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Ecologist, biogeochemist, drummer and gardener interested in effective pro-people politics, and equitable climate policy. (Also a Wisconsin Badgers volleyball fanatic.) Stony Brook E&E. He/him Opinions are my own. Also, our brains are too small.
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The entire article is built around this "incriminating" quote, a researcher explicitly stating that her work should be accurate and clear before publishing. The headline implies that she is holding back her data because her findings are politically incorrect. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/s...
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Conservatives think some people deserve representation and some do not, and that the circle of those that deserve representation should be smaller.
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It does make you wonder if they were always just being polite, but, yeah, since Obama things changed. The extreme right vitriol has spread into the mainstream GOP like a blight.
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Literally how he does everything. He is most comfortable in chaos.
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Neoboomers
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Which is what made it so much worse as gaslighting.
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Also, the kids be like wack n all.
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Well, “elites” in the public eye are vested in maintaining a certain relationship to power and holding attention, and positions that threaten that power structure and attention economy threaten them materially. Present company excepted!!
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At the politics of the moment. He was good at it at the time. He’s kind of correct that his voice is kind of not suited. Still, he should make a stand.
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Wow. That’s almost a random draw
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The emphasis is on the “I” and not the product, or rather the efficiency of producing “a” product. These guys see writing as just another notch on the CV, not self expression.
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In the immortal words of Joni Ernst, we're all going to die someday.
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Bibi is lying. That’s my guess.