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Politics
Quickies: Trump Gets Booed Live Again and Facebook Politicizing Anti-HIV Drug Ads
Trump Is in Denial About Getting Booed Again, This Time at a UFC Fight, Mother Jones: Odds are you didn’t miss this news over the weekend, but I’m sharing it anyway because Trump getting real feedback from Americans, and at a UFC fight of all places, is exactly the flicker of hope I need right now. He did apparently get…
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Quickies: Racism in Medical Algorithms, Russia Calls Trump a Lying Liar, and Kamala Harris Takes a Stand
Bot Bias: Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black Ones, the Root: “An algorithm used by major hospitals and healthcare providers misjudged how sick black patients were compared with their white counterparts, allowing healthier white patients to get additional medical supports more often.” h/t Muscadine Russia: Trump’s Baghdadi Victory Lap Is Nothing But ‘Propaganda’, the Daily…
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Quickies: Killer Whales, Gwendoline Christie’s Awesomeness, and the Charter School Leadership Cartel
After Menopause, Killer Whale Moms Become Pod Leaders, Smithsonian: This article is a few years old, but it describes observations of female killer whales becoming pod leaders after they hit menopause, using the knowledge and experience gained over the years to ensure pod survival. Gwendoline Christie’s Panel at ACE Comic Con Was the Most Feminist, Fabulous Panel Ever, the Mary…
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Quickies: All Good News Distraction Edition
As the dumpster fire all around us expands to reveal it was actually a tire fire all along–much bigger, difficult to put out, with toxic effects we’ll be dealing with for years–I’ve decided to link to only good news today. This was more difficult to do than expected. Girl Boss: On the International Day of the Girl, Meet the Incredible…
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What the Hell Happened to Bad Chart Thursday?
Bad Chart Thursday, for me, has always been about examining through satire how people and organizations mislead, through charts or through ideas I can illuminate as nonsense simply by charting the logic. But satire has become really difficult to write lately, with reality repeatedly seeming like an Onion headline. And every day, there are serious issues going on that are…
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Activism
Quickies: Climate Protests, a White Supremacist’s Hard Drive, & the Times Up Legal Defense Fund
Photos: What the Youth Climate Strike Looks Like around the World, by Brian Resnick and Danielle Scruggs, Vox: The climate strikes around the world on Friday, September 20, were nothing short of extraordinary, although I fear the second round, last Friday, got lost amid impeachment news in the US. This collection of photos is inspiring and urgent. We can’t lose…
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New York Times Pretends Trump Supporters Are Swing Voters
In the midst of my OCD-fueled frenzy of clicking refresh on Twitter to get more impeachment news, I came across a remarkable Twitter thread that deserves more eyeballs from Americans, in part because the New York Times seems to be busily falling back into fraudulent “both sides” reporting surrounding Trump and his associates’ attempts to extort Ukraine into fabricating dirt…
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Quickies: Trump’s Latest High Crimes and What You Can Do about Them
I usually try to post articles here that people may have missed over the weekend, but this weekend, nothing I read seemed as important as the latest news of Trump attempting to pressure Ukraine into fabricating an investigation into his political opponent Joe Biden. (And he knows it’s a fabrication because he pressured Ukraine through his personal lawyer, not standard…
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