapse-pakistan-heatwave-b2075513.html - global warming effects
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3na34/freedom-convoy-lifestyle-trucker-g-hagerstown - I mean, it's great that they're finding community this way, but...

5/14 Sat

• https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-culture-memo-update-censorship-spending-1235264904/ «The updated Netflix Culture memo also includes a new section called “Artistic Expression,” explaining that the streamer will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content “harmful,” and bluntly states, “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.”»
• https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/christian-academy-schools-assignment-lgbt-writing-bible-religion-education/417-d3c5eed6-6825-40b1-97e7-c5aa3c9d087b
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/05/14/one-way-to-stop-cancel-culture-cancel-the-internet-altogether/ - TX goes further over the edge
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108300476528433890
• memes about Biden and gas prices:
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/15/fact-check-regular-gas-not-below-2-day-biden-took-office/6088322001/
  • https://checkyourfact.com/2021/10/08/fact-check-gas-prices-joe-biden-took-office/
• https://social.taker.fr/@sdm/108277324586976329 «"When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it." ~Thomas Merton» (check attribution)
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-americans-stand-on-abortion-in-5-charts/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/12/2097556/--Marked-or-unmarked-burial-sites-at-53-Native-American-forced-assimilation-schools-Haaland-reports

5/15 Sun

• https://www.star-telegram.com/news/weather-news/article261433532.html - TX power grid already reeling
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/it-s-not-the-cow-it-s-the-how-why-a-long-time-vegetarian-became-beef-s-biggest-champion - beef per se may not be so much the problem as how the cattle are managed
• https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/why-do-so-many-people-think-amber-heard-is-lying.html
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/14/extraordinary-relief-advocates-celebrate-partial-block-alabama-law-targeting-trans
• https://phys.org/news/2021-12-vulnerable-climate-york-seawall.html
• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/buffalo-supermarket-shooter-livestream-manifesto-hate-crime-1353292/ -- Tucker Carlson and stochastic violence
• https://cityobservatory.org/what-filtering-can-and-cant-do/ «once a home hits the half-century mark, it’s as likely to “filter up” (become occupied by wealthier people) as filter down.» My comment on Nextdoor (in this thread):
  • What I see happening around here is that the land becomes more valuable than the housing built on it, so speculators buy it up and remodel or rebuild for a more upscale market.
  • This process is assisted by property taxes that are based on "market valuation" of surrounding properties -- so even if you have no intention of ever selling, your property taxes keep going up and you may end up being *forced* to sell.
  • Property taxes should be (a) income-scaled and/or (b) based on last sale (or cost of construction, if never sold). The current system just promotes transience and unaffordability.
• https://www.carolinapoliticalreview.org/editorial-content/2019/11/20/aqvx4kh2qiv3cv28r3pdi8n4to9wxr

5/16 Mon

• https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/buffalo-shooter-white-supremacist-great-replacement-donald-trump-1353509/
• https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-biggest-potential-water-disaster-in-the-united-states - dealing with global warming; also indicates the need for distributed decisionmaking, even if working within the current system.
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/buffalo-massacre-great-replacement-theory-republicans
• https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/14/2087274/-After-police-chase-a-woman-accused-of-stealing-baby-supplies-from-Walmart-her-5-week-old-is-dead
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/14/2098041/-Steve-Schmidt-gives-a-profound-analysis-of-our-fascist-path-And-then-the-killings-start - former GOP

5/17 Tue

• money talks:
  • 2022-05-16 UPDATE 4-U.S. Supreme Court backs Ted Cruz, dumps campaign finance curb «The justices, in a 6-3 ruling, found that a $250,000 cap on the amount of money political candidates can be reimbursed after an election for personal loans to their own campaigns ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech by unjustifiably burdening political expression.» Freedom of money.
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/16/2098349/-Supreme-Court-decides-in-favor-of-Ted-Cruz-opening-the-floodgates-to-wantonly-bribing-politicians
  • https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/kagan-pens-scathing-dissent-supreme-court-kills-another-campaign-finance-rule «"Political contributions that will line a candidate's own pockets, given after his election to office, pose a special danger of corruption," Kagan argued, pointing to the issue of recouping personal loans. "The candidate has a more-than-usual interest in obtaining the money (to replenish his personal finances), and is now in a position to give something in return. The donors well understand his situation, and are eager to take advantage of it. In short, everyone's incentives are stacked to enhance the risk of dirty dealing."»
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/16/2098307/-Police-arrest-man-who-killed-1-and-injured-5-in-shooting-at-California-Asian-church-reception - signs point away from this being racially-motivated
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/16/2098330/-Ana-Navarro-calls-out-everyone-at-Fox-News-and-I-mean-everyone-You-are-part-of-the-problem - another Republican moderate
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/16/2098361/-Justice-Clarence-Thomas-tells-John-Yoo-that-Alito-leak-is-tremendously-bad-undermines-court
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/16/2098279/-Stefanik-is-furious-about-media-coverage-of-her-racist-campaign-ads-in-wake-of-racist-mass-shooting

5/18 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-criticize-the-Supreme-Court-about-its-pending-overturning-of-Roe-v-Wade-but-rarely-if-ever-explain-their-actual-legal-reasoning/answer/E-Allwell
• https://www.vox.com/2022/5/12/23068017/supreme-court-first-amendment-twitter-facebook-youtube-instagram-netchoice-paxton-texas - not getting "freedom of speech". One person's freedom can be another person's coercion.
• https://www.vox.com/recode/23069110/tech-bubble-google-facebook-tesla-amazon-crypto-charts
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/05/15/buffalo-shooting-ben-jealous-great-replacement-theory/9786448002/
• https://therealnews.com/rising-authoritarianism-and-worsening-climate-change-share-a-fossil-fueled-secret
• https://therealnews.com/this-ceo-left-coal-miners-penniless-why-did-a-west-virginia-town-give-him-a-lucrative-tax-break-to-build-a-luxury-hotel
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/17/2098502/-Sen-Tim-Scott-R-SC-says-Black-women-cannot-be-trusted-to-choose
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/17/2098544/-Anti-vax-Anti-lockdown-music-icon-Eric-Clapton-down-with-COVID-19
• firearm deaths / gun ownership:
  • https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
  • https://www.statista.com/statistics/215655/number-of-registered-weapons-in-the-us-by-state/
  • https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
  • https://health.ucdavis.edu/what-you-can-do/facts.html - gun deaths
  • https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/23/claudia-tenney/do-many-mass-shooters-end-being-democrats-rep-tenn/ - «We found very few cases in which the political affiliation of the shooter could be verified.»
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/17/2098501/-Right-wing-Supreme-Court-rules-against-immigrant-facing-deportation-for-incorrectly-marking-form
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/17/shireen-abu-aqleh-was-a-lifeline-for-palestinians-and-her-killing-has-shaken-us-to-the-core
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/18/nazi-billionaires-book-hitler-bmw-porsche

5/19 Thu

• https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ by Peter Thiel: «I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.»
  • https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-anti-democracy-movement
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-mean-ukraine-former-us-president-george-bush-calls-iraq-invasion-unjustified-2022-05-19/ - the ultimate political Freudian slip
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-w-bush-calls-iraq-war-unjustified-and-brutal-in-awkward-slip-up

5/20 Fri

• https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=Protect+Our+Future+PAC&cycle=2022 - Protect Our Future PAC recipients for 2022

5/21 Sat

• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/shut-down-fossil-fuel-production-sites-early-to-avoid-climate-chaos-says-study
  • https://twitter.com/greenpeace/status/1527952344360493057

5/22 Sun

• https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/05/20/why-kim-jong-un-is-freaking-out-north-koreas-covid-nightmare/
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-vow-kill-domestic-terrorism-094204909.html
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/20/arbitrary-racist-and-unfair-judge-blocks-biden-ending-title-42
• https://slashdot.org/story/22/05/21/2338219/wells-fargo-now-accused-of-also-conducting-fake-job-interviews

5/23 Mon

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-shotspotter-to-alter-evidence-from-gunshot-detecting-ai
• https://www.themarysue.com/anti-abortion-street-lamps-conspiracy-theory/
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/house-votes-baby-formula-shortage/index.html
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2098967/-I-am-TERRIFIED-of-Christians - call to action for the Christian Left
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098344/-Cartoon-The-Great-Replacement
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/13/2097780/-Youth-shouldn-t-have-to-miss-class-to-protest-for-basic-rights-but-thanks-to-Republicans-they-are
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2098937/-Jim-Crow-era-style-signs-hung-above-school-water-fountains-are-a-hate-crime-says-parent
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098723/-Sen-Ron-Johnson-says-he-s-never-heard-of-the-great-replacement-theory-he-touts-Let-s-roll-the-tape
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2099048/-Madison-Cawthorn-calls-for-Dark-MAGA-to-truly-take-command
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBp5wji8f3Y - Beau
• https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/20/is-nextdoor-a-friend-in-need-or-vigilante-nightmare - Nextdoor
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/2CJ5J8BCs2cB?view=detail
• 2022 Buffalo shooting
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-buyout-kkr-houdaille/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098416/-If-students-are-booing-hate-in-Wyoming-then-Imagine
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098707/-Ted-Cruz-dismisses-lives-of-Buffalo-and-El-Paso-victims-triples-down-on-racist-invasion-rhetoric
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098719/-McConnell-refuses-to-condemn-replacement-theory-allowing-it-to-become-official-GOP-dogma
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098826/-Elon-Musk-Has-Declared-He-Will-Vote-For-Republicans-This-Fall-Because-Democrats-Are-Party-of-Hate
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098764/-As-Elon-Musk-works-to-sabotage-Twitter-Twitter-reminds-him-he-ll-be-buying-them-out-or-else
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/17/2098517/-Republicans-continue-to-spew-racist-invasion-rhetoric-used-by-El-Paso-mass-shooter
• Southern Baptist clergy sex abuse:
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/report-top-southern-baptists-stonewalled-clergy-sex-abuse-victims-rcna30029
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108349076469381513
  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-survivors-arent-surprised-by-sexual-abuse-inside-southern-baptist-churches
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108359224839415326
• https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn9ba/house-republicans-baby-formula-shortage
• https://twitter.com/AhmedBaba_/status/1528735933411074052 inconsistent GOP spin on border drug seizures

5/24 Tue

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/23/2099289/-Jocelyn-Benson-To-NBC-News-Trump-Sent-Armed-Thugs-To-My-Home
• https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-introduces-freedom-import-infant-formula-act - this is almost certainly a terrible idea; the question is, what is the hidden reason why it is? One comment:
  • This likely removes oversight of the FDA over manufacturing facilities. And while we’ve underfunded them long term and mostly stopped their inspections during the pandemic, they’re the ones who found the bacteria in the Abbott plant which required them to shut down and clean, and the Jif contamination, and more. Removing them or inhibiting their role for imported food also increases our risks, and/or leaves us to rely on their peer organizations in other countries.
  • Also, it moves manufacturing overseas and reduces US jobs. At a time when we’re screaming about how we’ve sent too much of our manufacturing overseas and it’s gutted our supply chain.
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/05/24/what-kind-of-sick-coward-murders-14-children/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108359230701012003

5/25 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/Did-FOX-News-really-defend-themselves-in-a-lawsuit-by-saying-they-weren-t-really-news-but-just-entertainment/answer/Franklin-Veaux - for some reason, I don't have these links
• https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/10/5922
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/uww1gd/children_of_samesex_parents_are_well_adjusted_new/ - in case anyone was still wondering
• https://eedition.charlotteobserver.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=6e0ae383-f623-4345-975e-13fa426926ee - to protect democracy, support teachers
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/asia/north-korea-missile-intl/index.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics/indiana-trans-sports-ban-veto-override/index.html
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-paul-gosar-spreads-lie-074356886.html
• https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101012028/southern-baptist-sex-abuse-list
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/pastor-admits-adultery-during-then-192314851.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/georgia-arkansas-alabama-primary-takeaways/index.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/may/25/texas-school-shooting-news-victims-uvalde-elementary-school-latest-updates
• https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/24/the-accidental-warmonger/ - how the Right is portraying Biden

5/26 Thu

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-additional-steps-to-address-infant-formula-shortage/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/25/2100317/-Guns-will-be-banned-for-Trump-s-upcoming-speech-at-NRA-convention
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/05/26/acac/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108370854662937556
• https://grahamcluley.com/twitter-2fa-phone-number-advertising/
  • https://mastodon.social/@gcluley/108368560877448659

5/27 Fri

• https://chat.noelle.codes/@noelle/108373776804393056 - the one weapon that private citizens can wield against spam is based in moral panic
  • https://about.usps.com/publications/pub307/welcome.htm
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/05/27/what-are-the-responsibilities-of-geneticists/ - abuses of genetics, and racism
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108374152573279094
• https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2022/05/25/nc-bill-could-force-schools-to-out-gay-and-transgender-students-to-their-parents/
• https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/05/21/business/elon-musk-us-politics/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108339859474833421
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/20/economist-calls-inquiry-whether-covid-leaked-lab/ - not sure what to make of this
  • https://pkteerium.xyz/notice/AJfqBsPbD69tXW0MAS
• https://mastodon.online/@zdl/108339352570996433 - miscommunication around the nature of socialism/communism
• https://tinangata.com/2022/05/20/doing-justice-6-anti-racism-myths-that-really-need-debunking/
  • https://cloudisland.nz/@jfa/108339416240039701
• https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/could-googles-carbon-emissions-have-effectively-doubled-overnight
  • https://todon.nl/@yetiinabox/108336253275317625
• https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ - Peter Thiel on libertarianism & democracy (I think)

5/28 Sat

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769 - but why... :-(
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/the-rise-of-bai-lan-why-chinas-frustrated-youth-are-ready-to-let-it-rot
• https://www.themarysue.com/ricky-gervais-transphobic-netflix-special/
• https://www.newsweek.com/dark-maga-donald-trump-supporters-attempt-rebrand-2024-1697855
• https://www.patreon.com/posts/66561352 - Rebecca Watson on Great Replacement theory

5/29 Sun

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/23/2099742/-Supreme-Court-extremists-gut-6th-amendment-protections-make-execution-of-innocent-people-inevitable
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-supreme-court-just-said-in-in-shinn-v-ramirez-that-evidence-of-innocence-is-not-enough
• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/how-cash-transfer-programs-prevent-violent-crime.html
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/uvalde-mom-says-she-was-handcuffed-while-urging-police-to-enter-robb-elementary-during-school-shooting
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/opinion/roxane-gay-uvalde-school-shooting.html "don't talk to me about civility"
• https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108380149174085412
• https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/orourke-interrupts-news-conference-to-confront-governor-about-texas-gun-laws/2977614/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqR4QF4uU0s
• https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683
• https://www.insider.com/texas-police-change-timeline-of-uvalde-shooting-retract-key-claim-2022-5
• https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/texas-school-shooting-police-press-conference-watch-live-stream-today-2022-05-27/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/26/2100505/-Uvalde-police-claimed-to-have-a-SWAT-team-but-didn-t-use-it-even-as-they-could-hear-children-dying
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/25/2100226/-Beto-O-Rourke-removed-from-Uvalde-Texas-presser-for-rightfully-calling-out-Abbott-s-inaction
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/25/2100228/-Beto-confronts-Governor-Abbott-during-his-Festival-of-Republican-Hypocrisy-amp-Crocodile-Tears
• https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/orourke-interrupts-news-conference-to-confront-governor-about-texas-gun-laws/2977614/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/26/2100555/-A-lot-of-Texas-officials-don-t-want-to-answer-questions-about-the-Texas-massacre
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/26/2100382/-It-s-Looking-Like-Columbine-Doors-Helped-The-Killer-Murder-America-s-Schoolchildren-In-Uvalde
• https://www.insider.com/uvalde-student-shot-after-cops-told-kids-shout-help-survivor-2022-5
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/uvalde-mom-says-she-was-handcuffed-while-urging-police-to-enter-robb-elementary-during-school-shooting
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/as-nation-reels-from-uvalde-massacre-supreme-court-is-expected-to-expand-gun-rights-194609414.html
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-trump-jr-suggests-uvalde-041919176.html
• https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/nc-lawmakers-introduce-dont-say-gay-bill/
  • https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/nc-senate-gop-to-unveil-parents-bill-of-rights-legislation/
    • https://nextdoor.com/p/qrqdYC82Wznf
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/ronda-taylor-bullock-we-are-profile/ - fighting racism through education
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/20/2099194/-Trump-likely-headed-for-spectacular-defeat-in-a-pivotal-race-Georgia-s-GOP-gubernatorial-primary
• https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/little-free-libraries/
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ballot-recount-begins-in-pennsylvanias-republican-primary-for-senate
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108380132794840787
• https://twitter.com/jcrdandaly/status/1530505824220626953 «Despite only being repealed 22 years ago in Scotland, it seems some have forgotten or chosen to ignore what the campaign in favour of Section 28, and media narrative in support of that across the UK, was at the time.» (thread)
  • https://toot.cat/@BillieCodes/108379747514817463
• party branding and asymmetrical warfare:
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/25/2100173/-STOP-IT-Stop-Saying-We-or-Americans-or-Congress-Start-Fucking-Saying-REPUBLICANS
  • https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1530335732048461825?t=qfH0UEnyFViXAFPwSKRKXQ&s=19 (thread with examples)
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/26/2100453/-Dear-Republicans-We-Tried-Your-Way-and-It-Does-Not-Work
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/22/2099624/-The-Republican-Plan-explained-courtesy-of-The-Lincoln-Project
• https://6abc.com/starbucks-workers-vote-to-unionize-philadelphia-locations-market-walnut-street/11895469/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108374817315482358
• https://www.wesh.com/article/randy-fine-second-amendment-biden/40104010#
• https://www.thecut.com/article/future-abortion-access-map.html
• https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2022/05/23/north-carolina-senate-republicans-medicaid-expansion
• https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-introduces-freedom-import-infant-formula-act - is this significantly different from what the White House did?
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/tNN9DLxqrpxh
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/23/2099727/-Soon-it-will-be-a-felony-for-homeless-folks-to-camp-on-public-land-in-Tennessee
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering/ - November election
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108357480981041391
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/23/2099766/-Finally-some-good-news-out-of-Loudoun-County
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/18/2098721/-Right-wing-school-board-candidates-had-a-bad-day-in-New-York-State-and-Durham-North-Carolina
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/jared-kushner-steve-mnuchin-cashed-094851032.html
• https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-0c74a0c16b834732b81e460450da3131 - 200 bodies found
• https://downhomenc.org/2022/05/01/elementor-10280/ - public schools
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/20/democrats-north-carolina-senate-00033887 - Cheri Beasley
• https://www.axios.com/2022/05/20/ginni-thomas-arizona-election-trump
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/20/white-christian-nationalism-buffalo-abortion/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108340168601262738
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/john-roberts-calls-roe-v-wade-leak-a-betrayal-orders-supreme-court-to-investigate_4443020.html - Death of Roe
• https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/20/self-destruct-button/#monkeys-paw - John Deere and IP
• https://www.salon.com/2022/05/20/amber-heard-daily-wire-candance-owens/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108340141386408879
• https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/20/is-nextdoor-a-friend-in-need-or-vigilante-nightmare - Nextdoor
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/house-votes-baby-formula-shortage/index.html
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108329481899665278
• https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/nc-climate-bill-update-eo-246-cooper/
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-races-clerk-of-court-upset-dps-board-will-welcome-two/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/17/2098614/-Comedy-writer-grabs-up-Rep-Elise-Stefanik-s-campaign-website-and-makes-it-great-again - lots of links
• https://theconversation.com/covid-19-anti-vaxxers-use-the-same-arguments-from-135-years-ago-145592
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-urban-design-can-make-or-break-protests
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/evidence-mounts-of-gop-involvement-in-trumps-attempt-to-stay-in-power
• https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/597823-biden-trump-tied-in-hypothetical-2024-matchup-poll/

5/30 Mon

• items being used as criticism of Biden / praise of Trump:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/politics/afghanistan-joe-biden-donald-trump-kabul-politics/index.html
  • https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/18/roger-williams/williams-accurate-there-were-more-covid-19-deaths-/
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/tc-energy-terminates-keystone-xl-pipeline-project.html
  • https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oil-exporter-opec-20181206-story.html
• https://www.quora.com/What-can-Democrats-do-to-win-in-more-conservative-states/answer/Geoffrey-Widdison - this starts out well, but it contradicts the evidence that progressives actually engage people more. Maybe Dem outreach to some places like WV could benefit from this lens, though.
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-past-conspiracy-theories-that-have-been-confirmed-by-declassified-documents-and-the-such/answer/Sean-Leary-1

5/31 Tue

• https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax/amp
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/chWx2GXFX2hJ?view=detail
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/us/politics/michael-sussmann-durham-fbi.html «Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Democrats, was acquitted on Tuesday of a felony charge that he lied to the F.B.I. about having no client in 2016 when he shared a tip about possible connections between Donald J. Trump and Russia.»
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/27/2100684/-Ron-Johnson-s-vote-opposing-Biden-administration-s-new-asylum-rule-fails
• https://www.rawstory.com/rod-of-iron-ministries-2657419798/
  • https://www.rodofironministries.org/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/27/2100685/-Delta-s-mask-optional-policy-is-going-so-well-that-they-re-cutting-100-flights-per-day
• Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/RGD-7s8q2HMm?view=detail
• https://www.newsweek.com/biden-second-amendment-when-passed-couldnt-buy-cannon-1711480
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-appeared-push-033230075.html - transmisia
• 2022 May election:
  • https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-voting-gop-contests-block-040823797.html
• https://news.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kristen-bell-sex-talk-kids-rachel-bilson-podcast-204003939.html - answer to a frequent conservoid question

June

6/2 Thu

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/02/i-was-silent/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108407866240524993
  • https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/monica-lewinskys-verdict-on-the-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beDBkJRglqA NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on Andrew Klavan's show
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/1/2101693/-Gov-Ron-DeSantis-begins-recruiting-for-his-own-Florida-army

6/3 Fri

• https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-political-right-shifted-its-focus-homophobia-transphobia/
  • https://rage.love/@samuteki/108414201851114126
• https://blackhistoryandpolitics.quora.com/This-breaks-my-heart-History-101-In-Louisiana-Black-women-were-put-in-cells-with-male-prisoners-and-some-became-pre
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220128-the-country-inoculating-against-disinformation - Estonia
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190514-the-global-internet-is-disintegrating-what-comes-next
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201014-totalitarian-world-in-chains-artificial-intelligence - AI and totalitarianism
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190606-the-maths-problem-that-modern-life-depends-on - dynamic resource allocation
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/if-you-re-so-smart-why-aren-t-you-rich-turns-out-it-s-just-chance

6/4 Sat

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-and-education-department-will-forgive-dollar58-billion-in-student-debt-from-for-profit-corinthian-colleges
• https://therealnews.com/the-prison-industrial-complex-is-an-environmental-catastrophe
• https://nextdoor.com/p/b3bRNySX2yqB?view=detail
  • SB 888 "Codify Roe and Casey Protections", filed by Sen Natasha Marcus, Sen Jay Chaudhuri, and Sen Natalie Murdock (Durham).
  • HB 1119 "Reproductive Freedom Act", filed by Rep Marcia Morey (Durham), Rep Carla Cunningham, and Rep Julie von Haefen.
• https://twitter.com/Gritty20202/status/1531484480275456000 - PragerU says anti-racism is anti-American
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-fbi-destroyed-the-careers-of-41-women-in-tv-and-radio - US history
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220115024832/http://www.keinfoshop.org/zines/settler-sexuality.htm - I posted a lot of thoughts about this on Signal, but mainly related to landback in general
• https://todon.nl/@schratze/108237019243834296 abortion, socialism, anarchy: things the Right has been trained to hate without understanding why we want them
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-navarro-indicted-contempt-congress-b2093525.html
• https://www.wonkette.com/ohio-republicans-demand-right-to-inspect-children-s-genitals
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/3/2102147/-Rep-Gohmert-If-you-re-a-Republican-you-can-t-even-lie-to-Congress-or-lie-to-an-FBI-agent
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/3/2102180/-Chief-Of-Staff-Warned-Secret-Service-About-Inauguration-Day-Threat-To-Pence-From-Donald-Trump
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/3/2102115/-LOLOL-FOX-News-Complains-that-Liberal-Media-Accurately-Reports-the-News-Liberal-Media-Replies
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/2/2101487/-Missouri-congressman-blames-abortion-for-mass-shootings-claims-guns-are-not-the-issue
• https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-china-hong-kong-beijing-7d8ded1810b53a7b2bfa2d0670b425e5 - Tiannanmen Square vigils still forbidden in Hong Kong
  • https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2962-9ab4-71b9-ddc016106100
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-04/starbucks-illegally-closing-n-y-cafe-to-retaliate-union-claims
  • https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/108421347996245508
• https://nypost.com/2022/06/04/angeli-gomez-says-she-was-threatened-by-uvalde-texas-cops/
  • https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1533084962500407296 - video

6/5 Sun

• https://www.cbs17.com/news/wake-county-teacher-resigns-following-pregnant-man-flashcard-controversy/
  • some discussion here: https://nextdoor.com/p/FF6HpsSbKDnh?view=detail
• 2022-06-05 Ready For Prime Time: Jan. 6 Panel To Reportedly Air Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Videotapes
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/05/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud/ - trans eliminationism
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108425348470059445
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-wisconsin-judge-killed-targeted-attack-suspect-hit-list-include-rcna31995
• https://www.quora.com/In-a-conversation-with-my-neighbor-he-said-that-History-of-the-Civil-War-has-been-changed-by-liberals-What-does-that-mean-and-how-did-this-rumor-start/answer/Jim-Hardy-10
• https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-desantis-to-veto-35m-tampa-bay-rays-facility-over-teams-anti-gun-statement
• https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-alaska-juneau-96bdb902bc87015643bbe289ef76cdd6 - election

6/6 Mon

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/27/stopping-mass-shooters-q-a-00035762
• https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/how-cheap-component-could-help-kill-off-combustion-cars-2022-05-30/
• https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-religion-nationalism-8bf7a6115725f508a37ef944333bc145
  • https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1533121781921218560
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108427436992379963
• https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/wired-predicts-the-troubles-of-the-2020s-back-in-1997.html - who could have foreseen
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/108427504157249101
• https://portlandpride.org/policies-regarding-law-enforcement
  • https://social.polymerwitch.com/@polymerwitch/108428023887648151
• https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support-great-replacement-hard-right-ideas
  • https://magicalgirl.party/@emma/108428025089408956
• https://hermajestysrealms.quora.com/Why-dont-more-British-people-move-to-the-United-States-for-the-higher-salaries-lower-taxes-cheaper-cars-and-larger-h-245
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/05/1103145054/tv-stations-pull-controversial-ads-targeting-democratic-senate-nominee-cheri-bea
• https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-louisiana-376a0d7165eeebb2169811c4298da9a2
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108428447585207892
• https://twitter.com/morganastra/status/1532984107851870208 - Cuba expands its legal definition of family
  • https://shrike.club/@kate/108427286302804893
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/04/inside-john-fettermans-changing-health-scare-story/ - bad medicine, apparently
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108424949242168808 - discussion in thread
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-coffee-county-gop-chair-coordinated-a-voting-machine-breach
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108428722805093115
• https://www.tor.com/2012/06/04/tor-books-announces-e-book-store-doctorow-scalzi-a-stross-talk-drm-free/
  • https://magicalgirl.party/@emma/108428408187654719
• https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/1/donald-trump-threatens-sue-if-pulitzer-prize-board/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrTtXmStzPE
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/tech/elon-musk-twitter-spam/index.html

6/7 Tue

• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jail-memoir-corrections-in-ink-excerpt-1361288/ - US prison life
• https://twitter.com/AsheRevenge/status/1533740643872538624 - the "serving" end of stochastic violence
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108431373315612336
• https://twitter.com/MixtUpMixy/status/1534050577629736960 - consequences of ending lockdowns too soon, who could have foreseen
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/07/job-seekers-could-have-welfare-stopped-under-onerous-new-points-based-system-advocates-warn - broken welfare rule, AU
  • https://twitter.com/age_no_barrier/status/1533951876072284160

6/8 Wed

• https://twitter.com/joshuaackerman/status/1534197304596434949 - entrepreneurship, meritocracy, and hard work
  • https://mastodon.online/@ssbporygon/108439016372791205
• https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/FOOD/zjvqkgomjvx/
• https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article261615122.html - Madison Cawthorn, Dark MAGA
• https://therealnews.com/corinthian-college-debt-striker-no-one-should-have-to-go-through-what-i-went-through
• https://therealnews.com/poland-establishes-terrifying-pregnancy-register-after-banning-almost-all-abortions
• https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/dont-say-gay-bill-north-carolina-hb-2/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/people-of-praise-accused-child-abuse-amy-coney-barrett
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/3/2102051/-Ohio-Republicans-want-trans-girls-to-have-genital-exams-in-order-to-play-sports
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/6/2102585/-LAW-AND-WTF-Poll-Shows-44-Republicans-are-Totally-Cool-with-All-the-Mass-Shootings-in-America
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-senator-who-stood-up-to-joseph-mccarthy-when-no-one-else-would - Margaret Chase Smith
• NC teacher flash-card resignation:
  • https://indyweek.com/news/wake/nc-teacher-resigns-over-lgbtqia-flashcards/
  • https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/1/north-carolina-preschool-teacher-resigns-over-flas/
  • https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/teacher-used-lgbtq-flash-cards-to-educate-preschoolers-about-colors/
  • https://www.byusbox.com/activitysets/p/progress-pride-flag-rainbow-families-flash-cards
  • https://www.wral.com/wake-county-teacher-resigns-amid-lgbtq-flash-card-controversy/20308835/
  • https://www.cbs17.com/news/wake-county-teacher-resigns-following-pregnant-man-flashcard-controversy/
• https://www.themarysue.com/us-bookseller-gender-queer-lawsuit/ - book banning on steroids
  • https://democracy.town/@MariaHill/108444563045469699

6/9 Thu

• https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/08/chair-ish/#r2r - right-to-repair
  • https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1534554971240374273 - same post, as a thread
• https://doctorow.medium.com/apples-cement-overshoes-329856288d13
• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/puerto-ricans-are-powering-their-own-rooftop-solar-boom - this seems like a glimpse of what mainland US life will be like soon, for anyone who isn't wealthy
  • https://twitter.com/mariagallucci/status/1534528412475334657
• https://www.rawstory.com/lopez-obrador-ted-cruz/
• https://jezebel.com/ron-desantis-maga-press-secretary-just-registered-as-a-1849034399 - Christina Pushaw
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-147_g31h.pdf
  • https://www.vox.com/2022/3/1/22946305/supreme-court-egbert-boule-bivens-law-enforcement-constitution-border
    • https://anarchism.space/@awmwrites/108447969509009920
• https://apnews.com/article/ronald-greene-police-misconduct-louisiana-racial-injustice-a761c247993aa580859719fa727b2023
  • https://twitter.com/ap/status/1534923158343622657?s=21

6/10 Fri

• https://octodon.social/@CobaltVelvet/108453867949480374 - screenshot of Dominionist bullshittery on Masto

6/11 Sat

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-literally-unbelievable-story-of-the-original-fake-news-network - history, Guatemala, psyops
• 2022-06-09 Climate change: New Zealand's plan to tax cow and sheep burps
• 2022-06-10 Drag queen story hour is back on for Apex this weekend, after Equality NC takes over - the conservoids don't like
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104343876/judge-blocks-texas-investigating-families-trans-youth
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/09/1103690822/group-aiming-to-defund-disinformation-tries-to-drain-fox-news-of-online-advertis

6/12 Sun

• https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-that-you-read-recently-and-is-worth-sharing/answer/Vaibhav-Garve - this needs to be verified; interesting if true
• https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
  • https://mastodon.social/@forthy/108464546230908282

6/13 Mon

• https://www.theverge.com/23160201/gary-vaynerchuk-veecon-veefriends-nfts-web3-conference-crypto?utm_source=pocket-newtab - GaryVee (I think ThoughtSlime did a piece on him too)
• https://www.vox.com/23152123/climate-actions-individuals-can-take - first paragraph talks about climate distractivism
• https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-amazon-branded-convenience-and-normalized-monopoly/
  • https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/108470620457799415
• https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3520209-republicans-big-tent-is-now-an-isolation-booth/
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108466587540988942
• https://kappanonline.org/teacher-burnout-stories-moral-objections-santoro/ - teacher exodus
  • https://social.coop/@edsu/108469374010221658
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVmppNWDmg - video, MathsCat: what is a female?

6/14 Tue

• George Floyd protests
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/06/08/14-days-of-protests-19-dead/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-literally-unbelievable-story-of-the-original-fake-news-network - history of fake news
• https://wraltechwire.com/2022/06/08/meta-in-triangle-would-create-big-winners-but-also-losers-economists-say/
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-09/thailand-cannabis-reform-one-million-marijuana-plants/101132734
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/man-arrested-near-brett-kavanaugh-home/index.html
• https://www.axios.com/2022/06/09/revoking-job-offers-is-an-increasingly-common-cost-cutting-strategy
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carl-paladino-mass-shooting-conspiracy_n_62a15e5ae4b0cdccbe4b4c53
• causes of shootings, according to conservoid pols:
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-louie-gohmert-of-texas-blames-mass-shootings-on-lack-of-prayers
  • https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-pat-fallon-blames-mass-195646873.html - smartphones
• https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/06/colorado-lauren-boebert-campaign-funds-investigation/
• https://www.vox.com/23159672/supreme-court-egbert-boule-bivens-law-enforcement-border-patrol-immunity
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/house-gun-reform-package-vote/index.html
• https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Uvalde-Texas-school-shooting-Salvador-Ramos-forum-17226232.php - despicableness is increasingly popular, it seems
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103841/-This-Ex-Republican-Just-Tweeted-The-Best-Thread-About-What-The-GOP-Is-About-Ever - thought I had already saved the Twitter link, but here it is as a DKos post
• https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-oracle-larry-ellison-lanai-hawaii-plans-tourism/ - gentrification distilled to new levels of purity
• https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2022/police-bikers-blocking-stonewalling-journalists-reporters-uvalde/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/9/2103115/-If-you-re-looking-for-someone-to-blame-for-high-gas-prices-try-Vladimir-Putin-and-Donald-Trump
• https://lithub.com/how-the-democrats-ditched-economic-populism-for-neoliberalism/
• The Color of Disparity: Racialized Income Inequality and Support for Liberal Economic Policies
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/v8kx5m/americans_support_liberal_economic_policies_in/

6/15 Wed

• https://games.slashdot.org/story/22/06/11/1910206/a-billion-dollar-crypto-gaming-startup-promised-riches-and-delivered-disaster
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/9/2103155/-Endorsed-by-Elise-Stefanik-Paladino-says-We-need-somebody-inspirational-like-Hitler - Carl Paladino: «And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just, they were hypnotized by him. That’s, I guess, I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational.» This is the same guy who claimed that mass-shootings were faked.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/9/2103161/-ICE-s-current-acting-director-complained-family-reunifications-were-happening-too-quickly -- immigration (not COVID)
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/9/2103154/-White-Americans-are-now-more-likely-to-die-from-COVID-19-than-Blacks-or-Latinos -- white-on-white ignorance
• The War on Drag:
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/9/2103149/-DeSantis-official-Twitter-troll-uses-Nazi-meme-to-disparage-drag-queens-and-that-s-not-all
  • https://www.weau.com/2022/06/09/texas-lawmakers-aim-ban-children-drag-shows/
  • https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/06/09/texas-lawmaker-says-he-wants-to-ban-minors-from-watching-drag-shows-following-dallas-event/
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/06/13/james-patterson-white-men-face-racism-against-woody-allen-memoir-drop/7610061001/
• https://jezebel.com/richard-spencer-bumble-dating-profile-moderate-1849062955 - Richard Spencer now claims to have abandoned white nationalism
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/chris-murphy-gun-safety-legislation-cnntv/index.html
• https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/108449651545571630 «The commercial / advertising-based broadcast model didn't spring forth like Venus on the half shell. It was made.» (references listed/linked)
• https://www.axios.com/2022/06/10/biden-migration-declaration-summit-of-the-americas
• https://apnews.com/article/salem-oregon-united-states-texas-gun-violence-4a36d8d56a986c655c1f17e403f899ed
• https://news.yahoo.com/yorks-lawsuit-against-nra-move-235736006.html
• https://www.takebackthecourt.today/2021-term-cases-to-watch
• https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22058315-is-lamda-sentient-an-interview
  • https://news.yahoo.com/transcript-used-evidence-google-ai-172627642.html
  • https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489
    • «When Jen Gennai told me that she was going to tell Google leadership to ignore the experimental evidence I had collected I asked her what evidence could convince her. She was very succinct and clear in her answer. There does not exist any evidence that could change her mind.» This is also what creationists say.

6/16 Thu

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-u-s-tested-67-nuclear-bombs-in-their-country-now-they-re-dying-in-oklahoma - Marshall Islands, US history, US dishonor, outsiders
• global warming:
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q4pg/jacobabad-climate-change-heat-wave-extreme-weather
  • https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-14/big-water-cutbacks-ordered-amid-colorado-river-shortage
• https://www.wired.com/story/provincetown-covid-delta-outbreak-response/ «In a queer vacation hot spot on Cape Cod, an ad hoc community proved that Americans can stifle large outbreaks—if they want to.»
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220615-do-we-need-a-better-understanding-of-progress - Tyler Cowen, Stripe, Patrick Collison
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764738 - Tyler Cowen is a kept economist
    • https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/108489768740661994
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/crypto-crash-5-obvious-market-top-signals-everyone-missed.html
  • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/crypto-is-crashing-it-deserves-to.html
• https://www.vox.com/23152123/climate-actions-individuals-can-take (via Pocket)
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/unlearning-the-language-of-wokeness.html - support but also a good critique
• https://twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/1537314312926003201 -- Disney attempted censorship of Gravity Falls
• https://twitter.com/willieburnleyjr/status/1537274659279888386 - actual police-defunding about to happen? Find out where...
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/media/usa-today-removes-articles/index.html - one reporter was fabricating quotes/sources

6/17 Fri

• https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Trump-supporters-so-angry-now/answer/Marian-Hubbard-1 - Trumpist reality
• https://weirder.earth/@needle/108461788536251973 - photo of right-wing group being arrested at Pride
• https://jfkassassination.quora.com/The-Zapruder-film-shows-Kennedys-massive-head-wound-to-be-in-front-of-his-ear-However-the-autopsy-shows-the-wound-beh-2 - checkable details? possibly just fabrication
• https://jfkassassination.quora.com/Why-didn-t-the-CIA-ever-declassify-the-documents-regarding-JFK-s-assassination
• https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage - speaking of unsustainability...
  • https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/108495246706268529

6/18 Sat

• https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1538217194659667968 - TX GOP shuts out Log Cabin Republicans. LCR are surprised.
• https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1538181571060047872 - GOP Twitter contradicts itself, knowing that most followers won't notice
• https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1537977306500648960 - «The New Mexico Republicans who refused to certify a Democrat who won his election fold, certify the Democrat’s victory after facing legal threats from the state’s Supreme Court and Attorney General.»

6/19 Sun

• https://www.quora.com/Do-American-Republicans-genuinely-believe-that-the-US-election-in-2020-was-stolen/answer/Marian-Hubbard-1 - Republicans cling to unreality (note lack of specifics)
• https://fwiwnewsletter.substack.com/p/republicans-hammer-lgbt-rights-to - they're also harping on the "Biden's gas prices" fallacy
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/17/un-food-chief-says-hell-earth-looms-hunger-crisis-triggered-ukraine-war
• https://lawandcrime.com/abortion/iowa-supreme-court-cites-then-law-prof-amy-coney-barretts-logic-to-overrule-case-and-strip-constitutional-protections-for-abortion/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/11/2103657/-Bill-Kristol-s-Mic-Drop-response-to-the-Faux-s-J6-Blockade - Bill Kristol says something true, what is the world coming to
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/apple-store-workers-in-maryland-become-first-in-us-to-unionize
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/17/23172915/elon-musk-spacex-letter-fired-legal-protected-speech-nlrb
• 2022-06-17 Matt Walsh Needs to Know: What IS a Woman?? (video, 15'15", Rebecca Watson)
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/the-dismantling-of-hong-kong.html

6/20 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/During-the-Holocaust-is-there-evidence-of-even-a-single-SS-soldier-who-stopped-and-said-This-is-immoral-I-cant-do-this/answer/Pawe%C5%82-%C5%BBuk-1 - some people will do the right thing
• https://susiebright.substack.com/p/terminated - Google deleted Cornell's entire online media library because porn or something (but then restored it)
  • https://scholar.social/@bookandswordblog/108510600280066316

6/21 Tue

• https://www.newsweek.com/texas-secede-us-2023-gop-pushes-referendum-1717254 - Texit
  • https://www.newsweek.com/texas-seceding-us-would-mean-war-law-expert-says-1717392
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/vgivix/texas_could_secede_from_us_in_2023_as_gop_pushes/
• https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-texas-gop-convention-coward-viral-video-globalism-globalist-1717270
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1105966424/elise-stefaniks-defense-of-trump-around-jan-6-clouds-her-pro-democracy-work-abro
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108511009057249843
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/21/i-voted-for-hillary-clinton-once/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108515680837005150

6/22 Wed

• https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/17/high-profile-white-house-departures-raise-alarms-a/

  The Right recycles legitimate criticisms of 45 as criticisms of 46, where they aren't actually applicable. Interesting how they never name names or even say how many have left. Are we talking three? Thirty? Over what time span?

  The article implies it's an unusually high rate and the headline states clearly that *someone* (who?) is alarmed -- but then...

  [quote]

  Since taking office, Mr. Biden has seen 26% of his executive staff leave the administration, according to data from the Brookings Institution. That makes Mr. Biden’s staff relatively stable compared to his predecessors.

  [/quote]

• https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/06/22/meta-and-other-big-tech-giants-have-formed-a-metaverse-standards-body-leaving-apple-in-the
  • https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-2062-b31a-8bdb-7a5415241576
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/06/22/afghanistan-earthquake-kills-hundreds/7696883001/
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1106228594/a-missouri-senate-candidate-holds-a-shotgun-and-calls-for-rino-hunting-in-a-new-
• https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home - EU UBI citizens initiative
  • https://weirder.earth/@gromit/108510675373711281

6/23 Thu

• https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-cruz-barrasso-introduce-legislation-to-protect-kids-double-number-of-school-resource-officers-in-schools - the GOP solution for gun violence: more security
  • https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/safe_kids_safe_schools_safe_communities_act_of_2022.pdf - actual bill
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1102995474/supreme-court-opinion-guns - once again, so much for states' rights
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108527646243663504
• https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/20/uvalde-police-shooting-response-records/
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/the-supreme-courts-approval-rating-is-dropping/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108529509364535579
• USSC Miranda ruling:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-miranda-rights/index.html
    • https://nextdoor.com/p/Npc_jBbPqqH3?view=detail
  • https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-miranda-rights/
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108529509423985305
• USSC ruling in favor of NC voter ID law:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-berger-north-carolina-naacp-voter-id-law/index.htm
    • https://nextdoor.com/p/qtGTJ-c-QjGp?view=detail
• USSC expands gun rights:
  • https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-guns-decision-58d01ef8bd48e816d5f8761ffa84e3e8

6/24 Fri

• https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-suggests-second-amendment-rights-should-used-against-democrats-1668286
  • https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-thoughts-on-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-suggesting-that-second-amendment-rights-should-be-used-against-Democrats-https-www-newsweek-com-marjorie-taylor-greene-suggests-second-amendment-rights-should-used/answer/Judy-Rofe

6/25 Sat

• https://blackhistoryandpolitics.quora.com/This-photo-was-taken-at-a-Greensboro-North-Carolina-Black-Lives-Matter-March-The-little-girl-wanted-to-take-part-so-sh - how a white person can lead by example

6/27 Mon

• https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-418_i425.pdf
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108550805193829989
• US/Supreme Court:
  • Wikipedia
  • authorized by Article Three of the United States Constitution:
    • «Section 1 of Article Three vests the judicial power of the United States in the Supreme Court, as well as inferior courts established by Congress.»
    • «Section 2 of Article Three delineates federal judicial power. The Case or Controversy Clause restricts the judiciary's power to actual cases and controversies»... «Section 2 states that federal judiciary's power extends to cases arising under the Constitution, federal laws, federal treaties, controversies involving multiple states or foreign powers, and other enumerated areas. Section 2 gives the Supreme Court original jurisdiction when ambassadors, public officials, or the states are a party in the case, leaving the Supreme Court with appellate jurisdiction in all other areas to which the federal judiciary's jurisdiction extends. Section 2 also gives Congress the power to strip the Supreme Court of appellate jurisdiction»...
  • The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number of Supreme Court justices at six and otherwise filled in details left unspecified by Article 3.
    • https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/federal-judiciary-act
  • Marbury v. Madison «was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.»
• https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107750828/brittney-griner-russia-court-appearance-drug-trial

6/28 Tue

• https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/article/vanguard-view-on-investing-in-cryptocurrency - "may not be suitable for a long-term portfolio", according to the email
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/us-government-native-hawaiians-raw-deal
  • https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/105833592408699942
• https://www.wral.com/no-one-forces-anyone-to-have-sex-nc-congressman-greg-murphy-falsely-claims-after-roe-decision/20351629/
  • A common tactic is to emphasize "elective" procedures to the exclusion of all else. It's an obvious straw man designed to confuse and distract - and the potential existence of an "elective" or "vanity" abortion is sufficient, to some, to make all abortion illegal. Never mind that it basically doesn't happen.
• https://www.solarbotics.com/blog/rant-some-of-us-are-in-this-together-more-than-others - corporate pseudosamaritanism

6/29 Wed

• https://twitter.com/avkirbyPhD/status/1542182355531464704 - the right way to do separate bathrooms

6/30 Thu

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/30/the-terfs-have-science-on-their-side/ - apparently it's still "science" to them even if the facts are wrong
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108566274602069388
• https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3541255-kinzinger-hits-back-at-boeberts-church-and-state-remarks-we-must-oppose-the-christian-taliban/amp/ «Boebert argued that the church should direct the government, and not the other way around.» That's not at all scary or fascistic, nope.
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/vnl890/kinzinger_hits_back_at_boeberts_church_and_state/

July

7/1 Fri

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/supreme-court-dangerous-independent-state-legislature-theory.html
• USSC EPA decision:
  • https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/supreme-court-sabotages-epa-fight-against-climate-change.html
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/vog0kg/its_hard_to_overstate_the_danger_of_the_voting/
  • https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-tries-to-overrule-the-climate
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108572037126803992
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108572916674742020
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/30/2107555/-While-decrying-the-Supreme-Six-s-EPA-ruling-give-Kagan-Breyer-and-Sotomayor-hugs-for-their-dissent
  • https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/30/23184791/supreme-court-west-virginia-epa-decision-climate-change-power-plants-what-happens-next
• https://www.salon.com/2022/06/28/christian-fascism-is-right-here-right-now-after-roe-can-we-finally-see-it/
  • https://mastodon.lol/@alexispurslane/108567101672722358
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/immaculata-catholic-school-bars-lgbtq-parishioner-from-job/ -- Immaculata
• Pioneers Church, Durham
  • https://indyweek.com/news/durham/pioneers-durham-denomination-change/
  • https://indyweek.com/news/durham/pioneers-church/
    • https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/backtalk-social-diseases-pioneers-church/
• https://www.wral.com/proud-boys-disrupt-pride-event-at-wilmington-library/20343639/

7/2 Sat

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unsolved-murders-crime-without-punishment/ - need more officers (how are they involved?) and detectives; courts are also backed up
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/politics/new-york-gun-law-concealed-carry/index.html
• https://www.boredpanda.com/american-abortion-history-twitter/ - actually, abortion was long considered ethical, long before it was reasonably safe
  • https://tech.lgbt/@bluestarultor/108573000110453853
• https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2654105368248/biden-warns-republicans-will-seek-a-nationwide-abortion-ban-arrest-women-who-cross-state-lines
  • https://toot.cat/@Callalily/108573869984355255
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/30/ocasio-cortez-says-us-witnessing-judicial-coup-process - independent state legislature theory
• «Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word … We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.» – Eleanor Roosevelt.
• https://ancienthistoryandmysterylovers.quora.com/Mildred-Harnack-was-beheaded-on-Hitler-s-direct-order-Born-in-Milwaukee-she-was-26-when-she-moved-to-Germany-to-pursu - Nazi history

7/3 Sun

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/27/2082716/-Trump-was-asked-if-he-d-defend-his-country-like-Zelensky-and-I-can-t-stop-laughing-at-his-answer
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/12/1609128/-Unvaxxed-father-of-11-dies-of-COVID-You-can-t-make-up-what-happened-next - inside the wingnut silo
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/18/2075338/-Two-Florida-men-and-a-turtle-walk-into-a-very-dark-bar-The-joke-s-on-them - when wingnuts battle
• https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/07/01/ohio-girl-10-among-patients-going-indiana-abortion/7788415001/
  • https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/03/us-rape-victim-10-denied-abortion-in-ohio-after-supreme-court-ruling-16933422/
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/10-year-old-girl-denied-abortion-in-ohio/ar-AAZ6VAq
• https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2022/07/02/texas-supreme-court-blocks-abortion-order-allowing-abortions-resume/7795049001/
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/us/boston-patriot-front-white-nationalist-group-march/index.html
• https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/education/2022/06/29/leon-county-school-board-approves-lgbtq-guide-dont-say-gay-moms-for-liberty-parental-rights/7765205001/ «What drew the most debate was a provision that a school will notify parents — by form — if a student who is "open about their gender identity" is in a physical education class or on an overnight trip.»
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick
• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/30/a-massive-betrayal-how-londons-olympic-legacy-was-sold-out - lots of interconnected stuff
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/6/2090454/-The-Supreme-Court-strikes-from-the-shadows-to-endanger-water-with-Chief-Justice-Roberts-in-dissent

7/4 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Soviet-tendency-to-produce-shoddy-consumer-goods-the-result-of-communism-or-of-monopoly/answer/Zbigniew-%C5%81obocki - one problem with a centralized economy: quotas
• https://blackhistoryandpolitics.quora.com/On-July-31-1968-a-young-black-man-was-reading-the-newspaper-when-he-saw-something-that-he-had-never-seen-before-With - history of racism
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/29/1054005/toronto-kill-the-smart-city/ - interesting observations about how different attitudes can lead to better or worse government (though I think part of the assumption that "freedom" and "government" are in opposition -- that it's still "freedom" as long as it's a private company doing the controlling -- is more about corporate propaganda than it is a reflection of reality).
• https://www.livescience.com/hundreds-of-new-microbes-found-in-melting-glaciers - dangers of global warming
  • https://hackers.town/@nixfreak/108584457417267460
• Example of the NYT misleading Rightward: https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108589245707316914
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/kristi-noem-gets-grilled-whether-161344643.html
• https://cybre.space/@devurandom/108582385529984546 - strategy for protests

7/5 Tue

• https://maxread.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-all-those-weird - people in southeast Asia get press-ganged into being scam workers, and enslaved
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zb5d/pig-butchering-scam-cambodia-trafficking

7/6 Wed

• https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2022/07/05/united-flight-attendants-blast-management-decision-to-run-uniform-compliance-sweep-while-operational-issues-get-put-on-hold/ - there needs to be a word for internal distractivism
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-clerk-of-court-archie-smith-retires/ - Archie Smith, Clerk of Court, accomplishments (including LGBTQ+ advocacy)
• https://twitter.com/analyticseqv/status/1544426003790954498 - Aurora Pro Services, Greensboro, NC
• https://www.ccn.com/these-entitled-millennials-are-cheering-for-a-housing-market-crash/
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/N_r3wybWgCTH?view=detail
• https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots - future history on target
• https://www.avclub.com/wonder-woman-lynda-carter-twitter-bette-midler-1849148951
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/06/i-hope-you-arent-expecting-the-universities-to-fight-back/ - Nazi history; Hans Spemann; educational politics in Florida

7/8 Fri

• https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/summer-air-travel-flights-cancelled/661385/ - effects of COVID pandemic
• https://khn.org/news/article/health-insurers-price-transparency-public-rates-costs/
• https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40543385/north-carolina-wants-remove-free-public-ev-chargers/
  • https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1545424566360702980

7/9 Sat

• https://jonspoliticalcorner29.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-liberals-moving-out-of-blue-states-and-moving-to-Texas-and-Florida-11 - disinformation of the form "taxes are too high because of public services". Taxes are high because of rich people evading taxes and driving up property prices.

7/10 Sun

• https://interesting.quora.com/Florida-father-kills-himself-after-finding-his-18-month-old-son-dead-in-hot-car - I've had arguments with people claiming that it's simple carelessness when parents accidentally leave kids in hot cars (whether or not death results), that they're being uncaring. This is evidence that it can be exactly not that.
• https://www.axios.com/2022/07/09/shutdowndc-supreme-court-abortion-roe-protest - left-wing implied violence
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/vvbyew/group_offers_up_to_250_for_scotus_justices/
• https://queer.party/@Averixus/108622198024201083 - a subtle change to UK privacy law regarding SRS/GRS
• https://nationalpost.com/life/food/how-climate-change-is-turning-fruits-and-vegetables-into-junk-food

7/11 Mon

• Good bit by JF:

Pro-Lifer: Well, the mother should just give the baby up for adoption if she doesn’t want the baby...
Me: So, who will adopt the baby?
PL: I don’t know there’s lots of couples who want to adopt.
Me: Do you know any couple who is waiting to adopt?
PL: Um well not personally but like I know there’s lots of people waiting to adopt.
Me: Do you know what a domestic adoption cost?
PL: I don’t know. $15,000 maybe?
Me: The average cost of domestic adoption in the United States is $70,000 if you go through a private agency.
PL: Oh, I didn’t realize it was that much
Me: Yep, it’s really expensive. It can be more if you want a newborn straight from the hospital. Up to $120,000.
PL: Well, all life is precious.
Me: it really is. I’ve adopted through foster care and am currently a licensed foster parent. Would you be interested in becoming a foster parent yourself?
PL: Oh no I couldn’t do it.
Me: Why not?
PL: It would just be too much for me right now.
Me: Why is that?
PL: It would be too hard to handle all the issues that came with it. I’ve heard horror stories.
Me: Yep, it can be extremely difficult. But what if I told you that you were required by law to become a foster parent?
PL: what?
Me: what if you had to become a foster parent by law?
PL: they would never do that. That would never happen.
Me: Well, if a woman is forced to bear a child she doesn’t want, and she goes ahead and has that child, someone has to care for the child either through adoption or foster care. You have to do one of those two things.
PL: But I don’t want any more kids.
Me: So, you don’t want someone forcing you to have a child in your home that you don’t want or aren’t able to care for?
PL: no, that’s not my job to raise someone else’s child.

There it is folks. Have the baby, but we don’t want anything to do with it afterwards.
But let’s ban abortion...

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/11/creationists-deny-science-dont-let-them-get-away-with-saying-otherwise/ - prominent creationist/conman throws shade on Webb Telescope (and all cosmology in general)
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108629807704780677

7/12 Tue

• https://anglican.ink/2022/07/08/episcopal-house-of-deputies-affirms-gender-transitions-at-any-age/
  • https://www.hrc.org/resources/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-episcopal-church - some history of Episcopalian LGBTQ+ policy
• https://worldsnews.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-What-has-your-child-s-school-done-that-got-you-so-mad-you-went-in-and-read-the-riot-act-to-the-tea-2 -- I've seen this anecdote before (can it be verified?)... but it does seem very consistent with today's right-wing moral panic over "woke" and LGBTQ+ books.
• https://www.quora.com/What-things-in-life-were-once-acceptable-but-are-now-considered-extremely-inappropriate/answer/Mark-Hallock-1 - history of racism

7/13 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/Californians-is-California-as-bad-as-conservatives-portray-it/answer/Jeff-Kramer-59 - how conservoids portray California

7/14 Thu

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/14/the-pruitt-stink-lingers-on/ - academia, McMaster University, scientific fraud
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108645958963750717

7/15 Fri

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/ - historical homophobia in US government
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ivana-trump-death-donald-b2123555.html
  • https://www.indy100.com/politics/donald-trump-ivana-death-fundraising
• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/13/23188455/inflation-paul-volcker-shock-recession-1970s
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whats-behind-bidens-record-low-approval-rating/
• https://jezebel.com/amazon-is-giving-ring-camera-footage-to-police-without-1849179764
  • https://boingboing.net/2022/07/15/amazon-admits-police-get-ring-camera-footage-without-owners-consent.html
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/google-plays-new-privacy-section-actually-hides-app-permissions/
• https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3561122-manchin-says-inflation-report-killed-climate-and-tax-talks-with-schumer/ - "inflation is worse, so I can no longer work with you to improve the economy"
• https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-faces-facebook-blackout-instagram-meta-data-protection/
• https://archive.ph/OwEar - may address some myths about organic farming, or maybe unrelated; Sri Lanka
• https://thewalrus.ca/nuclear-accidents/ - history of nuclear power
• https://todon.nl/@anarchiv/108578293175949214 - the benefits of allowing for "freeloaders"

7/16 Sat

• https://scholar.social/@scisus/108646152510632513 - predatory academic journals/publishers
• https://www.axios.com/2022/07/16/abortion-online-ads-targeted-groups
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/QqSmc9YQJHfs
• https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/pregnant-women-cant-get-divorced-in-missouri-38092512 Missouri divorce law "does not see fetuses as humans.", but Missouri abortion law insists that they are.
  • https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1548310612958072832
    • https://twitter.com/pgourevitch/status/1548360304689438727
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/14/man-arrested-threats-pramila-jayapal/
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108651439902282215 «Think Republicans will condemn this like they did protests in front of homes of Supreme Court justices or outside some places they went?» Seems unlikely. It's not about principles.
• https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/billy-long-mass-shootings-abortion - mass shootings happen because abortion
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/15/republicans-losing-millennial-moms-essay-00045156 - what are you even doing supporting the Republican Party in the first place? THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND.
  • https://democracy.town/@SpiderMan/108657023289921343
• https://www.rawstory.com/glenn-youngkin-virginia/ Glenn Youngkin
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108617093657636321
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/06/the-us-supreme-court-is-turning-the-constitution-into-a-suicide-pact
  • https://octodon.social/@alienghic/108602521998811191
• https://xtramagazine.com/power/far-right-feminist-fascist-220810 - TERFism
  • https://octodon.social/@alienghic/108608435843313712
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/7/2109041/-Trump-left-the-board-of-his-beloved-Twitter-knockoff-just-before-feds-subpoenaed-it
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/7/2108838/--Separate-but-equal-returns-to-Tennessee-with-judges-ruling-against-Jewish-couple
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/7/2109018/-Biden-s-awful-embarrassing-deal-with-McConnell-just-keeps-getting-worse
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/economy/june-jobs-report-final/index.html
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/07/arizona-recording-police-illegal/10009423002/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/w0dawh/tiny_house_village_by_nonprofit_in_southeast/ - NIMBYism vs. attempts to actually remediate homelessness

7/17 Sun

• https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1548365634114691072 video clip: Ted Cruz says it was wrong for the USSC to legalize same-sex marriage
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBJoax1tq8
• https://youtu.be/G_zjhp5HyfI "your 'carbon footprint' is a lie": distractivism
• https://www.quora.com/Should-Disney-pull-their-Moana-Halloween-costume-from-stores-following-the-backlash-from-the-Polynesian-community/answer/Destiny-Tiatia-1 - example of how some members of a group shouldn't speak for all of them
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/17/spinelessnessconfirmed/ - Republicans are the only party that has any agency anymore
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108663097386195779
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/17/dont-fall-for-this-trap/ - false dilemma
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108663251249870812
• https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108663270578624310 «Senator Bernie Sanders on Senator Joe Manchin's rejection of Democrats climate bill: "[Manchin] is intentionally sabotaging the president's agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want." .. “The problem is, we continue to talk to Manchin as if he was serious. He is not.”»

7/18 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-weirdest-thing-you-have-been-stopped-for-by-airport-security/answer/John-Smith-12372 - how the system fails even a white dude with a common name
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/17/2110734/-Nearly-one-billion-Chinese-suffer-extreme-humid-temperatures-Bodies-begin-to-pile-up-in-Europe - global warming
• https://www.kmvt.com/2022/07/17/idgop-convention-wraps-up-twin-fall/
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/17/2110888/-Women-of-Idaho-The-men-want-you-dead
  • they also don't like ranked-choice voting because it lets people "vote more than once"
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/18/2111008/-Freepers-react-to-TFG-s-Musk-attack-mad-cow-disease-moron-childishness-senseless-Dumb - Trump attacks Musk; Muskpologists attack Trump
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/17/2110890/-Bernie-Sanders-doesn-t-hold-back-and-calls-Manchin-s-Betrayal-what-it-is-Sabotag
• https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/education/school-board-candidate-checks-out-many-lgbt-books-from-library-so-others-cant-see-them/article_02ee0851-1646-5f83-a36f-77646b1cf94f.html
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/6/2102529/-School-board-candidate-checks-out-more-than-20-LGBTQ-books-so-kids-can-t-read-them-during-Pride
• https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108668893852036971 «Would you want to live in a place where this man is freely roaming the streets? .. Hours after the Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting released its report on the police response, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson posted a video saying he'll "NEVER surrender my AR-15" and telling those who want to ban the weapon to "come and get it."» This makes me want to design a disarming bot just to take his AR-15...
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/13/2110123/-JK-Rowling-continues-her-transformation-into-Voldemort - J.K. Rowling, Matt Walsh
• https://novaramedia.com/2022/07/13/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hot-strike-summer/
  • https://lgbt.io/@porsupah/108663997529272364

7/19 Tue

• https://therealnews.com/starbucks-and-other-companies-escalate-war-on-unions-with-store-closures
• https://therealnews.com/sanders-rips-manchin-he-represents-the-very-wealthiest-people-in-the-country
• 2022-07-15 How Close to Death Does a Person Have to Be to Qualify for an Abortion Ban Exemption?
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108669207707782310
• AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and others arrested during DC abortion protest
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/reps-ocasio-cortez-omar-democrats-arrested-abortion-rights-protest-rcna38956
  • https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/aoc-fakes-being-handcuffed-after-abortion-rights-protest-arrest/ - gasp, the very depths of dishonesty.
  • https://people.com/politics/aoc-tlaib-omar-pressley-among-dems-arrested-in-abortion-rights-protest-outside-supreme-court/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/aoc-arrested-protest-abortion-rights-democrats
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/aoc-and-other-lawmakers-arrested-for-abortion-rights-protest-at-supreme-court
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/reps-ocasio-cortez-omar-democrats-arrested-abortion-rights-protest-rcna38956 «Among those arrested were Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Carolyn Maloney of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Cori Bush of Missouri, Veronica Escobar of Texas, Jackie Speier and Barbara Lee of California, and Ayanna Pressley and Katherine Clark of Massachusetts.»
  • AOC put out a fundraising newsletter mentioning her arrest (recd 2022-07-19 20:01)
  • Cori Bush also mentioned in her newsletter, received 2022-07-20 18:10
  • https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-democrats-arrested-abortion-rights-protest-supreme-court/story?id=87074083
  • https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/20/omar-aoc-and-15-other-lawmakers-arrested-at-us-pro-choice-rally

7/20 Wed

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-votes-protect-sex-marriage-case-supreme-court-rescinds-rcna38990
• National Association of Scholars, "Science in an Age of Unreason"
  • NAS announcement: https://www.nas.org/blogs/event/event-science-in-an-age-of-unreason archive.org
  • Tickets & more description: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in-an-age-of-unreason-tickets-379906710197 archive.org
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2001/05/mother-jones-woman/
• https://www.leolinne.com/?portfolio=discourses-of-climate-delay - cartoon drawings illustrating the various excuses for inaction on global warming
  • https://octodon.social/@cwebber/108674875615206772
• https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/108675024933789003 - how democratic government almost failed (but eventually succeeded) in solving an environmental problem
• https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/
• https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-so-many-semi-trucks-driving-over-the-allowed-speed-in-highways-in-the-USA-if-they-are-supposed-to-have-elog/answer/Ben-Lassiter-9 - example of poor regulation not responding to needs, on a relatively nonpartisan kind of issue
• https://www.vox.com/23268566/europe-heat-wave-uk-france-canicule-spain-wildfire-record-temperature-climate - global warming is here
• https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/the_global_warming_fraud_revealed_in_one_graph.html - meanwhile, the Right is still trying to pretend it away
• https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/07/19/why-vladimir-putin-is-going-to-iran/
• https://jezebel.com/elon-musks-dad-says-company-wants-his-sperm-to-impregna-1849199125

7/21 Thu

• https://www.cbs17.com/news/death-toll-from-weekslong-rains-in-pakistan-rises-to-282/ - also probably global warming
• https://twitter.com/sonicmega/status/1549651495997476864 - how robot dogs will actually be used
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/21/i-was-not-fooled/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108685310089644884
  • https://www.salon.com/2022/07/20/the-press-tries-to-grade-on-a-curve--but-the-still-hates-marriage-equality/
• https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/1543308024797810688 - relative CO2 wastefulness of several modes of cargo transportation
  • https://mastodon.social/@fox_news/108681486398428838
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108675201548944258 - Google & Amazon: anticompetitive behavior
• 2022 European heat waves
• https://skepchick.org/2022/07/no-we-havent-killed-90-of-plankton-in-the-atlantic-yet/
  • https://tech.lgbt/@stolas_mk2/108686212996743033
• https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Gov-Greg-Abbott-did-not-attend-funeral-for-any-17312174.php
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/us/politics/biden-mcconnell-judge-abortion.html
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/amazon-might-own-your-doctors-office-after-latest-acquisition/
• https://twitter.com/_gray_47/status/1549924617397174273 - with some newer HP printers, you have to subscribe to their ink refill service -- and they will remotely disable your printer if the payment doesn't go through.
• https://twitter.com/nomedabarbarian/status/1548857857742753793 - house rental monopolies
• https://newrepublic.com/article/167088/democrats-respect-for-marriage-act-republican-vote
• Germany scrambles for energy with no faith in Russian gas
• Biden unveils $2.3bn plan to fight climate change
• https://newrepublic.com/article/166876/donald-trump-jr-titan-atlas-housing-poor «He and a partner were going to build “millions of houses” for poor people in the developing world. They built virtually no units, left investors high and dry, and sued creditors rather than pay them.» Carrying on the family business-values...
• https://decrypt.co/105251/how-much-does-cost-mine-1-bitcoin - currently a little over $17,700, but could go as low as $13,000 due to less-expensive energy sources. okay...

7/24 Sun

• Monkeypox:
  • https://www.thecut.com/2022/07/the-monkeypox-vaccine-hunger-games-are-on.html
  • https://todon.eu/@fuchsiashock/108697193209391762 - media attempting to link monkeypox with LGBTQ+ community
  • https://miaow.gay/@meganeko/108697959802445529 - similar
  • https://www.salon.com/2022/06/04/monkeypox-hiv-rhetoric/
  • https://fenwayhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/TFIR-337_Monkeypox-Fact-Sheet2.pdf
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monkeypox-likely-spread-sex-two-raves-europe-expert-says-rcna30055
  • https://theconversation.com/monkeypox-isnt-like-hiv-but-gay-and-bisexual-men-are-at-risk-of-unfair-stigma-183571
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/23/who-monkeypox-international-health-emergency-00047563
• https://www.vox.com/2022/7/23/23275396/sri-lanka-president-cracking-down-on-protests-wickremesinghe - Sri Lanka
• https://www.quora.com/Why-can-Liberals-be-rude-and-disrespectful-on-Quora-but-anyone-else-cannot/answer/Chrysaor-Jordan - authoritarians be like this
• https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108584752040008043 «It’s like a crime spree. Winning isn’t enough for these crazies. [..] New abortion ban bill introduced in SC Senate would prohibit anyone from telling a pregnant woman that she could go to another state for an abortion, prohibit anyone from driving her there, and prohibits a website from providing info about abortion. This cannot stand.»
  • https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/bills/1373.htm - not sure if this is the one mentioned, but there is definitely overlap
  • https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/bills/1.htm - fetal heartbeat
  • https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/30/s-c-bill-would-apparently-outlaw-news-sites-writing-about-legal-abortion-clinics-in-neighboring-states/
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-ban-south-carolina-court-rules-law-can-go-into-effect/
• https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/collector-loses-100-eth-150000-in-a-joke-gone-wrong

7/25 Mon

• https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/dave-chappelles-some-of-my-best-friends
• https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-complains-that-he-couldnt-give-himself-the-congressional-medal-of-honor-they-wouldnt-let-me-do-it/
• https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/07/23/neo-nazi-leader-arrested-in-boston-after-protesting-lgbtq-event
• https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/dhs-aclu-data-report-rcna38872
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-junta-execute-four-democracy-activists-state-media-2022-07-25/ Myanmar
• https://www.takebackthecourtfoundation.org/supreme-court-repeals-the-20th-century - summary of report, with link to PDF
• https://news.yahoo.com/matt-gaetz-women-look-thumb-012346149.html - Matt Gaetz digs in deeper on abortion rights
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfire-near-yosemite-national-park-explodes-in-size-prompts-evacuations/ - global warming/effects
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-he-kinda-liked-that-taliban-called-him-your-excellency
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/media/murdoch-trump-jan-6-new-york-post-wall-street-journal/index.html - Post says Trump shouldn't be POTUS again
• https://apnews.com/article/technology-lawsuits-class-action-8f03e9f76fa75f474f1a2584ce3a55f0 - T-Mobile
• https://www.cltampa.com/tampa/photos-neo-nazis-gather-outside-turning-point-usa-summit-at-tampa-convention-center/Slideshow/13849084/13849119

7/26 Tue

• https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/gop-lawmaker-attended-gay-sons-wedding-3-days-voting-sex-marriage-rcna39863 "We get to tell you what to do; you don't get to tell us what to do" confirmed.
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/26/corporate-interests-have-given-215-million-gop-sedition-caucus-jan-6-attack - sedition caucus
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/93abve/jd-vance-suggests-people-in-violent-marriages-shouldnt-get-divorced - Republicans showing us who they are
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/university-michigan-pro-life-speech-b2130834.html «...Dr Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine at the university and a self-proclaimed anti-abortion physician...» «...who is also the director of the university’s program on Health Spirituality & Religion...» What the hell was the University thinking??
• https://news.yahoo.com/steve-bannon-calls-4-000-001203809.html «Fresh from a double contempt of Congress conviction linked to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Steve Bannon is now calling on “4,000 shock troops” to “deconstruct” the federal government “brick by brick.”»
• https://popular.info/p/coachellas-parent-company-is-donating Anschutz Corporation — a massive holding company that famously owns the live music giant AEG Presents, the parent company of several major festivals, including Coachella — made a donation of $75,000 to RAGA.
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/22/donald-trump-covid-panic-february-2020-00047177 «In public, Trump downplayed the pandemic. In private, he was freaking out.»
• https://expmag.com/2022/06/every-city-needs-a-chief-heat-officer/ - global warming/effects, Sierra Leone

7/27 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/How-malicious-is-Hillary-Clinton-s-commentary-of-Justice-Thomas-as-being-angry-and-resentful/answer/Jill-Grant-4 - Hillary Clinton on Clarence Thomas

7/28 Thu

• https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/inflation_reduction_act_of_2022.pdf
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/schumer-manchin-deal-build-back-better/index.html - but will the vote actually go as promised? And what about the House?
  • https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23281757/whats-in-climate-bill-inflation-reduction-act «If Democrats pass this bill, which they can do with a simple majority under Senate rules for reconciliation, it would be the single most important legislative step the US has ever taken to combat the climate crisis.»
    • https://sunbeam.city/@derek/108725742785217588
• https://twitter.com/indianacoco/status/1552155703279861760?s=21 - police failure in New Orleans
• https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2022/07/26/misinformation-is-eroding-the-publics-confidence-in-democracy/
  • https://twitter.com/BrookingsInst/status/1552621390985138176
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108725276607849781
• https://twitter.com/0liviajulianna/status/1552810014670295040 - hate backfires
  • https://twitter.com/fuentes_liza/status/1552787017993437190
• https://www.quora.com/As-upper-middle-class-folks-what-was-the-most-eye-opening-thing-about-being-poor/answer/Linda-Buck-5 - is this even true? Seems unlikely, especially in Texas

7/30 Sat

• https://twitter.com/thatgirlondeck/status/1551552439198879752 - bad historical predictions

7/31 Sun

• https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/building-house-expensive-market-inflation-nimby/670596/ - real estate inflation
• https://blockworks.co/qa-the-sec-classified-9-tokens-as-securities-now-what/
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/total-climate-meltdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe - global warming
• https://twitter.com/EBHarrington/status/1553533320469905409 Trump's tax avoidance runs deeper than his family feelings

August

8/1 Mon

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-brief-history-of-consumer-culture - consumerism
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108748850226736673 - dunno who Kari Lake is, but this looks like it needs to be on the record
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shakira-tax-fraud-prosecutors-want-eight-years-1390037/ - arguably this is where taxation is actually a problem for wealthy people: when they run afoul of taxes they didn't know they owed
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/music-midtown-atlanta-canceled-georgia-gun-laws-1390754/ - the consequences of "freedom"
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108750069736231161
• https://therealnews.com/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-visit-could-get-us-all-killed - therefore we should continue supporting a near-totalitarian state over a more-or-less democracy? Which side are we on, again?
• https://therealnews.com/this-victory-is-historic-massachusetts-trader-joes-becomes-first-to-unionize
• https://therealnews.com/cops-thought-they-could-arrest-them-for-protesting-in-public-but-activists-turned-the-tables - cop-watching and police overreach
• https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-lottery-winners-scored-big-but-their-friends-and-family-turned-on-them - potential systemic issues with resource management under capitalism
• https://twitter.com/jilliandurm/status/1553853581459177472 - Durham City Councillor Jillian Johnson using social media to explain policy decisions. Surely there's got to be something better than Twitter for this? No? Probably not. There really should be.
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108750069649749638 - Brian Taylor Cohen responds to Jim Jordan's lie
• https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/ «A Bank of America executive stated that “we hope” working Americans will lose leverage in the labor market in a recent private memo obtained by The Intercept.» «...written by Ethan Harris, the head of global economics research for the corporation’s investment banking arm, Bank of America Securities. Its specific aspiration: “By the end of next year, we hope the ratio of job openings to unemployed is down to the more normal highs of the last business cycle.”»

8/2 Tue

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/blindsided-veterans-erupt-fury-senate-republicans-suddenly-tank-pact-a-rcna40516
• https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-cheers-for-manchin-and-the-dems
• https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-todays-decision-by-the-fed-is
• https://abcnews.go.com/US/rnc-warning-trump-run-president-stop-paying-legal/story?id=87486985
  • https://democracy.town/@JamesRhodes/108720878267630030
• https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/26/with-all-the-other-nonsense-going-on-senate-democrats-priority-is-to-spy-on-kids-online/
  • https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/108720172474836042
• https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/the-last-cigarette-commercial-ever-aired-on-american-tv-1971.html - cigarette advertising on TV

8/3 Wed

• https://therealnews.com/the-white-identity-politics-of-christian-nationalism
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/hayti-business-leaders-worry-development-gentrification/
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-police-shotspotter-map-timeline/ - Shotspotter; US/NC/Durham
• https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/news/chick-fil-a-free-labor/
• PACT Act:
  • https://veterans.house.gov/imo/media/doc/toxsub_xml.pdf
  • https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967
  • https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00230.htm
  • https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2022/6/tillis-statement-on-the-pact-act
  • https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3577296-gop-senators-block-bill-expanding-care-for-veterans-exposed-to-toxins/
    • https://twitter.com/nc_governor/status/1552782839262879744
• https://twitter.com/SenThomTillis/status/1554522603074764800 - Thom Tillis approves of Sweden and Finland entering NATO
• https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3585380-senate-sends-veterans-toxic-exposure-bill-to-bidens-desk/
  • https://democracy.town/@SteveRogers/108755983559355564
• https://deadspin.com/trump-is-not-in-favor-of-bringing-brittney-griner-home-1849361961
  • https://democracy.town/@phillyaccent/108755807966489937
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/house-vote-assault-weapons-ban/index.html
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108736913434455498 - same issue, different links
• https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2022-056567/188709/Sex-Assigned-at-Birth-Ratio-Among-Transgender-and «Representatives of some pediatric gender clinics have reported an increase in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents presenting for care who were assigned female sex at birth (AFAB) relative to those assigned male sex at birth (AMAB). These data have been used to suggest that youth come to identify as TGD because of “social contagion,” with the underlying assumption that AFAB youth are uniquely vulnerable to this hypothesized phenomenon.» ...and then this was used in support of laws "protecting" "young women" from it. Conclusion: «The sex assigned at birth ratio of TGD adolescents in the United States does not appear to favor AFAB adolescents and should not be used to argue against the provision of gender-affirming medical care for TGD adolescents.»
  • https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1554696508166967297

8/4 Thu

• https://leftistviewpoints.quora.com/Why-are-adamant-Trump-supporters-so-surprised-that-he-is-disliked-and-that-some-people-didn-t-vote-for-him-2
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/27/penalty-clause-voting-rights-00046973
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108762715483959197
• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-abortion-is-becoming-a-winning-issue-for-democrats/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108766805722759866
• Breonna Taylor:
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62427546
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/breonna-taylor-4-former-officers-federally-charged-civil-rights-violat-rcna41521
    • https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1555212737550106635
  • https://www.wsoctv.com/news/trending/fbi-charges-louisville-metro-police-officers-who-filed-warrant-breonna-taylor-case/SYKZGJLKBVE7JGK7AS45DLX5S4/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-is-so-little-known-about-the-1930s-coup-attempt-against-fdr - the Wall Street Putsch
• https://www.openculture.com/2022/02/are-you-a-fascist-take-theodor-adornos-authoritarian-personality-test-1947.html -- more about authoritarianism, really
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/108767006793599419
• https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/04/how-stop-gop-killing-medicare-social-security-and-us - some recent economic history from Thom Hartmann
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/MQY6KtYsrFNs?view=detail
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-trial/671045/
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108767255320551245
• https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-world-first-chile-to-ban-single-use-fb-products-over-three-years/ - good news, sustainability, Chile
  • https://twitter.com/seacitizens/status/1555344707592544256

8/5 Fri

• https://jezebel.com/4-500-tips-about-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-were-punted-t-1849374172
• https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cg0Suhtg9tk/ - Amazon worker found passed out in truck
  • https://nextdoor.com/p/tSLd2sKjFBrZ?view=detail - apparently happened in Durham
• https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/russia-arrests-wnba-star-brittney-griner-on-drug-charges.html - she was originally arrested for "smuggling" vape cartridges. Are those illegal in Russia?
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/5/23293349/amazon-acquires-irobot-roomba-robot-vacuums
• https://www3.forbes.com/business/states-with-the-best-public-school-systems/ - this is actually all 50 states (1 page each), from worst to best. It's interesting that they seem to be against poverty but also against unions.
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108770947788851089

8/7 Sun

• https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1556076468895203328 - Manchin does the right thing, somehow?
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-1998-advice-from-ursula-k-le-guin-about-gender-neutral-language-is-still-relevant
• https://www.businessinsider.com/video-trump-calls-for-department-of-education-abolition-crowd-cheers-2022-8
  • https://www.yahoo.com/news/crowd-cheers-trump-calls-abolition-093209367.html
  • (2018) https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-republicans-shut-education-department-20180620-story.html «The proposal would underscore the belief held by Trump and DeVos that the first purpose of education is to create skilled workers for America's workforce.» - they lay it out right up front that they want school to be an assembly-line for compliant workers
• https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pentagon-denies-dc-request-national-guard-migrant-87997181
• Vincent, AL disbands police after racist tweet
  • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alabama-city-police-disbands-racist-text_n_62ef201ce4b00f4cf23af960
  • https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/alabama-town-disbands-police-department-racist-text-88048143
• https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2022/08/05/madison-county-schools-add-ar-15-rifles-enhance-security/10234037002/ #WhatCouldGoWrong
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/temperatures-rise-france-tackles-its-worst-drought-record-2022-08-07/ - but let's just keep not really doing anything
  • https://mamot.fr/@redfrog/108782288577098551

8/8 Mon

• 2019-02-25 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-s-no-such-thing-as-a-dangerous-neighborhood - we now know broken windows theory is wrong, but broken windows policing (aka order maintenance policing) continues to be used.
• abortion ban
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/abortion-bans-methotrexate-mifepristone-rheumatoid-arthritis/
    • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108787967406131133
• telling us who they are:
  • https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/right-wing-media-spend-week-rallying-around-viktor-orban-after-he-gave-what-his-own - CPAC Dallas
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108788050908563321 «Right-wing media spend a week rallying around Viktor Orbán – after he gave what his own aide called a “pure Nazi speech”»
  • https://www.theroot.com/republicans-vote-no-on-warnock-proposal-to-cap-insulin-1849384058
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108788063906293781
• https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/108790049239180163 - erasure of women
• FBI raids Mar-a-Lago:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html
  • https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3593418-fbi-raids-trumps-mar-a-lago/
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108790110070085500

8/9 Tue

• https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-covid-health-police-2b1f9d8dce1fe3acbb1c5e3910d39e09
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/travis-mcmichael-sentenced-life-prison-federal-hate-crimes-killing-ahm-rcna41566 Ahmaud Arbery
• https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-spending-bill-cut-inflation-deficit-over-time-moodys-2022-08-08/ $
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/trump-praised-german-generals-loyalty-to-hitler.html telling us who they are
• Ravelry:
  • https://wipinsanity.blogspot.com/2021/07/fallacy-vs-reality.html - rebutting the apologia
  • https://twitter.com/wipinsanity/status/1405177968670949382 - summary, one year later
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/appeals-court-house-trump-taxes-opinion/index.html
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108793823640256545 -2/3 judges were GOP-appointed
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html
• telling us who they are:
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108794143284742532
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108794178948313825 - interesting that she thinks a president should be above the law
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-woman-who-found-a-snail-in-her-soda-and-launched-a-million-lawsuits
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/
• https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/india-electronic-waste-workers.html
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mar-lago-search-users-trump-forums-agitate-civil-war-jan-6-rioter-rcna42148 - outrage against government accountability -- *They're* allowed to accountable *us*; *we* aren't allowed to accountable *them*.
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108794895672189919
• https://www.rgj.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona/2022/08/08/tribes-water-rights-able-farm-and-reclaim-landscapes/7824779001/
• https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/1115690578/jobs-employers-hiring-recession-economy-interest-rates-federal-reserve
• https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/plastic-corporate-protect.html
• https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi#a-giant-asterisk - Uber is still not profitable, despite what they claim
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-kyrsten-sinema-signs-democrats-big-agenda-bill-paving-way-senate-p-rcna41675
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108770163131233975
• https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62286093 «A study showing depression isn't caused by low levels of the "happy hormone" serotonin has become one of the most widely shared medical articles.»
  • https://mythago.space/@ghost_bird/108770125373931535 «More serotonin research going round - this time with a bit more credibility - so here’s a quick reminder that it doesn’t say depression is purely environmental or that antidepressants don’t work»
• https://www.wral.com/fuquay-varina-police-hope-new-ids-will-increase-inclusivity/20403771/
• https://apnews.com/article/shootings-austin-texas-violence-e067a8bc031ce48be0810764c7bb3c18 - Alex Jones
• https://eskow.substack.com/p/about-that-health-graph-you-saw-online - life expectancy vs. amount spent per capita on healthcare, by country, 1970-2018

8/10 Wed

• https://jezebel.com/onlyfans-bribed-meta-to-put-thousands-of-adult-entertai-1849396107

8/11 Thu

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/08/11/we-already-knew-elon-musk-was-a-villain/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108804616682723851
• https://therealnews.com/automation-and-the-trade-deficit-are-decimating-us-ports
• https://therealnews.com/corporate-billionaires-are-wrecking-the-supply-chain-just-look-at-the-railroads - seems related to PZ's Musk post. Wrecking public infrastructure
• https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-in-the-wall-street-journal-microsoft-and-cookies/ - Microsoft tried to bribe Nextcloud
  • https://social.platypush.tech/@blacklight/108719097530863121
• Qualified Immunity's Flawed Foundation
  • https://twitter.com/reichlinmelnick/status/1557178832679014403 - qualified immunity only exists because of a clerical error??
• https://toot.cat/@FiXato/108806590532658003 - the Captain Samuel Vimes Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108805460318758307 - Joe Rogan meme/observation

8/12 Fri

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/5_characteristics_of_science_denial.svg
• Mar-a-Lago raid
  • https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-nuclear-mar-lago-raid-washington-post-1733182
  • https://ktla.com/news/fbi-agents-found-dozens-of-classified-documents-in-mar-a-lago-search-sources/
  • https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-received-subpoena-spring-documents-turned-investigators/story
  • https://apnews.com/article/fbi-office-shooting-suspect-killed-eb85e9faa93612fc54fb15639075d0fe «...burst of violence that unfolded amid FBI warnings that federal agents could face attacks in the wake of the search at Donald Trump’s home.»
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/11/poll-voters-mar-a-lago-search-00051116
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_GpRTYkxE - CNN report on WaPo article
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQLnykyySs - Beau
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/politics/read-search-warrant-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/11/florida-finalizes-ban-medicaid-transgender-treatments-00051259
  • https://hackers.town/@erosdiscordia/108810646854171370
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108807546433354429 - cartoon: rule of law? lock her up!
• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1557357323735244800.html - the difference between Trump's classified documents and Hillary's emails
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-judge-rules-criminal-case-against-the-trump-organization-and-former-cfo-allen-weisselberg-can-proceed
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108810410930750273
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/12/search-warrant-shows-trump-under-investigation-for-potential-obstruction-of-justice-espionage-act-violations-00051507

8/13 Sat

• https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/51st-state - Puerto Rico

8/14 Sun

• https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-of-Joe-Rogan-saying-to-shoot-homeless-people-in-Los-Angeles/answer/Roland-Temmerman-1 - Joe Rogan advocated shooting homeless people
• https://apnews.com/article/sinema-took-wall-street-money-while-killing-tax-on-investors-0c07f73ba6db92f87fa33f1aad8dbeac
• https://sports.yahoo.com/sacramento-pay-1-7-million-190120065.html
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/12/five-alarm-crisis-us-has-shortage-300k-teachers-school-staff
• https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/detroit-segregation-wall/
  • https://toot.cat/@js0000/108821563732078739
• https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-india-energy-industry-0be8e0c7f9ec36723189c275055b5169
• https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-dubai-united-arab-emirates-02d93f532e4de19d23789bb4c0ec5cd9 - Aramco profits
• https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pipeline-break-spills-45000-gallons-diesel-wyoming-88303961
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/salman-rushdie-attack-suspect-charged-with-attempted-murder-prosecutor-2022-08-13/
• https://www.npr.org/2022/08/13/1116989125/brazil-firearm-ownership-booms-gun-laws-loosen-bolsonaro
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-free-school-lunch_n_62f7bf86e4b095e78880ce2f
• https://johnfetterman.com/meet/johns-story/ - John Fetterman

8/15 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/Do-you-prefer-to-live-in-a-communist-or-a-capitalist-country/answer/Dima-Vorobiev - another ex-Soviet who can see only the good in capitalism, while having a more reasonable/nuanced view of Soviet-style communism
• https://www.quora.com/Did-Trump-possibly-authorize-around-20-000-National-Guard-troops-in-case-there-were-issues-on-January-6-2021-but-congress-denied-it/answer/Judy-Rofe - myth about Trump requesting the National Guard on 1/6 and being refused by Pelosi
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/08/15/you-mean-professors-arent-kings/comment-page-1/ more {disagreeing with authority} = "cancelling" and "suppression of free speech"
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108826923250710546
• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-control/ «The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately» because think of the children.
  • https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1662-f8c6-b634-d5d339484721
• https://nitter.42l.fr/reclaimingtrans/status/1558613723006357506 - reasonable-sounding theory for why detransition advocates talk the way they do
  • https://mythago.space/@ghost_bird/108820895184686746
• https://jezebel.com/elon-free-speech-absolutist-musk-writes-post-for-chin-1849414118

8/16 Tue

• https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/108834072742397952 - seldom spoken Hawaii history (they had free healthcare before US took over)

8/17 Wed

• https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/09/1057171/social-media-polluting-society-moderation-alone-wont-fix-the-problem/ - not the way they do it, no
• Inflation Reduction Act:
  • https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/8/16/23306588/biden-inflation-reduction-act-climate-pollution-energy
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw5zzrOpo2s
• https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/08/russian-media-organ-agrees-to-pay-millions-to-u-s-conspiracy-theorist-for-kremlin-propaganda/
• https://archive.ph/TVNNY - Slab City meets global warming
• Judge spontaneously lifts injunction against 20-week abortion ban in NC:
  • https://twitter.com/will_doran/status/1560014118232416256
  • https://twitter.com/jennycblack/status/1560020713536356355
  • https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/federal-judge-lifts-block-on-nc-20-week-abortion/
  • https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/08/17/duke-physicians-on-new-abortion-restrictions-and-those-to-come/

8/18 Thu

• https://infoorb.quora.com/Why-does-NASA-want-to-crash-the-ISS-into-the-ocean-instead-of-sending-it-into-space-1 - a theory about why they want to actively de-orbit the ISS
• https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/08/duke-university-press-workers-officially-win-union-nlrb-fair-pay-wages
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108843873540027553 - on the question of how many houses Dr. Oz actually owns Mehmet Oz
  • more: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mehmet-oz-houses-guide.html
• https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-pandemics-public-ace8870b5e4ac4500aa06964db0544b8 - CDC drops COVID quarantine requirements
  • https://archive.ph/PRaZ1 - Slashdot
• https://www.quora.com/What-do-liberals-think-we-should-call-the-holiday-of-Thanksgiving/answer/Chris-OLeary-19 - snarky response to claim that liberals want to rename Tgiving and Xmas; includes video of Obama saying "Merry Christmas" multiple times
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/17/cdc-agency-overhaul-covid-19-response-00052384
• https://apnews.com/article/crime-trending-news-government-and-politics-6f30f575dc739415af1e5b47b1be50f0 «Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history»
• https://eldritch.cafe/@sieri/108845523176891085 - global warming: Brenets Lake dried up, about 1000 years early
• https://gizmodo.com/every-company-that-amazon-has-acquired-in-20-years-1849142527
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/three-arrows-capital-kyle-davies-su-zhu-crash.html - inside the latest crypto-crash
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-you-a-digital-nomad-european-locales-want-remote-workers-11660620267 - cultural effect of COVID
• https://jezebel.com/louisiana-delays-critical-flood-response-funds-to-new-o-1849430931 - Republicans showing who they are
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108845988673638941

8/19 Fri

• https://www.logically.ai/articles/hart-files-anti-vaccine-myths-westminster Health Advisory and Recovery Team disinfo group
  • https://twitter.com/_johnbye/status/1428336950751158281
• https://twitter.com/davidrvetter/status/1560584929729073152 - Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL): global warming denial
• 2016-09-02 The dangers of non-empirical confirmation: how science works, cognitive bias...
• https://jorts.horse/@kobilacroix/108830928190642906 «If someone has a blatantly wrong idea about something, you can try to correct them in a few sentences and be dismissed as a mere snarker, or you can write an essay detailing all the complexities concerning the subject and get told “lol why are you so obsessed with this you weirdo”.» dismissal
• https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/hbo-max-originals-removed-1235344286/
  • https://twitter.com/hEnereyG/status/1560336165357555712
• https://twitter.com/sbworkersunited/status/1560305360845635585 «BREAKING: A FEDERAL JUDGE JUST ORDERED STARBUCKS TO IMMEDIATELY REINSTATE THE ILLEGALLY FIRED UNION LEADERS IN MEMPHIS, TENN.»
• https://twitter.com/jeffreyasachs/status/1560332447413305345 «Fed judge: "Normally, the First Amendment bars the state from burdening speech, while private actors may burden speech freely. But in Florida, the First Amendment apparently bars private actors from burdening speech, while the state may burden speech freely."» retweet of «...suspended enforcement of FL’s #HB7, the Stop WOKE Act, as it clearly violates the Constitution by infringing on the free speech of biz owners in FL»
• https://twitter.com/anthonymkreis/status/1560657623426314240 «North Carolina Supreme Court: racially gerrymandered North Carolina General Assembly, as an unconstitutionally constituted legislature, did not have the power to propose amendments to the North Carolina Constitution.» https://appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=1&pdf=41699 -- this only applies to the congressional districts that were declared unconstitutional too close the election, and the resulting NCGA tried to put in a voter ID amendment. So it doesn't go back any further that that, but does at least nix this attempt at voter suppression

8/20 Sat

• https://blockworks.co/do-kwon-breaks-silence-terra-luna-was-essentially-my-life/ - more from inside the crypto bubble
• https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1118625157/doj-barr-trump-russia-investigation-memo
• 2022-08-10 WaPo: Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering

8/21 Sun

• https://www.universalhub.com/2022/honey-dew-donuts-seeks-dough-more-two-years-it - why don't people turn their businesses into co-ops when they retire?
  • https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/108857565895677216
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irresistible-appeal-of-the-post-industrial-park - how private entities use privately-funded parks to make a killing in gentrification

8/22 Mon

• https://apnews.com/article/mexico-maya-train-project-0e19e4dac99e4c9b16228e5adb0c3b52 - different environmental concerns collide. Planet just too crowded? Or could this have been done in a less-damaging way (if more had been spent)?
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/15/1093769295/this-groups-wiped-out-6-7-billion-in-medical-debt-and-its-just-getting-started - an outgrowth of Occupy Wall Street. I assumed it came from the Rolling Jubilee project, but the article doesn't mention that; to be checked.

8/23 Tue

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html
  • https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/108872009640553210
• https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/wild-gregs-saloon-minneapolis-closes-latest-victim-crisis - Fox News frames the crisis (such as it is) as a "deep blue cities" problem
• https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/21/ankylosing-spondylitis-diagnosis-black-women/ - gender, race, and medical establishment blind-spots

8/24 Wed

• https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/donald-trump-and-the-sweepstakes-scammers - mainly about how success is often the result of privilege, and money makes it easy for people to get stuff they haven't earned; Trump isn't even really morally implicated in this story, though many of the people in it seem to share his "surface over substance" aesthetic
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/looking-beyond-the-female-firsts-of-science-history - not sure if this is about erasure of women or more kind of sits alongside it (only skimmed a bit)

8/25 Thu

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/akek7g/this-startup-is-selling-tech-to-make-call-center-workers-sound-like-white-americans -- no racism here, nope...
  • https://hackers.town/@RadicalEdward/108879444430421412
• https://twitter.com/jolberding01/status/1558853308810510339 - another explanation of why Trump declassifying the documents (if he could, which he can't) wouldn't make any difference to the danger of sharing them
• student debt
  • https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/24/business/these-six-charts-sum-up-burden-student-loan-debt-us/
  • https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/after-19-trillion-giveaway-rich-mcconnell-calls-debt-relief-working-class-slap-face -- "know your place" only applies when it works in Their benefit, I guess
  • https://www.yahoo.com/news/sean-hannity-gripes-low-wage-082011492.html
  • https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1118879917/student-loan-forgiveness-biden
    • https://sunbeam.city/@derek/108880659515834132 - paid off his debt, doesn't consider forgiveness a slap in the face
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/24/california-ban-sales-gas-powered-cars-2035

8/26 Fri

• https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1562832669137719296 - local election denialism
• Moskowitz, Ron. 1970. "Professor Sees Peril in Education." San Francisco Chronicle (30 October)
  • «Governor Reagan's aide Roger Freeman, who later served as President Nixon's educational policy advisor, while he was working at the time for California Governor Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign, commented on Reagan's education policy: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective about who we allow to through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people."»
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20070501185946/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/priscult.html
  • https://euroyankeeblog.medium.com/in-1970-roger-freeman-a-hoover-institution-economist-and-a-key-educational-adviser-to-nixon-then-fea974f50c17
• https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.102.1.pdf - the Mar-a-Lago search warrant

8/27 Sat

• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-richmond-kevin-barry-ron-desantis-greg-abbott-b2152126.html (archive.ph)
  • https://eldritch.cafe/@transponderings/108889478485352239
• https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/anna-de-rothschild-trump-mar-a-lago-security-fbi-investigation/

8/28 Sun

• Marble Freedom Trust
  • https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
    • https://twitter.com/AndyKroll/status/1562116895305777152
  • https://twitter.com/shanegoldmacher/status/1561655625196732417

8/29 Mon

• https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-2657943109/ - Truth Social in disarray
• https://mastodon.social/@StayGrounded_net/108882660929550199 - Google excludes all climate effects except CO2 from emissions calculator
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/08/29/a-flimsy-excuse-to-do-nothing/ - scientific fraud, International Journal of Materials Research, Guido Schmitz
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108906240228841810
• https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-ron-desantis-a-fascist - he shows many of the traits, but of course the Right will pretend it's just "stuff liberals don't like"
  • https://twitter.com/jeremynewberger/status/1563950582767001600?s=21 - related, not sure if same incident?
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCee-jXmzY - Beau
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mtXbwPNkc - Beau: 14 characteristics
• Trump posts video of Lindsey Graham threatening violence if he (Trump?) is prosecuted
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108906588573674442
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108906589475032981 - Josh Hawley agrees
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108906602339349108
• think of the children meets whipped cream
  • https://en.as.com/latest_news/why-is-it-illegal-for-anyone-under-21-to-buy-canned-whipped-cream-in-new-york-n/
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/want-buy-canned-whipped-cream-new-york-state-dont-forget-id-rcna45280
  • https://www.insider.com/illegal-anyone-under-21-buy-whipped-cream-new-york-2022-8

8/30 Tue

• https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/former-arlington-texas-officer-ravi-singh-not-guilty-criminally-negligent-homicide/287-147ad734-1b68-4210-a99f-d0682e0ce4df - hi, we're here to make sure your welfare is not good
• https://wraltechwire.com/2021/08/12/new-nc-law-changes-hiring-firing-processes-heres-whats-happening/ - US/NC
• https://www.komu.com/news/elections/political-campaign-emails-can-bypass-googles-spam-filters-under-a-newly-approved-pilot-project/article_4beb4577-c86f-58d1-96fa-59090fe2b3ea.html -- Gmail
• https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1562916200866267138 - The White House points out that a lot of pols saying it's not fair for the government to forgive loans had their loans forgiven (PPP = Paycheck Protection Program, a COVID emergency measure)
• https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-8363-0df3-a150-a45035893984 - war on homeless people
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108911584434122069
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/europe/darya-dugina-russia-disinformation-women-intl-cmd/index.html
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/27/1119684376/when-does-life-begin-as-state-laws-define-it-science-politics-and-religion-clash
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html - surely this climate disaster in no way benefits giant beverage companies
• https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/purdue-university-president-bidens-student-loan-handout-grossly-unfair-grotesquely-expensive - more conservoid unhappiness about student loan forgiveness
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108914401927775980
• https://www.kvoa.com/townnews/politics/biden-says-us-needs-to-fund-the-police-for-public-safety/article_bf079d61-24db-518d-b6e0-3071dd3bba70.html - Biden is pro-police, oh well, can't have everything
• https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-river-water-shortage-jay-famiglietti - global warming/effects
• https://getpocket.com/collections/going-down-the-rabbit-hole-why-people-fall-for-conspiracy-theories -- disinformation, conspiracy theory

8/31 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/If-all-cars-in-the-US-suddenly-become-electric-how-much-more-electricity-do-we-need-to-produce-in-percentage/answer/Ryan-Carlyle - some useful numbers, but poster appears to have some motivated reasoning in his final conclusion
• https://www.wral.com/durham-s-unarmed-first-responders-are-making-an-impact-data-shows/20439589/ - a defund the police program
• https://apnews.com/article/mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-1fef158c3a66bfc0ba6224570753ba47 - Trump obstructed FBI search
• https://therealnews.com/sri-lankas-crisis-ethnonationalism-and-the-legacy-of-the-civil-war - Sri Lanka
• https://therealnews.com/a-watershed-moment-ca-senate-passes-historic-bill-to-empower-fast-food-workers
• https://therealnews.com/the-federal-reserve-is-wrong-corporations-should-pay-to-stop-inflation-not-workers
• https://wraltechwire.com/2022/08/31/toyota-doubles-investment-for-nc-battery-plant-to-2-5b-adding-hundreds-of-jobs/ - US/NC, sustainable energy
• https://youtu.be/4IaOeVgZ-wc "why I'm suing youtube"; summary by Jacki Jem: The much-shortened version is that RT (Russia Today, Russia's govt-owned international propaganda outlet) used copyrighted stuff without consent, and deliberately avoided the automatic copyright-violation-detection systems in placed. Once flagged, the automated systems made one of the RT YT channels go down for 4 hours, until Russia said "bring it back or we'll ban YT from Russia", so YT did because they prefer money to obeying copyright law. YT's generally being scummy (e.g. accidentally (correctly) implying YT is in the wrong, lying to the courts, semi-secretly giving preferential treatment to platforms like RT, not obeying the "reasonably implemented" or "terminated" required in the DMCA, and directly assisting RT after it's been sued despite the conflict of interest). There are two suits - one for the copyright on the material (in progress) and one for YT's handling of it (not dismissed; judged against Business Casual; BC is appealing). The bad-case implication is that proving to YT that you have the copyright to something (so they take the other video down) would require going to federal court, which costs $_0,000s so most people can't do that.
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/americas/brazil-indigenous-man-in-the-hole-death-intl-hnk/index.html - genocide as a side-effect of artificial scarcity
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHAoHK4C_2s - Beau
• Andrew Tate:
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/andrew-tate-issues-final-final-message-viewers-ban-various-social-medi-rcna44670
  • https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1118624860/andrew-tate-facebook-instagram-banned
  • https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/andrew-tate-videos-are-widely-circulating-tiktok-because-fan-accounts-despite-platforms
• https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/08/31/federal-judge-rules-disabled-voters-must-receive-needed-assistance/ -- as if there was even any way of enforcing that
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108919386486649031
• https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120239381/texas-in-god-we-trust-arabic-signs-chaz-stevens
• political philosophy:
  • https://trumpersaretraitors.quora.com/Why-do-democrats-try-and-force-their-views-beliefs-opinions-on-the-rest-of-us-Why-can-they-not-recognize-that-no-eve-63 - why do liberals try to force their views on everyone
  • https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-stop-liberalism/answer/Rosalind-Mitchell - how do we stop liberalism

September

9/1 Thu

• https://time.com/6209967/pakistan-floods-what-to-know/ -- Pakistan, global warming/effects
• https://ancienthistoryandmysterylovers.quora.com/I-did-not-know-that-Since-her-death-in-1979-the-woman-who-discovered-what-the-universe-is-made-of-has-not-so-much-as - erasure of women
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/whataboutism-what-it-is-and-why-it-s-such-a-popular-tactic-in-arguments - whataboutism
• https://www.ncdor.gov/news/press-releases/2022/08/31/student-loan-forgiveness-currently-considered-taxable-income
  • https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2022/09/01/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-will-be-taxable-income-in-north-carolina/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NWEnEpy08
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michigan-measure-to-expand-voting-access-blocked-from-ballot/2022/08/31/89258340-296b-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html $ - telling us who they are, trumpist coup maneuvers
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108923294849148207
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/michigan-referendum-abortion-ballot.html
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/108923363601059453
• https://news.yahoo.com/judge-orders-rep-gosar-others-132920111.html Paul Gosar

9/2 Fri

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-keep-mass-surveillance-app-secret-privacy-advocates-refused/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/women-not-having-kids-get-richer-than-men
  • https://twitter.com/BW/status/1565004358709813248
    • https://twitter.com/fraudfarmgirl/status/1565130882410811393
• https://www.chron.com/politics/article/ted-cruz-block-student-loan-forgiveness-17412837.php - showing who they are
  • https://twitter.com/chron/status/1565459255985160193
    • https://twitter.com/i/events/1565466346065989633

9/3 Sat

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ravil-maganov-russia-dies-hospital-fall_n_63108241e4b0da54bae623ef
• https://twitter.com/jonrosenberg/status/1565817164577251329 - ableism in J.K. Rowling's latest book, wot a serprize
• AI art as an ethical/legal issue:
  • https://twitter.com/transistorcat/status/1559085023755632640
  • https://twitter.com/abstruse/status/1559538763935645701
  • https://twitter.com/iron_spike/status/1563965897391341570
  • https://twitter.com/iron_spike/status/1563965499934998532
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108935000218214920 - some popular right-wing misconceptions about Chrsitianity and current political issues
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108935037462569267 - #metoo, high school harassment, US/NC
• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108934988082095405 - no, Ivermectin is still not recommended as a treatment for COVID-19.
• https://theintercept.com/2022/09/03/chile-constitution-vote-cia-chicago-boys-pinochet/
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108936053858831992
• https://www.rawstory.com/hitlers-bunker/ - Hitler, Trump, and narcissistic collapse: «in his mind, the German people had failed, his generals had failed, his soldiers had failed. They had failed Germany, but, more importantly they had failed him — and he wanted them punished for failing him»
• https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1565679575589421057 - Eric Weinstein is apparently unfamiliar with blues, or else just said an obviously untrue thing in order to own the libs and get publicity
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gaytopia
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/28/fox-news-trump-journalism-00053991 «Reporters increasingly disdain the old virtues of fairness and balance as “bothsidesism,” reimagining the ancient vice of bias as something honorable. Opinion pages become more homogeneous.» The problem isn't reporters being unwilling to consider multiple points of view; the problem is reporters being willing to entertain points of view that are plainly wrong.
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/02/mag-weiss-kidsbooks-00053509 - the Right publishes children's books with cartoon misrepresentations of opposing views

9/4 Sun

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff - I feel like I've read this article before. Is this a reprint, an update, or a new article by the same author?
  • https://die-partei.social/@hackernews/108940021106545134
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/search-missing-native-artifacts-led-discovery-bodies-stored-inhumane-w-rcna46151 - this actually seems like a positive story to me, as the present administration of the uni acted immediately to start righting the wrongs of an earlier administration
• https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/23/lgb-alliance-far-right-extremist-group-gpahe/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62758811 - how the Pakistan floods are global warming/effects

9/5 Mon

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/bidens-reichstag-blunder - the right wing media amps up the hysteria
• https://defector.com/alpine-mountaineering-is-melting-away/ - global warming/effects in the Alps

9/6 Tue

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/06/objective-morality-whatever-that-is/ - "objective morality" is a trick: who decides what "objective" authority to use? If the "objective authority" is words in a book that can be interpreted any old way, who decides what they mean?
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108951501745268280

9/7 Wed

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/07/colonialism-in-real-time/ - gryftocoin and colonialism. Also, the idea of hiring cheap overseas labor to literally perform as NPCs...
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108957291696811903
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866722002576 -- lawns
  • https://twitter.com/LokatisSophie/status/1566736201645711360

9/8 Thu

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/08/steve-bannon-border-wall-charges-surrender
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108963166364552593
• https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/dna-gathering-process-in-race-massacre-graves-investigation-worst-possible-scenario-legal-experts-tell-greenwood/article_a0804d04-24ed-11ed-801a-3f31293fbb35.html - the DNA gathering may be being done for the noblest of purposes, but letting police departments have the data will lead to abuse, because racism.
  • https://twitter.com/heymatthenry/status/1567146143590531072
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/irs-pipeline-tax-return-delays/ - why the IRS needs more money, yep
• https://time.com/6210935/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister/ - Liz Truss

9/9 Fri

• https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108970108269091919 - Trump's lawsuit against HRC dismissed with snark
  • more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-clinton-over-2016-russia-allegations-2022-09-09/
• https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-despotism-of-isaias-afewerki-de-waal - Eritrea
• https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108970171489036269 - positiveness in Ukraine (video)

9/10 Sat

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan - Marxism, post-capitalism
• https://soatok.blog/2022/09/09/should-you-delete-your-patreon-account-after-they-laid-off-their-entire-security-team/ - Patreon fired their security team
  • https://twitter.com/nazgul/status/1568392106326237185

9/11 Sun

• https://todon.nl/@schratze/108976565607580213 - a good summary of the Allende/Pinochet coup in Chile
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-tik-tok-raid-b2148122.html
  • https://archive.ph/wx38q

9/12 Mon

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/12/optimism-must-be-tempered-with-realismand-dread/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108985495661111285
• https://jacobin.com/2022/09/liz-truss-neoliberalism-feminism-not-victory-women-uk-prime-minister - Liz Truss - «Truss said she thought women should be “independent,” while the Labour Party wanted to “paint women as victims.”» This has got to be some kind of logical fallacy: taking a truth about a group and reframing it as demeaning.
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108985597366526786
• Donald Trump/civil war
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108985621137573375
  • https://archive.ph/wx38q - independent.co.uk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XswrMFlnb_o - beau
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62874557 - Ukraine/invasion by Russia
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108985621492182218
• https://fallows.substack.com/p/guest-post-the-part-of-the-espionage
  • https://mastodon.social/@JamesGleick/108985664664458021
• https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/09/10/scotus-kamala-harris-roberts-franken-stewart-acostanr-sot-vpx.cnn - Al Franken points to some key events in the stealing of the USSC (via)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptbnbjKnEo
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/12/gotta-admit-al-franken-is-one-hard-hitting-advocate/
    • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108986312337856710
    • PZ also observes a problem with traditional debate formats: «This is a general problem with conventional rules for debate. There’s a habit of insisting that both sides must get equal, uninterrupted time, even when they start spinning out absurd lies — don’t let them do that. If they make a claim, insist that they must back it up. Don’t give them 5 minutes to compound their lies into a tangle that will take hours to un-knot, which is what they want.» It shouldn't be about giving everyone equal time; it should be about establishing which conclusions are logically defensible.
• https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2658197299/ - speaking of court-packing, it happened at lower levels too
• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/ - ever since the late 1800s, anyway
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108985685588124254
• https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/state-pushes-back-in-hb-1775-lawsuit-over-race-gender-instruction/article_977dc140-3074-11ed-99cd-430944481177.html - «Passed in 2021, HB 1775 bans teaching that one race or gender is inherently superior. It also prohibits causing a student to feel guilty or uncomfortable because of their race or gender, as well as teaching that anyone is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or otherwise.» US/OK
  • https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@blogoklahoma/108985692037946746
• https://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8012149/lynching-report-nyt-white
  • https://twitter.com/deoliver47/status/1542872819524050949
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108985706622479639
• https://www.salon.com/2022/09/10/selling-longtermism-how-pr-and-marketing-drive-a-controversial-new-movement/
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/12/rebranding-the-necron-empire-as-the-good-guys/ - longtermerism, Effective Altruism
    • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/108985745192692399
• UK/dishonor: Operation Legacy
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220827090925/https://twitter.com/_EthanGrey/status/1534024357957230594 - the definitive thread on "they get to tell us what to do / we don't get to tell them what to do"
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220808195712/https://twitter.com/_EthanGrey/ - account (now deleted)

9/13 Tue

• Iran is still a very bad place:
  • https://www.dw.com/en/iran-rights-groups-slam-death-sentences-for-lgbtq-activists/a-63069473
  • https://www.article19.org/resources/iran-overturn-death-sentences-for-lgbtqi-persons/
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-lgbtq-gay-rights-2-women-death-sentence-spreading-corruption-on-earth/
  • https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-denounces-iranian-death-sentences-for-2-female-gay-rights-activists/
• https://rage.love/@puf/108991010162975425 - this observation about shitposting feels sufficiently accurate to be worth noting
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220905-is-the-world-overpopulated - global population and capacity
• https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-red-state-murder-problem
  • Jane adds: "What you sure don’t hear much about: The murder rate in Kevin McCarthy’s conservative Bakersfield is twice that of Nancy Pelosi’s so-oft-discussed San Francisco."
• Lindsey Graham's proposed national abortion ban:
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/lindsey-graham-abortion-15-week-ban/index.html
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-graham-introduces-bill-ban-abortion-nationwide-15-weeks-rcna47530
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-abortion-ban-bill-nationwide/
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/13/grahams-abortion-ban-senate-gop-00056423
  • https://newrepublic.com/article/167744/lindsey-graham-midterm-2022-abortion - Graham has spilled the beans about the GOP's real intent
    • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109002277499415081
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake7gk/the-rise-of-mobile-gambling-is-leaving-people-ruined-and-unable-to-quit - kinda the ultimate expression of capitalist "innovation"
• https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-company-navient-unconscionable-refinancing-elizabeth-warren-ayanna-pressley-2022-9 - Navient
  • Voicemail from Navient on 2022-09-06: «Hi, this is Mark Matthews from student loan support. We wanted to inform you that the temporary covid forbearance ends on December 31st. 2022. Be aware. Your loans will resume automatically at the standard repayment rate. Our records indicate you may be eligible for student loan forgiveness programs, but never completed the required documents. If you want to proceed with the application we need to speak with you today at 844. 756 -1401»

9/14 Wed

• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/stock-futures-are-higher-as-wall-street-awaits-key-inflation-report-.html
• https://www.cpr.org/2022/09/13/clear-creek-county-deputies-shooting/
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/tech/twitter-data-center-california-heat-wave/index.html - global warming/effects cloudfall

9/15 Thu

• https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/enfield-mayor-confederate-statute/ - confederate statue, racism, KKK, US/NC/Enfield
• railroad strike:
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/freight-railroad-strike-avoided-after-deal-reached-biden-says
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/15/rail-strike-deal-agreement-biden/ $
  • https://twitter.com/laurenkgurley/status/1570367402705125377
  • https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123114110/biden-says-a-tentative-railway-labor-deal-has-been-reached-averting-a-strike
    • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109010740218185680
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-hwt5PU2Yc - think of the children, US/CA, internet
• https://www.wral.com/if-your-driver-s-license-doesn-t-have-the-star-you-may-need-to-act-quickly/20461372/ - more fallout from the war on terror
  • What happens if you're legally required to enter a federal courthouse (subpoenaed?) and you don't have a RealID? (It may be that you can bring your regular ID plus the extra documents that would have been needed to get a RealID, but...)
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/donald-trump-book/index.html
• https://therealnews.com/brazil-on-fire-episode-4-nazis-on-your-street
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/business/minnesota-nurses-strike/index.html
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/15/are-all-cops-bad/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109003504761164754
• https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122904939/iowa-teenager-pieper-lewis-killed-accused-rapist-ordered-pay-150000 - so much for the right of self-defense
• https://www.opb.org/article/2022/09/15/portland-police-records-sean-kealiher-homicide-investigation/
  • https://social.polymerwitch.com/@polymerwitch/109004882625797367

9/16 Fri

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-punts-sex-marriage-vote-midterm-election-rcna47948 -- call me paranoid, but pretty sure they'll just vote against it once there's no election pressure.

9/17 Sat

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/racism-kept-connecticut-s-beaches-white-up-through-the-1970s - history of US racism
• https://www.inverse.com/culture/cult-survival-tactic - irrational belief
• https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/09/12/bank-of-america-says-the-ethereum-blockchains-upgrade-may-lead-to-greater-institutional-adoption-of-ether/
• https://chat.noelle.codes/@noelle/109011331715167369 - some people do debunking on Reddit
• war on education
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/17/university-austin-anti-woke-college
  • https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/who-behind-attacks-educators-and-public-schools
• https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/14/16777626/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-speech
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/infuriating-telecom-lobbyists-spending-big-money-keep-gigi-sohn-fcc
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/new-proposal-brings-us-step-closer-net-neutrality
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-investigation.html
• https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/eugenics-border-wars-population-control-the-tanton-network/ - racism, John Tanton's network, Paul Ehrlich

9/19 Mon

• https://www.quora.com/Do-Joe-Biden-and-Kamala-Harris-know-that-the-United-States-is-a-republic-not-a-democracy-Do-they-even-know-the-difference/answer/Chris-OLeary-19 a republic not a democracy (maybe for CWRE, actually)
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/19/kent-matt-got-nothin/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109024903427518363
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/19/satan-is-a-natural-offensive-line-coach/ - the conservasphere rewards lying
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109025016173157276
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/19/is-this-really-where-the-discourse-is-at-now/ -- Matt Walsh thinks mermaids are scientific but dark-skinned ocean creatures are not
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109025276831178492
• DeSantis immigrant-busing political stunt:
  • https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fuming-over-attention-desantis-051049186.html - Trump wanted to do it first
  • https://news.yahoo.com/bus-contractor-hired-texas-gov-192722017.html
  • https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-governor-desantis
  • https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/18/migrants-confirm-they-were-misled-calls-prosecution-desantis-and-abbott-grow
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xhlxjf/as_migrants_confirm_they_were_misled_calls_for/
• https://www.npr.org/2022/09/18/1123697784/virginia-transgender-students-public-schools-glenn-youngkin
• https://news.yahoo.com/anti-lgbtq-protest-turkey-backs-171156220.html
• https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0Ti86veZBjU - "alpha males" do not exist
  • https://mastodon.social/@AgreeableLandscape/108943297014314076

9/20 Tue

• https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1570822428422705153 - snark (for CWRE, maybe): Republican Jesus

9/21 Wed

• https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3652129-biden-endorses-bill-to-disclose-super-pac-donors-dark-money-erodes-trust/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xjgwl3/biden_endorses_bill_to_disclose_super_pac_donors/
  • DISCLOSE Act
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/20/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-disclose-act/
• https://www.quora.com/What-does-poverty-look-like-in-your-country/answer/Laura-Hamm-5 - poverty in the US
• https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-sued-new-york-letitia-james-ec6b3b91b6c8594495ada7d0a2b80a2f
  • https://twitter.com/ap/status/1572612159778988032
  • https://twitter.com/arimelber/status/1572612871699275776 «- and the AG is making criminal referrals to the IRS and NY federal prosecutors for possible crimes.»
  • https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1572618578855362562
  • https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-ag-letitia-james-files-250m-lawsuit-trump/story
• https://sleeping.town/@xenon/109037793267522338 - Amazon Twitch's revenue-sharing practices
• https://twitter.com/henryvconnelly/status/1572687365927501827 - Kevin McCarthy's Commitment to America accidentally published before it was ready
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/appeals-court-mar-a-lago-criminal-classified-documents/index.html
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109039153920857519

9/22 Thu

• https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4 - the equality/equity meme, and extensive discussion of its intent and criticism
  • https://mythago.space/@ghost_bird/109042084831477040
• https://twitter.com/akivamcohen/status/1572732352681463809 - details on the ruling against Trump's "special master"
• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-i-could-declassify-documents-by-thinking-about-it-00058212 - meanwhile, Trump apparently still thinks that the question of whether the documents are classified is of any significance to this case... or believes that his followers will...
  • https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-claims-declassify-documents-thinking-sean-hannity-1234597645/
    • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109042749593015372
• https://www.quora.com/In-a-Communist-society-do-medical-doctors-and-janitors-makes-the-same/answer/Steven-Haddock - one way of looking at one form of communism. Not sure it's a particularly good way, though; it does highlight that people making the most money basically do nothing, but ignores the fact that people who can't do anything (whether through disability or lack of sanctioned work for them to do) still need to "get paid", or at least be provided with the necessities of life.
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/12/2091554/-Spanish-language-ads-targeting-Marco-Rubio-on-immigration-inaction-feature-surprising-voice-his-mom
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/12/2091549/-Pro-Trump-pastor-threatens-to-use-Second-Amendment-right-against-Democrat-games - again, they don't believe in or understand the rule of law... and why don't churches like this lose their nonprofit status?
• https://thedefiant.io/earn-during-the-bear - miners getting out as proof-of-work becomes less in demand due to Ethereum merger
• https://thedefiant.io/miners-dump-eth
• https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/-white-house-releases-digital-asset-regulatory-framework

9/23 Fri

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/liz-truss-power-extreme-neoliberal-thinktanks
  • https://puntarella.party/@antanicus/109047035317105861 quotes a bit from the article: «In his autobiography Think Tank, Madsen Pirie, founder of the Adam Smith Institute, explained how it worked. Every Saturday, in a wine bar in Leicester Square, staff from the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs would sit down with Conservative researchers and leader writers and columnists from the Times and Telegraph to plan “strategy for the week ahead” and “co-ordinate our activities to make us more effective collectively”. The Daily Mail weighed in to help the lobbyists refine their arguments and ensure there was a supportive article on its leader page every time they published a report.»
• https://kion546.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2022/09/22/top-gop-senators-reject-trumps-declassification-comments-and-call-for-proper-storage-of-secret-records/
• https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-alaska-republican-oath-keeper-ineligible
• https://www.themarysue.com/britain-was-not-the-first-country-to-abolish-chattel-slavery-no-matter-how-many-times-royal-defenders-say-it/
• https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1573091143021371392 - Jesse Watters on Fox News: homeless are "vermin"; note also the reflexive throwing-of-shade at the "liberal" West Coast -- there's a huge narrative about California being an unlivable war zone because of "liberal" policies.

9/24 Sat

• https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-conservatives-care-about-the-logical-inconsistencies-in-their-sets-of-beliefs/answer/Matthew-Bates-27 - attempts to defend forced-birth positions logically, but fails (if it's just about involving the father, then why not make abortions legal if the father consents? As far as I know, there are no anti-abortion laws that make any such provision.)
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism - California wildfires, global warming
  • https://merveilles.town/@ccohanlon/108916062718575256 quotes Davis: «Our ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis or explanation for the immediate future. A small group of people have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history, and they have no vision, no strategy, no plan.»
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62981625 - Brazil election
  • related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uySgklnlX3Y John Oliver on Bolsonaro
• Don Bolduc/get over it:
  • https://maggiehassan.com/news/in-the-news/from-live-and-learn-to-get-over-it-don-bolduc-stumbles-into-the-general-election/
  • https://www.wmur.com/article/maggie-hassan-don-bolduc-abortion-us-senate-919/41279660
  • https://jezebel.com/republican-senate-nominee-on-abortion-get-over-it-1849552756
• https://antifeministsite.blogspot.com/ - antifeminism
  • https://toot.cat/@robertwamhatma/109055201593343263

9/25 Sun

• https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2022/social-sentinel/ - facial recognition, Geofeedia, ACLU, protests
• https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/rudy-giuliani-has-2-weeks-to-pay-ex-wife-225k-or-face-jail-time/3878518/
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/texts-reportedly-show-brett-favre-was-told-by-mississippi-gov-that-misuse-of-federal-funds-was-illegal-215827364.html
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-ricans-town-terrible-destruction-hurricane-fiona-despair-towns-rcna49281
• https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/09/utah-climate-activists-funeral-great-salt-lake/ - global warming/effects
• https://sports.yahoo.com/investors-fleeing-company-plans-merge-234402812.html
• https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1124939236/russia-protest-putin-mobilization-draft-ukraine-war - Russia, Ukraine/invasion by Russia
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-fantasy-sci-fi-racist-criticism/671421/
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109059709122873884
• https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/investigators/philadelphia-police-department-disney-world-crime-stats-locations/3370593/
  • https://democracy.town/@BruceBanner/109060031011131839

9/26 Mon

• https://anticapitalism.quora.com/gReEn-mAn-BaD-https-www-quora-com-Which-things-about-dictatorial-nations-are-not-well-understood-by-people-who-have - claims about Gaddhafi, at least some of which I've seen in other sources. Also interesting about the mandate of heaven -- is this what authoritarians see as a better alternative to democratic accountability?

9/27 Tue

• https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-subpoena-abortion-lawsuit/ Ken Paxton
  • https://twitter.com/pamelacolloff/status/1574763836292403203
• https://montrealgazette.com/news/world/cubans-approve-gay-marriage-by-large-margin-in-referendum
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109060253448981919
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTOR5XmlJU
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63044973 - Italy elections, Giorgia Meloni, far-right
• https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5417-the-case-for-degrowth - degrowth
  • https://mastodon.social/@baslow/109026326626210699
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/free-school-meals-california-universal
  • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109071070698111109
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/09/27/brett-favre-mississippi-welfare/ probably paywalled
  • https://democracy.town/@MariaHill/109071685491971027
• https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-for-someone-to-be-left-wing-or-Marxist-and-not-be-anti-American/answer/Amy-Christa-Ernano - John Cougar Mellencamp is a socialist
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njTmtkLuLc - theocratic oppression of women in Iran
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-security-republicans-keep-wading-into-the-third-rail-of-american-politics-212940446.html - GOP continues to play their end of two Santa Clauses
  • https://democracy.town/@HopeVanDyne/109072851685734871
• https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/09/07/in-god-we-trust-signs-in-arabic-hebrew-headed-to-texas-schools-from-fla-activist/ - In God We Trust vs. free speech

9/28 Wed

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-senate-continuing-resolution-vote/
  • https://democracy.town/@SpiderMan/109073003425500326
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/27/progressives-applaud-biden-lowering-medicare-part-b-premiums
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109073823405644083
• https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/hurricane-ian-hits-florida-fox-news-undermines-climate-change «Jesse Watters used the storm to mock climate action and later Tucker Carlson referred to severity warnings as a “scam,” though he did admit that the threat from Ian was real. / And within an hour of [Cuba's power grid collapsing], Sean Hannity declared Democrats noting climate change’s potential impacts on hurricanes were “politicizing a tragedy.”»
• https://news.yahoo.com/shoot-kill-trump-ally-roger-073354760.html “Fuck the voting, let’s get right to the violence,” Roger Stone is heard saying. «“Shoot to kill. See an antifa? Shoot to kill. Fuck ’em. Done with this bullshit.”» «The Washington Post said Stone followed up his call to violence with an “only kidding.”» Sorry, Roger -- you can't say something like that without more of an explanation than "just kidding".
• https://slate.com/business/2022/09/home-owner-personal-finance-advice.html - one more reason housing should not be a fucking market.
• https://rage.love/@mms/109072568336019971 - video about copaganda and Paw Patrol
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mcconnell-backs-senate-bipartisan-electoral-reform-bill-2022-09-27/ - Mitch McConnell did the right thing for once, and voted to protect voting rights
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109073929821630596
  • https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/27/ted-cruz-insurrection/ - Ted Cruz voted against it
    • https://democracy.town/@TonyStark/109078622026060030
• https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/09/27/gadsden-county-commissioner-resigns-after-kkk-photo-emerges-jeffery-moore-gov-ron-desantis-florida/8119165001/ - who they are
  • https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1574903383097581570
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/us/migrants-flight-marthas-vineyard-recruiter/index.html - also Ted Cruz, right?

9/29 Thu

• https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-climate-change-is-fueling-hurricanes-2022-09-20/ (paywall)

9/30 Fri

• https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1126022504/the-telegram-app-has-a-global-doxing-issue
  • https://social.polymerwitch.com/@polymerwitch/109087935691228087 «The real story is that state actors are infiltrating and collecting sigint from encrypted chat apps, to raid dissidents, using kf style crowdsource doxxing campaigns.»
• DeSantis deceptive relocation of immigrants:
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/18/massachusetts-human-trafficking-probe-desantis-migrants/10419960002/
  • https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123109768/migrants-sent-to-marthas-vineyard
• https://www.wral.com/nc-voters-worry-of-civil-war-brace-for-possibility-of-political-violence/20498170/
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/30/liz-cant-read/ - LizTruss
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109089038608748188

October

10/1 Sat

• union stuff:
  • https://twitter.com/moreperfectus/status/1576253769397899264
  • https://twitter.com/ur_ninja/status/1576239808891932672

10/2 Sun

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-democrats-have-already-started-the-killings-of-republicans - politicizing a nonexistent thing
• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/matt-gaetz-votes-no-relief-042534442.html - can we lock them in a room together?

10/3 Mon

• https://www.openculture.com/2021/08/jocelyn-bell-burnell-changed-astronomy-forever-her-ph-d-advisor-won-the-nobel-prize-for-it.html - erasure of women
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/109106902695271244

10/4 Tue

• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/04/jonathan-haidt-goes-full-jordan-peterson/ «What blows my mind is that Haidt is a psychologist, studying “moral foundations”, and he blows a gasket because he can’t be bothered to explain, briefly, what this has to do with anti-racism, or diversity, or equity?» That ought to be a super-easy question for him to answer, at length.
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109110146802935438
• https://www.rawstory.com/newt-gingrich-herschel-walker/
  • https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-1863-3c3c-b513-7e6670367650
    • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109110370082350995
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/04/it-isnt-hypocrisy-at-all/
    • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109110694403803956
  • https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-health-georgia-herschel-walker-5ca79a4630445fe0c885cc9d2dd91584
• https://fortune.com/2022/10/01/home-price-correction-intensifies-what-to-expect-from-housing-market-2023/ $
  • https://twitter.com/fortunemagazine/status/1577042872687333386
• https://www.kgou.org/weather-and-climate/2022-10-04/deteriorating-drought-conditions-have-some-oklahoma-farmers-feeling-deja-vu - global warming
  • https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@blogoklahoma/109111946259980749
• https://www.kosu.org/local-news/2022-10-03/osage-nation-congress-calls-for-repeal-of-oklahomas-so-called-critical-race-theory-ban - HB 1775 «The proposal was introduced after a high school English teacher in Dewey, Okla., said she would not assign her students to read Killers of the Flower Moon, a book written about the Osage Reign of Terror when many citizens were kidnapped or killed. The teacher said she feared the stories might upset students...»
  • https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@blogoklahoma/109111958654969302

10/5 Wed

• https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/04/oklahoma-governor-kevin-stitt-blocks-ou-childrens-hospital-gender-affirming-care/69538239007/
  • https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@blogoklahoma/109112021745602240
• https://twitter.com/Caulimovirus/status/1577074102489473026 - but there's no problem with police violence, nope

10/6 Thu

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJPLiT1kCSM - The British Museum, colonialism
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/06/granting-pardon-for-the-offense-of-simple-possession-of-marijuana/
    • https://twitter.com/popehat/status/1578140481308921856 - and here comes the BS
    • https://twitter.com/charliecrist/status/1578115666158166017 - Charlie Crist supports decrim
    • https://twitter.com/governortomwolf/status/1578114384131489804 - so does governor Tom Wolfe
    • https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/biden-to-pardon-all-prior-federal-offenses-of-simple-marijuana-possession-.html
• https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/family/working-arrangement - marriage, not sure what I think of the article, only read part of it... but really, how is marriage not basically kind of bollocks?
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-ban-lgbtq-jamestown-michigan-library/ - conservatists can't deal with defunding police but are happy to defund libraries; book banning

10/7 Fri

• https://news.yahoo.com/herschel-walker-senate-georgia-abortion-allegation-response-195225785.html - yet more Herschel Walker
• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/hunter-biden-case-feds-believe-evidence-supports-tax-and-gun-charges.html
• https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/10/04/polk-county-deputy-shot-killed-while-serving-warrant-sheriff-says/ - nope, still no problem with police brutality
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRBwh-7n3M
• 2022-03 Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark «Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter.»
• abortion stuff:
  • https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions
  • https://jezebel.com/at-least-2-more-underage-rape-victims-2-pregnant-cance-1849593472 - so much for "pro-life", for the zillionth time
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/state-abortion-ban-sponsors-bankrolled-by-att-walmart-citi-corporations-2022-5 - Walmart, Exxon, Citigroup, AT&T (worst offender by far)
• 2021-07-07 Ron Johnson: Climate change is ‘bulls—‘
• 2022-08-12 Not Even a Single Republican Voted for the Climate Bill
• 2021-03-30 Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress
• https://www.quora.com/Why-are-US-conservatives-so-friendly-towards-authoritarianism/answer/Pascal-Morimacil - Republicans, authoritarianism, and "freedom"

10/8 Sat

• https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/mimmymum/status/1578411809341460480 - growth of anti-trans sentiment in UK media
  • https://lgbt.io/@porsupah/109132504065348795
• http://undercommoning.org/undercommoning-within-against-and-beyond/ - the university as a kyriarchal instrument
• 2020-04-22 Covid-19 and the Hopeless University at the End of the End of History «Placing people and individual/collective well-being at the centre pushes back against the idea of the University-as-was before Covid-19, which demanded that academic commodities take centre stage.»
  • https://hackers.town/@requiem/109130664787700044

10/9 Sun

• https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1578916143276101632 - OD Action observes «The Alabama senator said Democrats want to give reparations to "people who do the crime." But nobody's talking about giving reparations to criminals, they're talking about giving reparations to Black people, so... Oh. Oh yeah, that's reeeeeeal racist.»
• https://www.axios.com/2022/10/08/texas-greg-abbott-biden-marijuana-pardons
• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gop-senate-nominee-abortion-decisions-093008182.html «New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc told supporters this week that he thinks the future of abortion rights “belongs” to Republican “gentlemen” state lawmakers, who he claims know best how to give women a voice on their reproductive rights.» we tell you what to do
• https://www.quora.com/Can-you-offer-proof-that-residents-of-Marthas-Vineyard-didnt-try-to-get-the-National-Guard-mobilized-when-the-migrants-showed-up-Are-liberals-still-refusing-to-get-the-point/answer/Barry-Goldberg-1 - left-right gap
• TO WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krl_CUxW14Y - do socialists just want to take your stuff
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109139944183191105
• https://twitter.com/edwardcurrent/status/1579157681775947779 meme: "an angel crying at the cradle of the aborted child he was to guard": so, there is sadness in heaven? And they never reassign angels? Someone bought a cradle for their expected child, and then decided to abort for selfish reasons? Maybe fetal development went badly, and the mom didn't want it to suffer -- I could see an angel being sad about that, but not disagreeing with the mother's decision. Wouldn't a defective fetus be God's fault, canonically?
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109139944666037707

10/10 Mon

• https://twitter.com/_johnbye/status/1548418367551262721 - virus-denialism
• https://www.bmwe.org/secondary.aspx?id=700 - rail union rejects deal
  • https://twitter.com/jonahfurman/status/1579513805834715136
• https://twitter.com/kennedytcooper/status/1578759243821633536 - discussion of gender divisions in non-strength-oriented sports
• Donald Trump/civil war:
  • https://www.wral.com/nc-voters-worry-of-civil-war-brace-for-possibility-of-political-violence/20498170/
• https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Federal-judge-rules-Texas-can-discriminate-17491622.php

10/12 Wed

• https://www.quora.com/Would-Russia-dare-invade-Ukraine-if-Trump-was-President/answer/Joe-Willmore - why Putin didn't invade Ukraine during Trump's tenure: for one thing, Trump was trying to disintegrate NATO
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/12/theyre-all-liars/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109155290281990929
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/12/violent-spasms-are-never-a-healthy-symptom/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109155341470825072
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/12/its-the-ignorance-that-kills/ - bizarre definition of "transgender" by Pakistani pol
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109155450150256458
• https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/north-carolina-election-integrity/ - war on voting in NC
• https://apnews.com/article/shootings-school-connecticut-conspiracy-alex-jones-3f579380515fdd6eb59f5bf0e3e1c08f
• https://unherd.com/thepost/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for-a-donation-ignore-it/ -- Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia
  • UnHerd is conservatist/unreliable: RationalWiki
  • however, the salaries seem to be correct: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries

10/13 Thu

• Ukraine/invasion by Russia:
  • https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/12/violent-spasms-are-never-a-healthy-symptom/
  • https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/10/09/police-arrest-fifth-grader-during-class
    • https://icosahedron.website/@oreolek/109161184561221926
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/13/flying-to-washington-state-tomorrow/
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/109161176745451948
• https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/09/519554307/u-s-ethics-official-to-white-house-no-these-rules-definitely-apply-to-you
• https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/522706-white-house-lawyer-helped-shop-controversial-hunter-biden-story-to-wall/ «The story pitched by the White House insiders alleged that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings related to China and Ukraine. Herschmann and Passantino handed over emails and told the Journal that Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski was willing to go on the record with them.»
• https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3766645-Passantino-Stefan.html - Trump White House official
• https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1580616229223792641 «Texas law enforcement has certified that the migrants whom Ron DeSantis trafficked to Martha's Vineyard are victims of a crime—potentially qualifying them for a U-visa, which would allow them to stay in the U.S. for four years and apply for a green card in three years.»

10/15 Sat

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/elon-musk-is-under-federal-investigation-for-merger-conduct-twitter-tells-judge/
• 2022-10-15 YouTube's Community Violation System Is Broken by Jesse Gender

10/17 Mon

• https://www.openculture.com/2020/08/the-british-museum-is-full-of-looted-artifacts.html

10/18 Tue

• https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129491352/trump-hotels-overcharged-secret-service-agents

10/19 Wed

• https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/meet-the-physicist-who-has-created-1600-wikipedia-entries-for-important-female-minority-scientists.html - erasure of women (countermeasures)
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/109196791848980842
• https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/17/election-administrators-harassment-david-becker/ - war on democracy
  • https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109196991043751716
• https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41695101/trump-covid-white-house-response/
  • https://mastodon.social/web/@Some_Emo_Chick/109194983889220212
• https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/18/dc-taxpayers-are-spending-millions-to-rehire-bad-cops/
  • https://twit.social/@x_minus_t/109195667647410446

10/21 Fri

• https://venturebeat.com/automation/how-estonia-paved-the-way-for-e-government/ - Estonia
• https://thewalrus.ca/the-rings-of-power-has-a-troll-problem/ - racism in fandom
• https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1583380015550726144 - the root causes of disinformation spread
  • «the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the lies told to support the war by the US and UK governments, is one of these moments why traditional sources of authority betrayed the trust of the public, and drove people to seek alternative sources of authority.» -- instead of seeking better methodologies of determining truth
  • "traumatic moral injury"
  • «their own biases, fuelled by traumatic moral injury, means any conclusion that supports the perceived position of those responsible for that injury is unacceptable, so alternative, increasing absurd, answers must be correct.» - if an authority tells one big lie, then that authority becomes always wrong

10/22 Sat

• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fbi-found-documents-containing-classified-intel-iran-china-mar-lago-rcna53506
• which of these determines the actual outcome? I am confused.
  • https://abc7chicago.com/student-debt-relief-loan-supreme-court-lawsuit/12352905/
  • https://apnews.com/article/st-louis-missouri-kansas-nebraska-education-9b73de3404719e08a3910ed58e8481c7
• https://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1583521606147923968 «This is basically why, historically, many people vote for Republicans: Tell them what actual GOP policies are and they simply don’t believe you because how could anyone in elected office actually want to do such bizarrely pointlessly awful things.» - this seems closely related to the Shirley exception.

10/23 Sun

• https://www.npr.org/2022/10/22/1129976565/dark-money-groups-midterm-elections-republicans-democrats-senate

Today's scary reading:

• 2022-07-23 The Enigma of Peter Thiel (h/t) acknowledges that there is no enigma; he is a fascist, and totally on board with the Jan. 6 coup.
  • «Thiel once wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible…” Why? Because if you empower the demos, they will eventually vote for restrictions on the power of capitalists. and therefore, restrictions on their “freedom.” He continues, “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy‘ into an oxymoron.”»
  • «Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian economist and godfather of the type of radical libertarianism professed by Thiel, wrote in 1927, “It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization.»
  • «Yarvin suggested that Republicans execute what he called a “very legal coup” to “steal the election back” by getting Republican-controlled state legislatures to invalidate the vote, and then having Trump claim emergency powers, ignoring any interference from Congress or the judiciary and using the National Guard to enforce his orders. After that, Yarvin argued, Trump could “liquidate the powerful, prestigious, and/or wealthy institutions of the old regime, inside and outside the formal government,” which, he said, would be followed by the achievement of “a singular vision of utopia.”»

10/24 Mon

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/alaska-snow-crab-harvest-canceled-climate/index.html
• https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change - are these failed forests being counted as carbon offsets and sold on the market? If nothing else, Guinness should refuse to certify until the plantings have reached a certain maturity, and at least X% have survived.
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-republicans-would-cause-chaos-us-economy-2022-10-24/

10/25 Tue

• 2022-10-13 Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS: It's always nice when diligent research confirms what we've long known suspected.
• 2022-10-14 SarafromMI @ Twitter «Well shit... Just Stop Oil is funded by a philanthropy organization, The Climate Emergency Fund, which was founded by oil heiress Aileen Getty.» «Conspiracy brain telling me the souping of the Van Gogh was an op to make environmental activists look ridiculous.» on the other hand, Beau suggests it was actually good strategy. Maybe it was intended as a false-flag job but accidentally ended up being useful publicity?
• 2022-10-15 Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
  • 2022-10-15 owenslindsay1 @ Twitter «One of their big innovations? Push low-price tenants out & sit on empty units instead of dropping prices. “The net effect of driving revenue and pushing people out was $10 million in income. I think that shows keeping the heads in the beds is not always the best strategy.” 5/10»
• 2022-10-25 North Carolina Sheriff Resigns After Shocking, Racist Comments About Black Employees He must have missed the part of the training where they tell you not to say it out loud.
• 2022-01-31 The IRS Already Has Your Income Tax Data—So Why Do Americans Still Have to File Their Taxes?: I haven't read the article, but I'd assume two reasons: (1) rich people wanting tax loopholes that are too complicated to exploit unless there's a lot of money at stake, and (2) tax preparation services (and software companies -- lookin' at you, Intuit) that want taxes to be complicated so people will hire them and buy their software. Capitalism likes to take stuff away and then sell or rent it back to you, and this is no exception.
• 2022-10-01 The Downtown Circle: the world's tallest skyscraper may be set to get a futuristic addition The question that comes to my mind: does the Burj Khalifa have a proper sewage-treatment plant yet, or are they still hauling it off daily in trucks?

10/26 Wed

posted link/highlights for discussion on Nextdoor; Marriage and Fauci items also included in this post.

• 2022-10-25 The religious right is now targeting sexless marriages as “selfishness.” They want to ban those too (h/t) «some 83 Christian nationalist groups (led by the Alliance Defending Freedom) released a letter in July imploring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to block the Respect for Marriage Act, because marriage equality somehow opens the door to further immorality, like platonic marriages.» «83 religious groups [...] signed onto the letter to McConnell asking to block the Respect for Marriage Act. Each group essentially states in no uncertain terms that asexuality is unacceptable to their religion and should be banned from having equal marriage rights.» Are GOP voters ok with this?
  • 2022-10-26 Yes, Christian Fascism’s Anti-LGBTQ Hate Extends to Asexual People, Too
• 2022-10-26 World 'nowhere near' hitting climate targets, U.N. warns: Welcome to our hellscape future! ...and over in the red corner, we have the GOP (and a certain few Dems) still denying that it's a problem.
• 2022-10-25 Steve Bannon threatens Dr Fauci and his family will be ‘hunted’ after midterms: ‘Paybacks across the board’ «“On 8 November, when we destroy the Democratic party as a national political institution and really end the regime, the hunted become the hunters. The whole Fauci family is going to be welcome to the investigations. The entire family,” Mr Bannon said on his War Room podcast on Sunday.» Are GOP voters ok with this?
• 2022-10-26 Russian Universities to Introduce Mandatory Ideology Lectures (h/t) «State ideology lessons — dubbed "the important conversations"— were introduced to Russian schools earlier this year alongside the mandatory raising of the Russian flag and the singing of the national anthem every Monday.» Don't forget the pledge of allegiance.
• 2022-10-26 @mcnees on mastodon.social - (un)erasure of women: «Astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope was born on this day in 1902. She discovered thousands of variable stars, made precise measurements of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation, and obtained an accurate result for the distance to M31.»
• 2022-10-24 Chris Hedges: Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (h/t): Chris Hedges thinks we need to worry about Putin going nuclear. Beau argues compellingly that this is just right-wing scaremongery. I'd hate to be wrong, but I feel like Beau makes a solid rational case while Hedges just makes an emotional one. The wild card here is that Putin is clearly almost as nuts as Trump -- and has a lot more control than Trump ever did, although he is rapidly losing it. Here's hoping we don't have to depend yet again on the wise and brave disobedience of underlings to save us.
• Democratic Accomplishments: 2021 - 2022 (h/t): I wish this came with transcripts, but at least it's broken down by category for quicker reference.

10/27 Thu

• 2022/10/25/Fetterman-Oz debate
• 2022-10-26 Mark Meadows Ordered to Testify in Georgia Election Interference Investigation «During the January 6 congressional hearings earlier this year, Meadows was implicated in numerous efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election and keep Trump in power. During the last week of December 2020, Meadows sent five emails to then-Acting Attorney General Jeffery A. Rosen, pressuring him to investigate Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in New Mexico. One of the claims, as our reporter Ali Breland describes, was an “absurd and relatively obscure conspiracy that Italians had used satellites and other technology to remotely switch votes from Trump to Biden.”»
• 2022-10-27 Democrat blows whistle on alleged ballot harvesting scheme, Florida opens criminal probe
  • This doesn't link to any sources, nor can I find any... nor does she mention it on her LinkedIn page or on her campaign web site. Seems a bit fishy.

10/28 Fri

• some links moved to Twitter/Musk purchase
• 2022-10-27 @Scott_Helme on Twitter (h/t) «We had a tow bar fitted to our @Tesla Model Y by a reputable company but apparently the car needs a software update to tow. Tesla are refusing to enable "Trailer Mode" because they didn't fit the tow bar.» (thread)
• Kanye West's school closes:
  • 2022-10-27 Kanye West's Christian school abruptly closes for the entire year: report (h/t)
  • 2022-10-27 Kanye West’s school Donda Academy closes as controversy grows (via, h/t)
• 2022-10-26 This North Carolina congressional district has a rare competitive midterm race (h/t): Bo Hines (R-MAGA) vs. Wiley Nickel (D)
• 2022-10-28 Nancy Pelosi's husband 'violently assaulted' at San Francisco home, suspect in custody
• 2022-10-28 Russia to ban sharing LGBT 'propaganda' with adults as well as children: What's Russian for "woke"?
• 2022-10-28 US midterms: Abortion, guns and crime shape Texas governor's race: Democrat Beto O'Rourke vs. Sith-aligned provincial Governor Greg Abbott
• 2022-10-27 Svalbard: The race to save the fastest-warming place on Earth: global warming/effects in Svalbard
• 2022-04-06 EXCLUSIVE: Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial "victory" to Russia in Ukraine

  There's this huge narrative on the right that we need to be scared of Russia for some reason.

  And, like, we're not even at war with them. They invaded Ukraine (which is unequivocally bad, and not something that should be rewarded), and we're finding ways to help Ukraine from the sidelines -- but we are not part of the war.

  ...which Russia lost only a few weeks after they started it. Putin is just stalling to see what PR victories he can pull out of the ashes.

  I can only think that the Right just wants to help authoritarian dictators wherever they can. (Won't someone please think of the poor authoritarian dictators.... and those horribly oppressed billionaires who get unfairly cancelled from their paid speaking engagements...)

10/29 Sat

Musk Twitter fuckery confirmed

• some links moved to Twitter/Musk purchase
• 2021-01-27 WhatsApp and the domestication of users: user domestication, WhatsApp, Mozilla, Signal app...
  • "user domestication" weaponizes nontechnical users
  • ...in much the same way as...
  • right-wing politics / rage farming weaponizes politically-ignorant voters.
• 2021-02-23 Keeping platforms open (via): Matrix chat, XMPP, Gmail, email defederation
• 2022-10-28 A Compromise on Immigration Is Possible. This Bill Could Make It Happen.$ (archive.org) advocates for the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act while acknowledging the issues with the CBP.
• 2022-10-27 Mike Pence says Americans don't have a right to freedom from religion: are GOP voters okay with this?
• 2022-10-28 Conservatives Are Already Laying the Groundwork To Declare Democrats’ Midterm Wins Illegitimate: Are GOP voters ok with this?
• 2022-10-27 Brittney Griner Faces Difficult Conditions at Russian Penal Colony, Former Prisoners and Advocates Say «Brittney Griner will enter a system of isolation, grueling labor and psychological torment when she is transferred to a penal colony, the successor to the infamous Russian gulag, to fulfill a nine-year sentence, former prisoners and advocates said.»

November

11/02 Wed

• 2022-11-01 Fayette County state House candidate says he was attacked: who saw that coming, aside from everyone?
• https://twitter.com/Coelasquid/status/1587760429282996225 - amazingly fake detection device that police actually bought for $8k, wtf
• 2022-11-02 Tucker Carlson Is Trying To Convince His Audience “There’s No Such Thing as Hate Speech”

11/03 Thu

• 2022-11-03 Eugen Rochko «199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.» - obviously very likely to be a direct consequence of Twitter/Musk purchase
• 2022-11-03 Why are right-wingers so damn weird? (via) «Yarvin's schtick is to advocate for the dissolution of the American republic so that it can be replaced by a theocratic capitalist monarchy by writing long-winded pretentious articles that are both incoherent and much beloved by Silicon Valley tech-dudes, because their bottom line is always rationalized by Yarvin, who wants to make them the rulers of everything.» «It shouldn’t take that much inspection to figure out that JD Vance, Blake Masters, Trump, and all those creepy Thiel-supported nerds ought to be flushed.»

11/04 Fri

• 2022-11-04 Florida medical boards sign off on ban prohibiting gender-affirming care for kids (h/t) «The rulemaking goes against recommendations made by groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society and the American Medical Association.» Worst thing is, it's all just a political stunt; they don't even believe they're helping kids.
• 2022-11-04 It’s as if a HOA has taken over the town (via): petty racism and authoritarianism. US/MN/Rush City
• 2022-11-03 Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters «The left has alienated America’s fastest-growing group of voters just when they were supposed to give the party a foolproof majority.»
  • @Sunspot on democracy.town:

«

I usually like what’s in The Atlantic but this is a major misrepresentation. Most of the “policies” mentioned are not actually Democratic policies. Climate change and LGBTQ rights? Everyone should care about that.

I don't think these people are misrepresenting how they feel, but it's mostly a testament to Republican narrative domination. Was a single specific Dem policy [even] mentioned?

Everything Hispanic voters say they care about in this piece is better addressed by Democrats. A far more informative piece would have been about Republican disinformation campaigns flooding Hispanic voters, especially through right wing radio.

»

11/05 Sat

• 2022-10-22 Why do socialists/communists/progressives believe that workers deserve a share of the profits when they don't share the risk?: without even looking at the answer, my answer is that actually the workers take more risk than the owners do. All the owners risk is money they can afford to lose.
• 2022-11-02 Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve: you can't solve free speech issues by stacking algorithms; you have to involve people.
• 2022-11-04 U.S. Supreme Court's Barrett again declines to block Biden student debt relief
  • 2022-11-04 Supreme Court Justice Barrett denies second challenge to Biden student loan forgiveness program
    • OD Action described this as «Surprise! Amy Coney Barrett backstabs Republicans days before the election -- The right-wing justice took a break from undermining basic freedoms and blocked a conservative group from sabotaging Biden's $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan in a transparent if much appreciated attempt to maintain the court's paper-thin illusion of impartiality.»

11/06 Sun

• 2022-11-02 North Carolina Republican wants "rape panels" to decide whether victims can get abortions Bo Hines (GOP candidate for North Carolina's 13th Congressional District)
• 2022-11-06 These companies claim to support abortion rights. They are backing anti-abortion Republicans: Eli Lilly, Facebook, Amazon.com, Comcast, Citigroup, AT&T. I don't understand how this is in their corporate best interest, unless they just happen to be voting for pols who pledge to reduce taxes on the rich and make life more miserable for workers, so that the workers will be more supportive of "job creators".
• I don't know who Eric Garland is, but he's apparently a disinformational [1] [2] troll.
• 2022-11-06 Twitter users jump to Mastodon - but what is it? «In the wake of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, some users have been seeking alternative platforms. One of the biggest beneficiaries has been Mastodon. But what is it?»
• 2022-11-05 Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump (h/t)
• 2022-10-31 Violent crime is a key midterm voting issue, but what does the data say?

11/07 Mon

• 2022-11-06 Donald Trump mocks Ron ‘DeSanctimonious’ DeSantis on eve of Florida rally: attack a political ally, two days before an election, when you yourself have no hope of ever holding office again? Sure, why not. «“We’re winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said of a potential 2024 Primary. “There it is, Trump at 71%, Ron DeSanctimonious at 10%.”» Yeah, right.
• Daylight Saving and the Politics of Time: article collection
  • One question: why is DST repeatedly framed as "making more daylight hours"? It doesn't.

11/08 Tue

• What points show that Neil Armstrong didn't reach the Moon?: an example of how people can be misled when they don't understand stuff about reality.
• researching the claim that Rudy Guiliani reduced crime in NYC:
  • 2022-02-11 Giuliani to Newsmax: NYC Mayor's Crime Fighting Measures Are 'Idiotic'
  • 2020-07-02 Giuliani’s Misleading Attack on de Blasio and Crime (FactCheck.org)
  • 2009 How New York Became Safe: The Full Story
  • 2007-09-01 How much credit does Giuliani deserve for fighting crime? (Politifact) «While the statistics he cites are accurate, independent experts and studies of the phenomenon suggest Giuliani exaggerates his role.»
  • 2007-07-18 Press Release - Mayor Giuliani Cleaned Up New York City: note that this is a press release by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley of The American Presidency Project
  • 2003-01 What Reduced Crime in New York City
  • Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani
• 2022-11-08 Are the gender criticals OK? (via): this is the thing about fascism (and yeah, TERFs / "gender critical"s are fascists) -- they have to keep narrowing the circle of who is acceptable. They always turn on their own. (Side query: if you've had both a natural birth and a C-section, does the latter negate your Real Motherhood? Or does giving birth naturally once let you in the club? Or maybe it's nonbinary?)
• 2022-11-07 Republicans Are Laying The Groundwork (Again) To Reject Elections They Lose «Masters recalled his dad worrying that, even if Masters won by 30,000 votes over incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), "they’ll just find 40,000 for Mark Kelly. He invited me to prove him wrong," Masters said. "I said, 'Dad, I can’t prove you wrong. All I know is, if those are the numbers, I’ve got to win by 80,000.'" The crowd reportedly burst into applause.» The GOP victim-mentality escalates...
• 2022-11-03 CDC issues new opioid prescribing guidance, giving doctors more leeway to treat pain: this seems like a good thing. Too many people who need pain meds aren't able to get them. My doctor wouldn't prescribe hydrocodone for me, even though I have a long history of responsible usage. (Fortunately I still have a small stash left over from dental work and don't need it that often, BUT.)
• 2022-11-02 Sentenced to life for stealing $14: ‘I needed help, but was given jail’ ...in California, a supposedly liberal state (where liberals are supposedly "soft on crime") «At the time of the 2002 offense, in which he took loose change from an unlocked garage, Coulson, then 35, was living on the streets of Long Beach and deep in the throes of drug addiction. He was also struggling with mental illnesses after surviving significant childhood abuse. Despite his documented health crises, and having no violent crimes on his record, a judge ordered him to be locked up for life, saying he could only be considered for release after 35 years.» He was nailed by a "three strikes" law - in part because his $14 crime counted as two strikes. « Proponents said the law would “keep murderers, rapists, and child molesters behind bars, where they belong”. Instead, within a decade, nearly 3,500 people were given life sentences for nonviolent offenses such as shoplifting or drug possession.»
• 2022-11-08 Florida warns US Justice Department that federal election monitors are not allowed inside polling places «In a letter to DOJ dated Monday, Florida state elections officials argued that federal officials are not included on the list of people allowed inside polling places [–] and even if they did qualify, it “would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election.”» "Undermine confidence in the election" is the Right's new code-phrase for "point out how we're screwing things up" and/or "go against our narrative that the 2020 election was rigged".
  • @anubis2814 on toot.cat observes: «Say you are [messing] with the elections without saying you are messing with the elections», which kinda nails it exactly.

11/09 Wed

• 2017-10-16 Patrick S. Tomlinson on Twitter:

«

You're in a fertility clinic. Why isn't important. The fire alarm goes off. You run for the exit. As you run down this hallway, you hear a child screaming from behind a door. You throw open the door and find a five-year-old child crying for help.

They're in one corner of the room. In the other corner, you spot a frozen container labeled "1000 Viable Human Embryos." The smoke is rising. You start to choke. You know you can grab one or the other, but not both before you succumb to smoke inhalation and die, saving no one.

Do you A) save the child, or B) save the thousand embryos?

»

11/10 Thu

• Nextdoor: Ted Budd defeats Beasley, has yet to deny if he will use his position to give another $10,000,000 government handout to himself
  • Someone posted a comment which was reported and deleted: «The life of one precious baby saved from abortion (murder) is worth 10 times that.» I had to snark:

  Someone (they can out themselves if they want to) said, in a now-deleted comment: "The life of one precious baby saved from abortion (murder) is worth 10 times that."

  So, saving the life of a baby is worth (10 x $10m =) $100 million dollars ($100,000,000), according to that comment.

  What happens to that sentiment after the baby is born, and conservatists don't want children to have affordable lunches, affordable medical care, affordable education, or guaranteed income so they can survive?

  Also, where are the funds for prenatal care, to ensure that the baby is born healthy and that the fetus develops properly and *survives* to be born in the first place? Why can't some portion of that $100 million be spent on that, rather than on preventing a mother from choosing not to host a fetus and give birth to it?

  DO THE MATH: If you live to age 100 (most people don't), $100,000,000 is literally 1 million dollars for every year of your life.

  (...or $2700+ PER DAY. I feed a family of 4 on less than that PER MONTH. That includes, by the way, keeping them alive. Can I have my $100m now?)

  Why are you willing to pay that to force its mother to give birth, but not to spend even much much smaller amounts to keep it alive after that?

  (Nitpick / admin note: also, "murder" is illegal killing -- and it's only illegal if a law says so. That's what we're debating here: whether it should be illegal. THE MAJORITY DISAGREE. Calling it murder is nothing but rhetoric -- hateful, divisive, and not said in good faith -- and that is why that comment was reported and presumably why it was deleted.)

• [daily] Facebook’s top political posts (h/t) «A daily record of posts with the most interactions from top Facebook news and political pages», listed with political leaning for each post
• 2022-11-09 Making Polluters Pay: Estimates for corporate climate debt and reparations
  • h/t «This paper argues that fossil fuel corporations in the global north have a distinct responsibility for creating and accelerating climate chaos, and as such should make reparations to affected communities. One key element in any such reparative process would be to tax corporations significantly more, and to use at least some of the funds to provide increased financial transfers to the global south.»

11/11 Fri

• 2022-11-10 It’s not a fluke, it’s a rot: Why the political media blew the 2022 election (h/t)
  • «By contrast, what any responsible, halfway-intelligent and not coopted political reporter should have been asking, over and over again, is: After all this — after Trump’s attempt to steal the election, after a violent right-wing assault on the Capitol, and with the GOP swearing fealty to MAGA, spreading vile conspiracy theories about white replacement, and accusing teachers of grooming — how could America possibly vote for Republicans ever again?»
  • «By treating a major Republican victory in 2022 as a foregone conclusion, the media didn’t just get it wrong, it created a permission structure allowing normal people to seriously consider voting for an extremist, nativist, anti-governance party. It’s kind of a miracle we survived.»
• 2022-11-10 Nick Fuentes Says the Results of the 2022 Elections Prove ‘Why We Need a Dictatorship’ «Fuentes has been very open about his desire to see a “white uprising” in the United States that will install former President Donald Trump as a dictator, cancel all future elections, and impose Christian fascism throughout the country, allowing for women to be burned at the stake.»
  • 2022-11-11 Believe them when they tell you what they want to do (via): believe me -- I believe.
• 2020-06-08 Anti-racist work for White People

11/12 Sat

• 2022-11-11 Billionaires aren’t real (via): Sam Bankman-Fried, transient multibillionaire

11/13 Sun

2022/11/13

11/14 Mon

• 2022-11-14 Half of replanted tropical trees don't survive, new study finds (h/t): unfortunately, a lot of those dead saplings get counted as successful carbon-abatement measures
• 2016-06-21 No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities (h/t)
• 2009 White People Facing Race: uncovering the myths that keep racism in place (PDF, uncopyable text) (h/t)
• 2022-11-12 8 billion and counting «This week, the world’s population ticks over a historic milestone. But in the next century, society will be reshaped dramatically — and soon we’ll hit a decline we’ll never reverse.» They seem to focus only on the transient difficulties this will cause, making it sound like a bad thing. (Pro tip: it's a good thing, and cannot happen too soon.)
• 2022-11-14 Revealed: secret courts that allow energy firms to sue for billions accused of ‘bias’ as governments exit (h/t)
• 2022-11-11 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/11/alec-anti-political-boycott-state-legislation «The new model legislation requires every “governmental entity”, which covers a wide array of bodies from state government to local police departments and public universities, to include a clause in contracts requiring businesses to pledge they “will not engage in economic boycotts”»: ALEC remains the axis of evil. «“Banks are increasingly denying financing to creditworthy companies solely for the purpose of marketing their environmental or social justice credentials, to the detriment of their clients and shareholders.”» Maybe if this passes, it'll take some banks down with it.
  • 2022-11-14 The corporate agenda still lives (h/t)

11/15 Tue

• 2022-07-05 Canadian Pension Funds are Losing Big at the Crypto Casino (guest post by Simon Spichak): so much for fiscal responsibility
  • 2022-11-15 Never mind the tumbrels, bring on the lawyers (via): wealth is a grift; FTX Trading
• 2022-11-07 Inside Liberland, the Balkan micronation becoming the first country to be built in the metaverse: the part of this that seems interesting isn't the virtual reality stuff, nor even the "start a new country" thing, but more the idea of people organizing a government outside of geography (even if they're supposedly organizing to create a geographically-bounded nation, they are explicitly creating the government in advance of living there) and whether they will adopt more progressive methods of self-rule. I'm not holding my breath, but it's another chunk of anecdata to watch for.
• 2022-11-15 Medical association to continue political push through lobby for abortion exceptions (via) «Pat Hill, long-time lobbyist for the trade group representing physicians, says OSMA plans to approach friendly state legislators about including exceptions around rape, incest, and the life of the mother.»
• "Trans Awareness Week" on Fox News (h/t):
  • 2022-10-25 Transgender Biden interviewer called to ‘normalize’ trans women having visible ‘bulge’: this is apparently... bad?
  • 2022-11-09 Minnesota elects first transgender state lawmaker
  • 2022-10-14 Dems under fire after ties to lawmaker who wants to criminalize parents who don’t affirm LGBT kids exposed «On Thursday, Delegate Elizabeth Guzman told WJLA that at the start of the new legislative session, she will introduce a bill that would penalize, with a misdemeanor or felony charge, parents who do not affirm their LGBT children. The bill would expand the state's definition of child abuse and neglect to include parents who do not affirm their LGBT children's gender identity or sexual orientation.» -- can't figure out how she was "exposed", though.
  • 2022-10-09 Virginia's Youngkin defends trans youth policies: Kids ‘don’t belong to the state': So why is he insisting that the state should be allowed to control them?
  • 2022-11-04 Cook County passes resolution recognizing Transgender Awareness Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance: no negative spin, for a change, that I can see
• 2022-11-13 Remembering the renegade economist who fought for growth the Earth could actually sustain (h/t)

11/16 Wed

• 2022-11-15 Trump's 2024 announcement:
  • 2022-11-15 Donald Trump, who tried to overturn Biden's legitimate election, launches 2024 bid (via): As I understand the facts, not having read the whole article: He can't win. He may or may not realize that. He may or may not care. He may or may not primarily be doing this because he may or may not believe it will somehow shield him from prosecution. It won't.
  • 2022-11-15 What lawmakers are saying about Trump's run for the presidency (via) Some Republican pols (including Todd Young, Matt Gaetz) danced around the question when asked if they would support him. Kari Lake said she would; Lindsey Graham made supportive noises.
  • 2022-11-15 Noted political loser Donald Trump announces plan to lose presidential race again (h/t): the best take, really
• 2022-11-15 FTX made a cryptocurrency that brought in millions. Then it brought down the company (via): FTX Trading, Binance
• 2022-11-08 Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice: the mass media should be talking more about this kind of thing, and less about how some people still think we shouldn't worry about global warming
• COVID MEETUPS (h/t) «A free service to find individuals, families and local businesses/services who take COVID precautions in your area»

11/17 Thu

• 2022-11-16 Oklahoma school to start implementing clear backpack policy (h/t): because freedom, I guess
• 2022-11-05 One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE -- while this is the kind of change all schools should be making.
• new project: Election Data «A datasette instance for compiling election data from across the United States.»
• Suspended NC sheriff’s reelection poses a dilemma. Should a court override voters? Unofficial election results show Jody Greene won reelection for Sheriff of Columbus County (NC) «despite an ongoing obstruction of justice probe by the State Bureau of Investigation. And despite allegations from District Attorney Jon David that the county’s senior judge found serious enough to suspend Greene from office last month.» I'd like to see exploration of why people voted for a guy known for obstruction of justice and obvious racism. Do they believe the charges are false, do they not care, are they okay with racism? I suspect I know the answers to all three questions, however, and it's just kind of disappointing that we're still there. Some parts of NC are still stuck in the 1950s.
• 2022-11-16 Youngkin proposes new history standards, critics say it is politically motivated: more anti-CRT hysteria, of course. MLK, Juneteenth, and LGBT topics removed.
• 2022-11-16 Republicans win U.S. House majority, setting stage for divided government $
• 2022-11-16 Senate votes to advance same-sex marriage bill: the bill «would enshrine same-sex marriage protections into federal law.»
• 2022-11-16 Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner impeached by Pa. House - OD News says «"Small government" Republicans succeeded in overthrowing the will of the people and impeached the recently re-elected progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner for failing to solve all the crimes despite there being not a shred of evidence that his efforts to reduce incarceration has anything to do with the deadly violence afflicting the City of Brotherly Love. It's particularly infuriating because these same Republicans are responsible for Pennsylvania's absurdly lax gun laws, which, you'll be shocked to learn, is a huge driver of violence.»
• 2022-11-16 Bass elected mayor of LA over billionaire rival in historic win «Democratic Rep. Karen Bass will be the first woman to lead Los Angeles.»
• 2022-11-16 Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory: yet more anti-CRT hysteria. OD News says: «A radical, right-wing, dark-money-fueled group called "Moms for Liberty" funded six candidates who successfully took over the Berkeley County school board and immediately ran roughshod through the district, banning "CRT" from the curriculum [...], establishing a book-banning committee, and unceremoniously firing the district's first Black superintendent.»
• 2022-11-15 Her miscarriage left her bleeding profusely. An Ohio ER sent her home to wait «an Ohio hospital — hamstrung by the state's disastrous new ban on abortion care — refused to treat her for the heavy bleeding from a miscarriage that was confirmed weeks before.»
• 2022-11-17 Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. (h/t) (long thread with evidence)

11/18 Fri

• 2022-11-18 @MosquitoCapital on Twitter «I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios...»
• 2022-11-?? The Right’s Only Regret About Trumpists is That They Lost «Don’t mistake tactical critiques for moral ones.» Kind of obvious, but worth repeating and discussing.

11/19 Sat

• The 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies® Honoree List - is this a joke? AT&T? Eli Lilly, who survives on overcharging for insulin? John Deere, which fights against right-to-repair? Microsoft, which is basically Microsoft? Apple Computer, which is... like Microsoft, only worse? At least they didn't list Amazon.com.
• 2022-11-17 The Bridge: The Threat Hiding in Plain Sight (h/t) «The plot I’m talking about is an effort to send America back to the dark days of the nineteenth century by politicizing the civil service.» «Since the nineteenth century, we have gradually replaced the spoils system with an objective process of hiring candidates for federal jobs based on merit instead of party loyalty.» Republicans would obviously be keen on this, since GOP presidents seem to view government agencies as candy to be handed out to their supporters.
• 2022-11-09 Why Even Comcast's Employees Hate Them (video, 27:31, iilluminaughtii): Comcast is worse than you knew.
• CBS News pauses Twitter usage, providing new target for the Right to mock:
  • 2022-11-19 Rolling Stone CBS News and Top Affiliates Pause Twitter Activity ‘Out of an Abundance of Caution’
  • 2022-11-19 Forbes CBS News Suspends Use Of Twitter ‘In Light Of The Uncertainty’ Surrounding Platform Under Musk
  • 2022-11-19 Fox News Triggered by Musk, CBS News announces it’s suspending all Twitter activity out of ‘abundance of caution’
  • 2022-11-19 Daily Wire CBS News Mocked For Pausing Their Use Of Twitter ‘Out Of An Abundance Of Caution’: ‘The Tantrum Is Epic’

11/20 Sun

• 2022-11-18 Anti-abortion groups ask U.S. court to pull approval for abortion drugs (h/t) mifepristone under fire... «The lawsuit, filed in Amarillo, Texas, federal court by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and others, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacked authority to approve the drug for abortion when it did so in 2000 and that it failed to study its risks for minors adequately.» They, stunningly, claim that this was somehow bad for "women and girls".
• 2022-11-19 Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account after poll: the poll was presumably posted by Musk himself, rather than in a way which would alert all Twitter users of its existence (I never saw it, despite checking Twitter several times that day), which of course means it was only seen by people who follow Musk, or follow people who boosted it -- hardly an unbiased sample.
  • 2022-11-20 Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account
• 2022-10-19 The Atlantic Not Everyone Should Have a Say «To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input.»
• 2022-11-18 What Qatar Built for the Most Expensive World Cup Ever - Qatar
• 2022-11-19 Rights group calls for Samuel Alito to be investigated after claims of leaked 2014 ruling «The claim was contained in a New York Times article in which minister Rob Schenck, an anti-abortion activist, said he was told of the decision weeks before it was announced and had used the information to prepare a public relations push.» The decision in question was apparently the decision where Hobby Lobby was not required to provide «certain contraceptives for their female employees».
• 2022-11-20 Police: 5 dead, 18 hurt in Colorado gay nightclub shooting
• 2022-11-20 He 'Put Himself Before Everybody Else': Chris Christie Calls On GOP To Dump Trump
• 2022-11-19 Texas Gov. Abbott Sending Armored Carriers to the Border: nobody knows why, other than the obvious "political messaging stunt" theory which seems the only possible explanation.
• 2022-11-19 Biden Administration Approves Loan Relief Applicants Amid Pending Program Appeal «The Biden administration started contacting students who have been approved for student loan debt relief...»
  • 2022-11-18 Biden's administration just asked the Supreme Court to reinstate its student-loan forgiveness plan to 'avoid prolonging this uncertainty for the millions of affected borrowers'
• 2022-11-05 There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming by George Monbiot
• 2018-10-11 The Myth of "Service Resistant" People Living Outside: the "most homeless people choose to be homeless" myth («“That’s crazy to me,” says Rhodes, a Street Roots vendor who experienced homelessness in both Seattle and Portland. “Absolutely no one I know enjoys being homeless. It’s offensive.”»; US/OR/Portland
• 2022-11-20 The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27 – but hope must not (h/t): they should propose 1.6C instead.
• 2022-11-20 Vaccine Breakthrough Could Finally Bring COVID to Its Knees (h/t) «Lots of current vaccines target the spike protein. But none of them specifically target the spine helix. And yet, there are good reasons to focus on that part of the pathogen. Whereas many regions of the spike protein tend to change a lot as the virus mutates, the spine helix doesn’t.»
• 2022-11-19 Arizona County Will Delay Certification of 2022 Election Results After Court Halts Full ‘Hand Recount’ (h/t) «A legal effort in red Cochise County to conduct a full “hand recount” audit of the ballots was legally quelled, due in part to the efforts of Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias.»

11/21 Mon

• 2022-11-21 Count every penny before you go to the airport (via): guy slightly underdeclared how much cash he was carrying, US/gov/CBP took it all -- but didn't charge him with anything. So... what's the justification for taking it?
• 2022-11-21 European team captains at the World Cup won't wear armbands promoting diversity (h/t) «Seven European national soccer teams - including England, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Wales - announced their team captains would not wear armbands promoting diversity because they feared on-field punishments by tournament organizers during the 2022 World Cup.» Why was Qatar awarded the event, if they were going to pull a stunt like that? Shouldn't there be rules prohibiting a country from imposing bigoted rules?
• nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender: ugh
• 2022-11-21 Twitter France Head Quits in Exodus, Says ‘It’s Over’ (h/t)
• 2022-11-18 Big Ag Delegates More Than Double at COP27 (h/t) «DeSmog counted the number of registered COP27 delegates who were either directly linked to the world’s largest agribusiness firms – such as meatpackers JBS, food corporation Cargill, or biotech leaders Bayer – or participating in the UN talks as part of delegations that represent industry interests.»
• 2022-11-21 An Army Veteran Says He Went Into ‘Combat Mode’ to Disarm the Gunman: It seems completely on-brand that the police held the hero for an hour without charges. It also seems rather glorious that the gunman was subdued by being beaten on the head with his own (2nd) gun, and stomped on by a drag dancer's high-heels.
  • https://journa.host/@BGrueskin/109384753737477329 - screenshot of a personal account
  • 2022-11-22 High heels vs AR15, guess who won (via)
• 2022-11-20 Senior Democratic lawmakers demand answers on alleged Supreme Court leak «Whitehouse and Johnson warn chief justice that if he won’t investigate, Congress will.»
• 2022-11-21 Hospitals Are Full of Kids Sick With RSV—And Anti-Vaxxers Think It’s a Hoax
• 2022-11-21 Hidden audits reveal millions in overcharges by Medicare Advantage plans
• 2022-11-20 Voters 'Will Walk Barefoot Over Broken Glass' For Me, Boasts Ron DeSantis: he's describing the policies he plans to implement
• 2022-11-20 Maricopa County Chairman Transferred to Undisclosed Location After Death Threats «Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates confirmed on Sunday that he was transferred and provided a security detail after workers at the Arizona county elections office faced months of escalating death threats that made it increasingly difficult to do their job. Gates, a Republican, has faced particular backlash as a vocal critic of false election claims spurred by Trump’s election denialism in 2020.» They eventually eat their own.
• 2022-11-21 Ohio GOP moves forward bill to strip powers from Board of Ed. after losing control to Democrats (h/t)

11/22 Tue

• 2022-11-22 Maybe I should try changing restaurants (via): FTX was apparently selling fortune cookies to Chinese restaurants
• 2022-11-14 The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment: Gargron
• 2022-11-22 Cop Who Resigned After Groping College Student Landed New Job Investigating Sexual Assaults «That same officer, David Laudon, was then re-hired as a school resource officer at the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District in the nearby town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. In his capacity there, Laudon was tasked with investigating reported sexual assaults and working with students in the public school system who have been sexually victimized, WBUR reported over the weekend.» this is a message from the patriarchy: "We will retaliate against your efforts to hold us accountable."

11/23 Wed

• 2022-11-22 Billionaires Provided 15 Percent of Funding for the Midterms
  • ...even though They represent 0.0002% of the population.
• 2022-11-23 6 people and the gunman are dead in a shooting at a Walmart in Virginia
• 2022-11-22 Supreme Court allows release of Trump's tax returns to House Democrats
• 2022-11-22 Georgia deputies arrested in beating of Black inmate that 'shocked the conscience,' officials say
• 2022-11-22 Marjorie Taylor Greene calls gay Democrat a “groomer” in wake of LGBTQ club shooting: because of course she's pathologically incapable of being a decent human being
• 2022-11-22 GLAAD Report: Drag events faced at least 124 protests and significant threats in 2022
• 2022-11-21 California Republican who voted to impeach Trump wins reelection
• 2022-11-22 QAnon Fan Charged for Threats to Kill FBI Director, Calif. Congressman
• 2022-11-22 Facing opposition, controversial homeless ordinance pulled from OKC City Council «After hours of discussion and public comments today, a proposed Oklahoma City ordinance that would have allowed police to cite and arrest homeless people in camps around the city was withdrawn by its lead author.» Yeah, no, just don't do that.
• 2022-11-21 Elon wyd (via, via): post by a former Elon Musk underling at SpaceX, giving some insight into Musk's "success" there.
• 2022-11-23 social.wake.st/@liaizon: CEO of Flickr is considering joining the ActivityPub fediverse
• 2022-11-23 Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters (via): analysis of key information overlooked by media forecasts of the election results
• 2022-11-23 Elon Admits His Content Moderation Council Was Always A Sham To Keep Advertisers On The Site «Indeed, part of the reason those same folks got so excited about Musk taking over, was that they believed (falsely) that he was going to get rid of all the moderation and so they’d be “freed.” Instead, what they have is exactly what they falsely feared was happening before: an impulsive, moody, vindictive billionaire, enforcing his own personal views on moderation. It’s deeply ironic, but his supporters will never recognize that Musk is doing exactly what they falsely believed Dorsey was doing before.»

11/24 Thu

• 2021-01-19 “Don’t Take It So Personally” Is the Ultimate Gaslighting Insult—According to Experts: is there a category for this type of gaslighting? It seems like a form of tone-policing, and definitely invokes the calmness-rationality fallacy.
• 2022-11-24 Brazil judge fines Bolsonaro allies millions after ‘bad faith’ election challenge (h/t)
• 2022-11-21 Exclusive: Under oath, Little Rock narcotics officers say they destroyed evidence, routinely violated the Fourth Amendment (via)
• 2022-11-24 LessWrong/Effective Altruism as unpleasant scientific racists by David Gerard: LessWrong and Effective Altruism
• 2022-11-14 Banksy in Ukraine: seven new works appear in war-torn sites (h/t)
• 2014-11-12 Acclaimed sci-fi writer exposed as notorious Internet troll - Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• 2022-11-23 Georgia high court allows Saturday voting for Senate runoff
• Club Q shooting:
  • 2022-11-23 Club Q suspect in court, friend says never claimed to be nonbinary
  • 2022-11-23 The Far Right Is Already Attacking the Club Q Hero

11/25 Fri

• 2022-11-25 How to celebrate Black Friday (via): FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried
• 2022-11-16 Study: There's No Ethical Use for NFTs by Rebecca Watson (video, 8:59)
• 2022-11-24 Texas 'Anti-Woke' Bank Goes Bust In 3 Months «A bank startup backed by billionaire Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel and pitched as “anti woke” for “pro-freedom” Americans is closing up shop after less than three months. / The bank, GloriFi, burned through $50 million in investment money, laid off most of its staff on Monday, and informed workers it was shutting down...» ...«touting capitalism, family, law enforcement and the freedom to "love of God and country"»: as if any of those things were under threat by Wall Street.
• 2022-11-23 On stand, accountant confirms Trump claimed huge tax losses
• 2022-11-24 Club Q Owner Blames Right-Wing ‘Groomer’ Rhetoric for Colorado Springs Attack
• 2022-11-25 Massive Twitter data breach was far worse than reported, reveal security researchers (h/t) «We would reach out to Twitter for comment, but Musk fired the entire media relations team, so...»
• 2022-11-25 Elon Musk Bans CrimethInc. from Twitter at the Urging of Far-Right Troll (via, h/t, h/t): just in case anyone ever needs evidence that Musk never actually believed in unmoderated speech -- he just wanted to be the one doing the banning
• http://whatstheharm.net/ : reference site for harmful misinformation

11/26 Sat

• 2022-11-07 Republican-Led Congressional Redistricting Leads to 'District Misassignment' in Nashville (h/t)
• 2022-11-26 Steven Bodzin on journa.host on the widely-unrecognized harm gas stoves do to cognitive development in children
• 2022-11-26 At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking (h/t) «Armed Americans, often pushing a right-wing agenda, are increasingly using open-carry laws to intimidate opponents and shut down debate.»
• 2022-11-23 It’s Time to Hold News Media Accountable for Transphobia (via)
• 2022-11-25 ‘F---ing nightmare’: Trump team does damage control after he dines with Ye and white supremacist Nick Fuentes

11/27 Sun

• 2022-11-25 Twitter To ‘Manually Authenticate’ Checked Accounts Under New Program, Musk Says
• 2022-11-25 Walmart shooter left ‘death note,’ bought gun day of killing
• 2022-11-27 The guy who got the midterms right explains what the media got wrong (h/t): more about media failure around the 2022 elections
• 2022-11-27 New York Democrats didn’t defend their bail law changes. It bit them at the polls. (h/t)
• 2022-11-27 climatejustice.social/@GreenFire «Over a thousand journalists now have Mastodon accounts.» spreadsheet

11/28 Mon

• 2022-07-29 Why do Democrats call common sense laws like voter ID "racist"? Isn't that enough proof that the last election was fraudulent and they plan to cheat again?: The response given is anecdotal, but consistent with what more rigorous studies have shown. Funny how these same people never seem to worry about all the legitimate votes that aren't being counted, even if there was some actual voter fraud (which continues to be so rare that it never affects the outcome... as shown yet again by the AP article bwlow).
• 2022-11-27 Oliver Willis on Twitter «one thing liberals dont get is that conservatives do not feel the need to actually explain the reasoning behind a line of attack. often i will post some right wing smear and earnest liberals ask "ok, but what do they mean by this? where's the evidence?" IT DOESN'T MATTER.» conservatism I think he misses the piece where they're also just convinced they're right because their idea of reality is based on received truth, rather than evidenced truth. The idea of questioning a received belief is anathema to them. Critical analysis is just another form of attack to them, no better than ad hominem.
• 2022-11-28 The False Analogy Between Anorexia and Gender Dysphoria (via) by Evan Urquhart
• 2022-11-26 New state voter fraud units finding few cases from midterms «State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems.»
• 2022-11-28 Junot Díaz in limbo (via, h/t): it seems logically inevitable that some accusations of abuse are false. Yes, we should believe victims -- but not uncritically. Evidence has to matter. On the other hand...
  • Felicia Sonmez on Twitter (h/t) «This piece is a sparkling example of how *not* to write about sexual misconduct allegations. / It leaves out a host of key facts and context, including the full scope of the public allegations and Díaz’s own contradictory statements on the matter.» (thread)
    • Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Twitter «Felicia was banned by the Washington Post from writing about sexual assault because she is a survivor and this thread shows that she has an actual competency on the topic while the man who wrote about Junot Diaz does not. / Funny how that works»
• 2022-11-28 US bans sales of Huawei, Hikvision, ZTE, and Dahua equipment (h/t)
• 2022-11-28 Biden calls on Congress to head off potential rail strike: this is how we know Biden leans right. Why didn't he use his leverage to force the rail companies to concede, instead of preventing the workers from striking?
  • 2022-11-30 mastodon.cloud/@lauraolin «a reminder that rail workers' wild demand is simply to get a few paid sick days and not be penalized for taking time off for illness... during a pandemic.» (includes screenshot)
• Pushwoosh:
  • 2022-11-14 EXCLUSIVE Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps «According to company documents publicly filed in Russia and reviewed by Reuters, Pushwoosh is headquartered in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk, where it is registered as a software company that also carries out data processing. It employs around 40 people and reported revenue of 143,270,000 rubles ($2.4 mln) last year. Pushwoosh is registered with the Russian government to pay taxes in Russia. / On social media and in U.S. regulatory filings, however, it presents itself as a U.S. company, based at various times in California, Maryland and Washington, D.C., Reuters found.»
    • 2022-11-28 U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer «...that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan, malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices.»

11/29 Tue

• 2022-11-29 Today’s Moment of Absurdity, Courtesy of Arizona Extremists (via): election denial
• 2022-11-27 A hundred UK companies sign up for four-day week with no loss of pay «Thousands of employees to be moved permanently to four days in policy described as ‘transformative’»
• "immunity debt":
  • 2022-11-13 Are ‘Immunity Debt’ Claims After Covid-19 Precautions Accurate Or Misinformation?
  • 2022-11-16 COVID "Immunity Debt" isn't Real (video, 9:21, Rebecca Watson)
• 2022-11-29 Oath Keepers founder guilty of sedition in U.S. Capitol attack plot «Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, and another leader of the right-wing group, were found guilty on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, an important win for the Justice Department.» «"We are disappointed in the guilty verdicts,"» said Rhodes' lawyer Ed Tarpley. They're very disappointed in justice being served, and deeply regret having to face the consequences of their own actions -- as has happened before: «Rhodes, who wears an eye patch after accidentally shooting himself in the face with his own gun...»

11/30 Wed

• 2022-11-30 Freedom of Expression for a Price: Government Confirms Bill C-18 Requires Platform Payment for User Posts That Include News Quotes and Hyperlinks (h/t): EXTRACTIVATE! EXTRACTIVATE!...
• 2022-11-30 Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of 'AI Safety' (via) «This philosophy – supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried – fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity» «EA is defined by the Center for Effective Altruism as “an intellectual project, using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible.” And “evidence and reason” have led many EAs to conclude that the most pressing problem in the world is preventing an apocalypse where an artificially generally intelligent being (AGI) created by humans exterminates us.» There's just so much wrong with this... starting with the fact that any AI designed by these guys is going to be self-centered and destructive.
• 2022-11-29 “I Was Never Ready for This”: How States Limit Teen Access to Abortion (h/t)

December

12/01 Thu

• 2022-08-31 Andy Ngo's disinformation about me endangered 1,500+ journalists and led to calls for my death (via) Andy Ngo «argued that I was a violent extremist and not a journalist— while citing an incident in which I was targeted with violence for being a journalist. Ngo has a history of lying about that assault against me.»
• Suzanne Moore[W]:
  • Twitter, Substack$
  • 2020-11-25 Suzanne Moore: ‘I was betrayed and bullied for saying that women should not be silenced’: this is sort of like self-steelmanning, except the idea is to make your position seem more innocuous and obviously-valid rather than stronger and clearer
  • 2020-11-17 Comment is free (unless you're a 'transphobe'): Death of free speech at the Guardian as columnist Suzanne Moore quits after 300 staff sign petition against her claim that gender is more than a 'feeling': transphobes should not be able to comment, any more than Nazis should
  • 2020-03-02 Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced: Damn right we won't, even if it's other women trying to silence us.
  • 2020-11-25 Why I had to leave The Guardian: she tried to rage-farm against trans people, but facing the consequences of her own actions was "bullying" and unfair.

12/02 Fri

• 2022-12 A critical professional ethical analysis of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) (via) by Dr. Catherine Flick
• 2022-11-30 Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave ...«when freight carriers reduce their operating costs, they’re less inclined to pass on those savings in the form of improved customer service or lower rates than to simply shower their shareholders in dividends.»
• 2022-12-01 Appeals court rejects Trump lawsuit in Mar-a-Lago documents case: OD Action says the court has «decreed that a [court-appointed Special Master] cannot upend American rule of law and pick and choose what the DOJ gets to examine in the disgraced ex-president's disastrous stolen doc scandal.»
• 2022-11-26 Breaking Report: The Brazilian military stands with Bolsonaro… is prepared to invoke Article 142…: hopefully this is just propaganda (is "Revolver" ReasonMag organ? Or is the logo similarity a callback?)
  • 2022-11-26 @gal_suburban on Twitter «Hope everyone is paying attention and understands that American propagandists involved in the plot to overthrow the American government, are now testing the lessons they learned from 2020 in Brazil.» (thread)
• 2022-12-01 Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data
• https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/109444878965910054 - chart showing the Twitter migration in terms of the relevant events
• 2022-12-02 Anti-abortionists and ‘gender criticals’ are using equality law to punch down (via)
• 2022-12-02 Biden signs bill averting rail worker strike despite lack of paid sick days
• 2022-12-02 Caroline Orr Bueno on newsie.social: on the Overton Window and {allowing Nazis to remain as long as they don't advocate violence}

12/03 Sat

• 2022-11-22 Arizona counties will be forced to certify election despite “political theater”
• 2022-11-20 How Jessica Logan’s Call for Help Became Evidence Against Her: police seem to love unproven methodologies and tech; see also Shotspotter and that detector thing that was made from dead ants.

12/04 Sun

• 2022/12/03/Holi-drag cancellation
• Moore County power grid down, possibly due to vandalism:
  • https://www.wfae.org/energy-environment/2022-12-04/police-vandalism-suspected-in-north-carolina-power-outage
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/us/power-outage-moore-county-criminal-investigation/index.html
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/NorthCarolina/comments/zc0hn3/moore_county_nc_is_possibly_under_attack/
  • https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/12/04/intentional-vandalism-causes-mass-power-outage-in-nc-county-bordering-ft-bragg-n668598
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/38000-customers-without-power-in-moore-county-duke-energy-working-to-restore/ar-AA14SpcA
  • https://www.thepilot.com/news/ongoing-timeline-county-still-dark-after-substation-attacks/article_b3b19780-7370-11ed-865d-c78d0de5d921.html
  • https://twitter.com/TravisAllen02/status/1599404569423151105?s=20&t=DsjDhSOGjMppWvMmg2bPYg
  • https://twitter.com/jason0x21/status/1599458790315028480?t=174Wagga9lqhqWnV4ANIfw&s=19
  • https://tech.lgbt/@PaulDitz@mastodon.lol/109458715085148936
  • https://scholar.social/@Cyborgneticz/109462824190999888
  • https://tech.lgbt/@jessdkant/109458709507136014
  • 2022-12-04 NYT North Carolina Power Outages Caused by Gunfire at Substations, Officials Say «About 45,000 customers were without power in Moore County after what an official described as an “intentional, willful and malicious” attack on two substations.»
    • 2022-12-02 The drag show must go on: Organizers say death threats won't stop Southern Pines event
• 2020-04-23 The best response to speech you don’t like? More speech. ...says the right-wing free speech elitist org the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

12/05 Mon

• 2022-12-04 Trump's call to suspend Constitution not a 2024 deal-breaker, leading House Republican says

12/06 Tue

• 2022-12-04 Facebook: a good summary of Trump (apparently has been making the rounds, original author unknown)
• 2022-12-03 Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters
• 2022-12-?? Railroad Workers United Open Letter to Congress and the President (h/t, archive.org)
• 2022-12-05 State Court Abortion Litigation Tracker (via) «Numerous challenges to abortion bans have been filed in state courts since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.»
• assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/a-parent-speaks-out-after-armed-fascists-force-school-drag-event-cancelation
• 2022-12-02 Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying
  • mastodon.world/@FAIR «While strikes in other countries may be presented as signs of freedom, in the US they will be presented in terms of the disruption they cause. The "harmful disruption" presentation encourages readers to understand that the status quo before the action was not harmful and did not disrupt; and that worker actions are therefore willful, selfish and possibly malignant.» "Understand", in this context, meaning "believe".
• 2022-12-02 #ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried (h/t) «Many researchers are fleeing the platform, unnerved by the surge in climate misinformation since Musk’s chaotic takeover»
• Kevin Etherington: another GOP child porn aficionado
• 2022-10-06 Supreme Court allows extreme racial gerrymandering to stand in Louisiana
• 2022-10-20 It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott: apparently coercive measures are used for preventing some people from participating in boycotts
• 2022-12-05 Trump tries to clarify call for 'termination' of parts of Constitution amid backlash «In his newest post, Trump indicated he didn’t say he wanted to terminate the Constitution, stating Monday that “steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG,” referring to what he describes as widespread fraud and deception involving “Big Tech” — of which he provided no evidence — in the 2020 election.» "No no, I didn't say the thing that I said."
• 2022-12-05 Herschel Walker's Closing Message: 'I Don't Even Know What the Heck Is a Pronoun': his base might not either. ignorance is strength
• 2022-12-06 kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum: a good explanation of "property" and "wealth"

12/11 Sun

• 2022-12-04 Iran abolishes morality police after protests, official claims: well, that's a start. «However, state television later denied the claims that the morality police had been shut down.» Or not.
• alleged Lockerbie bomber Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi taken into custody:
  • 2022-12-11 The U.S. has taken custody of the alleged bomb maker in the 1988 Lockerbie attack
  • 2022-12-11 Accused Libyan bombmaker in Pan Am downing now in US custody
  • 2022-12-11 US takes Lockerbie plane bomb suspect into custody (h/t)
• 2022-12-09 Private RNC member emails reveal anger at Trump, frustration with McDaniel’s response to him
• 2022-12-10 Free speech warrior Elon Musk reportedly threatens to sue Twitter staff if they leak to media
• 2022-12-10 Paul Whelan's brother says Biden "made the right choice" with Griner swap
• 2022-12-09 AP Investigation: Prison boss beat inmates, climbed ranks «Thomas Ray Hinkle, a high-ranking federal Bureau of Prisons official, was sent to restore order and trust at a women’s prison wracked by a deplorable scandal. Instead, workers say, he left the federal lockup in Dublin, California, even more broken.»
• 2022-12-10 Federal data: Kansas oil spill biggest in Keystone history
• 2022-12-08 Public interest groups file emergency request to halt Mayor Eric Adams' controversial mental health plan «Mayor Eric Adams' new plan to involuntarily hospitalize some mentally ill people living on New York City streets is facing its first legal battle.»
• 2022-12-10 More Rioters Just Got Prison Time for Actions on January 6
• 2022-12-09 Top progressive firm drops Sinema as a client
• 2022-12-08 More States Propose Trans Adult Bans: 3 States Propose Care Bans For Trans Young Adults (via)
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• 2022-12-11 James Fallows on journa.host: some issues with ProPublica (which otherwise has a very good record)

12/12 Mon

• 2022-12-12 toot.cat/@woozle «I'd say it's less that they want a different future -- i.e. that they have goals consciously in mind for society, and choose political stances which they believe most likely to achieve those goals -- as it is that they see belief as a tool for individual survival within society (rather than a tool for interpreting asocial reality), and conforming to the perceived beliefs of their in-group as necessary for that end. ...»

12/13 Tue

• 2022-11-14 Revealed: secret courts that allow energy firms to sue for billions accused of ‘bias’ as governments exit (h/t) «A secret court system that allows fossil fuel investors to sue governments for vast amounts of money has been accused of institutional bias, self-regulation issues and perceived conflicts of interest, as the drumbeat of EU countries leaving threatens to turn into a samba march.»
• 2022-11-20 Two new movies, ‘Till’ and ‘U.S. and the Holocaust,’ help us connect the dots between Jim Crow and fascism (via) by Soraya Nadia McDonald: Fascism is just Jim Crow with a foreign accent.
• 2022-12-09 newsie.social/@rvawonk: more about fascist plans to disrupt the power grid
• 2022-12-09 Why The Computer Company Raspberry Pi’s New Hire Caused A Social Media Firestorm
  • chaos.social/@jonty «I did not see "Raspberry Pi co-founder becomes ridiculous conspiracy theorist" coming but here we are. / You did some bad PR, then handled it incredibly badly when everyone called you on it. That's it. Stop trying to blame everyone but yourselves.»
• 2022-12-10 Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises by Maggie Astor
  • 2022-12-13 tech.lgbt/@jessdkant «eah, just to be crystal clear on this, on behalf of #Trans people working in #TransHealth everywhere: one of the reasons we feel constantly under attack is the NYT editorial board. I'm glad they ran this story, but nothing grinds my gears more than when centrist media outlets who have previously traded trans lives for clicks publish "why is this happening?" think pieces, as if it's some unanswerable question.»
• 2022-12-11 Elon Musk suggests Dr. Fauci should be prosecuted and mocks gender pronouns in controversial tweet — the latest in a series of statements fueling right-wing viewpoints
• 2022-12-11 Donald Trump Says He Turned Down Russian Swap Deal for Paul Whelan
• 2022-12-12 twitter.com/avidhalaby (nitter.net, archive.org): Twitter tech fail, prelon
• 2022-12-12 Is America Blind to Trump’s Genocide?: That was when they switched to the "get back to work" narrative and cancelled any plans to provide PPE.
• 2022-12-12 Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election «The Messages Included Battle Cries, Crackpot Legal Theories, And ‘Invoking Marshall Law!!’»
• 2022-12-12 The Pandemic and War — Not Government Spending — Caused Inflation, According to Nobel Prize Winner «A new paper by Ira Regmi and Joseph Stiglitz has huge implications for everything about who holds power in American life.» Formally stating the obvious, but every bit helps.
  • «Faithful consumers of America’s elite media — TV news, the New York Times, the Washington Post — generally get the impression that everyone in the U.S. is on the same team.» Where in the world do they get that idea from? «This is absolutely false. The people at America’s commanding heights do not want this at all.» ... «they prefer to have less money with more relative power.» Or, as I've been saying for a decade or more, they'd rather be emperor of a dungheap than an equal in paradise.
  • 2022-12-14 This “inflation” is different (h/t) by Cory Doctorow
• 2022-12-12 Hundreds of Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS, Leaked List Shows US/gov/DHS
• 2022-12-13 Trans Man Harassed, Dehumanized in Right Wing Press After Sharing Surgical Horror Story Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher
  • author says «Predictably, the mainstream media has ignored the story while the right wing had run with it, dehumanizing, misgendering, and distorting Rylan's story in the process.»
• 2022-12-12 White House calls Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Jan 6 comments a ‘slap in the face’ of law enforcement
• 2022-12-12 mastodon.online/@joshuatopolsky: Twitter is now automatically marking Mastodon links with a warning.
  • 2022-12-12 mas.to/@TimH It's not even just links to posts on Mastodon instances or use of the #mastodon keyword; it's using the word "mastodon" in any context. (So much for "free speech absolutism", yet again.)
• 2022-12-13 Twitter ditches Trust and Safety Council as Musk tweets fuel harassment
• 2022-12-13 Goldman Sachs Sees Gold Outperforming Bitcoin in the Longer Term

12/14 Wed

• 2022-12-14 Texas attorney general’s office sought state data on transgender Texans
  • democracy.town/@MariaHill «It's none of Ken Paxton's business what anyone's gender is or whether they changed their markers in the past two years or ever. / For a party that believes in individual freedom, Republicans sure don't want LGBTQ+ people to have any.» Once again, the Right's support for "freedom" is false advocacy. They want privilege for their in-group and servitude (at best) for everyone else.
  • journa.host/@e_urq «Chilling reporting in the Washington Post about trans people targeted by the government in Texas. / Texas attorney general Paxton asked for a list of names of everyone who had changed their gender on their license.»
  • Texas Just Tried To Get A List Of All Trans People. Other States Consider Registries. «AG Paxton in Texas attempted to get a list of all transgender people through the use of DMV gender marker changes. Ohio, Florida, and Virginia have also attempted to document trans people.»
    • He’s making a list… (via)
• 2022-12-10 Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple.
  • 2022-12-13 The New York Times Doesn't Want to Understand Elon Musk's Politics (via)
  • 2022-12-14 NYT Did Musk a Political Favor (via)

12/15 Thu

2022/12/15

12/16 Fri

• https://buffalonews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/after-decadelong-fight-gillibrand-wins-military-justice-reforms/article_1d034e94-766a-11ed-b1ab-0b3e3a1afba5.html
• https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/12/14/the-votes-werent-there-for-sanders-yemen-resolution-00073870
• https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra