Dave

Proud American, College Football Alumnus (San Diego State) and fan. Aztec for Life! Native Californian, trying not to give up on it.

[Dave @lowerydavid]

Absolutely heart wrenching.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

'You have no idea the fire you have ignited.' - Erika Kirk

The legacy of Charlie Kirk.❤️

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

When they target one person for nefarious political persecution, the message is they can target us all. We need justice for the weaponization of government under Biden & we can’t even get a fund to compensate victims when the guilty should be behind bars.

Once again, the American people get screwed & the President’s own party was part of that. They continue to subvert his will & the will of the overwhelming majority of voters who elected him partly on this platform.

@POTUS
@DAGToddBlanche
@JDVance

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

"I'm at Freedom 250 to honor America..

I love this country and I'm honored to get to do the national anthem with the Marine Band"

@zacbrownband #PMSLive

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

If you want to understand why John Sipher’s New York Times attack on Bill Pulte landed the way it did, start with what the paper chose not to tell you.

Sipher left the CIA in 2014. In 2017 he publicly defended the Steele dossier’s collusion framework as generally credible. In 2019 he argued it was entirely plausible that the sitting president had been compromised by Russian intelligence. In October 2020 he signed the letter from former officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop carried the hallmarks of Russian disinformation ... a letter later tied by investigators to outreach from Antony Blinken to Michael Morell for the purpose of giving the Biden campaign debate material. This spring he wrote in The Bulwark that the current administration was doing structural damage to American intelligence. In May he attacked Tulsi Gabbard’s leadership at ODNI and called Richard Grenell an unserious loyalist.

Then, this week, the New York Times introduced him to readers as a 28-year CIA veteran and former station chief offering sober analysis of a Trump nominee.

His advisory roles with the Lincoln Project and National Security Leaders for Biden did not appear. His history of opposing every previous Trump intelligence appointee did not appear. The laptop letter did not appear.

Sipher is free to hold and express whatever views he wants. That is not the issue. The issue is that the Times presented a decade-long record of partisan engagement as if it were the detached perspective of a recently retired professional. Readers were given only the credential that flatters the argument and denied the context that would let them judge it honestly.

That is not an oversight. It is a choice about what the audience is permitted to know before being asked to trust the opinion.
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[Dave @lowerydavid]

@AndrewCMcCarthy My new favorite AG to be…

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@RepRobertGarcia You are a bigger dork than I ver imagined…

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@SherylNYT Damn, @SherylNYT you just schooled. Maybe find another profession, “journalism” is apparently not in your wheelhouse.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@ATabarrok Figures you are a professor…. Absolutely no common sense…

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

I have never once in my life encountered someone expressing this sentiment. Either I live in quite a bubble, or Ezra Klein does.

[Just the News @JustTheNews]

JUST IN: "An anti-Trump lawyer named Norm Eisen...had a nonprofit whose lawyers were deputized to help prosecute supporters of President Trump."

@jsolomonReports internal memos and public records reveal that a nonprofit founded by attorney and former Obama Ambassador Norm Eisen, the States United Democracy Center (SUDC), has actively assisted state and local authorities.

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@grahamformaine Gross

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

BREAKING: Less than 12 hours after I exposed Judge James Boasberg’s conflict of interest with his daughter Katharine Boasberg, who works for a 501c3 called “Partners For Justice” @PFJ_USA that gives criminal illegal aliens and gang members legal advice,
Katharine Boasberg has DELETED her @LinkedIn page and her Instagram account.

I have exclusively uncovered a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST involving Judge James Boasberg, the Chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Boasberg recently made the decision to prevent the deportation of criminal illegal alien gang members on planes out of the country.

This is enough for President Trump’s legal team to push for a MOTION FOR RECUSAL for Judge Boasberg.

Cc: @StephenM @RealTomHoman @Sec_Noem @CcpSkipTracer @LoomerUnleashed

See Video receipts below 👇🏻

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@bradlander Goldman is absolutely terrible but Welch is 10 times worst. Amazing you post this as a good thing🤣🤣🤣

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

Last year, the SPLC added TPUSA to their so-called "hate map," placing us alongside neo-Nazi organizations and the Ku Klux Klan. The day before Charlie was murdered, they published a newsletter attacking him and Turning Point USA.

Today, they doubled down and stood by that designation.

They have to, because it's their real mission. As we now know thanks to the Trump DOJ, the SPLC itself funds violent extremist groups to stoke fear among the public, so they can stick organizations like Turning Point USA on their "hate map" and tar us by association.

Turning Point USA has, from the beginning, stood for open conversations and respectful debate regardless of creed or color.

All along, the real hate group is the SPLC, which recklessly sows hate every day with its lies.

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@washingtonpost Imagine being one of the 3k who liked this crap…

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Here's something many people don't know about me -

Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum.

Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public.

Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article.

Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation."

Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

They spent years telling us the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had to look like a stagnant swamp because that was the price of being enlightened.

An Obama-era redesign turned it into a green, algae-choked mess that started blooming within a week of reopening. The official explanation from the National Park Service was delivered with perfect bureaucratic sincerity: “This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project.” Another spokesperson added that “the conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.” It also leaked. And it smelled. These were treated as acceptable trade-offs, almost proof of moral seriousness.

The same people who designed buildings meant to dwarf human beings and make them feel small lectured everyone else about dignity and public space.

They replaced columns and ornament with Brutalist slabs and called the result progress. They let fountains sit broken and dry for decades, then acted shocked when the capital started feeling like a place people merely passed through rather than a place worth caring about.

Then Trump did the subversive thing. He looked at the reflecting pool and noticed the word “pool” in the name. Instead of convening another round of ecological theorists, he brought in people who actually fix pools. They sealed it, tinted the water blue, and ran it like a swimming pool. The algae vanished. The smell disappeared. The monuments stopped reflecting a swamp.

The absurdity isn’t just that it was broken for years. It’s that the people in charge had convinced themselves ... and tried to convince everyone else ... that fixing it would have been the extremist act.

All it took was refusing to treat basic maintenance as a political statement.
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[Dave @lowerydavid]

@thedailybeast 🤣🤣🤣. What a bunch of clowns 🤡

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@nithyavraman Even you don’t believe this…. Disgusting.

[Dave @lowerydavid]

@SenJeffMerkley Ignoring the fraudulent voting in CA?