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Thu, 19/03/2026 - 20:11

The academy’s oversight board records show leaders dismantling DEI to align with Trump directives. Critics warn the military is becoming “a Christian nationalist praetorian guard.”

The post Air Force Academy Prepares Ideological Overhaul, With Erika Kirk Bringing “Bold Christian Faith” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Tue, 17/03/2026 - 21:42
När Finanspolitiska rådet för några veckor sedan kritiserade regeringen för att inte ha följt sina egna (rampolitiska) ekonomiska regler, kunde den socialdemokratiske skuggfinansministern Mikael Damberg uppenbarligen inte låta bli att ta tillfället i akt och i populistisk anda ondgöra sig över att “våra barn och barnbarn kommer behöva betala för att svenska politiker i dag […]
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Tue, 17/03/2026 - 11:43
Recently stumbled across a thread by someone who dug deeply into the most recent data from Britain. It’s pretty abysmal, but what’s most interesting is the notes: There’s no systemic testing for either covid or long covid any more; Long Covid is often diagnosed as something else; You can have organ damage from Covid without […]
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Mon, 16/03/2026 - 05:23
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026 by Tony Wikrent   War US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now Jonathan Saul, March 10, 2026 [Reuters, via gcaptain] The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war […]
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Sun, 15/03/2026 - 19:07
På en pressträff i fredags meddelade L-ledaren Simona Mohamsson att hon vill ge Sverigedemokraterna ministerposter. Det var en tragisk dag för liberalismen. Men på ett personligt plan gör det också ont att se de personer jag fann liberalismen med, vara de som begraver den. Jag minns hur jag som ny Lufare hörde äldre medlemmar stolt berätta […]
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Sun, 15/03/2026 - 05:18
A helpful intuition for understanding ‘collider bias’ — the spurious correlation induced when one controls for a common effect rather than a common cause — can be found in modern dating behaviour. In a population at large, it is reasonable to assume that attractiveness and personality are independent. Mean people are not necessarily attractive, nor […]
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Sun, 15/03/2026 - 00:08
Traditionally, analysts use data on stopped individuals to study bias by computing the difference in violence rates between stopped minority and white civilians, while controlling for observable differences between these two sets of encounters. We term this the “naïve estimator” … However, without further assumptions, this quantity will have no causal interpretation so long as […]