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I went to Kings Island today with the baby boy and his grandparents (he rode mad rides, and I got a soft pretzel), and we’re going downtown tomorrow to Cincinnati’s Asian Food Festival. #WHCD
Suck it, nerds.
I enjoyed the #whcd weekend traditions of party hopping & bloodmoon sacrifices (& bottomless free brunches on Sunday sponsored by Reuters, followed promptly by blood sacrifice of the Lottery Virgin) as much as the next Washington media guy but it starts getting old after your 20s
@FlintGate @EPAMichaelRegan @nscorp @SecretaryPete @USDOT @UnitedforEP @juliakconley @commondreams @POTUS @VP @GovMikeDeWine @GovernorShapiro @SenSherrodBrown @JDVance1 @RepBillJohnson @DNC @GOP @SenateDems @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats @TheWheltonGroup @SabbySabs2 @RevBlackNetwork @WhiteHouse @EPA @johnsonjakep @RiverValleyOrg @louisd217 @AlexStarSpeak @Jaybefaunt @ComptonMadeMe @GOPGovs @onetoughnerd @DemGovs @GovWhitmer @stopitkatie @grist @SEP_US @WSWS_Updates @ErinBrockovich @JordanChariton @StatusCoup Good news. Alan Shaw, CEO of @nscorp reports business can resume since "South tracks reinstalled at site of #EastPalestine train derailment" Resuming business is the most important thing. Forget about that toxic exposure nonsense. cincinnati.com/story/news/202… #VinyChloride #Dioxin
@FlintGate @EPAMichaelRegan @nscorp @SecretaryPete @USDOT @UnitedforEP @juliakconley @commondreams @POTUS @VP @GovMikeDeWine @GovernorShapiro @SenSherrodBrown @JDVance1 @RepBillJohnson @DNC @GOP @SenateDems @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats @TheWheltonGroup @SabbySabs2 @RevBlackNetwork @WhiteHouse @EPA @johnsonjakep @RiverValleyOrg @louisd217 @AlexStarSpeak @Jaybefaunt @ComptonMadeMe @GOPGovs @onetoughnerd @DemGovs @GovWhitmer @stopitkatie @grist @SEP_US @WSWS_Updates @ErinBrockovich @JordanChariton LEAKED AUDIO: #NorfolkSouthern CEO #AlanShaw BULLSH*TS Sick #EastPalestine resident youtube.com/live/QqG2NJ7y_… @JordanChariton @louisd217 @StatusCoup #OhioTrainDerailment #OhioChemicalDisaster #VinylChloride #ControlledBurn #Dioxins #Carcinogens
@FlintGate @EPAMichaelRegan @nscorp @SecretaryPete @USDOT @UnitedforEP @juliakconley @commondreams @POTUS @VP @GovMikeDeWine @GovernorShapiro @SenSherrodBrown @JDVance1 @RepBillJohnson @DNC @GOP @SenateDems @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats @TheWheltonGroup @SabbySabs2 @RevBlackNetwork @WhiteHouse @EPA @johnsonjakep @RiverValleyOrg @louisd217 @AlexStarSpeak @Jaybefaunt @ComptonMadeMe @GOPGovs @onetoughnerd @DemGovs @GovWhitmer @stopitkatie @grist @SEP_US @WSWS_Updates @ErinBrockovich @JordanChariton @StatusCoup "Norfolk Southern has a dubious history of using questionable environmental testing contractors" Whose Test Results Should #EastPalestine Believe? prospect.org/environment/20… @gurleygg @TheProspect #OhioTrainDerailment #OhioChemicalDisaster #VinylChloride #ControlledBurn #Dioxins
BREAKING—US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has just tested positive for #COVID19. He recently attended the @whca dinner event with 2600+ people, where reporters from many media outlets have also now tested positive. ➡️ This Vf headline was on point. #WHCD #COVIDisAirborne 
2) We epidemiologists and aerosol scientists have warned about the poor ventilation and high density being a bad setup for almost guaranteed transmission at @whca dinner if anyone in the audience had subclinical (undetected) virus. And indeed the superspreading event happened.
3) ’The nation’s most distinguished super spreader event’. @Trevornoah was spot on in his opening lines of his #WHCD speech.
📍BREAKING—here it comes—Jonathan Karl tests positive for #COVID19 on Monday after attending the @WHCA’s dinner—sitting next to Kim Kardashian and talking one on one with Biden at #WHCD—yes that dinner we epidemiologists all warned about.
By @maxwelltani
politico.com/news/2022/05/0…
By @maxwelltani
politico.com/news/2022/05/0…
2) We epidemiologists and aerosol scientists have warned about the poor ventilation and high density being a bad setup for almost guaranteed transmission at @WHCA dinner if anyone in the audience had subclinical (undetected) virus. Welp and it happened.
3) I hereby nominate @Trevornoah as an honorary epidemiologist. He at least called the #WHCD for what it is.
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
2) and yes, the CO2 meters don’t lie — very bad ventilation at the #WHCD.
3) they didn’t have to superspread if they just used Far UV light bulbs, or upper room UV, or more HEPA filters. Yet they rejected it.
Wow—a CO2 concentration reading at the @WHCA dinner tonight… at 8:20pm. A CO2 of 2233 is over *5.5x higher* than outdoors, and is a sign of VERY poor ventilation. They should have added more air disinfection at #whitehousecorrespondentsdinner.
From @nalticx. #COVIDisAirborne
From @nalticx. #COVIDisAirborne
2) Even at the center of the table, CO2 still 1951 ppm. That is still over 4.8x higher than normal 400 ppm levels. Bad ventilation.
3) A photo and testimony from a WaPo reporter who’s there at WHCA now.
“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
“The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote… If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.” @JoeBiden
“[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did — ‘look at all of the people fighting for me’ — hitting rewind, watching it again…”
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
“We must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” @JoeBiden
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
"We've seen a lot in these last 4.5 years of Donald Trump and nothing, in my experience, was more serious than this attempt to overthrow a lawful election, corrupting and weaponizing the Department of Justice. Absolutely horrifying."
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
"The very purpose of this law is to chill people. Not just abortion providers in Texas, but to chill the entire community of people who want to help women right now into second guessing whether they’ll be on the hook."
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
“What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body… What is so hard about saying that this is wrong?”
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021
“What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution? …What is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
“Guaranteeing the right to vote and ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do… John Lewis said, ‘Freedom is not a state; it is an act.’ …We WILL act… For our democracy, for America itself, we MUST act.” @JoeBiden
Tom Brady: “Not a lot of people think that we could have won. And in fact I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won.”
President Biden: “I understand that.
President Biden: “I understand that.
"You can be in favor or against more government regulation and still have home in the Republican Party… The ONLY thing you cannot be is in FAVOR of VOTING RIGHTS and against #TheBigLie." @marceelias @DeadlineWH
PLEASE FOLLOW @DemocracyDocket for updates.
PLEASE FOLLOW @DemocracyDocket for updates.
Our United States leadership struggle is no longer Left versus Right.
Our choice is now DEFEND DEMOCRACY or enable DICTATORSHIP.
To DEFEND DEMOCRACY, reject the radicalized Republican Party.
#DemocracyOrDictatorship #ResignRepublican @MeidasTouch
Our choice is now DEFEND DEMOCRACY or enable DICTATORSHIP.
To DEFEND DEMOCRACY, reject the radicalized Republican Party.
#DemocracyOrDictatorship #ResignRepublican @MeidasTouch
“We need TWO political parties in this country that are both LIVING IN REALITY and you (Republicans) ain’t one of them!!“ @TimRyan
#TimRyan @RepTimRyan #TimRyanForSenate
#TimRyan @RepTimRyan #TimRyanForSenate
Trump: "I don’t want to talk about it, but he was screaming, crying and whimpering.”
“I have a very good instinct about things."
"I wrote a book, a really successful book, about a year before the World Trade Center…there’s someone named Osama bin Laden…you ought to take him out; he’s big trouble.
I think I wrote 12 books.
Nobody listened to me.”
I think I wrote 12 books.
Nobody listened to me.”
About 13 years ago in Central Park, I was stopped and frisked by the police while on a morning run. They had me up against a tree, claiming that I looked like I was “running from something.” The white officers said that “I didn’t look like a runner.” #WhenTheySeeUs
I began explaining myself, nervous, watching as people ran past me...wondering. Knew that my words, visibility, and “nice” running clothes might not save me. Eventually they let me go. This was all before folks pulled out their phones and taped. #WhenTheySeeUs
3 years ago, I shared this story with President @BarackObama and folks in civil rights, elected leaders, and law enforcement at the White House. The head of the FOP said that all my talk of racial profiling was “new to him.” #WhenTheySeeUs
Holy crap, turned on the whcd just in time for the awards announcement. I think this dude is about to pass out.
Dammit, well a little play by play
#WHCD
#WHCD
First off...the obiance, that of a conference hall of a decent hourly/nightly/weekly joint.
This guy WDF is he? Someone get him his enhaler.
#WHCD2019
This guy WDF is he? Someone get him his enhaler.
#WHCD2019
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 bit.ly/2DDmEsD
Ran into one of my favorite folks in the world, @SusannahWDC, Executive Director of @runningstart, which works to train and empower young women to run for office.
#WHCD
#WHCD
Remember the big scandal at the @whca dinner last year? This remains an important lesson for reporters about the need to be much more vigilant when reacting to the noise that comes out of @realDonaldTrump's administration. /1
Following the #WHCD, much of the news media fell for the Trumpian playbook hook, line and sinker./2
@michelleisawolf delivered a hard-hitting comedy set, much of which was critical of the way that the news media covered @realDonaldTrump and ignored many pertinent stories./3
My essay on the importance of profanity is out! (Read the editors note and know that I spell f**k without **) nbcnews.com/think/opinion/… #WhyISayFuck
Isn’t interesting that in response to my essay on the importance of profanity for women, the dogs of patriarchy bark extra loudly
It is instructive that in the era of Trump — a man who has torpedoed the notion of civility — women are still expected to be polite and demure. “She did not cater to the room” was an actual criticism of Michelle Wolf’s performance at #WHCD
#WHCD #MichelleWolf #SarahSanders #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner
Fuck this whole conversation about "what happened" to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I'm tired of reading and hearing about the "outrage" over what was "done to her" at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
Fuck this whole conversation about "what happened" to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I'm tired of reading and hearing about the "outrage" over what was "done to her" at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
At this time, when there is so much violence, psychological and emotional, being perpetrated against the black, queer, and female body by the Trump administration, I really don't have time for people worried about a few jokes told at a dinner.
When I think of those travesties that Sanders calls "press conferences", this administration doesn't need a dinner, it needs a tribunal.
If you're offended by #MichelleWolf's #WHCD remarks, but you're not offended at the genitalia-grabbing, serial liar and his cadre of predators in the White House who are making America a global punchline—it may be a case of terminal hypocrisy.
And as harsh as her comments might have been, let's not make a false equivalency here. This is the point.
Wolf saying rude things—isn't her "becoming the other side." It isn't the same as being the people in power who actually create legislation that damages people.
Wolf saying rude things—isn't her "becoming the other side." It isn't the same as being the people in power who actually create legislation that damages people.
I wouldn't have gone there, but it's astounding that people who support this Administration can feign offense, while it does such offensive things to the people of this country. This should merit outrage.
If by “destroys” you mean “reminds people why they utterly loathe the media and vote Trump,” you are correct.
From a reader: "I would say Michelle Wolf was raising GOP turnout in the fall but most normal Americans aren't even watching this [expletive]. We should have a #WHCD every Sat. nite until the mid-terms."
From another: "I do so truly LOVE [DJT]. When I was in the Bush administration, we thought we had to play along. To pretend they didn't hate us, misreport us, and actively work against us. DJT has the courage and skill to fight back. To call out their hypocrisy, ...
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Dinner for Michigan rally cnn.it/2HAc5e4
Translation: Trump has no sense of humor and his fragile ego can’t tolerate being the butt of jokes.
Translation: Trump has no sense of humor and his fragile ego can’t tolerate being the butt of jokes.
Trump administration officials walk out as comedian Michelle Wolf’s routine stuns White House Correspondents' Dinner
politi.co/2r8ugfB via @politico
politi.co/2r8ugfB via @politico
Suckabee Goes Down in Flames as a Proxy for Donald Trump at WH Correspondents’ Dinner, Snowflakes Liquefy theroot.com/suckabee-goes-… via @TheRoot
