Brandy Zadrozny

So I’m quoted in what I presume is an AI-generated article with a completely fabricated quote. That’s different, I guess.

Benny and a couple of his colleagues in the right wing media world were paid millions to launder Kremlin talking points but sure.

www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/b...

LMGTFY www.espn.com/new-york/nfl...

CDC Cuts Experts Out of Panels That Develop Vaccine Policy The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told physician groups, public health professionals and infectious disease experts that they will no longer be invited to help review vaccine data and ...

After gutting the panel & putting his anti-vaxx allies in charge, now Kennedy is going further—ejecting physician groups, doctors and nurses, and infectious disease experts from working groups who look at the data and advise the panel. HHS says they're all "biased."
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ADL Musk

I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found.

ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)

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Here’s the bottom line: The FBI's behind-the-scenes decision-making suggests that the chances of aliens resurrecting JFK are greater than Trump’s name ever being unredacted from the Epstein files.

Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

“The discovery is unlikely to affect Adams’ candidacy. Ballot petitions receive little, if any, scrutiny from city election officials.”
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It's only a surveillance state to RFK Jr. if he can't capitalize on your personal data and your health.

Tulsi Gabbard & reposted Roger Stone - @RogerJStoneJr • Jul 25 President Trump and I couldn't be prouder of Tulsi Gabbard. This is a moment of real courage. / @DNIGabbard has delivered the receipts — indisputable, stone-cold proof that Barack Obama orchestrated a coup attempt against President Trump.

Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone said he's likely the unnamed individual in the Justice Department's election hacking indictment who communicated with the persona "Guccifer 2.0." According to the indictment, the Russian intelligence arm GRU posed as the persona of Guccifer 2.0 and used it to leak hacked records belonging to Democrats. Stone said on CNN Friday night he is "probably" the person referred to in the indictment. The indictment says that on Aug. 15 and Sept. 9 of 2016, Russian intelligence officers posing as Guccifer "wrote a person who was in regular contact with senior members" of the Trump campaign, and included language that matched Twitter direct messages Stone had previously released. Stone has argued in the past that the Russian government was not behind the persona. "Earlier today before I had a chance to read this extensive document, I wasn't sure," Stone said on CNN. "But I certainly acknowledge that I was in touch with Trump campaign officials, and I have testified under oath to the House Intelligence Committee that I certainly had a 24-word exchange with the persona Guccifer 2.0 over Twitter direct messages. Any objective person who will read that exchange, which is included in the indictment, will see that based on content, context and timing, it's benign, it's innocuous. So in retrospect, I think I probably am the person referred to."

DNI Tulsi Gabbard retweets Roger Stone praising her on Alex Jones. (Read that sentence, IC ppl in Five Eyes)

Roger Stone was in direct contact w/the GRU hackers who dropped the Clinton emails, just to be clear. He knows full well whose campaign Russia reached out to. These people are brazen liars.

RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

Digital privacy, civil rights advocates and progressive groups have voiced reasonable concerns that personal health data is at risk of being monetized or misused under the program. But Kennedy's comments went beyond reality. And his about-face comes with no explanation. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

And in 2023

Here's a video from 2020. Talking very normally with an employee at his anti-vaccine nonprofit about wearables and Big Tech—the companies that he's now partnering with, that he welcomed in the White House yesterday, to unveil his new national health tracking program.

RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech.

Now, he'd like your data, please.
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you're killing it

Hell yeah I love this "calling-the-footnotes" genre of reporting

Breaking: Vinay Prasad is out at FDA, following Sarepta decision and vaccine controversies FDA's CBER head Vinay Prasad exits agency after Sarepta gene therapy controversy and criticism over Covid vaccine decisions. Conservative media targeted his political views.

Got the “more time with his family” send off to boot

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Had a feeling

thats why you're an editor

@davidenrich.bsky.social is this your handiwork?

"7 men and a headless parrot"

I usually hate subheads but this one is something (from 2019 www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/b...)

Thank you, Christina!

You know things have gotten weird when I’m quoting “the wise words of Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

lol the “Foundation” for Freedom Online is a blog, almost entirely written by one guy, that pushes the “censorship complex” hoax. Has anyone seen a registration for an entity? A 990?

You, too, can be the “executive director” of your blog.

Embarrassing for NYT.

I love the NYTimes and as a loyal and forever subscriber I get to complain

When everything is on fire, it’s hard for stories like this to break through. But these kind—of Kennedy circumnavigating even Trump’s effort to moderate his extremism, that name and explain the motivations behind the bureaucrats enacting Kennedy’s anti-vaccine policies—are I think, so important.

RFK Jr. is completely reshaping vaccine policy. This is the man helping him do it. Stuart Burns might be the most important CDC official you’ve never heard of.

Trump pulled Rep. Dave Weldon's nomination to lead CDC in March: He was too anti-vaxx. But RFK Jr. just hired Weldon’s longtime deputy instead.
Meet Stuart Burns, a career Hill aide with his own history inside the anti-vaccine movement, now enacting Kennedy’s agenda. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

screen shot from my local paper: “Mike Benz, the executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online, a group that advocates against speech censorship on digital platforms, recalled on Mr. Bannon’s show over the weekend how Mr. Trump in 2015 referred to former President Bill Clinton possibly being implicated in the files, helping give rise to the MAGA movement.”

Benz commenting in the paper of record “You trained us to go after this issue. We have been grown in a lab,” Mr. Benz said. “Chemicals have been mixed together specifically to breed this particular type of person in the MAGA movement who would care about Jeffrey Epstein’s full excavation of all evidence around it.” He expressed exasperation at the “the idea that you would just snap that shut.”

My story revealing Benz as a racist alt-right vlogger turning MAGA propagandist. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119213

You can be whatever you want to be in the New York Times 💫

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Yes! Same stuff, new overlord! (I'm psyched, thank you!!)

"One source with knowledge of calls between Weldon’s office, CDC staffers and anti-vaccine researchers described Burns as “explosive.” Burns, they said, organized meetings, brought anti-vaccine researchers like the Geiers onto calls without warning, and repeatedly demanded access to databases containing private patient information. They recalled Burns at times screaming and threatening agency funding, as Weldon sat on the House Appropriations Committee at the time. It’s not clear what has motivated his passion over vaccines, but one former CDC staffer who interacted with Burns all those years ago described it as something like a “religious crusade.”"

Many who do know Burns remember him from the Weldon days, when Burns acted as a liason, an advisor, and a helper for anti-vaccine researchers and activists—including two who were recently hired by Kennedy as in-house "experts" on vaccines. Burns was described to me as "explosive."