This is truly a sad, ridiculous descent into self-parody. For all my disagreements/acrimony with Glenn I always had to credit that he'd created a pretty great publication, one that has published lots of really stellar journalism, albeit sometimes from edit POVs I ...
2/ disagree with. Part of that credit was that I thought he still ran it, at least in some executive chairman kind of sense. Having to resign because they won't publish your nonsense would suggest otherwise. Here he announces that his colleagues/employees at the Intercept ...
3/ are simply more Democratic/establishment hacks doing the bidding of Joe Biden. I get not wanting to be edited. Of all people I get this. It's not happenstance that I ended up in the professional set up I did. But being edited isn't being censored. That's not how it ...
4/ works. It take it that whoever actually runs the Intercept grew weary of Glenn's wanting to involve himself in another foreign intelligence plot or twirl himself into a coil tightly enough that he could see that joining forces with Tucker Carlson and some jangle of ...
5/ Ukrainian mafiosi was the highest expression of liberationist/left politics. So now he departs to join the intellectual dark web, perhaps to take a more honest look at the science of racial brain size or make war on Antifa or perhaps just start a new pub with Bari Weiss.
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Comical goofball stuff. HHS was planning a covid psa campaign with a ton of taxpayer money that was basically going to be campaign propaganda. It was supposed to land right before the election. As you can see here the theme was the best way to help America is to support Trump.
2/ there’s also this spreadsheet of possible celebs to be part of the campaign. The writer appears to be gop/incel adjacent. The whole is sneering but also kind of sad because the description of basically everyone they want is basically “hates Trump”
3/ there’s also this weird thing of saying what community they’re from, Hispanic, lbgt etc. and one of the categories is “super spreader” ... like maybe this was a way to make them more appealing to Trump?
This is a pretty wild statement and a pretty crazy chain of events. I really don’t know enough abt the particulars to understand post-2015 Glenn. But I do know that the defining thing abt Glenn has always been the Manichaean worldview. Humanity is divided into three groups.
2/ There’s Glenn. People who agree with Glenn. And then finally the liars and scoundrels and hacks who make up the rest of humanity. For centuries Christians have debated the eternal fate of those who’ve never had the gospel preached to them at all. They haven’t had ...
3/ the chance to hear the message. They haven’t rejected it. They’ve never had the chance. I don’t know how the comparable group is deemed in Glenn theology. Do people in Sudan or the rain forests of Brazil who’ve never heard of Glenn get classed amongst the good people or ...
the frequently expressed claim that public schools are remaining closed over the objections of parents is rather belied, at least in NYC. The Mayor is now resorting to bullying parents into returning since just over 20% have agreed to so far. nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyr…
2/ A bit of context. The plan was that there were be opt in windows each term. So a few chances over the course of the year to opt for remote or hybrid learning. The the city abruptly changed the plan a few days ago saying that the opt in window in early November will be ...
3/ the only one. So as the city and state see numbers rising the Mayor and Schools Chancellor are saying parents either have to come back into the classrooms NOW or give up the ability to do so for the rest of the year. There's no way to see that as anything but compulsion to ...
Telecoms are so crooked. My wife on third day of calls with @ATT after we found out they’d been charging for a phantom iPad for years. One absurd excuse, lie after another. The latest is they want to know the credit number she used 20 years ago when she first signed up for att.
2/ So they’re basic saying she needs to prove who she is now, I guess on the theory that someone is impersonating my wife to get @att to refund a fraudulent charge? That makes sense. And they can only know it’s her if she can remember the credit number she used in 2000?
3/ The really bonkers thing is that we caught them doing this before. It was like the cell phone account zombie apocalypse. Each time we’d stop service or get a new device they’d later bring the old device account back to life and start charging us again. I spent ....
This is a very good column. And it includes details of what sounds like yet more White House lawbreaking. But I disagree with Ben that this is a reassertion of an elite media gate keeping role. There’s hardly a blackout of the purported hunter ... nytimes.com/2020/10/25/bus…
2/ biden hard drives. There are lots of stories about it in msm publications. Not to mention the fact that I think it’s dubious to say that fox, wsj, nypost et al aren’t part of the elite press. The key is really who decides what the story is. For decades the elite ...
3/ political press has been wired for the GOP. This has been true for a number of reason. But the upshot is a pattern that right media defines what the question and then more elite corporate media engages that question, even if their conclusions are sometimes different.
In general I’m very sympathetic to jurisdictions opting for some or all remote school instruction. However I also recognize that there is increasing though still not dispositive evidence that suggests that schools, particularly k-6 are not playing a major roles in disease ...
2/ spread. But it seems odd to me that we’re not seeing more discussion of the fact that the latest surge coincides close to exactly with the resumption of school after the summer. Now, I know that the presumed - and I assume real - culprit is seasonality. More time indoors ...
3/ because of cold weather and drier air which seems to be more conducive to the spread of respiratory viruses in general. But the coinciding chronology seems to merit at least come consideration. This is especially the case since in most school districts surveillance ...