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Smiling and nodding when Elon says “if we cancel something good we’ll just put it back in like we did with ebola prevention” requires you to believe that Elon Musk both is and should be the emperor.
March 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Waste, fraud and abuse? How much waste of taxpayer dollars by signing illegal executive orders that require expensive legal action? Questioning an election result for 4 years. Fraud? Sending innocent residents to foreign prisons. Abuse?
March 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Trump has ordered massive swathes of US national forests to be cut down.

Hundreds of millions of acres of trees will be razed and endangered species will not be protected.
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The excellent @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social recommended this video from Penn and Teller …
March 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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I would start with the pioneering work by Henri Tajfel in the 1970s on social identity theory,

Lilliana Mason at JHU and Dan Kahan at Yale have both written some very good stuff on "tribal" identity and signaling. Good podcast episode with them here
Transcript: Tribal Psychology
This is the transcript for episode 122 of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. Download – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS – Soundcloud In this episode, we spend time with political scientist Lilliana Mason an…
youarenotsosmart.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Forever relevant in the age of social media. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
February 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM