note to journalists: when reporting on vulnerable people who are inexperienced with media, spell out exactly how on-record/off-record works and whether your source has the right to revoke their consent to participate in the story before you do literally anything else

https://twitter.com/SleepyOktobur/status/1643347048375238656

generally speaking, sources don’t have the right to take back on-record statements, and it is fair to keep that as a rule even with non-professional sources—you could lose months or years of work—but for that to be fair, you have a responsibility to make that explicit in advance

this is going to be devastating for families who are about to have five months to choose between staying in texas or discontinuing their kids’ treatment

https://twitter.com/brandonformby/status/1643003976210685953

this isn’t just a ban; with this change, we are talking about forced, mandatory detransition of teens who are currently in the middle of hormone therapy under a doctor’s supervision

watching alex jones try to moderate a conversation in which kanye west keeps interrupting him to say stuff like "we have to talk about the good things the nazis did" is maybe the worst thing i have ever done to myself Alex: Is your point that let he who is without sin cast the first stone?

Kanye: Instagram is a prostitution ring!

revisiting this today, and it really is absolutely wild not only that this was published four days before the election, but that they wrote it in the past tense—truly just the most embarrassing example of conventional-wisdom political reporting newyorker.com/news/the-polit… there are a lot of incredible quotes in the pre-post-mortem but this is probably my favorite. guess what happened in scranton

Deleted the tweet after all, RIP this very long thread note about tomorrow: there's only going to be one witness, a forensic economist hired by plaintiffs to determine Alex's net worth. Second witness was going to be Alex, but now he's not being called. Bankston indicated he expects testimony to be brief, then jury deliberates again

Protects access for the clinics closest to a huge number of Texans and parts of the south

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1554639811595669505

i am extremely curious if this will change the way that much of media, Democratic politicians, etc talk about abortion—it’s never been close to a 50/50 issue, and Kansas of all places voting to protect it by 20+ points really drives that home

In court today for day one of the first (of several!) damages trials in which a jury will determine how much money Alex Jones owes the Sandy Hook families for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress (which the court previously found he did commit) The first trial will take nine days. Jones himself is here today, which is kind of a surprise—yesterday, during jury selection, his lawyer cited a medical issue that kept him out of court. Also here are the plaintiffs, whose six-year-old, Jesse Lewis, was killed at Sandy Hook.