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18 May, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Reminder that when Trump sat in a truck as President, Alex Petri - who gets paid to write things for WaPo - wrote a fan fic story about him just driving away in it.

I wish I were kidding.
google.com/amp/s/www.wash…
And let me tell you, it was deranged.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who remembers how very bizarre the last four years was.
Can you un-break someone’s brain?
I’m sure I will come to regret things I have committed to print but my God if I ever sink so low that I write a Kerouac-styled tale about a President I don’t like because they sat in a truck one time please, please, put me out of my misery.
Anyway, everyone really did lose their minds about Trump in a truck.

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18 May
🧵THREAD🧵

The idea that Covid-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China has gained mainstream traction of late.

It can be easy to forget that, a little over a year ago, the idea was derided as a vile, senseless conspiracy theory.

Let’s revisit. ⤵️
@SenTomCotton took much of the initial heat for suggesting this as a possibility back in January.

Here’s what the @nytimes had to say about his “fringe theory” that “lacks evidence” and which “scientists have dismissed.”

Apparently those concerns have been un-dismissed since. ImageImage
In another piece in 2020, @nytimes concluded that “most agencies remain skeptical” and “scientists are dismissive” of the lab leak theory. Unfortunately, appears that was certainly true, but not to their credit.

Yet another story continues to describe the idea as a conspiracy. ImageImageImage
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13 May
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@charlescwcooke’s brilliant piece on Rebekah Jones, supposedly a COVID whistleblower in Florida, exposed her as a fraud & a charlatan.

You may be wondering how the grift went on for so long. My hunch: unscrupulous media attention.

I thought it was time to revisit.⤵️
First, quick background.

@GeoRebekah earned media fame after she was fired for, purportedly, refusing to “fudge” the #’s on COVID deaths/cases in FL. But as Cooke explains none of her story was (or even could be) true. She never had access to data at all: google.com/amp/s/www.nati…
But that of course didn’t stop mainstream outlets from rushing to report how big, bad Governor DeSantis had punished this poor whistleblower supposedly trying to do her job.

That’s, at least, how anyone would read the coverage from @CNN.

Any follow up from those legal experts? ImageImageImage
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12 May
Part of why the Rep Cheney fiasco is such news is that political courage doesn’t really exist anymore, so something like a member of Congress picking intraparty fights & thereby losing a temporary position 99% of Americans couldn’t describe is the closest approximation we have.
Being a member of Congress is basically a golden ticket to the good life so long as you don’t get caught breaking lots of laws that people care about - and even then, that’s no guarantee of punishment. Even disgraced members tend to be just fine.
The fallback option is always making a zillion dollars as a lobbyist. How much courage does it take to upset the apple cart when that’s your safety net?
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12 May
Anyone earnestly interested in helping our republic would be trying to improve one or the other of the two political parties that will exist and matter in our lifetime, not launch quixotic vanity campaigns for a third party.
That’s what really gets me about all of this. These people - from Bill Kristol and Evan McMullin to the anonymous oped guy - saw another faction wrest control of the GOP and rather than try to make it better they picked up their ball and went home *that same campaign cycle*
It’s short sighted and petulant and self-important. And it reveals that those jumping ship are infinitely more interested in holding onto temporal power than they are anyone’s long term best interest or the principles that (continue to!) shape political parties.
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11 May
Ah, yes. David Frum. Local expert on Middle East successes.
I'm going to create a bot that simply reminds David Frum that he is, in fact, David Frum every time he tweets some jacked up bullshit about the Middle East
I'm no fan of cancel culture - as I've written about before - but I do think it's probably fair to say that maybe we shouldn't take advice about Middle East policy from the dude who wrote the speech convincing Americans that invading Iraq was a good idea?
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10 May
Think a lot of this comes down to the difference between the hard antinatalism of environmental radicals vs. the soft “ew, what woman would risk her career to raise babies” antinatalism of (mostly young, educated, progressive, white, female) online types.
What’s most interesting to me is the bleed-over from the former to the latter - the idea that environmental considerations make it some kind of moral evil that some (many! most!) women want to have children.
Which, as I think Zaid pointed out recently, seems more a defensive crouch allowing a certain variety of (again, mostly white, career-driven, progressive in her 20s/30s) woman to feel she’s got the moral high ground for being mad that her mom dares suggest she think about kids.
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