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Jan 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
one point of clarification I think its worth noting is that the Biden admin isn't being influenced by Leonhardt as much as Leonhardt is operating as a PR guy for the Biden admin, Zients and the broader capital-driven bipartisan covid consensus of Back to Normal No Matter What
Obviously there can be a bit of a feed back loop but the causation of "hack explainer guy serves the emerging Washington and Chamber of Commerce consensus" is important because the other way around assumes bumbling good faith and tail wagging the dog naiveté
Remember, in 2018 the then-NYT opinion page editor explicitly said the NYT was "pro-capitalism. The New York Times is in favor of capitalism". It's not some hidden ideological dark matter one must infer, they're quiet open about it. fair.org/home/top-nyt-e…
This isn't sober, Data Driven Truth Telling it's ra ra bullshit greasing the gears for ideologically conditioning liberals into becoming DeSantis-lite

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Feb 1
It should go without saying but “we shouldn’t have US troops in Ukraine, they should be home defending the American border” is not an anti war sentiment, it’s a white nationalist talking point that simply displaces American violence to a different geographic location and people
One value paleoconservatives and libertarians serve is offering up nominal antiwar opinions to suck up media oxygen. This serves US elite consensus-making by painting opposition to US meddling and war as a white nationalist position. This was common in the run up to the Iraq war
Principled anti-war voices on the left were basically not seen in US media in the lead up to the Iraq war; the role of antiwar position was either liberal process critics (give inspections more time!) or Pat Buchanan types.
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Jan 31
I think people would be more open to the “free speech, we have to be able to debate all ideas” line if 99% of those pushing it didn’t devolve into bog standard anti PC college kids Republican dudes like 9 months later
I think a lot of people have identified it as a stalking horse for not unreasonable pattern recognizing reasons. 30 years of “just asking questions, open inquiry, free speech also I really believe in Race Science” Lucy and football shit has made people justifiability cynical!
“We need to open up space to debate this position I don’t personally believe except that in about 1.5 years I will openly be arguing for it actually tbqh”
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Jan 31
Tucker is dogshit because he’s a white nationalist who incites violence against unhoused, black & trans ppl, immigrants, but this high-minded “anti authoritarian” schtick is rich coming from CNN which runs undisclosed, paid commercials for an absolute dictatorship. You both suck!
Read here thecolumn.substack.com/p/cnn-wont-say…
More thecolumn.substack.com/p/pressure-mou…
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Jan 28
New BJS stats show there was a 46% increase in US prison deaths in 2020, or 61% when adjusted for population––confirming activist fears that incarcerated people would be left to die during COVID. Thus far only one media outlet has bothered to report on it thecolumn.substack.com/p/new-data-sho…
again, I return to The Video: "over 300 outlets ran reports on a single shoplifting incident in July 2021. That’s 300 reports about a single shoplifting incident compared to one (1) showing an unprecedented rise in needless deaths in America’s already cruel & over-packed prisons"
"Had mortality rates remained the same as in 2019, the total number of 2020 deaths would have been ​​3,792 (vs 6,100) when accounting for the decline in overall incarcerated population. This means 2020 saw 2,308 excess deaths largely brought about by Covid & its tertiary effects"
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Jan 27
From the “the help should all be treated like robots” files, we, per usual with these articles, get zero mention of teacher and staff health and safety. Just a total nonissue
I especially love the part where she says she never hears teachers complain followed immediately by a line on how there are no teachers unions in her town. As if unions are manufacturing frustration over safety protocol rather than serving as a politically potent voice of it
Robots don’t educate children, humans do and any column or article about in-person learning that doesn’t even acknowledge their health an safety isn’t a serious piece of reporting or opinion, it’s elitist anti worker bullshit
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Jan 20
I wrote about US media parroting trucking trade group talking points about "labor shortages" while celebrating a new "pilot" program letting teenagers drive semi-trucks

Left unmentioned: a reduction in unionization, safety standards & 30-50% cut in wages thecolumn.substack.com/p/us-media-cel…
Trucking industry trade groups have been lobbying Congress for yrs to lower the age to 18 to increase its poll of cheap, precarious labor. Another key piece of context omitted from these stories––which imply the change was brought about due solely to "COVID-related supply crises" Image
if you see any "labor shortage" story that doesn't, at all, mention a loss of morale, safety standards, pay, and an increase in workload in the relevant industry being discussed you're not reading a serious piece of journalism but a trade group press release reprint.
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