This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

Several times now I have typed and deleted a post about a recent feature article and I think it best to shut up on this Thanksgiving Eve so throwing this out to the universe instead and hoping it scratches the itch.

@baxterholmes.bsky.social tricked me into reading about basketball (Its really about Robert Caro and how all the best people adore him) www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about

Remember Andrew Wakefield? Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020. Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures. Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.

Fifteen years after Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license for his bogus study on autism and vaccines, the ascent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given the discredited former doctor a new level of popularity. www.ms.now/news/the-ret...

Really fortunate @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social writes about this. www.ms.now/news/the-ret...

A 15-year-old autistic boy walked away from his mother's fruit stand. When she called police for help, they found him, called ICE, and locked him away for weeks. Unconscionable.

“Public health has been turned inside out by the second administration of Donald Trump… and it is in this landscape that the comeback of Andrew Wakefield no longer feels impossible—it is underway.” READ MORE by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: www.ms.now/news/the-ret...

I’ve written a lot about birth and freebirth and have my own history with “natural” birth and it’s hard… these women have done such harm AND we have to better address a failure in the medical model and the actual abuse that led so many women to them. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Oh my god www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

This is haunting and so full of love and heartbreak and the world is just so unfair. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.

wow

BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

completely outside of politics, this is so charming

I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

This very cool, very kind gentleman teaches my kid drums. And if you, like me, enjoy 70’s-ish reminiscent kind of easier listening hipster music, you should check his music out. (This might be a terrible description but I’m gonna go with it) open.spotify.com/track/7JYaKR...

one of these things is

Is there some sort of pattern here? Help me, it's so hard to see.

I’m also struck how many important MAHA people are folks who tripped on shrooms for the first time as adults and think they’ve discovered something.

HHS Secretary has made a key component of his tenure ridding the agency of … checking notes … ah yes, conflicts of interest (From a write up of Kennedy’s MAHA Summit via one of many MAHA propaganda publications)

President Donald Trump’s reflexive defenders lazily rely on the phrase “Trump derangement syndrome” (TDS) as both a schoolyard taunt and a blanket pardon for any fact-based criticism of the president. But the level of mass denial many of them exhibited this week is actually deranged.

I’ve reported on so many regular people being threatened and villified by conspiracy theories and hatred for people, many times spread by MTG. It’s awful when anyone has to deal with harassment and threats and I wonder if the congresswoman can look inward, too

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

After upending the officer's life, The Blaze has now added the denial in graph four, under the "They were fucking in on it" pull quote.

Some undeniable truth about misinformation coverage, from @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I swear to God if Jeffrey Epstein had described Hillary Clinton as "that dog that hasn't barked," in secret emails these people would be making rabid content for days and calling for tribunals but ok www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

its so funny to me that serial plagiarist Benny Johnson just stole Tucker Carlson's whole schtick

Sometimes, after a lengthy news event that led to a long list of individual stories exploring all kinds of facets and angles, a single, 3,500-word write-up of the entire affair is incredibly helpful.

Cheryl Hines—who has mostly steered clear of RFK’s antivaxx world—headlined a weekend gala for Children’s Health Defense. At the private party, which I watched from the back of the room, she praised CHD and hawked her book— proceeds which were promised to CHD. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

Online and in real life, the ostriches had become symbols of defiance and the farm a destination for conspiracists, fringe media, and animal lovers. Great one by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause célèbre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

Season two comin up podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

i miss @bencollins.bsky.social on election nights

Just let me get the leak of what the NYPD group chats post about Zohran

extra extra right wing knuckleheads are at their election bullshit again and I've written the same thing one billionty times. www.msnbc.com/politics/liv...

*Some people* are obsessed with me being Jewish and so I rarely correct them that I’m not and now it’s in my Wikipedia page!

1/3 John Knox, anti-vaccine activist, is now acting head of ASPR -- the agency that handles pandemic response. He’s called COVID vaccine campaigns “nothing other than genocide.” 😶 Not exactly reassuring...

This story just cements for me how small the anti-vaccine community is. The bench is not a deep one.

Got a new story about a little-known HHS agency with a massive job: the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). ASPR gave us Operation Warp Speed. Now it's being run by a conspiracy theorist who calls those vaccines “genocide.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/meet-a...

We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades. Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Read it here:

somebody pitch me a story in Nashville quick

New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

lol

I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024. Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's new mini-documentary about Vought 👇 THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...

Updating my LEGO White House

I think all the time about this interview I did a year ago, where @bartongellman.bsky.social from the Brennan Center told me that, in their authoritarian war games, it was faith leaders who prevented troops from firing on civilians