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Published: June 23, 2025 17:15
This is ridiculous. The only reason America "had" to bomb Iran is because Trump torpedoed the diplomatic strategy of his predecessor. The alleged necessity of the war has been created by the despot currently waging it! …
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Published: June 22, 2025 15:21
One of the NYT's anti-trans articles fearmongers about children as young as 8 being given puberty blockers — but that is the primary purpose of puberty blockers! They're given to cis kids when they enter puberty too young.…
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Published: June 22, 2025 13:26
Word for word the same argument that got us into the Iraq War: "Look how bad this country is"
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Published: June 21, 2025 20:58
Exactly. If the rhetoric of random leftists is shifting public opinion, then the real question is why the objectively more radical and dangerous rhetoric of random right-wingers isn’t.
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Published: June 21, 2025 19:34
Still one of the most insane things I've ever seen in a government report
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Published: June 21, 2025 19:22
There have been a couple lawsuits filed by detransitioners and I've never seen an assessment process shorter than two years.
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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…
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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…
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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
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Published: June 19, 2025 17:55
Tennessee's youth transition ban is straightforwardly discriminatory. It bans puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries *only* when they are used to affirm a trans identity
https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0001.pdf
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Published: June 19, 2025 15:43
Accurately describe a Republican lawmaker by adding a single letter to their last name
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Published: June 19, 2025 15:10
"Those conversations are unfolding largely outside of the professional advocacy world" — Great, so we're all on the same page that "trans activists" means random people on social media.
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Published: June 19, 2025 14:53
grateful to once again be having a conversation about the bullying tactics of trans activists
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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 —…
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Published: June 19, 2025 13:50
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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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…
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Published: June 19, 2025 13:30
Me hitting "publish" on this episode
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Published: June 18, 2025 22:31
someone please get oatmeal over here
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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…
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Published: June 18, 2025 21:57
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Published: June 17, 2025 04:15
I’ve seen some concern going around about this new variant but it’s doesn’t appear to be more dangerous or infectious than previous strains
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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.
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Published: June 16, 2025 19:30
"for good or ill"
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Published: June 16, 2025 17:26
The guy at the STD clinic gave me a fist bump when I told him how many partners I had in the last year.
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Published: June 15, 2025 23:19
I had no idea Candace Owens was flogging a deranged transvestigation of Emmanuel Macron's wife
https://youtu.be/hbLDH79MMCk?si=DxBJwYsuePjKRUhQ&t=2286
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Published: June 15, 2025 19:55
This rundown of the factors leading to political violence "from all stripes" is one of the worst paragraphs I have ever read.
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Published: June 15, 2025 18:19
has anyone else debunked someone's 'random fact I love' prompt on Hinge
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Published: June 15, 2025 17:38
Tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of Trump coming down the escalator
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/16/donald-trump-announces-run-president
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Published: June 15, 2025 13:39
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
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Published: June 15, 2025 12:52
It is literally 'tourists annoyed at proliferation of tourists,' I am flabbergasted
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Published: June 15, 2025 04:40
Triumph of the Won’t
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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…
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Published: June 14, 2025 15:53
Framing like this should be considered a form of misinformation. Antisemitism in America in 2025 overwhelmingly emanates from the political right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/antisemitism-jewish-hate.html
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Published: June 14, 2025 00:51
Americans will finally be told that fruits and vegetables are good and sodas are bad, why didn't anyone try this before
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Published: June 14, 2025 00:45
Googled a guy from a reality show I had a crush on in high school and
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Published: June 13, 2025 21:31
I, too, would like the NIH to be run by completely different people with completely different motivations, words and actions.
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Published: June 13, 2025 17:08
Damn if only we had some kind of independent institution whose role was to assess the claims of political actors on the merits.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/stephen-miller-los-angeles-ice-protests/683138/
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Published: June 13, 2025 15:25
Dealing with my breakup in The Way of My People: Trading pics with guys on grindr then ghosting when they try to make plans to meet up
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Published: June 13, 2025 14:07
Cool!
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3lr4rgllr5k25
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
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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."
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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
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Published: June 7, 2025 01:54
I, too, believe that Elon Musk should be a totally different person
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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/
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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
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Published: June 2, 2025 23:24
oh my fucking god
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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!
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Published: June 1, 2025 19:34
My god can you even imagine
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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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