Helping Ukraine
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It takes less than a minute to find out how you can help the brave citizens of Ukraine resist Putin’s invasion. Please make a donation today.
Whaz Up!?! School’s Out for Summer!
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Ye Olde Blogge has big big summer plans: sitting in sidewalk cafes, reading real books, sipping coffees, and wine eating cheese, baguettes, and croissants in PARIS! We’ll even blog from time-to-time.
Humans are the Problem
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The very things that we evolved to help us become the most dominant species on the planet are the very things that are killing us now. Find out why we can’t have nice things and maybe never will. How are we worseing our problems?
How Protests Can Swing Elections | Stanford Graduate School of Business – The Psy of Life
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During this time of agitation and unrest after Roe v. Wade is overturned, SCOTUS liberalizes gun laws, and mass shootings, I thought we could all use reminding of how protests affect elections! #TakeItToThePolls
The 6 January Committee, Trump, and the Risk to Our Democracy that White People Perceive
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What will it take for white America to perceive the sure loss of our democracy and take the risk of voting against Republicans? I don’t know that the evidence the 6 Jan Committee is broadcasting is sufficient to overcome white America’s racial animus.
The Great Civics Lesson: How the GOP Will Steal the 2022 Election
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How will the GQP rat fuck the 22 election? They will do it from the inside out dismantling our democracy one elections official at a time. They will smeer a thin veneer of legality over the festering pile of shyte that they plan on making of the election.
National Gun Violence Awareness Day #wearorange
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Find out why all the cool kids are wearing orange 3 – 5 June! It’s #wearorange weekend to commemorate the victims of gun violence. Join the fun!
Happy Birthday, Jill Biden! A First Lady Like No Other
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All the reasons that Jill Biden is loved as an extraordinary and inspiring human being. Please join Ye Olde Blogge in wishing her a happy birthday this 3 June!
The GOP Gun Policy Reveals the Dark Tetrad Personality Characteristics at Work
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The main reason mass shootings are a unique American problem is because Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott and all of the pro-death, misery, and injury politicians in the GQP have been bought and paid for by the merchants of death. The dark tetrad explains why
Making the Inexplicable Explicable: The Uvalde Elementary School Mass Shooting
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Why is it that the right to own a gun, any gun you wanna own, as many as you wanna own, and as much ammo as you wanna own outweighs everyone’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in MAGA Nation? Turns out, there is a solid cogent answer.
Civil War: Know the Warning Signs
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How close is the US to facing an armed insurgency? Damn close. We’re already on the cusp of stage 3. We’re living in an anocracy. We have sharply divided identity politics dominated by white grievance. We are closer than most of us think.
The Narcissism of the Far Right
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How narcissistic are the far-right evangelical christians? Very. They fit the criteria like they all have the same personality disorder. It makes them manipulable and destructive.
The REAL Problem with Promoting Racism and Violence: the Buffalo Mass Shooting
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Why does it seem like racially motivated extremism and violence and hate crimes are increasing in the US? Probably because they are. The right wing is fomenting anger, resentment, and violence among white people against non-whites.
Understanding Anxiety Better in our Anxious Times
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It’s the hip and cool thing to be taking all of the anxiolytics. It’s what all the hip and cool cats are doing now. It’s the new Prozac. But, maybe anxiety can be used for good instead of addiction! What if…
An Infinite Dopamine Loop
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We live in evil times. I’m not talking about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Putin’s War in Ukraine, the naked authoritarian threat to our democracy, I’m talking about the use of persuasive design to keep us binge-watching TV rather than doing our chores!
Whaz Up!?! Who’s Watching All the Videos on All the Blogs?
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It’s been the most exciting week in the history of Ye Olde Blogge! Some lucky reader has watched one of our videos! On the blog! I’m sitting down. I feel a little dizzy.
#COVID19 Deaths Prove Anti-Maskers and Vaxxers Wrong, but don’t Convince Them
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The number of deaths from #COVID19, the unaccounted for excess deaths during the pandemic, and only the unvaxxed dying of #COVID19 haven’t convinced MAGA Nation to vaxx and mask because of the power of the biases of conservative media coverage and the effects of mass psychosis.
Autism Celebration Month: The Great Big Smoking Hole Where Social Perception Should Be
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There is a truism in neurological functioning: use it or lose it! Hubel and Wiesel demonstrated this when they sewed the eyes of kittens shut; autistic people when they don’t learn social perceptions.
The Moral Injury of Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, and #COVID19
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It is worse than we had imagined! We knew that the RWNJ and their crazy anti-mask, vax, and outrage du jour rhetoric was causing real harm, we just didn’t know how real or how much harm. Now we do. Now we know that it is A LOT. And Judge Mizelle just added to the misery!
Whaz Up!?! Phnom Penh Half Marathon
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There’s lots of news to report from our week off for Khmer New Year. Maybe the biggest is that we’re training up for the Phnom Penh Half Marathon! Otherwise, read about vegan dogs, gangs of Nairobi, assholes, and hypervigilance!
Luck and Autism
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Luck as it turns out exists and is not randomly distributed. Since it is #AutismAwarenessMonth, we ask the question, how lucky are people with autism?
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