....and they want to make sure they keep on getting invited to the right cocktail parties. So their first consideration is the acceptability of their review in their social circles, and that often depends on the movie's position on the 'upper crust's' pet social causes. The quality and entertainment value of a movie are less important than 'sending the right message.'

The disproportionate representation of smaller states in the senate and the electoral college is the point of those systems! In a 'pure' democracy, the different needs and character of the smaller population states would be run over roughshod by a handful of cities. The republic & federal form of government ensure that states are largely governed according to the needs and desires of their residents, and that anything done on the national government level is the result of a broad consensus on those issues.

To mourn the system as 'broken' because of the design of the Senate and Electoral college is to say that you don't want those 'country people' to matter; that you just want to rule them from far-off cities.

I don't believe that the studies about 'names' controlled for perceived class; I'm not sure how those 'researchers' selected names for their study and called them 'white' and 'black' (or whatever), but if you don't control for class perception then the researchers might have been revealing their own biases and limited view. Social research is fraught with these kinds of problems and worse (like outright fabrication, or more kindly 'non-reproducibility')

As for blind orchestra auditions, some orchestras are trying to do away with those so they can get the right mixture of skin tones to fit their preferences. The folks who got into the orchestras by benefit of blind auditions are out of favor among the politically active set and must be replaced.

Of the many differences between Jacobs' stunt and this planned stunt, one of the most important parts is that the planes will be going straight down towards a controlled target area, where it will be ensured that no one is in danger should a plane crash. Further, steps will be taken to protect the environment from spilled oil and avgas.

1) Levels of antibodies against COVID fade noticeably over a period of months.

T-cells are the body's mechanism for providing long lasting resistance, and they are significantly more difficulty to test for. Fading antibodies does not mean 'no protection'.
Here's the first article when I searched, but they've been discussed for months and I'm sure you can find plenty.

I also have had lifetime allergies and 99% of the time, my nasal passages are clogged.

Pardon me if you've tried it, but consider eating a tablespoon a day of local honey for a month or two. Try to get it from a hive in your county, but anything less than 50 miles away should do. If you can find it unfiltered, so much the better.
I stumbled across that treatment when I was searching the internet to see if I could double up on Allegra safely. I did it, and my allergies greatly reduced in severity and are now controlled by normal doses of OTC medicine- if I need anything at all.
Basic theory is that the allergens are in the pollen, and when they're processed through your digestive system, your immune system becomes more familiar with them without triggering congestion. And if it doesn't work... well, you ate honey for a couple months. No harm done.

....the very thing which has led to the climate crisis in the first instance.

If the 'Climate Crisis' was real and not just a grab for power, the COP26 summit would have been a zoom meeting. Instead every airport within 40 miles of Glasgow was jammed with parked private jets. They could have even flown first class commercial. If the people who say it's a crisis don't act like it's a crisis, why should they be taken seriously?
That's not to say improvements shouldn't be made in emissions from a variety of sources- but cranking the rhetoric up to 'crisis' is plainly bombastic.

You know what's funny? The big bang theory was resisted by many when it was first proposed, because of the plainly theistic implications of an absolute beginning.

There? I think you'll make it just fine. There and back? Not so sure. It looks like the F150 Lightning Range is about 300 miles with the larger battery pack. Towing a similar sized camper a similar distance last year (with my 3.5L Ecoboost F150), my gas mileage went down to 17 MPG (vs 19 MPG unladen).
So if the lightning's range is impacted by that load in a similar fashion, you're looking at a range closer to 268 miles. That looks about like 4 hours of driving to me, though maybe 5 or 6 on back roads.

(YMMV, literally)

Your paper proves that you can write a lot without saying much.
First, the author conflates birth defects (intersex) with willful body modification (surgery and hormone treatments). No one is complaining about intersex people. No one. To drag them in to provide cover for what amounts to accusations of cheating is disingenuous.
Second, read all his conclusions. He uses the terms 'may' and 'no evidence' a great deal. He engages in a great deal of speculation than the people who want to ban males from competing against women, but he slathers on some science-talk, which blinds some folks. The people who he argues against have common experience on their side (men are bigger, stronger, faster than women); the author has 'may' and 'no evidence' on his side.
The only actual evidence he offers up is item 51, a small study of 8 long distance runners who have had hormone injections. That's it. That's all his evidence. Everything else is either speculation or a political position.