John Smith

[Kevin Baron @DefenseBaron]

“I stand by the principle that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent, as required by law and by the department’s own policies” - @eslavin_stripes

I was a Stars and Stripes reporter/photographer at the Pentagon from Dec 2008-Oct 2011.

I agree.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

In all seriousness, that's a thousand times more interpretable as a threat against the current president than was “86 47.”

[Lara Korte @lara_korte]

Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

DCPS and charter school students continue to eke out learning gains at a time when educational results nationally are mostly getting worse.

https://t.co/DOWjOZypAk

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

One of the funny things about this is even the most hackish maga pundits can’t even fake umbrage about this on Trump’s behalf, they have to reserve their pretend outrage is about defending Harp’s honor.

[John Smith @jrsmith527]

@NathanJRobinson Arday wasn’t to be investigated for fringe ideas. His colleagues were going to investigate him for taking others’ words and making fabricated claims.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

My son is about to start kindergarten and I literally cannot imagine how I would feel or what I would do if masked agents hauled him off to a detention center with no explanation and no way of knowing when he'd get out.

What our government keeps doing in our name is monstrous.

[John Smith @jrsmith527]

@timnitGebru Can’t say I like “race realists”, but what do you think the penalty be for academics who publish true-but-unpopular claims?

[John Smith @jrsmith527]

@JerusalemDemsas I can’t believe I’m defending a guy like Cofnas, but there’s a vital principle at stake here. Either universities seek the truth or they police ideological heresies.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

This whole thing has been disturbing to watch. The level of outright denialism and revisionist history, the institutional circling of the wagons, the number of people who would never in a million years have spoken against the fraud but will certainly speak against those who had the temerity to care about it when it was uncovered –

I've watched people recant things they know are true. I've watched some of my further left-of-center mutuals be harangued by their followers for stating straightforward truths plainly, because as an article of faith it is now gauche to be honest about this and shameful to care. I've watched a former Archbishop of Canterbury obfuscate and misrepresent the situation for political reasons, watched as powerful voices in the UK call for the press to be fettered lest it use its freedom unwisely, watched an outright Orwellian campaign to persuade people either to deny what their eyes and ears tell them or to dismiss it as a triviality that nobody should possibly care about.

A man is dead at his own hand, and it is tragic, particularly for his family and friends, that he declined to rebuild something meaningful after the extent of his fraud became public knowledge. But his choice to commit suicide absolutely cannot be used as an impetus to entrench a false frame and censorious impulses. Truth matters, and right now we're seeing a lot of people throw their reputations and their energy behind insisting that it does not.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

The amazing thing about @ossoff’s comments is how utterly benign they are. Trump wants to “travel with Natalie.” But because Trump is a sexual predator and Natalie’s relationship to him is completely bizarre, it’s the MAGA brains who are conjuring the sordid “implication.”

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about.

by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich

[John Smith @jrsmith527]

Higher ed is full of partisan dipshits.

[Dr. Hank Desmond @HankDesmondPhD]

Jon Ossoff’s sexist attacks on Natalie Harp cross the line.

Say what you will about President Trump, but he has always treated women with respect. You can disagree with his politics, but you cannot knock his professionalism and class.

Ossoff has a lot to learn.

[John Smith @jrsmith527]

AH HAHAHAHA!

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

Yes @ossoff should apologize and he should get beaten in November. He’s a ridiculous caricature of a senator and far too left wing for Georgia. And a mean-spirited jerk who traffics in slander as well.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Today I was alerted to a family with a 7 yo being held in Dilley Internment Camp. They came to the US via legal asylee process. Went to their ICE check-ins. Broke no laws. Mom got pregnant. Rather than try to have the child here for citizenship they did what the admin asked 1/

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This is totally wrong.

The senate helps small states but the impact of the electoral college on Kentucky is to make it — like most states — totally irrelevant in presidential campaigns because doing even five or six points better or worse than baseline won't flip the state.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The Donald Trump movement has *always* stood for respectful treatment of political opponents in general, and women in particular and that’s why people are so mad at Ossoff today in a way that is totally sincere and on the level.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

Given the vitriol directed at him right now, it's worth saying this explicitly:

Nathan Cofnas's article was commendable and necessary. He is being unjustly villainized because he makes an easy villain and people are thirsty for one, but he alone pointed to the emperor's clothes

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

South Korea builds the ships we need. So this isn’t helpful

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The president and his party would like your vote this fall to defeat so-called "communists" at home; meanwhile, his position on *actual* blood-soaked communists: "unthreatening and respectful."