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Murder in Massachusetts

In 1920, there was a murder in Massachusetts. A man was found with multiple stab wounds in Danvers, a small town in NE MA. His death would lead to an investigation.

What happens next is shocking. The police investigation discovered that a man who lived in the next town had been near the victim at the same time as the murder. The police also discovered a knife at the home of the man that fit the exact weapon used in the killing.

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Failure of government and climate change

The Big Dig in Boston was one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in history. At a cost of over $8 billion dollars, the project overran estimates by 190%.

It was funded in 1987 to replace the Central Artery. The Central Artery was a blight on Boston. Anyone living west of the North End could be convinced that Boston didn't have a waterfront.

In 1987, Massachusetts earned a staggering investment to "sink" the Central Artery, along with other traffic improvements, and create a tunnel.

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Not all scientific inquiry is good and scientific research like mirror life have potential costs that outweigh any benefits.

If you thought GOF was frightening, let me tell you about mirror life and how a small group of scientists are marching toward potential oblivion. In the primordial soup that were Earth's early oceans, life formed. It is apparent that very early on in the evolution of life, RNA molecules composed of "righthanded nucleotides" swamped out their "lefthanded" brothers. Eventually, "righthanded DNA" would arise.

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"Between totally private and completely government-run, the US health care system is "more free-market than average," said Greg Shaw, a political science professor at Illinois Wesleyan University."

This statement is laughably false. Let me show you how the system works. It starts with a pharma manufacturer and a patient.

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Let me tell you about homelessness. It's a story about drug abuse and mental illness. It's also a story about how activists and the state conspire to sell cost savings as "compassion."

It's the story of a family member who lost decades on the streets.

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1866655168726700347

Eileen, not her real name, grew up poor. My family is generally lower middle class to poor. I'm not. I was as a kid. But I am an outlier now.

Eileen was accepted to go to Hampshire College in western Massachusetts. She instead went to Keene State.

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Let's discuss why Dems are screwed and how a three-decade trend shows no sign of changing. The Dems don't know how to talk to anyone outside of a NY, DC, or LA bubble. Let's see why.

In 1992, Bill Clinton led a coalition of rural and urban working-class voters. In 1996, Bill Clinton expanded this coalition. But in his second term, Clinton went all in with deregulation of finance and favorable policies toward Wall Street. Also, NAFTA's effects were being fully felt by the Rust Belt.

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There is a lot to unpack in this very uninformed comment. So, let's dive into what James actually wants.

Let's get one thing out of the way first. Obamacare did not contain costs. What it did do is make healthcare worse for certain groups. How?

https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1864883558491267168

Hidden in the ACA was a provision that penalized hospitals for readmissions in certain groups - myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. It did this as a cost-saving measure masquerading as improving healthcare.

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FDR is considered to be one of the greatest presidents. Here, I present FDR exactly as he was - a man with an authoritarian bent who trashed norms for power.

This is about how history is taught and how Americans are given a distorted view of progressive politicians. FDR was elected in 1932 due to the Great Depression. He demagogued on the ills of "big business" and "greedy bankers." With his sweeping mandate, he immediately sought to consolidate power into the executive branch through a set of policies that he called The New Deal.

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Why the freak outs over Trumps picks?

Pentagon - slush fund for defense industry

FDA - slush fund for Big Pharma and Big Food

Department of Ed - slush fund for teachers unions and universities Treasury - slush fund for banks and hedgd funds that rescues Wall Street when their gambling blows up in their faces

State Department - slush fund for defense contractors and elites who want new markets

Department of Energy - slush fund for clean energy

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Over 60% of the nation does not have a college degree. This was the Dem message to these people:

- they should pay off student loans of college educated elites
- their daughters should play against males because that's what college educated elites think is fair - their concerns about the economy are wrong because college educated elites say that their wallets actually have more money than they see
- the language of the people is racist and sexist and the people need to change how they speak

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Progressives are circling the wagons around Harris and asserting that she ran a good campaign and lost because of racism and/or misogyny mixed with rightwing misinformation.

Let's tear apart her campaign and why she lost. Right. Now. 1. She was a historically bad candidate. She should have never been anointed. The problem with Kamala Harris is that the more people are introduced to her, the worse her polling. This happened in Iowa in 2019. Democrats ignored her terrible traits.

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Land acknowledgements are patronizing and historically illiterate. These tribes did what Europeans did - they moved to new areas to exploit resources. They fought with, and murdered, one another. Sometimes they raped. Sometimes they enslaved others. In the case of the Three Fires tribes, they migrated from Atlantic Canada. One - the Potawatomi - arrived in the southern Lake Michigan area around the time that Europeans came to America. There is limited discussion about whether they displaced other tribes. They probably did.

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Seth Moulton is advancing a bill through Congress to push ahead with high-speed rail. As with all progressive wet dreams, it's stupid. But let's look at the map below that is circulating among progressive Twitter.

You'll enjoy this. Let's start with the obvious. Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver are not part of the US. You would need Canada to pony up money unless progressives are planning on the US conquering southern Canada.

But let's take a look at the more serious limitations.

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Climate scientists (i.e., activists) have asserted that the surge in sea temps and global temps in the 2020s in parts of the world are due to a tipping point.

What appears to be happening shows how climate activism is making things worse.
.nature.com/articles/s4324… In 2020, international regulations dropped the amount of SO2 pumped into the atmosphere by shipping. SO2 helps to reduce sea surface temperature and temps generally by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the lower atmosphere.

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Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old American citizen. His father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Anwar was killed by a drone strike.

What happened to Abdulrahman next says much about who wields power in America. Abdulrahman was in Egypt. On October 11, 2014, he was near Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian believed to be a member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. As part of Barack Obama's drone war, the US ordered a drone attack on al-Banna in Egypt.

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Beginning in the 80s, a mediocre scientist found his calling - political power. As Fauci worked his way up the political ranks of NAIAD, a novel virus was infecting gay men.

This is the story of how Anthony Fauci killed in the thousands. Before Covid. Before media fame.

https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1803966727815864365

A series of unusual deaths in the gay community caught the attention of Fauci. In 1982, Fauci wrote an editorial in Annals of Internal Medicine. That article shows a significant principle in Fauci's response to pandemics - fearmongering.

This is how climate science is practiced. I first saw this chart years ago and I nearly fell out of my seat at how bad it is. It purports to show 8K recording stations measuring rainfall around the world. What's wrong with this analysis?

Let's see. 1. The y-axis is designed to show a very negligible change over 5 decades. Indeed, the change is less than 0.2 events over that period. If put onto a 0 to 2 scale, it would look flat.

2. 8K stations couldn't possibly yield identical results. Each data point has a deviation.

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2020 opened my eyes to how many people in our society are neurotic sadsacks in need of a father figure to make them feel safe. People who never developed coping skills.

Governor Whitmer had her Fauci pillow because many of her constituents wanted one of their own. There were women who wore Fauci's name on their underwear.

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Never forget that universities don't care about free speech. They are the least open places in the country. They only care about money and keeping the inmates happy.

Last year, a lecturer lost her job because she showed a picture of Muhammad. Why? Well, Muslim students argued that the act was Islamophobic. It would be too easy to dismiss this as DEI in action. It isn't that simple.

Many Muslim students from overseas come to US campuses from wealthy backgrounds from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Turkey, Jordan, and Qatar.

The Columbia protests ended with the arrests of several people, many of whom are from incredible privilege. Let's shine a light on one of them - Isabel Jennifer Seward.

You see, she killed Chet and Connie Hawkins on September 8, 2020 and only had to pay $220. What happened? On that day, Chet and Connie Hawkins were traveling through Charlotte, Vermont. Chet served the town of Ferrisburgh for 35 years and Connie was a bookkeeper.

Charlotte is a small town positioned on the picturesque Lake Champlain just south of Burlington.

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This is NPR's new CEO. I am through sugar-coating what these people are. They are horrible people. They don't care about anything other than signaling to other people that they think the right way.

Katherine Maher grew up privileged and wealthy. She traveled the world, attending college at the American University in Cairo and then Institut Français D'études Arabes de Damas in Syria before graduating from NYU. She then worked jobs at NGOs and at governmental and inter-governmental agencies.