@birdwatcher11.bsky.social
I have the “In Covid’s Wake” PDF and this section floored me. Here is some of the surrounding content — and citations. The professors cited laundered Twitter Files claims in their discussion of the Murthy v Missouri case — they stuck the *outcome of the case* in a footnote while centering the lies.
December 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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(1/2) President Trump and his administration have spent the past year repressing free expression, targeting artists, journalists, and comedians, and erasing the history of Americans whose contributions made our nation better and more just.
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
(1/2) President Trump and his administration have spent the past year repressing free expression, targeting artists, journalists, and comedians, and erasing the history of Americans whose contributions made our nation better and more just.
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(2/2) President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's.
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
(2/2) President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's.
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1. Wow
2. Shocked not shocked
2. Shocked not shocked
ATTN MILITARY: That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
1. Wow
2. Shocked not shocked
2. Shocked not shocked
You folks at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social need to up your game and expose this fraudster disguised as a scientist.
Grateful for this additional reporting on the leadership context from @rosebroderick.bsky.social as well
www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/r...
Trump’s Tylenol warning cited a Harvard dean’s research. But a judge called his shifting conclusions ‘unreliable’
A Harvard dean whose work was cited as justification for curtailing Tylenol use provided what a judge called 'unreliable' expert testimony against the drug’s maker
www.statnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You folks at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social need to up your game and expose this fraudster disguised as a scientist.
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Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
Praying mantis in my abelia shrub.
October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Praying mantis in my abelia shrub.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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By the way, all of the “moderates” fawning over this guy and his book In COVIDs Wake, should remember that he was a big fan of the current MAHA establishment.
This is who he supported and enabled with his revisionist history fan fiction.
This is who he supported and enabled with his revisionist history fan fiction.
September 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
By the way, all of the “moderates” fawning over this guy and his book In COVIDs Wake, should remember that he was a big fan of the current MAHA establishment.
This is who he supported and enabled with his revisionist history fan fiction.
This is who he supported and enabled with his revisionist history fan fiction.
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A good piece in @theatlantic.com by Rogé Karma, which offers another sharp critique of Macedo and Lee's "In Covid's Wake," which just recycles the greatest hits of COVID contrarianism. Because they're Princeton professors, it's gotten a lot of attention, but Rogé Karma takes it apart step by step.
COVID revisionists see the public-health response to the pandemic as a failure. But they fail to get the full picture—and that might leave us even less prepared for the next pandemic, Rogé Karma argues.
COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far
If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A good piece in @theatlantic.com by Rogé Karma, which offers another sharp critique of Macedo and Lee's "In Covid's Wake," which just recycles the greatest hits of COVID contrarianism. Because they're Princeton professors, it's gotten a lot of attention, but Rogé Karma takes it apart step by step.
This is the same person that referred to Artificial Intelligence as “A1”, as in what you put on a piece of beef. people.com/a1-steak-sau...
Steak Sauce Brand Has Hilarious Response After Secretary of Education Confuses ‘A1’ for AI
When discussing technology in schools, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, 76, touted the importance of “A1” — and while she presumably was referring to “AI,” the brand A.1. Sauce had some fun with ...
people.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is the same person that referred to Artificial Intelligence as “A1”, as in what you put on a piece of beef. people.com/a1-steak-sau...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Milkweed and coneflowers before a new round of rain.
#gardening
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Milkweed and coneflowers before a new round of rain.
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Happy to help!
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Itoh peony finally bloomed in its third year. #gardenSky
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Yellow crowned night heron at Ocean City yesterday
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Yellow crowned night heron at Ocean City yesterday
Some fleabanes make great ground covers #gardening
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Happy May Day with lupine and camassia Lily! #gardening
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Kwanzan (Japanese flowering) cherry in bloom.
April 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Kwanzan (Japanese flowering) cherry in bloom.