“Democracies have fallen before under stresses like these, when the people who might have defended them were transfixed by disbelief. If ours is to stand, its defenders have to rouse themselves.”
And Ben Ginsburg, the GOP lawyer who engineered GW Bush's Florida win in 2000, warns Republicans that they, too, could be victimized unless they get serious about electoral reform.
Hours after this NYT editorial ran:
-- Govt announces > 750k jobs added
-- Dow and S&P hit records
-- Pfizer announces COVID pill that dramatically reduces death/hospitalization for the unvaxxed
This @ThePlumLineGS piece gets at the incoherence of the editorial: "The ideological scope of the package alienated moderate voters, and so did the failure to pass it." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
I spent 15 minutes in Reporting class today showing terrible Fox graphics from years ago and I’d like to thank @TuckerCarlsonfor giving us new, updated terrible Fox graphics 1/
The first drafts of the first draft of history, starting about 10 minutes after Flight 11 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center.
The Online WSJ office scrambled to update the story while being told to stay in the building -- which was across the street from the WTC 1/
Now, 30 minutes later, and it's chaos with the south tower in flames. This draft includes a line that while CNN reported a passenger jet had crashed into WTC, "witnesses said the plane looked too small to be a commercial aircraft." (Our staff was too close to see the planes.) 2
Now, it's 60 minutes after the first attack. The Online Journal has been turned over to editors in Brussels and Hong Kong. "The FBI was investigating reports of a plane hijacking before the crashes." 3
DeSantis’ advisor, Dr. Mark McDonald, also goes on Facebook to “ask why the government was pushing ‘unapproved experimental vaccines’ on children, refer to the deadly pandemic as the ‘Wuhan virus’ and insist masking minors is ‘child abuse’” thedailybeast.com/florida-gov-ro…
Half of the nation’s doses of monoclonal antibodies are going to Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama — states with some of the lowest vaccination rates.
“The cost of Regeneron infusions: $1,250 a dose. The costs of covid vaccination: about $20 a dose” khn.org/news/article/m…
“What’s amazing to me is that a vaccine we’ve been working on for 10 years, they are deathly afraid of,” said a nursing officer. “But this highly experimental cocktail? They’re willing to run in there the minute that they’re sick to get this infused into their bodies”
Unvaccinated Florida woman contracts COVID, then gets monoclonal antibodies. “I was feeling so badly, like the longest flu I ever had. I was, like, whatever, give me whatever.”
Now as she’s recovering, “I have a completely different perspective. I most likely will be vaccinated”
This paragraph, in a story about the last Jew in Afghanistan, is the best thing ever to run in the New York Post (including anything written by Alexander Hamilton). nypost.com/2021/08/21/las…
“I dealt with so many crazy people and he is on the top of the list,” Simantov’s would-be rescuer tells @LevineJonathan