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No todo causa #cáncer: www.davidosorio.org/p/no-todo-ca...

La idea de que todo causa cáncer es falsa. Afortunadamente tenemos una muy buena idea de qué puede incrementar el riesgo de cáncer y cómo prevenirlo

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February 4, 2026 at 1:17 PM

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Régimen #islámico de #Irán asesina 30,000+ ciudadanos: www.davidosorio.org/p/iran-2025

Régimen islámico de Irán asesina 30,000+ ciudadanos

La dictadura religiosa iraní volvió a emplear la táctica del silencio digital para ocultar una de las peores masacres de su historia reciente

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January 30, 2026 at 1:13 PM

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Hi @humanists.bsky.social, when is the 2025 FoT Report coming out?

January 29, 2026 at 11:20 PM

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I know the answer is probably obvious, but why don't we create a sort of NATO 2.0, to contain Russia, China *and* the US?

January 21, 2026 at 1:49 AM

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@fermidox.bsky.social

“all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism"

These guys are so high on their own supply.

January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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Osita Nwanevu

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Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university.

The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.”

Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis.

Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.”

Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said.

Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.”

Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment.

The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.”

Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.”

During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other.

The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss.

speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press

One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss.

One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.”

For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said.

“I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”

January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM

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David Roberts

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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM

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Bye bye, Nicolás Maduro: www.davidosorio.org/p/maduro

Bye bye, Nicolás Maduro

Apuntes, comentarios y ocurrencias sobre el secuestro de Nicolás Maduro y temas relacionados.

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January 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM

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El riesgo de ser un capitalista: www.davidosorio.org/p/riesgo

El riesgo de ser un capitalista

Una radiografía de lo que significa "asumir el riesgo".

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January 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM

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El #mito de la #Navidad pagana: www.davidosorio.org/p/navidad-pa...

El mito de la Navidad pagana

La idea de la Navidad pagana, o sea que las tradiciones navideñas son copias que hizo el cristianismo de religiones paganas, es más mito que realidad

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December 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Feliz Día de las Velitas: open.substack.com/pub/daosorio...

Día de Velitas y la Inmaculada Concepción

La noche de cada 7 de diciembre, muchas personas en Colombia celebran el Día de las Velitas (también llamado Noche de Velitas), prendiendo varias pequeñas velas de cera; a veces las meten en faroles y...

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December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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The intervention is wrong.

And Maduro is a dictator.

Both things can be true

December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM

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El mito de los valores corporativos: open.substack.com/pub/daosorio...

El mito de los valores corporativos

Uno de mis primeros trabajos fue de community manager para una agencia de publicidad, y una de las cuentas que manejaba era la de una heladería.

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November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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He's right.

BTW, tho, how many refugees from war-torn countries are accepted in the Vatican?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · Nov 6

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.

“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM

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Los ateos que quieren revivir el cristianismo se equivocan: open.substack.com/pub/daosorio...

Los ateos que quieren revivir el cristianismo se equivocan

El cristianismo puede parecer benigno hoy en día, pero esto se debe a que se ha diluido y ha sido restringido por principios laicos y liberales.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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#Disney no te lava el cerebro: open.substack.com/pub/daosorio...

Disney no te lava el cerebro

Disney no lava cerebros. Ni para mantener a las mujeres sumisas, ni promover el imperialismo americano, ni la inclusión forzada. En todo caso, su verdadera agenda es peor.

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October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM

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TFW you accidentally open the phishing email from your work email...

dwight schrute and michael scott are standing next to each other in an office

ALT: dwight schrute and michael scott are standing next to each other in an office

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October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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Good news guys!

I found a solution for Peter Thiel's anxiety: if his money is taken away, it turns out he can make all his 27 billion back up by just giving up avocado toast.

Who'd've thunk?

October 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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Peter Thiel, el profeta anti-impuestos: davidosorio.org/2025/10/16/t...

Peter Thiel, el profeta anti-impuestos - De Avanzada

El multimillonario Peter Thiel predica su evangelio de que cobrarle impuestos es una herejía propia del anticristo

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October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Oh, I just got my first false accusation of promoting hate. How exciting!

And all for translating atheist drama 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also, I do feel bad for the communities who are done a disservice by these Social Justice clowns.

October 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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How do I carry my @xbox.com achievements over to @playstation.com?

Asking for a friend...

October 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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If only he commanded over a wealthy institution with billions and billions of dollars... #OhWait

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Oct 9

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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October 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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Ah, yes,the only thing to stand up against the government/movement that passed the BBB and will leave 16 million people scrambling to pay rent or get healthcare is...

* checks notes *

... further screwing workers and paying even less taxes.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Oct 9

"The consensus forged in the aftermath of World War II effectively closed with Jan. 6. What followed is the reemergence of older tendencies in American conservatism: protectionism, isolationism, and a growing hostility to pluralism and liberal democracy itself."
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