I don't have a lot of nice things to say about Ben Sasse. One of the most important people in my life had pancreatic cancer and went quickly. It's an evil disease. Cancer sucks. If you're celebrating his diagnosis, you're not someone I want to be friends with or get to know--that's just evil.

More reason to hate them all.

I hate Trump. He something good and beautiful, he has to destroy it. Put it on his goddam Bedford golf course instead.

His advice is to look beyond the now: "If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"

Former CDC Director, not prevaricating:

I can’t believe this. This girl has no business in college at all. And she’s severely damaged a young scholar who should have been applauded to flunking a creature who should never have been admitted to university in the first place.

But Ioannidis is such a Science Hero! Right??

Republicans are jockeying for 2028 Three events this week show the sides taking shape: 1. Mitt Romney wakes & speaks up 2. Heritage rats jump to Pence foundation 3. JD gets Widower endorsement Bonus round Bonus round: Nicki replaces Kanye & Ice Cube

Facts of life! Our Ops are one and the same. #BlackandJewishUnity4Ever

White Supremacists prioritize creating division between our communities We threaten them most when we're bonded #Black&JewishUnity4ever

Since Ioannidis is quoted in Science today, I'd like to share something many of us probably (mercifully) missed. Six months ago he published the most insane under-estimate of Covid mortality averted by vaccination I've seen: 2.5 million deaths globally in 2020-24 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Like factory farms but for people. Obscene and horrifying.

I don’t care why. He helped defeat the bill and he totally sucks.

You literally had Black people, specifically Black women yelling about what's coming and now we are here, its okay to yell at Dems for what the Republicans are doing. I mean....It doesn't make much sense to me but we don't have to agree

Ma'am. You just handed the GOP a scapegoat. They are in total control of the government, over half of the main stream media and all over social media with propaganda. They are on television hollering white power things and you are talking about criticism of Dems?

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Amazing and sad. Thanks for putting this together. @wendyorent.bsky.social

Hubby sent me this…. Gotta love Cher she is fucking awesome and the queen of come backs 💯💯💯

The last time I quit the Atlantic, it was over one of those, I believe. If there’s one thing that gives me hope of surviving in a flood of AI slop, it’s that top news in the US has forever been foisting reactionary slop masked in a decent grasp of English, to give the veneer of erudition to it.

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

You know what? I'm going to block you for this deeply racist post.

The hatred of Jews had to evolve. It learned new words. It dressed itself up. It became respectable. It stopped saying “Jew” and started saying “Zionist.”  Same knife. New handle. #Antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/jfe3/p/n...

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Nope! Red herrings. It was the racism, the misogynoir. Because if it were those things and not using Black women as a whipping post for all their grievances, they'd be protesting the PRESIDENT, not the person who lost, is no longer in government and on a book tour. At this point, it's harassment.

It was a most inspiring, joyful campaign and that’s a hill I’m prepared to die on. It’s not Harris’s fault that America is full of sanctimonious “Uncommitteds” and Know-Nothings.

of the electorate there's not enough of us to screw him 2. There's a Lot of transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community But, together w/ the Black & Jewish communities? We have the numbers! 😁🥰 None of us will forget the fuckery, bigotry, antisemitism & racism he's committed in his quest for power!!

The recent push for US vax schedule to be like Denmark's has many potential legal & policy impacts. RFK Jr.'s efforts to undermine the US schedule has longer legal & economic ends that involve the impt vaccine court via increasing pharma liability & thus risks vaccine manufacturing sustainability.🛟

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

John Barry, author of a major book about the 1918 flu, The Great Influenza, wrote in that book, “The question “why?” is too big for science.“ I disagree. The question”why” IS science. If you can’t tell why something happened you can’t tell anything at all.I think that “why” is much of what’s missing

This is brilliant.

Has anyone noticed that Stephen Miller looks more like a toilet bowl than ever?

So, the Washington Post was wrong to publish Woodward and Bernstein's articles on Watergate because they never got Nixon to go on record, huh Bari?

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

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At this point, the survivors need to release the information.

In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is: “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

As a practitioner of a faith that heavily emphasizes agency, I’m kind of embarrassed that I didn’t think of that. But that’s why God blessed us with each other. Thanks, Grandma.

Being ratioed is not a badge of honor. People are telling you something-but go ahead, call commenters thought police. The fact remains that anyone who thinks Bari Weiss is a fine writer or thinker or an honest journalist is a very poor judge of writing, thinking, and journalism.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Boycott CBS. every program. Every platform Never turn it on your TV, never look at it online. Pretend it doesn’t exist. We should not tolerate State-controlled media in this country, nor political patsies like Bari Weiss.

I’m just here to remind everyone, there’s a group of people calling themselves “progressives” last i checked. This is Real Progress!! Not touring the country taking shots at the Democratic Party yelling about oligarchs and selling books.

Bari is not a news editor - she is a right wing MAGA political operator - playing the role of a news person - just like the 6 Republican operatives in black robes play the role of justices on the MAGA scotus.

I will never, so long as I live, forget the torrents of people on Twitter who spent most of 2020 arguing that people like me being killed by that virus would be a boon to society. And he sided with them. Whether he believed it or was just in it for the fame doesn’t matter. That corrodes the soul.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Sorry, meme-misspelling of MORE. He wanted more SARS-CoV-2 in the world. His nonsense “focused protection” fig leaf notwithstanding, he wanted to cull the herd so the strong could get on with their lives.

Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran CBS news reporter who led the story: “I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.” The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now.

Just wondering, what kind of name is Bari anyway? More important, what kind of person? We already know what kind of journalist. State Media girl, the panderer to power, and journalistic sellout Bari Weiss.

How crass is Jay Bhattacharya? How indifferent to public health and children’s well-being? He can’t not know how dangerous altering the vaccine schedule Is. He’ll do anything to stay in power and please his raddled, purple-faced master RFK Jr. Anything.

I hate Vance. I fucking hate him.

This!!!