This tweet by a stunted @NYMag writer offers a vivid opportunity to peer into the mentality of the standard millennial media employee.

If, as a journalist, you point to "alarming" aspects of the views and coalitions of one party, it means you're explicitly endorsing the other:
This is exactly how they see themselves. As a "journalist," you pick one side of the partisan/ideological war and you enslave yourself to it. That's why they see any criticisms of their side as necessarily support for the other. Their brains function only in binary terms.
Smart people not in journalism have no trouble seeing how trapped these partisan drones are in primitive and vapid labels. That opposing militaristic, imperialistic, censorship-mad & corporatist liberals puts you on the "hard right" is obscenely stupid:

Hanging out on The Hard Right™:

Even professional tennis players can't help but mock the utter idiocy of the scripts these failing liberal outlets concoct.

I wish employees of corporate liberal outlets would take a few minutes to reflect on how widely and intensely despised they are:

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The FBI's Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci's Emails

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Mainstream institutions had seriously doubted the FBI had solved the 2001 anthrax case. That has all now been memory-holed: elite circles implicitly agreed to just move on.

Either way, revelations that emerged then about US Government bio-research labs have newfound relevance.
To understand the current debate over COVID origins, it is really worth returning to what happened with the still-bizarre 2001 anthrax attacks and the FBI's claim that the highly weaponized strain came from a US Army research lab. Lots of key lessons:

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The Department of Homeland Security just issued its fourth danger bulletin this year.

Despite the fact that *none* has yet happened, both the weapons and rhetorical tactics of the first War on Terror are increasingly visible.
Virtually every authoritarian power that made the first War on Terror so menacing to core civil liberties -- domestic surveillance, domestic no-fly lists for citizens, CIA interference in domestic politics -- are being weaponized in the name of this new domestic War on Terror.
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European leaders -- including Germany's Merkel and France's Macron -- are furious over new reports this week that the Obama/Biden Admin used Danish intelligence in 2014 to spy on their own EU allies, including Merkel herself. Demanding answers from Biden:

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This conversation between journalists @Isikoff & @BarryMeier -- about the latter's new book on how private spies exploited gullible media (including Isikoff) -- to spread the Steele Dossier Fraud (and other scams) -- is fascinating (start at 22:00):

Meier is a long-time NYT journalist, someone most definitely not with the MAGA agenda. Yet as Isikoff points out, his book is covered only by right-wing media -- Tucker, WashExaminer, etc. He explains it's because CNN/MSNBC, others won't confront their failures or hear dissent.
Watch this clip, where Isikoff asks Meier about how only right-wing media will acknowledge his book, and how he feels about that.

Meier says that as a journalist, his only interest is having people hear his truthful reporting, and it's not his fault CNN excludes dissent.
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This judicial ruling about the raging debates over group-based benefits vividly highlights the social, political and culture divisions driving U.S. politics.

The judge who authored the opinion, Amul Thapar, is the first-ever South Asian federal judge. His reasoning:
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Dave Weigel says it was non-reporters who made the 'ooooh' sound about Biden's chocolate chip ice cream after a reporter asked him what flavor he got. I'll take his word for it, though the WH press corps does often swoon at Biden's cuteness:

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