We attended our first gay wedding of a dear friend who was basically our fourth son growing up. It was so so celebratory, with so much love & support from a huge crowd. And I could not help but think of all the ppl who have nothing to do with this couple who would deny them.../1 ...their love and lifelong happiness. One of the older gay men there spoke about how delighted he was to see this loving couple having this opportunity, given how hard the community fought for this for years. So to those whose lives this does not affect, but who rage & scream...2

Tucker Carlson if he had worked with a media organization throughout history, and used his cherry picking techniques:

"This supposed Pearl Harbor attack was just a pleasant day. This idea that ships sank was a lie. See the photo?".../1 ...."This supposed invasion of Normandy was not a battle in war. That was a lie. It was just an opportunity for our troops to take a nice swimming break. See the photo?".../2

The @nytimes has publishes an absolutely reckless and wrong @nytopinion piece by Brett Stephens about a scientific paper he clearly did not read. He allows one of the authors to state in the article "masks don't work" for COVID-19. The paper says no such thing. In fact, the... ...paper, which does not even count as a meta-analysis based on how it was put together, but is simply an arbitrary collection of studies that may or may not have anything to do with COVID. It also makes very very clear that no valid conclusions can be reached from what it...2

Desantis says AP African American Studies was banned because it contains "queer theory." Reality:
1. What he is talking about is that it includes reading Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, one of the greatest black writers in history.
2. "Kids" aren't being denied this course.../1 ...it is being offered to seniors in high school. The majority of high school seniors at graduation are adults - 18 years. The rest of them are almost adults.
3. This means that these adults will not have the opportunity (when the class is no longer pilot program) to earn.../2

Sigh. Since COVID conspiracy theorists are once again spreading disinformation (coming from the Epoch Times no less) and proving their scientific illiteracy, I want to come in one more time to explain to those who might need to tell the loons in your life why this is nonsense...1 ...ok. This is about COVID vaccines and blood clots. First, this whole issue has been known since 10/2020. All infinitesimal side effects have to be studied, as this one was. Before we get into the new study, an explainer on why blood clots can emerge in rare, rare instances...2

A big problem on Twitter now is the need to combat COVID ignorance being spread by conspiracy theorists, which I am about to do. But first: the magnitude of their inability to comprehend statistics and science is just jaw dropping. Their willingness to grab a headline without../1 ...reading the article, and then them using the headline to preen about how right and smart they are, is embarrassing to watch. That Americans have become *so* ignorant, so scientifically illiterate, and so willing to rely on nonsense to "prove" their beliefs is shameful and.../2

Read tweets on the continuing to trend "Ivermectin" list, and you will see the depths of Twitter's future, and why you need to start gradually shifting to Post.news. The list is an amalgam of lies, conspiracy theories and utter ignorance unleashed by Musk.../1 ...all of these tweets claims ivermectin works because some guy somewhere, usually a lawyer or unknown quack, says so. There are tweets that are displays of *huge* ignorance, like an endless repeating of the lie that the NIH has placed ivermectin on list of approved treatments..2

One annoying thing about people like Brigitte is that they know nothing about Christmas. For example, some of the biggest enemies of Christmas were the Puritans, who considered the holiday a sacrilegious, pagan festival...1/
(from "The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum)

https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1600166848695193604

...in fact, the celebration of Christmas was *illegal* in the earliest days of our nation for the very reason it was considered to be Pagan, adopted primarily to attract the Gentiles of Rome. And in particular, the singing of Christmas carols was condemned by the Church...

I’ll probably get banned for this, because free speech ends right at @elonmusk doorstep. He is now waging war on public figures who are trying to show him how easy it is to imitate a current public figures. So he permanently bans Kathy Griffin, then insults her. Yet, score of…1 ….people with anonymous email accounts can open scores of bogus accounts imitating public figures, and it’s this endless effort to cut through the weeds of imitation. But @elonmusk is such a terrible businessman, he will be giving blue checks to @ pusgrabber1831838 and take…2

This has been a brutal day for MAGA/GOP in court. Follow the thread.../1 .../2

Spending time in Barcelona is, in some ways, painful because I recognize how it exposes so many failings of the USA. No one cares rants about LGBTQ - gay, straight, transgender walk down the street, hand in hand, arm in arm. And then there are our failings built on the endless…1 …pursuit of profit. Waiters react in disbelief when we try to tip them - they are all paid a living wage. And I went to check the price of food at McDonalds and guess what! Food about the same price. Which OF COURSE is true because more people can afford to eat McDs and…2

Having had the culinary experience of my life at #enoteca restaurant in @HotelArtsBcn in Barcelona, I want to share some images of the amazing, artistic foods served in this 16 course meal. This is the “Fig Bread”…/1 …this is the Autumn Cake….2

People are asking what I saw in the civil case that jumped out. A few delicious tidbits:…here, if Trump doesn’t list these supposed outside professionals on his witness list, he’s doomed…. …here, the Mazars accountant’s jaw drops when he hears of the difference between valuations in two sets of books….

We all pretty much knew what the appeals court would do, trump judges or not. These judges sit on court of appeals. They may be conservative, but they are real judges unlike Cannon, who is a non judicial partisan in robes. But boy did they slam her. She erred on jurisdiction:…1 …she erred in deciding that her discretion is boundless, and can ignore law and facts….2

The last 2 days:

Texas: a court stopped the state’s 3d try to lock up parents of transgender kids & force them into foster care. A small town incurred $250,000 in cost by taking the 2nd lowest bidder to underwrite its municipal bonds because Citi doesn’t do finance companies…1 …that manufacture military weapons for the general public, like the gun that was used to slaughter children in Uvalde. And a man got angry at a driver in the car next to him, so at the next stop light, he took out his gun and shot him.

Meanwhile, Florida sponsored a sadistic…2

I'm not going to get into @HawleyMO false depiction of America as being based on the Bible. Rather, I'm going to discuss his once-over-lightly concept of the Bible, which is wrong on so many levels it is jaw dropping. To avoid MAGAs going "liberals hate God!" everything I am...1

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1570844668149248000

...going to write here comes straight out of books I have studied on individualism and the Bible. If you haven't read them, like @HawleyMO, learn something. If you have, happy to discuss. I will be relying on the theological teachings in Themes in Old Testament Theology...2

One of the conceits of the GQP, @GregAbbott_TX and @RonDeSantisFL is that only Texas and Florida have immigrants here illegally and those legally seeking asylum. Neither state is even the most. The tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT) have more than Florida. As a % of state population... ....the majority of the states housing these human beings are blue states. Massachusetts has the same percent as Florida. In just raw numbers, almost every state hosts (or in the case of red states, tortures) them....2

.@neal_Katyal made underscored in clear an simple language the huge national security issues that the DOJ told to Judge Cannon in sworn affidavit, but that she was too stupid or too in the bag for Trump (or both) to get. Right now, we have spies overseas. We have people who…1 ….are providing us information from their own governments, we have people who are providing information on terrorist activities, we have untold numbers at mortal risk if their names leak. And they all know one thing: the classified documents that Trump stole included…2

This is why dumb people with agendas shouldnt have access to data. The feds stopped financing collection of marriage data in 1996, which led to a deterioration of its quality. Then from 2005 to 2018, the fraction of the U.S. population between the ages of 18 and 54 as a share…1

https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1570155423440797701

…of the total population has fallen from 52.1 to 48.6 percent. If we control for that demographic change, we can see that a good deal of the decline being cited by Oliver Wendell Blockhead up there is a consequence of that factor, which we have seen twice in the last 15 years…2

One of the worst conceits of the anti-abortion movement is the belief that, if only enough laws are passed, abortion will end. It is a theory espoused by people too ignorant or too disinterested to study history. Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, which means that only...1 ...people over 60 might even remember what it was like when abortion was illegal in America. Based on surveys, the best estimates are that somewhere between 200,000 and 1.2 million illegal—and often unsafe—abortions were performed in the United States each year in the 1950s...2

"Late term abortions" is a political term made up by GOPrs. So, let's discuss reality. The medical assessment "abortion later in pregnancy" is after 21 weeks. That is, on average, 1% of all abortions (data sample below.) The *vast* majority of those...1

cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/m… ...are because of fetal anomalies or danger to the mother. Fetal anomalies - including those that can result in a baby suffering in agony for a few minutes after birth before dying - can't even *begin* to be tested for until after 20 weeks of pregnancy. That is when the first...2