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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

One more bit of evidence for the social trust polarization theory.

Reddit Atheism: First as a farce and then as a tragedy.

My conspiracy is that they’re soft walking this because high-level media people have supported cutting entitlements for decades and Elon is gunning for social security/Medicare cuts.

Genuinely curious as to how all these Silicon Valley VC types became committed autarchists.

I’m becoming more and more radical about the idea that for democracy to truly thrive you need to take the media out of the hands of the ultra wealthy. No idea how to go about this though.

Krug says that the NYT brass told him that writing a column and a newsletter was *too much content* www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

This also provides a great opening to unite the resistlibs with the economic populists under the banner of “these Vichy bastards need to be brought in line”.

NGL I would wager that an inordinate share of burrito taxi sentiment comes from men who think that the domestic labor of cooking their own burritos is beneath them in some intangible way

Pick an authoritarian regime from a hat and they’ve all either deeply cared about public opinion or were forced to once it became a danger to them personally.

oh my god are you for real. the despair of the day was catching up with me but this just pierced through it because oh my god how did I not see "executive orders written via AI" coming jesus christ they are such morons

tyranny requires constant effort. it breaks; it leaks. authority is brittle. oppression is the mask of fear. remember that.