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Thread: I realize that I have tons of thoughts on the Alaska summit. And if I don’t start writing them down, I fear I will never get around to it.

This might be a long one that I add to a little at a time.

Comic. Various Experts Answer the Question “Where do babies come from?” Geneticist: Recent admixture event, roughly 0.001 kya. Astronomer: Low-impulse ejection from a parent body. Software engineer: Off-by-one error in the population calculations. Geologist: The area was originally a uniform plane, but the non-baby parts eroded at higher rates. Meteorologist: Moist ground-level turbulent mixing.

Where Babies Come From

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Do people understand? The idea of Ukraine giving away land that russia fails to occupy would open the door to a brand new era for all of you.

One where lands are annexed by declarations & superpowers coerce smaller nations into submission.

All in the name of peace, saving lives, and love, ofc.

Brexit was an attempted counter-revolution against many of the changes this country has gone through since 1945. It has turned out to be a failure with elements of farce. This has driven many people on the Right completely mad.

How to be a man The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

“The word most used to describe the appeal of people like Trump, Johnson, or Farage is 'authentic' when, in fact, their public personas are meticulously constructed. 'Authentic' does not necessarily contain 'honest'. In Ancient Greek it means 'original'. And fiction can be more original than truth.”

Stop the yachts.

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War zone surgeon David Nott: ‘Life is all about taking calculated risks’ The doctor who’s saved countless lives through his work in Ukraine and Gaza on operating under fire, the challenges of PTSD — and his belief in God

for this week's Lunch with the FT, I met a humanitarian hero: war doctor David Nott www.ft.com/content/e5fa...

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Don’t Hate the Politicians, Hate the Game - Make Votes Matter Our brilliant volunteer, Paul Tait, has taken a bold and original approach to explaining British politics — not through lectures or jargon, but through a

Are politicians stupid, selfish, corrupt and all the same? Or are they just following the rules of a bad game?

In a thought-provoking blog, MVM volunteer Paul Tait asks us to imagine the UK political system as a casino game. 👇

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7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/07/2025 · 44m

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Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?

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Superman Isn’t Trying to Be Political. We Just Have Real-Life Supervillains Now.

What a headline.

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On Tyranny free resources To use and to share, now or any time

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
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Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.

"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."

– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Plenty still scoff at idea of an AOC run. But the Mamdani success should remind us how formidable a candidate she will be in the Dem 28 primary. And she'd be formidable in the general too. Because like Trump, she is one of the few politicians to truly grasp the media age we're living in.