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26 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
New York's Attorney General getting in on the THC-laced Halloween candy moral panic now.
*sees a package labeled 'Double Stuf Stoneo' showing a cookie bursting out of a giant pot leaf* "How will anyone be able to tell this contains marihuana?"
Everything is so stupid.
Oh I guess it’s northeast attorney general pot panic day, mark your calendars
Imagine having the power of an attorney general, looking out at all the problems facing your state, and deciding the best use of your finite time is tweeting about weed candy

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29 Oct
Conservative media is trying to spin the most lethal Delta outbreak in the country as a GOP victory. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/floridas-del…
None of this is particularly complicated. I grabbed the numbers from the NYT: since August 1 (roughly the start of the Delta death wave), Florida's Covid mortality is easily the worst in the nation -- more than double the national average. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/floridas-del… Image
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27 Oct
New on The Why Axis: It's Halloween, which means that Serious Reporters are writing up literal ghost stories as if they were factual. And we wonder why so many are no longer able to tell fact from fiction. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-press-is…
I honestly had no sense of the scope of the problem until I started looking at all the ghost coverage this week. It's insane! "Why do people believe things that aren't true," an entire industry asks as it advises people on which healing crystals to buy
I think of stories as happening along a continuum that runs from "endeavor to find out what the truth is, no matter what people say" to "just repeat what people are saying, no matter how crazy." And right now way too much coverage is weighted heavily toward the latter.
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26 Oct
Related to their promotion of astrology, the press often lends credence to other superstitions and pseudosciences too. Here, for instance, is a lengthy and completely uncritical story on the supposed "haunting" of a building, complete with quotes from "paranormal investigators"
Here's a story from CT on how to tell a "legit" investigation from a "sensationalized" one: "Just because there appears to be an orb on the video doesn’t mean there’s something spiritual there. Other evidence of manifestation should present itself." journalinquirer.com/connecticut_an…
Major papers too. Here's Tampa Bay Times. Again, no pushback on the claims of the supernatural. tampabay.com/life-culture/2…
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14 Oct
This "Biden needs to save the supply chain" nonsense is Green Lanternism to the extreme. The causes include everything from worldwide labor shortages to natural disasters to a global pandemic! I am begging the press to be smarter about this. reuters.com/world/us/us-su…
Not everything is a politics story, good grief
"Why won't Joe Biden fix the drought in Taiwan"
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11 Oct
This spring the USDA killed 8 wolf pups in their den in Idaho to "protect livestock." There are over 2 million cattle in Idaho, and fewer than 1,500 wolves.
This is possible in part because the Biden administration has refused to reinstate federal protections for wolves that were removed, against the advice of biologists and wildlife scientists, under Trump.
The ranchers demanding these killings are almost certainly multi-millionaires - the typical net worth of a family cattle rancher in 2019 was $3.7 million thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/wolf-hunters…
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8 Oct
A lot of plot problems in the sequel trilogy but the most aggravating for me: the fact that the galaxy somehow all went to shit again just a few decades after Luke and company defeated the Empire.
Honestly how badly do you have to have fucked things up to have stormtroopers marauding around the galaxy again by the time your large idiot son turns 20?
Also the whole Death Star 2.0 bullshit is SO LAZY
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