NYT contributors who allege anti-trans bias cite a Jan. 22 feature on a parent who discovered her 15-year old's school was helping her kid transition w/o her knowledge. The piece "misframed the battle over children’s right to safely transition." Really ?
nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/… The frame is one parent's discovery of this common practice. The letter does NOT dispute the accuracy of Katie Baker's' reporting: that dozens of parents said they "felt villainized by educators who seemed to think that they — not the parents — knew what was best ....

THE ART OF SPIN: A CIA spox told selected DC reporters last month, "The assertion that CIA has been holding, and has not disclosed, a set of documents about Lee Harvey Oswald that were part of now-deceased, former CIA officer George Joannides’ files in the JFK Collection .... is false." REPORTERS BEWARE: This statement is cleverly worded so as to be technically accurate and entirely misleading. Let me explain. CIA denies that it is withholding records "that were part of .. Joannides files in the JFK Collection." That is true because....

JFK Facts -- JFK 2022: Bare Majority Believes in Conspiracy jfkfacts.substack.com/p/jfk-2022-wha… This is not a Twitter poll. It is a statistically valid sample of midterm voters nationwide and a lesson in American history. To wit: JFK's assassination has always been a surrogate for trust in the federal government. Post-Warren Commission, liberals/leftists lost trust and ...

Tomorrow is a big day for me. I’ve been thinking about and researching CIA operations related to JFK’s assassination since November 1994 when I interviewed James Angleton’s longtime aide Jane Roman about the pre-assassination Oswald file.
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1/7 Roman's comments raised a lot of questions. Twenty eight years later, I will answer some of them. Tomorrow I will share my latest findings on JFK and CIA at the National Press Club at 9:30 am. If you can't come in person, watch here.

The @nytimes review of a new book on the Star Spangled Banner is admiring while @washingntonpost is more skeptical about F.S. Key than the author. What the reviews don’t quite capture is impact of the Banner on the politics of slavery. #4THJULY thread.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0… 1/In 1833 President Andrew Jackson appointed Key to be District Attorney for the City of Washington. Jackson wanted to deploy Key’s fame and liberal reputation in service of enforcing the slavery system. An ambitious man, Key obliged. #4THJULY

The startling story that Gina Haspel, a future CIA director, oversaw the waterboarding of one of the men, Abd al-Nashiri, who bombed the USS Cole, didn't get the treatment it deserved until @SpyTalker picked it up and layered on the details. Thread
spytalk.co/p/the-unmaskin… 1) Nashiri was taken away from "ace FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan." Instead of putting Nashiri on trial in federal court in New York "where many a terrorist suspect had been successfully prosecuted, the operatives threw him into the maw of the CIA’s black sites"

Last Friday night, Pres. Biden released a ridiculous statement saying he will delay enforcement of the JFK Records Act until Dec. 15. The CIA has annulled a law passed unanimously by Congress. It is a proverbial 'smoking gun:' evidence of complicity. @AmandiOnAir A #JFK thread: We are not in the realm of theory but of fact. The CIA is concealing material evidence in the murder of the 35th president. I want to talk about the political context of this sinister development and identify the redacted ('smoking') files which obscure our view of Nov. 22, 1963.

I am not conversant in the details of RFK's assassination to the degree necessary to comment on what happened in the pantry on June 4, 1968. But I do know a lot of the reporters involved. Rather than offer my opinion, I will add two facts. A #SirhanSirhan thread I know David Talbot as a good friend, a prodigious reporter on the subject. I trust him implicitly. Lisa Pease is also a friend, sharp in her commentary, but it was good research, not harsh words, is what got her findings about Dag Hammerskold’s death before the UN. #SirhanSirhan