Futurist Jim Carroll<p>"An irrational belief in irrational ideas usually leads to irrational results" - Futurist Jim Carroll</p><p>So let's try and figure out what's going on.</p><p>I took today's quote, fed it to ChatGPT, and got the picture above which I used for today;'s 'inspiration' image.</p><p>Look, in the last little while, I've looked into the Science of Stupidity, the Science of Mistakes, and The Science of Regret. So why not the Science of Irrational Decisions, which I learned is often referred to as "cognitive distortions." There's a lot to be found online to explain where we are. Charts and stuff that explain the many different types of irrational decisions aka cognitive distortions.</p><p>There's even a course or two to take on it.</p><p>It's a fascinating topic, and as expected, there's a lot of research to be found. It's a wonderful rabbit hole to plunge into because you will find such papers as <br>Overcoming Cognitive Distortions; How to Recognize and Challenge the Thinking Traps that Make You Miserable.</p><p>That tracks. People seem to be pretty miserable right now because of the cognitive distortions they've gone through that got us to where we are today.<br>And, as might expected, there is to be a leadership / personal growth book about it, with the title Predictably IrrationalL: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions, released back in 2008. It probably could use an update!</p><p>So let's dig in, shall we? Let's talk about why folks make poor choices about big economic and political issues that end up hurting everyone. </p><p>Here's what the science tells us. When people vote against their economic interests or support harmful policies, it's rarely because they're stupid. Their brains just don't always work in their best interest when dealing with complex global systems. Why is that? Our brains take shortcuts. We use mental rules of thumb that help us make quick decisions. This works fine for everyday choices but fails miserably when considering trade policy, inflation control, voting, or healthcare systems.</p><p>What happens to people in this circumstance? They get emotional about political and economic issues. Fear, anger, and tribalism cloud their judgment. When someone supports tariffs that will ultimately hurt local businesses because they sound "tough on foreign competition" - that's emotional reasoning drowning out economic reality. It's cognitive dissonance, plain and simple.</p><p>The kicker is that the condition leads to great uncertainty, which fuels itself creating more uncertainty in a vicious spiral.</p><p>It's complex, folks, and there is no easy way out.</p><p>Buckle up.</p><p>Read the rest of the post.</p><p>**<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Irrationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irrationality</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cognition</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Distortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Distortion</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Decisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decisions</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Tribalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tribalism</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uncertainty</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bias</span></a>** **<a href="https://futurist.info/tags/Denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denialism</span></a>**</p><p>Original post: <a href="https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-cognitive-distortions-an-irrational-belief-in-irrational-ideas-usually-leads-to-irrational-results/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-i</span><span class="invisible">nspiration-cognitive-distortions-an-irrational-belief-in-irrational-ideas-usually-leads-to-irrational-results/</span></a></p>
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Chris Alemany<p>This is Hilarious: I guess now Rustad (who no one in their right mind would call “woke" on anything) ‘caved to the woke liberals who have infiltrated the party’ because:</p><p>checks notes…. he thought mocking and denying the horrors children faced in Indian Residential Schools was bad.</p><p>These people are just racists and demand to be celebrated for it.</p><p>Will the BC Conservatives last until the next BC Election?</p><p>Article by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@akurjata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>akurjata</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/Denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denialism</span></a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/3-former-b-c-conservative-mlas-will-sit-as-independents-1.7479438" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col</span><span class="invisible">umbia/3-former-b-c-conservative-mlas-will-sit-as-independents-1.7479438</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany<p>Meanwhile, in the definitely-not-racist-at-all BC Conservative Party, they successfully identified an overt racist after missing that fact when they approved her candidacy and have banished her to sit as an Independent thus ensuring the BC CPC caucus is figuratively and literally, “racist-adjacent" in the Legislature.</p><p><a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/CPCBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPCBC</span></a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/ResidentialSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResidentialSchools</span></a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/Denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denialism</span></a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dallas-brodie-removed-from-b-c-conservative-caucus-1.7478162" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col</span><span class="invisible">umbia/dallas-brodie-removed-from-b-c-conservative-caucus-1.7478162</span></a></p>
Fight the Right<p>Climate Scientist reacts to Jordan Peterson</p><p><a href="https://volewica.blogspot.com/2023/02/climate-scientist-reacts-to-jordan.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">volewica.blogspot.com/2023/02/</span><span class="invisible">climate-scientist-reacts-to-jordan.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denialism</span></a></p>
Wuzzy<p>Official <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> websites have begun to lie about <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> by erasing <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> and <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> people.</p><p>The latest victim is … the website of the <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/Stonewall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stonewall</span></a> National Monument New York.</p><p>This is <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a>.</p><p>This (and all the other recent anti-LGBTQ+) shit is EXACTLY the kind of state bullying that the Stonewall rioters have CORRECTLY rioted against.</p><p><a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denialism</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/revisionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revisionism</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a></p>
anubis2814<a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denialism</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pseudoscience</span></a>
Planetary Ecologist<p>Germ theory denialism (Microbiology 🦠)</p><p>Germ theory denialism is the pseudoscientific belief that germs do not cause infectious disease, and that the germ theory of disease is wrong. It usually involves arguing that Louis Pasteur's model of infectious disease was wrong, and that Antoine Béchamp's was right. In fact, its origins are rooted in ...</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_denialism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_the</span><span class="invisible">ory_denialism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GermTheoryDenialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermTheoryDenialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pseudoscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BiologyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiologyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlternativeMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlternativeMedicine</span></a></p>
TrumpTrump voters not the climate enemies you think they are Another day brings another monster tide f...<br><br><a href="https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/trump-voters-not-the-climate-enemies-you-think-they-are/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/trump-voters-not-the-climate-enemies-you-think-they-are/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Opinion" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Change" target="_blank">#Change</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Denialism" target="_blank">#Denialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paris" target="_blank">#Paris</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Agreement" target="_blank">#Agreement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/The" target="_blank">#The</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conversation" target="_blank">#Conversation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2.0" target="_blank">#2.0</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=BY7UwNTMLsXyis3vYrcty2B6Frk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpTrump voters not the climate enemies you think they are Another day brings another monster tide f...<br><br><a href="https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/trump-voters-not-the-climate-enemies-you-think-they-are/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/trump-voters-not-the-climate-enemies-you-think-they-are/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Opinion" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Change" target="_blank">#Change</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Denialism" target="_blank">#Denialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paris" target="_blank">#Paris</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Agreement" target="_blank">#Agreement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/The" target="_blank">#The</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conversation" target="_blank">#Conversation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2.0" target="_blank">#2.0</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=PEeLjpOcWoo0nuXpAoej9eBpKaW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️🌈📈<p>Put together my thoughts about how to be a scientist in a world where it feels like the creationists have won</p><p><a href="https://www.molecularecologist.com/2025/01/20/the-creationists-are-winning-heres-what-we-scientists-can-do-about-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">molecularecologist.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/20/the-creationists-are-winning-heres-what-we-scientists-can-do-about-it/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denialism</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a></p>
Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denialism</span></a></p><p>"Science absolutely requires skepticism to progress. But to have skepticism about any particular scientific result, you must first understand how skepticism functions in science. That means having a deep knowledge of the science you are aiming your skepticism toward. That is not what’s happening now in the age of social media science denial, along with computational propaganda and the other 'at scale' information (or misinformation) distribution systems. </p><p>And this is the real paradox at the heart of science denial. It’s the tools developed by science that make it possible."</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/13-8/the-strange-paradox-of-modern-science-denialism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/13-8/the-strange-</span><span class="invisible">paradox-of-modern-science-denialism/</span></a></p>
michael<p>can we retire the term "scepticism" for this? it is too much of an honour for these people. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denial</span></a> will do. Add insults to taste. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/farage-and-truss-attend-uk-launch-of-us-climate-denial-group-heartland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/jan/15/farage-and-truss-attend-uk-launch-of-us-climate-denial-group-heartland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trumpocalypse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trumpocalypse</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>As we head towards Labor Day, and the final sprint of the 2024 campaign, <br />the dominant trends of the election seem set. </p><p>Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party are running a hopeful and joyous campaign <br />focused on expanding individual freedoms and improving the lives of all Americans. </p><p>Donald Trump and the Republicans, on the other hand, <br />continue to peddle a dystopian view of the country that is, well, weird.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a> fits into the GOP’s theme <br />because it relies on dark conspiracy theories <br />and unnamed “others” who are trying to steal the election. </p><p>But it is more than that. </p><p>It represents a 🆘strategy to win an election <br />in which millions more citizens will vote for Harris than for Trump.</p><p>❌Part of their plan is to normalize the abnormal. </p><p>In their telling, harassing election officials is free speech, <br />kicking voters off the rolls is election integrity <br />and refusing to accurately certify elections is reasonable inquiry.</p><p>Another way of normalizing their anti-democratic approach is by <br />🔥using the courts as a filter for these claims. </p><p>As Marshall McLuhan famously observed, “the medium is the message.” </p><p>By filtering their extremist approach through court cases, <br />Republicans aim to create an air of respectability to them.</p><p>That is why, in the last week of August, <br />we again saw a raft of new court cases filed by the GOP asserting extraordinary things. </p><p>They won’t win, but they hope that by filing these claims in a court, <br />it will make their crackpot theories seem less so.❗️</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>THE OTHER THINK TANK: </p><p>While Heritage’s ill-fated <a href="https://c.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Project2025</span></a> has gotten all the headlines, another outside group has been quietly plugging away at transition efforts with much less fanfare.</p><p>The ♦️America First Policy Institute♦️ ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/AFPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AFPI</span></a> ) <br />has (smartly) avoided <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heritage</span></a>’s braggadocio -- but has similarly done mountains of <a href="https://c.im/tags/unofficial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unofficial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transition</span></a> work while maintaining close ties to Trump: <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Linda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linda</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/McMahon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>McMahon</span></a> chairs the group’s board, and CEO <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brooke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brooke</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rollins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rollins</span></a> is Trump’s former Domestic Policy Council director and has been personally in touch with the former president.</p><p>Operating outside the Trump campaign, <br />🔸AFPI has interviewed more than 1,000 potential administration hires, <br />🔸drafted scores of executive actions Trump could quickly sign and <br />🔸solicited recommendations for the first 100 days of a second Trump term.</p><p>“AFPI is not becoming the transition,” one insider told Hailey and Meridith. “But by virtue of how they are situated and that we are in a very late timeline for this work, AFPI and the transition may be a distinction without a difference.”<br />Not everyone is happy with the arrangement. <br />In GOP circles, we’re told, AFPI is seen less as a visionary policy shop than a <a href="https://c.im/tags/ragtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ragtag</span></a> collection of operatives. <br />And Democrats will certainly seize on the group’s associations with 2020 <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a> and, a la Project 2025, their support for other <a href="https://c.im/tags/hard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hard</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>right</span></a> positions</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/08/29/3-trump-transition-issues-that-arent-project-2025-00176701" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/newsletters/playb</span><span class="invisible">ook/2024/08/29/3-trump-transition-issues-that-arent-project-2025-00176701</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/</span></a> </p><p>COVID is a good case study for illustrating the “Collective Denial Playbook” that underpins our new normal reality.<br />A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make knowing about it hard, often by restrictingefforts to look into it, like scaling back COVID tracking. In April the CDC ended the requirement that hospitals report COVID admissions and occupancy data, removing one of the last tools we could use to monitor what’s happening. “We now enter the blackout phase of epidemiology” wrote science journalist Laurie Garrett on X, adding: “There will be patients, but their numbers and whereabouts will be unknown….” Disappearing is also accomplished by not alerting the public. For example, during the winter surge, we heard “crickets from the White House.” In fact, as COVID positivity and death rates rose, tweets from CDC director Mandy Cohen decreased.</p><p>If the COVID situation is tracked and the public warned, things don’t feel normal. But if we don’t monitor or mention it, then things can feel “back to normal”—fine, even.<br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ToxicPositivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToxicPositivity</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>'There’s no fraud here’: </p><p>A Republican official is addressing <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a> in his rural county</p><p>Abe Dane once had doubts about voting security. </p><p>His work as an elections administrator changed his view: <br />‘These are people just like me'</p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/20/election-denial-2020-michigan-voting-2024?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/may/20/election-denial-2020-michigan-voting-2024?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Powerful conservative funds hand out <a href="https://c.im/tags/millions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>millions</span></a> to pro-Trump far-right groups </p><p>Two powerful conservative non-profits have donated millions of dollars to a number of <br />pro-Trump groups led by key far-right allies<br /> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Stephen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Miller</span></a>, <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Charlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Charlie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kirk</span></a> <br />and others that have promoted election <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/extremist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>extremist</span></a> anti-immigrant policies and legal challenges to bolster the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maga</span></a> movement.<br />Based in Wisconsin, the ♦️Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation♦️ <br />and the ♦️Bradley Impact Fund ♦️in 2022 separately <br />doled out six- and seven-figure checks <br />to groups such as Miller’s America First Legal and Kirk’s Turning Point USA, <br />and other Trump-friendly bastions such as the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heritage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Foundation</span></a> and Michael Flynn’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>America</span></a>’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Future" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Future</span></a>.</p><p>Watchdog groups that track money in politics say the 🔥Bradley Foundation🔥<br /> and the closely-tied 🔥Bradley Impact Fund 🔥<br />have become increasingly influential in funding the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maga</span></a> ecosystem in recent years as Trump is all but certain to be the Republican 2024 presidential nominee.<br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/HarryBradley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HarryBradley</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/BradleyImpactFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BradleyImpactFund</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/LyndeAndHarryBradleyFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LyndeAndHarryBradleyFoundation</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/FedSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FedSoc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/trump-rightwing-groups-funds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/16/trump-rightwing-groups-funds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Mike Johnson’s groveling meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday:</p><p>It was a deeply weird affair. With Trump hovering watchfully over Johnson, the House Speaker said that in campaigning, he’s discovered that people across the country just happen to be thoroughly obsessed with precisely the same thing that preoccupies Trump. </p><p>“Everywhere we go, one of the first questions that people ask about is this issue of <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>integrity</span></a>,” Johnson said.</p><p>The GOP remains as committed as ever to their disturbing post-insurrection denial path. </p><p>At least a dozen Republican incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive races are tainted with <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a>, some of it extremely serious or even <a href="https://c.im/tags/deranged" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deranged</span></a>.</p><p>These include representatives like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scott</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Perry</span></a> of Pennsylvania, who was extensively involved in Trump’s coup, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anna</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paulina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paulina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Luna</span></a> of Florida, who co-wrote a children’s book falsely depicting the 2020 election as stolen, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Derrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Derrick</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Van" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Van</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orden</span></a> of Wisconsin, who attended the Capitol rally on January 6.</p><p>Meanwhile, GOP Representatives <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Garcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Garcia</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ken" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ken</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Calvert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Calvert</span></a> of California, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schweikert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Schweikert</span></a> of Arizona, all voted not to certify Biden’s electors. </p><p>Representative <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kiggans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kiggans</span></a> of Virginia repeatedly fed doubts about the 2020 outcome. </p><p>Democrats view all these as key targets.</p><p>Then there are election-denying GOP candidates in other top-tier races, such as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scott</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Baugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Baugh</span></a> in California, who refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Joe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Joe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kent</span></a> in Washington State, who called for the rioters to be pardoned, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mayra" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mayra</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Flores" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Flores</span></a> in Texas, who spread crackpot January 6th conspiracy theories. That’s only a partial list.</p><p>Could this factor help tip the balance of the House? It’s not all that far-fetched a possibility.</p><p>Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at Cook Political Report, suggests keeping an eye on the GOP primary underway in the district of Representative <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lauren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lauren</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Boebert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Boebert</span></a> (who is running in another district). <br />That pits wild-eyed election denier <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ron" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ron</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hanks</span></a> against a saner opponent. <br />If Hanks wins, Democrats have a “very good chance” of winning Boebert’s seat, Wasserman says.</p><p>The upshot? As Wasserman notes, election denialism might end up mattering in only a limited number of races. </p><p>But, he adds, “the margin in the House is so close right now that even things like that could affect the outcome.”</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/180690/trump-mike-johnson-election-denial" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/180690</span><span class="invisible">/trump-mike-johnson-election-denial</span></a></p>
Perspective<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@antiaall3s" class="u-url mention">@<span>antiaall3s</span></a></span> sadly, the term <a href="https://c.im/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>publichealth</span></a> has become an oxymoron 😷</p><p>The war with <a href="https://c.im/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COVID</span></a> would go far better if <a href="https://c.im/tags/governments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>governments</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>health</span></a> "professionals" would get their heads out of their you-know-where ... and stop denying the reality of what's really going on. Globally, <a href="https://c.im/tags/denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>denialism</span></a> is costing hundreds of lives daily.<br />Edit: <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">worldometers.info/coronavirus/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Whatever happened to the Hypocritic Oath!? Aren't government officials that direct health care systems bound to abide by a similar standard for the systems for which they are responsible for? Aren't they liable when they don't?</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/covidisnotover" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>covidisnotover</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/COVIDisAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COVIDisAirborne</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>Yesterday while I was at the gym, several people complained about the rain we’ve had this past week. This blew my mind. My region went through a significant drought last month, Canada is on fire, and the air is poison. When I said this to them, they said, “ok, it can rain on the fires, but not here.” I guess they want to celebrate the long weekend outside in smoke instead of in the much-needed rain. <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanadaWildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CanadaWildfires</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Denialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Denialism</span></a></p>
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