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Published: June 21, 2025 18:27

People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't…

Published: June 21, 2025 17:18

A hallmark of conspiracy theories is obsession with cover-ups and "censorship" over actual evidence of their core claims. If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a…

Published: June 20, 2025 15:00

Absolutely psychotic framing by the NYT: Basic recognition of trans rights is not "aggressive"! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.zXcW.D-rQwe42lTr7&smid=url-share

Published: June 20, 2025 13:05

Classic conspiracy-theory framing too. "Dissenters were criticized!" OK but the "dissenters" are lying and trans people are also yelled at online. None of this is relevant to whether they deserve rights. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: June 20, 2025 13:03

Darkly funny how obvious the bigotry is here. "Discrimination against gay people is bad but uhhhhh trans people take medications so uhhhh that's different." It's actually not! The core issue here is still equal rights for a minority being cast as a threat…

Published: June 20, 2025 12:20

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare…

Published: June 19, 2025 18:15

The most frustrating thing about the "trans activist" discourse is that the anti-trans movement is far more deranged and vicious. Personally I think it's silly to debate this issue solely on how annoying random people are online but if we're gonna do that,…

Published: June 19, 2025 14:43

Important context to the Supreme Court ruling is that Tennessee only has one gender clinic for kids and it performs 5 top surgeries per year. This entire "debate" is about a phenomenon — large numbers of kids being rushed into hormones and surgeries —…

Published: June 19, 2025 13:33

No one is going to believe me but I took it easy on this book. The entire argument that "dissenting voices were silenced" during the pandemic is laughably false *according to the authors' own evidence* and the dissenters in question are now in charge of…

Published: June 18, 2025 22:11

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to…

Published: June 16, 2025 22:58

All while pretending it’s about ‘government experience’ rather than ideology. We have an entire intellectual elite that is allergic to clearly stating what they think and providing evidence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Published: June 15, 2025 04:37

An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by…

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…

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…

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'…

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

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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]

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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