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Blue Mounds, WI
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Thoughts on: Honestly with Bari Weiss 2025 01-09 Podcast on England’s Rape Gangs
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-uk-grooming-gangs-and-the-cowardice-05e Bari Weiss moderates a discussion between Julie Bindel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Bindel is a journalist and advocate that relates an account of the events that is…
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Thoughts on: Our Willful Disinformation Ecosystem
Frank Bruni’s recent column (which I thought was the past Sunday, but is dated December 19) is dead on. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/donald-trump-promises.html Donald Trump and Republicans simply will not, and…
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Hobby Progress: 2024 12-26 New Space Orks
Things have slowed down in the lab over the holidays, and I didn’t even bother to confirm that last night’s conference call was cancelled for Christmas. A friend…
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Thoughts on: WSJ 2024 12-26 Covid Lab Leak Article
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/fbi-covid-19-pandemic-lab-leak-theory-dfbd8a51?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink I read this reporting with great interest this morning, but on first read it does not contain any new information beyond naming a source within the FBI…
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Thoughts on: Aaron Renn’s podcast 2024 12-23 with Musa al-Gharbi
Entitled “Is America Actually Woke” and covering al-Gharbi’s book. https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/is-america-actually-woke-al-gharbi Al=Gharbi is a sociologist who argues that America has experienced four cycles of ‘wokeness/political correctness’ in the last…
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Thoughts on: Meet the Press 2024 12-22 “Finding Common Ground” Special
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/december-22-sens-raphael-warnock-and-james-lankford-227692613726 I think special episodes are a mistake. A lot happened this week, including last-minute passage of a continuing resolution for federal funding, ABC News capitulating to Trump’s…
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