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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” ― Oscar Wilde
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter."

-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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AARP, the group older Americans consider a trusted advocate, is in fact functioning as a multimillion-dollar marketing arm for an insurer whose business increasingly depends on enrolling seniors in private Medicare plans @wendellpotter.bsky.social
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UnitedHealth and AARP Shake Hands on $9 Billion Deal
Behind the Capitol Hill photo ops and consumer-friendly slogans, AARP, America’s most trusted seniors’ group, has close financial ties with America’s largest health care conglomerate.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Kshama Sawant on X: "Zohran Mamdani has hired Jeffrey Lerner, a former political director of the Democratic National Committee, to serve as his new communications director. Some on the left are saying that this does not necessarily mean anything bad, and that Mamdani may be trying to beat the" / X
Zohran Mamdani has hired Jeffrey Lerner, a former political director of the Democratic National Committee, to serve as his new communications director. Some on the left are saying that this does not necessarily mean anything bad, and that Mamdani may be trying to beat the
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July 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread. False or misleading memories are inculcated. For the defenders of such attitudes, science is disturbing. It claims access to truths that are largely independent of ethnic or cultural biases. By its very nature, science transcends national boundaries. Put scientists working in the same field of study together in a room and even if they share no common spoken language, they will find a way to communicate. Science itself is a transnational language. Scientists are naturally cosmopolitan in attitude and are more likely to see through efforts to divide the human family into many small and warring factions. "There is no national science," said the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, "just as there is no national multiplication table." (Likewise, for many, there is no such thing as a national religion, although the religion of nationalism has millions of adherents.) — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Senator Rick Scott, the former CEO of Columbia/HCA wrote the playbook for defrauding Medicare.
June 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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President Lincoln died 160 years ago today. RIP
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM