Kevin Delaney

[Kevin Delaney @KDDelaney]

@jeffreytucker And you must agree with the denial of reality

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

when communists try to hide behind “democratic socialism”

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

The fact that Europeans built hospitals without AC is truly mystifying to me. We can argue about whether it's good/necessary in homes, I suppose, but the people in hospitals are the most likely to die of heat stroke!

[Kevin Delaney @KDDelaney]

@Frkerch @JonahDispatch I know he was very rarely stable

[Kevin Delaney @KDDelaney]

@Heminator Then you’re sent for a struggle session

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

This doesn’t bother the cowards that got duped. They have too much ego to admit they were wrong and apologize

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

People can argue capitalism sucks, but claims that indigenous peoples lived more prosperous, peaceful lives are nonsense.

The Cherokee were warriors who kept captives as slaves. Pre-industrial and stateless societies were far poorer and more violent than ours.

Ethnographic and anthropological studies suggest that in small-scale and non-state societies, 5-20% of deaths came from violence. In America, that number is less than 1%.

This chipper ninny sells the popular leftist idea that it's Western society that causes harm, when the reality is that, with our flaws, human society is far better off today than it was in the past.

[Kevin Delaney @KDDelaney]

@JomboyMedia Billy Martin would send Oscar Gamble out there to replace him

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

To all of you who got duped by this and then moved on, what did you move on to

[TheWarehouseGirlMAC @GirlWarehouse]

@SharylAttkisson @eyerighton18 While knowing that Therapeutics work... reason they had to keep creating more deadly variations Fauci's own Words 2005 Published...
"HCQ functions both as a Cure and Vaccine it's a Wonder Drug against Coronavirus "...

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

It is now clear that the intelligence agencies saw strong evidence very early in the Covid pandemic that it was the result of a lab leak.

But were pressured into concealing this conclusion for political reasons.

To prevent embarrassment of Anthony fauci.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Manufacturing a deadly virus only to turn around and play the hero who saves the world from it — that's what supervillains do in movies and comics.

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

Tulsi Gabbard just released four PDFs that, she says, show that Fauci funded the very research that created COVID-19.

I fed Claude the four PDFs. 🧵 It uncovered some never-yet-revealed blockbusters.

(The following is all Claude—I am just quoting it.)

1. The IC Inspector General Filed a Classified Whistleblower Complaint Alleging Intelligence Contradicted Fauci's Testimony — and the DNI's Office Effectively Buried It.
DNI General Counsel Chris Fonzone emailed DNI Avril Haines on August 19, 2021, describing a whistleblower complaint alleging that classified intelligence reporting contradicted Fauci's sworn testimony to Congress that NIH never funded gain-of-function research at WIV. Rather than refer it to the HHS Inspector General for independent investigation, Fonzone recommended referring it to HHS Secretary Becerra — Fauci's own boss — noting that Becerra had told Haines it was "something they've considered" and that Fauci had a "point he's repeated." The draft letter was revised to route the complaint to Becerra instead of the HHS IG. This is a previously classified paper trail showing the Biden-era DNI's office treating a formal whistleblower complaint about potential perjury as essentially a bureaucratic matter to be absorbed by the accused's own department.

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

Finally, I asked Claude to summarize the most important findings. Here is what it said.

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The newly declassified documents paint a picture of an intelligence community that was privately taking the lab-leak hypothesis seriously from the earliest days of the pandemic — with analysts noting as early as March 2020 that the virus's furin cleavage site looked consistent with gain-of-function modification — while the public-facing scientific establishment, led by Fauci, treated the idea as a conspiracy theory. When a formal whistleblower complaint alleged that classified intelligence contradicted Fauci's sworn testimony to Congress about NIH funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, the DNI's office routed it not to an independent inspector general but to HHS Secretary Becerra, Fauci's own superior, who had already indicated the matter was "considered." Meanwhile, Fauci himself was being briefed on the CIA's classified COVID-origins analysis, during which he steered the agency toward consulting scientists who had publicly advocated for a natural origin — and IC officials later discovered that a pre-pandemic DOE warning to Fauci's own agency about the risks of the WIV research had apparently never reached the analysts tasked with investigating the virus's origin.

The documents also reveal that two of the IC's most prominent agencies behaved in ways that undercut the investigation's credibility. At CIA, a senior official confirmed that he personally intervened to stop analysts from shifting to a lab-leak finding, lending internal corroboration to a whistleblower's claim that the shift was blocked from above. At FBI, an official appears to have told Congress under oath that the bureau had interviewed a key individual whose information informed its origins assessment — but ODNI's own records indicated that interview occurred months after FBI had already made its call, and the individual said nothing about COVID origins when finally interviewed. Taken together, the picture is not one of a governmenteli carefully following the evidence; it is one of an investigation in which the most sensitive leads were either rerouted to the people they implicated, bottlenecked by management decisions at critical moments, or contradicted by agencies' own records — all while the public was assured that the science was settled.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

https://t.co/PTSyFXF4vt

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

A reminder that the Constitution was not written to restrain the citizens' behavior.

It was written to restrain the government's behavior.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.