Joe

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Unprofessional data wrangler and Bluesky’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.

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This image the RNC just showed in a video purporting to be from J.D. Vance's military service is a $33 stock photo

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Maybe THIS will be the dumbest thing I read today: Florida’s education commissioner announced Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a book of the month to “highlight the importance of American pride.” Can’t make this stuff up. H/t @ericcolumbus.bsky.social

Explains a lot.

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Non-exhaustive Cheat Sheet: Communist = Jewish Anti-Christian= Jewish Zionist = Jewish Soros-Funded = Jewish New York = Jewish Cosmopolitan = Jewish Coastal Elite = Jewish Hollywood = Jewish Globalist = Jewish Lizard/Insect =Jewish Blood drinking = Jewish Jewish = Republican Jews Urban = Black

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

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1/ I often write: The only thing I know *for certain* about the future is that it has not happened yet. Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling is a perfect example of how much I need to heed my own mantra. For years, I heard Donald Trump was saying that he was certain that “his Supreme Court justices” . . .

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited

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This is why I’ve been writing for years that “nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism.” It’s the exact same tactics, just repurposed for other causes. I share the frustration.

It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!

Gish gallop - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Let’s remember that judges went to law school, and more often than not took no science above intro classes. At this point, the response they deserve when attempting to supersede a scientist’s expertise in a court of law in the wake of the overturn of Chevron is public mockery.

Lincoln in the Bardo

Dedicated to all of the GenXers and Millenials who think that the Boomers had it so much easier when they were young. www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...

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The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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On the day of Dr. Fauci's testimony, @nytimes.com decides to run a deeply unethical OpEd with snazzy graphics and snappy headlines about the Lab Leak. The article itself contains multiple falsehoods and deep mischaracterizations. Let's take every point in turn 👇🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Pointswww.nytimes.com The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.

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I urge you to read Dr. Fauci's transcribed interview where he goes into more detail about the threats to him and his family, including how the extreme rhetoric from politicians and other academics fuel this. This needs much more focus. Below, page one more clearly displayed. The rest follows 👇.

To the question of "is this what we have become", I *strongly* encourage you to watch this clip from CNN of Dr. Fauci talking about the threats to him and his family. Pay close attention to the guy on his right. Yes, this is what we have become. www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/p...

Takeaways from Fauci’s testimony at contentious House hearing on Covid-19 pandemic | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified on Monday at a House subcommittee hearing about the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic ...

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I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.

NYtimes now trivializing the Alito's partisan flag display. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/u...

Wait, We’ve Been Flying the Flag the Alitos Had? San Francisco Takes It Down.www.nytimes.com Critics slammed Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. after the “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside his vacation home, but it had billowed in the heart of San Francisco for 60 years.

Science + bad marriages make for great comments. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/s...

Wow, who could have seen this coming?

Educating our children one hallucinated search at a time.

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So Robert Barnes had the Alito story in 2021 and didn’t run it www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’www.washingtonpost.com In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.

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If you would also like to avoid the results of Google's misinformation machine when you search for things, here are some ways around it: www.theverge.com/24162621/goo...

You can get rid of AI Overviews in Google Searchwww.theverge.com Getting around AI.

AI Google just let me know I missed one of the biggest concert tours ever.