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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
4·11 days agoThey wheeled a wax dummy into the Senate and pretend.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Big Oil has an audacious request for the Supreme Court
15·13 days agoThey generally interpret this is only covering states rights to enforce slavery and other racial oppression
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
1·20 days agoDNA comparison
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
14·22 days agoIt was pretty settled, but this is another line of evidence that’s a bit more direct than the past ones
Archive.is came out of gamergate as a tool to enable kicking women out of video game journalism. It’s not shocking that the person who controls it behaves badly. They’re also by far and away the most reliable way to hand out a paywall bypass. Which completely stinks
They’re also the only ones who mean that people don’t need to register to access the NYT right now
There is more than one kind of evil in the world. They’ve changed which one they are
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous | The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.
19·25 days agoIn an ideal world, we’d get everybody vaccinated, the disease would go extinct like smallpox, and we wouldn’t see the vaccine again outside of limited military preparedness needs.
We got soo close to that with this one.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’
7·25 days agoPretty much. They simultaneously claim in the same press release that removing all the CO2 from the atmosphere would drop temperatures, while saying that it is a greenhouse gas and that adding more does nothing. None of it is meant to make sense; just be word salad to confuse.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
3·27 days agoMost of the US isn’t paying attention to any news outlet which would cover this
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
10·1 month agoNot that anybody but billionaires will ever get paid
Each week the government said less about the findings of the board of inquiry which was to decide how the $5000 per person could be wangled. It became easier to answer malcontents with a cuff from a Minute Man than by repetitious statements from Washington.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
News@lemmy.world•Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80
4·1 month agoApparently he made a religious film
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•U.N. Says World Will Miss Its Climate Target and That Warming Must Be ReversedEnglish
1·1 month agoThe amount locked in is more like 2°C if we did a crash shift off fossil fuels and meat. Those higher numbers presuppose that people won’t forcibly shut down fossil fuel using plants and equipment before the end of its useful life.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
13·1 month agoThey don’t show any indication that they’re going to listen to the judge.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
World News@lemmy.world•U.N. Says World Will Miss Its Climate Target and That Warming Must Be ReversedEnglish
41·1 month agoThey’re not yet at runaway. If we drop emissons to zero, then temperatures stabilize within a human lifetime
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms | The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
2·1 month agoI don’t know or care what’s down in their heart or heart or innermost thoughts. It doesn’t really matter either. What matters is that they spend a huge amount of money promoting hate so that they will have a slightly lower tax rate







We know, but the people attached to the right-wing press don’t