Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦
@danielloxton.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. https://www.danielloxton.com
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Democracy kinda depends on voters hearing accurate facts and analysis more than they hear made up nonsense, and that’s kinda sort of an issue
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Democracy kinda depends on voters hearing accurate facts and analysis more than they hear made up nonsense, and that’s kinda sort of an issue
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Imperfect views, ambiguous experiences, culturally available explanatory templates—boom, you’ve got yourself monster sightings (plus ghosts etc). The list of things mistaken for monsters is endless! That’s a nuance that gets lost in the skeptical lit sometimes: it’s not just otters, it’s *anything*!
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Imperfect views, ambiguous experiences, culturally available explanatory templates—boom, you’ve got yourself monster sightings (plus ghosts etc). The list of things mistaken for monsters is endless! That’s a nuance that gets lost in the skeptical lit sometimes: it’s not just otters, it’s *anything*!
Ah, daydreaming. First I was thinking about CRT televisions, and before long I was on “could aliens make an impossibly gigantic, vacuum-filled, hard shell sphere that would just blow around like a beach ball in the wind, but still have the mass to crush civilization?”
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Ah, daydreaming. First I was thinking about CRT televisions, and before long I was on “could aliens make an impossibly gigantic, vacuum-filled, hard shell sphere that would just blow around like a beach ball in the wind, but still have the mass to crush civilization?”
Democracy kinda depends on voters hearing accurate facts and analysis more than they hear made up nonsense, and that’s kinda sort of an issue
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Democracy kinda depends on voters hearing accurate facts and analysis more than they hear made up nonsense, and that’s kinda sort of an issue
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When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
“Popular online activists can be useful tools. As the high-level Administration official told me, ‘People start out as zealots—then they realize everything is for sale, even zealotry.’”
This valuable @newyorker.com profile of Laura Loomer is a good example of why a certain kind of access journalism can be useful. Also? I hate rhetoric that dismisses fascist figures as "crazy." Mental illness is serious. But Loomer definitely seems genuinely unwell. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
“Popular online activists can be useful tools. As the high-level Administration official told me, ‘People start out as zealots—then they realize everything is for sale, even zealotry.’”
An increasingly aggressive authoritarian takeover maybe isn’t the best time for lazy “heterodox” right wing swill to still seem fashionable at major outlets
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
An increasingly aggressive authoritarian takeover maybe isn’t the best time for lazy “heterodox” right wing swill to still seem fashionable at major outlets
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This Whole Thing in a nutshell: all roads lead to the right, and we’re closing the trails that go anywhere else
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This Whole Thing in a nutshell: all roads lead to the right, and we’re closing the trails that go anywhere else
This Whole Thing in a nutshell: all roads lead to the right, and we’re closing the trails that go anywhere else
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This Whole Thing in a nutshell: all roads lead to the right, and we’re closing the trails that go anywhere else
Trump Appeared to Have Arms During Oval Office Event
At times the president appeared to have limbs connected to his upper torso (for example in this photograph of his arms)
At times the president appeared to have limbs connected to his upper torso (for example in this photograph of his arms)
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Trump Appeared to Have Arms During Oval Office Event
At times the president appeared to have limbs connected to his upper torso (for example in this photograph of his arms)
At times the president appeared to have limbs connected to his upper torso (for example in this photograph of his arms)
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Every once in a while civilization runs the “what if we put weird little creeps in charge” experiment and we can probably stop at this point
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Every once in a while civilization runs the “what if we put weird little creeps in charge” experiment and we can probably stop at this point
Maybe worth a 🐡
Settling in with podcasts for some more evening drawing. This one's off to a decent start I think
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Maybe worth a 🐡
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Settling in with podcasts for some more evening drawing. This one's off to a decent start I think
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Settling in with podcasts for some more evening drawing. This one's off to a decent start I think
Settling in with podcasts for some more evening drawing. This one's off to a decent start I think
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Settling in with podcasts for some more evening drawing. This one's off to a decent start I think
We desperately need mechanisms—social stigma, regulation, restructuring of incentives—to turn down the volume and reach of extremism, pseudoscience etc. Instead we have shrieking organized opposition (with infinite money plus coercive state power) to even talking about the problem
I spent a lot of time reading old Coughlin docs and press clippings for book research hoping there would be some more satisfying solution but it really was a combo of govt revoking his newsletter's second-class mailing privileges for print propaganda, and then overwhelmingly in-group Church action.
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
We desperately need mechanisms—social stigma, regulation, restructuring of incentives—to turn down the volume and reach of extremism, pseudoscience etc. Instead we have shrieking organized opposition (with infinite money plus coercive state power) to even talking about the problem
Every once in a while civilization runs the “what if we put weird little creeps in charge” experiment and we can probably stop at this point
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Every once in a while civilization runs the “what if we put weird little creeps in charge” experiment and we can probably stop at this point
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Got lots of questions this week about how Nixon could possibly call the Moon for the famous chat with Buzz and Neil, so I made a quick little explainer!
How did Nixon call the MOON!? #shorts #history
If you enjoy these shorts, consider supporting my work! https://www.patreon.com/amyshirateitel
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November 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Got lots of questions this week about how Nixon could possibly call the Moon for the famous chat with Buzz and Neil, so I made a quick little explainer!
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Some personal news: I have been financially supporting a family member in a mental health crisis which has spiraled into a financial disaster.
I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.
Please help if you can. Thank you very much.
I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.
Please help if you can. Thank you very much.
Donate to Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition, organized by Matt Sheffield
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November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thank you so much everyone! I really appreciate your support.
If you can't afford to donate, I would appreciate it if you could boost this post or the original.
Thanks again! ❤️
If you can't afford to donate, I would appreciate it if you could boost this post or the original.
Thanks again! ❤️
This is hardly the biggest thing happening, but I routinely run on marginal funds, and the spiking cost of coffee in Canada is getting a bit, y’know, “ouch”
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is hardly the biggest thing happening, but I routinely run on marginal funds, and the spiking cost of coffee in Canada is getting a bit, y’know, “ouch”
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Fascists are so basic. Jews as communists, bankers, pornographers, and godless scientists. The only one she missed was freemasons.
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fascists are so basic. Jews as communists, bankers, pornographers, and godless scientists. The only one she missed was freemasons.
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There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
The world has gone mad, and it’s sometimes next to impossible for the people trying to make sense of it to even scrape by
Some personal news: I have been financially supporting a family member in a mental health crisis which has spiraled into a financial disaster.
I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.
Please help if you can. Thank you very much.
I would like to keep doing progressive activism but I can no longer pay rent for myself and my two kids.
Please help if you can. Thank you very much.
Donate to Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition, organized by Matt Sheffield
I never thought I'd be doing this before, but I could really use your hel… Matt Sheffield needs your support for Support Needed for Rent and Career Transition
gofund.me
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The world has gone mad, and it’s sometimes next to impossible for the people trying to make sense of it to even scrape by