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Writer/editor and former journalist. Author of "News Speak: How Language Can Manipulate Meaning in What We Read, Watch and Listen to" and "Prove It!: Fact-Finding Secrets of a Fanatical Online Researcher."
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Calling all archivists - time to scour the NOAA research websites and save as much as you can.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Every part of this thread is worth reading. I wish more people would take these arguments to heart.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This is such a brilliant way to understand MAGA's determination to destroy everything: "Fascists are residual culture that refuse to go away." It goes back to the fact that the US never adequately punished/held accountable the Confederacy's proponents after the Civil War.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 22 days ago • 193 comments