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If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side
Trained from the cradle to ‘lie for the lord’
Not enough political analysis has been applied to exposing this phenomenon
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The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.

It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.
While Gorski and Yamey provided no evidence that Koch money funded the GBD signatories, the BMJ still published their piece….The BMJ article is full of errors that ought to have never found their way into any publication,” wrote Martin Kulldorff in the Spectator. brownstone.org/articles/cov...
Covid Bias at the BMJ ⋆ Brownstone Institute
This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on Covid-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias.’
brownstone.org
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We just live in a john carpenter movie now.
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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Something that being involved in abolitionist work taught me is that people can be very critical of state violence and of specific types of law enforcement and police actions but still be anti-abolitionist and anti-leftist.
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couldn’t agree with this more. conservatives in casual conversation will say the most out of pocket shit you’ve heard in your life but we’re out of touch if we call them out or judge them for it because they get a benefit of the doubt never afforded to progressives.
The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country
Eby not getting ahead of the bonafide coordinated freak out of the global far right influencer talking shop over the Cowichan decision is going to have bad consequences.
They are pumping everything they have into this one. Most of whom have never heard of Richmond British Columbia in their lives.
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The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.
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Maybe if you've never been handcuffed by cops & dropped off to be held in conditions of torture in a psych ward, & have only been the one calling those shots, fascism in medicine is a new phenomenon for you.
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Do not be fooled by the title "Fighting Climate Change." I was not prepared for the absurdity of the follow up question.
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
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As the past months have made clear, the crisis at NIH is part of a disseminated attack on the bedrock of our society — institutions, laws, expertise, & the noise (joyful or otherwise) that citizens in a democracy are allowed to make

I don’t see how to rebuild science w/o wholesale reconstruction
“I get asked this constantly: When will we start rebuilding? I don’t think we can know until we know the full extent of the destruction. There’s no reason to think we’ve bottomed out,” said Eric Green, who was forced to retire in March as director at the National Human Genome Research Institute.”
Former NIH leaders lament ‘constant chaos’ at the agency, and caution it’s not over
“It's been like living in a washing machine, it's been constant chaos,” former NIH official Jeremy Berg said at the #STATSummit
www.statnews.com
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75 million people voted for Harris. About 6 million people attended the last No Kings mobilization. That's 8%. Just a reminder of how difficult it is to mobilize people for rallies, protests, any sort of direct action.
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In the past 24 hours, Mark Carney has promised to boost the number of security agents (RCMP + CBSA) by 2000.

Has a single journalist talked with @sandela.bsky.social or Robyn Maynard about what this means for canadian society?
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St Louis was originally called Mound City bc over 200 earthen works spanned both sides of the Mississippi River. The largest one at Cahokia is comparable in size to Egyptian pyramids. Early archaeologists thought Native Americans were too primitive to have constructed the mounds and theorized
Osage Nation celebrates reacquisition of sacred site near St. Louis Arch
Osage Nation reacquired a sacred site near the St. Louis Arch in Missouri. The site, known as “Suglarloaf Mound,” is now fully under Osage control and is the oldest known human-made structure in the c...
www.kosu.org
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we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
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After Savagery

Join Hamid Dabashi for a conversation with Muhannad Ayyash about Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization.

Monday, October 20th at 4:30pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression
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So the "next frontier" is that they will keep kidnapping our neighbors, terrorizing our communities, and pulling guns on us in the street, but Dems will fight for them to be unmasked while doing it? I bet they'll just put those gas masks on a little more often. They love gassing our neighborhoods.
This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening
There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.
newrepublic.com
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what north america really needs is to experience the superiority of japanese toilet seats and put one on every toilet on the continent
The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the U.S. by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. nyti.ms/3KTwGve
Funny how many of them happen to be committed zionists. It’s almost like the ideology has glaring downsides