Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Really had to resist including some family tree diagrams for this one
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! Hagar the Horrible, 7/13/26 In The City of God, St. Augustine famously tells a story of a pirate…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Holly Schepisi and the Mechanics of Misinformation by DHS Is Systematically Lying to You | Policy of Truth
[…] their own uses of force or failed to report some uses of force altogether.”** Having seen it up close, I’m confident that something similar would emerge from reporting on ICE operations in New […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fact-Checking Holly Schepisi (2) by DHS Is Systematically Lying to You | Policy of Truth
[…] with proper meals.” This claim is flatly contradicted by the New Jersey Department of Health inspection report, which lays out seven violations in Delaney Hall’s kitchen. The most egregious of these […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) DHS Is Systematically Lying to You
People sometimes claim to be unable to decide between the claims of, say, DHS and migrant defense activists. Faced with conflicting stories, people sometimes retreat into a kind of Pyrrhonian skepticism: each side is incompatible with the other, they’ll say, but neither side’s claims can easily be rejected. So we’re left with an undecidable clash…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Our Sacred Honor by cmsciabarra
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I appreciate and agree with everything you express here, Irfan, especially regarding the “Indian Savages” and the “empire of liberty.” I chose to focus on the central, core principle of the Declaration…
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(QC RSS v2) To Have And To Hold
LET HER
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(xkcd.com) The Princess and the Pea
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) We have a new Urbanization topic page
Explore how populations are distributed across settlement types, which cities are growing fastest, what living conditions in urban areas look like, and much more.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mostly AI Sunday
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! Blondie, 7/12/26 Back in early 2024, Dithers had to regretfully report that DithersCo wasn’t using AI tools to…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Wokeness Threat is a Right-Wing Scam by Roderick T. Long
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be Woke. LikeLiked by 1 person
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