“How the Trump admin’s refusal to undertake transition efforts, an asylum system it left in ruins, GOP foot-dragging on confirming DHS and HHS chiefs, and Biden’s push to halt human rights violations unleashed a volley of finger-pointing” — there, I fixed it.
Seriously, we *just* got a confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services — whose department oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement — this week. Republicans refused to even take up that nomination before they lost control of the Senate. wsj.com/articles/janet…
How are this many major news organizations getting bamboozled — or insisting on acting as if they’ve bamboozled themselves — as they attempt to cover immigration? How is so much misinformation slipping through?
(I don’t believe COVID has waned — but the vaccines, along with predictions of booming growth, have produced a “light at the end of the tunnel” narrative that may be influencing the extent to which political journos continue to give it crisis coverage.) nytimes.com/2021/03/13/ups…
Schools are laboring to open, viral spread has increased in multiple states, and most Americans have yet to get vaccinated — but the zeitgeist in Beltway newsrooms appears to be “new crisis, who dis?”
Just putting out there, in preemption, that “he’s a probable incel, not a probable white supremacist, shut up woke-ist!” is not the argument winner that a few people might think.
People should note that the billionaire Mercer family, which is financing the resuscitation of Parler — infamous as a hub of 1/6 planning — and which financed Breitbart before that, is also putting its weight behind J.D. Vance’s potential senatorial ambitions.
“The family of hedge fund manager Robert Mercer also donated an undisclosed amount [to a Vance-supporting super PAC], and Lanza [a PAC advisor] declined to specify how much.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Listening to an @NPRCodeSwitch talk in a Twitter Space right now, and I have to agree with the approach apparent in Twitter’s announcements today: Clubhouse-style chats and Patreon-style memberships are more of a feature, in the end, than a product. nytimes.com/2021/02/25/tec…
Between Twitter’s rollouts, nascent apps like Clubhouse & Dispo, continuing growth @ Substack, and stuff like the Hey email app’s experimentation w/ blogging as a feature (see below), 2021 feels like a year of good ferment in tech — and it’s only February. world.hey.com/jason/hey-worl…