Politics
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- 2021-07-12
- Politics: CNN’s John Avlon has a concise recap of the evidence that there was no significant voter fraud in the 2020 election, a lie that Trump persists with today.
- 2021-07-12
- David Frum has a Politics twitter thread about how the government has required medical claims to be truthful since 1906, amidst a bruhaha over the Biden administration wanting to take steps to make sure people aren’t spreading misinformation about the life-saving vaccines.
- 2021-06-06
- In my opinion, the biggest thing going on in Politics today is the Republican party doing everything it can to stay in power, despite having increasingly unpopular policy positions.
- 2021-02-08
- FiveThirtyEight has one of the best Politics roundups I’ve seen of the ways in which elected officials in the Republican party are anti-democratic and many members of the party just don’t see that as a dealbreaker.
- 2021-01-23
- Via Daring Fireball: The NY Times has compiled a list of Trump’s insults on Twitter, organized by subject of the insult. Let’s hope we don’t have a President with this sort of record again. Politics
- 2021-01-18
- I look forward to not having to pay as much attention to Politics, assuming that most of the time, things will just truck along in a reasonable way. McSweeney’s Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes is an incredible listing, color-coded based on the kind of misdeed. It contains more than 1,000 items.
- 2021-01-11
- The language frequently used in right-wing media helps to encourage violent reactionary Politics.
- 2020-05-02
- Not talking about Politics is, in itself, a political statement. Wealth shown to scale is one of those scrolling visualizations that is attempting to get across just how vast a divide there is in Wealth Inequality. I, like pretty much everyone, believe that it’s perfectly fine for people to be wealthy. That idea is not incompatible with the idea that wealthy people have, in recent decades, been tilting the political scales in their favor, enabling their wealth to grow in a way that absolutely does not “trickle down” to the average person.