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Criticism of Nauru government

vendredi 8 juin 2018 à 02:00

Nauru has made criticism of the government and its courts a crime.

That makes it even more useful as a sealed immigration prison for Australia.

Urgent: Charges against Reality Winner

vendredi 8 juin 2018 à 02:00

US citizens: call for charges against Reality Winner to be dropped.

Deferring gratification

vendredi 8 juin 2018 à 02:00

Will four-year-olds who can resist eating a marshmallow for 10 minutes develop into more capable teenagers? A study years ago said yes; an attempt to replicate it found little effect.

These studies measure correlation between the four-year-olds' untrained capacity to defer gratification and their later abilities. Whether actively teaching four-year-olds to defer gratification would lead to later benefits for them is a different question.

Indeed, it is possible that changes in patterns of raising children have altered the tendencies that the studies measure.

Coal and nuclear bailouts

vendredi 8 juin 2018 à 02:00

The saboteur-in-chief wants to force electric utilities to buy electricity from failing coal and nuclear plants, to keep them running and endangering people.

To create an excuse, the saboteurs would pretend there is an emergency.

DoE civil rights cases

vendredi 8 juin 2018 à 02:00

The Department of Education, under the control of Saboteur DeVos, has dismissed hundreds of civil rights cases — not based on their merits but rather based on Republicans' lack of merit.