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Aug 6 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Slandering someone based on a shitpost is indeed propagating misinformation and really bad behavior and it would be a “this is very bad” story instead of a “Republicans are complaining” story if I made a concerted effort to go on TV and imply Gov. Walz fucked a traffic cone.
Yes, yes, I know, you’re a prude who can’t take a joke if you point out that telling lies about a public figure fucking an inanimate object is bad and juvenile. And it’s such a fun trick bc the public figure can’t defend against it without elevating it and debasing themselves!
Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hi, female athlete here. I ran this exact trail every single week of my college career. I guess I could have been snuffed out before I graduated, had a career, family, and the professionals at the AP would lie about the suspect bc it fits a preferred narrative. Ibarra is not merely an “Athens resident,” and Laken Riley and every other student was put in danger by not enforcing laws and allowing a man arrested 3x after crossing the border to hang out and work on campus. He had to escalate to alleged murder to be held and/or risk deportation. Good policies. Good work.
This story even cites the 2018 murder of Mollie Tibbetts in IA as a reason solo female runners should be worried, *also without noting her killer was an illegal immigrant.* Just stop lying!
Here’s the local news station doing actual journalism on this.
wsbtv.com/news/local/cla…
I should correct myself. Ibarra has a handful of offenses to his name— crossing border, unlicensed driving/unregistered car, endangering a child (arrested, charged), now this (arrested, charged)—not 3 *arrests*.
May 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Matt Araiza case shows actually due process is still good and media should probably make a nod to it in coverage every now and then. Me @Outkick! outkick.com/matt-araiza-ra…
Shades of Duke lax, of course, which is still framed lazily in retrospect as a "national conversation about privilege and race" when it was a story of a false accusation over which DA lied about evidence and NC AG had to take unusual step of declaring 3 defendants innocent.
Apr 26, 2023 • 49 tweets • 7 min read
Three mins into questioning, Randi Weingarten at Oversight Hearing on school closures is saying "I'm 65. I don't remember everything." I mean, I feel like her staff could have looked up the times she talked to CDC before this event.
"There was one particular edit (the CDC) accepted"... "There were several ideas proposed." —RW
Mar 24, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
A crazy week on the homefront. My oldest became disoriented and had trouble communicating after an otherwise fairly unremarkable fever and congestion. Pretty scary, so to the pediatrician then ER we went within an hour or two.
Apologies, I did not mean to leave you hanging. I had a newborn crying and an appointment I almost forgot! So I had to pause.
Mar 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Press dutifully transcribed the gov’t line in 2022 that there was nothing but foreign influences & internal action in Disinformation Governance Board’s mission. This wk, Politico still going to bat for Jankowicz, conflating criticism w harassment/disinfo.
Maybe my fave example is the NYT postmortem bemoaning that we can’t have nice things like opaque govt boards deciding what’s disinformation bc of conservatives pouncing. The gov’t memo “couldn’t have been more clear,” despite Mayorkas & Jankowicz both saying they were not clear.
Dec 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Number of public intellectuals/media members who don't even begin to ponder we might be *losing* something when viewpoints are censored is amazing. Used to be widely understood wide latitude for speech serves knowledge/public square. Now, limiting speech is enthusiastic default.
But what if there's BAD speech, guys? Yes, there will be some. And some that's deemed bad is not actually bad and we should talk about it bc it turns out the public intellectuals/media members get a lot of shit very wrong & are stuck in really bad groupthink.
Nov 23, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I believe if you squint, you can see a small difference in way batshit leftwing activists are covered vs other parts of ideological spectrum.
This man is stochastically terrorizing my family 🙄, but he’s “tall and gentle,” w “provocative name and seemingly pugilistic stance.”
Oh, how eeeeenteresting that this man advocates for the extinction of the entire species. Quirky! Let’s hear about his childhood and note briefly that this does in fact sound a lot like the kind of rhetoric used by eugenicists. I’m sure it’s fine. He’s from Portland!
Nov 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This piece is insightful. Many of hoped-for blue Dobbs/Roe voters were open-schools voters (& now inflation voters), & they have justified anger that isn’t overcome by Roe messaging. They aren’t looking to grant amnesty, come home, but for a reckoning.
I love this “we didn’t know and were trying our best” defense. That gets you through about June 2020. We knew children were least vulnerable, that screens weren’t good for them, and they needed school. Schools closed for more than a year to millions of kids. Miss me w this.
Call me crazy, but I think it was callous not to give kids w disabilities their legally required services for 12-18 mos, watch their skills and progress atrophy. It was callous to tell moms of kids who needed real school they just wanted to kill children so they cld go to brunch.
Apr 14, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Twitter's heavy-handed political viewpoint discrimination/narrative protection is yet another thing that isn't happening, guys, then is happening but is also fine stop whining, and then is all of a sudden conceded to be happening precisely bc it is VITAL to democracy.
I don't expect billionaires to do all that I think is right and good at the levers of power in the world, just as I don't trust politicians. But pro-free-speech rich, powerful person > those who have a conception of free speech that is "I protect democracy by banning speech."
Mar 19, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Also, if you’re unfailingly comfortable voicing most of your opinions, awesome! But consider whether that might be bc most of them hew very closely to everyone’s around you, not bc there’s no problem. There’s usually a cost to being ideological weirdo in the room, & it is rising.
I’m well outside the norm when it comes to being willing, practiced, in fact, professionally trained, to voice opinions that differ from pretty much everyone in my professional circles. I was like that in college, too, but it’s all hard & much harder for current college students.
Jan 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I lived a block from the baseball field. Under 48 hours, the news vans were gone. I was on TV, live from the baseball field where they played the game a day later, after almost being canceled by mass murder, but my topic was "Mike Pence reportedly hired a lawyer."
You're welcome to talk yourself into idea that a similar murder attempt on an entire team of Democrats would have gotten the same treatment. I think the shooting of Gabby Giffords is pretty analogous and disproves that theory. Even without that data point, it's just not true.
Jan 4, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Many grasped it long ago. “Kids are resilient” isn’t an answer. I got resilient kids, they went through some sh*t bf a pandemic. My job then & now: ensure they endured as little damage as possible, not congratulate them for being resilient while making them suffer for my anxiety.
Two things that will probably always shock me about all this.
1) That people were surprised a year of missed in-person school in blue cities would have very serious consequences (both real-life & political). It was a total outlier globally, historically to shut down that long.
Jan 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
My views on school openings aside, it is always CHAOS. Been doing this in blue metro areas for 2 yrs & every time, it’s like “who knew start of school was coming in Aug 2020?! We have no plan!” “Who knew Omicron & Christmas existed? We have no plan!”
nytimes.com/2022/01/03/us/…
It sounds so stupid now but in 2020, the parents around here believed the school boards and superintendents must have been working really hard over the summer with the goal of getting kids back in school because what else would they be doing? We were all so wrong.
Sep 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Serious question: has there EVER been a candidate with better name recognition than *Herschel Walker in the state of GA*?
Richard Petty ran for state office in NC once & notably, didn’t win. He campaigned minimally & got pulled over for tailgating, rubbing a car on 85 going 70.
Which, you’d think would add to the appeal of his campaign, especially with these quotes. But alas.
Sep 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Regardless of how and where mandates are imposed, natural immunity should be considered in those venues, too. Studies show it is robust, likely more so than vaccine immunity (& both might make you semi-superhuman). And we ignore it? Not very sciency.
This annoys me about the blanket tone toward the unvaccinated. It reveals a real disconnect with a not-small segment of the population that worked during the whole pandemic, got COVID, recovered from it, & makes a not-crazy assessment that they’re quite protected.
Aug 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People are already doing this w a 3rd shot, & have at it. I favor their freedom to do so. But can those who think vaccine mandates/passports are NBD imagine how this prospect is a much bigger ask? Fauci never met a limiting principle he liked & people are right to notice.
He’s not sure and hopeful that maybe we won’t need more than 3, but also maybe we will, and maybe we’ll need many more forever! The science may very well say that could be helpful to immunity, but when it comes to public policy, how does that work?
May 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A) What he said.
B) Who could have seen this coming?
C) District communication in many closed districts is just AWFUL, even if you’re paying v. close attention. Suspicion is it’s partly deliberate to keep returning numbers low, justifying less opening.
In Northern Va. districts, families have been told 3x I can think of, between 10p and midnight, after prepping kids and expecting it for months, that school will not open the following day for their kids as advertised. Back to virtual!
Feb 22, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
For the life of me, I don’t know why the public health messaging is to talk down very effective vaccines with “probably shouldn’t change anything you’re doing after you’re vaccinated.”
Be a person who does things, *especially* after vaccination. ricochet.com/podcast/ladybr…
Many, many people have heard me preach on this in real life, & now y’all will, too. We can do better risk analysis than this. When facts on the ground change, our behavior can adjust without being jerks or menaces! We know more than we did in spring of 2020 about how to do that.
Jan 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I actively dislike Trump & this site. His Twitter account has certainly had an outsized, negative effect on my work life, & if you follow Twitter’s logic (meh) my loved ones are among those his speech actively endangered. So, don’t love those things, but I do love speech.
I do not think a coordinated, corporate crackdown over several platforms, which limits the online speech of a bunch of Americans is good. It feels creepy & authoritarian. I’m surprised how many seem content it won’t spread to speech they like or chill their own to prevent banning
