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Published: June 1, 2025 19:34

My god can you even imagine [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 1, 2025 17:58

This argument would work if Trump was suddenly doing something he never promised but mass deportations were the core of his campaign! Even in our desiccated media environment his voters absolutely knew immigrants were going to be ejected en masse. …

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Published: May 31, 2025 16:30

Either Colorado majorly fucked up its COVID response or these researchers majorly fucked up their age and comorbidity adjustments https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10036128/

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Published: May 31, 2025 16:13

This is such a stupid way to measure partisanship

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Published: May 31, 2025 01:25

This has been a quietly simmering right-wing panic for a few years now, the alleged "epidemic" of children cutting off their parents. There's no evidence for this phenomenon whatsoever, much less the bizarre "SJW therapy-speak" explanation they always…

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Published: May 30, 2025 21:07

In the most recent COVID wave, white people had more than twice the death rate of black people https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsovertime

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Published: May 30, 2025 18:07

It's incredible to me how these reactionary tracts never bother to make actual arguments. COVID was significantly more likely to kill ethnic minorities! Calling school reopening 'structural racism' might not be your preferred wording but it's a totally…

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Published: May 30, 2025 16:16

[Aki from Street Fighter 6 voice] MY MAGNUM OPUS [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 30, 2025 16:00

Whenever anyone does the "RFK Jr just wants to solve chronic illness!" song and dance it is vital to point out that people who want to solve problems do not constantly lie about them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 30, 2025 15:27

why are all the woodworking youtubers hot and canadian

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Published: May 29, 2025 20:32

The article blithely acknowledges that this is indefensible morally but it is also indefensible politically. Democrats amplifying right-wing messaging and publicly disavowing their own base is not a good strategy! [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: May 28, 2025 21:42

COVID-19 was one of the 10 most common causes of death for all age groups in 2021 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-04.pdf

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Published: May 28, 2025 17:13

And it's important to note that for every Galileo or Alfred Wegener or Walter and Luis Alvarez there are at least 99 Andrew Wakefields. Some people question the scientific consensus because they're onto something but statistically speaking, many more are…

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Published: May 28, 2025 16:44

It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society! What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves? …

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Published: May 28, 2025 15:52

I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/rfk-jr-anthony-fauci-and-the-revolt-against-expertise

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Published: May 28, 2025 14:18

Almost half of COVID deaths were in senior care homes https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7797349/

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Published: May 27, 2025 20:57

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 18:55

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]