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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The West Orange Anti-Semitism Task Force: A Response by War Is Peace | Policy of Truth
[…] of children) of an indicted war criminal is taken for granted; those who protest his presence are widely regarded as racists and criminals, arrested and ostracized. Every government building in New Jersey (and likely elsewhere) flies a [̷…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Stirring the POT (2) by War Is Peace | Policy of Truth
[…] programs but to go out of their way to market to soldiers and veterans. It’s become normal for academic conferences to be sponsored by military contractors and feature military speakers offering up military […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) War Is Peace
We’re reportedly about to go to war with Iran. I just checked a minute ago: The lead story at The New York Times is the Supreme Court’s tariff decision; likewise The Washington Post and MS NOW. At CNN, the lead story is Trump’s trade war. At Fox, it’s a toss up between the trade war…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Comfortably numb
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Andy Capp, 2/21/26 I have long been curious about how old Andy Capp is supposed to be; mostly,…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!
This week we’re going to take a look at mercenaries in the ancient Mediterranean world! This was one of the runners-up in the latest ACOUP Senate poll, coming out of quite a few requests to discuss how mercenaries functioned in antiquity. In order to keep the scope here manageable and within my expertise, I am…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Perverse Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom, 2/20/26 Many years ago, the Jungle Patrol was all-male, until early 2008 when it got gender-integrated…
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(xkcd.com) Eliminating the Impossible
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 24: Testing New Strategies to Increase Vaccination Coverage
Vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing deadly diseases, and, while global needs for them are great, vaccines already receive substantial global funding. This creates a challenge: How do you identify opportunities where additional funding can meaningfully increase vaccination rates and save lives? GiveWell has long recognized the potential for highly cost-effective vaccine programs. We started…
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(Cat and Girl) The Institutionalists!
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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