There are people who have been saying what is professionally advantageous instead of what is right or true for so long that the question of what is right or true no longer occurs to them.

I will die on this hill:

it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

"formerly known as masks"?

Far Right Dark Money Elections Group Raised $3.9M in First Full Year Voter suppression advocate Cleta Mitchell formed the group in 2023 to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

Voter suppression advocate Cleta Mitchell formed the group in 2023 to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

Indeed. Absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

Jeff Bridges opens up about his battle with Covid/Long Covid, and states he thinks he got the virus in a healthcare setting where he was receiving chemo for cancer.

If the rich & famous can’t get healthcare workers to mask… what chance do the rest of us have?

Masks in healthcare now!

Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects | CNN Jeff Bridges is sharing some good news pertaining to his health.

CNN: 'Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects'

Bridges: “My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake."

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...

Far too many progressives and so called leftists use Grok all the time.

Stop lining Elon’s pockets. You’re supporting a fascist oligarch who’s destroying the environment (and of course he’s doing it in predominantly black neighborhoods)

Remember this the next time your car gets stolen, or stuff gets stolen out of your garage, or your buddy's business gets broken into, and the cops won't even bother.

Harrell's gone full clown show, and it's terrible that he's getting endorsed by people who should know and demand better.

I've called in a DV because I watched someone get strangled twice. They never came. Just texted a "How'd we do survey?" the next day. This police force and the city leaders who tell them what to do are bigger jokes in real life than I could ever make them out to be in real fake news.

There are dozens of unsolved rape cases the understaffed Seattle Police Department could be working on instead.

RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

We're learning more about NIH's plans for Secy Kennedy's new autism studies

NIH Director Bhattacharya says they're amassing a swath of confidential medical data to link together for first time, ranging from broader access to CMS records to smartwatch data

www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A Ticking Clock on American Freedom It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

wow, just an incredible read. if you read 1 thing today please read this

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Everyone should read this to understand why Trump appointed Jay Bhattacharya to run NIH, and Bhattacharya’s mentality.

And please ask your colleagues to come to Bluesky. The information here on the US science crisis is richer than anywhere else.

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

TAB TEAK THE TRUE ORIGINS OF ouid-19

These people are liars, and their goal with this “leak” bullshit is to discredit real science.
The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget.

We should reject it straight up.

Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/

Screenshot of the white house Covid website that says “lab leak” at the top with an image of Trump between the B and the L. THE ORIGIN "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" publication - which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally.

Those of us who refused to adopt the back to normal Covid denial narrative are used to witnessing mental gymnastics by folks who need to believe the pandemic is over

The US Covid website is peak denial

It’s a bioweapon but it’s also mild? It was manufactured in a lab but we can get it over & over?

Under SPD's Eye This map shows the coverage areas of the Seattle Police Department's CCTV cameras.

SPD released the make & model of their CCTV cameras a few days ago. We put together a map showing coverage areas spd-cctv-coverage.glitch.me. Unsurprisingly, the cameras can see a lot farther than what SPD claims are the CCTV zones.

Jessica shines an important light on how the chaos could be well BE the plan.

Seattle Must Repeal Mass Surveillance Expansion To Protect People from Trump Mayor Bruce Harrell and the Seattle City Council claim they want to protect people in Seattle from the Trump administration. If that's the case, they must repeal the massive expansions of police surve...

NEW: Serious about protecting Seattlites from Trump? City Council must repeal last years mass surveillance expansion or else risk aiding his purges, BJ Last and Julia Buck write.
www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Ohh I just peeped the name on the op-ed - gotcha!

Covid is a mass disabling event

Are you referring to WSJ, the FDA, or the FDA's press dept?