Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

You do not have to repeat the words of bad faith actors verbatim. From Makary, Prasad and Hoeg at FDA, to Bhattcharya and Memoli at NIH, to RFK Jr. at HHS: letting them speak uncritically through you is a mistake. This is misinformation laundering, you are providing oxygen to help falsehoods thrive.

It’s vital that we someday investigate, charge, and in all likelihood jail Kristi Noem

Signing my kid up with the provincial archery body and, sure enough, the waivers include COVID19. Why? Because insurance companies haven't forgotten.

He's correct. Midterms will be won or lost solely on Trump approval/disapproval, which itself will be mostly a function of perceptions of how the economy is doing

Idk man, the guy with crusader tattoos who spent his whole career defending war criminals who executed prisoners of war sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would order "Kill everybody. Kill the survivors."

god, listening to the ads on the radio is so depressing, almost every ad is just 'GAMBLE GAMBLE GAMBLE!! BINGO!!SCRATCHCARDS!!BETTING!! DESPERATE FOR MONEY?? THIS IS THE ONLY WAY!! TAKE UP GAMBLING TODAY!!' and the only other type of ad is 'Are you in crippling credit card debt? Call us today...'

They designate something a cathedral and then harass the people in it with death threats until it shuts down. A heckler's veto on society, backed by violence. They will keep doing it until the liberalism/communism/etc. disappears to their satisfaction (i.e. never) or they are decisively halted.

The conservative cultural project right now is to use the coercive power of the state to do affirmative action for bigots.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

The War On Cars politics are simple and an easy win for Ford. It taps into Individualism; that "I and my problems are most important", stoking unearned entitlement and allowing people ignore that they are actually the problem. The bus lane is the solution if you choose to stop being traffic.

just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS

It's hilarious how Hanania just needs to say "academic harmed because DEI" and these people will trip over themselves to argue that they're incompetent on the merits. He knows what he's doing lol

as a trans TA, this story makes my blood boil so much. if some conservative claims my grades are discriminating against them, i get to go fuck myself. and any of the trans TAs under me can doubly go fuck themselves bigoted students will be cashing in on this bullshit as long as schools allow.

Brain eating vending machine

i want a girl with a strong floor and a no ceiling

So the guy selling COVID supplies to the government was hoping for more intense COVID waves, a direct outcome of policy decisions by a government he influenced through dozens of channels.

Patient-blaming rhetoric is baked into alternative medicine. The idea is that if you could just... “Change your mindset” “Live naturally” “Eliminate toxins” (with supplements) “Resolve trauma” ...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.

send this to a financial economist to kill them instantly

To a non-trivial number anti-anti-Trump pundits, Trump's chaotic response to COVID-19 was preferable to the liberals telling them that the response to a pandemic would require some rules and sacrifices

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This would be a good joke if it weren't exactly how Ford and Co. do things at Queens Park.

This would be a lot funnier if he showed any remorse for the journalist he disrespected in that apple-chewing moment (and the many others he’s attacked) Without that, it just kinda feels like all the press and pundits cheering are saying “yeah that was fine, this is all a game”

In my analyses of Ontario covid vaccinations and outcomes, I found a consistent and significant reduction in severe outcomes across all age groups including children. It's true children were at lower risk than older adults. But vaccines lowered their risk significantly. And the vaccines remain safe.

Misunderstandings about #mRNA #vaccines partly originate from the fact that they are seldom covered in public education in the same way that we learn basic science like astronomy, biology, or geography. A study reported in PNAS (see reply) looks at ways to better protect people from false claims.

The adoption of “lethality” as a macho yet evasive way of saying “killing people” has really been a sight to behold

there's a lot that sucks about this current political/cultural moment but one thing that keeps making me angry is how killing nazis is too political for blockbuster art now. this and the assassins creed civil war game getting axed and sisu 2 moving on from nazis to communists. it fucking sucks!!

I thrift almost all my clothing (and my kids'!) except underwear, leggings, and socks. AND I am very careful to time my purchases of those items for major sales days. So "hey, our training wheels call to action of the week is a boycott of the major sales day!" Is a major wrinkle.

I promise you that when low income folks are telling you that gimmick boycotts interfere with how they schedule their purchases of essentials, the answer is not to preach to them about the existence of thrift stores

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Guys I just had an idea I don’t think anyone’s ever had before. What if there was a publication that, instead of reinforcing the liberal pieties of the woke mob, presented readers with heterodox positions that challenged groupthink? Does anyone have like eight million dollars so I can try this?

It turns out that "running government like a business" means literally everything is for sale, including other countries sovereignty

Some things are improving. Some things are deteriorating. I'm fucking suck of contrarianism.

For years (and YEARS) I've been saying do not trust VAERS reports. There is no vetting, no statistical relevancy. It's pure anecdote.

When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once. At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.

Physicians and academics often believe that they/we are immune to being radicalised online, but the reality is the opposite. No one is immune, and I saw this happen to Prasad and so many other physicians and academics when covid started. It’s pure hubris to believe anyone is immune.

Alma Montague, 34, who routinely keeps her arms folded tightly over her chest like someone might try to steal her boobs, is an expert in making new feline friends without exchanging a single word.

Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!

I think that evolutionary psychology needs to face a cultural reckoning over the fact that its funding lines (Epstein-tied) coincide with a public history of advocacy for "its adaptive for men to have a harem full of nubile females"

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

None of this is the product of raison d’état

This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology. Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).

It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency

A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes. Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.

I know everyone on this website is 38 years old but some of you must be old enough to remember when one of the pros of paying for cable was that there were no commercials

Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.

Yes, that's right: Kristi Noem said "persecute," not "prosecute."

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this. Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.