Ukraine and Russia: Waiting for the Next Phase?
Why Ukraine may be under even more pressure than Russia to Do Something when the ground finally freezes in Ukraine.
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Ukraine: When Will It Reach the End of Its Propaganda Line?
Is Ukraine’s spin getting threadbare?
Read more...List Processing: Why We Never Have to Read End-of-Year Lists Again (But Why not Make Some?)
A close reading of “End of Year” lists.
Read more...Twitter and the CIA (Twitter Files 8–10)
Yves here. The Twitter Files disclosures continue at an impressive clip, increasingly focusing on the close involvement of Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies in curtailing and blocking Administration/Democrat-threatening lines of thought, such as interest in the Hunter Biden laptop or hostility to vaccine mandates. These revelations are as significant as the Pentagon Papers, yet […]
Read more...Russia Sitrep of Sorts
Yet again reading the Russia/Ukraine tea leaves.
Read more...Twitter and the State, Part 2
Highlights from the latest Twitter Files releases.
Read more...Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science
How sustained funding legitimated race sciene.
Read more...New York Times Strike: From Reporters to Rabble-Rousers
Workers at the New York Times stopped working to demand better pay and labor rights—but only for a day. What if they flexed their power?
Read more...BuzzFeed Faces Existential Crisis After Burning Through Nearly All of $700 Million of Investor Money
What does BuzzFeed do now?
Read more...Normalizing Nazis at Vogue, MSNBC, and “America’s Largest Documentary Festival” (but not Catalonia)
The Azov Battalion’s photographer tours the United States, goes on MSNBC.
Read more...Earth to Reporters: Why Is No One Asking SBF What Happened to the $3.3 Billion He Borrowed?
Journalists are ignoring an obvious and damaging line of questioning with SBF. Of course, the “damaging” part may be why they are punting.
Read more...Biden Keeps Up Tough Talk on Ukraine Despite Evidence of Failure
The collective West is having a wee bit of trouble with facts on the ground in Ukraine.
Read more...Trying to Make Sense of China’s Protests
Western media is overhying the China protests. But to what degree?
Read more...“Instructions from Kiev”: Ukraine Propaganda Messaging
Colonel Douglas Macgregor provides an example of how Ukraine has been playing the Mighty Wurlitzer of the Western media.
Read more...Is Science Really Self-Correcting? Yes, But the Mechanism Varies
cience, or here, scientific journals do have their problematic papers caught out. But oddly they are not delisted or deplatformed.
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