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Reporting on psychedelics, vaping and smoking, effective altruism, philanthropy. Ex-Fortune. Runner. Washington Nationals fan. Blog at www.marcgunther.com

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What is hate? Who decides?

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By Marc Gunther Verified
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How the Southern Poverty Law Center tries to censor and punish its political opponents Photo by Bekky Bekks on Unsplash Republicans were frustrated by Silicon Valley when tech industry CEOs testified before to a House subcommittee during the summer of 2020. The big tech companies favored Democrats, conservatives complained.
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In defense of nicotine

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By Marc Gunther Verified
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This is from the California Department of Public Health. Tell it to Albert Einstein People have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years — long before the invention of the cigarette, the growth of the global tobacco industry, the pushback from the anti-smoking movement and, most recently, the arrival of safer nicotine alternatives like JUUL and ZYN. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson farmed tobacco. FDR and Churchill, Mark Twain and Virginia Woolf, and Sigmund Freud all smoked.
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And now a word from GiveDirectly

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By Marc Gunther Verified
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Asekon, a Kenyan man who used cash to buy a bike. This is my 24th weekly post to Substack. I’m donating all revenues to the nonprofit GiveDirectly, and sent them $1,340 a few weeks ago. GiveDirectly sends cash to the world’s poorest people and lets them decide how to spend it. Below, I’ve posted a thank-you email from GiveDirectly, but first, a thought or two about effective philanthropy and about this Substack. I’ve learned a lot about nonprofits since I began writing about philanthropy in 2015.
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