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Cowboys Coach Brian Schottenheimer Downplays Effect Sun Can Have at AT

“For too many political reporters…_way_ someone makes…argument–how nice they look…erudite they sound…polite they seem – …long taken precedent over…actual argument itself.”
“…as long as…tone is cheerful…no need to examine…ugliness of…words.”
“…true reckoning w/…life & legacy of _any_ political activist–no matter where…on…spectrum–has to address…substance of their words & deeds…not just…style. Focus on exactly what they said, not how nicely they said it.”

The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright ignore the ugly things that he said and instead to stress the polite ways he said them. It's an

Inflation has risen in three of the last four months
and is slightly higher than it was a year ago,
when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to Donald Trump
or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.

Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many
Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve who have dismissed or even downplayed inflation. That could prove risky for both the White House and the Fed while inflation is still above the Fed’s target of 2%. Surveys show that many Americans still see high prices as a major burden on their finances. And the Fed…

Not to downplay the seriousness of the many crimes of the CIA, however the bulk of their work is in gathering and analyzing information, rather than in the covert action side. And for all their well-known *failures* in the pure intelligence side, they mostly do it well.
Everything has a caveat. The existence of black and white is an evil myth.

Fascinating, balanced piece on civilization collapse-- how it can obviously bring increased violence and suffering, but how the average person may not have even noticed in the past, and how the reality of it is even more complicated https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse…

The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

Replaced article(s) found for hep-th. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new
[3/3]:
- Flipped Rotating Axion Non-minimally Coupled to Gravity: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter
Chao Chen, Suruj Jyoti Das, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Anish Ghoshal

Marc Maron on Anti-Woke "comedians". 🎯
I still think the best explanation for the anti-woke comedy thing is the "rebel comedian" ethos. These clowns think they're pushing back on suppression of speech, but they're just punching down.
I also notice Howie Mandel tries to downplay the influence (not "power") comedians with large platforms have.

PSA Food Recall Aldi
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand issued the recall on Monday for the 750-gram packets of Urban Eats Japanese Style Vegetable Gyoza.
They have been sold in Aldi stores in NSW, ACT, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. The affected dumplings have a best-before date of March 27, 2027.

Republicans have consistently used “just joking!”
as a shield to downplay and defend Trump’s indefensibly incendiary and bigoted rhetoric.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-just-joking

He's never "just joking"
And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

British politics is simultaneously turning right and left.
The left turn, in the Green Party and the proposal to set up Your Party, is, of course welcome.
But how seriously will these left neopopulists take the biophysical limits to the material economy?
Your Party putative leaders have hardly even mentioned climate and the Green leadership seems to downplay this fundamental issue.
How to we degrowthers influence these left turns (not stoning them)?
How to do that i…