The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship
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Meta's dismantling of its fact-checking program - announced by Zuckerberg as a "cultural tipping point towards prioritizing speech" - reads like a quiet footnote... Read more.
Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience
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Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The novel would become a bestseller largely... Read more.
The Spies Who Hate Us
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The most astonishing court document just came out. It is a reverse chronicle of most of what CISA did from February 2020 until last year. We put it on fast view... Read more.
Merry Christmas to the Merchants!
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We should all do more to celebrate our local merchants. They connect the community through hard work, great risk, tremendous creativity, and service, and yet too... Read more.
Preference Falsification and Cascade
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Preference falsification is different from self-censorship because people outright lie about what they really think. When the lie persists long enough, people begin... Read more.
Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response
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The conclusion of the report: nothing worked and everything tried resulted in more damage than the pandemic could ever have achieved on its own. In this sense, every... Read more.
The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections on Jay Bhattacharya
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It’s been a very long journey lasting nearly five years, but here we are, the man who led the opposition to the worst-imaginable public health policies now in... Read more.
The Revolution of 2024
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Many of the early appointments represent the coming together of MAGA, MAHA, and DOGE, the fulfillment of decades of cultivation of disparate groups of dissidents... Read more.
The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide
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In four years of research, and encountering truly shocking documents and evidence of what happened in the Covid years, this one certainly ranks up at the top of... Read more.
They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now
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Archive.org has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time since this service has chronicled... Read more.
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart
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The neo-liberal consensus built in the postwar period contained the seeds of its own destruction. It was too dependent on the creation of institutions beyond people’s... Read more.
Cut the Truth Out of Our Heads
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The person who wanted to use violence to cut the brain out of the truthspeaker was merely protecting herself against a terrible truth she could not handle. It’s... Read more.