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Bad Takes: Worker deaths show that climate change is real and demands immediate action
Upwards of 20,000 adult deaths in the U.S. from 2008 to 2017 were linked to extreme heat.
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Bad Takes: Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine claims aren’t just bullshit, they’re dangerous bullshit
During a recent installment of his show, Joe Rogan permitted Robert Kennedy’s busted sewer main’s-worth of hazardous falsehoods to gush out, un-fact-checked.
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Bad Takes: Texas lawmakers are willing to imperil the planet to own ‘woke’ renewables
Deaths due to extreme heat in the Lone Star State reached a two-decade high last year, with pets and people keeling over by the hundreds.
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Bad Takes: Beware ‘Good Samaritans’ who deal in violence and vigilantism
Ours is plainly neither a culture that prioritizes mercy, nor one that treats violence as a last resort.
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Bad Takes: Child labor laws are under attack from business interests. Time to push back.
Some 250,000 migrant children have arrived in our country unaccompanied, and thousands have been exploited in grueling jobs.
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Bad Takes: Starbucks treats its workers like shit, and politicos allow the company to get away with it
Even though 301 Starbucks stores won their union elections, they’ve so far achieved zero union contracts to show for it, thanks to the company’s brazen obstruction.
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Bad Takes: Opponents of San Antonio’s Prop A are lying to thwart needed criminal-justice reforms
To stoke fear among voters, San Antonio’s powerful police union is mischaracterizing what the Justice Charter actually would do.
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Bad Takes: Gov. Greg Abbott’s voucher plan would defund Texas’ public schools to aid wealthy elites
There are no private schools in a majority of Texas counties, so where exactly does Abbott’s much-touted ‘school choice’ come in?
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Bad Takes: Yes, the Texas GOP’s obsession with drag is a distraction, but it will do real harm
If it becomes illegal for drag queens to read to elementary school students at the public library, we are slouching toward theocracy.
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Bad Takes: Dilbert cartoonist deserves blowback for racist tirade
Adams, the face of white fragility this month, represents millions of racists who have given up on Black people.
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Bad Takes: Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-diversity rhetoric is a shameful attempt to whitewash history
Abbott’s purported ‘Texas of Tomorrow’ sounds an awful lot like a shameful Texas of the past.
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Bad Takes: Republicans’ opposition to legalized gambling in Texas isn’t rooted in reality
This state — which lent its name to the most popular poker variant, Texas Hold ‘Em — is leaving an awful lot of moola on the table by prohibiting gambling.
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Bad Takes: Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s failure to hold CPS to a renewable model shows lack of leadership
While natural gas is a cleaner energy source than coal, it’s certainly not free of harmful pollution.
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Bad Takes: Texas prisons’ book bans serve no one, including the society into which inmates return
More than 9,000 titles, ranging from computer programming instruction to rock biographies, are banned in Texas prisons.
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Bad Takes: In a ‘Tale of Two Documents,’ the one about Texas women should draw real outrage
The noise about ‘Hunter Biden’s laptop’ is obscuring a report from the Texas government on a real world tragedy: the hundreds of mothers in this state who have died during or after childbirth over the past decade.
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Bad Takes: Ye’s antisemitic rants are a sign of a deep sickness infecting U.S. conservatism
Christian conservatives dogmatically repeat that ‘Christ is King,’ but somehow, the God of the Market still gets the last word.
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Bad Takes: The legal arguments against Biden’s student debt forgiveness make no sense
While all eyes were on Elon Musk setting fire to Twitter, another billionaire spent his spare time suing to stop Biden’s modest student debt forgiveness.
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Bad Takes: The midterms show politicos’ eagerness to fearmonger about crime instead of averting it
Nationally, Republicans spent a flabbergasting $157 million on crime-related political ads, analysis firm AdImpact found.
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Bad Takes: Donald Trump’s Big Lie reeks of Orwellian ‘doublethink,’ and it’s not a victimless offense
The consequences of the MAGA reality distortion field are deadly serious — especially if we want to remain a functioning democracy.
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Bad Takes: San Antonio radio host’s defense of Herschel Walker is disingenuous flatulence
KTSA talk jock Jack Riccardi’s defense of U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker truly takes the cake.