For those of us who worked in ICUs during COVID, watching the character assassination of a leader who strove to provide counsel through a crisis has been deeply painful.
It is even more disheartening when such rhetoric comes directly from a trustee of your own university.
We have severely mentally ill people serving in the U.S. Senate who constantly say and believe completely insane, delusional lunacy. Just like their cult leader does.
The dumbest person you went to High School with is on X telling you that he knows more about infectious disease than a Doctor that worked in the industry for 30+ years.
I find it incredibly easy to believe. Pratt basically performed at his poll numbers, in a city that is bluer than the county and in a county that is bluer than a very blue state. Bass is establishment Dem (not by her resume but by virtue of her incumbency) at a time of surging leftwing populism. The idea that either of the Democrat candidates wouldn’t have preferred to run against Pratt is preposterous. So the conspiracy to tank Pratt would have to be against the wishes of both candidates who benefitted from this conspiracy. Also, the forces that tanked Pratt were fine with letting the Trump backed Republican gubernatorial candidate make it to the general? Really? Also the demographics of Raman voters are perfectly consonant with the habits of young voters. Last, California’s incompetence at counting votes has yielded GOP wins in the past. Assuming that the same delays now “prove” anything other than consistently lethargic counting is a giant logical error.
Meanwhile, the fact that a lot of low information people think it was obviously stolen means nothing to me in terms of how to think about the facts, but you’re right that it matters politically and culturally. That people who should know better are letting their motivated reasoning get the better of them and are stoking this belief matters more.
Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley has issued this statement responding to his termination by CBS News and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Nick Bilton.
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Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Xabi Alonso as Manager of the Men’s Team.
The Spaniard will begin his role on July 1, 2026, having agreed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge.
Welcome to Chelsea, Xabi!
Critical take from Israel's Foreign Ministry on my column about sexual assaults of Palestinian men, women and children. You can read my piece here through a gift link: https://t.co/SL0oxguNmi
In 10 years, we'll realize young adults can't read, write, or think as well as they should. We'll wonder how we allowed students to offload huge chunks of their learning to AI. Today we're just watching it happen. This is the most obvious unforced error of our time.
By far the most frustrating MAGA talking point is how somehow Joe Biden was responsible for GLOBAL inflation caused by a once in a lifetime GLOBAL pandemic, when the truth is, the policies enacted by Biden enabled the United States to recover faster than any other developed nation IN THE WORLD.
Americans should’ve heard more about this. The solutions being put in place should’ve been loudly and frequently publicized.
The effects of the messaging failure around this are not only still being dealt with today, but will continue to be felt for years to come, unfortunately.
If you rely on the Twitter accounts below for politics or news, it is overwhelmingly likely that you just come away more misinformed, angry, conspiratorial, and, well, stupid.
Most of those accounts are often termed a "junk food" politics diet, but I'd call it poison instead.
Tiger Woods does not deserve anyone's sympathy. He's a grown ass man who decided to get behind the wheel of a car under the influence YET AGAIN and endangered the lives of others. You do not, in fact, have to feel sorry for him. It was stupid, selfish, and irresponsible.