Politics

  • people walking on a thin bridge

    Bridging the divide

    I recently saw a social media post shared by a dear friend that showed two men reaching out to shake hands… one holding a huge “Trump” flag and one holding a huge “Biden” flag. The caption was something along the lines of rejecting hate and coming together… and that got my hackles up. I was immediately reminded of the quote…

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  • Study Suggests Right Wing Authoritarians Aren’t Funny

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: This past summer, hackers released documents related to 700,000 cops across the United States, scraped from 251 law enforcement websites. This month, a journalist at Mainer magazine found evidence in that leak showing that cops investigating rioting during Black…

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  • Why “Late-Term Abortion” Should Be Legal, Accessible, and Safe

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Breaking news, Trump lied about another thing! Shocking, I know. Today, I’m going to talk about the most recent lie as of this recording. Since this recording is going up a few days late, there have probably been 15…

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  • Study: How One Narcissistic Leader Can Screw up the Culture

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: What type of personality succeeds in business? In Jon Ronson’s book the Psychopath Test, he presents the idea that being a psychopath — someone who lacks remorse or empathy, who lies at will, who manipulates others — may actually…

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  • GOP #SuperSpreader Event is Proof that Amy Coney Barrett Lacks the Judgment for the Supreme Court

    The President of the United States is in the hospital, battling COVID-19, because of a completely predictable series of events. He has openly mocked mask wearing, he has eschewed guidance from the non-partisan scientists and physicians that provide expertise to the government, and he has continued to gather crowds.  No one who understands the basics of disease transmission would recommend…

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  • Trump’s Got the Rona

    This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca talks to Jamie Bernstein, Dr. Nicole Gugliucci, and Maria Walters about the various conspiracy theories surrounding the news that Donald Trump has contracted COVID-19. If you’d like to watch episodes recorded live, become a patron at patreon.com/rebecca! https://media.blubrry.com/skepchick/content.blubrry.com/skepchick/Trumps_Got_the_Rona.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Blubrry | RSS

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  • Trump, Proud Boys, and the Radicalization of Racists Online

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: In the first presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump if he would “condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of…

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  • How Facebook Helps Dictators Around the World

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: What I have to say today isn’t news. I’ve talked about Facebook and the danger of misinformation spreading on social media so much that it’s probably my go-to subject if I ever have to give an extemporaneous one-hour long…

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