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Most Americans, including most Republicans, want vaccine requirements.

So don’t fall for pluralistic ignorance and the anti-vax propaganda trying to make vaccination seem unpopular.

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Screenshot of Mike Hoerger’s twitter posts.

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Hyping for Godot.

2024-08-20

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The image is the deep fried meme of Garfield the cartoon cat’s head and underneath it is the caption You are not immune to propaganda.

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

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don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 001

Read More 2023-08-11

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Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.

2023-08-08

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Image description: A graph from Data for Progress showing that voters across party lines want to increase - not cut - funding for social security medicare and medicaid. Even among republicans the lowest percentage in favour of funding medicaid is a majority at 59% and the highest support for cutting medicaid tops out at a minority of 20%. of all likely voters the numbers for increasing funding for the programs are 86% to increase Social security, 84% medicare, and 74% for medicaid. Democrats support increasing funding for them by 90%, 89%, and 82% respectively.

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Most voters in the U.S. want to increase funding for Medicaid, but the elected lawmakers decided to cut people off Medicaid instead

2023-03-06

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Posted by Matthew Cortland on twitter. Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Voters Support Masks in Indoor Public Spaces. Description: Do you support or oppose requiring that all individuals wear masks in public indoor spaces, like in grocery stores, restaurants, and retail shops, in order to combat another surge of coronavirus infections? All likely voters — Support: 55%, Oppose: 43% Democrat — Support: 83%, Oppose: 16% Independent / Third party — Support: 54%, Oppose: 44% Republican — Support: 29%, Oppose: 69% Black or African American — Support: 71%, Oppose: 28% Hispanic or Latino/a — Support: 80%, Oppose: 18% White — Support: 52%, Oppose: 47% Disabled — Support: 61%, Oppose: 38% Not disabled — Support: 52%, Oppose: 47% Disabled household member — Support: 62%, Oppose: 37%

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Don’t fall for Pluralistic Ignorance on Masks

2023-01-02

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