HeyJaredJust A Dude With Thoughts … By a dude named Greg
Civil dialog matters because I learned and understood when I was younger that no one person or side had all of the answers.
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Fact-checking is easy. (opens the original)
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Consider the source.Click away from the story to investigate even if you want to believe it to be true.Read beyond the headlines.They are designed to grab your attention even when the story is not as accurate as it should be.Check the author.Are they even real?Are they credible?Look at the date.Recycling data has become common in the never-ending news cycle.Is it current info or does it have age?Is it a joke? Is it satire?Check your biases.Ask the expe
McDonald’s loss of magic. (opens the original)
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McDonald’s is thought to have a “hamburger problem” when it doesn’t. What it mainly has is an identity problem.The Covid-19 pandemic forced a lot of changes on businesses from supply chain to applicant pool to consumer tastes and preferences to wage growth on top of that but that is not their primary problem. Their entire business is a product and the definition of their product is what has brought people into their restaurants for multiple generations. Until now. The question behind all of it:
North Carolina Republicans and Mail-In Voting (opens the original)
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The North Carolina GOP has actively fought against mail-in voting for years; Legislative changes, administrative directives, lawsuits, etc. While doing so they have also simultaneously encouraged their own pool of voters to use that method. Since 2024 their Republican-controlled General Assembly and their State Board of Elections have created and implemented multiple measures to neutralize mail-in voting to include prohibiting the counting of ballots that are received after Election Day, elimina
42 Days to the Midterms (opens the original)
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Using secret police.Denying facts with lies.Controlling media.Normalizing corruption.Rejecting election results.Controlling education.Using the military against citizens.Appointing unqualified loyalists.Rewriting history.Ignoring due process.Labeling immigrants as enemies.Using fear to gain power.Replacing science with ideology.Accusing others of your own crimes.Pardoning criminal loyalists.Normalizing political violence.Suppressing voters.Erasing and faking government data.<div class="captioned
Delete X, delete TikTok (opens the original)
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In 2015 Donald Trump said that the only way he would lose the election is if it were rigged. Any media outlet or journalist who he does not agree with on their reporting about him is called “fake news”.As it turns out, Putin manipulated the 2016 election for Trump. As it turns out, Musk manipulated the 2024 election for Trump. (They apparently did not believe that Trump was lose to Biden in 2020 in the free and fair election.) As we approach the 2026 midterms guess what the intelligence communit
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