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Researchers have found that people experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs, even when it’s wrong.
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
www.newyorker.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Researchers have found that people experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs, even when it’s wrong.
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“What has happened here is an illegal takeover of a private nonprofit:" DOGE used police and private security to forcefully take over the U.S. Institute of Peace–an independent nonprofit founded by Congress–after firing its president and board last week.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Uses Police to Seize Independent Nonprofit
The U.S. Institute of Peace is not a federal agency or located in a federal building. That didn’t stop DOGE from taking over.
newrepublic.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“What has happened here is an illegal takeover of a private nonprofit:" DOGE used police and private security to forcefully take over the U.S. Institute of Peace–an independent nonprofit founded by Congress–after firing its president and board last week.
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“American techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with,” chaykak.bsky.social writes. “It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE . . . rampages through the federal government.”
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.
www.newyorker.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“American techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with,” chaykak.bsky.social writes. “It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE . . . rampages through the federal government.”
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How long until publishing basic facts like these will be illegal under Trump?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Public-health experts should be more political, not less
Health has always been political, long before Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr took power. Denying this is what’s been killing us.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
How long until publishing basic facts like these will be illegal under Trump?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before.
But the greed of the oligarchs never stops.
Now, in order to get huge tax breaks, they want to cut back on Social Security, Medicaid and veterans programs.
Together we can stop them. We must stop them.
But the greed of the oligarchs never stops.
Now, in order to get huge tax breaks, they want to cut back on Social Security, Medicaid and veterans programs.
Together we can stop them. We must stop them.
March 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before.
But the greed of the oligarchs never stops.
Now, in order to get huge tax breaks, they want to cut back on Social Security, Medicaid and veterans programs.
Together we can stop them. We must stop them.
But the greed of the oligarchs never stops.
Now, in order to get huge tax breaks, they want to cut back on Social Security, Medicaid and veterans programs.
Together we can stop them. We must stop them.
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I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.
March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.
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"How not to be a Nazi doctor in the age of Trump"
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
Health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters
“Authoritarian regimes often rely on doctors and other health workers to provide a facade of legitimacy and willing hands armed with scalpels, syringes, pens, or simply locks on doors,” writes Eric Re...
www.statnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"How not to be a Nazi doctor in the age of Trump"
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
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Trump is in fact above the law, just as we have allowed every other US president to be. The sudden outrage at a reality we have long accepted is obscuring the real problems and necessary solutions at play here. This is what Carl Schmitt’s critique of liberalism, if you actually read it, reveals.
February 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump is in fact above the law, just as we have allowed every other US president to be. The sudden outrage at a reality we have long accepted is obscuring the real problems and necessary solutions at play here. This is what Carl Schmitt’s critique of liberalism, if you actually read it, reveals.
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Elon Musk’s overhaul of the federal government seems to have hit a snag: His Department of Government Efficiency posted classified information on its website.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World
Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Elon Musk’s overhaul of the federal government seems to have hit a snag: His Department of Government Efficiency posted classified information on its website.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.
Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data
Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen are helping him make his most terrifying power grab yet.
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.
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"Risky" is an extremely odd editorial choice here when what we're talking about is withdrawing life-saving care from millions of people. Why are all the legacy media outlets jumping through such hoops to normalize outrageously stupid and cruel decisions? (This isn't on Gavin; it's on the editors.)
February 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Risky" is an extremely odd editorial choice here when what we're talking about is withdrawing life-saving care from millions of people. Why are all the legacy media outlets jumping through such hoops to normalize outrageously stupid and cruel decisions? (This isn't on Gavin; it's on the editors.)
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Elon Musk—an unchecked, unelected oligarch—is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.
Will Elon Musk Do to the Federal Government What He Did to Twitter?
An unchecked, unelected oligarch is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Elon Musk—an unchecked, unelected oligarch—is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.
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As CNN’s Jim Acosta crucifies a MAGA lawmaker over Trump’s January 6 pardons, a press critic reflects on why we don’t see more of this—and how this failing has enabled pro-Trump propaganda to succeed.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190570/cnn-anchor-wrecks-trump-defender-brutal-on-air-shaming-jan…
https://newrepublic.com/article/190570/cnn-anchor-wrecks-trump-defender-brutal-on-air-shaming-jan…
CNN Anchor Wrecks Trump Defender in Brutal On-Air Shaming Over Jan. 6
As CNN’s Jim Acosta crucifies a MAGA lawmaker over Trump’s January 6 pardons, a press critic reflects on why we don’t see more of this—and how this failing has enabled pro-Trump propaganda to succeed.
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
As CNN’s Jim Acosta crucifies a MAGA lawmaker over Trump’s January 6 pardons, a press critic reflects on why we don’t see more of this—and how this failing has enabled pro-Trump propaganda to succeed.
https://newrepublic.com/article/190570/cnn-anchor-wrecks-trump-defender-brutal-on-air-shaming-jan…
https://newrepublic.com/article/190570/cnn-anchor-wrecks-trump-defender-brutal-on-air-shaming-jan…
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"This is the Trump game plan to hollow out government, to strip it of competent, trustworthy people, and install his cronies, his loyalists."
Transcript: Trump’s Late-Night Purge Suddenly Becomes Bigger Scandal
An interview with Jennifer Rubin, co-founder of The Contrarian, about Trump’s illegal firing of inspectors general, how Trump’s rationale makes it much worse, and how Democrats can fight back.
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"This is the Trump game plan to hollow out government, to strip it of competent, trustworthy people, and install his cronies, his loyalists."
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I would say 911 dispatchers provide a valuable service but it would be ok to criticize them if you called them and instead of sending an ambulance they said "Someone should do something about this!" and hung up
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I would say 911 dispatchers provide a valuable service but it would be ok to criticize them if you called them and instead of sending an ambulance they said "Someone should do something about this!" and hung up
Cancelled @amazonprime.bsky.social yay!
Anybody has a suggestion for a Canadian company?
Anybody has a suggestion for a Canadian company?
February 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Cancelled @amazonprime.bsky.social yay!
Anybody has a suggestion for a Canadian company?
Anybody has a suggestion for a Canadian company?
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what the FUCK
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
what the FUCK
Just quit X for good!
Hello Bluesky!
Hello Bluesky!
January 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Just quit X for good!
Hello Bluesky!
Hello Bluesky!
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By erasing it, or trying to, they make it more memorable. The Internet is written in indelible ink.
A database detailing Jan 6 crimes and convictions has disappeared from the Department of Justice website.
“This is a huge victory for J6ers..."
www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...
“This is a huge victory for J6ers..."
www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...
Trump wiped January 6 convicts’ records clean. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet | CNN Politics
As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of Jan...
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
By erasing it, or trying to, they make it more memorable. The Internet is written in indelible ink.