Politics
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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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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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GET YOUR FLU SHOT! And Get Your Government to Give Flu Shots to Migrants
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Well, it’s late September and you know what that means: time for me to be super annoying to everyone I know and tell them to GET YOUR GODDAMN FLU VACCINE. Let me take a brief moment to summarize myself…
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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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Quickies: Kavanaugh Exposed, Austin’s Abortion Travel Fund, and Surveillance State Fashion
Brett Kavanaugh: Even Worse Than We Thought, by Jessica Mason at the Mary Sue: Although the focus during Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearings was his sexual assault of Christine Blasey Ford, others alleged sexual misconduct, including Deborah Ramirez and the 25 corroborating witnesses to Kavanaugh sticking his penis in her face at Yale. The FBI never contacted a single person,…
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Quickies: Men Know What Harassment Is, but Women Are Still Blamed
Men Now Avoid Women at Work–Another Sign We’re Being Punished for #MeToo, by Arwa Mahdawi at the Guardian: “What’s really interesting about this study, however, is that it thoroughly debunks the argument that men are confused about what constitutes unacceptable behavior. The very first thing researchers did was look at 19 behaviours (emailing sexual jokes to a subordinate, for example)…
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Neo-Nazis Win as a Charlottesville Reporter is Fired over Libel Threat
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: When I lived in London a few years back, I was really lucky to be able to work with people like Simon Singh and organizations like Sense About Science to help lobby the government to change their ridiculous libel…
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