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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?
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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!
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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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Gilbert Gottfried would’ve wanted it this way. He wanted us to laugh. Laughter is the best medicine, and what ails us now is prolonged chronic stress. We need all the laughs we can get to help relieve it. It’s all explained right here and links to some of Gottfried’s best work.
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#ScienceFact: Fox News shapes the beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and interests of its viewers by cherry-picking the stories and information that it presents to them. An utterly convincing study confirms what we already knew.
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We’ve got a Caturday from hell, visits from hornbills, a lemon juice fueled April Fools Day spectacular, and training for the Phnom Penh Marathon… and then there’s everything we read that you don’t want to miss!
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Why do all of the conservative traits cluster around the fucked up end of the spectrum? Racism, misogyny, homophobia, authoritarianism. All conservative traits. But, history is on our side!
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There are many ways to steal an election, you just look for the weak links and exploit them. Here’s all the ways that the Republicans will use to steal Election 2022.
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The coming #GOPDystopia will be small subtle shifts in the way we do things for white people. Small enough for them to convince themselves nothing has changed. For PoC’s and progressives, though, life will be much harder immediately.
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Feeling frustrated? Fatigued? Exhausted? Being more sarcastic, cynical, or negative? Is it impossible to achieve your goals? Well, then, bucko, you might could be burned out! How can you take care of yourself so you can #SaveOurDemocracy?
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United we stand; divided we fall, so why is the GQP deliberately dividing us with its divisive politics? They want us to fall. How do we beat them? We aren’t divided. To save our democracy, we must find ways to reach those in MAGA Nation and convince them to leave it.
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Tolerating ambiguity clusters with other personality traits: liberals are more tolerant, conservatives, less. In some senses, trans people are the ultimate in ambiguity because they give mixed gender identity signals.
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Here’s an amusing little anecdote about how I met a child a year ago and assumed she was a he and the shocking way her true gender and gender identity was revealed to me.
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Let’s say we actually do survive as a liberal democracy. What do you do with your favorite drunk uncle then? How do we continue existing as a nation with MAGA Nation after they’ve gone to such extremes? How do we help rescue people from the pit of conspiracy theories?
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If you don’t see color, what the fuck do you see?
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Science fact: MAGA Nation goes against human nature. They tell us to do our own research, but few of us know enough to evaluate the vaccine and public health research that has concluded that vaccines, masks, and social distancing will mitigate the #COVID19 pandemic. We need to rely on experts to help us understand and decide what to do.
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