Kevin Korb
@kbkorb.bsky.social
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Researcher in philosophy of science and AI Naarm, Australia Sarcasm is my native dialect. My blog, loosely tied to Bayesian reasoning and argument analysis: https://bayesianwatch.wordpress.com/ Ex: FB, Twitter, Mastodon, Post (in order)
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gbrockell.bsky.social
This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.
oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...
Post Traumatic Disorder
Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.
www.status.news
kbkorb.bsky.social
No doubt. Perps always get my sympathy when they are forced to do something heinous.
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bettycjung.bsky.social
The Monovalent Mirage
A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-monova...
@angierasmussen.bsky.social has been on top of this elimination of childhood vaccines. Read her commentary and be aware this is happening to Public Health.
The Monovalent Mirage
A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
kbkorb.bsky.social
Killing people with a smile...
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atrupar.com
instead of answering Durbin's questions, Bondi is attacking him
kbkorb.bsky.social
OMB argues that the law providing backpay to furloughed gov workers has a phony interpretation allowing no backpay, despite the known intent of the lawmakers.

This is "originalism" in action: laws mean what we want them to mean.

#Giftlink
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...
wapo.st
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
kbkorb.bsky.social
Any kind of opposition or disagreement is a national emergency for Donald Trump, Imperial President.
kbkorb.bsky.social
People taking Trump's first term as good evidence that a second term would tolerable were not listening to Trump, nor reading Project 2025. They told everyone, and everyone didn't listen.
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thecolfax.bsky.social
One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
-Omar El Akkad

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On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon
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acyn.bsky.social
Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work—now we know their eyes don't work.
kbkorb.bsky.social
I guess Miller is right.

For the record Miller is Adolf Hitler's height. He just needs to grow a mustache.
kbkorb.bsky.social
Out of step with war-torn Chicago.
kbkorb.bsky.social
Opposition to Trump just is terrorism. Stephen Miller should just implement the Final Solution for Democrats so America can be cleansed.
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
"At the Pentagon, some military lawyers, including international law experts within DoD’s Office of General Counsel, have raised concerns about the legality of the lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers....

Multiple current and former JAGs ... told CNN that the strikes do not appear lawful."
Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...
www.cnn.com
kbkorb.bsky.social
Clearly, the Pentagon needs to bring in the IDF lawyers to make it all legal.
kbkorb.bsky.social
Because it'll take a lot more Americans dead before the remainder wake up and throw Trump and his nitwits out.
kbkorb.bsky.social
There's a simple way of getting people to stop calling Trump and his sycophants Nazis and ICE the Gestapo: return to the rule of law.

That won't happen.
willbunch.bsky.social
The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago

We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
www.inquirer.com
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willbunch.bsky.social
The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago

We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
www.inquirer.com
kbkorb.bsky.social
If you can stop it, prove it. So far, the evidence that you can is way weak.