keith kloor

scribbler, editor

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Literal definition of Orwellian

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

There's a joke that says the difference between a cult and a religion is that in the cult, the leader is still alive and profiting from it. Hannity has left a religion to join a cult.

[keith kloor @keithkloor]

@MiddleOfMayhem Like I said, you're a funny guy. I had no idea spending every day tweeting about UFOs and putting out the occasional UFO video report on the New York Post website qualifes as mainstream journalism.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

When historians write about this time they will explore why no one stopped him: why no one in his govt or the GOP or the elites in finance that prop him back pretending they don't see the disintegration or not caring as long as they make $ did anything meaningful.

[Melissa DeRosa @melissadderosa]

“This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather.”

[keith kloor @keithkloor]

@JHWeissmann @Timodc It is quite sad that 60 Minutes and many journalists are so credulous as to continue to fall for this. HS is essentially a UFO story (another topic badly reported by mainstream media).

Anyway, as I have written, we have been here before:
https://t.co/1Y2KAOzA7E

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Just 100 users were responsible for almost 70% of online conspiracy posts from influential accounts they examined in Canada.

An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from these influencers. But this tiny minority of true believers can have a momentous impact on local politics, influencing what people view as normal and acceptable and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
https://t.co/ZAnPLyxsVE

These extremists create what we call "the funhouse mirror" effect of social media, where a small number of users create misperceptions of social norms. https://t.co/mvLZWozQVv

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.

- Hannah Arendt

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

The cover of the Lancet. It says it all.

[Jerry Brewer @JerryBrewer]

The U.S. men's hockey team won gold -- and then lost the room.

A column on fragile, fleeting unity and an historic team that let its moment drift into political manipulation:

https://t.co/aBgsBSwjKm

[Ian Kennedy @IanKennedyCK]

If today wasn't yet another reminder, the ingrained misogyny among men in hockey is a real, visceral part of hockey's culture, I don't know what is.

It exists in the USA, it exists in Canada.

[Ian Kennedy @IanKennedyCK]

Nobody cares that the USA men's team now says that they're "friends" and supporters of the women's team in the village and elsewhere.

In the moment, when the women were demeaned, they laughed. No one stood up, no one has said it was wrong since.

That's not how friendship works.

[stephen fowler @stphnfwlr]

EXCLUSIVE: An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).

https://t.co/tRcFQSFZkz

[Ian Kennedy @IanKennedyCK]

As NHL players return to their teams, and as Team USA heads to meet with the President, remember that they've all had plenty of time to speak out, to apologize for laughing, to condemn that type of misogyny, and to tout the achievement of USA's women's team.

They haven't.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Trump has embraced fascist themes of xenophobia, nationalism, and glorification of violence, @RadioFreeTom argues. “I didn’t want to see what was happening to the Republican Party, until the durability of Donald Trump made it impossible to ignore.” https://t.co/POofi4KNTw

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

A Trump ally who helped spread lies about the 2020 election in hopes of overturning the verdict of the voters is now Trump's "director of election security and integrity." @ShawnMcCreesh @AlexandraBerzon @NYTnickc https://t.co/blIKI7l8GX

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

One of the best pieces I’ve read regarding what we are learning from the Epstein scandal that is less about Epstein the person and more about what our culture and politics lack: character, ethics and morality.

[Laura Coates @thelauracoates]

I said what I said.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

A day after President Trump reposted a video, which included an animation of former President Obama and Michelle Obama's faces superimposed on the bodies of apes, CBS News' @AdrianaDiaz and @vladduthiersCBS speak to the damage that social media posts like that do. "We do so much work as parents to build up our children," Adriana says. "And then for something like this, an image that equates Black people as animals... it takes away from that."