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Whit
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Therapist. Dog mom. Mental health advocate. Yoga enthusiast. Book reader.
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Jimmy Kimmel’s “as I was saying” opener wasn’t random—it’s a callback to Jack Paar. In 1960 Paar walked off The Tonight Show after NBC cut a mild “WC” joke. 3 weeks later he returned, opening with the same line. Kimmel nodded to one of late night’s boldest moments. Brilliant bsky.app/profile/ever...
Here is the video of Paar walking off the show. www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...
February 12, 1960-Jack Paar Walks Off The Tonight Show (REUPLOAD. NOW WITH PARTIAL VIDEO!)
One of the most popular items on my YT channel is my audio recording of the complete Tonight Show of February 12, 1960 when Jack Paar walked off the program to protest the censoring of a story he'd told the previous night (totally innocuous by today's standards). I have known since 1987 that kinescope material of this program did exist when two tiny snippets were shown in the special "Jack Paar Is Alive And Well", but nothing further was ever seen after that. Then recently, I discovered that the YT user "KJM" owns a 16mm kinescope of the first fifteen minutes of the show covering the walk-off and he posted it on his own channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip12LI0BhAY&t=11s. But he was only showing it projected onto a screen complete with the noise of the film projector and not in a digitized format. I have taken his upload and synched the picture to my clear, line-check audio recording of the program so that you can now see and hear the walk-off segment in better quality (in the event the kinescope is ever digitized, I would do another synch effort since kinescope audio, even when digitized is still inferior to a line-check audio recording, which sounds identical to what we'd hear if the program had been preserved in its original videotape format). After the first fifteen minutes, the program reverts to the audio only format. (I have no way of knowing if the rest of the program exists in kinescope format, but it's not likely). The old upload will stay before of all the views and comments its attracted over the years, but I hope people will now come to this one with a chance to actually see the moment that attracted national headlines in 1960. Paar stayed off the program for five weeks before he finally returned to the show, stepping down in 1962 to then make way for Johnny Carson.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos
On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.
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August 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Here’s hoping.
May 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Assuming he is capable of remorse, empathy, or understanding his own hubris seems like a real stretch for a man who harvests whale parts, tells people about his wormy brain & showers on his wife’s live insta feed.
What RFK Jr. said was reprehensible. He should be ashamed of himself and step down.
April 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The man who broke into Gov. Josh Shapiro’s house and set it on fire reportedly planned to beat Shapiro with a sledgehammer.
Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence being treated at hospital, police say
Authorities say a man who they say scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion where he set a fire is being treated at a ...
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April 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
April 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
True.
March 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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“The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.”

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Texas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It's the state's worst in nearly 30 years
The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases. It's the state's worst in nearly 30 years.
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February 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case.

Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
February 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The conflation of “Jews” with the Israeli far right government, is a low info take. 🍊 + 🐀 support the far right Israeli gov, not Jewish people. Supporting Netanyahu gov guarantees Christian nationalist support & 💵.
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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My doctor just referred me to a specialist.
The next available appointment they have is in July.
So, when people tell you that universal healthcare is bad because you have terrible waits for doctors and procedures? This is what insurance that costs $18,000/year and has a $3,500 deductible gets.
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Déjà vu all over again.
February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
February 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
National Socialism (Nazism) represented much more than a political movement. They wanted to change the cultural landscape: to promote what they considered to be traditional “German” values. Works by Jews/others deemed not German enough were purged from the public sphere.
February 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Friend: why are you getting passports?
Me: 1) because we can’t be w/o insurance since hubby is just recovering from chemo & there are a number of countries where we could maintain treatment in 💵 if need be 2) my Jewish roots vibrate with a clang every time I see the 📰
February 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I wish people would stop saying “DOGE”. It’s dumb. It also doesn’t exist. Buying into the language of propaganda is dangerous. Call it what it is: unelected interference from private citizens at the behest of a billionaire. There’s no such thing as “doge”.
February 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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PROGRESSIVES AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: "Don't vote for her!!!! She isn't good for Palestine!!!!"

DONALD TRUMP IN 2025: "We should ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza so I can build some Mediterranean-view condos."
February 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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A VA psychologist friend reached out today. Her job is at a VA in the heartland. Her job, in my view, is helping veterans with post traumatic stress stay alive. She is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who has been encouraged to resign…

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Taking an axe to the federal government
I heard from a VA psychologist friend today...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My employee of the month for January 2025: Bear.
When you’re in solo private practice, you still need support, and Bear really came through this January.
February 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Soooo important.
Don't Believe Him
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m
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February 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
G is using the yoga bolsters to her advantage today; propped and monitoring for suspicious squirrels.
February 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If he REALLY wanted to lower prices, he’d look into the camera and say to every food manufacturer (ie., Tyson’s): I’ve seen your profit margins, you raised prices capitalizing on covid panic initially-lower them now.
The same way he threatens nations, leaders, etc.
February 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM