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Will the RW pause its transgender freakout and book banning? The Department of Energy has a special announcement. Well, it’s not that special, really. It’s another “low confidence” finding not unlike the Cochrane mask study that Bret Stephens hyped last week in the New York Times. In a classified report, the DOE finds based on new intelligence that there is a low probability that COVID-19 originated from an accidental lab leak in China. Then come the caveats (New York Times): Some officials briefed on the intelligence said that it was relatively weak and that the Energy Department’s conclusion was made with “low confidence,” suggesting its level of certainty was not high. While the department shared the information with other agencies, none of them changed their conclusions, officials said. Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan would not confirm the intelligence, telling CNN on Sunday “there is no definitive answer” the the origin of the pandemic. The 18 services in the intelligence community have differing assessments. In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I.
AP classes were cool Ron DeSantis was an AP student back in the glory days when it was all white males, before the you know what’s history and beyotch studies were taught in school. When America was great: When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis floated the possibility of eliminating Advanced Placement classes from his state’s curriculum, he conveniently left out an important fact. DeSantis was once the “AP US History student of the year,” according to his high school yearbook, pages of which were obtained by The Daily Beast. Before turning on AP classes in his latest culture war skirmish, the governor not only benefited from the rigorous courses as a high schooler at Dunedin High School, he also praised the Sunshine State’s top three placement for students in AP courses in February 2020, calling the program “a gateway to achieving success in college, career and ultimately in life.” Now DeSantis is trying to sell a populist pitch that APs aren’t worth the trouble, despite benefiting from the highly sought-after curriculum on his way to an Ivy League education.
He won’t accept the results of the GOP primary unless he wins either. And everyone knows that’s going to be a shitshow.
It’s hard to believe that these right wingers are whining incessantly about free speech and cancel culture but this is just fine:: IN EARLY 2018, the American national security apparatus was fixated on reports that North Korea was building nuclear weapons that could reach the U.S. or that Russia was plotting chemical weapons assassinations in Europe. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump was busy targeting his idea of an enemy of the state: late night host Jimmy Kimmel. The then-president, according to two former Trump administration officials, was so upset by Kimmel’s comedic jabs that he directed his White House staff to call up one of Disney’s top executives in Washington, D.C., to complain and demand action. (ABC, on which Jimmy Kimmel Live! has long aired, is owned by Disney.) In at least two separate phone calls that occurred around the time Trump was finishing his first year in office, the White House conveyed the severity of his fury with Kimmel to Disney, the ex-officials tell Rolling Stone.
This piece in Forbes takes a look at Trump’s signature building Trump Tower. Let’s just say that like everything else about Trump it’s more BS than reality: The offices of the New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney have both focused on Trump Tower as part of their probes into Donald Trump’s efforts to mislead lenders about the value of his assets. The attorney general filed a $250 million civil suit in September, accusing Trump, his business and his underlings of fraud. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg inherited a related criminal probe when he took office last year, but he hesitated to file charges, and two top prosecutors resigned. Bragg’s office says it is still investigating. Perhaps the district attorney is hoping to turn up additional information. Forbes has some. Since the early 1980s, long before our efforts had anything to do with a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit or potential criminal charges, we have been scrutinizing various aspects of Trump’s properties.
I like the guy but …no It’s bad enough that we have wingnut anti-vaxxers spreading lies and making the world a more dangerous place. Do we really need supposedly left wing movie actors doing the same thing? After a winding story about smoking weed — shouting-out his pot shop in West Hollywood, The Woods, and claiming his manager, Jeremy, transported weed from the LA shop to New York for him — Harrelson went into a spiel about the pandemic. The self-proclaimed “anarchist” joked about a supposed movie script, a clear metaphor for the pandemic, that went, “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs — and keep taking them — over and over.” Except for the deadly virus that actually killed well over a million people in the US alone in less than two years, this is super right on. He’s been saying stupid shit about the pandemic for a while. Maybe he could just hang out with Joe Rogan and do that instead of going on SNL?
With DeSantis on board, it might be This is going to be interesting in this presidential campaign. It’s not because I take Mike Pence seriously but because it does represent the GOP giving up a pillar of its appeal with both Trump and DeSantis adopting isolationist rhetoric. As I’ve written before, this is not unprecedented — they did this with Clinton and the Balkans too. But Trump has made this rhetoric standard and it’s leading to some real disorientation among Republicans: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday rebuked fellow Republicans who have given less-than-robust support for America’s defense of Ukraine — a group that includes potential presidential campaign rivals like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “I would say anyone that thinks that Vladimir Putin will stop at Ukraine is wrong,” Pence said in an exclusive interview with NBC News when asked about DeSantis’ position on U.S. efforts to help repel Russia in Europe. The interview came moments after a Pence speech at the University of Texas on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A shit ton of caveats We’re not done yet. Digby referenced on Friday a tweet thread critiquing the recent Cochrane study on masking that has the right wing huffing and puffing even louder, “Masks don’t work!” Brett Stephens in the New York Times brought eye-popping attention this week to Cochrane’s overstated findings by quoting multiple masks-don’t-work and make-no-difference statements. Then, buried down in paragraph 10, we find “the analysis does not prove that proper masks, properly worn, had no benefit at an individual level.” Whoa! What? Kelsey Piper at Vox points out in the meta-analysis that most of the “randomised controlled studies” among Cochrane’s 78 are not about Covid, were not performed during the Covid-19 pandemic (or other epidemics), and only two were “about Covid and masking in particular.” They are examining the effect of mask mandates on community-level spread, not individual protection, as Stephens thoughtfully dropped into paragraph 10.
Better her than me A cabal of Muslim, communist, socialist refugees is coming for you. But you knew that. During most of my Hullabaloo tenure, I worked in a cubicle. Posting during work hours being frowned upon, my social media engagement until recently was more limited. And I wasn’t about to waste limited down-time watching Fox. The staff at Media Matters does that for a living. Presumably, they get an alcohol allowance. Kat Abughazaleh is building her online audience commenting on the slime from your video| Oozin’ along on your livin’ room floor. She sits in her cubicle in Washington, D.C. collecting clips to post to TikTok and Twitter (Clare Malone ofThe New Yorker): “There’s that stupid voice,” Kat Abughazaleh, a twenty-three-year-old senior video producer for the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, said. She and I were watching Carlson’s show in side-by-side cubicles at her organization’s offices, in Washington, D.C. Abughazaleh, a pair of sunglasses perched on her head and a vape pen always within reach, was flagging moments from the episode to post online.