Jon Abramson

[𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 @NikkiBarnes]

I am not supporting DSA candidates. I will come out in opposition to all of them.

The audacity of taking policies Democrats have fought for, expanding healthcare, strengthening social services, making our tax dollars work for working people, and building a country that serves more than the wealthiest 1%, and then weaponizing those same goals against the Democratic Party as if governing is as simple as yelling that Democrats are not doing enough.

Policy requires power.

To pass federal legislation, you need majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and a president willing to sign it into law. Yet many of the same DSA aligned people I see on my timeline were willing to withhold support from electing that president because of a conflict happening in another country.

And this goes far beyond Washington. You need majorities in state legislatures. You need governors. You need mayors, county commissioners, and school board members. If you actually want transformative policy, you build majorities of people who can enact it.

You do addition. You do not just target Democrats for replacement in deep blue districts while leaving Republicans untouched and then pretend you are building political power.

And if your stated mission was to come into the Democratic Party and destroy it from within, do not turn around and demand loyalty from Democratic voters when you want our votes, our infrastructure, our resources, and our support.

You told us we were not your people.

I heard you.

You will not get my respect. You will not get my vote. And when you run against Democrats, I want you to lose.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

When I pointed out things in the deal the other day, several of the administration’s defenders insisted those things would never be in the deal. Now they are in the deal and the same people insist it is a great deal.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

This is how we are going to lose vaccine access: not in an ACIP clown show, but quietly, in administrative policy so boring that nobody notices what’s lost until it’s too late

[Jon Abramson @citylightstrail]

@neurallystrong @occams_tooth @EricTopol Both arms of the studies are effectively randomized because they differ only in whether they were eligible for the vaccine. Each arm therefore had essentially the same percentage of people who would have chosen to get vaccinated were the vaccine offered to them.

[Jon Abramson @citylightstrail]

@neurallystrong @occams_tooth @EricTopol Your point that those who decide to get vaccinated may have other attributes or habits that make them less likely to develop dementia. But these natural experiments actually prevent those confounders from affecting the results. 1/2

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

When Muhammad ordered the Jews of Banu Qurayza to be lined up, and slaughtered 700 of them in a single night, that was genocide.

When ISIS stormed into Yazidi and Christian villages in Iraq, massacred men, enslaved women, and turned girls into sex slaves, that was genocide.

When the Nazis rounded up Jews, forced them into gas chambers, and burned their bodies, that was genocide.

The common denominator in every genocide is that the victims were slaughtered not for anything they did, but because their existence was unacceptable to their oppressors.

When Hamas terrorists stormed into Israeli villages, slaughtering 1,200 people, men, women, children, elderly, burning families alive, beheading babies, raping and butchering women, shooting civilians in their beds, that was a Genocide.

They hunted civilians down, house by house. They went into bomb shelters to execute families hiding inside.

When Israel fights back, when it retaliates to eliminate the same terrorists who committed genocide, when it fights to rescue hostages, when it takes military action against a terror group that hides behind civilians, that was not a genocide.

Genocide is what Hamas did on October 7.

War is what Israel did to stop Hamas from doing it again.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

It was always Nova festival slaughter that got me most. How could so many young in West relate more to Hamas butchers than their music-loving peacenik peers? So this REMARKABLE interview with Taryn, a former pro-Pal - open-minded enough to change her mind after seeing @novaexhibition - is a challenge to my anti-zionist mates: don't boycott, go see for yourselves

[David Collier @mishtal]

Israel produced forensic evidence, videos, and 1000s of photos documenting the sexual violence of Oct 7.

The world stayed silent.

A handful of activists get off a boat making up sexual abuse claims against Israel.

And it becomes headline news.

Make it make sense.

[Prof Kausik Ray FMedSci @ProfKausikRay]

Trial evidence from 17 trials in people without ASCVD including statins and non statins in 105 000 individuals about why you get a bigger benefit from starting prevention early . AJPC open access

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Trump has lost the war with Iran.
We are just in the negotiated surrender part.

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Translation: We went around telling reporters that the autopsy blamed Israel for Dems losing and it turns out that was untrue.

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

If the Arabs wanted a Palestinian state more than they wanted to destroy the Jewish one, there would be a Palestinian state. Period.

Not because I said so. Because the Palestinians have said so, literally and openly, for decades.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

If genocide is determined by intent rather than outcome, then October 7 was the clearest example of genocide in the 21st century.

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Imagine if someone said that Muslims can play a role in ending Islamophobia by dismantling all 49 Muslim-majority states in the world.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I get being annoyed when Elizabeth Warren (who I find insufferable) or other Democrats play gotcha by asking “Do you believe Donald Trump lost in 2020?”

You know what would have spared Republicans the embarrassment and annoyance of these questions?

If Trump hasn’t lied about winning and hadn’t tried to steal the election.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering.

Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

I hate gerrymandering, but the question is: If GOP states brazenly do it mid-decade, is the proper blue-state response "two wrongs don't make a right" or "level the playing field to neutralize its national impacts."

Ultimately, I voted "yes" based on the latter. Paradoxically, I consider this the best way to ultimately discourage mid-decade gerrymanders because it prevents the instigators from being rewarded with much more net House seats. And I believe this cross-state backlash will discourage this mid-decade gambit from being repeated in the future.

Ultimately, a national ban on gerrymandering is central to fixing Congress. But passively letting one side gerrymander and be rewarded for it would move us further away from that point.

Conservatives should recognize this "peace through strength" principle: The best way to discourage war is not to unilaterally disarm, but rather to build a strong enough military to discourage the other side from launching the next war.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

I never thought we'd reach the stage of having to explain that sick soldiers don't fight anywhere near as effectively as soldiers who aren't sick which means that if your soldiers are sick you're much more likely to lose the fight, but here we are.

[Jon Abramson @citylightstrail]

@Hragy @ACCinTouch @escardio @Drlipid Many are defending the calculator by accurately noting it shouldn’t be used when ldl is above 190. But I think a more significant criticism is that most 40 year olds with an ldl of 150 following their best diet still wouldn’t qualify for LLT under PREVENT & the new guidelines.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

One IDF soldier destroys a statue of Jesus:

- The IDF condemns it
- The Prime Minister of Israel condemns it
- Israelis condemn it

Thousands of Hamas terrorists slaughter 1,200 Jews on Oct 7:

- Hamas leaders celebrate it
- Most Gazans celebrate it
- The world half-condemns it