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How I Learned The Facts of Life: NOT from Facebook

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Naomi

Do you get your news stories from Facebook? If you do, why, why, why, why? Yesterday in the New York Times, Charlie Warzel wrote that Mark Zuckerberg “is the most powerful unelected man in America” and that Facebook is too … Continue reading →

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Mysteries of Life: Why does anyone believe The Big Lie?

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Naomi

Big lies are yammered over and over and over. I don’t believe them. I know the facts. Why would anyone else believe them? Because… Repeat something often enough, brazenly enough and aggressively enough to people dazed enough by the cacophony … Continue reading →

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Boris Johnson, in one short burst

Posted on September 7, 2019 by Naomi

Daily debacles have defined Johnson’s misrule. His is already a primer in ineptitude — and he hasn’t even tried to buy Greenland. –Roger Cohen, “Boris Johnson’s Do-or-Die Debacle,” in today’s New York Times

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