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Published: June 12, 2025 20:58

They know exactly what they're doing

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Published: June 12, 2025 20:44

I want to announce that I am very sorry for hacking Peter's account earlier [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 15:35

I love my job so much

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Published: June 11, 2025 13:23

This is one of the most coherent sentences in Jordan Peterson's new book

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Published: June 11, 2025 05:12

Is it not a distraction yet

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Published: June 11, 2025 05:10

This is very clearly edited to make her look bad and even so, it seems like she is being sarcastic? Anytime you read "in a 7 second clip" you should be suspicious about what's being left out. https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1930697369122914742 [contains…

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Published: June 10, 2025 20:59

Even if you don't recognize the font it is thuddingly obvious that this is an Atlantic article https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/06/wife-guy-defense/683083/

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Published: June 10, 2025 20:46

As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The…

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Published: June 10, 2025 19:00

It's just a violent military crackdown on peaceful protestors, not something serious like a magazine editor getting fired for being bad at editing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 13:27

No sign of a summer wave yet

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Published: June 9, 2025 22:18

These seem like very pretty small differences to me https://www.educationnext.org/red-states-have-seen-less-learning-loss-post-pandemic-scores-nations-report-card-naep/

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Published: June 9, 2025 16:02

Nobody calling Bluesky an echo chamber actually believes that we're all obligated to interact with people we dislike constantly. Plus, every conservative social media site is *also* an echo chamber! As usual with this shit there's no actual 'debate'…

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Published: June 9, 2025 15:20

Super interesting finding: Child abuse appears to have fallen during the pandemic. Causes aren't clear but it could be due to enhanced financial support. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2787005

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Published: June 9, 2025 13:39

why are they so obsessed with this godawful 'distraction' framing, humans excel at being upset about multiple things at once [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 9, 2025 00:06

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

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Published: June 8, 2025 21:07

The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.

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Published: June 8, 2025 16:04

Have you fucking SJWs considered that if literally everything was different about this parade it would be cool [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 8, 2025 15:55

San Francisco and North Dakota have roughly the same population size but North Dakota had around twice as many COVID deaths

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Published: June 8, 2025 13:14

I am always saying this: Equalioy hurts no one

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Published: June 7, 2025 15:32

"The states not experiencing mass death refused to change their policies to more closely resemble the states experiencing mass death." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 7, 2025 15:14

Every one of these covid-revisionism pieces consists of people lying to your face about events that you remember https://www.persuasion.community/p/frances-lee-and-stephen-macedo [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 7, 2025 01:54

I, too, believe that Elon Musk should be a totally different person [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 6, 2025 21:17

Yes! It is very baffling to me that people seem to think there is a debate over the efficacy of masks. There isn't! Masks work at the individual level to prevent the spread of COVID. There's a debate about mask *mandates*, the efficacy of which mostly…

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Published: June 6, 2025 21:05

Peter McHugh and Michael B. Young [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 6, 2025 20:50

It's frustrating because there were real mistakes during the pandemic! But you're not allowed to have adult conversations led by scientists in this country. You need to start with the premise that "extremists on both sides got things wrong" and work…

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Published: June 6, 2025 19:19

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.…

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Published: June 6, 2025 13:37

I do not understand this tendency among journalists to reduce every political event to a prediction about whether it will be a lasting news cycle. On the merits, we have a billionaire who helped a fascist get into power and now believes he can dictate…

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Published: June 6, 2025 13:23

Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/opinion/gender-polarization.html

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Published: June 6, 2025 03:48

"Americans don't care that a billionaire installed a bunch of far-right psychos in office who then gutted healthcare." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 23:18

It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions. The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and…

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Published: June 5, 2025 21:06

guys don't let the massive scandal about a billionaire buying influence in the current administration distract from our core message, which is that billionaires are bad. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 20:53

Is there a single Trump scandal that was later proven to be faked? I think the simplest explanation for most of his actions is that he is dumb, narcissistic and impulsive, not that he is a master media manipulator. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 5, 2025 19:58

not the point but it took me so long to realize that emoji is not a camcorder [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 19:41

Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him

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Published: June 5, 2025 18:48

The authors of this book have been extremely transparent about their view that we should have let more people die during the pandemic to save a few points of GDP.…

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Published: June 5, 2025 17:28

We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 16:25

It's pretty noticeable how none of the people lamenting the (very real!) pandemic learning losses want significant investments in public schools. If we care so much about kids' life outcomes we should do all we can to help them catch up, no? [contains…

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Published: June 5, 2025 16:22

Population density has never been all that closely correlated to COVID deaths! Dense places like Hong Kong, Taiwan and S. Korea had some of the lowest rates in the world. Residential crowding spreads COVID but that's a bit distinct from density. [contains…

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Published: June 5, 2025 14:53

The main thing I have learned making IBCK is that if you say "the left and the right are both getting it wrong," journalists will interview you for the newspaper and have you on their prestigious podcast without performing any fact-checking whatsoever. …

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Published: June 5, 2025 14:33

woke is when an attractive white man looks too much like another attractive white man [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 5, 2025 14:22

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most…

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Published: June 5, 2025 00:44

The weirdest thing about the school-reopening discourse is how no one wants to specify when, precisely, schools should have reopened. This article treats it as a scandal that schools were still closed in September 2020 but we were heading into a bigger…

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Published: June 4, 2025 19:26

Yes. A major tic of reactionary centrists is refusing to own up for their own beliefs and *make their case with evidence.* Instead they hide behind public polling and messaging arguments about how Americans agree with them. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: June 4, 2025 19:18

I dunno, I think this is worth treating as a crisis for the left. After all, no one has ever said anything rude or extreme on a right-wing website. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 21:09

Wracking my brain to think of anything that has aged more poorly than this https://www.wsj.com/articles/there-isnt-a-coronavirus-second-wave-11592327890

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Published: June 3, 2025 19:48

I used to think lab-leakers were conspiracy theorists but this guy's arcane, unsourced screengrab with random names highlighted in different colors has convinced me otherwise.

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Published: June 3, 2025 15:27

Weird how these books alleging to ask "tough questions" about our COVID response always — always! — end up making anti-vaxx arguments. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 14:28

We're back! Everyone agrees that "ultra-processed food" is bad for you but no one can define what it actually is. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ultra-processed-foods/id1535408667?i=1000710989373

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Published: June 3, 2025 14:24

It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.' [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 3, 2025 14:18

Suddenly nostalgic for the good old days when making up a memoir still took a few hours of work [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 2, 2025 23:24

oh my fucking god [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 2, 2025 23:01

According to this chart we are currently experiencing the lowest rate of COVID deaths since March 14, 2020. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

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Published: June 2, 2025 20:14

The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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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