Just fleshing out this point. I assume you don't include in this coverage of overt investigative acts—like, for example, the search of Mar-a-Lago or the execution of warrants in the Jan. 6 case. Those should be reported pre-indictment or not?

https://twitter.com/EliLake/status/1573722024152809472

But I take it in retrospect, you think the proper amount of reporting on the Hillary Clinton email investigation (prior to Jim Comey's statement closing it) was zero?

And that you don't believe the press should be trying to figure out what John Durham is up to beyond the three specific cases he has brought?

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Sep 24

https://twitter.com/elilake/status/1573696239090237440

You can say that as often as you like, but there is simply no evidence that it’s true. How do you know, for example, that Greenberg didn’t feed the story to journalists to make his cooperation seem big and important and valuable? How do you know that Gaetz himself didn’t do it…

https://twitter.com/elilake/status/1573696239090237440

…to control the circumstances of its disclosure and play the victim to people like you? How do you know that Trump-era DOJ formers didn’t disclose it? You can make up whatever facts you want to, but the truth is that you don’t anything how this story became public.

Also, if you are going to say that the press owes Gaetz an apology, it seems to me you need to identify something in the coverage that is wrong.

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Sep 23

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This thread is exactly correct.
Another factor here is that Nazism, though unparalleled in its genocidal fervor, was rather short-lived. The Thousand Year Reich was mercifully destroyed 988 years early.
Soviet brutalities, by contrast, went on for seven decades.

https://twitter.com/rynkrynk/status/1573384691452989443

The body count that system amassed over that time period is simply staggering. It's so vast, in fact, that we tend to break it up into its component national pieces and time periods. So we speak of Stalinism. We speak of Maoism. We seldom talk about the global body-count...

... that is the historic legacy of the Soviet revolution of 1917. When you actually think about it this way, there is nothing like it in the history of the world.

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Sep 21

This idea doesn't go far enough, because it doesn't allow you to buy unfinished portions of other people's meals.

Allow me to introduce my new business idea: An app called "You Gonna Finish That?" nytimes.com/2022/09/20/cli…

All over America, restaurant portions are too big, and people have extra food on their plates. Yet outside those very restaurants, people are feeling a bit peckish.

"You Gonna Finish That" is designed to match the extra food with the slightly underfed.

Can't finish what's on your plate?
Snap a picture of what's left and upload your location to the app! Kaching!

Feeling hungry but not hungry enough for a full meal? See what unfinished portions are in your neighborhood, and buy a fraction of a meal for a fraction of the price.

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