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Jul 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Scoop: I obtained an email from the equity manager of Oregon's state health agency—she delayed a community meeting and then justified this on grounds that "urgency is a white supremacy value."
This is a teaching of Tema Okun, a (white) activist educator who claims that preferring quantity over quality, wanting things to be written down, perfectionism, becoming defensive, and yes, possessing a sense of urgency, are all white supremacist.
Okun's work appears every so often in activist workshop materials for schools; this is the first time I've seen a government health official cite it as an excuse to not be prepared for a meeting. Read the article here: reason.com/2022/07/02/urg…
(Admittedly this is a great defense if you ever get in trouble for slacking off at work.)

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May 18
Nina Jankowicz was a partisan operative with a bad record of spotting disinformation, and DHS is right to "pause" the new governance board. reason.com/2022/05/18/dis… via @reason
The WaPo article about her resignation is very curiously framed. It focuses entirely on the so-called "coordinated" "rightwing" campaign of "harassment" against her. It does not mention any legitimate criticism of her whatsoever.
The Hunter Biden laptop story was the test for disinformation experts, and most of them failed it. Jankowicz failed it badly. That's the case against her. It isn't mentioned one. single. time. in the WaPo article.
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May 16
This just makes me furious. Law enforcement WAS ALERTED! Everybody was like, hey this kid is disturbed, please help, and the state police let him go. More broadly, social media sites ROUTINELY report violence and criminal behavior.
reason.com/2022/05/16/buf… Image
The problem is not that we are inattentive to frightening speech. People saw something, and said something! The problem is law enforcement didn't act (or couldn't act, given practical limitations).
Hochul is doing classic blame-shifting. State police had Gendron but he "fell off their radar." Oops. Who to blame, I know, it's the internet's fault!
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Mar 3
YouTube suspended The Hill—which produces Rising, the show I co-host with @ryangrim and @KimIversenShow—for election misinfo. It's a crazy story that shows how this policy goes much, much, much further than anyone knows, and actually imperils journalism.
reason.com/2022/03/03/you…
On the show, we played a clip of Trump in which he referred to the "rigged election." We did not immediately, directly correct it—though we criticized Trump in general, and have dismissed his election claims often—and thus YouTube says we spread misinfo.
That's the key: The policy does not distinguish between misinformation, and a straight news report that informs viewers *about* the misinformation (unless it includes editorial comment). I don't think people understand how vast this policy is. I sure didn't.
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Feb 17
EXCLUSIVE: I obtained leaked audio of a private House subcommittee briefing in which CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she has no plans to revise the agency's masking guidance for schools. reason.com/2022/02/16/cdc…
Walensky was grilled about keeping masks in schools given deficiencies of the Arizona study and others. She acknowledged "limitations" of data but said "the masks should still stay on."
When pressed by Rep. Palmer, she said "guidance is just guidance, and all of these decisions, we've continued to say, have to be made at the local level." Palmer and Rep. Eshoo both called BS on this, since local authorities everywhere are actively deferring to CDC.
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Jan 7
Justice Sotomayor badly exaggerated child hospitalization numbers today. "We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators." This claim is false.
reason.com/2022/01/07/sot…
There are not 100,000 children in hospitals from covid. *Since August 2020*, there has been a total of 82,000 hospitalized covid patients under age 18.
Most kids experience very mild cases, though some with underlying health conditions—particularly obesity and severe obesity—are hospitalized (or even die). reason.com/2022/01/03/cdc…
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Dec 29, 2021
Facebook labelled one of my articles "false information" and threatened to punish @reason because of it. So I contacted the third-party fact checker, Science Feedback. They admitted they screwed up (!) and changed their evaluation. Bizarre.
reason.com/2021/12/29/fac…
I will freely admit that going full Karen was a more viable option for me than most people: I have contacts at Facebook, I've interviewed people who work there for a book, etc. What worked in my case might not work more generally.
Importantly, the fact-checker that screwed this up—Science Feedback—is the same group that wrongly labeled a @JohnStossel video as misleading and partly false. He is now suing.
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