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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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San Francisco and North Dakota have roughly the same population size but North Dakota had around twice as many COVID deaths
June 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
San Francisco and North Dakota have roughly the same population size but North Dakota had around twice as many COVID deaths
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Here is how it works. The consumer takes the place of the worker in traditional populism, i.e the consumer is the virtuous downtrodden common man whose labors are truly essential unlike the degenerate [insert thing here]
It's tempting to see this just as an excuse to avoid paying extra money but this is actually at the core of how most consumer backlash movements in America work. It is, in its own way, an actually held belief
May 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here is how it works. The consumer takes the place of the worker in traditional populism, i.e the consumer is the virtuous downtrodden common man whose labors are truly essential unlike the degenerate [insert thing here]
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"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."
— bell hooks
— bell hooks
May 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."
— bell hooks
— bell hooks
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Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.
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This is an all-out attack on the foundations of US citizenship.
The scope of the birthright citizenship executive order is broader than some rumors had it. The denial of birthright citizenship would apply not just to U.S. born children of *undocumented immigrants* but to anyone who did not have a parent who was at least a permanent resident.
January 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is an all-out attack on the foundations of US citizenship.
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Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin.
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No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunes
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January 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-memeco...
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