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26 May
The best evidence we had—and the best evidence we still have, afaik—is studies in peer reviewed journals that found strong reason to believe the sars-cov2 virus was not manipulated by humans.
The “lab leak theory,” and whatever circumstantial evidence exists for it, is limited in respectable circles to the idea that a wild virus escaped from a lab setting through negligence, but the differences between that scenario and ordinary zoonotic transmission are pretty banal.
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25 May
Biden DOJ going to the mat to protect Bill Barr’s strategy memo. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2078…
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This is ABJ directing her clerk to unseal not Barr’s strategy memo itself, but her own memo describing it in detail—which would, of course, mostly moot the DOJ’s appeal. The clerk hasn’t done it yet as far as I can tell; there’s still only a redacted version on the docket.
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23 May
“MOSCOW—Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko scrambled a jet fighter to force a Ryanair commercial aircraft to land in Minsk, where a Belarusian journalist and opposition activist was detained.”
wsj.com/articles/belar…
Why doesn’t Ryanair’s statement mention the detention?
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21 May
In a misbegotten effort to defend Trump from the charge of inciting the 1/6 siege, Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez revealed that, around 9 a.m. on January 6th, he "saw people in my hotel room that were saying they were going to do something at 2 o’clock." nycsouthpaw.com/p/what-is-that…
Taken in context, the admission appears to put the former Mayor of Miami and sitting Republican Congressman in the room with people plotting violence against the Congress at the moment it would hold in its hands the transfer of power between administrations.
It's also an example of two other phenomena:
1. the impoverished logic, or if you prefer naive, bad faith misdirection, that Republicans use to defend the former president
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17 May
The questions presented in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org petition that the Supreme Court just agreed to hear. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1…
The grant is limited to question #1. Should’ve cropped it.
Here’s the relevant part of the order list.
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14 May
Build back better
This story, truly, has everything. 🇺🇸
Up-armor your dogs. wsj.com/articles/bald-…
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