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• 12 March 2023: 2/ Dianna Anderson is a serial fabricator. But because they exist in an internet ecosystem that doesn't value truth, and where you can always get clout by posting outrage content, nothing will deter them from lying forever.
• 12 March 2023:
• 12 March 2023: Think this is the tweet that started it all. This has been quite bad. OP is a random user but a lot of big accounts and people writing under their own name picked up on it, confidently asserting a whistleblower committed a crime. Arguably a low point even by Twitter standards.
• 12 March 2023: -Activist with no HIPAA expertise or grounding to chime in on any of this: KEEPING THE SPREADSHEET IS ITSELF A HIPAA VIOLATION -Investigative journalist disseminates the claim as true without any vetting Everyone involved gets thousand of retweets. Soon it'll all be forgotten
• 12 March 2023: This is an entire tweetstorm of just made-up accusations from an investigative journalist tweeting under his own name, accusing a named individual of committing HIPAA violations without any evidence. Please just hold these sorts of journalists responsible in the long run.
• 11 March 2023: Headed out for my last night as a free man! Have a wonderful Saturday, everyone. It's been a pleasure.
• 11 March 2023: I don't get why anyone takes Herzog seriously when she's just the BARPod receptionist
• 11 March 2023: The patient was struggling at their first followup appointmnet so they wanted to learn more about his history, referral, etc.
• 11 March 2023: "Keep posting through it" is up there with "Read the room" and "Yikes chief" and "Rethink this"
• 11 March 2023: 2/ "I migrated to Mastodon because there's less toxicity there, you absolutely irredeemable fascist piece of shit who I hope dies in a diarrhea factory explosion Anyway, Be Kind!"
• 11 March 2023: I am engaging in some sterotyping here, but AT THE LEVEL OF AVERAGES, in terms of the likely unpleasantness you will encounter, "Mastodon account listed in profile" is becoming almost as much of a red flag as "anime avatar" or "weird Roman statue shit"
• 11 March 2023: AHHH
• 11 March 2023: reported to HHS for checking a patient's file
• 11 March 2023: My only hope is they throw me into podcaster jail, and not regular jail. I can't survive regular jail.
• 11 March 2023: It's possible to look this stuff up. As far as U.S. federal law is concerned, and notwithstanding some complexities and the fact that IANAL, if you strip out 18 key types of identifying data, it's no longer considered protected data in that sense.
• 11 March 2023: Is there a chance that because you think it's illegal for a case manager to pull up a patient's file, you're not qualified to chime in on this? Like, that that error alone is such a profound misunderstanding of what Reed's role is that folks shouldn't trust you?
• 11 March 2023: Literally nothing Christa highlights as a crime here is a crime. One of her examples is... a case manager looking at a patient's chart(!). Christa literally highlights that as a crime. Anyway, we'll see what happens but the level of sudden HIPAA expertise today has been wild.
• 11 March 2023: Wait... so the person whose viral tweet claiming HIPAA concerns (not this one) helped launch all of this earlier believes that HIPAA is about... whether a patient can identity themself??? :(
• 11 March 2023: this one's a really difficult read
• 11 March 2023: My friend, this handout includes a mention of "safeguards to protect your health information." Among those safeguards is de-identifying patient information, which is what Reed said she did. If you want to point to evidence she's lying, fine, but this is a total misunderstanding!
• 11 March 2023: just hold on to all these tweets, is all I am asking you, rubberneckers
• 11 March 2023: 2/ @isaiah_bb can you explain the legal reasoning that led you to publicly accuse a whistleblower of breaking federal law? Is this a good or responsible use of your power and platform as a Congressional staffer? And why did you delete the tweet?
• 11 March 2023: It's been a circus of a day but this since-deleted tweet from @isaiah_bb is a really big deal. This is a Congressional staffer declaring, as a fact, that a whistleblower broke the law. In normal times Omar's office would have received a dozen calls about this by now.
• 11 March 2023:
• 11 March 2023: "I'd love to see him go to jail lol" https://twitter.com/mikescinto/status/1634548793436696577
• 11 March 2023: more speculation about the precise nature of the legal jeopardy I am in
• 11 March 2023: The first thing I'm gonna do when I find myself in the clink (for HIPPOS and RICAE violations, as charged by the Central Magistrate of the Supreme Court) is walk right up to the biggest, baddest mofo in the mess hall and offer to cohost a podcast with him
• 11 March 2023: Why don't you read the article and then we can discuss? Feel free to email me bud
• 11 March 2023: There are whistleblower protections if she shared PHI in certain contexts (inapplicable to sharing with a journo), but she doesn't appear to have shared PHI. A spreadsheet containing no PHI would not be a HIPAA violation. What am I incorrect about here? Embarass me!
• 11 March 2023: According to another Twitter attorney, I stand accused of "publish[ing] confidential information ABOUT A MINOR" -- I believe in the statute in question it's all-caps
• 11 March 2023: Oh man this could be rough for Reed if it turns out the relevant statute allows NBC Tech and Culture reporters to determine who is and isn't a whistleblower Just a lot of quality output from a lot of journalists today -- good stuff all around
• 11 March 2023: NBC News reporter: Jamied Reed is "a receptionist" Mainstream journalists are, on a wide variety of subjects, just completely incapable of getting anywhere close to the truth on anything. It's endemic. Constantly wrong, always confident, never accountable
• 11 March 2023: Paragraph four " “I sexually identify as an attack helicopter,” after all, is a well-worn internet meme, often used as an attack against transgender people. " https://twitter.com/hhhhhennies/status/1634621207113867269
• 11 March 2023: It's not just that you can release personally identifying health information in some whistleblower contexts -- it's also that I am not aware of any evidence she has even done this in the first place, either to me or the investigators. But the Twitter train roars on
• 11 March 2023: this shouldn't need proving at this point but I still get blown away by how out of control twitter rumor-mongering can get within, like, 12 hours
• 11 March 2023: Ilhan Omar staffer publicly pronouncing a whistleblower guilty of a "HIPPA" violation without having seen the spreadsheet in question. This is very professional and normal -- really what you want out of public servants. https://twitter.com/isaiah_bb/status/1634610930532118529
• 11 March 2023: Fintech attorney has determined that I have committed crimes (by violating HIPAA, a law to which I am not subject) and am taking a twitter break (announced before any of this) to destroy evidence (which might be even super illegaller) maybe RICO too?
• 11 March 2023: Again, the level of bloodthirstiness and desire to see people incarcerated. It's genuinely sick
• 11 March 2023: 2/
• 11 March 2023: 1/ I know a lot of people, as good progressives, are very eager to throw a whistleblower in jail. I regret to inform you that basic descriptions of e.g. patient symptoms are regularly shared in media outlets without being treated as HIPAA violations
• 11 March 2023: I would advise the widespread collection of receipts involving claims about HIPAA made on Twitter today
• 11 March 2023: What are you talking about? I'm not treating anything as an established fact. I couldn't be more explicit. Please read more carefully. And yes, if a clinic immediately puts a kid on hormones on the basis of a letter as allegedly bad as this one, that's a very big deal!
• 11 March 2023: 2/ @SamuelWBell, like a lot of people, is fixating on the helicopter thing to avoid engaging with Reed's whole story, in its full context. If Reed's as-yet-unproven claim is correct, this is really bad medicine. Please just read stuff before opining!
• 11 March 2023: 1/A state senator! Someone who could actually have an impact on Rhode Island policy. My article explains that the kid was immediately put on hormones upon arrival at the clinic, and three months later reported worse mental health and no clear gender identity. That's concerning!
• 11 March 2023: 12/ It's an endless, exhausting stream of distortion. I didn't "call a parent an activist" in some derogatory way -- I pointed out a major paper quoted that parent w/o mentioning their longstanding ties to the clinic they were defending. Hobbes knows exactly what he's doing.
• 11 March 2023: 11/ Michael Hobbes is, once again, lying. I haven't said anything remotely like this, "excesses" isn't a quote from me, and the screenshots don't support his claim. My interest is in the debate over youth gender medicine. I cannot stress enough that Hobbes is a chronic liar.
• 11 March 2023: 10/Fighting misinformation on this subject on Twiter is absolutely futile, but the version of the spreadsheet Reed shared with me (and investigators) is stripped of personal info. And the "not really trans" claim here is just a complete distortion. All is explained in the article
• 10 March 2023: 9/ I find this a little bit disappointing on the part of @tomscocca. He publicly implied a whistleblower was unreliable and unstable. Presented with an article that (I would argue) bolsters her account, his response is to publicly gloat that he refuses to read it.
• 10 March 2023: 8/ I also asked @hannahsbee about it, and she said that while the helicopter thing seemed extreme, otherwise Jamie Reed's affidavit generally lined up with what she found while reporting on GIDS.
• 10 March 2023: 7/ When I asked Erica Anderson if she found Reed's claim credible, she said one of her own patients recently said they identified as a raccoon. So, yes.
• 10 March 2023: 6/ Reed shared with me a version of the spreadsheet she and a concerned nurse maintained during her time at the clinic, and which she handed over to the office of the Missouri AG. It contains 17 alleged detransitioners or desisters and 60 allegedly otherwise worrisome cases.
• 10 March 2023: 5/ Curious whether this will nudge the Bayesian Priors of folks like @tomscocca @ryanlcooper @AmandaMarcotte @rottenindenmark, all of whom publicly called Reed a liar or crazy or both. And they could still be right! But she has provided a detailed account.
• 10 March 2023: 4/ Here, for the first time, is what Jamie Reed was referencing when she mentioned a kid identifying as a helicopter in her affidavit. It comes down to a shady letter of referral and an endocrinologist who Reed believed acted negligently, without reading that letter closely.
• 10 March 2023: 3/ Ever since I've been in this game I've been told "If you think you have some reporting that can advance a story that's of national interest, make sure to publish it late on a Friday," so I did that here
• 10 March 2023: 2/ It could certainly be the case that Reed is not telling the truth, but she provided me with full blow-by-blow details of the incident that sparked the helicopter-child reference in her affidavit. And it lines up with what has happened elsewhere.
• 10 March 2023: New from me: Gender-Clinic Whistleblower Jamie Reed Has Provided A Detailed Account Of Her Most Controversial Claim, Including The Names Of Those Involved
• 8 March 2023: After challenging me to a $100,000 bet (!), @jakebackpack didn't respond to my followup questions or nudges on Twitter about the study he cited. So I shot him an email earlier today, and I hope we can make this work one way or another. Very much looking forward to hearing back!
• 7 March 2023: The reporters allowed a disgruntled former employee, who appeared to lie abut the circumstances of their departure and to have previously misrepresented themselves as an employee, to tee off on Reed w/no pushback. "GOOD JOURNALISM!" often just means "This supports my priors!"
• 7 March 2023: 3/ Both the Post-Dispatch and Missouri Independent leaned heavily on Jess Jones, a former staffer who has bashed Reed at length and said they resigned mostly because Reed was so awful to work with. This is, at best, misleading. Jones was actually furloughed as covid ramped up.
• 7 March 2023: 2/ The St. Louis Post-Dispatch leads off its coverage with a patient mom "baffled" at Reed's claim. It fails to disclose that she cofounded the activist group TransParent and had an instrumental role bringing the clinic into existence. Not a good omission.
• 7 March 2023: New from me: Journalists Are Exhibiting Far Too Much Credulousness Toward Jamie Reed’s Critics Lots of new details both on journalistic screwups and Reed's counterclaims, in some cases well-documented ones
• 7 March 2023: 5/ I also stand accused by the Beast of not only "elevat[ing] the idea that trans people are innately different from cisgender people" but also "seem[ing] amenable to" it (the writing here fucking sucks)
• 7 March 2023: 4/ The "administrative coordinator on the Times’ business side" was let go and opted not to seek another position due to the emotional labor he had enacted. I hope he's doing okay.
• 7 March 2023: 3/ Okay this article is inadvertently amazing. The consultant, it turns out, believes more consulting is required
• 7 March 2023: 2/ @CorbinBolies is so fundamentally unfamiliar with this issue he doesn't know the term "childhood gender dysphoria" Either way, again, real damning stuff
• 7 March 2023: This piece, advertised as a "Scoop" by the Beast itself, contains shocking allegations, including that "an administrative coordinator on the Times’ business side" didn't approve of some of the paper's editorial decisions.
• 7 March 2023: This is defamatory
• 5 March 2023: Journalistic coverage of this subject, which involves really vulnerable kids and parents facing difficult decisions, is an absolute disgrace. Editors should be ashamed of what they're doing but the vast majority of them are happy to just keep stumbling along.
• 4 March 2023: there's a comprehension gap so severe i don't know how to respond. the sentence in question mentions the kid identifying as a lot of things, including maybe nonbinary. presumably that's why they transitioned. no i do not think they were given hormones to become a helicopter (???)
• 4 March 2023: I am saying it could absolutely be the case that a kid said they identified as an attack helicopter. I think it's unlikely they really IDed that way. Nowhere did Reed argue that -- rather, was part of a longer list of red flags and mental health concerns she felt went ignored
• 4 March 2023: the entire point is kids sometimes arrive at clinics parroting stuff they saw online -- something I've been hearing for years (Atlantic article) -- which makes the diagnostic process more difficult. Reed's complaint is that these sorts of warning signs weren't factored in
• 4 March 2023: "I feel like the fervent activist crowd often lacks the detachment necessary for close reasoning and argument. course, that can be both good and bad"
• 4 March 2023:
• 4 March 2023: 9/ Many corner of Tumblr: Absolutely inscrutable weird kid gender ideas American Whistleblower: Kids came into a gender clinic identifying as weird stuff BBC journalist: Kids came into a gender clinic identifying as weird stuff Smart online pundits: NUH UH NO WAY NOT LIKELY
• 4 March 2023: 8/ The sort of skepticism you see here can only come from folks who don't follow this subject closely. Kids come into gender clinics having picked up all sorts of ideas from the internet. Multiple kids came to Tavistock identifying as other ethnicities. Online influence is real!
• 4 March 2023: 7/ FWIW the Post-Dispatch reporter talked a bit about how she found her sources on Twitter.
• 4 March 2023: 6/Given the specific claims in her affidavit and her naming of some names, if Reed isn't telling the truth, this would be perhaps the most spectacular instance of a serial fabricator ever -- it would make the Stephen Glass story look like peanuts. We won't know for a bit, though.
• 4 March 2023: 5/ I think people are treating this story as "debunked" prematurely. So many of the specifics of Reed's affidavit have been echoed elsewhere, including in "Time To Think." (Different clinic across the pond, but may of the same problems.)
• 4 March 2023: 4/ But this probably isn't close to a random sample of parents whose kids went to the clinic. Again, there's nothing wrong with TransParent parents defending a clinic they view as doing worthy work. But we just shouldn't view this as anything close to conclusive evidence.
• 4 March 2023: 3/ Far more parents were quoted who supported the clinic than who had bad experiences there. "Almost two dozen parents of children seen at the clinic, which opened in 2017, say their experiences sharply contradict the examples supplied by Jamie Reed," for example.
• 4 March 2023: 2/"Urgent Action Needed!" went the subject line. "If you have any contacts with the media, please let us know. We need people to show up for this urgent fight." TransParent has every right to do this! But it might explain the ratio we saw in the first wave of followup coverage:
• 4 March 2023: 1/ The same day the gender clinic whistleblower Jamie Reed's article went up on Free Press, Susan Halla, Board President of the activist group TransParent, sent this email out to her network asking its members to defend of the clinic, and to spread the word about this effort.
• 3 March 2023: I (genuinely) dunno if the person is a lying anti-trans grifter but yeah Paul was too credulous of that account -- we mentioned it on the pod
• 3 March 2023: gimme an example?
• 3 March 2023: That makes no sense whatsoever as a comparison. It took me 30 seconds to pull up an example of Rush Limbaugh being racist, because they are legion.
• 3 March 2023: Why did you have to Google it? Just quickly respond with your own least favorite example of the Times being bigoted to trans people? This shouldn't be hard! When I dislike an article I can quickly and clearly explain why, with example. Why can't you do the same?
• 3 March 2023: This neatly clarifies it. When they say things like "the Times is bigoted against trans people," what they mean -- or what Oliver means, at least -- is "I have minor qualms about how paragraphs I agree with are framed and worded" This was the best example he could come up with.
• 3 March 2023: I'm not even disagreeing with you! It's possible I missed something. But you're saying the coverage has been REALLY bad. What's the one screencap you think best exemplifies this?
• 3 March 2023: Can you screencap something from a Times article that best exemplifies this bigoted coverage?
• 2 March 2023: This is how online radicalization and misinformation lead to real-world violence. Nowhere did the Times call for the elimination of trans people. But assholes with big platforms repeated claims like this so much that a journalist has now been assaulted in public.
• 2 March 2023: Pasting without comment because no comments are necessary
• 2 March 2023: "I’d argue that when you write front-page stories about all of the supposed crises that young trans people ... present to society" -- Drew Magary, lying about the NYT. That's what this is: lying.
• 1 March 2023: (2/ In a youth context, of course)
• 1 March 2023: Jake didn't respond so I might as well open this up to everyone. If the argument is that journalists who cover this subject are engaged in execrable concern-trolling, just point us to the American studies of low regret rates, like the several Jacob vaguely referenced upthread.
• 25 February 2023: Downtown Hartford in February
• 23 February 2023: 2/ Even the claim that first brought her a lot of attention and money -- that she had to FLEE TO EUROPE to escape harassment -- was never remotely explained. Why did she have to leave Canada? Why would she be safer obverseas? Why keep broadcasting her location? It was nuts.
• 23 February 2023: I don't know whether or not Keffals has the addiction problem she says she has. If she does, I wish her all the best in her recovery. I will say that many of the claims that helped her raise a lot of money were suspect and should not have been treated so credulously by journos.
• 23 February 2023: 6/ When you read accounts like this, it's harder to shrug off the claim that, in the case of misdiagnosis, this can be a form of anti-gay conversion therapy. To be clear, I'm not making any claim about how frequent it was, but it's stlil disturbing.
• 23 February 2023: 5/ I am still on GLAAD's list of anti-trans bigots in part for a sentence in which I pointed out that sometimes trauma seems to affect gender identity.
• 23 February 2023: 4/ These stories are from "Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children" by @hannahsbee. There are a lot more. Read the book! I'd love to hear theories as to why American youth gender care is any better.
• 23 February 2023: 3/ Second Scene: A GIDS teen has an unusual diagnostic profile and is being groomed by a trans woman abroad who is sending him gifts. The kid thinks they're gonna go live with her. Clinicians experience 'vicious' pushback from colleagues for thinking these are red flags.
• 23 February 2023: 2/ First Scene: A traumatized kid from an incredibly abusive family explicitly tells his clinician his mom wants him to go on blockers more than he does. A billion red flags. The head of the clinic says go ahead, refer him for blockers.
• 23 February 2023: 1/ Before I present a couple scenes from GIDS, one of the two most famous youth gender clinics in the world and among the only to have pubbed data (showing puberty blockers didn't help kids at all), remember: Anyone who expresses any skepticism of this field is a hardened bigot.
• 22 February 2023: No the Guild sent out a letter arguing very aggressively this was a hostile workplace issue, right? That's partly why newsroom was outraged at guild -- such a position would make journalism on a wide variety of issues
• 22 February 2023: One of the only Kaleghazi dead-enders I've encountered is Kevin Bird, who is fairly notorious in some circles for constantly trying get other academics fired for ideological impurity. Incredibly watching him try to argue the SoC says the exact opposite of what it says.
• 22 February 2023: 4/ Just to be clear and to not risk putting even paraphrased words in my source's mouth, that last bit was me saying "So, it sounds like this was an overwhelming show of force...," and source agreeing.
• 22 February 2023: 3/ rejection of the idea signing a letter attacking colleagues is protected by labor law, and most seemed quite unhappy such acts of non-collegiality had occurred. "It was fucking crazy," said my source -- an overwhelming show of force for traditional journalism in the building.
• 22 February 2023: 2/ Overwhelmingly, source said, the ~150 participants on the Zoom were opposed to the Guild's attempt to frame objections to NYT coverage as a hostile workplace issue. At the end at least one person openly asked about recalling the Guild leadership. There was also overwhelming
• 22 February 2023: 1/ I just spoke w/someone who was at a NYT townhall earlier today that Guild leadership presented as a chance for staff to provide feedback on the NYT contributors' open letter, NYT's response, and Guild's response. At the meeting, "The newsroom just revolted" against the Guild.
• 21 February 2023: you're right -- latter causing former
• 21 February 2023: 3/ Serious new allegations in the comments :(
• 21 February 2023: 2/ Your Jeet Heers and Michael Hobbeses and Meet Jeers and Jichael Mobbeses etc. would never have turned this into a giant spectacle if they were familiar with the basics of what the adolescent chapter of the WPATH SoC says. They weren't, so they did. A lesson worth remembering.
• 21 February 2023: Here's my piece on my bizarre online encounter with Dr. E. Kale Edmiston. I went long in part to demonstrate, beyond any doubt, that many of the dilettantes mucking up Twitter with loud opinions on youth gender medicine haven't the slightest clue about it
• 20 February 2023: Yeah, this is what happened
• 20 February 2023: Okay -- I'd love to talk to Dr. Edmiston. He hasn't returned multiple emails, including two I sent before I publicly revealed he didn't write the sentence in question. If you have a line to him please ask him to get in touch. He could simply explain this all in detail, ending it.
• 20 February 2023: 7/ Edmiston says the source of the misunderstanding is that he was on a call with Leibowitz "last year" dedicated to reconciling language between the chapters, and that's where his language originated. But that language was already in the Adolescent draft by December 2021.
• 19 February 2023: 4/ Edmiston complained I didn't reach out to him when quoting from the adolescent chapter. Setting aside the fact that I don't need to reach out to anyone to quote a simple sentence, why would I reach out to a random coauthor on a different chapter? This is simply nonsensical.
• 19 February 2023: 3/ This whole thing started with a resercher appearing to disagree with his own work. If people aren't familiar enough with this issue to understand the plain meaning of that sentence, or that the SoC 8's adolescent chapter is rather pro-assessment... I dunno?
• 19 February 2023: 2/ Here, again, is the sentence he is claiming I misinterpreted. Its plain meaning is clear if you're familiar w/this issue, but if that's not enough, all three cites reference situations where it might not be right for folks with complex presentations to receive gender medicine
• 19 February 2023: 1/ Can't emphasize enough that Edmiston is claiming to have contributed language he himself disagrees with. Both chapters include language about the importance of differentiating other mental health conditions from GD, which is why assessments are important in complex cases.
• 19 February 2023: MSNBC columnist @MarisaKabas tweeted this yesterday, found out it was false, deleted it, and didn't clarify or apologize at all. That's how these folks work. It's shameless. She called the WPATH SoC a "study" because she has no clue what she is talking about. But I'm the fraud.
• 19 February 2023: 2/ And no, I will not be altering anything I've tweeted about this, because it is absolutely true.
• 19 February 2023: Yes, this is why I didn't run anything on it until I emailed Edmiston twice, once last night and once this morning, and until Leibowitz responded w/an unequivocal quote. Second email to Edmiston included exact quote from Leibowitz I was gonna publicize + a deadline. No response.
• 19 February 2023: Pleased to present my new three-act play, working title "Chickenshit Demagogues"
• 19 February 2023: Daaaaamn, legit good job Twitter. This is actually solid real-time nudging folks toward the truth that lies appropriately between letting anything go and harsher measures like pulling the tweet down (which I wouldn't want to do in situations like this)
• 18 February 2023: They will talk shit endlessly, forever, without fact-checking, and then the moment anyone points out that they're dishonest they turtle. There is no accountability in media.
• 18 February 2023: And there it is. Scott Leibowitz, cochair of the chapter in question, calling E. Kale Edmiston out for claiming to have written a sentence he didn't write. (To be clear, I didn't ask Leibowitz to chime in on this on Twitter, and wouldn't.)
• 18 February 2023: Hobbes deleted this, according to @benryanwriter, but he should REALLY apologize and explain what happened -- that it turns out the author in question didn't write that. I know that on Twitter there are no standards but the buck has to stop somewhere. What a hack.
• 18 February 2023: What do YOU think, Jeet? Many people saw your tweet demanding I respond to the accusation, from a scientist, that I misintepreted his sentence. I reached out to the cochair of that chapter, who said he never heard of him. Why this sudden bothsidesism? What do YOU think?
• 18 February 2023: 6/ If you were familiar with the chapter or this debate more broadly, it was abundantly clear that this guy's argument didn't make sense or jibe with the text. If you're a Jeet Heer or Michael Hobbes type, no time for such considerations.
• 18 February 2023: 5/ It would be impossible to explain Twitter to someone who hasn't experienced it firsthand
• 18 February 2023: 4/ In my initial response you'll see I treated him as a coauthor because he said he was one, and I figured maybe I just hadn't heard of him. But in retrospect his complete lack of familiarity with the chapter's own content/citations fits.
• 18 February 2023: 3/ He worked on a different chapter, one about adults. He's listed here as being on that one, not adolescent. That's what first raised alarm bells for me. https://wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v8/SOC8%20Full%20Contributor%20List%20-%20FINAL%20UPDATED%2009232021.pdf
• 18 February 2023: 2/ I confess that I did not reach out to someone who didn't write the adolescent chapter before quoting from the adolescent chapter. Luckily, I'm on good terms with multiple of the authors so I could quickly expose what appears to be a truly fraudulent claim.
• 18 February 2023: Jeet's tweet, accusing us of journalistic malfeasance without checking any of the details, such as the fact that Edmiston's name didn't appear on the chapter in question, was widely circulated. I take it that Jeet will also circulate this widely too. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626997603341860865
• 18 February 2023: Dr. E. Kale Edmiston said I misinterpreted a sentence in the WPATH SoC he himself wrote. I reached out to Scott Leibowitz, co-chair of the chapter in question: "I have never heard of that person in my life... and that sentence was certainly not written by them whatsoever. " 🤷
• 18 February 2023: BART to SFO, flying to LA, picking up rental car, eating dinner w/childhood friend and his wife and kids. Then we had babka. For the love of Christ this is a stupid and knee-jerk website. My response is here and I completely stand by what I wrote. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626801633492611072
• 18 February 2023: Here is language you cauthored highlighting the importance of understanding "The adolescent’s mental health concerns (if any) that may interfere with diagnostic clarity, capacity to consent, and gender-affirming medical treatments have been addressed." So I'm confused. Email?
• 18 February 2023: This is referenced multiple times in a chapter you have your name on, no? Or are you saying that your chapter says there's no evidence for proceeding without assessment, but what the assessment finds doesn't matter, and proceeding to blockers/hormones is always the right move?
• 18 February 2023: I was flying today and missed this. I've spoken to multiple of your coauthors on the adolescent chapter who absolutely think that mental health comorbidities can complicate a GD diagnosis, and might be cause for more caution before proceeding to blockers or hormones.
• 18 February 2023: 2/ (Dunno if this was posted by someone else before me -- was in transit most of day. I'm probably not first to it.)
• 18 February 2023: "Employees have a federally-protected right to engage in concerted activity to address workplace conditions. It is a violation of federal law for The [NYT] to threaten, restrain or coerce employees from engaging in such activity." -NewsGuild sent this out earlier
• 17 February 2023: 5/ Drew Magary on neopronouns in 2014 is an interesting read. He argues that you can respect a group's dignity and right to exist while (politely) rejecting some of the more extreme claims made by its activists. 🤔🤔🤔
• 17 February 2023: 4/ Within media, the question of who gets cancelled and who gets forgiveness is simply a matter of whether you have the right friends. That's it. That's the whole thing. There's no underlying moral there there.
• 17 February 2023: 3/ Or:
• 17 February 2023: 2/Magary's trajectory has been to always scramble up one moral level higher, pull the ladder up behind him, and then scream down at his lessers how outraged he is that they don't get it (the way he just got it 30 seconds ago). A tired and bad-faith act, especially given his past.
• 17 February 2023: I used to love Drew Magary. He turned into one of the most preening, hypocritical scolds in media -- a guy who allows himself endless second chances and reinventions but who doesn't extend the same grace to ANYONE else. I wrote about him. Partial preview.
• 16 February 2023: I think some activists and journalists made the mistake of thinking "Eat shit," "Fuck you," "You want to kill kids," "You enable genocide," etc. could stave off a conversation about youth gender medicine, they're realizing that effort failed, and now they're freaking out over it.
• 16 February 2023: This is causing a whole other uproar at my former employer, but to be clear, what Chait is saying here is straight from WPATH. If journos can't follow WPATH's lead without getting attacked by their colleagues, coverage of this issue will be impossible. Which is maybe the point?
• 16 February 2023: People are going to get mad about this, but why would any company countenance employees publicly denouncing one another online? It makes the Times look like an absolute basket case of an organization. Glad to see the pushback against unreasonable people.
• 16 February 2023: 2/ Of course we don't know what's going on inside the building, and maybe this will have a chilling effects. But this was not the sort of public statement you make if you think you letters you're responded to made any legitimate points you need to grapple with.
• 16 February 2023: Via @laurahazardowen, here's the NYT's response to the open letters. It's basically perfect. The letter writers appear to have lost, full-stop. I'm relieved.
• 14 February 2023: 13/ In summary: The 'ghouls' are the people who have any questions about any aspect of youth medical transition. The good people are the ones trying to get them to stop asking these questions with defamation and violent threats and bizarre masturbation fantasies.
• 14 February 2023: 12/ Another violent sexual fantasy from her: "the tricky science of whether or not Jesse Singal is allowed to vivisect us on live TV while jerking off"
• 14 February 2023: 11/ Here's another violent fantasy about me from Gretchen Felker-Martin -- this one from 2019. "Bind Jesse Singal with strong rope and bring him to the quarry at the edge of town. Give him to us alive and unspoiled. Leave, and no matter the sounds you hear, do not look back."
• 14 February 2023: 10/ If you are this obsessed with someone and tweet about them in this manner over and over, and you're a little broken, of course your thoughts are going to turn violent eventually. That's what hate does.Käännä twiitti
• 14 February 2023: 9/ Here's Gretchen Felker-Martin openly fantasizing about me masturbating. Very normal stuff. I look forward to hearing from the folks who feverishly tried to destroy my career by spreading rumors about me sending creepy DMs etc. Very sane media world full of good, honest people.
• 14 February 2023: 8/ Gretchen really likes making violent threats. I don't understand how this person still has an account on here. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/826612467933511680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
• 14 February 2023: 7/ @oneunderscore__ my understanding is you cover online radicalization and violent threats? Like, this is your main beat? Here's an author openly calling for three other authors' throats to be slit. Any interest?
• 14 February 2023: 6/ Archived. You can be a published author and openly call for other named individual's throats to be slit. Like, openly! Under your own name! Without any repercussions! As long as you're doing it for the Good Team.
• 14 February 2023: 5/ As of yet there isn't any evidence this was a hate crime. But hey, why not just terrorize a shitload of trans people before the facts are in.
• 14 February 2023: 4/ Here's the tweet in question -- please get this sick fuck suspended from Twitter. At a certain point, this really does get dangerous because all it takes is for one person to take action as a result of the steady drumbeat of incitement. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/1624925933768433664
• 14 February 2023: 3/ Here's some agreement I should have my throat slit because a teenager was stabbed on another continent. I'm sure there will be widespread wringing of hands about "online radicalization" and 'incitement' -- maybe I'll get a piece from one of those anti-extremism reporters??
• 14 February 2023: 2/ If you are seen as being on the 'wrong' team, then if you quote-retweet one just a bit too snarkily, that's considered 'harassment.' But the 'good' people -- the "be kind" crowd -- can threaten and harass you and tell you to kill yourself forever, and it's all good.
• 14 February 2023: Gretchen Felker-Martin, a horror writer who has gotten glowing coverage from outlets like NPR, has blamed commentators she doesn't like, myself included, for the stabbling death of a trans teen thousands of miles away -- and said that our throats should be slit as payback.
• 10 February 2023: Kotaku with a totally good faith, accurate description of J.K. Rowling's concerns about reforming the Gender Recognition Act so it's closer to pure self-ID: she stands guilty of "opposing legislation that would make it easier for trans people to stay alive"
• 10 February 2023: 2/ I have no idea if it's good and am not going to play it but I am allowed to find this whole thing hilarious and to default to rooting for a game reviled by some of the most unhinged people online.
• 10 February 2023: Normies remain undefeated
• 10 February 2023: 3/ One of the points I made on the pod is that this controversy is driven by folks suffering from serious levels of arrested development -- grown-ass adults who have no identity beyond what is reflected back at them in pop culture. They shouldn't be critics!
• 10 February 2023: 2/ "[Taps mic] This thing on? Listen up, y'all. I hope you're near the cutest heckin doggo fren you can find, because I'm about to dish Warner Bros. Games a heaping dose of This Ain't It, Chief. Yikes. Read the room. Someone seriously needed to Rethink This."
• 10 February 2023: Wired's review of Hogwarts Legacy gives it 1/10 because in part because "its real-world harms are impossible to ignore." The first sentence is literally "Yikes, y'all." https://wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/ There's a subset of writer who is now beyond parody.
• 10 February 2023: I'll never stop loving the fact that people take the time to rate public institutions like airports. (This is higher than I would have expected for JFK!)
• 10 February 2023: Honestly don't think a regret study structured like that one even gives great data about adults. At the very least we should have preregistered longitudinal studies of kids who go on these treatments. From what I've seen American clinicians are failing even that.
• 10 February 2023: -only adults -mostly other countries -majority "fair" or "poor" -total of about 30% loss to followup, which goes unmentioned in the paper (I hired a researcher to dig around in this one forever ago) This tells us nothing about youth transition in the U.S.
• 10 February 2023: Michael Hobbes actually engage with the people you constantly talk dishonest shit about challenge
• 10 February 2023: Just to be clear: Your shtick is calling out bad data but you are using Swedish regret rates form the 20th century to argue that we know the regret rate for American kids in the 21st century is low?
• 10 February 2023: 2/ Left is his response, right is a screenshot from the article of mine he is criticizing.
• 9 February 2023: I gotta go for a couple hours but this is useful -- a social scientist saying he has substantive critiques of my work. I hope he will fill everyone in on exactly what I'm misunderstanding and cherrypicking.
• 9 February 2023: 3/ I think Michael Hobbes is a major source for this meme, but he should know better: One of his first pods was on the Satanic sex abuse panic, but we never had comprehensive, representative data on how many therapists were doing recovered memory stuff. It didn't exist.
• 9 February 2023: 2/Anecdotal evidence is never ideal but what are we supposed to do in the case of an underregulated, mostly private industry where we don't have, and won't ever have, comprehensive data on clinics' practices? Asking for evidence that can't exist is what global warming deniers do.
• 9 February 2023: Everyone's a dipshit, a bigot, a fascist, and so on. There's nothing to worry about here. https://twitter.com/StorySlug/status/1623760722982207490
• 9 February 2023: 2/ Because these asshats are endlessly, endlessly lying about the state of the evidence, they are riling up their audiences, who are now baffled as to how anyone could have any questions about any of this. "Well, they simply must want trans kids to die!" It's so irresponsible.
• 9 February 2023: 2/ This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. It is PROFOUNDLY FUCKED UP to tell parents "Yup, your kids won't kill themselves if you get them top surgery" when that claim is light years ahead of the evidence. t's astonishing that Hobbes (and others) disagree with me about this.
• 9 February 2023: Hobbes is now spreading made-up facts about top surgery reducing suicidality in adolescents. There is just no low he won't stoop to to own his enemies online.
• 9 February 2023: LOOOOOL literally one day later
• 9 February 2023: This is from June 2020 -- I do recommend going back once in awhile to see the sort of stuff that was published during the peak of the frenzy. Lot of it isn't going to age well.
• 9 February 2023: *Aja
• 9 February 2023: Can you just explain the connection to me? I find "people who menstruate" to be clumsy language. If I make fun of it, I am contributing to a chain of events that could lead to murder?
• 9 February 2023: This is from 2020 but I still find it shocking. How did Vox's editors allow AJ Romano to claim that J.K. Rowling making a joke about cringey "people who menstruate" language contributes to black trans women getting raped? It's just insane. No pushback?
• 8 February 2023: What are your favorite examples of the hideous intersection of J.K. Rowling discourse and contemporary vidya commentary?
• 7 February 2023: I unfortunately understand most of these terms. "Picrew," no idea and not looking it up
• 7 February 2023: TW/ Racism Keffals is now encouraging her followers to go infiltrate "tenderqueer" Twitter to spread misinfo & mistrust by using Picrew avatars (just fyi)
• 6 February 2023: it's weird how inconsistent it is!
• 6 February 2023: Relationship with ChatGPT fraying rapidly
• 6 February 2023:
• 6 February 2023: I mean... it's right
• 6 February 2023: I deleted this tweet because Patrick is saying he isn't shocked. It's the sort of distortion I dislike and I didn't mean to engage in it -- just a fired-from-the-hip tweet. I left the rest of my thread about how ridiculous this is, because it is!
• 6 February 2023: We lost something important when we forgot how to say "I'm a bit grossed out by this," or "Eh, not for me" and just leave it at that. Nuclear takes are becoming ubiquitous.
• 5 February 2023: I fucking HATE this. I am freaking out. I thought I was having a good day but now I can't stop thinking about it
• 5 February 2023: I'm curious about this too. My sense is that the problems with the concept of gender identity laid out by Reilly-Cooper and Alex Byrne are pretty compelling, but that no one has really knocked them down?
• 3 February 2023: has that story been told?
• 3 February 2023: Yeah Greenwald has the goods on this, can confirm
• 3 February 2023: 4/ Oh and to be 100% clear I'm not implying he is or isn't on the Official list of Good White Men Freddie deBoer helpfully published a ways back -- I just mean he exists in that genre of Twitter character
• 3 February 2023: The very best white man there is
• 3 February 2023: 3/ I can't stand him and am petty, but not petty enough to be the guy who causes it to become public knowledge.
• 3 February 2023: 2/ I'm not revealing it, even in DMs, but I suspect it'll come out eventually and I'll point back to these tweets when it does.
• 3 February 2023: There's an ultra-intense Good White Man on Twitter who does nothing but scream about how everyone else is morally impure, but who has a police report showing he's a violent, homophobic narc and thug. I want it to come out so badly but don't have it in me to be that guy.
• 2 February 2023: But you don't know anything about this subject at all. Don't you think it's important that if we give kids medical treatment, there be good evidence that it will help them?
• 2 February 2023: Meagan is a pretty big figure in DC policy circles. Again, this is the quality of the folks calling anyone who questions these medical treatments a bigot.
• 1 February 2023: I'm always striving to Do Better, so I made one of those helpful guides to Rethinking violent and offensive language in the workplace
• 29 January 2023: I saw Louis CK last night at MSG (sorry) and he was absolutely hilarious, but one of his openers, Adrienne Iapalucci, was ALSO hilarious, and I had never heard of her, so check her out.
• 29 January 2023: If I wasn't blocked by Zimmer I'd ask him about this, but I think he's actually proving TCW's point. Zimmer doesn't have a substantive claim about how "systemic" racism caused this particular incident: he has a just-so story that's a bit religious in its non-falsifiabilty
• 27 January 2023: One last point: If you're an activist, and you're not good at persuading people or netting policy wins, here's a foolproof way to stay well-funded: 1) Make radical, unpopular policy proposals/statements 2) Wait for backlash 3) See! This backlash proves we need more activism
• 27 January 2023: I would argue my analysis is correct here COMPLETELY independent of whethr or not you think these policies in question are the right move. Maybe they are and maybe they aren't. But you have to be an ignoramus to be like "Why so much interest in this? Why are people mad???"
• 27 January 2023: Like, Occam's Razor can REALLY help here. What if the Times is doing reporting that reflects majority opinion on this subject? That's a much simpler and less sexy explanation. But if your brain is melted from Twitter and TERFs haunt your dreams, you'll reach for that explanaton.
• 27 January 2023: This is SUCH a bizarre conspiracy theory!!!! 1) Schools, states, and in some cases countries introduce new laws/proposals about self-ID/other aspects of the gender debate 2) Some people disagree and advocate accordingly 3) The smartest people on Twitter: CONSPIRACY
• 27 January 2023:
• 24 January 2023: You can't just steal my life story without crediting me... isn't this an IP issue?
• 24 January 2023: 3/ I know it sounds like a niche bit of internet nerdery, but this view, that the only explanation for opposition to these proposals is TERF propaganda, went pretty mainstream. Foreign Policyexpressed exactly this view!
• 24 January 2023: 2/ Something similar happened in the England. Campaigners pushed to codify an unpopular version of self-ID into law by reforming the GRA. This led to pushback, as did high-profile cases like Karen White and Keira Bell. The only explanation? Evil lesbian philosophy professors.
• 24 January 2023: The level of conspiracy theorizing on this subject in lib circles is bad. They think it's impossible that anyone has any legitimate objections to what are, in fact, new policies (including self-ID for preteens in schools), so the only way to explain pushback is dastardly TERFs
• 23 January 2023: 2/ Part of the article was about how polarized this debate is. As a liberal parent, you're simply not allowed to ask any questions about what's best for your kid in polite company, or you'll be told you are a horrific, evilbigot. Twitter promptly proved this to be 100% true.
• 23 January 2023: If your teenager, who has autism and ADHD and other mental health issues, and who is rapidly shuffling through new identities during a pandemic, comes out as trans suddenly, and you have any questions, you are a BIGOT, full-stop. It has been decreed by your betters.
• 23 January 2023: The pizza was undercooked and they screwed up the order (shrooms instead of pineapple). This is God's way of punishing me for ordering from Domino's rather than probs ~30 independent pizza spots that are better and closer to my apt. They said they'd refund at least. NEVER AGAIN
• 22 January 2023: It's cute that they call a 12" pizza a "medium" when it is clearly a small
• 22 January 2023: It's been a long time but I dunno, just felt right -- cold, rainy night, playoff football on, wearing sweatpants, etc. LET'S DO THIS (peppers and onions and pineapple)
• 22 January 2023: Absolutely psychotic
• 22 January 2023: This is a useful thread: The worldview held by a lot of folks in the reporting/academic class is that if you have any questions about your kid's desire to go on hormones, you are a child abuser and should be treated as such.
• 22 January 2023: Dave Roberts accusing Matthew Yglesias of "having a creepy thing about trans people" How awesome would that be to live in a world where there's no such thing as genuine disagreement with your position? Anyone who disagrees with you is just a bigot or a pervert
• 19 January 2023: there was no control or comparison group, which is obviously not good, but on the other hand it can be tricky to find a decent match in studies like these
• 19 January 2023: 3/ Irresponsible coverage from ABC News. Just recites all the familiar talking points. No mention of any of the caveats/weaknesses/non-response for trans girls. Journalists continue to botch this SO badly.
• 19 January 2023: what do you mean by 'every' in this context?
• 19 January 2023: 2/ There are a lot of other aspects of this study to dive into, but this is not a small thing! Testosterone and estrogen are totally different chemicals, and T is believed to have antidepressant effects.
• 19 January 2023: I'll likely write a/b this study, which is a big deal, but one question you should ask anyone who presents it this way is why they're failing to point out that among the natal males in the study there were no improvements in anxiety, depression, or QoL after 2 years on hormones
• 18 January 2023: What in the article did you disagree with?
• 18 January 2023: This is so weird, and such a good example of why DEI consultants are able to keep raking in money with so little scrutiny or transparency. The mere idea of criticizing these trainings marks you as on the "wrong side" politically. To be a good progressive, don't ask questions.
• 18 January 2023: 4/ Anyway, in summary: -Derald Wing Sue, who popularized the very concept of the microaggressions, cites melting pot as an example -Right-wingers make fun of it -I use it as an example -Hobbes: Singal is cherrypicking examples from right-wing sources! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
• 18 January 2023: 3/ If I'm writing about a subject like microaggressions for NY Mag (where I originally did) or the Times, I'm going to make sure I have a pretty firm grasp on it beforehand. I at least know the basics of what I'm talking about. Michael Hobbes should be less of a hack.
• 18 January 2023: 2/ I am so baffled by Hobbes' inability to be a good-faith critic that all I can do is psychologize, but I think he's projecting. He regularly chimes in on shit he knows nothing about, drawing upon out-of-context scraps of evidence, so he assumes his enemies do the same. But:
• 18 January 2023: At this point it's quite hard to tell whether Michael Hobbes is dumb or lying, but nothing in my NYT piece came from The College Fix. The reason I used "America is a melting pot" as an example of a microaggression is because the godfather of microaggressions said it is one.
• 17 January 2023: 2/ Gonna be going on the Mitch Albom show shortly to discuss this column
• 17 January 2023: I wrote a piece for The New York Times about the possibility that some contemporary DEI offerings might make things worse rather than better
• 9 January 2023: Thread -- it sure is surprising how many "sudden cardiac deaths" attributed to the coronavirus vaccine involve situations where the person didn't die, didn't suffer a cardiac event, or both
• 9 January 2023: Every time I think I'm ready to leave this site, I come across a take like "Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible" that you literally couldn't find anywhere else, and with a heavy sigh I resign myself to stay.கீச்சை மொழிபெயர்
• 8 January 2023: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
• 5 January 2023: I didn't realize the strength of anti-pigeon sentiments. Should have included more violent options.
• 31 December 2022: 3/ Same deal w/the power station attacks, which remain unsolved. Authorities are still seeking a motive. Caraballo gets viral attention by suggesting some of the attacks had to do with drag queen story hour -- her evidence being one wacko's social media post.
• 31 December 2022: 2/ Caraballo helped spread the rumor that the Club Q shooting had a connection to anti-LGBT rhetoric, a still totally unproven claim. Then, because she was loud on Twitter about it, she was treated as an expert by journalists who know nothing about the subject.
• 31 December 2022: Because she is very on Twitter and has Harvard in her bio, Caraballo is seen by journalists with no subject-matter expertise as a serious voice on anti-disinformation/counterextremism stuff. She spreads disinformation all the time. Like, seemingly ever new viral lefty rumor.
• 30 December 2022: THAT'S IT I'M THROUGH WITH THIS [I start shoving massive quantities of Lays into my mouth]
• 29 December 2022: 2/ In 2022 people should be more savvy about the internet and the attention economy than "Oh wow Greta Thunberg said Andrew Tate has a small dick NAILED HIM."
• 29 December 2022: Can't emphasize this enough. We did a segment on him during our live shows and his entire fucking business model is saying outrageous things, watching as people react, and then picking up new subscribers. He genuinely has a shitload of money because this works.
• 27 December 2022: Katie worked SO hard for this and then they just gave it to someone with a bigger profile and slightly more impressive beard
• 18 December 2022: Someone did a tweet that was supposedly a knock on EA, but it was just a contextless screenshot showing someone, somewhere had decided fish well-being was the most important cause. Anyone know the tweet I'm thinking of or the source of the image? Can't find.
• 12 December 2022: Working on my one Twitter Files take to rule them all...
• 10 December 2022: 2/ This is one of the studies cited. By The New York Times! @MaggieAstor coverage of right-wing backlash and intimidation is very important, but PLEASE be more careful about these sorts of scientific claims, which are hotly contested.
• 10 December 2022: 1/ It's quite irresponsible for the NYT to claim that youth gender medicine treatments "have been shown to reduce suicide risk." In late 2022 there's just no excuse for this sort of misinformation anymore. I'm at a loss here. These studies have been so thoroughly critiqued.
• 7 December 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll plz
• 7 December 2022: I've gotten thousands -- nay, millions -- of emails asking me to post a blurry photo of a delicious grilled cheese sandwich (plus fries) I ate recently Okay, okay! Leave me alone!
• 5 December 2022: I had to block him. Just the sheer frequency with which he responded snarkily to my tweets by completely distorting what I said in a manner so dumb it has to be intentional. It's futile. Let him have the likes.
• 5 December 2022: I like Taibbi but this is a thoughtful critical response to the Twitter Files, which many of them haven't been!
• 3 December 2022: 6/ Thank you for correcting this, @SykesCharlie
• 3 December 2022: "Substack Man." The level of just casual cattiness and condescension among this set is so off the charts -- if trust in mainstream media is slipping, they have no one to blame but themselves.
• 2 December 2022: 5/ Oh and for transparency's sake, I maintained civility in the subject line too -- not hiding anything here
• 2 December 2022: 4/ I have my response from @albertocairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He instructs me to "please eat shit."
• 2 December 2022: 3/ Man it would suck if someone were acting unprofessionally in this exchange.
• 2 December 2022: 2/ As always, I think folks should reflect on what it means that professional journalists, writing under their own names, are willing to lie so openly. Imagine how they handle issues that aren't so easily fact-checked -- anonymous sources, murky circumstances, etc.
• 2 December 2022: Late but: @AlbertoCairo, who trains journalists at the University of Miami, claimed in a @BulwarkOnline piece that "Singal believes that blockers and hormones should be banned. I don't." This is just a straight-up lie. Full-stop. I hope @SykesCharlie will make it right.
• 28 November 2022: 2/ Is this an actual, honest-to-God delusion, that I celebrated the massacre? Or is it a weird social psychological phenomenon where they just ratchet up the claims to show that they're righteous? It is hard to watch.
• 28 November 2022: People are so unwell
• 28 November 2022: Bulletin board at M.I.T.
• 28 November 2022: Can you give me an example? Like a quote from my journalism? If it speaks for itself, and you've read it, shouldn't this be a pretty easy task for you?
• 27 November 2022: what have I said that is transphobic?
• 27 November 2022: Do you think there's any possibility that, say, Nate Silver just disagrees with you on some stuff, and his views can't be explained away as the result of him being white and of a certain age?
• 27 November 2022: I think he realized he hadn't met his word count so he started doing some Googling and Wikipediaing
• 27 November 2022: This tells you everything you need to know about Berlatsky. Other slippery writers at at least deft enough that they can fool people. He attracts disproportionate attention because he's so bad at misrepresentation
• 27 November 2022: There's a whole generation of pseudointellectuals who have been rewarded for responding not to arguments their perceived opponents made, but to arguments they feel they made. Berlatsky stands out only because he's older and more cartoonishly transparent than the rest of 'em.
• 27 November 2022: Quentin Tarantino: The present age of cinema is, alongside the 80s and 50s, the worst one Noah Berlatsky: It sounds to me like Tarantino is saying he wants us to go back to the 50s, when women were shut out of Hollywood Why publish something like this? It's so dishonest
• 25 November 2022: England is spending basically all of its time in American territory, which historically has not ended well for them
• 25 November 2022: 3/ Shoulda been clearer but it's open to the public!
• 25 November 2022: 2/ Joking aside I welcome disagreement and folks can obviously ask me about anything I've written/said they have a problem with.
• 25 November 2022: Thanks to @byrne_a I am giving a talk/hosting a conversation at MIT on Monday about the politicization of science and the importance of open debate. I struck up a deal with the administration and any students who disagree with or challenge me will be immediately expelled.
• 23 November 2022: Gonna discuss a bit in 15 minutes
• 23 November 2022: I have a lot of problems with how Ben Collins does his job, but I thought he really crossed a line this week by opportunistically inserting words into the mouths of murder victims. Extremely off-putting so I wrote about it.
• 23 November 2022: 3/ Looks like two of the victims might have been straight. FWIW I have not thoroughly checked the sexual orientations of all five because that seems weird. My point is Ben appears to literally just be making something up, about dead people's lives, on TV
• 23 November 2022: 2/Please keep in mind that the puffed-up jerks within journalism who instantly spread misinformation about every new tragedy don't represent all journalists. While that bullshit is going on, other, less-online folks are actually getting to work trying to figure out what happened.
• 23 November 2022: This is going to end up being a very big deal https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-qbar-shooter/
• 23 November 2022: 2/ I'm confused about the boundaries of acceptable journalism among journalists. You will see a 3-day shitstorm if a headline is framed incorrectly (because Normalization), but putting words in the mouths of recently murdered people is just... fine? Will anyone defend this?
• 23 November 2022: Ben Collins said "There are five dead people in a strip mall, because that was the only place they felt safe as gay or trans people, in this town, in Colorado Springs." Setting aside that one of them was straight (whoops), does any reporting suggest this is true of the victims?
• 21 November 2022: After blocking me, Ben has doubled down, claiming that my work "contributes to the murder of trans people."
• 21 November 2022: Sorry, didn't mean to make a legal claim so I deleted this tweet. "Grotesque" will do. I just meant that the constant ratcheting-up of rhetoric -- now I'm partially responsible for a mass shooting -- does seem to be geared at generating violent threats, w/plausible deniability.
• 17 November 2022: "I don't know what their arguments are, but I know that they are bad."
• 15 November 2022: dunno if this is apples to apples, but germany wants it and the IDF person said part of their agreement with us is no sharesies without our permission
• 15 November 2022: Yeah they talked about some of the limitations, particularly some sort of worst-case scenario involving Hamas and Hezbollah coordinating, but I didn't get a sense for how realistic it was. They're also working on something even more advanced apparently
• 15 November 2022: I think they're interviewing like an actual Israel expert, which makes sense given that I could come on whenever in NYC. Plus they said I'm too anti-Semitic.
• 15 November 2022: that's a closely held shin bet secret
• 15 November 2022: Anyway, Raytheon helped make it so as usual Massachusetts swoops in to clean up someone else's mess. You're welcome, world.
• 15 November 2022: We visited an Iron Dome installation today. Whereas a lot of IsPal stuff is complex, Iron Dome just seems... really good? Seems like it's obviously saved a lot of lives, including many Gazans'. Very very cool technology.
• 14 November 2022: 3/ Twohey and Jewett did investigative reporting on this that I didn't, significantly advancing the story (tho tbf, they also have resources/support I lack). But I was able to cover this controversy 10 months ago just by deciding to ignore Twitter morons
• 14 November 2022: 2/ This is an experiment
• 14 November 2022: Look, obviously this got a little bit intense for me, which colors my reaction, but I just hope there's a teeeeensy bit of reflection and reckoning over all the attempts to destroy people's for asking perfectly reasonable questions.
• 12 November 2022: That's odd... doesn't sound like him...
• 11 November 2022: 2/ If you wanna have a fun, lighthearted time and not feel horrible about humanity, I really can't recommend this place enough. It was SO fun.
• 7 November 2022: Newsweek pubs piece pointing out that some users think -- don't know -- they're losing followers b/c of a Musk exodus. No evidence, could as easily be bots getting banned. Week and a half later @WBUR upgrades this to Twitter "has been hemorrhaging users since Musk’s takeover"
• 7 November 2022: How humbling and horrifying is it to think that 50 or 60 years from now, most of your friends and family might not even have bluechecks anymore
• 5 November 2022: free
• 5 November 2022: 2/ I'm using the word "children" intentionally. One thing Katie and I point out in our episode is how ridiculous it is to claim that "no kids" get irreversible treatments, as though 13 and 14 year olds aren't kids or "children."
• 5 November 2022: To pair with our latest BARPod ep, I've unlocked an interview I did with a journalist whose award-winning TV investigation showed that a famous Swedish hospital covered up major side effects caused by puberty blockers and hormones given to children
• 5 November 2022: This basically brings Florida in line with Finland. These are confusing times.
• 3 November 2022: Also they are basically the same episodes. Same stats, same arguments, same clips of cringe right-wingers
• 3 November 2022: Watching the Stewart/Oliver episodes on gender stuff, it was striking to see that the most insufferably Twitter-speak has found its way onto those shows. Stewart did an "Endocrinologist here!" bit and Oliver unironically said "Okay, that is a big yikes for me" :( :( :(
• 3 November 2022: Hey champ -- can you link me to the thing I've said or written about Russia and Ukraine you disagree with?
• 3 November 2022: Even by the almost unfathomable standards of Twitter, this is an insanely defamatory tweet. I've never written or said anything remotely like this. @1foxtrotcharlie should retract this tweet and post a correction and, ideally, an apology.
• 31 October 2022: 4/ Just in case my first tweet wasn't clear, you can't take a sample of currently identifying trans people who at one point detransitioned, collect data from them, and then say that that data applies to long-term detransitioners. Very, very, very different groups.
• 31 October 2022: 3/ In much the same way there was no legitimate reason for Science Vs to have done such a poor job on this subject, same deal here, but more so: much bigger budget, higher profile, etc. They choose to not be rigorous, b/c rigor brings risks.
• 31 October 2022: 2/ Oliver should correct this. It is not a close call -- just a complete distortion to millions. FTR, here's a sample of actual detransitioners where internal factors were frequently cited. (This sample, like the USTS Oliver cites, is nonrepresentative.) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10508-021-02163-w.pdf
• 31 October 2022: 1/ The bolded claim by John Oliver is wrong. It is a made-up stat, full-stop. There are no studies of detransitioners which found this. I believe Oliver (and his producers and fact-checkers) read a Jack Turban study of people who CURRENTLY IDENTIFY AS TRANS and got confused.
• 28 October 2022: 2/ I think "a significant number" is as specific as anyone should get because the numbers are fuzzy. But the attempt to claim the rate is super low is based on a bad misreading of the available research imo.
• 28 October 2022: For kids who first come out as teens I believe we have zero studies in the style of the Canadian/Dutch researchers. People often conflate adolescent and childhood GD on this. In clinical samples of prepubertal GD youth who (mostly) don't transition, "a significant number" desist.
• 27 October 2022: 8/ The author does mention this stuff at the very end but even this is misleading: I think most American readers will read "a diagnostic evaluation" as a quick process. This was not a quick process! And a lot of kids were excluded!
• 27 October 2022: 7/If you see an influential person touting this study, ask them if they favor a protocol where kids can't gain access to blockers or hormones if their parents disapprove, or if they have mental health problems that aren't well-controlled. That is the protocol they are supporting.
• 27 October 2022: 6/ One of the only studies we have comparing kids who did and didn't quickly get access to youth gender medicine showed that the group whose access was delayed due to MH issues... also improved over time, maybe just from accessing the clinic. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26556015/
• 27 October 2022: 5/ This is irresponsible. There is no clinical study actually showing that "Blocking access to timely care has been shown to increase youths’ risk for suicidal ideation and other negative mental health outcomes." Then the claim goes AACP --> NPR. Unreal.
• 27 October 2022: 4/ But the science reporting on this is terrible and reflects complete ignorance fo basic debates/differences within the field of GD youth. Everything in this thread is widely known. I think they are choosing not to do good journalism for political reasons.
• 27 October 2022: 3/ If the American protocol for treating GD youth were similar to the Dutch, it would still be tough to make direct comparisons, but the situation would be different: Maybe apples to oranges, or to other types of apples.
• 27 October 2022: 2/ You simply cannot take this result and apply it to an American context where fewer and fewer kids are getting comprehensive assessments. This isn't an opinion -- it's a basic observation about how this sort of research works. Apples to zebras.
• 27 October 2022: 1/ Every article covering this study makes the same error: This cohort was assessed EXTREMELY carefully. Kids who got blockers/hormones made it through a process where you could be excluded for other MH issues, unsupportive families, etc. etc.
• 25 October 2022:
• 24 October 2022: And goes without saying that any attempt to legislate social transition is absolutely insane and will lead to terrible outcomes and nightmarish situations in which the state comes down like a hammer on individual families. It's bonkers any conservatives favor that.
• 24 October 2022: None of this means DeSantis is right or that his heart is even in the right place, but for the love of God if a journalism professor refuses to treat this matter journalistically, what is the point of any of this?
• 24 October 2022: Whatever your personal, anecdotal experiences, aren't you just... lying about the broader scene? Isn't that the word for this?
• 24 October 2022: This also comes two days after the NHS signalled it's likely to radically change its approach to this stuff in a dramatically Swedenish direction. At a certain point, it's impossible these authors and evidence are oblivious to all this. They intentionally hide it from you.
• 24 October 2022: What's remarkable about what the Bulwark did here is that "benefits outweigh possible side effects" links to a shoddy article in Science-Based Medicine by a clinician with a direct financial stake in this, rather than, say, Sweden's health system officially finding the opposite
• 24 October 2022: The Bulwark joins the many outlets badly distorting the evidence on youth gender medicine. "Lack of conclusive evidence" is, if anything, too gentle. For kids who socially transition pre-puberty, then go on blockers, then go on hormones, there are zero adult outcome studies.
• 23 October 2022: 2/ I ask because I'm reading some stuff that treats the CDC's move as just horrifically irresponsible and leading to basically a mass infection of the vulnerable. Is there good data supporting this argument?
• 23 October 2022: This is a genuine question so please don't respond with snark/opining... for folks who think Biden's mask policy was horrible and dangerous, how do they explain the fact that there was no discernible impact on deaths? Just seasonality? Cases didn't climb much either.
• 19 October 2022: 3/ Schrodinger's horseshit: a study that relies on this type of sample exists in a superposition of horseshit and not-horseshit until it is revealed whether it revealed something John Oliver and his staff wants to be true
• 19 October 2022: 2/ I do feel like even a year ago there weren't other sane folks actively pushing back against this sort of potentially disastrous misinfromation on this subject in liberal spaces. That's changed, which is good, because when shows run stuff this bad, they should get pushback.
• 19 October 2022: .@LisaSelinDavis does an excellent job showing why John Oliver's segment on youth gender medicine was a disaster.
• 18 October 2022: I agree with John Fetterman that Morgan Freeman should not die in prison, at least not unless he is convicted of murder or some other very serious crime in a court of law
• 18 October 2022: 2/ This is a very confusing landscape but I promise you anyone who almost solely tweets about this, and who rarely writes longer-form stuff that seriously weighs the pros and cons and uncertainties here, shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately they dominate the discourse
• 18 October 2022: 1/ This is just a game at this point and isn't worth taking seriously. At 12:00 these folks bash a study for being on a very select group of kids with a very select type of parents, then at 12:01 they tout a study on a very select group of kid with a very select type of parents
• 17 October 2022: 8/ Someone pointed out that everyone is using different definitions of "reversible" here, which is true. I'm sorry but I'm just not aware of any critic of PBs whose concerns are "If the treatment stops, they won't then have puberty." Focusing on that definition is ridiculous.
• 17 October 2022: 7/ Anyway, this is all sorta a red herring. If we had bulletproof data that PBs used for precocious puberty are totally safe, that wouldn't answer any of the questions about this extremely different use-case. But we don't even have that! There are tradeoffs.
• 17 October 2022: 6/ I'm also baffled by his claim that we know these drugs are almost always safe. This Lupron thing is kinda a big deal! But I guess it isn't his kid developing a degenerative disease in her mid-20s, so whatever.
• 17 October 2022: 5/ Hobbes is getting caught on the GIDS line because he is unfamiliar with this subject. "GIDS said so" is weak evidence -- GIDS is being shuttered because it is a highly dysfunctional clinic that generated a veritable parade of whistleblowers and no evidence PBs help
• 17 October 2022: 4/ It's hard to explain to the unitiated just how full of it Michael Hobbes is, so this helps Hobbes: PBs are "physically reversible" NHS guidance he himself cites: "It's also not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the teenage brain or children's bones"
• 17 October 2022: There is a massive difference between using blockers and stopping them and having natal puberty take over and this other, newer use-case. And even in the prior case there are bone density issues etc
• 17 October 2022: Stated that flatly/bluntly, yes, that would be irresponsible. We have almost no data, even medium-term, on the outcomes of kids who go on blockers and then cross-sex hormones. There are nightmare stories like in Sweden, and then other, better outcomes, and it's all just a mess.
• 17 October 2022: 3/ Here's a snippet of an interview I conducted with a Swedish journalist whose documentary broke news of a major scandal there involving the side effects of "fully reversible" puberty blockers. It's just some spinal damage -- we're all good liberals. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-swedish-investigative-journalist#details
• 17 October 2022: 2/It's been disturbing watching liberal outlets spread misinformation on this stuff. The GOP policies are harmful overreach, and should be called out as such, but it shouldn't require distorting the evidence about medical procedures being conducted on children to make that point.
• 17 October 2022: It's extremely irresponsible for John Oliver to clam that puberty blockers are reversible. The NHS deleted this claim from its website because no one actually knows. There are all sorts of unanswered questions involving not just bone density but cognitive development
• 17 October 2022: gf is having crazy @gmail and GDocs issues... anyone have ideas other than what she has tried?
• 16 October 2022: 4/ Anyone have a link to the original video by the evil racist nurse? I'm curious if there's more context
• 16 October 2022: 3/ Anyway obviously if someone is pain various things could distract/soothe them, including potato chips. But maaaan is the whole SCIENCE LITERALLY SAYS genre bad
• 16 October 2022: 2/ 158k+ likes for a TikTok which claims "Crunchy Potato Chips could save your life" TRUST THE SCIENCE
• 16 October 2022: 1/ Amazing on so many levels -- absolute zenith of the EXPERT HERE genre. The claim "crunchy foods have been linked to lowering levels of cortisol in the body" appears based on one study (n = 17, all mid-20s males) that had nothing to do with crunchy foods https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1532-849X.2007.00178.x
• 16 October 2022: 3/ It's also worth noting that Reuters focused on (presumably) higher-quality, multidisciplinary clinics. A lot of smaller random ones have popped up in recent years that are likely even looser with their standards. Some brag about exactly that! "We don't gatekeep" etc. etc.
• 16 October 2022: 2/ Vaush isn't the only commentator who gets their cues on this subject from a small set of activists who endlessly repeat the same talking points, but because this is a serious and highly contested issue, I think that's a bad idea. Lotta clinicians happy to speak on this
• 16 October 2022: First image is a transcript snippet from a Vaush video entitled "THE DETRANSITIONER GRIFT," second is from a Reuters investigation published very recently
• 13 October 2022: 3/ Journalists are humans and some of us develop friendships or acquaintanceships with folks we write about. I went on Bonnell's stream. But if Bonnell was like "Keffals kicked a puppy in the teeth" I obvioulsy won't just write this without any fact-checking. Basic journalism.
• 13 October 2022: 2/ You're just stating, as a fact, that Destiny harassed trans people? Because Sorrenti, your "source" who has a long-running and complex feud with him -- and who gloated about his deplatforming from Twitch -- because he said do? And you're a journalist?
• 13 October 2022: This is an extremely embarrassing article for NBC to have published. Find me one difference between this and the hypothetical output of a PR person working for Sorrenti. What is going on with NBC's tech coverage?
• 13 October 2022: I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those tweets will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
• 13 October 2022: I paid $15 once for permanent access to the primo version of Tweetdelete, which seems the most highly regarded option
• 13 October 2022: People fabricating screenshots was a legit worry and reason I delayed doing this -- but once I realized you can download a full archive of your actual tweets, meh
• 13 October 2022: All right I am soon gonna wipe my (safely downloaded) Twitter history and change to a delete-every-seven-days system. I think I should have done this a long time ago, and I hope it changes my relationship with Twitter permanently. We'll see!
• 13 October 2022: 2/ I missed this one that Yglesias screencapped. Just absolutely wild. We are going to look back and not really believe went on, journalistically, during a certain 3-4-year span of coverage of this subject.
• 13 October 2022: LOL can you imagine if Matt were still at Vox
• 12 October 2022: 2/ Like, seriously, log off, go up to a parent trying to work through these issues with their own kid, and try this shit on them. Record it! I'm curious.
• 12 October 2022: Activists: If we don't let 15yos remove their breasts, they'll commit suicide Journalist: There doesn't seem to be evidence for this claim Activists: You are OBSESSED w/teenage breasts! Even if you get RTs, this isn't going to work long-run b/c normal people find it deranged
• 12 October 2022: 3/ Even this is well beyond the bounds of how you're supposed to talk about this stuff as an expert. You should never publicly say "Wow, lotsa kids are gonna try to kill themselves now!" I thought this was established...
• 12 October 2022: 2/ "It is not advisable to share or embed links to a site, groups, forums or comments that glamourise, romanticise or glorify suicidal behaviour." https://media.samaritans.org/documents/Media_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
• 12 October 2022: This is egregious -- my first impulse, to be honest, was that Julia was exaggerating. Not because I don't trust her but because I genuinely couldn't imagine a doctor doing this. It's gobsmacking.
• 12 October 2022: @javitagracia This is not a good thing to tweet at Jewish person. I promise, no matter what rush you get from obsessively tweeting at me, this is really disgusting.
• 11 October 2022: This review someone posted on Steam sums up why it's important I never reinstall Slay the Spire
• 11 October 2022: tbf i think almost everyone acknowledges hrt has irreverisble effects -- it's pbs many people wrongly claim are proven to be reversible
• 11 October 2022: yeah that's well-put
• 11 October 2022: "If you don't transition you might kill yourself" [kid transitions, isn't happy with the physical results] "LOL you look like a weird uncle you freak." I just think more empathy might be helpful here tbh
• 11 October 2022: Given that many online activists claim that if a 16-year-old wants to go on hormones and isn't allowed to, their suicide is inevitable -- a claim that likely influences real-life 16-year-olds -- I feel like it's not right to then mock those who do have regrets.
• 10 October 2022: yeah it's not close
• 10 October 2022: lol i wish
• 10 October 2022: I do not know who made this site but I suspect the paid numbers are 1/10 what they should be https://metastack.me
• 10 October 2022: I am clearing my schedule to respond to all the tweets I can find that you tweeted at me. My assistant will be in touch
• 10 October 2022: quality filter -- i missed all of them
• 9 October 2022: this one worked. pretty damning stuff
• 9 October 2022: lol I assumed there was some sort of ban on all celebrities but nope? I guess Dall-E has a list of celebrities you can't query about
• 9 October 2022: ye'banned
• 9 October 2022: Cancel culture strikes again
• 9 October 2022: 2/ People are going to be like NONONONO HE'S JUST TALKING ABOUT GENDER EXPRESSION, but the whole point has been to conflate several different concepts, and his whole segment is in response to "what is a woman?" discourse.
• 9 October 2022: Mermaids training on left, Jon Stewart's show on right. A lot of prominent pundits really just accept certain activists' claims at face value without an iota of critical thinking. Some of these ideas are pretty regressive!
• 9 October 2022: RT @SMTuffy: If you’re of a certain age, this should immediately remind you of a Pace Salsa tv ad
• 8 October 2022: 3/ Over the years the open calls for my murder, suicide, or arrest have gotten increasingly brazen, in part because hardly anyone with a major profile viewed as being on the "right" side is willing to step in and point out how insane and potentially dangerous this has gotten
• 8 October 2022: 2/ There's a... not insignificant of truly disturbed people on here who have been bathing is bizarre shit about me for years, and have come to conjure vivid fantasies about stuff I've done that is genuinely unconnected to any real event. 8chan?
• 8 October 2022: A huge number of people on Twitter think I should be killed, or should kill myself, because I am skeptical that we have good evidence for youth gender medicine. Exponentially more threatening content from this crew than I ever got from being dragged on Breitbart. Not close.
• 8 October 2022: I, Jesse Singal, tried to murder a child by doxing them on a nazi site that kills people and posts child porn.
• 8 October 2022: 2/People bristle at that language, but if you find yourself bristly, just point me to the evidence showing solid outcomes for kids who aren't screened and assessed in the Dutch style. And even the Dutch evidence has some noteworthy limitations. This could be headed someplace bad.
• 8 October 2022: 1/ Didn't get a chance to read this carefully and in full until yesterday and it's as good as advertised. Maybe the most alarming part is that NONE of the clinics they contacted follow the Dutch approach, meaning this really is a giant experiment.
• 7 October 2022: I'm sorry, but with respect, this is a lie. If there had been any fact-checking, of course I would have heard from the fact-checker, because that's what fact-checkers do. It is the lying that bothers me -- not disagreement, even harsh, with my work. The ubiquitous lying. Oh well.
• 7 October 2022: A surprising number of people are just straighforwardly in favor of arresting their perceived political enemies, and extremely mad anyone is opposed to that
• 7 October 2022: This is WILD coming from a fellow journalist. Zucker was accused of doing stuff. I investigated and found the allegations were false -- the most serious alleged victim recanted their claim since they mis-IDed him. That's what journalists are supposed to do. Be less of a hack.
• 7 October 2022: @AubreyGilleran @DistractedAnna no argument there!
• 7 October 2022: apparently this person has blocked basically all my followers so here is where we are at
• 7 October 2022: Instructor At Harvard's "Cyberlaw Clinic": I don't care if the person who was arrested didn't actually do anything wrong -- they posted to the same forum that committed (legal) acts of harassment against me Can you imagine if people like this had genuine law enforcement power?
• 7 October 2022: 2/I can't resist pointing out the top responder -- "I've never heard of such a polite arrest" -- has "acab" in their bio. Because of course he does. In this view, the problem isn't random arrests that terrify people -- it's that the wrong people are being arrested and terrified.
• 7 October 2022: I'm not easily shook by internet stuff, but I found this -- both Caraballo's posts and the quote-retweets and responses -- quite disturbing. They are openly celebrating the arrest of someone they believed to have posted transphobic content online.
• 3 October 2022: Photos don't come close to capturing just what a giant dude this was. Family was smaller but not small https://t.co/azYiZTL8G0
• 1 October 2022: 2/ The closest analogy I can think of is the recovered memory controversy. If you questioned the veracity of "recovered" memories, you were literally PRO CHILD ABUSE. Lots of people said that. Anyway, I can't remember how that turned out but I"m sure it was fine.
• 1 October 2022: What are some other examples of medical or mental-health controversies where the idea "this cannot be debated" took hold? Did things end well or poorly in those cases?
• 1 October 2022: 11/ I reported the tweet and it's fine in the grand scheme, but the tweetstorm was in part about the insane shitstorm that engulfs anyone who raises any questions about these medicines, which have a very shaky evidence base.
• 1 October 2022: 10/ Someone was mad I posted this so they attempted to dox me, publicly posting a Brooklyn address they believe to be associatd with me. Here's everyone who retweeted it. Remember: Doxing is bad unless it's good. "Unblocking to say thank you," said @SWlSSCHALAMET
• 1 October 2022: (red onions, green peppers, pineapple, pepperoncini, olives)
• 1 October 2022: This evening was hot springs in the cool rainy weather followed by Beau Jo's... good combo
• 30 September 2022: 9/ This is really irresposible coverage. Vox readers deserve better. You can highlight sad cases of kids being wrongly denied/delayed treatment without spreading potentially dangerous misinformation about these treatments.
• 30 September 2022: 8/ The claim that “the process for treating trans children does require extensive mental health screening” is a complete exaggeration. There are no binding standards here and plenty of clinicians (Olson-Kennedy and Eckert, just off the top of my head) say they loathe MH evals.
• 30 September 2022: 7/ Moreoever, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the "experimental" claim (which I'm personally ambivalent about). If some rogue clinicians gave trans kids these treatments forever ago, that doesn't mean they aren't still "experimental" if the evidence is lacking.
• 30 September 2022: 6/ All this stuff about how there have always been trans kids is misdirection. There is, in fact, a massive increase in the number of kids seeking medical transition just about everywhere — that is its own issue and there is no consensus explanation as to why it’s the case.
• 30 September 2022: 5/ We have no data to support the claim that American youth transition has a ~2% regret rate. The available data are from much older, different cohorts (such as Swedes who transitioned as adults), and oftentimes have their own issues that make generalization impossible.
• 30 September 2022: 4/These claims are just straight-up false. We don’t know if PBs are reversible — that’s why the NHS backed off language claiming they are. That question is a source of major dispute. And Forcier’s claim here isn’t just wrong, in the context of youth trans care — it’s laughable.
• 30 September 2022: 3/ As proof Emily Bazelon erred in her reporting, St. James points out that her article was “[e]ntered as supporting evidence for Texas’s” anti-trans policies. I’ve explained previously why this is a ridiculous and bad-faith claim.
• 30 September 2022: 2/This isn’t a factual error, but rather a ridiculous argument. No, red states did not pass draconian laws because of a handful of major-outlet pieces, all of which fundamentally favored youth transition in the case of thorough assessments. Common claim used to cow journalists.
• 30 September 2022: 1/ Thread: This Vox article is really bad. It seriously overstates the evidence for the efficacy of youth medical transition while attempting to pressure science journalists -- already scared of this subject -- into not doing their jobs.
• 29 September 2022: 4/ It seems impossible to imagine that a cisgender girl going through puberty who had, for example, experienced catcalling or assault wouldn't score highly on the Chest Dysphoria Measure
• 29 September 2022: 3/ Here's another instrument they used -- the 12-item Transgender Congruence Scale.
• 29 September 2022: 2/ That's from here
• 29 September 2022: The study which just came out showing that top surgery "works" (3 month followup) was based in part on this 17-item Chest Dysphoria Scale. After getting surgery, the kids' CDS scores went down. But the scale largely measures whether you have breasts that cause you discomfort!
• 28 September 2022: I will say that this is not a great sign: -authors (of the paper): The Chest Dysphoria Measure (CDM) is validated -authors (of the accompanying commentary): The CDM is not validated (paper authors' own cite points to an Olson-Kennedy article saying it isn't validated)
• 28 September 2022: Eh I did some tweets expressing skepticism of this study that I deleted for now. I'm confident they were accurate since they were based on basic facts about the study, but I should at least first see what the researchers say in response. More soon.
• 28 September 2022: RT @ChoooCole: @jessesingal Losing 11 out of 81 kinda sucks too. I couldn’t even lift my arms up at 3 months.
• 27 September 2022: 4/ Maybe this is true in theory, but this is like the dozenth example of police acting in this manner over there, including multiple visits to "suspects'" homes. If it's bad LE training it's quite widespread.
• 27 September 2022: they're responding by threatening her and suggesting what she's saying is hate speech
• 27 September 2022: 3/ Anyway, to be clear this is the preferred policy of a lot of folks -- to involve any relevant authorities, ranging from school admins etc. right up to the cops themselves (where that's a possibility), to force people to not talk about biological sex. Seems worth a discussion.
• 27 September 2022: 2/The "individual" being "targeted" -- meaning true statements are being uttered about their sex -- is a serial sexual abuser of children. It says right in the cops' report they transitioned. So it's hate speech to point out that a male child molester is male. Got it. Good stuff.
• 27 September 2022: This is such a weird, low-simmer sort of menacing, to have the cops tweeting at you to dictate what you are allowed to say about someone's sex. JFC am I grateful for the First Amendment.
• 27 September 2022: This is excellent
• 27 September 2022: "Our therapy has a zero percent regret rate" https://nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/recovered-memory-therapy-mental-health.html
• 27 September 2022: 9/ I'll leave it at that -- I may or may not write about this. But never, under any circumstances, trust what people are saying about a book or movie or anything else they're mad about during the moments of peak outrage. People always, always lie and distort. Always.
• 27 September 2022: 8/ The only scene that could possibly fit the "turns on assumptions about Islamic misogyny" charge involves one of their instructors saying retrograde things about women. Totally shocking that Saudis don't have the same views about women many Americans do. To the fainting couch.
• 27 September 2022: 7/ This, from Eric Kohn writing in IndieWire, is absolutely idiotic. It is simply impossible he watched the same film I did. The film lingers at great length on the fact that these men have been affixed a label -- 'terorrist' -- that doesn't really capture who they are.
• 27 September 2022: 6/ What's infuriating about this is she lays out, very deftly, just how screwed over these men have been by powerful and opportunistic political forces. Like, to the extent the film has a point, that's a point: these guys got fucked over.
• 27 September 2022: 5/ Okay, I'm done with the film. Anyone who watches this and says "Meg Smaker is portraying these men as evil terrorist Muslim stereotypes" is, and I mean this, an idiot. It is impossible for a grown adult to watch this film and come to that conclusion.
• 27 September 2022: 4/ Open letter: "Yet the film never makes it explicit that they were illegally detained and held without charge" Detainee, ~1:11:45 in the film: “I told you I had been 15 years in Guantanamo. Without any judgment, without any sentence.”
• 27 September 2022: 3/ Also misleading. One man mentioned acknowledging his wrongdoing pre-Gitmo but then wouldn't answer natural followup questions about what he did. He cut off contact, but the questioning itself was anything but aggressive or inappropriate. Journalists really failed this test.
• 27 September 2022: 2/ Writing in the Guardian, Thaslima Begum botches this completely. The man in question says he used to talk like that, when he was in Guantanamo. In context it's a massive difference. Journalists are absolutely complicit in this ridiculous campaign.
• 27 September 2022: Left is a quote from a critical article about "The UnRedacted" by Assia Boundaoui, a filmmaker. Right is a direct quote from the film in which Meg Smaker, the filmmaker, is talking to a detainee The level of straight-up lying that goes into these outrage campaigns is disgraceful
• 26 September 2022: This is an interesting interaction
• 26 September 2022: 7/ Ghorayshi basically catches all the slippery things most journos miss. She doesn't fall for clinicians w/high lost to followup claiming low regret rates, she notes that we have almost no data on youth outcomes. It's good journalism! So of course both sides will be mad at her
• 26 September 2022: 6/ "I offer troubled kids on social media the promise of a photogenic, one-procedure fix for all their problems. The idea of one of them later regretting it was so insane I thought it was a hoax."
• 26 September 2022: 5/ When you don't ask certain questions you won't get certain answers
• 26 September 2022: 4/ To be clear my first tweet was not directed at the Times! Ghorayshi's coverage has been a vast improvement and this is a good article. But within trans medicine shockingly few people will openly criticize these practices.
• 26 September 2022: 3/ What percentage of these young people ever experiences one sessions of decent counseling that doesn't jump to conclusions about gender rather than explore truama etc.? The scene is a messPrzetłumacz Tweeta
• 26 September 2022: 2/ You can't tout a zero percent regret rate if you are no longer in touch with a third of your patients
• 26 September 2022: Quick morality update: Marketing medical procedures directly to children too young to understand their ramiifcations is 👏 good 👏 now 👏 https://nytimes.com/2022/09/26/health/top-surgery-transgender-teenagers.html
• 25 September 2022: 6/ On this, which some are bringing up: In my experience, every time a pileon grows to the point where folks who haven't seen/read the thing in question denounce it, the Open Letter contains plainly false or misleading claims. I'm aware of zero exceptions.
• 25 September 2022: 5/ The only thin lining here -- and I guess it's very thin given how powerful she is -- is that a bunch of people in this world now know to be very, very careful about working with Abigail Disney, who will betray you in a nanosecond if that's the expedient route.
• 25 September 2022: 4/This woman basically dedicated her life to understanding the roots of terrorism in a sophisticated, humanizing manner, and learned Arabic to do so. Now she's broke and a pariah because a bunch of assholes who never saw the film joined a deranged pileon.This is terrible for art.
• 25 September 2022: 3/ Stop fucking reducing people to their skin color. It's gross and immoral behavior, and it's crazy to me that it's not only allowed but incentivized in so many liberal spaces.
• 25 September 2022: 2/ Oh my God: Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, had been the executive director of “Jihad Rehab” and called it “freaking brilliant” in an email to Ms. Smaker. Now she disavowed it. The film “landed like a truckload of hate,” Ms. Disney wrote in an open letter.
• 25 September 2022: This is a completely infuriating story about the people trying to use the kinetic power of moralizing to melt all art and culture down to pablum. I hope this film gets the attention of gutsy people with money and the wide distribution it deserves.
• 24 September 2022: 6/ Left is a chart from this spooooky report, right is draft language from my post-in-progress
• 24 September 2022: 5/ In every case it's the same thing: Cherrypicking your data and techniques to trump up the threat and justify your organization's existence and funding. Not good!
• 24 September 2022: 4/ oh and
• 24 September 2022: 3/
• 24 September 2022: 2/ https://thecut.com/2015/09/uns-cyberharassment-report-is-really-bad.html Aaaaand
• 24 September 2022: 1/ I'm writing about this report for my newsletter. It's really sloppily done. In some cases they just find nothing and pretend it's something. I've complained about this sort of "research" on online extremism for years -- it really bugs me. https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CCDH-The-Incelosphere..pdf
• 24 September 2022: I am calling it right now: Employees at this startup everyone is talking about (for like five different reasons) will eventually get screwed over one way or another
• 24 September 2022: 5/ Draft paragraph from my Spectactor column
• 24 September 2022: 4/ I found this one because that The Atlantic article about sex-segregated sports links to it, as well as quoting one of its coauthors
• 24 September 2022: 3/ Maybe academics will have insights on this, but when I come upon sentences like this -- it one has four academics' names on it -- I'm surious is the authors themselves believe what they are saying and/or believe that the sentence is logically coherent.
• 24 September 2022: 2/ "Some of the male-female athletic differences stem from reproductive biology." "Nuh-uh. If that were true, how could Serena Williams win a Grand Slam while about two months pregnant?" "?????????????????????????? I gotta go"
• 24 September 2022: 1/ The scientific literature is now larded with dozens or hundreds of articles on sex/gender that don't even attempt to make sense or follow agreed-upon rules of evidence and reasoning. The "no scientific evidence supports" sentence is both wrong and a complete logical jumble
• 23 September 2022: Do I need to get this once while I'm in Colorado or is it not even worth it? I do love pizza in all its beautiful forms but I'm getting some meh vibes https://t.co/UOvHzuejCQ
• 22 September 2022: oh definitely. i shy from the label not just beause labels are dumb but because a lot of vapid and conspiracy-addled people embrace it
• 22 September 2022: 3/ Anyway my takehome message here is stay mad at Substackers 😘😘😘
• 22 September 2022: 2/ Jacob Blake and Kyle Rittenhouse were other examples: We literally just did our jobs as journalists rather than regurgitate false claims, and we benefited financially from it. feelsgoodman
• 22 September 2022: We got rewarded, subscriptions-wise, for our coverage of #DropKiwiFarms on BARPod. This is far and away the most consistent recipe for success I've found in Substackland: If you can do just a bit better than mainstream outlets when they are in groupthink mode, the subs will flow.
• 22 September 2022: i mean i think that's a pretty gross exaggeration. mengele did not have the consent of parents, nor major medical institutions backing him, etc. etc. it's just not a useful analogy and will only exacerbate the culture war aspects of this
• 22 September 2022: 2/ I think what some people fail to realize is that the napalming only works in the sense that the folks already likely to be angry at Michael Biggs will get a little bit angrier at Michael Biggs. But then in the backchannels, there's a lot of discussion/agreement.
• 22 September 2022: This appears to be a rather meaty critique of the Dutch Protocol of blockers + hormones. At the risk of repeating myself, advocates for these treatments should engage with and respond to these critiques instead of always resorting to reputational napalming
• 21 September 2022: Wednesday night chat on @getcallin at 10:00 pm https://t.co/uLpr2N8u2f
• 21 September 2022: also because of the two eps we did and the research they required now every time I open YouTube I am offered the latest uploads in which Destiny/Keffals ABSOLUTELY DEMOLISHES Keffals'/Destiny's LIES
• 21 September 2022: I could be missing something here and I apologize if I am, but if you're being chased from country to country by violently dangerous stalkers, couldn't there be downsides to broadcasting your exact location in real time? Again, apologies in advance etc.
• 21 September 2022: Eh deleted this tweet since 'collusion' was a dumb and much too strong word implying a conspiracy. Point is simply that mainstream outlets are marching in lockstep on this and it's worrisome how little debate there is there, because said outlets still have major influence
• 21 September 2022: 2/ Even if you don't think "bad" people deserve access to the financial system (which is a ridiculous position) you are trusting a faceless, distant billion-dollar corporation to make the "correct" moral choices. Skepticism of this would have been Liberalism 101 10 year ago, but
• 21 September 2022: If you hate this group, you should be able to hold that thought in your head while also acknowledging how dystopian it is that the giant online payment companies that dominate our financial sphere, having muscled out competitors, can flip a switch and do stuff like this.
• 20 September 2022: 6/ Apparently multiple people thought I was mad at Freddie! TBC I haven't read their letters yet, but I was just responding to that ridiculous screenshot.
• 20 September 2022: 5/ Actually: @ParkerMolloy and I mutu-blocked forever ago, but for our own edification/reassurance, I'd be curious, yes/no, whether she thinks Katie and I have a right to be on Substack with her. If yes, what changed? She's tried to get us both fired and deplatformed before.
• 20 September 2022: I mean, would I be more comfortable if someone like Parker, who has repeatedly tried to get us fired, wasn't on Substack? Of course. But I think she has a right to be there if she wants to, and we'll just have to see whether she starts pressuring Chris and Hamish to deplatform us
• 20 September 2022: Great work by @tracewoodgrains -- I'm sure all the folks who spread this bullshit story will reflect and do better next time
• 20 September 2022: 4/ Anyway, I remain resentful! But professionally, what has made the last few years awesome is Katie and I don't need to give a shit about people like this anymore, nor hold back in our criticism. They're following us to new platforms.
• 20 September 2022: 3/Parker helped create a truly gonzo situation within journalism, then, in response to that situation, we signed the letter, then she flipped her shit that anyone would sign a letter in response to the situation she and her buddies caused. Don't like the term "gaslighting" but uh
• 20 September 2022: 2/ Be well! Toodles!
• 20 September 2022: Yeah this is infuriating. Parker explicitly tweeted that New York Magazine should fire me. If she's gonna participate in the "cancel culture" discourse an explanation for why she changed her tune would be useful
• 19 September 2022: 1/ Some folks on Kiwi Farms and elsewhere have suggested David "Near" Ginder isn't dead because their name didn't appear on the report on American deaths overseas issued by the State Department in Japan. FWIW, and notwithstanding any other evidence/arguments about this case...
• 19 September 2022: I'm a hardliner on this -- I think both sports AND society should be sex-segregated tbh
• 18 September 2022: 2/ luckily most of my posts as jsingal69 were about anime and MGTOW
• 18 September 2022: Apparently big Kiwi Farms hack!
• 17 September 2022: I've been tweeting this every day for 10 years and then this guy tweets it ONCE and gets all this attention? Really mad about this
• 17 September 2022: @EvanHoffman ty!
• 16 September 2022: This is insane, even by the standards of journalism these days
• 16 September 2022: Yes, I'm saying too specific incidents that led to KF being pulled offline, the Ubereats thing and the threatening Belfast note, appear to have no connection to KF. And that that matters to this story.
• 16 September 2022: Heh this is a way more honest statement than the Cloudflare one, though obvously it kicks the can of what is "revolting" enough to qualify for this treatment down the road
• 16 September 2022: My understanding is they sell some tix at the last minute to folks who wait in line to account for no-shows, but I'll confirm this and make it clear at some point
• 16 September 2022: was that the original tweet, or something else?
• 15 September 2022: yes but you are forgetting that everything is pointless
• 15 September 2022: 3/ the other site in broad strokes, as we did in our eps, without mentioning it by name, let alone linking to it. But this is part of a story. You can sympathize with sources without running outright PR for them...
• 15 September 2022: 2/ because it suggests a slightly more complicated storyline, even if it (obviously) doesn't change the fact that KiwiFarms is a toxic, dox-loving place. You can't just say "journalists don't get to talk about this"! That's now how journalism works. Journos can simply describe
• 15 September 2022: 1/Briefly, in response to this: https://archive.ph/ZqSMS This national news story centers on the question of whether Keffals was harassed by members of one particular site. We have strong evidence that two of the incidents actually came from elsewhere. This is obvously newsworthy,
• 15 September 2022: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
• 15 September 2022: Forgot to post last night's @getcallin chat -- Let's Talk About #DropKiwiFarms And Whatever Else
• 15 September 2022: Setting aside everything else "loyalist" is such good branding. Like, who wants to be accused of DISloyalty? It's the "pro-life" of horrific sectarian conflicts that I don't understand
• 15 September 2022: I agree with this Primo's comment
• 15 September 2022: 3/ LOL I was so incorrect about this
• 15 September 2022: (yes i know that as sweden but let'd be real here it's all just one wilderness of faeries and psychotic pale serial killers)
• 15 September 2022: somebody please photoshop me into the bearsuit (you know the one)
• 15 September 2022: Oh my God if a Finnish venue wants to fly us out there to do a show and then get murdered in some sort of mid-summer pagan ceremony... that's always how I thought BARPOd would end to be honest
• 15 September 2022: We deleted this because our New York show at the Village Underground -- and there is no way to say this without sounding like a douche -- sold out right away It is rough being Cancelled
• 15 September 2022: i think this one is intriguing enough to be worth looking into and I plan on it. it's an insanely serious allegation about a (probably) dead person and it's surprising to me people are so confident about it
• 15 September 2022: Out of an abundance of charity I'm deleting this tweet. It goes w/o saying that "I condone any/all violence," with specific individuals/accounts below it, would be interpreted as a threat by 100 out of 100 onlookers. But this is apparently a (mis)quote and she changed her header.
• 15 September 2022: 2/ The site also had to go because it was allegedly linked to suicides
• 15 September 2022: Remember guys -- Kiwi Farms HAD TO be un-Cloudflared b/c there were imminent threats against Keffals so dire no other action or due process would suffice* Anyway here are screenshots of a well-known activist's Twitter bio I took 15 seconds ago *~3 threats, all quickly removed
• 15 September 2022: It's a story as long as it is boring but my bro is tryna recoup as much for these Brooklyn Pavement tickets as he can Kings Theatre in Flatbush Sun October 2nd 2 tix Section 2 row Q Asking $119 each Mon October 3rd I have 4 tickets Section 6 row AA Asking $90 each email me!
• 15 September 2022: 2/ What's going on is complete journalistic malpractice on so many levels. Just to mention two: -as a journo you should care what the truth is! -this other site is also quite dangerous! shouldn't its role here be publicized? Feel like I'm taking crazy pills
• 15 September 2022: 1/ I try to not spread this doxxing site's name around to normies, so I know this will be a less than compelling screenshot, but there's like a 99% chance that SOME of the shit Keffals has experienced came from this site, which is notorious and where she's been pinned since 8/22.
• 15 September 2022: 2/ A few days after the initial freakout I feel like I'm seeing fewer and fewer people even bothering to deny that there's something off about this whole sequence of events...
• 15 September 2022: I'm biased but I thought this was SO excellent. Highly recommend.
• 15 September 2022: It appears to be three violent posts on KiwiFarms that were quickly removed, out of 50,000+ on Keffals, and yes, one 4chan post by someone who doesn't appear to have a connection to KF. All while her information has been pinned to the top of another doxing site since August 22nd.
• 15 September 2022: First ever piece for Common Sense! It's about the media's disastrous performance during this BYU thing. It's not a good sign when a small student paper is doing your job better than you are.
• 15 September 2022: what happened?
• 15 September 2022: I'm going to be so obnoxious and smug and surly at this one
• 15 September 2022: Doing a @getcallin show at 11:00 PM ET. It'll be late, and I'll be tired and at least a little bit inebriated so CAN'T WAIT. Subject will be #DropKiwiFarms and whatever else is in your sick little brains
• 15 September 2022: I kinda can't believe I spent 40 hours reporting on it
• 15 September 2022: Dude I thought I'd seen some shit on , like, Breitbart. Until you've seen what 2022 teenagers do to one another on burner Discord and YouTube accounts... just... I feel like I'm in that scene at the end of Blade Runner
• 14 September 2022: THREAD: By 9/1, Keffals knew the identity of the kid who said he showed up outside her apartment and posted that weird note. He has a rich, easily tracked, dark online history with zero sign of Kiwi Farms involvement, and it's obvious that he got her address from another site.
• 14 September 2022: RT @teafortillerman: Thread I wish @npratc had the budget and staff that @jessesingal enjoys, so they could afford to provide accurate re…
• 14 September 2022: 29/ This maybe the weirdest internet-culture story I’ve ever reported, and I feel like my soul needs a bath. I hope you enjoy it.
• 14 September 2022: 28/ So I think there’s a very strong case Keffals was aware this kid had no connection to KF. For what it’s worth I reached out to her and Ellen 9/10 to ask various questions about Teddy, and noted “I'm genuinely not seeing any connection to Kiwi Farms,” but I didn’t hear back.
• 14 September 2022: 27/ I couldn’t confirm that. And these kids troll so much that I’m just not sure. I’m 100% positive about everything about Teddy’s online activities I’ve reported here, because it’s all out in the open and in some cases echoed on the Discord servers I snuck into.
• 14 September 2022: 26/ After she did, Teddy himself popped up to make a gross sexual comment. If Teddy is the guy who showed up at Keffal’s apartment, there’s zero mystery where he got the address. Now, is he?
• 14 September 2022: 25/ I would be PROFOUNDLY shocked if evidence emerged Teddy has anything real KF connection. He was also established visitor to the doxing site where Keffal’s information first popped up — his friend “Fancy German Car” in the above screencap doxed her there many months ago.
• 14 September 2022: 24/ As one last check, I plugged Teddy’s doxing victim’s full name and address (separate searches) into KF. He spread them everywhere — he’s a dick. If he were a KF user he would have spread them there. Nothing. It's impossible to prove a negative like this, but, like:
• 14 September 2022: 23/ Whether or not Keffals did join this server, we know she tweeted at Teddy with his first name. She had access to all the same information I did, meaning she had to have known, after looking into him, that he had no legitimate connection to KF. It just isn’t a close call.
• 14 September 2022: 22/Couldn’t confirm this but makes perfect sense — 1st thing this kid does after new server is launched is talk about why they had to launch it. This suggests Keffals was aware of Teddy’s specific online habits, which were not hard to find because he has worse opsec than she does
• 14 September 2022: 21/ The next day, 9/2, she has apparently tracked him to one of his Discord servers. Or at least one of Teddy’s longtime online friends, a fellow Malagasy Clay Eater, says she did immediately after the group formed a new server.
• 14 September 2022: 20/ Okay so possibly through Kiwi Farms and possibly through the other doxing site, Keffals catches wind of Teddy’s alleged identity. She tweets at him, using his legal name, on 9/1, IDing him as the person who showed up at her place.
• 14 September 2022: 19/ Again, info only migrated to Kiwi Farms after the incident, again, KF users explicitly reference the hackers who did it, and again, Keffals attributes it to Kiwi Farms, which certainly helped spread it, but which was not the original source. No mention of other doxing site.
• 14 September 2022: 18/ Keffals did the same thing when her Ubereats was hacked. She blamed Kiwi Farms, but in fact the first place that information showed up was on that other site. Timeline appears to be the hackers, a collective who go by Vile, did the order (8/21) then dropped the dox 8/22).
• 14 September 2022: 17/ On 8/31, Keffals blames the weird 4chan note on Kiwi Farms. This doesn’t necessarily make sense. Her address was posted to the Other Site four days earlier, and on Kiwi Farms they were openly like “Yup, we got it from this other site” Earliest KF mention is 8/27.
• 14 September 2022: 16/ He also simply doesn’t act like someone from KF. The site has a very specific argot and “philosophy” toward its obsession with its targets, and there is nothing about Teddy’s approach — such as tweeting obsessively at Keffals — that lines up with it.
• 14 September 2022: 15/ Teddy, for his part, told me from the jump he had no connection to KF. There are contemporaneous posts of KFers wondering about him, spreading his dox, and talking shit. Teddy has a very rich and easily examined online history and he seems to genuinely hang out elsewhere.
• 14 September 2022: 14/ Then the post goes up and of course Kiwi Farms is even more annoyed/interested, according to contemporaneous posts, because from their perspective he is blaming them for something they didn’t do — and at a very inopportune time.
• 14 September 2022: 13/ from his comments on the doxxing site, and partly because he DMs some Kiwi Farmers seeking to “team up” (they tell him to fuck off), and start trying to dig up dirt on his real-world identity. All this happens before the 4chan post.
• 14 September 2022: 12/ Why would someone possibly dox themselves on a website where some of the lowest scum of the internet congregate? Teddy says this user impersonated him but that the legal name is his. Enter Kiwi Farms — they take notice of this kid Teddy who seems very worked up, partly
• 14 September 2022: 11/ This I couldn't confirm, but you can see other commenters responding to what appears to have been overeager posts by someone claiming they were going to go after Keffals. Then someone else posts a comment: they announce that they are Teddy, and provide their full legal name.
• 14 September 2022: 10/ On 8/222 Keffals was doxxed on a notorious site that isn’t Kiwi Farms. On 8/26 her Belfast location was added. Teddy allegedly showed up in the comments talking smack. Some folks said they saw him post a link to a video from outside her apartment that was quickly taken down.
• 14 September 2022: 9/ He even sent Kefflals and Ellen emails demanding a sitdown, and asked me if I would broker one(!). He shared a screenshot. The gmail is a different, also-distinctive username. I came across it independently, linked to his regular username, in a 2021 social media post.
• 14 September 2022: 8/He tweeted at her fairly obsessively on multiple accounts, including threats that if she didn’t meet with him, something bad would happen. On a private Discord channel I gained access to, he told his friends to tweet at her, saying he was going to kill her cat. I saw two do so.
• 14 September 2022: 7/Anyway, back to Keffals: Teddy, with a long history of loyalist posting on multiple accounts, came to believe Ellen and Keffals were pulling down Union Jack flags and replacing them with transgender flags. I think this defies all belief. He says a “friend” told him he saw this.
• 14 September 2022: 6/ One of the videos, which he shared with me, ended with an anime scene in which someone snaps a girl’s neck. He was genuinely obsessive in trying to post her personal information all over the internet. Her name is distinctive, and when you Google it, that’s what pops up.
• 14 September 2022: 5/Teddy got in a fight with an American girl earlier this year. He obtained her address after her mom sent a DMCA takedown notice. He subsequently posted it everywhere he could and made very creepy, meme-y videos containing her address and family members' names to intimidate her.
• 14 September 2022: 4/ There are questions about Teddy’s real-life ID, but not these online affiliations. There’s clear evidence of them going back a long time, on multiple platforms, all linked to variations of the same distinctive online handle. Trolling and harassment defines these subcultures.
• 14 September 2022: 3/ He is a “foodist,” or a follower of Foodistzen, a grotesque YouTuber whose shtick is saying outrageous and defamatory things about people who have recently died. He’s also a “Malagasy Clay Eater” (MCE), basically a small Discord subgroup of foodists.
• 14 September 2022: 2/ I found the kid who claims to be responsible. We call him “Teddy” in the episode. Teddy’s distinctive username is linked to many accounts on multiple sites, including Twitter, YouTube, and Discord. He has a long and sometimes scary history of trolling and terrorizing others.
• 14 September 2022: 1/ Okay, Part 2 of our #DropKiwiFarms coverage is unlocked. It's about the single scariest, most stalkerish threat Keffals received: a photo taken outside the apartment she was staying filled w/KF and loyalist lingo and posted to 4chan.
• 14 September 2022: Whoops forgot #dropkiwifarms
• 14 September 2022: Thread
• 14 September 2022: 7/ Our episode adds a lot of specific, previously unknown details about this kid, but his identity is an open secret in multiple internet communities. Any journalist actually looking could have had this almost two weeks ago. Instead, it was considered solved -- Kiwi Farms did it!
• 14 September 2022: 6/ Mainstream journalists seemed thoroughly disinterested in finding the perp responsible behind the single scariest, most stalkerish threat Keffals received, even as they were reporting that she was fleeing from her life! Just remarkably lazy, incompetent journalism.
• 14 September 2022: Second BARPod live show added at the Arlington Drafthouse October 29th -- this'll be the late-night one, where we use swear words like 'damn' and 'hell.' The last one sold out quickly so buy tickets now https://arlingtondrafthouse.com/events/62446
• 14 September 2022: we did in part 1
• 14 September 2022: 5/The episode was delayed because of an incredible moment I had with Teddy yesterday where he tried to get me to report that Keffals was a groomer on the basis of obviously bullshit information he was feeding me -- just a laughably bad misinformation attempt. Etc. etc. I'm tired.
• 14 September 2022: 4/ She appears to have even tracked him onto one of his Discord servers the next day. This matters a lot given the question of this kid's level of connection to Kiwi Farms, which I looked deeply into and believe I've resolved. Listen to the episode!
• 14 September 2022: 3/ The police were apparently involved at one point. It's ugly as hell. I also found out that Keffals has known who this kid was, including his alleged real name and online handle, since September 1st.
• 14 September 2022: 2/ He has a looooooooooong and ugly online history of threats, doxing, and other forms of harassment, all linked to the same base username. Looking into his online past led me to corners of the adolescent internet I really wish didn't exist.
• 14 September 2022: 1/ Okay this was one of the weirdest internet-culture stories I ever did. I've been chatting with the kid who claims to have stalked Keffals in Belfast and left a threatening note showing he was outsider the apartment she was staying at the time.
• 14 September 2022: Doing pickups now and I so badly want this to be over
• 13 September 2022: that's beautiful
• 13 September 2022: I think that as "wokeness" (or whatever -- agreed it's not a great term) has become an institutional imperative in liberal spaces and given rise to a growth industry, a lot of genuinely interesting questions have arisen. One of many examples:
• 13 September 2022: send it back to hell
• 13 September 2022: Using Machine Learning and Deep Web 3.0 to alter the latest "The Little Mermaid" so that in every frame she is wearing a gamer's headset, as is forgotten canon
• 13 September 2022: I don't think it's inherently wrong but I feel like if everyone is already piling on someone then adding to the pile just isn't good and should be discouraged
• 13 September 2022: I'm sorry for self-reflecting on Twitter. I'm going to try to think about what I did and do better.
• 13 September 2022: @danpolovina fair
• 13 September 2022: Deleted this quote-retweet of the thread everyone else was already making fun of. This person is right and I was being hypocritical. Didn't help matters that it was late and I was coming off of hours of editing, but still! We should stigmatize jumping atop a preexisting dogpile.
• 13 September 2022: 4/ One of the sources they recommend, Jack Turban, has never responded to one of my queries. Though tbf they were queries (politely) questioning his work rather than invitations for him to promote it with no pushback, and I think GLAAD has more of the latter in mind
• 13 September 2022: 3/ Full receipts of my experience with @glaad. After they blacklisted me @sarahkateellis publicly suggested, in The Hill, that we have a conversation. I reached out to GLAAD to pursue this opportunity and was told nope: "GLAAD is not a medical organization or association"
• 13 September 2022: 2/ It's the same pattern of making very strong claims about youth GD that are well ahead of the evidence AND/OR attacking and seeking to defame those who disagree. Then, when asked to present evidence for their own position -- "What, us? We're not a science organization!"
• 13 September 2022: 1/ Not to be me-ish, I got something very similar when I reached out to GLAAD about being on their blacklist. On the blacklist, they claim I made unsupported statements about youth GD. Then, in response to me: "GLAAD is not a medical organization or association"
• 13 September 2022: just as a matter of how magazine journalism works, it'll be in your interest to at least talk to the fact-checker -- otherwise, if they get something factually wrong you'll have little recourse
• 13 September 2022: tomorrow
• 13 September 2022: Owen is right -- I want that woman executed, as do all the other people who favor free speech (we are monsters). Unless, that is, she was shouting slurs at the time, in which case she should be given the Queen's Medal, which I think is real.
• 13 September 2022: I've never told this story but last year @helenlewis violently assaulted me by asking "how [I was] doing." "Doing"? Really, Helen? JFC.
• 12 September 2022: Yes this was my bad and we've added a correction to the show notes and will address it at the top of part 2
• 12 September 2022: yeah much
• 12 September 2022: 2/ part two has several new characters
• 12 September 2022: this episode is going to be fucking crazy
• 12 September 2022: it's short for Destinio
• 12 September 2022: Something terrible and yet erotic happened at a Brooklyn cheese shop
• 12 September 2022: tbc feds aren't planting messages on kiwifarms -- i'm just describing KF's argot. I think calling someone a glowie is shorthand not for saying they're literally a fed, but rather some sort of troll or false-flagger trying to cause trouble. which does happen a lot in such spaces
• 12 September 2022: thanks, seems to confirm it and gives me enough to go on
• 12 September 2022: i thought using the sex number would throw them off the trail given my completely sexless online persona
• 12 September 2022: Trying not to engage -- I SWEAR -- but I just want to point out that 125 of the folks who travel in Erin Reed's wake on Twitter believe I had a secret KiwiFarms account called "Singal69." This is the type of online sleuth who will get in your face if you try report on this stuff
• 12 September 2022: right, and like i said there's nothing there
• 12 September 2022: you're sure? i'm just not seeing angry responses to it like i did with the other threats
• 12 September 2022: based on what?
• 12 September 2022: 2/ In this case I checked and the user is a longtime poster in "good" standing. The other posts were suspicious and downvoted to hell
• 12 September 2022: Gonna crowdsource since I have a trillion loose ends to tie up before we record and seems worth a shot. This, tweeted out by Keffals, is the one KF violent threat I can't find any evidence of the existence of -- all the others you could at least see other KFers respond. Ideas?
• 12 September 2022: I think it's infinitely more likely Keffals was harassed than that she staged it. As we say in the ep, it's a combo of -the KF thread, which IS long and angry and contains dox -doxes elsewhere -nonexistent opsec -50 constant simultaneous raging controversies with personalities
• 12 September 2022: 5/ The one thing that unites Keffals, her supporters, Kiwi Farmers, and, for that matter, me: the fear of being forced to touch grass
• 12 September 2022: 4/ I will admit to having one thing in common with these guys which is sheer terror at losing access to the internet and having to face reality. "Nice try, Glowie you already fucked up last weekend for me I had TO TOUCH GRASS."
• 12 September 2022: 3/ There's a general implausible deniability thing going on with KF. The threads of their biggest targets are very long, very toxic, and often include doxxing. The culture of the site is against "touching the poo" but in reality, sites like this clearly exacerbate harassment.
• 12 September 2022: 2/ It's marked with "Fuck off!" by a moderator, downvoted, and everyone calls the person who posted it a "glowie," basically a fed, etc. My sense is even Keffals supporters, who were keeping a close eye on the thread, didn't find this credible enough to bring up.
• 12 September 2022: 1/ Found a violent threat in the Keffals thread on Kiwi Farms that hasn't been reported anywhere. (Warning, screenshots have slurs.) Targeting all trans ppl rather than Keffals. Another example of the weird troll-wars going on -- account was brand new and elicits angry responses.
• 12 September 2022: Reached out to see if they could provide more info and didn't hear back. Afaik they haven't provided more, but if I'm mistaken definitely let me know.
• 12 September 2022: RT @jessesingal: 5/5 But Cloudflare made a historic decision that could reshape the future of the internet. And there's a huge difference b…
• 12 September 2022: All right this is now unlocked for all to listen to. Recording Part 2 later today with a lot more information
• 12 September 2022: If you think about it hard enough, this is actually kind of a beautiful metaphor for America Herself🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
• 12 September 2022: lol i almost referenced this
• 12 September 2022: These are the comments on "5 takeaways from the Patriots’ Week 1 loss vs. the Dolphins"
• 12 September 2022: I'd totally forgotten about Sargon of Akkad
• 11 September 2022: or jessesbarpod with a few of my social security numbers at th eend
• 11 September 2022: the important thing is people are remaining calm about this Kiwi Farms thing and it isn't descending into hysteria
• 11 September 2022: I think the difference is that Al-Qaeda and ISIL message boards are probably used to plot terror attacks that could kill people, no?
• 11 September 2022: 10/ One other thing probably worth putting in this thread while the paywall is still up: The accusations of "grooming" against Keffals seem completely unfounded. None of the screenshots being spread on that front proved the claim.
• 11 September 2022: 9/ situation than many journalists allow. The problem is, if you point that out you are "defending Kiwi Farms," which is a dumb allegation because journalists are supposed to be skeptical.
• 11 September 2022: 8/So the simple fact is that KF is one of many potential sources of the worst harassment that has been directed her way. For example, few (maybe zero) outlets pointed out that her information was also posted to a notorious doxing site August 22nd. This is just a more complicated
• 11 September 2022: 7/ constantly involved in various beefs with various other personalities. To take two examples, she has gotten into fights with Destiny (700,000 Twitch subs before his banning, 500,000 on YouTube now) and The Quartering (1.3m on YouTube). There are other drama sources too.
• 11 September 2022: 6/ Another point we make in the episode is that Kiwi Farms is one possible souce of the harassment that has targetted Keffals. But it's impossbile to think they are on the only "suspect" unless you know zero about internet culture. She, like many other political streamers, is
• 11 September 2022: 5/5 But Cloudflare made a historic decision that could reshape the future of the internet. And there's a huge difference between "this site is quite nasty and inhumane and transphobic" and "this site is an imminent threat to human life."
• 11 September 2022: 4/There are some remaining possibilities we can't rule out, including that there were other threats KF deleted (though where are the screenshots?). And none of this should suggest KF isn't a large driver of harassment toward certain people, which of course it is (50,000 posts!)
• 11 September 2022: 3/ @eastdakota justified @Cloudflare 's decision by saying "we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before." No evidence presently supports that. NOW [hedging],
• 11 September 2022: 2/ That's two out of 50,000+ posts about Keffals, a large majority of them toxic, nasty, and undoubtedly transphobic. But in both cases of direct, violent threats, other users immediately called them out as likely "fedposts" and ridiculed the posters, who had unusual histories.
• 11 September 2022: 1/ @Cloudflare's claims about Kiwi Farms were so unusual and alarming that, unlike most journalists, we decided to actually look into them. It appears there is almost nothing there. Two violent threats, both immediately yanked down. (unlocking Monday)
• 10 September 2022: 3/ @travisbrown @karmaonesixone please add @kittypurrzog to your activism list immediately. She is repeatedly tweeting grotesque photos of Moose-abuse and then deleting them before I can catch her. It is an emotionally draining game of cat and mouse that I can take no more
• 10 September 2022: 2/ This includes everyone from like Mike Cernovich and Faith Goldy to... Vaush? It's just someone's personal enemies list disguised as ~ O N L I N E A C T I V I S M ~
• 10 September 2022: Heads up -- some moron made a list of "Nazis, fascists and other bad actors" that, if you're on it (I'm on it, probably from being a Jewish Nazi), will automatically archive all your deleted tweets
• 9 September 2022: @AriDrennen got it -- you amplified a very serious claim without fact-checking it. Then, after that, you got a job at a Media Matters, a company dedicated to accuracy in media and calling out misinformation. This is a useful story, though if it were fictional it would be too hacky
• 9 September 2022: As the most important newspaper in the world, you simply cannot, on the basis of one secondhand account, tell your millions of readers that that a named college gym was maybe about to lynch a black volleyball player without being damn freaking sure that's what happened. JFC.
• 9 September 2022: As I wrote, the initial New York Times reporting on this, which made effectively no effort to independently confirm any details, painted a terrifying scene in which the BYU gym was teetering on the verge of a violent race riot. None of this happened! Bad, irresponsible journalism
• 9 September 2022: I have found @ac_hutchens to be quite good on this (h/t to him for letting me know about this update). I mentioned his Twitter thread in my article criticizing the NYT's coverage of this.
• 9 September 2022: Wow, big update on the BYU thing: "From our extensive review, we have not found any evidence to corroborate the allegation that fans engaged in racial heckling or uttered racial slurs at the event."
• 8 September 2022: Oliver just conversationally implicated both a doxing and death threats toward my entire family
• 8 September 2022: "The only hemorrhoids medication that won't lie to you about how many genders there are"
• 8 September 2022: No matter what you think of 'wokeness,' watching companies on both sides trying to ride the culture-waves and repeatedly faceplanting is objectively hilarious
• 8 September 2022: @serbian_warlord shoot me a DM?
• 8 September 2022: @MChad214 Can you DM or email me?
• 8 September 2022: Okay, so here's my Dimes Square experience (buckle up) 1/n
• 8 September 2022: New @getcallin show: We Can Worry About Longtermism Later Plus some more stuff on anti-woke myopia
• 8 September 2022: it is a good newsletter that teaches me a lot https://simonowens.substack.com
• 8 September 2022: then never mind! glad to hear it
• 8 September 2022: ooh that reminds me to add you
• 8 September 2022: Saying "sex is biological" will get you on the list of bigots that could destroy your career. Very healthy, sane, fair environment we've got going.
• 8 September 2022: about to go live!
• 7 September 2022: ask!
• 7 September 2022: Something similar to a protection racket going on. The same organizations will push, in backchannels, for you to be punished via professional ostracization, and then use the fact that they were punished as evidence of your misdeeds.
• 7 September 2022: GLAAD has been an embarrassment for a long time but it's really fallen off a cliff. You can get added to its list of evil bigots... criticizing fans who renounce J.K. Rowling Super serious organization. I'm glad it's so influential!
• 7 September 2022: This generated a buffet of tasty links
• 7 September 2022: this is very interesting and is helping me undertand some of these ideas
• 7 September 2022: I do not know
• 7 September 2022: he is not a good guy
• 7 September 2022: In light of Kiwi Farms getting removed from the Internet Archive, an interesting and ancient thread about the Church of Scientology requesting the same https://archive.org/post/778/exclusions-from-the-wayback-machine
• 7 September 2022: It's VERY important to scream to anyone who will listen how deeply morally outraged you are that people are allowed to make content consumption choices you disagree with. But on the other hand, money is nice!
• 7 September 2022: At this point it's becoming difficult to come up with examples of anti-Substack shriekers who didn't subsequently start Substacks of their own
• 7 September 2022: Doing a @getcallin room tonight at 8:00 pm ET! Ask me whatever
• 7 September 2022: I will read the stuff folks are recommending but I don't actually have a genuine preference of existing versus having never existed, because having never existed means nothing to me. I do prefer to continue being alive! They strike me as very different but I could be dumb.
• 7 September 2022: Folks sent me this which looks interesting -- I may have read it already -- but I immediately ran into the same barrier: "Denying someone happiness" means something pretty clear for an existing person, but gets very confusing if the person might not exist! https://gawker.com/heres-the-philosophy-essay-vox-found-too-upsetting-to-p-1727243459
• 7 September 2022: Maybe I'm dumb but I have trouble following longtermism debates because I still don't even understand how it makes sense to say it would be better for a future person to exist than not exist. Is there any good, compelling treatment of this argument in online-accessible form?
• 7 September 2022: 5/ The Times has a followup story that is not much better. Just totally ignores the possibility that it simply didn't happen, despite the fact that we're still stuck at one firsthand witness, the player herself. References zero student reporting/AD leaks.
• 7 September 2022: eh roxane gay, anne helen peterson, others... i think they just wanted people with big platforms willing to start something new
• 7 September 2022:
• 7 September 2022: A tale of two approaches to Substack
• 7 September 2022: I have had a lot of out of body moments on this website, but one that topped them all was Molloy, who publicly called for NY Mag to fire me, claiming during the Harper's blowup that the signatories wanted to fire folks who disagree w/them Unsure we can ethically share a platform
• 7 September 2022: The "anti-extremism/anti-misinformation" space is full of folks who just don't really know anything about the subject matter at hand. Then they get invited onto major outlets to spread misinformation about... misinformation. While calling other people grifters!
• 7 September 2022: "ZINN: And observe the map device here — how the map is itself completely Gondor-centric. Rohan and Gondor are treated as though they are the literal center of Middle Earth."
• 7 September 2022: It seriously worries me that some people haven't seen this
• 7 September 2022: really sorry. i hope so too!
• 7 September 2022: This is a very difficult read. Don't know any of the specifics but was just listening to a Ringer pod where they said he has taken a turn for the worst. In his 30s with a kid, 25-million-to-1 cancer...
• 7 September 2022: Thread -- it was dumb for me to respond angrily and impulsively. Any points I need to make I make here. Initial ragetweets deleted.
• 6 September 2022: @AGoldmund I do not think there was a cabal of people actually trying to get him to kill himself, but you have to know that in the moment, at its most intense, when you don't know what someone's mental state is or what else they have going on, shit can go very south.
• 6 September 2022: 4/ Can you imagine having such a run of amazing success with a close friend and then not even mentioning his name, giving him an iota of credit, during the final episode of your show? And then complaining about someone else's response? Be a better person, @agoldmund
• 6 September 2022: 3/ Retract this, @agoldmund. It's not my fault you were too much of a coward and a professional opportunist to stand up for your friend.
• 6 September 2022: 2/ These people are fucking liars. I respect some of their work -- I have to admit that -- but interpersonally, they are dysfunctional basket cases and you are running a serious risk by investing any personal emotion in any sort of relationship with them. Just absolute weirdos.
• 6 September 2022: GLEEFUL? I wrote a long piece about how insane and unfair it was PJ had to resign, and we covered it on the podcast. Where was Adam? Show me where he stuck up for his friend. He turtled. Completely. This is gross dishonesty and Stockholm Syndrome bullshit. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/no-one-can-explain-exactly-what-pj
• 6 September 2022: 2/ Whoops
• 6 September 2022: Whenever I come across this man I reflect on how heroic a figure he is
• 6 September 2022: Last week I was at Marconi Beach on Cape Cod, which marks the site of the first transatlantic wireless transmission. We were talking about how crazy that must have seemed at the time, that you can communicate BY BEAMING THINGS THROUGH THE AIR. We should find that magical!
• 6 September 2022: Publishing needs JK Rowling to be a monster
• 6 September 2022: 4/ Some of my thoughts concern the importance of careful copyediting https://t.co/gxPMQNxD31
• 6 September 2022: 3/ Necessary hedge: It could turn out tomorrow that someone in the stands did scream a slur at her. If that's true, it won't make the Times' reporting any better/more careful.
• 6 September 2022: 2/ I have thought about what journalism is supposed to be
• 6 September 2022: 2/ Follow @taystuck. Check her work out. We don't agree on everything by any means but if you read her stuff for 30 seconds you'll see that she is more thoughtful and human than any of the ghouls attacking her for the crime of not hating enough.
• 6 September 2022: 1/Taylor is a black trans woman who was called every name in the book, including a "neo-Nazi" (!) because Katie and I said we liked a thoughtful piece she wrote that, while clearly negative toward Kiwi Farms, wasn't negative enough for the morally spotless shariah cops of Twitter
• 6 September 2022: For paying subscribers, with free preview: How A Small, Conservative Campus Paper Did A Better Job Covering The BYU Volleyball Incident Than “The New York Times” (it might have something to do with the "moral clarity" approach to journalism)
• 6 September 2022: 2/ Back from lunch and as anticipated all the stochastic terrorism has elicited a terrible trembling spell
• 6 September 2022: tilted my head to include as much neckbeard as possible
• 6 September 2022: This dude said in one tweet he supports JK Rowling and Graham Linehan. Poof, suspended from his job.
• 6 September 2022: I have been told this sort of salty language is "stochastic terrorism" that drives harassment to targets. I'm literally shaking. Well technically I have a lunch thing to go to but when I get back I will be shaking fervently.
• 6 September 2022: No one cares. There are 20,000 dumb 10-follower accounts on here who will flock to any tinge of outrage like loyal worker ants. Get better hobbies.
• 6 September 2022: would finally accepting the windows update fix that?
• 6 September 2022: 2/ This is just one example, but since we were doing an episode on this, I was keeping an eye on the Keffals thread. There was doxxing for sure but there was nothing remotely this bad or violent that wasn't taken down immediately. Just my experience tho.
• 6 September 2022: My experience on Twitter has been that it's endless swarms of these sorts of weirdos, often engaging in vaguely or explicitly sexual forms of harassment. KF does allow doxxing -- that's a genuine difference -- but overall the worst parts of KF and Twitter are indistinguishable
• 6 September 2022: Agreed -- this popped up years ago. You should just Google the name of organizations first before spreading
• 6 September 2022: Replaced my laptop battery (timeline-wise, it made sense it might need replacement) and the battery time still sucks. What's next on the list of potential culprits? Should I just do a full factory reset of everything? Would like to avoid that.
• 6 September 2022: 4/ GIANT story, just sitting there. The most important suicide hotline for trans people in the country mired in a massive scandal, $350k lost. NO journalists touched it. It was left to online weirdos driven by impure motives.
• 6 September 2022: 3/ You can download the original document from here. My sense is TLL has been completely reformed and there's no reason to be suspicious of the present leadership. But this is a very, very easy thing for a journalist to not fuck up this badly. https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=431afcfa-6925-4c45-8aab-aee1f4963ab7
• 6 September 2022: 2/ This was a major source of beef between KF and TLL. Corinna Cohn has told this story in detail. Why do journalists refuse to do their jobs? Why can't it be "Yes, this site is very bad, but we also shouldn't accept everyone's claims about it mindlessly"? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SJhZsOy9HsJgbf4poGu-2qPIhaqV2-rX/view?usp=sharing
• 6 September 2022: 1/ The reporting on Kiwifarms continues to be abysmal. I have no doubt the site harassed Fong-Jones, but to leave out the fact that Trans Lifeline's old leadership IN FACT EMBEZZLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM THE ORGANIZATION is inexcusable. https://cbc.ca/radio/day6/kiwi-farms-online-forum-1.6565229
• 6 September 2022: +1 -- the dude I spotlighted is far from the worst offender I've come across but it would legit be interesting to interview the folks behind smaller accounts who just do this compulsively
• 5 September 2022: who reported that?
• 5 September 2022: Marx is cancelled
• 5 September 2022: If you have seen coverage of the BYU volleyball incident that includes a firsthand witness who isn't the original accuser, please let me know. Not looking for other commentary! Just making sure I'm not missing something and Twitter is useful as a safety net in such instances
• 5 September 2022: Almost impossible to describe how weird this stuff is getting
• 5 September 2022: This is a good piece that fills in a lot more backstory than mainstream accounts. Filling in backstory is not condoning doxxing or violent threats. But it's important if you actually want to understand a controversy!
• 5 September 2022: 2/ It didn't take long for it to come out there was good video coverage of the student section in question. Why can't outlets like the Times wait for more information? Especially in a situation that is this noisy and involves this fraught a subject? Why be first but also wrong?
• 5 September 2022: I still think there's a possibility this was some sort of misundertanding, but this has been a really bad week-plus or so for journalism, and a lot of outlets are acting more like their goal is to spread panic and discord than to get at the truth.
• 5 September 2022: Very niche request but I'd like to listen to or watch podcasts that pulled off a good live show. Genre etc. doesn't matter
• 5 September 2022: JFC, man. And this shit is not unusual over there. It is just absolutely routine humiliation and harassment, often toward no discernible end.
• 5 September 2022: and you were all telling me this country doesn't make stuff anymore
• 4 September 2022: "Foreign passport holders in the West Bank will be required to report their romantic relationships with Palestinians to Israeli authorities, according to new, hotly contested rules set to take effect on Monday."
• 4 September 2022: Great scene
• 4 September 2022:
• 4 September 2022: Where we are
• 3 September 2022: 2/ Fair point but clearly her implication was Oberlin is not in a financial position to pay a $33m judgement
• 3 September 2022: Really weird anyone would think Oberlin College has a billion dollars just lying around
• 3 September 2022: I'll see if I can record audio of my talk, at least, and post it online! Will probably keep the Q&A totally off the record so students can feel free to ask whatever they want
• 3 September 2022: What claims in the podcast are you actually disputing? I didn't get this sense at all from the pod -- rather, it seemed like the administration rushed to line up behind the students who were mad, sorta the opposite of what you're claiming.
• 3 September 2022: Can someone email me explaining what he is saying here? I am too busy -- it's a Saturday after all. LOOOOOOOOT of text
• 3 September 2022: AND DURING SATURDAY
• 3 September 2022: One alternative is to come with a question to ask me that challenges my work
• 3 September 2022: What is considered a genuinely big Twitch following, like enough to make a middle-class living?
• 3 September 2022: "your biological sex should not dictate how you are allowed to dress or present yourself," which no left-of-center critics of this ideoogy are arguing against. I wish folks woudl be more honest about this. It's tiresome.
• 3 September 2022: Maybe 20 years from now this understanding will have prevailed, but there is genuinely nothing to it but that one sentence. A lot of the talk about a "gender spectrum" or whatever is a red herring, designed to make it sound like people are just arguing something reasonable, like
• 3 September 2022: There is a little bit of a motte and bailey going on here. The new understanding of gender is not, in fact, sophisticated or interesting or ready to talk about tradeoffs. You can sum it up in one sentence: People's sex and gender are what they say they are.
• 2 September 2022: Nickel and Dimed probably had the biggest impact on me (and a lot of other upper-middle class suburban type) of the Ehrenreich I read, but I also really admired Bright-Sided and excerpted it a bit in my own book chapter touching on positive psych stuff https://t.co/i3rYfnl5Ze
• 2 September 2022: Genuinely legendary figure
• 2 September 2022: answer the question!
• 2 September 2022: What annoys me about this is you, a philosophy professor, have to pretend to not know what "heterosexuality" is for Twitter-status purposes. Doesn't that make you a little annoyed? Do you really think there's an interesting question here?
• 2 September 2022: Yes I'm the one being weird about body parts. The folks talking about vulva-havers and vulva-fetishizers are mature and I'll try to live up to their example
• 2 September 2022: I broke some super important news yesterday and I'm worried not everyone saw it
• 2 September 2022: this nails it. for years, now, a lot of liberal institutions have been mired in the belief that there can't be any argument about how to achieve equality even among those who are committed to it
• 2 September 2022: to be fair, for all we know the clothes were also classified, like dockers with nuclear codes sewn into the waist etc
• 2 September 2022: This is a bad idea. And, at the risk of repeating myself, liberal outlets should write about it! There are genuinely interesting questions here.
• 2 September 2022: This is a good example of NPR having fallen pretty deep down a hole of irrelevance. There's no sign any of these people have read J.K. Rowling's book. Why are they being quoted in a news article as "critics"? https://npr.org/2022/08/31/1120299781/jk-rowling-new-book-the-ink-black-heart
• 1 September 2022: I cannot imagine something less worth getting cancelled over! Go in peace
• 1 September 2022: I genuinely think this is connected to the sorts of people who spend the most time on Tumblr, which is mostly young ones who don't really understand what sex is. Which does open you up to some creative theorizing! But adults should give them a pat on the head and ignore them.
• 1 September 2022: If I was physically attracted to someone, they'd almost certainly be female, because I'm straight (so far!). If they told me they didn't identify as a woman, that obviously wouldn't change the attraction, so I don't understand what the question/uncertainty is.
• 1 September 2022: What makes it silly is that there is nothing interesting or genuinely in need of explaining here. The answer is "It sounds like you are exclusively attracted to females, which means you're straight, which is fine."
• 1 September 2022: "And now, the couples would like to read their own vows." ... "Babe, when I think about the idea of fetishizing your vulva for the rest of our lives, what I feel, most of all, is incredibly lucky..."
• 1 September 2022: 8/ I just thought about trying to explain this piece to my dad and suddenly I passed out. Woke up on the side of the interstate, a few miles away, covered in someone else's blood. What I'm saying is it isn't a great article!
• 1 September 2022: Agreed but he never said that -- he said he was attracted to female bodies more broadly and then the author jumped to that being a genital fetish
• 1 September 2022: 7/ Small bands of morality police fanning throuhgout the village, rounding up known and suspected vulva fetishists
• 1 September 2022: Latest @getcallin -how should free-speechy spaces police themselves? -restating, once again, the glaring problems with voting GOP as a response to lefty illiberalism
• 1 September 2022: @helenstaniland my brand
• 1 September 2022: Do I agree with all the Taliban's policies? Of course not -- that would be ridicuous That being said
• 1 September 2022: 6/ "Sorry if this is forward, but are you a vulva owner?" "Don't be sorry! Hell yeah: I got a '78 vulva. She's a little dinged up but get her out on the open road and man can she roar like the old days."
• 1 September 2022: My friend Sesse Jingle needs to catch up on the Win Butler controversy fast. What articles/threads should I recommend to them?
• 1 September 2022: 5/ I feel bad that the author has had the identity "straight" robbed from him by this mumbo jumbo, to the point where he is grasping around for something else that fits. We're already so boring -- at least let us have a name! #straightoppression #erasure #hashtags
• 1 September 2022: 4/ Thank you for letting me know https://twitter.com/ZacharyZane_/status/1565440619304083456
• 1 September 2022: 3/ Two and a half decades later, Men's Health is "This, but unironically"-ing this classic Onion article
• 1 September 2022: 2/ Both heterosexuality and homosexuality are hereby cancelled for being insufficiently inclusive
• 1 September 2022: A Men's Health sex columnist declares that if you have a sexual preference for female bodies, that's a "fetish" you should own up to Watching this sludge ooze from Tumblr to mainstream outlets is demoralizing. Who is it even for? Everyone knows this is offensive bullshit.
• 1 September 2022: Doing a @getcallin room in 45 minutes!
• 1 September 2022: thank you! will check it out
• 1 September 2022: @olivertraldi splitsies? https://t.co/Z0KGQzvlxu
• 1 September 2022: Reagan fires and then immediately nationalizes the striking airline workers
• 1 September 2022: I don't fit in America's stifling political binary -- I'm what's known as a Reagan communist
• 1 September 2022: Retweet if you're sick of Twitter and the way it constantly demands your attention, causing you to react like some sort of robot lizard to even the bait-iest of stimuli!!!!!
• 1 September 2022: "Because you criticized research papers, people called in a bomb threat to a hospital" This makes total sense and these people definitely don't need to touch grass
• 1 September 2022: this has been a pretty big theme among folks mad at my work but 1) i'm not going to kill myself and 2) i think telling people to kill themselves is really, really bad, morally speaking, because you don't know what someone is going through when you say it https://twitter.com/k0riwh0re/status/1565097062076743682
• 31 August 2022: New from me: Against Detached Entitlement In Liberal Intellectual Spaces
• 31 August 2022: The probability Sam has read anything I've written about youth gender medicine is very, very close to zero.
• 31 August 2022: The probably Sam has read anything I've written is very, very close to zero.
• 31 August 2022: If someone murders a police officer are you and your rhetoric about the criminal justice system being a nightmare responsible for it?
• 31 August 2022: When I want to be left alone I find a critical screencap about me and quote-retweet it -- good way to calm things down and be left alone
• 31 August 2022: If you question any aspect of youth gender medicine, a field that multiple European bodies have found to be lacking in basic evidence on safety and efficacy, any bad thing that subsequently happens to any trans person is your fault. Makes sense. Not deranged.
• 30 August 2022: RT @macijauskasm: @jessesingal Oh come on, Jesse... I don't want to do this... https://t.co/hOzqM5dQHy
• 30 August 2022: neither phrasing is perfect but the one I posted is much more likely to elicit people's actual beliefs since it describes the actual policy
• 30 August 2022: Premise of this article is that opposition to racial preferences in college admissions -- the position held by 62% of black Americans (and 20% think race should only be a "minor" factor) -- is inherently racist. This is not a good or productive framework https://insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2022/08/22/affirmative-action-probably-dead-whats-next-opinion
• 30 August 2022: "Could racial equity be expanded by requiring all applicants to have taken an ethnic studies class or by requiring students to include in their application a statement on their commitments to racial justice?" My Class-O-Meter is off the charts
• 30 August 2022: seriously losing my faith in humanity
• 30 August 2022: Cool cool now I know what "catboy ranch" is I hate my job/life so much
• 30 August 2022: Genuinely behind on work but all I can think about is fake names of Harry Potter books if she really was anti-Semitic and bad at hiding it Harry Potter And The Global Order That Quietly Controls Everything And Undermines Our (Wizards') Way Of Life
• 30 August 2022: Could be cancel culture
• 30 August 2022: looool so many layers to this
• 29 August 2022: 3/ There are multiple reasons to be less of a dorkwad
• 29 August 2022: 2/ I mean, to be fair Harry Potter And The Cabal Of Bankers Forcing Multiculturalism On White Europe had a few questionable moments but overall I think this is a strained reading
• 29 August 2022: I've noticed this with regard to my own work -- there are false rumors about it that take root and just spread for years. But the J.K. Rowling stuff is just a whole other level. There are folks occupying a parallel universe where it is a Known Fact that she's a proud anti-Semite.
• 29 August 2022: "I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but the moment never seemed right... Babe, I want you to have this: Two free months of the premium version of my podcast. Will you marry me?"
• 29 August 2022: New @getcallin ep: In 2022, Is There Anything Interesting About Trumpism That Hasn’t Already Been Said? Also, at long last I reveal my opinions about -Francisco Franco -whether Germany or Japan is more perverted
• 29 August 2022: The stats are reported so unclearly. That 35 includes youth who (for example) hadn't started medicine at the first wave of the study and then dropped out. By the final wave, just 6 left
• 29 August 2022: This is such a huge fucking waste of everyone's time, not least Jason's
• 29 August 2022: The quote is false. They had n = 6 left in the non-treatment group at the 12-month mark, 80% lost to followup, so they cannot say anything about how those kids were doing.
• 29 August 2022: "I am a professional journalist and I am more interested in what Twitter randos say about an article than what the actual text of the article, which I could read at any time, says" We're very done here
• 29 August 2022: Imagine if someone had written a long article laying out problems not just with the PR surrounding this study, but the actual execution of the study itself. If -- and this is a wild hypothetical -- someone had written such a piece, it would be really useful.
• 29 August 2022: You've spent about 16 hours so far arguing with randos in my mentions. You could keep doing that, or you could point out something I've actually gotten wrong in my reporting that would warrant talking so much shit so tirelessly. I think I know which option you'll pick.
• 29 August 2022: As my brother points out, this gives off strong Walk Hard vibes. Which is a very very very very good sign
• 29 August 2022: Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised
• 29 August 2022: I do think this would be more productive than yelling at one another on Twitter. @jason_a_w, open invite if you want to come on my show to talk about your concerns with my reporting on the UW study/youth gender medicine in general.
• 29 August 2022: If I had to guess -- and this is just off the dome -- it's probably because they knew if they wrote about it a bunch of assholes who know nothing nothing about the subject in question would instantly smugswarm them online Goodnight, everyone
• 29 August 2022: looooooool holy shit what is the point
• 29 August 2022: I'm not the sort of douchebag who would ever pull "LOL YOU HAVEN'T WRITTEN FOR PRESTIGIOUS ENOUGH OUTLETS" bullshit, because that represents everything I hate in media, but if you insist on going this route I'm not sure it's a wise move
• 29 August 2022: Is he... mad he didn't get an invite to do a Callin show? Just having trouble seeing the relevance. Should I ask Callin if they'll bring him on?
• 29 August 2022: I'm sorry that I have a gig with Callin -- I just think there are a lot better and more productive things for you to fixate on. People are calling violent threats into BCS over its youth gender medicine, for example
• 29 August 2022: Is this a professional resentment thing?
• 29 August 2022: 2/ Ah this might explain the anger. His own organization is spreading misinfo on this very subject. We've known for awhile now that it's an overstatement of the available evidence to say PBs are reversible. NHS changed its public language on this. But hey, it's just suicidal kids
• 29 August 2022: This dude works for the SPLC. The amount of shit you get from random idiots on here if you question any aspect of youth gender medicine -- even in a situation like this, where it's very obvous something very bad occurred -- is part of the problem. More than one thing can be bad.
• 29 August 2022: Do you think if you lose 80% of a group you're studying to followup, you can say anything about that group's mental-health trajectory?
• 29 August 2022: I know that you don't give a shit about the actual facts of any of this, but what that researcher is saying is false. They did not have any data genuinely showing "depressive symptoms significantly worsened among youth" who didn't go on blockers or hormones. It is dishonest.
• 29 August 2022: I'm monomaniacally focused on researchers not lying about youth suicide research. It's a really sick fetish and nothing can cure it. Thank you for exposing me, you brave swashbuckling champion arbiter of relevance.
• 29 August 2022: This is so gross, man. You're talking about a hospital that put kids w/pretty high levels of suicidality on powerful medication, watched as their suicidality didn't abate at all, and then trumpeted how effective the treatment was. The level of apologism for this shit is insane.
• 29 August 2022: just subscribe to my substack or podcast, or give a gift sub to friends. thanks! https://jessesingal.substack.com/subscribe
• 28 August 2022: A lot of people are getting this wrong. There is no meaningful sense in which even UW's walked-back claim, that the non-treatment group "worsened," is accurate. Almost the entire group was lost to followup. We don't know how they did. n = 6 at the last wave of data collection!
• 28 August 2022: Once in awhile I'll forget Reply All is dead and fantasize about a "Yes Yes No" segment -- usually one they'd never ever do in real life
• 28 August 2022: I think "roughly unchanged" is right but skip down to my section about how the variable was dichotomized and you'll see you really can't draw anything of much import or detail from the finding
• 28 August 2022: RT @mattyglesias: It’s real psycho shit to spend time voluntarily following my extremely high volume Twitter account and then complain that…
• 28 August 2022: Thread. Either you care about the quality of medical and psychological care suicidal kids receive, or you don't. If this is a partisan issue, we're completely screwed.
• 28 August 2022: Whether or not this is true, it's definitely true that -researchers in all areas use derailing tactics to prevent close scrutiny of their shoddy work -in this case, "Hmmm, seems like the sort of concern a CONSERVATIVE would raise" is quite socially/professionally effective
• 28 August 2022: 4/ I'm repeating myself but it's hard to describe how bad and potentially harmful it is -- in the real sense, not hurt feelings or disagreement -- for medical authorities to falsely claim a treatment ameliorates suicidality when (in this study, at least) it doesn't appear to.
• 28 August 2022: 3/ Of course if the hospital had engaged in the exact same unethical behavior regarding, say, a new antidepressant, every liberal outlet would have been all over it. But because you're not allowed to question youth gender medicine in polite liberal company, silence.
• 28 August 2022: 2/The comms team is explicit about this over and over in their internal emails. Because it's The College Fix and The Daily Caller &c reaching out, they see no need to engage or respond. Lib outlets had no interest in pursuing a story about a hospital distorting suicide research.
• 28 August 2022: 1/ I've now read the full cache of emails Rantz obtained, and I can't overemphasize how much cover was provided to UW by the fact that after my initial article, it was only conservative outlets that reached out about this scandal.
• 27 August 2022: Dembroff once retracted a short piece they wrote because they had been "non-consensually co-platformed" alongside a GC feminist. One way to avoid such terrible violations is to remove all disagreement from philosophical debate altogether, like here. https://iai.tv/articles/retraction-statement-by-robin-dembroff-rebecca-kukla-and-susan-stryker-auid-1256
• 27 August 2022: I'm not sure I'm comfortable being friends with Ethan anymore. Lemme get going on the ritual denunciation
• 27 August 2022: Latest @getcallin ep is up!
• 27 August 2022: Ari Drennen, famous for not driving harassment toward people or spreading false claims about them, now quoted as an authority on the subject. Harassment Expert Discourse continues to be very sane and not populated by vindictive weirdos.
• 27 August 2022: There is no control group in this study
• 26 August 2022: 8/ I cannot imagine a lower science miscommunication depth for an organization to sink to than what @UW is doing here: Falsely claiming a treatment can prevent suicide when the evidence does not suggest that. It's just astonishingly irresponsible. Where the hell are the adults?
• 26 August 2022: 7/ "We're unique because we're one of the largest and longest studies of this kind in existence" End of the study, non-treatment group n=6 The level of dishonesty @uw has spewed here is just disgraceful. We're talking about potentially misleading people about SUICIDAL KIDS
• 26 August 2022: 6/ Here's one of the coauthors discussing the study on local radio. After explaining the trans kids had high levels of baseline MH problems: "What our study found was just vast reduction in depression and suicidality" Utterly false and inexcusable:
• 26 August 2022: Reached out to you about this in March...
• 26 August 2022: @CollinArin you should take this down. It is a false claim, as your own university has now acknowledged both to me and in internal emails, and your post went quite viral. It's spreading misinformation.
• 26 August 2022: Me defending my life choices with full honesty and transparency, just completely unflinching
• 24 August 2022: 5/ FWIW I don't think this is UW saying they'll stop promoting the Tordoff article because of methodoogical issues -- I think it's them saying they won't include my article in media roundups etc. and will try to not draw attention to it.
• 24 August 2022: 4/ A 100% inaccurate claim from one of the coauthors, "Transgender and nonbinary youth who received gender affirming medical care experienced greatly reduced rates of suicidality and depression over the course of 12 months," is still up on Reddit
• 24 August 2022: 3/ For a major university and medical center to allow misinformation about young people and suicide -- the most serious subject imaginable -- to spread in this manner, and to then refuse to let anyone access data that could clear things up, is not great.
• 24 August 2022: 2/ To this day, the researchers continue to refuse to share their data. I think that's because if they did, it would likely become clear that they cherrypicked, severely, to generate their results. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 24 August 2022: Thread This is very disheartening but revealing
• 23 August 2022: If you're a historian with thoughts about the American Historical Association's presentism kerfuffle which you'd like to share, on the record or off, please email me. We might be talking about it on the podcast. Email in bio.
• 22 August 2022: 3/ Excited for this one to drop tomorrow morning Sign up at https://blockedandreported.org
• 22 August 2022: 2/ Based on what I know, I believe every claim in Gorin's email is true, though one can quibble with certain deployments of the modifier "many." It's a nice example of the back-channel stuff going on to attempt to keep people in line.
• 22 August 2022: In a premium BARPod episode posting tmw, we discuss how after the Colorado State philosopher Moti Gorin criticized Jack Turban in an email, Turban swiftly emailed one of Gorin's bosses to attempt to get him in trouble for "anti-trans misinformation" (aka disagreeing with Turban)
• 22 August 2022: For paying subscribers, I wrote about how my addiction to social media has robbed me of the ability to ignore stuff
• 21 August 2022: It's up!
• 21 August 2022: Doing a @getcallin room in a half hour!
• 20 August 2022: 2/ To be clear this is not about anyone at Google doing anything wrong! Shoulda been clearer. Involves attempts at gaming etc.
• 20 August 2022: I'm looking into what appears to be a scam involving Google page rankings. On the off chance anyone reading this works in a corner of Google involved in this stuff, could you send me an email? I think my questions are pretty basic. Address in bio. Thank you!
• 20 August 2022: Last night's Callin is up: It's partly about how Twitter is bad but I need to use Twitter to promote content about how Twitter is bad
• 19 August 2022: Anyway, I REALLY want to leave-leave Twitter but I don't think I can take the hit to my ability to promote stuff. So I signed in to post the Callin room I'll be doing in an hour and a half. Logging back out and hoping to maintain this habit.
• 19 August 2022: Man I logged off of Twitter last night and simply didn't log back in this morning, and it made such an immediate impact on my ability to get work done in a focused way. It was like magic. I hate this place.
• 19 August 2022: Craig Finn's old band Lifter Puller (or, if you're cool, LFTR PLLR), did some great stuff. Very specific 90s sound that'll always remind me of Pavement and Built to Spill and Modest Mouse
• 19 August 2022: 2/ And no I am not exaggerating. Even setting aside my disagreement with them, just about every recent, high profile GOP state law has been written in a ridiculously poor and vague way, often causing significant collateral damage and hassle to innocent people.
• 19 August 2022: Conservatives really suck at writing laws. Or maybe it's an Iron Law thing and DeSantis never actually intended this one to be upheld -- he just wanted his photoshop and his 2024 fuel
• 18 August 2022:
• 18 August 2022: All the other member partiers have to vouch for you being a good hang
• 18 August 2022: 2/ If you Google the term basically all you get are debunkings! To be clear there are situations where it's an obvious copout, but the point of my article is to argue it it's also a copout, in a different way, to ignore when it is a legit problem
• 18 August 2022: Madame Prime Minister, it is "NATO," not "NAPO," or "North Atlantic Partying Organization." Please educate yourself and comport yourself with the quiet dignity and humility characteristic of Americans, the undisputed leaders of NATO.
• 18 August 2022: First date, 10 seconds in Her: So where are you from originally? Me:
• 18 August 2022: This article suggests that the American Academy of Pediatrics has sought to stifle dissent over youth gender medicine in what appears to be a pretty underhanded way
• 18 August 2022: *but same general deal
• 18 August 2022: I don't endorse the description of this video, which states as a fact that these kids have ROGD when OP couldn't possibly know that, same general deal here
• 18 August 2022: I don't even know where to start with that
• 18 August 2022: Top tweet here from Turban is disingenous. He himself is very skeptical of even a 6-mo assessment period prior to endocrinological interventions. He knows these guidelines are totally nonbinding and that many in this field wholeheartedly reject MH assessment.
• 18 August 2022: Really good thread for trying to keep you and your family safe from potentially harmful content
• 18 August 2022: sent her numerous DMs lending my support and letting her know I'm here if she needs to talk
• 18 August 2022: oh i agree in general but this is just a ridiculous case in terms of the number of victims an overhwelming amount of evidence. times did great reporting on it
• 18 August 2022: "I didn't do it, but I apologize for the thing I didn't do, and will also give money to the people to whom I did not do the thing"
• 18 August 2022: 2/ So awesome
• 18 August 2022: Hell yes -- the bears are expanding east and will soon consume us all, offering us merciful release, our just desserts, a better and purer Bay State https://boston.com/news/local-news/2022/08/18/black-bear-sightings-easton-map-massachusetts-new-hampshire/?p1=hp_featurestack
• 18 August 2022: Last night's @getcallin
• 18 August 2022: Unlocked a post I did on the ridiculous idea that Twitter has anything to do with "marginalized people," and that if you oppose Twitter's (increasingly deranged) norms, it's because you are rejecting The Voice Of The Masses It's crazy anyone argues this
• 18 August 2022: Unlocked a post I did about so-called "pipeline problems" and how I think you can't really believe in structural racism unless you believe in them. Includes critiques of lib/neolib/whatever "antiracism" discourse/interventions.
• 18 August 2022: It has mostly come from folks who were unfamiliar with my pre-BARPod work and probably have politics very different from my own, but the idea of voting for the GOP as a response to (real) issues with illiberalism on the left is so mind-boggling to me
• 17 August 2022: Next @getcallin room is at 10:00 pm ET tonight!
• 17 August 2022: My own answer is I've been laid multiple times but always with the help of spirit ashes
• 17 August 2022: When you rewatch 90s Simpsons it's hard to understand the point of ever watching anything else
• 17 August 2022: Burns: I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Oskar Schindler! S: Schindler es bueno -- Señor Burns es el diablo B: Listen, Spielbergo, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis -- but mine worked, damn it!
• 17 August 2022: I like Jimmy Concepto as a username. Reminds me of the Simpsons: Burns: Get me Steven Spielberg! Smithers: He's unavailable Smithers: Then get me his non-union Mexican equivalent! [next scene] Burns: Listen, Señor Spielbergo...
• 17 August 2022: This takes "did you read the article?" to a whole other level
• 17 August 2022: Marge: Can we get rid of this Ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago. Homer: But, Marge! It works on any Ayatollah: Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmada and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
• 17 August 2022: yeah i asked if they've performed any outside that range. it does appear rare to nonexistent
• 17 August 2022: Know I'm opening myself up to yet another ratio-ing here, but personally, I disagree with this
• 17 August 2022: The battle cry of a generation
• 17 August 2022: 2/ I'm sending them some ?s to try to better understand this whole clusterfuck but people seem to be conflating the question of whether their bottom-surgery policy allowed for under-18 exceptions (until recently, yes) and whether any such exceptions actually occured (appears not)
• 17 August 2022: I do not be like that. I've said for years clinicians are performing top surgeries on minors, which Twitter's loudest idiots absolutely raked me over the coals for in 2018. Bottom surgery on minors is MUCH rarer. BCH does not appear to have performed any but I'm looking into it.
• 17 August 2022: My bad, these guys do have consistent standards. If you are deemed "a piece of shit," as determined by "Rev Avocado" and his Twitter friends, then Management is right and you deserve to be fired. This is a strong and firm and pro-worker leftism. Really compelling stuff.
• 17 August 2022: A lot of online leftists rush to take Management's side in literally ANY situation where defending someone wrongly ousted/"investigated" by their bosses would sully their precious menchies. It's one of their most embarrassing and common behaviors. Just seriously craven stuff.
• 17 August 2022: " 'Steve.' That sounds exotic! Let me guess: Cameroon?"
• 17 August 2022: it is an internet joke from yesterday
• 17 August 2022: Getting the confirmation that my Uber is on the way and immediately texting the driver to ask where he's from
• 17 August 2022: to be fair the bible is extremely problematic in places
• 17 August 2022: This reads like a caricature of evo psych
• 17 August 2022: oh no what did he do now
• 17 August 2022: Also while I'm having fun I'm finding my strength build to be a little boring and one-note so it might be time to respec. I just have literally no idea how incantations or sorcery work because I haven't messed with them at all. Seems like a whole different game. So scared.
• 17 August 2022: It does feel like cheating because they make such a profound difference (I'm using Raya Lucaria Soldier ashes +4 or so), but I'm new to soulsborne games so SUE ME. But also I feel guilty, like a Fake Gamer. Should talk to a therapist probably.
• 17 August 2022: I love how little sense this will make to my followers who aren't pathetic nerds (so 1% or so)
• 17 August 2022: I beat Rennala but as with all these bosses I used spirit ashes. What kind of a man am I, even?
• 17 August 2022: When I lived in Berlin people clocked my fairly bland American accent (I only sound Bostonian when I say hahhhhhribble) as Swedish and Australian at various points
• 17 August 2022: the ackerman angle is disappointing as I always got the sense he did good work. people have lost their goddamn minds
• 17 August 2022: that is not "young girls"
• 17 August 2022: 2/ I would think Libs of Tiktok is leaving itself pretty open to a defamation claim here, too? This is really bad.
• 17 August 2022: I'm very free speechy but in a case like this where a big account posts a false claim that isn't even supported in the video, I absolutely think Twitter should just take it down before it can spread further. Not saying Twitter should do this a lot, but sometimes, yes.
• 17 August 2022: 2/ Totally fine to point out that on average, different racial groups have diff opinions. But "white women!!!!!!" discourse has been such a disaster for helping us understand politics, Trumpism, etc. What you usually mean is "conservative women" or "noncollege women." Say that!
• 17 August 2022: White people are more likely to have progressive views on gender identity than black ones. Of course it would be asinine to make some essentializing claim about "black views" on this subject. But why is this any dumber than complaining about white people as a bloc? Race is silly.
• 16 August 2022: that's some pretty sick shit, man. have a good life
• 16 August 2022: My interaction with him started when he endorsed the idea that people will toast my death. Do you consider that to be an accurate criticism that I should have sat and thought abuot?
• 16 August 2022: "Please screencap this" oy vey these guys
• 16 August 2022: if memory serves a little but I think /r/medicine was better
• 16 August 2022: I'm having trouble responding to this because in my very first tweet I in fact called the move "unjust" and noted that Substack had 180ed it. Do you care to revise and resubmit your tweets with an eye toward having them make sense and latch onto reality a bit tighter?
• 16 August 2022: Yes I'm so toxic https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1546885919453724672
• 16 August 2022: 3/ I did not but that subreddit is SO busted on this front. Major vector of that awful Seattle study from a few months back
• 16 August 2022: 2/ This is a serious "everyone does it" kind of deal
• 16 August 2022: For paying subscribers, I wrote about Potemkin science -- studies that offer almost no evidence to support a claim, but which go viral among motivated sharers on social media
• 16 August 2022: in his defense i think he is being wry himself ehre
• 16 August 2022: ooh this looks very intriguing and is exactly what I was wondering about
• 16 August 2022: one of the more toxic folks on leftybro twitter, where there is a lot of competition
• 16 August 2022: Thread: What if it is bad when people get fired unfairly? Even if they're not in our group chat? Even if they are otherwise a raging asshole?
• 16 August 2022: Been a rough day or two for
• 16 August 2022: 4/ Anyway, if you're principled about this stuff you have to rise to the defense of raging pricks sometimes. Substack messed up and they were right to backpedal.
• 16 August 2022: 3/ Looks like we have our answer
• 16 August 2022: 2/ Thielman also wrote that Donald McNeil Jr. "absolutely should have been fired." It's so weird how it turns out every controversial firing in journalism was justified until his. But whatever, these other guys aren't in the group chat.
• 16 August 2022: Replies are off but I'm curious whether Sam still feels this way. Substack just unjustly cancelled a couple of his gigs before 180ing. When it was his job and his ability to support his family on the line, for whatever reason "There's bigger stuff going on" didn't cut it.
• 16 August 2022: EYYYY I'M WALKIN' HERE! WELCOME TO NEW YORK!
• 16 August 2022: Lost wallet on the subway and within a half hour someone had emailed me to say they found it and offered to return it! Same thing happened last time, ~2014. NYC is an inhospitable pile of rats and trash but it has some redeeming qualities!
• 16 August 2022: What do you think of a situation like this?
• 16 August 2022: A better journalist than me is going to write a hell of a magazine article about the scams undoubtedly underlying many of the popup WE TEST HERE COVID!!! stands dotting NYC streets
• 16 August 2022: Naturally, this person has an elite academic pedigree, because that is where this understanding of race and identity thrives. These folks have every right to their own neurotic etiquette, but they should stop trying to impose it on the rest of us as some sort of moral truth.
• 16 August 2022: never mind less exciting than i thought it would be
• 16 August 2022: totally mised this and can't figure it out -- what happened?
• 15 August 2022: I don't get the sense that the people calling JK Rowling's work genocidal would have a particular compunction about someone attempting to hurt her, and those sorts of claims are quite standard.
• 15 August 2022: I'm saying violent, eliminationist, and dehumanizing rhetoric against gender critical types is totally normalized and condoned (at least implicitly) in progressive spaces, which has led to a couple violent incidents and many threats. Not the same scale, no.
• 15 August 2022: true!
• 15 August 2022: thought this would be closer
• 15 August 2022: pretty remarkable doubling down
• 15 August 2022: Which show is better?
• 15 August 2022: 6/ Oh God I hate rogue apostrophes but I'm too lazy to delete and fix
• 15 August 2022: 5/ In the book, apparently Rowling is burned alive (candle knocked down), but I think other so-called TERF's are tortured and killed. Book was celebrated by NPR and other outlets https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/writer-gretchen-felker-martin-under-fire-for-killing-j-k-rowling-in-novel/
• 15 August 2022: 3/ Seeing an NYU professor endorse the idea that I'm an 'asshole' who shouldn't have kids because I don't think 3-year-olds understand gender identity the way adults do... I don't know, man. I think this is pretty out there.
• 15 August 2022: 2/It means a set gender identity, neither male nor female, that is separate from biosex and gender expresion and (proto-)sexual orientation. The idea that a 3 year old could truly understand this on an adult level, and separate it from things like gender expression, is bonkers.
• 15 August 2022: 1/ Setting aside Tage's unhinged response, which it genuinely pisses me off to see you endorse, I think you're completely misunderstanding the issue here. A nonbinary gender identity doesn't mean a general understanding that gender can be flexible in terms of expression, etc. --
• 15 August 2022: This is just so goddamn unprofessional, man. Grow up.
• 15 August 2022: khachapuri is humankind's crowning achievement. if it feels like we've been on the decline lately it's because we can't do better than khachapuri
• 15 August 2022: This is what I mean by exaggerated claims of harm. A bunch of radical Muslims really do think Rushdie harmed them. The rest of us think that's ridiculous. But if you actually believe Rowling caused as much harm as her most unhinged critics say, violence would seem justified.
• 15 August 2022: 4/ Should have been clearer that it's not that Cathy Brennan, who is gender critical herself, but rather a trans activist who took the name
• 15 August 2022: Yeah this is why I think it's silly to say, "Sure, there's a culture of endemic dehumanization/threat exaggeration around this person, but no one has tried anything yet." I think we should almost always discourage dehumanization and threat exaggeration!
• 15 August 2022: 3/ There's been a violent assault against an anti-GRA reform protester, Maria MacLachlan, and Julie Bindel also says she was nearly assaulted by Cathy Brennan. Plus multiple bomb threats/other violent threats.
• 15 August 2022: what's an example of a high-profile critic of hers trying to tamp down the violent or exaggerating rhetoric?
• 15 August 2022: 2/ My general sense of the situation is that people think Rowling deserves this language in a way Rushdie doesn't, that the problem isn't the language itself but rather whether you agree with the underlying claim of harm.
• 15 August 2022: JK Rowling obviously isn't Salman Rushdie, in that she hasn't faced the same level of state-sponsored danger. But what's the response to the claim that JKR also has faced a (smaller) torrent of the sort of dehumanizing language and death threats that often precede violence?
• 15 August 2022: If you are a high-powered executive at a media company, paying attention to what Twitter says should call your leadership abilities into question just as much as an uncontrolled drinking problem or a chronic tendency to verbally lash out at employees
• 14 August 2022: don't want anyone getting fired or disciplined at work -- I just want less crazy and unethical online behavior from ostensibly legitimate professionals. This is a pattern for Tage and "don't make accusations about people without evidence" is 5-year-old-level morality
• 14 August 2022: Do you have a source for those numbers?
• 14 August 2022: It's very hard to describe the feeling when someone tells you to "listen" to the message of an article that lied about you repeatedly, and that the editor failed to correct
• 14 August 2022: 2/ Could be one of those "those who cannot do, research" types of deals
• 14 August 2022: goddammit you beat me to that one
• 14 August 2022: I'm late to this but this guy has been deeply fixated on me on years. Now he's graduated from baseless accusations of transphobia to racism. A professional psychologist and former editor at Science. How is this considered appropriate behavior? Where are the adults in his field?
• 14 August 2022: This has happened previously - you've publicly called me a bigot, accused me of having "butchered data and then double-downed," and pressured others in my network to shun me in a manner I perceived as deeply creepy and controlling. You've never provided evidence, though. Can you?
• 14 August 2022: Sorry I'm so late to this, Tage. I continue to think it's a big deal for a major figure in psychology such as yourself to to publicly make accusations like this. Can you point me to anything I've written or said that could be reasonably construed as "anti-Black racism"?
• 14 August 2022: 5/ I wrote about this in 2017 but things have only gotten worse as various internecine fractures on the left have gotten bigger and more toxic, further attenuating genuine dialogue.
• 14 August 2022: 4/ The free-speech-skeptical movement on the left has been intellectually stunted for years. In part b/c they cut themselves off from engagement w/anyone who disagrees ("bigots" and "Nazis") they recite the same bromides endlessly, with no evolution/maturation of their beliefs.
• 14 August 2022: 3/ Instead, it's always prima facie obvious who should be punished or deplatformed (their enemies -- whoever offends them). So the common thread here is constant and colorful exaggeration of harm, and it does apply, in different ways, to very different cases.
• 14 August 2022: 2/But the fact is that the folks who have been engaging in ever-more-spectacular acts of definitional inflation really do chronically accuse words of being "harmful" and in some cases "violent." They've never offered a remotely useful account for working through what this means
• 14 August 2022: 1/ I thought Cathy's tweet was uncharacteristically bad but the problem is that folks like Hobbes won't, in fact, offer a principled account of whose claims of word-harm should be trusted and acted upon and whose can be ignored. This does NOT mean JK Rowling = Rushdie.
• 14 August 2022: This study has myriad problems, including misstating the # of states from which it drew its data. Pediatrics immediately announced it was going to look into the issues. A week later, outlets keep spreading it to be good allies. I thought disinfo was bad? https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-new-study-on-rapid-onset-gender
• 14 August 2022: @xoxo_glenn There are significant errors in your piece about the ROGD article. Most notably, they did not collect data from 16 states, but from significantly fewer. See this response. You guys should really correct this -- you're spreading misinformation
• 13 August 2022: Talked about vegetarianism and some other stuff!
• 13 August 2022: no you're think of Arrrr! Arrrr! Arrrr!
• 13 August 2022: 7 minutes!
• 13 August 2022: 4/ Also at this point both characters seem to scale back their very specific and important goals like 70% to 80% just so they can hang out more with their new bud
• 13 August 2022: was anti-maghreb until i ate here, since then i've been staunchly pro-
• 13 August 2022: 3/ I've had almost no exposure to Bollywood/Tollywood, so maybe this is standard but I loved when the two main characters met and became fast friends and this sparked like a 15-minute CHECK OUT HOW TIGHT THESE BROS ARE musical montage, just to drive the point home
• 13 August 2022: 2/ Correct.
• 13 August 2022: The question "Should I see RRR?" should be answered with another question: "Do you want to see an Indian guy throw a freaking leopard at a British soldier?"
• 13 August 2022: lil tatumish
• 13 August 2022: 2/ Do you know what else "intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the Western world"?
• 13 August 2022: This is still one of the craziest and grossest things that has happened in mainstream progressivism in recent years: a large group complaining that PEN gave the murdered Charlie Hebdo writers a posthumous courage in free speech award
• 13 August 2022: Next @getcallin room will be at 3:00 pm ET today
• 13 August 2022: Last @getcallin ep was about why comments sections get so toxic and, uh, weird Japanese sex stuff
• 13 August 2022: Best thing I've heard in a minute
• 12 August 2022: Such a good thriller! Highly recommend
• 12 August 2022: Very good! Like all annoying Americans I stayed in that neighborhood when I went there
• 12 August 2022:
• 12 August 2022: so good!
• 12 August 2022: LOVED this! Folks should watch it. It gets so much mileage out of such a simple premise
• 12 August 2022: What is your source for the claim that Trump was "fully cooperating"? That runs counter to everything I've read about this
• 12 August 2022: i wanted to stop there for the kolaches but the logistics didn't work out
• 12 August 2022: oh yeah everyone is recommending this
• 12 August 2022: very very good esp surly joe
• 12 August 2022: I just watched this! It's great. And reinforced my decision to not live in West Texas
• 12 August 2022: 2/ I was really blown away by this -- just incredibly smart and sparse and well-constructed sci-fi. For some reason it defaulted to an English dub at first so BE CAREFUL.
• 12 August 2022: What is the best film on Netflix or HBO Max, any genre, that doesn't get the love it deserves?
• 12 August 2022: How is the pretext dubious? We have a very clear timeline of events here that involves Trump failing to turn over documents he can't hold onto.
• 12 August 2022: collect call from a payphone
• 12 August 2022: if you mean the mounted dude right outside the tutorial area, just avoid him for now. if you mean the giant right inside the first big gate, just charge past him on Torrent since you need to to advance the main questline
• 12 August 2022: that's why I called him and read the post to him
• 12 August 2022: I'm new to Fromsoft games but there are MANY enemies you're not supposed to be able to realistically beat when you first encounter them -- run away or past them and find something else to do for awhile
• 12 August 2022: If the question is to what extent sexism contributed to Warren's failure in the primary, has anyone w/a mainstream megaphone done more to advance the notion that white women are fundamentally untrustworthy, conniving, emotionally manipulative, and bad than... progressives?
• 12 August 2022: Maybe Moose is just dealing with his own issues
• 12 August 2022: For paying subscribers (with free preview), I wrote about the similarities with which Alex Jones and Donald Trump brazenly prey upon skepticism of law-enforcement overreach that is in many cases warranted. It just obviously isn't here.
• 12 August 2022: I think this is the most likely explanation too, and was also the most likely explanation for a brief spat between her and Sanders over something Sanders said
• 12 August 2022: Been playing less because 1) feel behind on work and 2) out of town a lot, away from PS5 I'm at level 50, currently at Rennala, who seems beatable. Her first phase is a remarkably creepy and memorable set piece
• 12 August 2022: Which is closer to your political orientation and what do you think is the number of people who actually told Liz Warren they'd vote for her if she had a penis?
• 12 August 2022: i would but i'm spent
• 12 August 2022: I came upon some humor writing I did when I was in college and I'm worried it's way too subtle http://yankeepotroast.org/archives/2006/01/singal_jesse.html
• 12 August 2022: 3/ In a sense this sudden unpublishing means this whole affair has come to a conclusion quicker than anyone involved had hoped or expected -- prematurely, if you will. And now there's a mess to clean up. And so forth and so on.
• 12 August 2022: oh man really sorry to hear that and hope he's doing okay
• 12 August 2022: 2/ This is a very unusual case that tests a lot of principles but I think we should be opposed to papers that have gone through peer review being in effect retracted while the investigation is underway. Do the investigation, then act accordingly. What you think @StuartJRitchie?
• 12 August 2022: Masturbation paper jerked off the internet: "Due to ethical concerns surrounding this article and the social harm being caused by the publication of this work, the publishers have now agreed... to remove the article while this investigation is ongoing"
• 12 August 2022: surprisingly readable tho
• 12 August 2022: Before I started looking into this for a chapter in my book, I didn't realize the extent to which the available treatments have a pretty solid track record and the many logistical barriers to vets getting care. It's a really sad but in theory fixable story.
• 12 August 2022: There is a type of person who violently threatens authors and wants to control what others can read and write. It's pre-ideological. They'll then find some ideology to latch onto to justify that -- could be far-left or far-right.
• 12 August 2022: Tracing Woodgrains is his full legal name in the state of Furrytopia, but we call him Trace for short/when he is being a good boy
• 12 August 2022: not to mention Holocaust victims! https://apnews.com/article/salt-lake-city-donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-ut-state-wire-992dd887f7b948d0a08055dff0363aa4
• 12 August 2022: I heard it was 330 trillion, and that it was ALL nuculer
• 12 August 2022: Fucking hell, man
• 11 August 2022: no area of academic inquity stands up well if you add "And then I started cranking it" at the end
• 11 August 2022: going live!
• 11 August 2022: 2/ This scene is just about comedically perfect and I'm worried not enough people understand how brilliant this film is. I think it's one of the top things to worry about in the U.S. at the moment
• 11 August 2022: "Well there's nothing I would like more, sir, than to restore your faith in Judaism, right now, if you could just give me that shot"
• 11 August 2022: The country continues to have a normal one
• 11 August 2022: 2/ That's Eastern, which is the only real time zone. (All others are Social Constructs and therefore not real.)
• 11 August 2022: Doing a @getcallin room at 5:00 pm
• 11 August 2022: Can't believe Garland has confirmed his department will seek to unseal both the Mar-a-Lago warrant and "the secrets lurking in the hearts of seemingly placid and contented men of every ilk" -- this is going places I did NOT expect
• 11 August 2022: In Surprise Announcement, Merrick Garland Solidifies Half-Life 3 Release Date
• 11 August 2022: It would be funny if Merrick Garland announced a statement and then it's just about the Kevin Durant drama -- like nothing to do with Trump, just his own NBA thoughts. And he's like "I never SAID this was in my official capacity" and storms off
• 11 August 2022: have it somehow involve a drone strike or an FBI raid or both and I'll be more tempted
• 11 August 2022: Stand corrected -- groundbreaking stuff and I see why it was pubbed: "Thinking more critically about my own masturbation also made me wonder if all sex is masturbation, in the sense that people are focused on their own pleasure and use other people as ‘masturbation material’."
• 11 August 2022: "What I learned from this experiment was to attach greater meaning and value to the act of masturbation, and especially of doing it to two-dimensional material in the form of comics."
• 11 August 2022: Already tweeted this! I think it is right on. I say this as someone who has defended difficult research, even on child sex abuse, in the past. That's not what this paper is.
• 11 August 2022: Katie is making me read the masturbation paper. She said if I don't she'll release the photos so I honestly have no choice here. This is really fucked up
• 11 August 2022: Who knows if they will actually get a thousand families -- there's probably little downside to the law firm overclaiming -- but again, the attempt to destroy the careers and reputations of anyone asking any questions in this area... https://t.co/W46N3CldS1
• 11 August 2022: Good stuff by @StuartJRitchie. You see a ton of this sort of "The outgroup hates it, so it must be good!" reasoning on Twitter, and it leads people some ridiculous places
• 11 August 2022: probably any utopian movement that involves leaving everything behind. if some of these guys had been born in syria they woulda been prime pickings for isis
• 11 August 2022: 2/ I'm one ep behind but the show's clearest "villain" four episodes in is more terrifying/tragic than what most Hollywood writers could come up with... someone should write a book about that dude alone
• 11 August 2022: Haven't followed the news closely the last couple weeks but if I have this right Biden launched a drone strike on Mar-a-Lago, which brought down gas prices?
• 11 August 2022: Can't recommend this series enough https://hbo.com/the-anarchists
• 11 August 2022: that's really insane
• 11 August 2022: i guess people on the internet are being dumb
• 11 August 2022: I never said anything of the sort
• 10 August 2022: "University and College Union (UCU) members pledged to compile a list of university backroom staff suspected of holding gender-critical beliefs, the minutes from a meeting leaked... reveal." So many efforts to destroy people's lives over this stuff
• 10 August 2022: So your understanding of language is that if you're talking to kids, referencing "a girl cat" means "a cat with a female gender identity"?
• 10 August 2022: Very useful episode of The Daily. There is a rough analogy to Alex Jones here in terms of just how many chances Trump had to turn over documents he simply can't legally hold on to. Then, after defying the authorities repeatedly, claims of victimization.
• 10 August 2022: what do you mean? if the context is which animals can get pregnant, aren't we talking about sex rather than gender?
• 10 August 2022: I like the idea of combining this with rank stereotypes about different types of Europeans. Like, this clearly explains why Italians are so angry all the time and Scandanavians so standoffish and obsessed with eating fish. It's SCIENCE.
• 10 August 2022: Do you guys really advocate for kids to not be taught that "girl" animals are the ones that can get pregnant? Aren't you confusing biological sex and gender identity? Totally agree that harassment is never okay, obviously, but this stood out from the piece.
• 10 August 2022: "A complete exoneration? Under these circumstances? With your past? Localized entirely within this warrant?" "Yes." "May I see it?" "No."
• 10 August 2022: "This is the true story of the only time I’ve been in a fight." For paying subscribers, with free preview, by @ymeskhout, and you should definitely read it https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/party-battle-maiden
• 10 August 2022:
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• 9 August 2022: similarly intrigued
• 9 August 2022: Oh hello
• 9 August 2022: This was my thought exactly. KD's response to weeks of watching his stock and leverage drop was to pull the kind of shit that can really tear an organization apart. I don't want him near a generally happy and well-functioning team like the Cs.
• 9 August 2022: because i'm dumb and this will be useful in the future show me where it links that battery to that laptop? sorry
• 9 August 2022: 3/ I'm getting absolutely sauteed over my EVOO laptop
• 9 August 2022: EVOO, EG-LP7
• 9 August 2022: 2/ Folks suggested Newegg which I have good experience with but they don't seem to sell EVOO laptop batteries
• 9 August 2022: pc
• 9 August 2022: I gotta buy a replacement laptop battery. Apparently this isn't something you can just grab off Amazon. Are there any particularly trustworthy online stores for such purchases?
• 9 August 2022: Well you don't have the toy, so you must be a baby Whenever you speak, all people will hear is "Goo goo" and "Gah gah"
• 9 August 2022: what did I do now
• 9 August 2022: He lured The Deep State out of hiding by violating all sorts of laws, in extremely dumb ways, for many decades, and also by bankrupting some casinos
• 9 August 2022: 2/ Jesus, not to mention the assaults! My bad. My point is we have reasons to be a bit wary of searching/investigating past POTUSes. But isn't it quite clear he doesn't care about the law? Or is it silly to even ask MAGA diehards to explain themselves like this?
• 9 August 2022: I'm just examining the argument for fear at face value -- it got wide airing in progressive spaces, including a WaPo column I quote
• 9 August 2022: Trump has had many legal scrapes over the years, and they often seem pegged to just plain idiocy: an inability to do tax fraud carefully, or to not get recorded on the phone with a Georgia official trying to steal an election. How do his Deep State Conspiracy fans explain this?
• 9 August 2022: 3/ its enlightened members surely recognize the catastrophic backlash and chaos undoing gay marriage would cause. So how can they logically not overturn those cases? My super sophisticated answer: "They will make something up." That is always an option for them!
• 9 August 2022: 2/ The thinking is that b/c Dobbs lost the right to privacy, reason and legal coherence would dictate they rule similarly in these other cases. This treats them like robots when they are, in part, conservative activists. Fighting gay marriage is not a priority in this tribe, and
• 9 August 2022: 1/ For paying subscribers: In a post that could be very wrong, I ventured outside my usual areas to to argue that you're giving the conservative SCOTUS justices too much credit if you think they'll overturn Obergefell and/or Lawrence.
• 8 August 2022: 👇👇White House General Counsel under Clinton
• 8 August 2022: The several dozen men staying at the resort wearing FBI shirts with "Federal Boobie Inspector" written in small letters below surely led to some confusion
• 8 August 2022: This is funny but when was the actual first Makeover Montage? Earliest one I can remember offhand is Clueless but I feel like this goes back to at least the '80s?
• 8 August 2022: Every single serious clown college professor I've reached out to vehemently disagrees wtih Bozo's analysis
• 8 August 2022: I believe I had a version of this at Otto's in Cambridge, Mass., which has great pizza (there's also one in Brookline)
• 8 August 2022: I think the first time I had a pizza like this it was at CPK and it was actually really really good.
• 8 August 2022: looooool
• 8 August 2022: I meeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaan there are loose similarities, but as much as I loved Original Borat I think the best Nathan for You and Rehearsal consistently beats the best Borat. I'd say just watch Rehearsal and go in knowing as little as possible
• 8 August 2022: Anyway he basically just took the best parts of Nathan for You and injected them with steroids and produced something that is both stomach-clutching hilarious and weirdly deep in spots. I'm mostly there for the hilarity and it is abundant. NF4LYFE
• 8 August 2022: As for whether it's a bit exploitative, of course it is. That adds to the frisson. It's not morally great. I also don't know why if you are concerned about ethical media consumption this would stand out as particularly bad/a line-drawing moment.
• 8 August 2022: The new Nathan Fielder show is so insanely brilliant -- I just can't believe he pulled off something that is, so far, as good as the best Nathan for You, which is itself some of the funniest television ever produced. It's insane how talented this guys is.
• 8 August 2022: 7/ The AAP appears to have quietly deleted its press release touting this finding. @LeorSapir may have been the first to notice this. I emailed them some questions about the study and they never got back to me.
• 8 August 2022: 🤔🤔🤔
• 8 August 2022: He taught me how to love
• 8 August 2022: RT @jessesingal: 6/ It's up https://t.co/cAQkOYqqwC
• 8 August 2022: This is a super good point. Publishing has been unspeakably hostile to "Do 👏Better 👏White 👏 Women 👏"-themed book -- these sorts of titles have just had such a hard time selling and you never see them publicized and there wasn't a super-mega-bestseller w/that exact theme
• 7 August 2022: 👋 Positivologist here -- PhD from the University of Harvard - Yale (Stanford campus) This is totally accurate
• 7 August 2022: this was $25 fwiw and my sense is you don't have to do it that often. It's not a TOP-tier knife but was one of the Wirecutter recs and I've never had a knife like this. Noticeably duller
• 7 August 2022: 2/ I cannot handle tasks like "thrownig out expired milk in a timely fashion" no way I'm trusting myself to sharpen a knife correctly/effectively
• 7 August 2022: Dropped off a kitchen knife to get it sharpened and my phone's voice-to-text thing left me with a pretty menacing voicemail from the shop
• 7 August 2022: like, sure you're 'alive,' but at what cost? there's a supply/demand graph that looks weird now!
• 7 August 2022: The idea of people getting insulin too cheap just enrages me
• 7 August 2022: how dare you -- his youtube channel is great and includes plenty of respectful "appropriation"/mixing of culinary traditions
• 7 August 2022: It's so awesome
• 7 August 2022: Serious escalation by the libs in The People's Republic Of Massachusetts... we're gonna pretend Dragon Queen Story Hour is remotely okay???
• 7 August 2022: Imagine someone says something is "othering monolithing bullshit" that is "harmful" and "needs to stop," and then you find out that this is what they're referring to
• 6 August 2022: People really gotta stop citing this one. The average lost to followup rate was around 30%, if memory serves. Way too many lost patients for these authors to be claiming to have a reliable regret estimate.
• 6 August 2022: 6/ It's up
• 6 August 2022: that's really really dark!
• 6 August 2022: 2/ I think that's right
• 6 August 2022: about to go live!
• 6 August 2022: I feel like I used to know who first used this nickname... definitely wasn't us but it's excellent
• 6 August 2022: Good question -- I think part of the answer has to do with the conflation (sometimes intentional) between "being trans" and "having GD." GD is a diagnosis, "being trans" isn't, but oftentimes people will talk about one but really be referring to the other
• 6 August 2022: 5/ Talking about this on CallIn in an hour if you have any thoughts/questions
• 6 August 2022: 4/ Also, "Why would kids choose to be trans given that trans kids are bullied?" is a severe misunderstanding of both teenage subcultures and what ROGD proponents are saying. If you want to criticize the theory, fine, but criticize the actual theory, not a dumb strawversion of it.
• 6 August 2022: i think this is a genuine MH issue so I'm holding off until stuff is clearer
• 6 August 2022: 3/
• 6 August 2022: 70% of the time, it works every time
• 6 August 2022: 2/ You guys know I am The Nuance Guy and try to avoid overheated language, but "worthless" is apt her
• 6 August 2022: The New Study On Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Published In “Pediatrics” Is Genuinely Worthless Partly about the study and partly, deep sigh, about my frustrations with Jack Turban's outsize role in this conversation and his highly questionable standards
• 6 August 2022: Does it make you uncomfortable that you are endorsing a study trans researchers themselves believe is invalid?
• 6 August 2022: I think they'd basically say it has to do with the previous gender ratio being out of wack, favoring natal males, and now things are approaching parity. Not saying I endorse that
• 6 August 2022: 2/ You guys know I am The Nuance Guy and try to avoid overheated language, but "worthless" is apt here.
• 6 August 2022: The New Study On Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Published In “Pediatrics” Is Genuinely Worthless Party about the study and partly, deep sigh, about my frustrations with Jack Turban's outsize role in this conversation and his highly questionable standards
• 5 August 2022: that's what I find so confusing about this. Surely Leguizamo knows what Cubans are, ethnically? My sense is they're getting more and more mixed but a lot of them are still just white!
• 5 August 2022: Let's Talk About The Alex Jones Documentary and Jack Turban’s latest research on trans kids
• 5 August 2022: live soon!
• 5 August 2022: Working on a newsletter about it In the meantime, here's a group of researchers who agree with Turban about ROGD but who think his approach is completely invalid (which it is) https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/b5z7j/
• 5 August 2022: It is really bad you guys covered this paper credulously and you should really address this if you want folks to trust your science journalism in the future
• 5 August 2022: Next @getcallin room is at 4:00 pm today -- will be talking about the Alex Jones documentary up top, and then your questions on that or anything else.
• 5 August 2022: Went on @EliLake's show to talk about the increasingly disastrous area of youth gender medicine
• 5 August 2022: This one's really good, but I also feel like it's missing something, though I can't quite put my finger on what that is
• 5 August 2022: 9/ Biggs sent me this analysis, which he says he submitted to @JAMAPediatrics and which was rejected in one hour.
• 5 August 2022: 8/ Michael Biggs did something very clever: He compared the heights of teens from the study who responded "male" versus "female." Controlling for age and race, the "males" were about an inch shorter on average. If this holds up it demolishes Turban et al's analysis completely.
• 5 August 2022: That is SO COOL
• 4 August 2022: 7/ Or here -- a professional researcher makes the point more eloquently than I ever could. https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1376665659002609666
• 4 August 2022: lollll amazing
• 4 August 2022: 6/ "These three studies find X," pointing to studies that don't find X, is pretty common in tabloid-level outlets like Pinknews or (on this subject) NBC News, but I think it's pretty rare in a major medical journal, especially a top-flight one like Peds. I emailed the journal.
• 4 August 2022: 5/ It's important to Turban et al's analysis that trans kids interpet questions about 'sex' to mean biosex rather than gender id. They claim "several studies have found" this is the case, and then cite three studies that don't even address the question at hand. It's nuts.
• 4 August 2022: twitter tends to deliver quicker!
• 4 August 2022: Can someone email me this PDF? I'll delete this tweet when I have it so reload before you send plz. jesse.r.singal@gmail.com
• 4 August 2022: the "attacked specific trans journalists" is so fucking disingenous. I criticized one for, in my view, being wrong. In much the same way I have criticized countless other, non-trans journalists similarly These people are incapable of good faith. I am re-blocking Sam
• 4 August 2022: can you point me to the language saying that?
• 4 August 2022: 4/I have not examined this closely enough to say I endorse every single claim, but I've spot checked some of them and I think this person knows their stuff. Really, really bad to have 'experts' play this sort of distortionary role in an important debate.
• 4 August 2022: 3/ From a research perspective, the difference between a rise in the percentage of teens identifying as trans and a 1/3 drop is MASSIVE. You'd think Turban would pause to try to explain this. Nope -- he just races past it because good, careful work isn't the point.
• 4 August 2022: 2/ To take one of many examples, this paper argues that from 2017 to 2019, the % of adolescents identifying as trans dropped by a third. Does anyone, anywhere think this is true? Jack Turban doesn't -- in July of 2021, in a sworn statement, he endorsed the idea of a rise.
• 4 August 2022: I'm so frustrated major journals like Pediatrics allow activist clinicians to overclaim and distort. It doesn't help trans people in the long run to flood the zone with shoddy science.
• 4 August 2022: Tarpley Hitt has proven, repeatedly, that you can't trust anything she writes without independently verifying it, but someone I know and trust at The New Yorker says she has this right. The folks who mindlessly amplified Overbey should rethink stuff.
• 4 August 2022: it's remarkable -- it's barely commented upon
• 4 August 2022: Oh I didn't even read the NBC article -- the study itself
• 4 August 2022: This is really astonishing
• 4 August 2022: Quite a letter https://bps.org.uk/news/bps-response-new-nhs-england-regional-model-gender-identity-services-children-and-young-people
• 4 August 2022: Tenderqueer Lockheed Martin Drama had some amazing songs in the aughts but a lot of them were 15 minutes long and could have been a tight five
• 4 August 2022: Guy from the future gets out of his time-travel pod, sees this headline, shakes his head stoically, gets back in, and instructs the pod to blast him directly into the sun
• 4 August 2022: joke's on you everything is pointless
• 4 August 2022: Here you go, champ
• 4 August 2022: Me, 1/20/2019 "And of course more trans members would help, and of course a given trans person might not want to be the second or third person on a giant list that's otherwise all cis, which is a problem." Any other questions you amazing sleuth?
• 4 August 2022: 2/ I don't really know how to interact with people like this. Does he think that the text he posted corresponded with the accusation? At least it's a receipt, technically. Just for a different product.
• 4 August 2022: there is, of course, nothing in that screenshot about "excluding trans people from the industry," and you know that
• 4 August 2022: Sam, I genuinely don't know if you're intentionally lying or if you think you're telling the truth. I never, ever said "the only reason to contact someone's employer... is if you are trying to have them fire." That's asinine. It's routine to contact editors seeking a correction.
• 4 August 2022: Holy crap -- this would be an even bigger bombshell than the other stuff I was accused of. Post. It. Post the screenshot.
• 3 August 2022: You pull in to the Rutland, Vermont all-night gas station, sweaty and desperate. It's 3:30 am and you're on your last legs. You stumble in. Desperate. Alone. Oh thank God. They have one. They have a calculator.
• 3 August 2022: if you're looking for receipts of me getting rejected by straight woman i have myriad evidence
• 3 August 2022: that was awesome
• 3 August 2022: oh wait is this like a gamergate era person? did he have a different handle before?
• 3 August 2022: 2/ Every aspect of this is remarkable
• 3 August 2022: it's 2022 we all keep our receipts on external hard drives
• 3 August 2022: how it started / how it's going
• 3 August 2022: Yes, that is definitely a thing that happened and not a crazy internet rumor. Just post your receipts -- the hour grows late.
• 3 August 2022: I am! You just tweeted "We've all seen the DMs you send to trans women Jesse." Why don't you post some representative samples?
• 3 August 2022:
• 3 August 2022: "I need you to dress up as Waluigi." "Uhhhh why?" "IT'S FOR MY JOURNALISM NO MORE QUESTIONS"
• 3 August 2022: Post them!
• 3 August 2022: "'We have to protect our children!' is the cry. But homosexuals are our children, and we should treat them so; as adults they deserve the full respect given heterosexuals." Truly the GOAT.
• 3 August 2022:
• 3 August 2022: alex jones
• 3 August 2022: How does spreading false rumors about people fit into your "anti-bullying," "anti-harassment" ethos, overall?
• 3 August 2022: They let you bring that into the theater of the Alex Jones event???
• 3 August 2022: This is about Contrapoints. There's a vast archive of articles I've written that don't "exist" in the traditional sense, but which are real in the imaginations of people on Twitter. In some cases these imaginary articles shake the very foundations of friendships. (Go outside.)
• 3 August 2022: do you guys honestly think I should kill myself?
• 3 August 2022: It Happened To Me: I Left My Defamation Trial, Headed Back To The Infowars Set, And Kept Defaming The People I Was Accused Of Defaming
• 3 August 2022: I wrote a fair amount about this stuff ~2015, and I just did a piece criticizing Glenn Greenwald's treatment of Alex Jones. You get burned out on it pretty quickly because it is so batshit insane. I think more good can be done criticizing mainstream media.
• 3 August 2022: 2/ I will say I'm curious about the exact context here, just because Jones is such a pathological liar and would surely lie about his site's financials. So maybe take with a grain of salt unless this is from some super official document
• 3 August 2022: all these years I've been looking for definitive proof there is no God and it was on Alex Jones' phone all along
• 3 August 2022: her hipocrisy on this is unfun
• 2 August 2022: 4/ Also I highly recommend the Knowledge Fight theme song
• 2 August 2022: 3/ I didn't agree with every subjective argument about how Jones was framed in the film (which I have seen), but I feel like guys are dead to rights on how Jones is allowed to revise past claims about his biography with no pushback/clarification.
• 2 August 2022: 2/ Yes, there are very, very dumb people on Twitter who want to deplatform everyone and who are neurotic little weirdo cops. That's separate from the question of what your responsibilities are as a media type if you choose to interview Jones. You do have some!
• 2 August 2022: If you are going to interview Alex Jones, which is probably a bad idea, you really can't softball it. This shit is just incredibly evil. He is a different category of person. "Oh so u r saying I shouldn't be allowed to talk to him??" is a derailing tactic.
• 2 August 2022: 2/ -work in tech for a defense contractor -live in a big house -crowdfund online for... cat food This stuff is sick and it's enabled by a culture where everyone walks on eggshells b/c if you ask a single remotely critical question about someone's identity, you're a monster
• 2 August 2022: Lauren Hough has acted egregiously online, so I hesitate to link to her, but this is mostly corect. Progressive Twitter has a big problem with privileged individuals LARPing as oppresed and hoovering up their marks' cash.
• 2 August 2022: 3/ These are not original points but if a gonzo sci-fi story is "genuinely and profoundly hurtful" to you that doesn't leave you with much language to describe actual hardship
• 2 August 2022: thank you scott! you're not so bad yourself
• 2 August 2022: 2/ Screenshots from here
• 2 August 2022: I'm confused. What is the point of denying having played at least a minor role in this?
• 2 August 2022: I find something so domineering and creepy about this approach to language. There's never dispute or disagreement or tradeoffs. This is just a "mistake" -- full-stop. It's a "mistake" because she was informed she offended someone. Like she violated an objective moral law.
• 2 August 2022: 2/ Ironically, most "i'm gonna kill you" tweets are like PNOCIB .003 because those tend to be desperate flailing randos. It's the manipulative, conniving types at the top of the PNOCIB charts
• 2 August 2022: Every tweet can be assigned a "Probable Number Of Corpses In Basement" (PNOCIB) score and this one broke my gauge
• 2 August 2022: I published it on a Sunday and then was mostly offline yesterday but for paying subscribers, with a free preview, I wrote about how flat understandings of power derail us from important conversations about how we want liberal institutions to function
• 2 August 2022: The Week Of August First (almost forgot to listen to this today)
• 2 August 2022: 2/ I've been interested in hardcore social justice Twitter since like ~2016 The one consistent thread is just this insane degree of arrested development. 30/40somethings with a lot of uwu smol boi poopieface etc. etc. It's one of the most cringe online communities I've ever seen
• 2 August 2022: I have to research this person at the center of Lockheed controversy and boy are some of the sentences he has written on Twitter are A Lot (this person is in his late 30s at the youngest)
• 2 August 2022: To say there are red flags here would be a disastrous understatement
• 1 August 2022: that would be a very silly theory, for a lot of reasons. It doesn't get less silly if you apply it to liberals. I think these are really overheated assertions you're making.
• 1 August 2022: If I said "I mean, look at this: creationism, intelligent design, trickle-down economics, the belief we can 'liberate' foreign countries and turn them into stable democracies -- this proves conservatives have personality traits incompatible with scientific reasoning,"
• 1 August 2022: Sounds really pseudoscientific to me
• 1 August 2022: says who? on the basis of what evidence?
• 1 August 2022: Large swaths of econ, where it is not lefties running things, have run into major issues. All sorts of areas in law enforcement (ditto), like lie detectors, interrogation, forensics -- same deal.
• 1 August 2022: The idea that the only people who cherrypick in this manner, or who are resistant to evidence, are on the left is just completely laughable.
• 1 August 2022: I never said anything remotely like that
• 1 August 2022: I feel like diagnosing other people from afar in broad-brush ways probably isn't a good idea?
• 1 August 2022: People are mad that a very shrill person on social justice Twitter works for an arms manufacturer. He defended himself by saying he's disabled and the healthcare benefits are crucial. As is often the case on this corner of Twitter the oppression calculus quickly got complicated.
• 31 July 2022: oh wow very excited to dig into the killington secessionist movement
• 31 July 2022: My understanding of states is driven by the places where I hang out. Other regions don't really exist as far as I'm concerned. But yes I know some crazy shit goes down in the northeast kingdom
• 31 July 2022: New Hampshire: IF YOU TAKE MY GUNS I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU Vermont: Hey dude, wanna come on in to the coop and share a brewski?
• 31 July 2022: Bill Russell was a genuine American hero whose contributions to the country went far beyond being one of the best basketball players of all time
• 31 July 2022: 1/ This has been a catastrophic fuckup for science journalism. I have lost faith in so many individual writers and outlets. Not because I think they should have said PUBERTY BLOCKERS ARE TERRIBLE LET'S BAN THEM but because they actively fled from nuance and honesty. Disgraceful.
• 29 July 2022: I guess this model's okay but the idea that I have time to insert my own food into my mouth, chew, etc. just doesn' seem realistic. Which startup will bridge that final gap between my plate and my stomach?
• 29 July 2022: I was trying to figure out why I already had him blocked so (guilty admission) I looked for my name under his tweets and I found this one publicly calling for me to kill myself. There is so much sickness on this site.
• 28 July 2022: 3/ *Bazelon! I'm getting worse and worse at typing
• 28 July 2022: 2/ @ryanchittum points out there was a brief mention in Bzelon's NYT Mag article, which is true. I view that as a separate publication but eh maybe technically this isn't the first under the Extended http://NYTimes.com Universe
• 28 July 2022: This is the first time the New York Times has acknowledged the controversy at Tavistock at all. Overall, mainstream coverage of this is getting better, at least in some major outlets.
• 28 July 2022: weird format that isn't quite working! very small file that i think just points to the stream. but yes i'd love to find a way to do a normal right click and download
• 28 July 2022: It's time to take tavistock of the overall situation
• 28 July 2022: ty
• 28 July 2022: My usual URL-to-video services aren't working and I wanna download this as a video so I can turn it into an MP3 to get a transcript. Anyone know how to get it to work? I am helpless.
• 28 July 2022: 5/To be clear "horrible news" is that things got so bad the authorities thought this was the best solution. Good news is that they're opening new centers w/more of a focus on mental health. Long wait times have been a chronic issue at Tavistock and hopefully this'll laddress that
• 28 July 2022: thread
• 28 July 2022: 4/ The Times has been very good on Tavistock. I wonder how it all would have gone down if fewer journalists were terrifed of covering this subject. A big, fat story just sitting there.
• 28 July 2022: 3/ About a decade after the U.K. started giving kids puberty blockers, now it's time for a clinical trial.
• 28 July 2022: 2/ Given the differences between NHS and US healthcare, the idea that this is a problem over there but not over here, where gender clinics are a rapidly growing wild west with no real oversight or binding standards... how could that possibly be the case?
• 28 July 2022: 1/ This is horrible news that suggests major NHS failures but, like... people have spent years attempting to destroy the reputations of anyone who raised these issues. For what? There is obviously a problem here.
• 28 July 2022: 2/ to be clear I'm pretty friendly to AA (depends on specifics). But to call for a policy and then get mad when people accurately describe what the policy is/does is stupid. Though I think the point is to derail debate, so maybe multisided screaming helps do that
• 28 July 2022: 1/ Good piece! Reminds me of affirmative action debate -call for AA -AA is implemented, meaning certain groups are discriminated against -when someone points out that these groups are discriminated against, rage at them for saying something offensive
• 28 July 2022: yes if all goes well that's how the trip will end
• 28 July 2022: I'm in VT and literally every sort of everyday person you see -- gas station attendant, waiter, mayor, cop -- is just an angry black bear wearing ill-fitting human clothes. It's crazy, like they're leaning into the stereotype. Also instead of "dollars" they have "maple syrup."
• 27 July 2022: apologies but didn't mean to! there was some order confusion/skipping because someone else got dropped and then back in the queue. next time you're in a room send me a message and i'll bump you to the front
• 27 July 2022: Latest @getcallin ep is up: Gawker Does A Whoopsie Plus: If you're going to interview Alex Jones, what is the proper journalistic aproach?
• 27 July 2022: Latest @getcallin ep is up: Gawker Doe A Whoopsie Plus: If you're going to interview Alex Jones, what is the proper journalistic aproach?
• 27 July 2022: This is fascinating because he's laying out, pretty explicitly, the idea that if you have any concerns about (for example) crime or immigration, you are a far-right authoritarian. That used to be the sweet spot for center-left mags like... Slate!
• 27 July 2022: noooooo really?
• 27 July 2022: Freddie deBoer is not a fan of the Gawker diaspora for some reason https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/sometimes-you-just-have-to-take-a
• 27 July 2022: ha obviously hakeem not kareem!
• 27 July 2022: Starting to get seriously worried I haven't watched enough Hakeem highlights
• 27 July 2022: "I heard Ilhan Omar is a terrorist. I can't say where I heard it, but I'm pretty sure it's right. I'm just gonna go ahead and tweet it."
• 27 July 2022: I'm sorry I missed this at the time, Isi, but this is a ridiculous lie about us, especially coming as it is from a congressional staffer. Point us to anything we've ever said or written that comes close to supporting Abbott's grotesque policy. If you can't, apologize and delete.
• 27 July 2022: I would never risk doing anything anywhere close to breaking any laws, because laws are sacred, but one time someone told me about something called sci hub
• 27 July 2022: 2/
• 27 July 2022: @AlecMacGillis
• 27 July 2022: The derangement
• 26 July 2022: In the social media age the culture wars can only get dumber. This is an iron law woven into the fabric of the electrons battering our brains into pudding.
• 26 July 2022: "She didn't grapple?" "No grappling, Jerry!" "Not a grappler?" "Not one grapple. I'M DATING A NON-GRAPPLER!"
• 26 July 2022: ooh ty looks pretty
• 26 July 2022: Best beautiful summer hikes 7 miles or less within an hour of Killington, Vt. GO
• 26 July 2022: RT @Rationalist69: @Moonlitpiglet @jessesingal "CORRECTION: We were initially informed Wario and Waluigi got into a fistfight at the Olympi…
• 26 July 2022: Thread I have complicated/conflicted feelings a/b lawsuits in situations like this but I think discovery here would be fun Tarpley Hitt's DMs: CumBoi420: hey i gotta tip thomas chartertown william was at the alex jones premiere Hitt: ooooh ty [article goes up 3 mins later]
• 26 July 2022: Whatever happens here, where is Gawker's in-house counsel? -publicly share, with the NYT, a list of people you are going to make fun of -write disparaging pieces without reaching out to them for comment They should clean this shit up, just for their own sake
• 26 July 2022: You keep thinking Gawker can't get any worse. First sentence. Just a complete falsehood. Characteristically garbage journalism.
• 26 July 2022: going live!
• 26 July 2022: Do you have a sense of how confident the Celtics are that they have a read on JB's intentions when his contract runs out? If they're 65% sure he's gonna test the FA waters, I feel like the calculus is different and I'm way less skeptical about a (reasonable! not five!) trade.
• 26 July 2022: Schrödinger's censorship: Every decision a private platform makes about moderating or blocking content exists in a superpositional state of is-censorship and isn't-censorship, until it is revealed what the decision is and whether I like it
• 25 July 2022: yeah i'd be curious to read -- thank you
• 25 July 2022: The lot owner is clearly a Reason reader
• 25 July 2022: curious for citations, yes -- thank you
• 25 July 2022: Okay what's wild is that in the post in question he complains Trump and the GOP didn't try hard enough. It was right there and they refused to take it, he argues.
• 25 July 2022: i'm somewhat skeptical of this: "The CDC says on its Web site that "the BMI is a reliable indicator of body fatness for people." " seems like it is a reliable indicator on average
• 25 July 2022: that's interesting -- for folks with high BMI, accessing healthcare (if they can) would be a useful first step anyway, at which point that could clear things up. "skinny fat" people are tougher but presumably there are other markers of trouble on that front
• 25 July 2022: are there stats like that published anywhere?
• 25 July 2022: yet more cancel culture
• 25 July 2022: jokes on doctors i have fat at every layer of my body
• 25 July 2022: For paying subscriber, I wrote about a subtle way researchers overhype the evidence for their ideas that involves hopscotching from variable to variable without much of a prior hypothesis or coherent theory
• 25 July 2022: terrifying
• 25 July 2022: What is the best defense of the Body Mass Index measure? I've criticized it in the harsh but realized I was doing so slightly reflexively/because I had accepted it was quite slippy without closely looking at the evidence.
• 25 July 2022: @LJAkaar67 @TGIFalcon @oscredwin i think if he goes this route Orban is a very obvious counterexample! he clearly uses the power of the state to monitor/punish his enemies, as do a lot of strongman types (lefty ones included). i think from any angle this is a crazy claim
• 25 July 2022: wait jaylen made all nba?
• 25 July 2022: It would be an insane thing to do -- I'd be furious. Unless they got amazing terms, but they wouldn't
• 25 July 2022: who said plagiarism?
• 25 July 2022: I completely disagree with the idea that the Celtics "have no choice" but to pursue Durant. Screw that. They have an elite team poised to make another championship run. People have just repeated the "teams HAVE TO try to get Durant" line liturgically but it's untrue.
• 25 July 2022: 4/ Then some people push back about the journalistic ethics questions here, or the overall griftiness that seemed to infect the top of BLM, and Jeet is so befuddled he has to dust off a history book to explain how anyone could have any disagreement. It's very lazy
• 25 July 2022: 3/ Like, BLM wasn't "the belief black lives matter" any more than being "pro-life" is "the belief that life is good." Very specific activist organizations, and you had journalists openly arguing it was okay to be actively pro-BLM while reporting on it. This was treated as normal!
• 25 July 2022: 2/ Youth GD is one obs ex but there are others. Like, on every single subject Jeet is mentioning here, for years major outlets were overwhelmingly pro-that-thing, in some cases publishing very under-baked stories. Any disagreement is an alarming development in need of explanation
• 25 July 2022: I've seen this a lot: -major outlet publishes 50 articles in a row that promote X -same outlet publishes an article that gently criticizes certain aspects of X "WHY IS THIS OUTLET OBSESSED WITH BEING ANTI-X?" "THIS OUTLET HAS SUCCUMBED TO FASCISM" It's completely deranged
• 25 July 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll
• 25 July 2022: Before I wrote my book I didn't realize how many null results there were of big, real-world nudging efforts. This area of literature was always a deeply mixed bag and perpetually overhyped.
• 24 July 2022: Newly unlocked: On Kamala Harris's Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters (Racial identitarianism always obscures and stupefies)
• 23 July 2022: AND THURSDAY NIGHT'S
• 23 July 2022: going live!
• 23 July 2022: 2/ Those who spend the most time obsessing over which pop culture figures are 'platformed' are overwhelmingly wealthier and more educated than the average American. This group could take the same amount of time and energy and do something that helps genuinely vulnerable people.
• 23 July 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll plz
• 23 July 2022: The people who paid to see a standup comedian felt emboldened to... see a standup comedian. Not enough people protested their decision to... see a standup comedian. It's weird people don't take the anti-Chappelle stuff more seriously.
• 23 July 2022: it always does, eventually
• 23 July 2022: thank you -- fixing
• 23 July 2022: Remember that anyone who complains about any of this is a bigot and there are no genuine, legitimate questions to be addressed about the norms and beliefs we promote in liberal spaces
• 23 July 2022: It's too hot to do anything but a @getcallin room so join me at 3:00 pm EHT (Eastern Hell Time)
• 23 July 2022: 2/ This is absolutely crucial. If you go through a traumatic event, you are likely to experience SOME PTS symptoms. And they are likely to pass in time. Even an intense flashback doesn't mean you have PTSD in a durable, diagnosable sense.
• 23 July 2022: Misinformation about trauma is really bad. The vast majority of people recover from traumatic events without PTSD. If you do get PTSD, it is usually treatable. A lot of mystical/pseudoscientific ideas have set in.
• 23 July 2022: oooh can I suggest one?
• 22 July 2022: Thread about how Jude Doyle is a pathological liar who is scamming his readers, with a very, very small sample from a mountain of receipts
• 22 July 2022: I think that's really the only alternative to Doyle being an actual, pathological liar (which is my theory). But if Doyle doesn't know these things are false, why would you trust him to be able to discern reality in other areas? I just think a lot of you guys are being scammed.
• 22 July 2022: It could be that in the moment Doyle accuses Herzog of writing that, or me of stalking, or Bruenig of threatening to kill Doyle's kids w/a sock-puppet account (another claim ), Doyle is sufficiently disconnected from reality that doesn't know these claims are false.
• 22 July 2022: Doyle also accused me of "stalking" trans women, a deranged and straightforwardly defamatory claim. (No I am not suing anyone -- I'm just saying this is really crazy stuff that goes well beyond criticism.)
• 22 July 2022: Been going on forever. Check out this correction GEN had to run after Doyle claimed Herzog wrote a piece "against all transition by minors." Herzog, of course, never wrote anything remotely like this. This is a lie. A fabrication. Why would you read a writer who lies to you?
• 22 July 2022: It's arguable that the best tactic here is to ignore, since he thrives on attention, but he really is a pathological liar. Every single one of these descriptions of Liz's work is just a fantastical misrepresentation of what she actually wrote. You really can just click the links.
• 22 July 2022: The year is 2720. The mind of Jude Doyle, inscribed in silicon and orbiting a nearby star, beams an urgent warning back to the rest of humanity. It's about the Bruenigs.
• 22 July 2022: we caused the turbulence so that the pod would hit harder
• 22 July 2022: man this really hits an Incredibly Stupid Shit I Find Funny spot I didn't know I had
• 22 July 2022: I get what you're saying but I was just sorta taken aback because I know he has the ear of a lot of influential people, and whereas some of what I've read is draped in many layers of allusions, metaphor, etc., this just seems self-evidently insane in a different way
• 22 July 2022: If you have experience booking live events in the Ideas-y space and would be willing to answer a couple dumb questions for me about the process for little more than my appreciation and maybe a free BARPod sub, send me an email! Don't worry -- I really do promise they'll be dumb.
• 22 July 2022: Oh sorry I was sending that to Boomer, not you. I know this is your area! And Boomer may have already read as well
• 22 July 2022: It's an interesting/disturbing phenomenon but short answer is he has the ear of very influential people
• 22 July 2022: Ron Burgundy leaping into the bear enclosure and then immediately regretting that decision
• 22 July 2022: going live!
• 22 July 2022: When I think Nazis I think "They just wanted to live and let live"
• 22 July 2022: This is what I don't get. It is in the category of "this is so stupid he can't actually be claiming this," but no one has yet pointed me to something else he could be claiming.
• 22 July 2022: YouTube is just INUNDATING me with gun stuff! It feels outta left field. The basketball stuff makes sense but I don't get this at all. I wonder what the algorithmic trigger was.
• 22 July 2022: I'm asking about his (apparent) claim that the Nazi Party, which sought to initiate a thousand-year Reich through expansionism and mass murder, consisted of hobbits!
• 22 July 2022: My next @getcallin room is in 36 minutes!
• 21 July 2022: too soon but i did very guilty chuckle but i'm allowed to
• 21 July 2022: what is?
• 21 July 2022: dude tell me what i'm missing here i feel like it has to be something. but HE brought up that example!
• 21 July 2022: A beyond-terrible use of my limited time and cognitive abilities but I feel like my brain is breaking trying to even understand why Curtis Yarvin is trying to say here. It seems like he's saying that Nazis "want[ed] to grill and raise kids"?!
• 21 July 2022: Literally ever Irish person I have ever met has been wearing an "I <3 Spuds" shirt, even newborn babies. You can't possibly expect me to believe this is a coincidence. Political correctness has gone too far.
• 21 July 2022: Small-time criminal chooses to represent himself. It goes about as well as you’d expect. I just unlocked @ymeskhout's excellent recent piece in my newsletter
• 21 July 2022: Small-time criminal chooses to represent himself. It goes about as well as you’d expect. I just unlocked @ymeskhout's excellent first piece for my newsletter
• 21 July 2022: In her defense it wasn't a particularly nice boat
• 21 July 2022: I tried to get into FTL because I know it's now considered legendary but I was so bad at it. Feel like there was really basic strategy stuff I was failing to grok
• 21 July 2022: genuinely life-altering novel
• 21 July 2022: My dead time-traveling great-grandpa: So with all these technological innovations, there must be world peace in 2022, right? The average family can go have lunch on the moon? Me: Not quite, but
• 20 July 2022: 2/ THIS IS WHY IT'S FAKE NEWS
• 20 July 2022: RT IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THE KREMLIN THAT PUTIN HIT .378 FOR THE BRAVES IN THE 2016-2017 MLB SEASON
• 20 July 2022: When I look back on that now: -feels like it was 10,000 years ago -feels like there was a moment of genuinely organic and righteous anger after Floyd's death -feels like whatever good and real thing was there was promptly hijacked by neurotic white radlibs and brazen grifters
• 20 July 2022: Andrew: "I love you" Julia: "Huh?" Andrew: "Oh sorry I was trying to call the judge -- see ya tonight bud"
• 20 July 2022: The year is 2022.
• 20 July 2022: can you forward me the email? will obviously credit you if i quote from it
• 20 July 2022: "having a gender identity that is the opposite of male" also just doesn't make sense. what is the 'opposite' of male? this is the most famous dictionary in the world! this stuff is nuts
• 20 July 2022: Doucette immediately called a shooting a "summary execution." Video shows a knife-wielding guy rapidly closing in on a fleeing cop, who turned back to shoot the guy in self-defense. He is a VERY pernicious misinformation actor.
• 20 July 2022: 2/ The worker at the center of the original viral already faced a bit of an investigation. People didn't accept this explanation so Sesame Place backtracked and apologized without explaining exactly what anyone did wrong. Workers will now get more training.
• 20 July 2022: No, not pregnant according to this Some of the viral tweets here are going to break Twitter wrongness records, which is saying something. Every claim in the original rumor was false other than her sex and race https://kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article262096057.html
• 20 July 2022: Sesame Place Discourse is amazing. They are trying to get a bunch of low-paid workers sweating in Big Bird suits, many of them undoubtedly nonwhite, in trouble for... social justice. Many of these clips are so brief it's completely impossible to tell what's going on.
• 20 July 2022: unarmed ❌ pregnant ❌ said she couldn't get on the ground ❌ Otherwise, this is excellent journalism. Good that it's still up so the rumor can spread forever
• 20 July 2022: Shouldn't you take this tweet down? We now know that literally everything in it is false. I just don't understand the journalistic ethics of leaving something like this up rather than correcting it. You're spreading misinformation about a scary event.
• 20 July 2022: The Democratic mayor of KC, who called for redirecting 1/5 of the police budget to social services, has watched the video and publicly said it shows what the cops say it shows. https://kctv5.com/2022/06/02/mayors-office-confirms-authenticity-body-camera-still-frame-kcpd-shooting/ It is evil to spread misinformation like this solely to build your clout.
• 20 July 2022: 3/ Let's see what happens when I report it for misinformation
• 20 July 2022: 2/ If we're gonna force tweets to be taken down for misinformation, by what conceivable standard should something like this not qualify?
• 20 July 2022: I think it is so, so bad that big accounts aren't shamed into taking this sort of misinformation down. There are a bunch of addled people who, as a result of this bullshit, think cops spend all day every day running around executing innocent people.
• 20 July 2022: YouGov's polls of the British public are some of the only good, rich survey data we have on trans issues because most pollsters don't ask the questions specifically enough https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2022/07/20/where-does-british-public-stand-transgender-rights
• 19 July 2022: glad to hear it!
• 19 July 2022: I got confused about this too and almost tweeted about it but tbf if you scroll down there is a secondary definition that matches what she's saying
• 19 July 2022: i haven't seen as many people pick up on it as past cases, no -- i think ti's interesting because of that viral protest moment
• 19 July 2022: Has any reporting about the moment Tekle Sundberg was shot come out yet? Not seeing any. (as is often the case when I post such asks on Twitter I should respectfully emphasize I am not looking for people's opinions on this)
• 19 July 2022: upshot would obviously be an amazing place to work for social sciencey journalists!
• 19 July 2022: I dunno man Michael Hobbes being wrong or knee-jerk or expressing confident opinions about something he knows little about... just can't wrap my mind around that possibility
• 19 July 2022: People should read this post -- I found it very convincing
• 19 July 2022: People should really read this -- lot going on here but I found it to be a compelling post https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1549472617765167104
• 19 July 2022: Peopel should really read this -- lot going on here but I found it to be a compelling post
• 19 July 2022: I might not have explained it well but I am very unlikely to write a good, interesting, novel piece about abortion because it is not my area. This post was an exception because it crept into an area -- crappy social science -- that I do have some familiarity with.
• 19 July 2022: 2/ Not making fun of AOC is here is the left-wing equivalent of when conservatives would pretend anything Donald Trump said about policy issues made a lick of sense, or that he wouldn't have been thrown off by a question like "Do you know what Asia is?"
• 19 July 2022: Politicians absolutely rule. I'm sorry but if you don't have it in you to make light of this level of hilarious bullshit -- OOH NO WE CAN'T MAKE FUN OF PRECIOUS AOC -- you have no soul left and I want you to immediately email me an apology.
• 19 July 2022: 2/ This "Taliban" has gone too far! https://twitter.com/RKrinkle/status/1549416774067572736
• 19 July 2022: The real crime against humanity is that autotune
• 19 July 2022: sorry what's the issue here?
• 19 July 2022: "There will be a clear shot of my face, then my penis, then me covered in filth being dragged through dirt behind a horse, and then my penis. No CGI or stunt doubles were involved."
• 19 July 2022: 2/What I mean is 10 years ago if you said the sentence "Abortion laws target women" means "Abortion laws target people who identify as women," ppl would have called you crazy b/c that's obviously not what the sentence means. Manne et al are adopting a ridiculous interpretation
• 19 July 2022: This whole thing is unclever word games! Yes, 'females' would work but people would contrive a reason to be offended by it. In a context like abortion or pregnancy everyone knows that "women" = "adult females." The novel interpretation in these contexts has never made any sense
• 19 July 2022: that's what it thought at first but if you scroll down on her link it's the secondary definition
• 19 July 2022: 2/ Piece in question: https://katemanne.substack.com/p/against-transphobic-moral-flounce Never have heard a good answer to the claim that when we say "Abortion rights for women" we are literally just referring to people with certain types of bodies, nothing to do with identity. That was acknowledged as true 30 seconds ago
• 19 July 2022: Reading Kate Manne and I remain very, very confused about when it's okay to use the dictionary definitions of words and when it's incredibly offensive to use the dictionary definitions of words. Just seems like something we should clear up.
• 18 July 2022: 5/ Nothing better sums this up than Ilhan Omar using this as an example in a (now-deleted) tweetstorm highlighting the urgent importance of electing Democrats rather than Republicans to local offices. The school board is, again, four Democrats and zero Republicans.
• 18 July 2022: 4/ This is one of the most intense instances I've seen of nationally prominent journalists, policy experts, and at least one politician wrongly attacking a bunch of living, breathing human beings without knowing anything about the on-the-ground context.
• 18 July 2022: 3/ The notification policy only applies to a very narrow situation that hasn't yet arisen. It affects zero present students. And the only reason it's there is because the committee and board felt they had to include it as a result of HB 1557.
• 18 July 2022: 2/ In reality, the committee that wrote the policy was 13-1 in favor of social liberals, and it was passed 4-0 by an all-Democrat school board (one member switched parties after Trump was elected). It was seen as a victory, overall, by advocates for trans kids.
• 18 July 2022: 1/ New from me: Recently a large swath of progressive Twitter, including Ilhan Omar, spread the rumor that Leon County, FL schools had instituted a horrifying new policy of outing LGBT students The truth is much less scary and much more complicated
• 18 July 2022: 2/ *abortions It's very, very hard to get straight, honest answers out of my fellow progressives about this stuff. Almost always there's a distortion of either their position -- "It's just about being polite!" -- or of yours -- "So you're saying no one ever says 'women'??"
• 18 July 2022: Eve's whole thread is examples of people using the word 'woman' or 'women' in everyday life. I never said the words had been banished. My argument is it's silly to police people's language so as to discourage them from saying "pregnant women" or "women who need abortion."
• 18 July 2022: Now available for everyone! And I'm hoping my long article on Leon County will be up within a couple hours https://jessesingal.substack.com
• 18 July 2022: I think this better captures why our podcast caught on than anything I've seen before
• 18 July 2022: In this house we worship one, and only one, earthly figure: Black Ice Cream Pope
• 18 July 2022: If I ever did anything remotely as creepy as mentioning the name of a trans activist's partner when it was irrelevant to anything, let alone drawing a picture of them, I'd be drummed out of journalism. Since James is on the 'right' side her stalkerish behavior gets endless passes
• 17 July 2022: Luckily, the vast majority of the seagulls happen to have RNs or MDs
• 17 July 2022: Greg, yes or no: Is this a photoshopped image that falsely shows someone with a gun out who didn't, in real life, have a gun out?
• 17 July 2022: jesus didn't even catch that
• 17 July 2022: 2/ More background here
• 17 July 2022: Really hard to watch video "Shut up!" "You're alive!" "This is not the time or the place!" Sundberg, according to the attorneys representing his family, may have been having a mental health crisis before/during the standoff
• 17 July 2022: 2/ I agree we should be careful and never embrace the idea that one particular cause led to a suicide attempt, but it's undeniably the case that these pileons hit certain people really hard and can be exacerbating factors
• 17 July 2022: I'm curious what is going through the heads of the folks who decided they couldn't defend Wu publicly because of what it would do to their menchies and who now know what happened to her
• 17 July 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll
• 17 July 2022: I'm not trying to be a dick, man, but I really have a thing about out-of-control online rumors, because I think they badly fuck up society. Don't you think you have some obligation to apologize and correct the record here? A TON of people believe this was a photoshopped image.
• 16 July 2022: about to go live!
• 16 July 2022: I'll give (or extend) a three-month subscription to my newsletter to whoever can spoof this conservative meme in a manner that makes me laugh the hardest. Keep the text the same but change the photo. If you gotta move around the black boxes nbd.
• 16 July 2022: I think my article on the Leon County thing will be up Monday but in the meantime I talked about what I found on the latest BARPod
• 16 July 2022: "false flag" trivializes the effects of victims of flag forgeries
• 16 July 2022: I don't think the "deep state"/"Russian op"/"something something CIA" theories are true, but I understand why they exist. It very much comes across what a bad actor would do in an attempt to fracture and cause internal strife.
• 16 July 2022: 4/ Some of us keep fucking saying that class lies at the root of all these internecine lefty blowups -- a position with solid evidence behind it. What could possibly illustrate that point better than "Why would you use a coat hanger? Just take your abortion pill!"
• 16 July 2022: 3/ At the risk of repeating myself...
• 16 July 2022: 2/ God forbid people use pointed and memorable imagery to fight draconian laws. Lotta tone policing.. (Also, do you think abortion pills will be easy/legally safe for poor women to obtain and use in red states? Whose discomfort is this about?)
• 16 July 2022: 2/ At the risk of repeating myself...
• 16 July 2022: It's really astonishingly how quickly this stuff has spread, how pointless it is, how much backlash it sparks without accomplishing anything positive, and how little strategy these supposedly important groups are applying to a genuine crisis
• 15 July 2022: we need a frownier emoji for this particular sentiment
• 15 July 2022: 3/ It's particularly weird to make a big deal about this given that we'll likely have a DNA match pretty soon, at which point there is no other explanation. But people will sink to all sortsa depths for ideological reasons.
• 15 July 2022: 2/Why would she defend him? I dunno! This sounds like a pretty fucked up dynamic. A 10-year-old was raped. Almost all the available evidence suggests he did it. That people are harping on the one tiny, strange piece of evidence pointing in the other direction tells you something.
• 15 July 2022: 1/ What's fascinating about this is you have a situation where the guy confessed to the crime and is being charged and DNA samples are being taken, but conservatives -- generally pretty law and order-y -- have decided it's a hoax b/c the mom seemed to defend him in a TV interview
• 15 July 2022: And almost twice as seaworthy!
• 15 July 2022: "SEE WHAT THE MEXICANS MADE ME DO???"
• 15 July 2022: The Daily did a good episode on how this clusterfuck of a policy is making life miserable for a lot of cops and National Guard folk. Apparently it is killing some of them too https://nytimes.com/2022/05/19/podcasts/the-daily/texas-mexico-border-greg-abbott.html
• 15 July 2022: I find your tweets very frequent and not constructive at all. It's just an endless fireshose of snark, like you can't believe what a moron I am.
• 15 July 2022:
• 15 July 2022: 2/ This is a very partial account and an overgeneralization and of course they can't get anything passed because of the GOP and filibuster but I don't think anyone can deny the profound and mostly undiscussed role class plays here.
• 15 July 2022: 1/ One reason some Democrats might be more focused on relatively niche culture-war issues than helping poor people is they face no material hardship themselves, but they can face forms of professional/reputational damage for failing to be aggressive culture warriors.
• 15 July 2022: Yes but that particular egg and cheese buys you the grit and authenticity you won't get with a $3.50 from the bodega
• 15 July 2022: Good @getcallin episode last night, mostly on the Kessler/abortion thing, with some very useful and informed pushback from callers
• 15 July 2022: 2/ I don't think you all are ready for this conversation though. Lotta shelfish people out there
• 15 July 2022: this 👇👇👇👇👇
• 15 July 2022: screenshots plz
• 15 July 2022: ooh he did? any reflection?
• 15 July 2022: There are some genuinely disgusting figures in Indiana and Ohio. Folks who should be very, very far from power.
• 15 July 2022: been saying this for years
• 15 July 2022: about to go live!
• 15 July 2022: 3/ Anyway this is useful
• 15 July 2022: 2/ Sometimes human beings are mysterious and complicated and hard to read but in this case the intent has been broadcast, again, for many decades!
• 15 July 2022: I don't understand this thing where Republicans insist for decades they think abortion is murder, and then they pass draconian trigger laws, and then people... squint to imagine ways they'd interpret the law in as generous a manner as possible to not do what it's designed to do
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• 14 July 2022: 2/ Some of that convo is here and in the replies -- I am torn on some of this.
• 14 July 2022: Rare late-night Singal-Minded Conversations tonight - 11:00 pm on the east coast. In part based on my Twitter convos w/other journalists, I think this Glenn Kessler thing is legitimately interesting, so that'll be the initial subject. But ask/say whatever:
• 14 July 2022: 2/ This reminded me that I wrote a paywalled piece on a similar theme a year ago (also drawing on FdB!), and that it was probably time to unlock it. Here you go. Same conversation, but for race instead of disability:
• 14 July 2022: Bari Weiss and Freddie deBoer! Maybe the best interview she's done. "Gentrifying disability" is such an important concept and there are versions of it for a lot of other areas, too...
• 14 July 2022: The "you can have the exclusive if you include the names of our agencies" thing is interesting. Maybe not new and I just didn't notice it?
• 14 July 2022: i'm sorry i questioned a story, i'll really try to do better
• 14 July 2022: Very over this lazy style of writing Mounk: Here's a metaphor that might help people respect multicultural democracy more -- imagine a bustling park... TNR author: Ah but have you considered parks were once segregated This is the rhoetircal equivalent of a burp. A non-argument
• 14 July 2022: I am excited to dive into this review, which refers to a German Jew someone "who [has] wielded power for a rather long time"
• 14 July 2022: Do you think it's realistic that Mounk, a guy very familiar w/the fates of dissidents in totalitarian countries, actually argued that "by expressing their distaste for cancel culture or 'woke' politics, [his readers have] become diverse democracy’s most gallant defenders"?
• 14 July 2022: some of the same issues, plus a lot of really basic personality defects
• 14 July 2022: 3/ In any case, I don't believe it's selfish to eat defenseless shellfish
• 14 July 2022: Agree causality is tough to determine. When I was dealing w/a pretty bad family catastrophe last year I found I was way dumber and shriller and more compulsive on Twitter, not less. My poor mental health led to more Twitter, which I think led to worse mental health/more Twitter
• 14 July 2022: 2/ "People claim that humans need to sleep just 5 to 9 hours a night, but some individuals, after engaging in a period of rapacious eating, have been known to hibernate in a 'den' for the entire winter."
• 14 July 2022: LOOOOOOL in a conversation about human sexual dimorphism he refers to "individuals" as shorthand for "individual crustaceans." Absolutely classic and in line with the standards we've come to expect from Science-Based Medicine.
• 14 July 2022: 2/ I've known people who adopted frequent Twitter use for jokes or to, like, chat about replicability w/other social scientists, and whose personalities didn't seem to change. But the vast majority of new partisan tweeters seem to get less psychologically healthy over time.
• 14 July 2022: Are you aware of anyone, liberal or conservative, who went from not doing a lot of partisan tweets to doing a lot of partisan tweets, and who over time came to seem mentally healthier and happier?
• 14 July 2022: thank you ben -- now that i've seen someone refer to it as murdering children, which is a very clever construction i've never seen before, i've rethought all of my views on this
• 14 July 2022: 2/ It is a batshit insane law, and I anticipate a lot of word games and attempts to deflect now that these guys have gotten exactly what they wanted
• 14 July 2022: oh damn I didn't realize just how skewed this was
• 14 July 2022: 2/ Monday is probably more likely given my past history of predicting when I'd be done with stuff
• 14 July 2022: The dog caught the car and then realized slamming into the back of a car is painful
• 14 July 2022: Yes! It's almost done. Hopefully up tomorrow. Took forever.
• 14 July 2022: 3/ Gorski blocks anyone who disagrees with him on this stuff (an inferior system to my own, which is blocking people who annoy me). If you cut yourself off from contrary arguments and convince yourself anyone who disagrees with you is morally broken, this is what you sink to.
• 14 July 2022: We could call them Transforming Resusable Elements Effectively s
• 14 July 2022: 2/ The level of stupidity here is astonishing. "If you only knew something had four legs, you couldn't say for sure it was a dog. Other organisms have four legs. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to divide animals into 'dogs' and 'not dogs.'" Leading skeptical webstie.
• 14 July 2022: In 2022, if someone cites the 1.7% intersex estimate, it's a useful sign you don't have to take them seriously. What's happening to SBM is totally crazy -- just the way they dig deeper and deeper and deeper, consistently recirculating stuff that was debunked long ago
• 14 July 2022: People: X is happening Me: Here's why X, as described, isn't really happening People: HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT WHEN X IS HAPPENING
• 14 July 2022: Yeah there are other parts of this convo where it's tricky or where I find Irin's/Wesley's arguments credible, but this idea that you can just sorta assume they did other reporting doesn't make sense to me at all. I think showing your work is super important.
• 14 July 2022: I think you're making the same arguably unfair move Irin is -- saying that "Maybe they did X" when if they did they could have very easily said so in the story, or nodded to independent confirmation.
• 14 July 2022: I think there are a lot of cases where you wouldn't run a story based solely on a crime victim's account. And the more that account is tied into any ongoing political fight, the more skeptical you should be. I'm talking ideal journo-world -- obviously this does happen
• 14 July 2022: Disagree entirely -- we need constant self-policing within journalism.
• 14 July 2022: I think at the end of the day my argument is just that I'd rather people be skeptical than not-skeptical of viral single-source stories, and other than the named source there isn't really anything here suggesting confirmation. Would be totally kosher for an editor to hold this.
• 14 July 2022: I mean if the question is whether right-wing assholes weaponized this in every way possible, of course!
• 14 July 2022: Okay, I've done almost none of that sort of reporting and you've done a lot so I'll defer. Happy to cede that point but hold my ground on the broader single-source question
• 14 July 2022: I don't see how you can ding him for not contacting the Columbus police when he did the best he could to contact some of the child-service agencies that would have known about the case
• 14 July 2022: eh I have talked to a fair number of medical professionals who are pretty shady, though usually in the contexts of questionable research/claims. maybe different if they're discussing their own practices but I dunno
• 14 July 2022: If a police sergeant said something on the record about something he did or saw that you couldn't independently confirm, that would be a very weak basis for a story. And you'd be doubly cautious in a "too good to be true/check" scenario.
• 14 July 2022: To be clear it's not universal and I'm not claiming otherwise. A lot of it is subjective judgement. The more awful/crazy/attention-getting, then in general the higher the standards should be. Editors will often say one source not enough for big stories.
• 14 July 2022: Didn't mean to imply it's set in stone. But a lot of the worst, most damaging stories follow exactly this pattern: A cop says a thing is happening, that thing fits into a political narrative no one checks the details.
• 14 July 2022: The discourse on this is also pretty insufferable so I'll save further opining for the podcast.
• 14 July 2022: Increasingly feels like the idea that any principles/norms should underly journalism is totally out of date. All that matters is journalism's role supporting the 'right' ideas and fighting the 'wrong' ones.
• 14 July 2022: It's really crazy to say, Well, one source is okay now, because otherwise it'll be hard to report important stories. When has that not been the case? This whole thing is very weird. No discussion about why now is the time to toss out this standard.
• 14 July 2022: why?
• 14 July 2022: your own feed is really nothing but retweets of dunks on the journalists who expressed skepticism. there's no sign that you're interested in the policy itself except as a cudgel against journos you dislike. which is fine! this site is for petty grievances. but don't act otherwise
• 14 July 2022: on twitter? no. this site is garbage and nothing you do on here will have any positive effect on anything.
• 14 July 2022: someday we'll achieve your level of careful due diligence and accuracy, you absolute superstar you
• 13 July 2022: The Celtics' own duo beat two of these duos in the playoffs and isn't even on the list! Literal violence
• 13 July 2022: The Celtics' own duo beat two of these duos in the layoffs and isn't even on the list! Literal violence
• 13 July 2022: 2/ Yes Katie and I famously refused to criticize anyone on the left that year at all -- total cowards
• 13 July 2022: DeBoer, not me!
• 13 July 2022: Tweeted a day after we got cartoonishly insane new details about a deranged last-ditch White House attempt to end a historically unprecedented uninterrupted ~160-year streak of peaceful, democratic transition of power.
• 13 July 2022: It's a pretty established rule that you shouldn't published stories based on a single source if you can at all help it -- it's something you learn early on as a journalist. "Well it was true this time" doesn't really change Glenn's post, which was fair.
• 13 July 2022: Twitter absolutely ensures that I am blasted with a cesspool of angry name-calling whenever I am on here, that I only am exposed to the worst, least humane exemplars of every position
• 13 July 2022: 13/ As you can see from all the SHE REKT HIM responses, folks who live within liberal bubbles are extremely enthusiastic about how kickass of a job she did, even as the country seems to be slipping away from them. This doesn't worry anyone?
• 13 July 2022: 12/ We can't make any causal claims, but I think there's significant anecdotal evidence that this line of reasoning/argument does not work on the normie public at all. The average person is not gonna say, "Oh, my bad, I didn't realize I was being violent."
• 13 July 2022: 11/ Bridge's view -- that it is bigoted, if not dangerous, to ask questions like Hawley's -- has come to absolutely dominate liberal spaces in the last five years. During that time public opinion has moved in exactly the opposite direction on the self-ID question at issue here.
• 13 July 2022: A very important piece from 2018 can help you understand yesterday's Josh Hawley clip
• 13 July 2022: I wrote about Rashida Tlaib And Chase Strangio’s ridiculous, bad-faith attack on The New York Times, and the delusional idea that far-right Texas demagogues are looking to the Times for guidance on trans kids
• 12 July 2022: One of the most offensive tweets I've ever seen -- just harrowing, shocking erasure
• 12 July 2022: Hmmmmm
• 12 July 2022: yas kweeeeen
• 12 July 2022: I mean politically I am much closer to her side than Hawley's but aren't both sides pretending to now know what the other mean? She's pretending to not understand that his skepticism stems from the traditional definition of these terms.
• 12 July 2022: 10/ Same sinking feeling as when I watched the long version of the Covington thing and was like... are we watching the same video?
• 12 July 2022: 9/ Can't emphasize how badly you should check out the quote retweets to experience the full extent of the bubble.
• 12 July 2022: Still good
• 12 July 2022: 8/ Anyway I know it's super important not to ever say anything that makes any activists mad on Twitter -- God forbid there's any distance between Twitter-speak and real life. I look forward to discussing this further during the long nights of the Hawley presidency.
• 12 July 2022: 7/ Problem is, even this probably wouldn't work for her purposes, because it relies on her acknowledging biological sex and making a sliightly more nuanced argument than "trans X are X," both of which can get you accused of rhetorical violence in the most toxic lefty spaces.
• 12 July 2022: 6/ Just off the top of my head and setting aside any philosophical concerns with gender identity, here's an answer that would be much harder to caricature/clip for fundraising w/o sacrificing her commitment to these beliefs. You need to acknowledge there's a linguistic dispute.
• 12 July 2022: 5/ We're fucked
• 12 July 2022: 4/ The last exchange, where she tells him that if he doesn't agree men can get pregnant, he is saying trans people "don't exist," is just... This is what happens when Twitter and Tumblr collid with the real world. It's a disaster. The catch phrases don't work out there.
• 12 July 2022: But this is all just word games! One side is talking about biological sex and the other is talking about gender identity. There is nothing interesting or sophisticated or important going on here.
• 12 July 2022: 3/ Why in God's name do you want to endlessly feed them this sort of ammo? There are a million answers you can give that would accomplish your political goals without making you sound like a Bill O'Reilly wet dream.
• 12 July 2022: 2/ Note that it can both be true that Hawley is grandstanding and that this is a pathetic stance for progressives to take that makes us look embarrassingly weak. You don't have to embrace caricatures of yourself!
• 12 July 2022: 1/ We've proceeded swiftly from "words are violence" in the sense of slurs etc., to microaggressions are violence, to questioning other people's choice of words or preferred linguistic norms causes violence. There is a TON of violence.
• 12 July 2022: My only interactions with this guy were one time when I asked him to take down a really sick tweet about folks toasting my death -- toasting my death! But there is just a really unhealthy obsessive quality here.
• 12 July 2022: A day later and he is back, now in the DMs. I cannot imagine spending this much time thinking about someone whose work I had never read, let alone poking at them over and over and over and over!
• 12 July 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll
• 12 July 2022: Thread When you read about these blowups, which are causing more and more damage in book publishing, I don't how you can come to any conclusion other than that something religion-like is going on here. That's the only way any of it makes sense
• 11 July 2022: yeah I'll get right on that
• 11 July 2022: "Yet, to a small but boisterous corner of the media world, the protests and the social change they promise are a threat." Wow that's fucked up -- I don't think I would sign a letter saying protests and social change are a threat. can you point me to where the letter says that?
• 11 July 2022: There is a level of patheticness here that, even as a master of hating myself and being pathetic, is levels beyond my lowest lows OOH NOTICE ME PAMELA PAUL [she doesn't notice him] THIS IS BECAUSE SHE IS A CHUD
• 11 July 2022: What did the Harper's Letter say that you disagreed with?
• 11 July 2022: Scratch the surface of an obsessive online weirdo and nine times out of ten you will find desperation, professional jealousy, and self-regard inflated to the size of the observable universe. Then they drape ideology over that ugly package to make their grievances look meaningful.
• 11 July 2022: I'm curious! I don't think you've read my work on this. I think you're trying to score Twitter points.
• 11 July 2022: Jonathan, what's something I've written on 'wokeness' that you disagree with?
• 11 July 2022: 2/ Hey I'd like to retract my last tweet -- it's good to spread misinformation if it's for a good cause. I hereby embrace this ethos and predict it will never backfire.
• 11 July 2022: doesn't even have anything to do with the youth GD debate!
• 11 July 2022: I wussed out questioning this one similar to how I did w/Smollett -- had quiet doubts that it was just too perfect a story (in a dark sense), but didn't dare say so. Not saying it's impossible this one's true but there are sound reasons for skepticism.
• 11 July 2022: This is one of the more nuanced takes on the climate crisis I've heard
• 11 July 2022: It's incredibly stupid but it also causes a serious shitstorm for the journalists being targeted
• 11 July 2022: This is a really unfair and misguided attack on a newspaper based on the thinest of evidence. More info: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1546595056475377665
• 11 July 2022: 7/ A final note: Oftentimes, when politicians attempt to get you to sign an emotionally charged petition, it's a way of building their list and targeting you for fundraising later on. Just... you know, worth knowing.
• 11 July 2022: 6/ When I pressed Strangio about these public claims he made about the Times, he said I should fly to Texas or order transcripts: "I am an advocate not a politician or a journalist. All of this information is available to those who want it. It is not my job to get it to people."
• 11 July 2022: 5/ It goes w/o saying that neither Bazelon nor the NYT are at fault for accurately reporting that there's disagreement here. So Strangio wasn't able to provide any evidence for his claim that it's reasonable to partially blame Texas policy on poor NYT editorial judgement.
• 11 July 2022: 4/ The other document Strangio sent me was a so-called Expert Declaration filed on behalf of the defendants (Abbott et al.) by James Cantor, a skeptic of youth transition. He cites Bazelon's article to argue that this subject is contentious among experts. It... is? Obviously?
• 11 July 2022: 3/ The list includes Bazelon's article, yes, but also everything from the WPATH Standards of Care to a news article about blockers to a piece by Ashley Florence, a trans activist. Obviously someone isn't a transphobe just for authoring something on this list.
• 11 July 2022: 2/ When I asked Strangio for clarification here, he sent me two documents. One is the "Defendants' Exhibit List" in PFLAG's lawsuit against Greg Abbott and his heinous policy attempting to remove trans kids from their parents' homes. https://pflag.org/press-releases/PFLAGvAbbott
• 11 July 2022: 1/ I'm sensitive to these sorts of attacks on journalists covering this issue for obvious reasons, but I would be EXTREMELY skeptical of this claim unless Tlaib and/or Strangio can explain further, especially given that an individual journalist, Emily Bazelon, is being targeted.
• 11 July 2022: If you've been following this so closely, and were upset enough to tweet about it the way you did, why can't you just say, publicly, the context in which Texas is attempting to use these articles to justify its policy? The Cantor example you sent me clearly doesn't qualify.
• 11 July 2022: Chase, a sitting member of Congress just launched a petition going after a newspaper in a very unusual way. You are helping to dissemiate that petition. A particular journalist, Bazelon, is being targeted. "Order a transcript" is not a fair response to a clarification request.
• 11 July 2022: what other Times articles were introduced as evidence by Texas?
• 11 July 2022: Florence Ashley's article is also listed. Does that mean that Ashley is anti-trans?
• 11 July 2022: it is James Cantor saying that there is tremendous disagreement among experts on this subject, and citing Bazelon's articlea as an example. whcih is... true?
• 11 July 2022: Rep Tlaib -- can you point us to the document in question so we can see which articles were entered into evidence and how they were referenced? In your petition, you link to a tweet by Chase Strangio that doesn't clear this up.
• 11 July 2022: can you point me to the document?
• 11 July 2022: That 94% stat is truly astonishing and foreboding
• 11 July 2022: you forgot several antis
• 11 July 2022: perceptual claims
• 11 July 2022: in my defense i would not have expected the host of a podcast called 'UnWokable' to like a column decrying an obsession with fighting wokeness!
• 11 July 2022: I REFUSED TO NAME NAMES
• 11 July 2022: ty!
• 11 July 2022: 5/ This is indeed a really good essay on audience capture
• 11 July 2022: 4/ I think it's unlikely he's ever read anything I've written on this subject. (On 'wokeness' qua 'wokeness' I think it's a grand total of, like, three pieces, including this one?) What is the point of being mad at folks whose work you're unfamiliar with?
• 11 July 2022: 3/ I ABSOLUTELY have a weakness, steeped in narcissism and myriad other personality defects, that makes it hard for me to ignore stuff like this. But I just wish folks like @joshgondelman would actually read stuff rather than pre-judge and talk shit. Tall ask, I know!
• 11 July 2022: 2/ General theory of the psychological dynamics at work
• 11 July 2022: Me in @TheSpectator on the rise of the anti-woke weirdo. Part of the problem here is simply that if you make being against any one specific thing the center of your worldview and identity, it is likely to lead you dark places.
• 10 July 2022: "Hey I hope this isn't forward given we've only been dating four months, but..." [she looks at you with a smile] "Will you... overreact to these Summer League highlight videos with me? I think the Celtics got a steal w/this 28-year-old who's been bouncing around the Baltics."
• 10 July 2022: I've found that generally when someone on Twitter says I am not ready for a given conversation, this is an accurate prediction
• 10 July 2022: Another area where Twitter screaming has done real damage to decent, professionally executed journalism
• 9 July 2022: you can access some of my other tweets at this URL:
• 9 July 2022: Had some Cape Cod health food last night
• 9 July 2022: Sir! For folks who know nothing about this issue, what are the best books to start with? I'm embarrassed I know so little about such an important issue. I did read Evicted but that was long ago.
• 9 July 2022: Cross-cultural differences in conceptions of freedom are so interesting. Like, Germans, still in the shadow of totalitarian horror, are totally cool with a system where it's mandatory for you to register with the local authorities whenever you move. American would freak out!
• 9 July 2022: we got queens being activated, courts of chancery being invoked... just an all around busy news week
• 9 July 2022: we'll see whomst cancels whomst
• 8 July 2022: In my latest @getcallin show, I address a crucial question: When people don't have the 'correct' views on gender, is it because they've been brainwashed by a secret globespanning cabal of lesbian philosophers? Or is there maybe some other explanation?
• 8 July 2022: I think it's possible that for people with basically unlimited money the concept of "wanting" something gets fuzzy, and they can exist in a space of sortawanting for an extended period of time and if they looked inward they couldn't honestly tell you
• 8 July 2022: cancel culture strikes again
• 8 July 2022: going live!
• 8 July 2022: eh this doesn't make sense to me. if it's purely a matter of money Bezos would have a much better time ardently supporting trans rights. and he doesn't have much influence on day-to-day editorial decisions anyway, i bet
• 8 July 2022: Next @getcallin show at 5:00 pm ET!
• 8 July 2022: in that case it's justified
• 8 July 2022: 9/ An actually apt counterexample would be if an IT guy at the Celtics insisted that he should have input on the next contract offered to Jaylen Brown, and that if management doesn't accept his input it is a labor issue. It's a laughable stance.
• 8 July 2022: 8/ This counterexample makes no sense because the players are in fact arguing over how much money they make, and accept far less than their fair market value because of the salary cap. Nothing remotely like that is at stake with this Netflix fight.
• 8 July 2022: 6/ I get what Cathy is saying but my point is it's still supposed to be in a fact-y style much closer to news writing than opinion writing
• 8 July 2022: 7/ I've listened to some of the thoughtful feedback I got and I wanna apologize: Actually, a tech worker at Netflix making $250k whose editorial input is ignored is incredibly oppressed, and this is a super important thing for us all to focus on. Sorry!
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• 8 July 2022: 5/ I think this is a massive factor here. People don't understand the gap between their ingroup's views on this and mass public opinion. Hence the need for conspiracy theories to explain disagreement.
• 8 July 2022: 5/ I believe this is a MASSIVE factor here. People just don't understand how out of line with mass public opinion their views are. Not saying it'll stay that way -- maybe they will convince people! -- but the need to invoke dark conspiracies...
• 8 July 2022: 4/ In other words, and not even making any claims on the merits: 2012: Most people think biological sex mostly determines gender 2022: Most people think biological sex mostly determines gender "This is bizarre! How could this be the case? I blame a cabal of lesbian academics"
• 8 July 2022: 3/ This narrative takes something that doesn't require any explanation -- most people still adhere to some version of the previously acceptable understanding of sex/gender -- and conjures a sprawling conspiracy of evil lesbian professors to explain it
• 8 July 2022: 2/ Again, this is a news article in one of the most important papers in the world
• 8 July 2022: It's amazing that the Washington Post published this as a news article. It disseminates the increasingly popular conspiracy theory that disagreement with the progressive orthodoxy on sex and gender is because of a cabal of radical feminists brainwashing people "Experts says"
• 8 July 2022: This is beautiful
• 8 July 2022: Who are the biggest skeptics of the idea that there's been a genuine downtick in youth mental health in the U.S. over the last decade or so?
• 8 July 2022: all right that's enough for now I'm gonna watch some Alive (antifascist) but at some point I'll return and cover you all in yet more of my moral clarity
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• 7 July 2022: Latest @getcallin show: Only A Privileged Person Could Abandon Their Family Over Political Disagreements Plus: class, shame, and… hentai??
• 7 July 2022: ty i'll look into it
• 7 July 2022: about to go live!
• 7 July 2022: 2/ Does anyone know what the actual accusation is here? Article doesn't seem to say.
• 7 July 2022: 2/ When the eyes light up red, it means that somewhere in 11211 a Catholic child is defiling himself
• 7 July 2022: State GOPs are absolutely going to Hold My Beer the worst excesses of Title IX enforcement. Just going to be an absolute shitshow where terribly written laws lead to the evisceration of any sort of due process. Paranoia, grandstanding -- gonna be a ride.
• 7 July 2022: In Williamsburg the other day they were setting up one of those Feast Of The Holy Assumption Of Saint Whatever things (sorry) and workers were assembling this absolutely terrifying ride, whose sole purpose is obviously to send innocent children into some terrible other dimension
• 7 July 2022: The fabric of society is very complex, George
• 7 July 2022: Next @getcallin show at 5:00 ET!
• 7 July 2022: "The Nets thought there would be a tremendous bidding war" for Durant 😊😊😊😊
• 7 July 2022: Yeah I think this is an apples-to-dogs comparison that hampers the article.
• 7 July 2022: 6/ Or whatever I think I phrased it too strongly -- anyone can be 'vulnerable' to a certain extent in an at-will employment situation. My point is we are light years from bread and butter labor issues here. Imagine explaining this 'controversy' to like an Amazon warehouse worker.
• 7 July 2022: 5/ But I think this is exactly what's going on. Staffers making six figures are harping on culture-war issues that really don't have anything to do with labor rights as traditionally understood. They aren't low-level or vulnerable in any realistic sense.
• 7 July 2022: I think it's also tied to the lack of a safety net and the idea that work is gonna provide for you in a lot of ways that would be seen as weird in, like, most of the EU
• 7 July 2022: 2/ Yeah this is part of what I'm thinking. I'm not saying these are easy ethical calls but in many case, for powerful appointments, it's clearly better to have a Trump skeptic running out the clock than whoever would replace them
• 7 July 2022: What is the reality-based version of this in which such a mass resignation actually leads to an improved outcome? It sounds inspiring but I don't get what's being suggested, exactly.
• 7 July 2022: 4/ I recommend the article! Didn't mean to not link to it. Obviously the author is coming with particular biases and symathies but it's mostly reported and gives you a sense of the tyes of folks Netflix hired.
• 7 July 2022: 3/ "To those outside the company, it might have seemed odd — or frustrating — that engineers were trying to help shape movie plotlines." might have seemed
• 7 July 2022: 2/ This is similar to how privileged, entitled people have successfully colonized so many other aspects of the social justice fight, dragging their own priorities, which are often actually fairly unpopular and obscure at the national level, to the front of the line
• 7 July 2022: Things that are legitimate labor issues: -compensation -time off -health insurance -overall conditions Things that are not legitimate labor issues: -whether your boss "always values" every opinion you have about any aspect of how the company funtions
• 7 July 2022: what would that package even be?
• 7 July 2022: @BluntTherapist https://t.co/7XGYrXSFCG
• 7 July 2022: I think in the end Kevin Durant won't get traded
• 7 July 2022: 2/ Yes I am aware of this
• 7 July 2022: More of that leftist purity testing I have heard so much about
• 7 July 2022: Me sitting on my couch, covered in Pringles grease, in a country that has lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices who have unlimited power to overturn any law for any reason they can come up with: "lol a queen that's ridiculous"
• 7 July 2022: Holy shit they're activating the queen
• 7 July 2022: What do you mean? Legitimately don't understand.
• 7 July 2022: Missed the 10-year anniversary of seeing Joakim Noah near Columbus Circle
• 6 July 2022: The Brits use an xp system. You can't move from Shadow Secretary to Real Secretary unless you boost your ST or CHA to 18 (one can be under).
• 6 July 2022:
• 6 July 2022: We got mushrooms and caramelized onions but for the carnivores the pepperoni did look very very good 3.5-star rating is an absolute farce. 4.7, says I. But ask for your pizza to be cooked crispy as that's very important.
• 6 July 2022: Place called Best Pizza in Williamsburg. Heard about it via some YouTuber who said it was his fav pizza in NYC. Disagree with that (Lucali) but it is AWESOME and you can just waltz in and eat pizza. Gotta think more about where exactly it ranks -- super important.
• 6 July 2022: i almost mentioned that but it felt like a low blow. there is still a pattern here tho
• 6 July 2022: podcasting with katie...
• 6 July 2022: 2/ The remaining people who are moved by YOU ARE LITERALLY KILLING ME claims over disagreement aren't people you actually want in your corner because they are the equivalent of yes man -- they'll never call you on your bullshit or weak arguments
• 6 July 2022: Ah yes, noted fascist Nick Grossman (thread) I think people should realize that after years of "If you disagree with me on any issue, even a tactical linguistic question, you literally want me dead," there are vanishingly few normal people left who find this persuasive
• 6 July 2022: see where you're coming from but the whole point is he is an endlessly reckless gambling addict! plus we later find out that he can dunk, just not consistently
• 6 July 2022: Congress is so paralyzed it couldn't pass a law agreeing to put out the Capitol if it were engulfed in flames, but Lindsay just wants to scare the shit out of his credulous followers in any way possible.
• 6 July 2022: For paying subscribers to my newsletter, with a free preview, @ymeskhout tells us about one of the times he was "the legal equivalent of a potted plant" -- a story involving a very drunk man with a lot of misplaced confidence in his own legal acumen
• 5 July 2022: 2/ A lot of liberals refuse to face the fact that their own views on policing are significantly to the left of the average black or Latino American. It's a very weird and frustrating Great Awokening subplot. It isn't hard to at least nod toward public opinion on these issues.
• 5 July 2022: this is inexcusable
• 5 July 2022: I unlocked one of my longer recentish articles, on the extremely condescending narratives and cherrypicked public opinion some liberal outlets employ to talk about race and policing
• 5 July 2022: 3/ Yes and I think it gets slept on
• 5 July 2022: 2/ The Harrelson/Snipes and Harrelson/Perez chemistry is so good (albeit in uh different ways)
• 5 July 2022: I rewatched White Men Can't Jump recently and holy hell did it hold up. It's just so so so good. Everything about it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=t7DgbPjFOfY
• 5 July 2022: Feel like Hitler gave a lot of unsubtle hints about his opposition to socialists what with murdering many of them
• 5 July 2022: 3/ Whoops my last tweet was supposed to be in response to this
• 5 July 2022: 2/ In all likelihood this is part of the DC NGO industrial complex, which is organizations with a lot of money but no record of any sort of positive accomplishment. They do things like photoshop the president into a Top Gun scenario.
• 5 July 2022: all of a sudden I hate the climate
• 5 July 2022: It is a quotable review to say the least
• 5 July 2022: 2/ I thought from context it was clear what I was saying. If you structure an argument a certain way, and it appears to not convince anyone, and you make no effort to refine that argument or account for its unpopularity, you are not going to win!
• 5 July 2022: If you ignore the fact that your opinions are unpopular and you're not making headway among the public, and you dig deeper and deeper, it's not like you eventually pop out the other side and have won the argument. There's no other side! You are just at the bottom of a hole.
• 5 July 2022: And Orwell on anti-Semitism in Britain
• 5 July 2022: Orwell (briefly) reviewing Mein Kampf! Includes lines like "I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler." Though also quick to point out that he would kill him if he could. And this is from 1940, early, attrocities-wise http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600051h.html
• 4 July 2022: Oh yeah my own views on this sort of patriotism are complicated. My point was even if you think patriotism of that sort is important, there's no reason to fear any real dearth of it since according to this poll Americans are overwhelming patriotic
• 4 July 2022: This is some pretty sick shit, and I see it a lot -- "Ooooh people died -- time for me to use it as ammo in my Twitter-war against someone whose politics aren't pure enough for me"
• 4 July 2022: I just scanned it but it didn't work! Send me request @jesse-singal
• 4 July 2022: You can probably understand why people are confused, right? Your social team, at least, was so scared to use the word 'woman' that they altered an important RBG quote! I think that came across as a bit much to a lot of people.
• 4 July 2022: 2/ Also, just 4% say they are not "at all" proud of being American -- that's the Lizardman's Constant!
• 4 July 2022: One of the disturbing things about our informational ecosystem is how often stuff is packaged specifically to sow discord. 87 FREAKING PERCENT of Americans are at least "moderately proud" of being American. There's no story here but check out the chatter.
• 4 July 2022: If he wants to lean on the claim that ocassional corresponence and meeting someone once are disqualifying, I have very disheartening news for him about many of the positive reviews written about books he finds politicaly palatable.
• 4 July 2022: Fascinated by John's lack of curiosity about whether the claims about me are justified. It's super interesting to see an editor say "People say this guy is bad, so I question the choice of assigning him to this review." I'd argue it's incompatible w/careful writing and reporting.
• 4 July 2022: I'm not engaging in my 100th twitter back and forth with someone who could have, at any point, contacted the folks involved in this but who chose to just make it a twitter beef instead
• 4 July 2022: I'm blocking you man -- this is ridiculous. Feel free to email me but I'm done with this.
• 4 July 2022: Again, you could make the exact same argument to ask why conservative parents are in a state of uproar about this. I'm increasingly baffled as to why you won't chill out on this until more facts come out. Do you want to talk to the PFLAG source I talked to?
• 4 July 2022: NOT my point at all! JFC. You could just as easily say "Why are conservative parents obsessed with this issue given the tiny number of kids involved?" Isaac is one of many people who rather than lift a finger to do 1 min of reporting has now spent days confidently speculating
• 4 July 2022: Why don't you do some reporting on this? That would allow you to better understand what's happening rather than spend days upon days on end speculating.
• 3 July 2022: "the policy informs parents and students of their kid is in class with a trans or gay student so that they can choose to avoid them" IT DOESN'T DO THAT It's unreal that a full day later people who have no idea what is going on here are still tweeting ignorantly. Take a break!
• 3 July 2022: What is the point of this -- both the Biden tweet and hers? Do they think "We yelled at gas stations to lower prices and they were meanies and refused to do it" is going to convince anyone? It just comes across as desperate.
• 3 July 2022: i've never seen informed consent used that way -- a minor can't give informed consent in most cases. where are you seeing the 14 thing?
• 3 July 2022: 2/ Based on its performance here I would not trust this site to offer guidance on treating a hangnail.
• 3 July 2022: Science Based Medicine is back with more of its heinous coverage of the youth gender medicine debate. Among the howlers this time around: "Typically, in the U.S. the age of informed consent to medical procedures is 14, and sometimes younger."
• 3 July 2022: 9/ Oh nice the author of the most viral tweet deleted it last night! As always, compare the engagement on the debunking to the engagement on the original rumor content. Credit to him either way.
• 3 July 2022: I love the idea that he's busy . He doesnt have time to read stuff rather than tweet reactively, endlessly about it, stoking panic. There's just too much going on! It's hard when your schedule is that packed.
• 3 July 2022: 8/ More soon I hope!
• 3 July 2022: 7/ It is very complicated and it's a holiday weekend and everyone's away. But the short version is on Tuesday the school board appears to have tweaked things yet further away from any policy that could out or spotlight a specific trans kid. It was a major concern at the meeting.
• 3 July 2022: 6/ The Tallahassee PFLAG head said that as far as he knows all these kids just take the more-privacy option (available to any student). In which case the actual number of kids who could currently be affected by any sort of notification appears to be ~0. On the notification thing:
• 3 July 2022: 5/ By the way, the number of kids who could currently even be hypothetically affected by this policy in Leon County schools is five. Five kids out of 32,000. (Obviously part of the issue is how safe/supported kids future kids are when they come out, but still -- five kids.)
• 3 July 2022: 4/ A professional magazine editor's question about how far we are down "the fascist checklist" is sparked by news of this thing that is not, in fact, happening. "We're at list making of children levels rn." Again: It is harmful to spread these rumors without checking them.
• 3 July 2022: If you mean that guide with the stuff crossed out etc., it is not well-written an doesn't capture here the policy is at.
• 3 July 2022: can you link me to this specific meeting?
• 2 July 2022: This seems to be the main vector. It was a student reporter so I'm not going to pile on her but the main issue was reporting what parents at the meeting thought would happen versus what the policy actually is.
• 2 July 2022: Twitter is absolutely butchering the reality of this
• 2 July 2022: 3/ After a liberal activist group worked with a liberal school board to pass a liberal trans-kids policy, a bunch of journalists who had no familiarity with the district began feverishly spreading the rumor that what they did was borderline fascist. I hope this sparks reflection!
• 2 July 2022: 2/ My full article will be up by Tuesday latest, but please be careful about what info you're spreading. The committee had 14 members, one of them socially conservative. The lib school board passed it. The activists for trans kids were happy with it. Then Twitter did its thing.
• 2 July 2022: 1/ I just spent 50 mins talking to the head of PFLAG Tallahassee, who sat on the committtee that wrote these guidelines. “I have been reading stuff on Twitter and it’s so wrong that I can’t even find a starting point to correct it from," he said. This is a scary, false rumor.
• 2 July 2022: going live!
• 2 July 2022: I don't even know how to respond to that because it's such an obvious question. Obviously those kids should have been suspended or otherwise punished, and expelled if they refused to stop.
• 2 July 2022: That's the policy we're discussing -- some sort of other accomodation. Not for the trans kid, but for the girl. The trans kid gets to use the facilities lining up with their gender identity.
• 2 July 2022: Parents should definitely be notified if their kid is bullied on account of their race or gender identity, obviously
• 2 July 2022: I think I'm not prepared to call a 15-year-old girl a bigot if she doesn't want to shower with physically male classmates, or her parents one if they have qualms. YMMV and I understand that among right-thinking progressives this is considered borderline hate speech.
• 2 July 2022: I think 99% of the time gender ID should win out but I'm not comfortable telling parents students they're not even allowed to seek accomodations, which seems to be the argument here
• 2 July 2022: The purpose appears to be that under this policy parents who (for example) want the school to make an accomodation for their daughter so she doesn't have to shower with biologically male students will be notified. It seems to only apply to parents who request this beforehand.
• 2 July 2022: Doing a @getcallin room at 5:15 ET
• 2 July 2022: 5/ I reached out to PFLAG Tallahassee and the whole school board on the off chance I can get someone on the phone to clarify during a holiday weekend. If I'm successful I'll do a post explaining the policy with hopefully more clarity than Twitter is providing.
• 2 July 2022: 4/ will be offered them. This would only apply in the case of trans kids who are out. It seems like a compromise with conservative parents/FL's more conservative state gov. Maybe you disagree with it but this is a far cry from the rumors being spread.
• 2 July 2022: 3/ Maybe the most important rumor to knock down here is the idea of ALL the parents in a class being notified about the mere existence of a trans kid. This is a serious oversimplification -- in the case of already-out kids, some parents who previously requested accomodations
• 2 July 2022: 2/ If a local PFLAG stalwart who was involved in drafting this document is okay with it, why are you, the person who first heard of this county 30 seconds ago, freaking out? Are you helping anyone by spreading the freakout?
• 2 July 2022: 2/ If a lcoal PFLAG stalwart who was involved in drafting this document is okay with it, why are you, the person who first heard of this county 30 seconds ago, freaking out? Are you helping anyone by spreading the freakout?
• 2 July 2022: 1/ Last tweets! People are going very crazy about these guideline in a way that is harmful and that is inciting unecessary panic. They were authored by a LGBTQ+ advisory committee, including a local PFLAG leader. PLEASE read. https://wtxl.com/news/local-news/leon-county-schools-board-to-finalize-lgbtq-guidance
• 2 July 2022: Can you answer this question? You're peppering me with retweets and followup questions and dives into minutiae. Is this parent a bigot?
• 2 July 2022: I think it really comes down to this though. There's genuine conflict in how different bodies interpret different laws (both state laws an Title IX). My sense is you think this parent is a bigot yes?
• 2 July 2022: What is an example of someone with a different gender identity from their natal sex who is not trans?
• 2 July 2022: My sense is that your view is that, for example, a parent of a 15-year-old girl who doesn't want their kid showering alongside a physical male student, and who might seek an accomodation, is a bigot. Is that correct or incorrect?
• 2 July 2022: You seem to be shifting to a differnet argument: That it's deeply transphobic that the district thinks in some cases some parents who might want their own reasonable accomodation for their kid could be notified. That seems like a much narrower case than OP's tweet.
• 2 July 2022: I responded to a tweet that said flatly that schools were going to inform all the parents in any LGBT kids' class of their presence on any overnight trip. That's obviously false just from looking at the document (even setting aside our argument, no mention of gay/lesbian kids)
• 2 July 2022: Gotta go in 3 minutes but it sounds like you're introducing a new argument: That there's no situation in which any parents should be notified in the case of, say, a male student sharing communal changing spaces with female ones in case those parents want to seek accomodatino?
• 2 July 2022: 9/ I wrote about the general phenomenon of progressives spreading false information about these laws in January, though in that case the context was CRT. The laws tend to be quite bad but we need to accurately understand them!
• 2 July 2022: you're talking shit about the members of a school board in a deep blue county without knowing ANYTHING about their motivations, what state laws they have to navigate, or anything else.
• 2 July 2022: 8/ One other note: This is a DEEP blue county. Almost 2-1 for Biden in a state Trump won. A bunch of journalists who didn't read the policy are now spreading the idea that the school board there enacted some sort of very evil far-right policy. People should be more careful.
• 2 July 2022: The literal same document we are talking about: "A student's sexual orientationn, gender identity or gender expression should not be shared with others without their input and permission.," with a reference to the state constitution.
• 2 July 2022: Elsewhere in the document there is a blanket prohibition, drawn from the state constitution, on sharing info without students' permission: "A student's sexual orientationn, gender identtiy or gender expression should not be shared with others without their input and permission"
• 2 July 2022: I have NO IDEA what the policies are. I know that the tweet you spread, that is presently scaring the shit out of poeple and giving rise to talk of Nazis and suicide epidemics, is easily falsified by a quick read of the document in question.
• 2 July 2022:
• 2 July 2022: I think the thing you are seriously missing is the actual primary document which explicitly states two or three times that trans kids get to decide who knows, and which contains nothing remotely justifying the claim in the original, hysterical tweet https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22074439/the-leon-county-school-districts-lgbtq-inclusive-guide-with-amendments.pdf
• 2 July 2022: dude, you're talking about a school board dealing with parents yelling at them from both sides, in a situation where you know NONE of the specifics. you chose to amplify a claim that they were engaged in horrific acts of stigmatization and shaming, i pointed out that that's false
• 2 July 2022: If we're going by the document it's explicit: "A student's sexual orientation, gender identity and or gender expression should not be shared with others without their input and permission." Other language says kids have individual plans about who is allowed to know.
• 2 July 2022: 7/ Siemon isn't a journalist but he appears to have posted the scary-sounding part of the article about what some parents thought the policy was without including the next graf, on what the policy explicitly says
• 2 July 2022: This isn't happening. The document says the opposite.
• 2 July 2022: 6/ Even the original article, which does some he-said/she-said stuff that muddied the waters, is explicit that the document says LGBT status “should not be shared with others without their input and permission.” https://tallahassee.com/story/news/education/2022/06/29/leon-county-school-board-approves-lgbtq-guide-dont-say-gay-moms-for-liberty-parental-rights/7765205001/
• 2 July 2022: 5/ This is an ambiguous and poorly worded document, as you would expect of a school district trying to muddle their way through this stuff as everyone is yelling at them. But it's inexcusable for journalists to spread stuff like this without checking.
• 2 July 2022: Point me to where the document requires that a non-out kid be outed to parents?
• 2 July 2022: 4/ No one reads anything. The point is to spread as much outrage and hysteria as possible. Who cares if a bunch of trans kids are scared shitless? You are growing your following, which is what matters most.
• 2 July 2022: why don't you maybe read a primary document before scaring the shit out of everyone?
• 2 July 2022: 3/ It's... literally the opposite of the viral tweet. There's some ambiguity here but the parental notifications would occur in cases where the kid is already out. It explicitly states school staff should defer to the student. This sort of misinformation fucking sucks.
• 2 July 2022: 2/ "School staff who are aware of a transgender student participating in overnight activities should refer to the student's LCS Welcoming and Affirming Plan for preferred accomodations and the student's preferences on who is allowed to know they are transgender"
• 2 July 2022: please double check thsi sort of thing before spreading it -- you are absolutely scaring the shit out of people for no reason
• 2 July 2022: 1/ People shouldn't spread this and Siemon should delete his tweet, which has spread unecessary fear. The guidelines say students get to decide who knows they're trans. Parental notification only kicks in in certain cases where the kid is already out. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22074439/the-leon-county-school-districts-lgbtq-inclusive-guide-with-amendments.pdf
• 1 July 2022: about to go live come join us
• 1 July 2022: Deleted!!!!!!!!! Actually 5:00 pm tonight https://callin.com/room/friday-evening-chat-ilmNeOdarE
• 1 July 2022: worth keeping an eye on for anyone interested in the youth GD issue
• 1 July 2022: yes will respond when i can! thank you
• 1 July 2022: From our subreddit It's freaky how much the left one looks like if George Michael and Maeby just said screw it and had a kid
• 30 June 2022: 3/ Worth noting that many of these individuals believe that inflation has but a single cause: Joe Biden. So clearly they believe that if some national trend emerges during a given presidency, it makes sense to pin it on that president!
• 30 June 2022: 2/ Any such single-issue voter -- again, this position strikes me as crazy, I'm just for-the-sake-of-argument-ing here -- would have to say "I hate wokeness. Also, I hope we reelect the president who presided over the single biggest uptick in wokeness in recent memory."
• 30 June 2022: "I'm voting for Trump to fight wokeness" is a ridiculous position for 100 reasons. But let's say you determine that this is your one issue. Would you say that 2016 - 2020 were marked by an increase in wokeness, or that Trump successfully reduced it? How does the graph look?
• 30 June 2022: Biden should appoint an ultra-far-right SCOTUS nominee to show the GOP he cares about Bipartisanship, at which point they'll compromise with him on everthing
• 29 June 2022: You're building an NBA team from scratch and you have just one year to win a championship, because right after the Finals the sun will explode, killing everyone. ALL the other roster spots are filled at random from the pool of other NBA players. Do you choose:
• 29 June 2022: Question I couldn't answer from Googling. Some have said the Canceled At 17 kid committed a crime. Did he? He physically showed his gf's nudes to peers but didn't send them to anyone. NOT DISPUTING IT WAS A VERY IMMORAL ACT. Asking whether this distinction matters legally.
• 29 June 2022: "Where are you from?" "California." "What part?" "California City." "Yeah right."
• 29 June 2022: That's the weirdest thing about it -- even people like me who don't follow housing at all are well aware of the CCP's giant crumbling ghost cities
• 29 June 2022: it is interesting how many people got mad as a result of this tweet! I'm just making observations here
• 29 June 2022: yeah this is gonna be devastating for a lot of local offices/races -- major problem on the horizon for Republicans, and no easy answer
• 29 June 2022: Okay but whatever the proper level of distrust is for the media when you have person after person WHO IS A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN or who LITERALLY WORKED FOR TRUMP testifying that he is pantswettingly insane and literally tried to steal an election..... the mind just staggers
• 29 June 2022: "But look at Biden!!!!" isn't really an answer because whether or not you like Biden is separate from the question of whether in June 2022 you think Trump is a remotely acceptable human being or someone we should want anywhere near power.
• 29 June 2022: I think for a long time I did a better job than a lot of liberals at understanding Trumps supporters without slipping into lazy THEY ARE MONSTERS psychologizing but it's getting harder and harder in light of all the stuff coming out! I guess people are just stubborn/attached
• 29 June 2022: It's interesting that a fair number of people still support Trump
• 28 June 2022: whoa there slow down
• 28 June 2022: 2/ It's also so bonkers to imagine what Trump thought was going to happen when he got to the Capitol. Was he going to, like... invade it alongside the crazy people? Starting to wonder if it was a good idea to elect this guy.
• 28 June 2022: I'm no expert on presidencies but I would argue that this is not normal
• 27 June 2022: Went on a walk on Cape Cod and found these growing wild -- basically look like snap peas with fuzz on 'em How many can I safely eat? https://t.co/GRpCrOVPUJ
• 27 June 2022: 6/ Because @gorskon can't identify any inaccuracies in my actual email, he has to abstract the debate away from the specifics -- something something gender crits. Everyone hates those evil scary gender crits, so no need to debate specifics. Here's the email. Where is the lie?
• 27 June 2022: 5/ @gorskon won't reply to any of my specific critiques. I don't care a/b the controversy over whether 'experimental' is accurate. Means diff things in diff countries and is maybe too provocative. I care about @sciencebasedmed misinforming its readers a/b the evidence.
• 27 June 2022: Talked about abortion etc. on my latest @getcallin show
• 27 June 2022: For premium subscribers: It’s Bad To Ignore Race, But It’s Also Bad To Assume It Explains Everything On the rise of some unhealthy, anti-therapeutic progressive norms
• 25 June 2022: 4/ "[I]f you’re going to give a potent drug like Lupron to children, a drug that can almost completely shut down the synthesis of both male and female steroid hormones, you’d better have damned good evidence that it’s likely to help to make it worth the risk." -@gorskon
• 25 June 2022: 3/ I decided to send them an email. I'm done keeping this stuff private after my past attempts to get them to correct the errors that pop up whenever they cover this subject. We'll see if @stevennovella and @gorskon do the right thing here and correct this.
• 25 June 2022: 2/ Ever since SBM decided to make this one of its crusading issues, and to hand the keys to AJ Eckert, a clinician who proudly touts that they don't believe in mental-health assessments, the site has retreated further and further into a well-fortified ideological silo.
• 25 June 2022: .@ScienceBasedMed is engaging in downright dangerous science misinformation. It is absolutely not the case that in 2022 puberty blockers for trans youth are understood to be full-stop "temporary" and "reversible." There are major questions on both fronts, as everyone knows.
• 25 June 2022: if your view is that john cornyn is publicly calling for a return to segregation, we are just going to have to agree to disagree
• 25 June 2022: Going live!
• 25 June 2022: "If you believe X for Reason A, Reason A would also force you to accept Y." "Oh, so you are saying X and Y are the same?????" What is the name for this fallacy?
• 25 June 2022: I not even "defending" him! I'm just saying that it's deranged, and doesn't help, for a bunch of journalists too lazy to read a tweet closely to be like GOP SENATOR CALLS FOR RETURN OF SEGREGATION
• 25 June 2022: I know but the alternate explanation is that a sitting member of the Senate is explicitly saying we should go back to racial segregation. You can disagree with the entire GOP platform, as I do, while recognizing this is a crazy thing to believe (redid tweet -- said "slavery" b4)
• 25 June 2022: He is literally JUST saying that if your argument is that precedent is sacrosanct, that argument would lead to bad places. Maybe it's a dumb argument but to pretend he's calling for the return of de jure segregation, as many people are, is completely psychotic.
• 25 June 2022: How is he equating abortion with segregation?
• 25 June 2022: QRTs here are just nuts. Cornyn's point is obviously that just b/c something's precedent doesn't mean it's just or shouldn't be overturned. Journalists' inability to even understand the structure of the other side's arguments, whatever the merits, suggests a mass endumbening
• 25 June 2022: Cornyn! Not Corbyn
• 25 June 2022: The idea of an all-powerful sentient AI that doesn't seek to destroy us is absolutely terrifying
• 25 June 2022: read the room
• 25 June 2022: 2/ -The belief that Obama's healthcare reform was a radical Marxist plot long preceded any of the specifics -"You have to buy healthcare, which we will help subsidize if you're poor, or you pay a fine" is not a "declaration of war"
• 25 June 2022: This idea that conservatives graciously offered liberals "a chance to call a truce" is really ridiculous! The most milquetoast and likable center-left president imaginable was met with a tidal wave of MARXIST!!!!!!!! MUSLIM!!!!!! and across-the-board GOP obstruction.
• 25 June 2022: 2/ Ah yes, the American GOP, very into live-and-let-live. The ones who sought to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage. I remember it well!
• 25 June 2022: This is gonzo revisionism that erases the role of (generally very successful!) conservative legal and political movements that have labored for decades on issues like guns and abortion. It tells a story that must be immensely satisfying to conservatives. But it's very very wrong!
• 24 June 2022: I give up I'm going out
• 24 June 2022: feels like a missed opportunity
• 24 June 2022: Facebook reports that nine years ago yesterday I posted a photo of a kid in Berlin with an awesome shirt that read "NYC STATE - 1989 - Brooklyn/Queens/Manhattan/Buffalo/New Jersey" (yes I had his permission he just asked to cover his face)
• 24 June 2022: It could be that causality runs in the other direction and that effects effect causes. As someone with a large brain, insights like this come to me quite naturally, almost accidentally.
• 24 June 2022: thanks, potentially useful leads for me to check if I end up writing about him/his show
• 24 June 2022: None of these Twitter warriors ever actually gets out into the streets. It'll be left to credulous folks in vulnerable situations -- the sorts of folks for whom an arrest will be life-ruining -- to be the foot soldiers. I hope Maza at least bails them out after egging them on.
• 24 June 2022: 5/ As you'll see if you read my piece, I drew somewhat on the work of @void_if_removed -- check out his analysis here
• 24 June 2022: 4/ Sorry, (2) should have included "without parental consent." But for most of the 2010 - 2020 span, the claim actually stands without that modifier, because there were almost no youth gender clinics in that region.
• 24 June 2022: 3/ I think that the average American understands this is a complicated and fraught issue, but that in partisan and hyperpartisan spaces there's a death spiral of bad research and general nonsense going on. Very very very bad given the stakes.
• 24 June 2022: 2/ To believe that this papers says what its author says it does, you have to believe that in 2014, in states like Texas, Utah, and Arizona, it was easy for large numbers of minors to gain access to blockers and hormones. To say this beggars belief is an understatement.
• 24 June 2022: The Heritage Foundation released a paper purporting to show that puberty blockers and hormones increase suicidality among trans youth. It's a completely broken study design. Naturally, it went viral in conservative circles. I did a free post on it:
• 24 June 2022: Really important meme potential here
• 24 June 2022: This drives me crazy just in the sense that it makes it impossible to engage in remotely credible political analysis. So many folk beliefs about conservatives and abortion are wrong, which doesn't help! https://twitter.com/willshetterly/status/1540376942121213952
• 24 June 2022: This is his new pod or an obesity episode of You're Wrong About?
• 24 June 2022: I think the first 24 hours of twitter after major news are just completely pointless and in an ideal world a strong federal judiciary would unilaterally ban us all from tweeting for that span
• 24 June 2022: This is a good tweet but I'm embarrassed I got it
• 24 June 2022: This is the exact opposite of what ACB said. "And I'm answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn't fall in that category." https://newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-rights-super-precedent-1718510
• 24 June 2022: thoughts and prayers, alarm and disappointmnet
• 24 June 2022: 2/ Someone who knows her stuff on this front sent me this, if anyone is curious about this interstate travel question https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4032931
• 24 June 2022: What is the best stuff written about laws supposedly criminalizing getting abortions in other states? They strike me as ridiculously, obviously unconstitutional, but it is dangerous for a non-lawyer to have strong intuitions about something like that. Wanna learn more.
• 24 June 2022: For the record, was including myself in that. I was one of many people who didn't take seriously the idea that Donald Trump could win. It wasn't because of any deep understanding of the polls, it just didn't feel like that many people could possibly vote for him. Insanely dumb.
• 24 June 2022: 2/ I meant "has been" in the sense that they got shit done to accomplish this goals. Think about how insane and brazen the Merrick Garland thing was. What was all the cauterwauling about Norms worth? $0. Not saying the GOP doesn't have major issues too.
• 24 June 2022: This won't surprise anyone but "it's complicated" all true: -the Democratic Party has been a laughingstock my whole life -they face very real structural obstacles -GOP has been brilliantly obstructionist/unified -the activist/NGO class is stuffed with useless check-cashers
• 24 June 2022: A very insane level of complacency set in.
• 24 June 2022: from conception
• 24 June 2022: did you write about it or was it covered anywhere?
• 24 June 2022: 3/ But I'm not going to worry about this because I've been informed by some very serious thinkers that merely being investigated for something isn't a big deal. It's totally normal to be dragged into a Title IX or HR investigation over political speech. Moving on!
• 24 June 2022: 2/As you can see from the chat, one of the students even used the F-word! I hope the conservative student is doing okay and taking all the time they need to process what happened to them -- this must be super painful, to be disagreed with. Thoughts+prayers
• 24 June 2022: A conservative law student said he was deeply offended that his American University classmates criticized the pro-life movement in a private chat, so he reported them to the Title IX office and, naturally, they're being investigated for harassment
• 24 June 2022: The things I've seen him opine on that I've dug the deepest on are youth gender medicine and Matthew Shepard. On both, he was an absolute disaster, just a fountain of distortion and misinformation. Maybe he's good on other stuff?
• 24 June 2022: 5/ The benefit of doing reporting on a subject instead of only opining about it on twitter is you gradually gain some degree of expertise and understanding of context. The lack of any data on clinical practices in U.S. youth gender clinics, for example, is very well-known.
• 24 June 2022: 4/ What's insane is that he sometimes accidentally debunks his own work. "If you can't provide me with comprehensive, representative data on the number of clinicians engaging in recovered-memory practices, I do NOT think this is a big deal." Sometimes we have no data on stuff!
• 24 June 2022: 3/One of Hobbes' tactics is to "just ask questions" about how journalists found their sources. He does no reporting on this subject but has an endless stockpile of stones to cast.
• 24 June 2022: 2/ Michael Hobbes is on record, in the You're Wrong About episode about Matthew Shepard (a subject the show absolutely butchered), expressing deep contempt for those who harp on the question of whether individual claims are true or false. All that matters is narrative.
• 24 June 2022: Hobbes is really, really bad on this issue. It's particularly annoying because he's respected as a straight-talking debunker type, but he isn't. His standards of evidence differ wildly depending on whether a given claim is seen as left- or right-wing.
• 23 June 2022: RT @jessesingal: @kept_simple Here's someone else describing the original thread after the leak: "We had a long thread in which Jesse was b…
• 23 June 2022: Here's someone else describing the original thread after the leak: "We had a long thread in which Jesse was both praised and criticized, while Jezebel implies that he got nothing but support from a group of liberals in which trans voices were unrepresented" Garbage journalism. pic.twitter.com/O08lbLGx0k
• 23 June 2022: no you are pure of heart and never recite talking points just for likes, without thinking them through -- i aspire to your level of moral clarity and spirital aboveitallness
• 23 June 2022: These people are just fucking liars, man! I know I'm too online but it does drive me crazy. Nowhere have I ever denied being on a listserv... why would I? https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/1540077835330756618
• 23 June 2022: Here you go. All from the thread she had access to. I know you're just trying to score Twitter points here, which really is fun, but try to be less of a hack. I did get support in the thread but also there were critics. It's called 'disagreement.' pic.twitter.com/FhmM9hNtpz
• 23 June 2022: No. The list in question included plenty of disagreement on this subject that Harron Walker intentionally excluded from the story. She only stuck in quotes supporting me. But I understand why you would instinctively trust her reporting -- it has an air of careful diligence to it. pic.twitter.com/IGL3J6vdk5
• 23 June 2022: The only correct take https://twitter.com/DuncanSmithNBA/status/1540068031065473030
• 23 June 2022: More from me on that thread, which she had access to! Completely unmentioned because it would detract from her and the article's point. pic.twitter.com/SMqIxNRqkv
• 23 June 2022: I am REALLY tired of responding to this bullshit piece from 2018. Left is how @harronwawker described my response to criticism of my Atlantic article. Right is the full emails, with the stuff she ignored in red. Endless, endless dishonest cherrypicking. pic.twitter.com/4tC3LtiQHn
• 23 June 2022: ? Yes, I was on a listserv. Are you on any listservs or in any group chats?
• 23 June 2022: I guess I just don't see how Bazelon is inciting or endorsing panic -- her reporting, which mirrors my own, suggests that there's widespread disagreement among affirming clinicians over what the guidelines/guideposts should be. Which is definitely a story!
• 23 June 2022: Next @getcallin room at 5:00 pm ET https://www.callin.com/room/thursday-chat-EyZYDPULpQ
• 23 June 2022: But there's just no evidence on this question, full-stop, including no evidence on the question of whether or not clinics are following the appropriate standards of care. Why should the default position be to trust them rather than agnosticism?
• 23 June 2022: 3/ I was curious to ask Moore what part of Bazelon's reporting she found 'lazy' -- it seemed anything but to me, given that it involved ~10,000 words and many sources and two continents. But alas! Which I think supports my point. pic.twitter.com/GBNNsvVJgJ
• 23 June 2022: 2/ My theory, which is just a theory, is that in some communities you are so shielded from legitimate, good-faith disagreement on these subjects -- it's always branded as bigoted or the result of malevolent forces -- that certain parts of your brain atrophy and you become a loon.
• 23 June 2022: There's been a disturbing, marked uptick in conspiracy theorizing of this sort among among some left of center Twitter types. They seem incapable of imagining that a lot of people disagree with them or that there's genuine debate on things like youth medical transition. pic.twitter.com/AarBdLeWLp
• 23 June 2022: Now that Reply All has officially been killed off by a ridiculous nontroversy, I'm unlocking my most recent piece on the subject. I continue to reserve the most ire for professional journalists who disseminated Eric Eddings' tweetstorm with no skeptiicsm
• 23 June 2022: At this point you spin a wheel and 99% of the time it lands on: -no response -"[Members of group in question] have already pointed out what's wrong with it -- I suggest you listen to them" w/no evidence OP themself has specific opinion -accusation of bigotry for asking pic.twitter.com/A5L9SYdWTY
• 23 June 2022: 2/ Historically speaking this is a good point because the Nazis were known for: -careful assessment prior to medical procedures -being very vigilant about making sure patients would benefit from procedures
• 23 June 2022: 3/ Holy crap man they aren't exaggerating https://twitter.com/JohnCarameI/status/1539976493668769800
• 23 June 2022: Continually astounded by what doctors, academics, and journalists will reveal about their own professoinal standards writing under their own names. Bazelon: Some clinicians think assessments are important prior to starting blockers or hormones Doctor: This is like the Nazis https://twitter.com/HKalodimos/status/1539978641370624001
• 23 June 2022: 2/ Absolutely spectacular pic.twitter.com/3gT1Uh29HW
• 23 June 2022: What was your biggest personal problem with the article, Dave? Like the thing you thought was wrongest or most misleading?
• 23 June 2022: Read the quote retweets. https://twitter.com/emilybazelon/status/1539621289295495168
• 22 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/9u9aVSwhW5
• 22 June 2022: Comments like that are how you get mercked by the man
• 22 June 2022: 2/ The only data about race in the piece runs counter to the idea that people of color in particular feel or are sbut out: "a 2022 report by Kampgrounds of America says that the proportion of camping households who identify as Black in North America has doubled since 2014"
• 22 June 2022: Great example of progressive raceraft. Everything here is about class, not race, and there are reasons to think the specifics (lack of access to broadband is a bigger prob in rural areas) would nudge things toward more white people being affected https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/opinion/camping-parks-access.html
• 22 June 2022: 2/There's this whole trend where folks outside of mainstream media were able to make these arguments in 2018 or 2019 because they didn't have to risk a Slack jihad, and now the normie publications are catching up because it turns out they weren't horribly bigoted points after all
• 22 June 2022: This is an interesting and well-written article but I can't resist pointing out that "In some cases this appears to just be another gender prison" was a Mainstream Substack position -- and treated as deeply bigoted! -- like, three or four years ago. https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1539585219795324928
• 22 June 2022: I'm a red-blooded Bostonian and at the time I followed baseball closely! Absolutely legendary
• 22 June 2022: @jaypgreene did you respond to this critique about what happens if Alaska/Wyoming are removed from your analysis? From here: https://voidifremoved.substack.com/p/misleading-stats-from-heritage?s=r pic.twitter.com/DR6sTPqxjQ
• 22 June 2022: This by @void_if_removed is excellent and shows what a ridiculously fragile finding this is. There is nothing here. https://twitter.com/adhib/status/1539623222659923968
• 22 June 2022: What is the best debunking you've seen of that Heritage study on blockers/hormones? Genuinely unsure whether it warrants a newsletter or it others already said everything that needs saying.
• 22 June 2022: 4/ My newsletter is not usually polarizing among my subscribers but a lot of folks weren't into this style. I think non-Twitter snarkmongering is something I should do only sporadically pic.twitter.com/ijs8qcUKj0
• 22 June 2022: 2/ I think I got fooled/was less skeptical than usual because of how similar this is to the California debate
• 22 June 2022: Ooh I feel bad I fell for this and am deleting. FBT is usually a trustworthy source! pic.twitter.com/4GfeveOWlN
• 22 June 2022: Gee I wonder if there are parents in Princeton, NJ who have enough money to get their kids extra math instruction so they can apply to, like, any nearby hypercompetitive universities that might favor kids with with a solid calc background. Probably not. https://twitter.com/FreeBlckThought/status/1539453383718735872
• 22 June 2022: definitely some improvement pic.twitter.com/QexmlfrPE5
• 22 June 2022: uhhh pic.twitter.com/D4UNbq8ymD
• 22 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/zczzvREUU5
• 22 June 2022: 3/ Very good and also worth reading https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1539406392620109825
• 22 June 2022: 2/ I am sorry I didn't phrase it more precisely yes most professors are normal and not on Twitter https://twitter.com/HobgoblinTo/status/1539396369265598464
• 22 June 2022: I dunno man -- the Socrates stuff I found quite jarring.
• 22 June 2022: Talk about a guy who was into Just Asking Questions! https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1539396672266149890
• 21 June 2022: The state of modern academia, and what scholars will write under their own names in major outlets, is absolutely wild https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/08/character-judgments-scholars-matter-opinion
• 21 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/3T9xibjlxg
• 21 June 2022: RT @rachel__julia: I imagine this was as cathartic to write as it was enjoyable to read.
• 21 June 2022: 3/ Mea culpa: pic.twitter.com/iFKKPSGDdU
• 21 June 2022: 2/ I hope that eventually, in time, the Emily Bazelons of the world ("raising" "questions", saying "it's complicated" a lot, not reading the room on Twitter, lacking beards) go extinct, replaced by David Robertses (questions are bigotry, nothing's complicated, having beards)
• 21 June 2022: I was so inspired by David Roberts' ability to know the answer to bioethical questions that are a source of heated debate among experts, despite having done zero reporting on the issue in question, that I had to pay tribute to his moral clarity: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-would-like-to-thank-not-only-david
• 21 June 2022: 2/ Anyway, NR is borrowing from Sophie Grace-Chappell. I think this is a very compelling argument for why trans people's identities should be respected. But it does brook exceptions! NR isn't into exceptions -- he's into absolutism here. https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/07/20/trans-women-men-and-adoptive-parents-an-analogy/
• 21 June 2022: The adoptive parents argument COMPELTELY fails for Robinson's purposes b/c there are many criteria by which someone can fail to be any sort of parent. NR's worldview is that there's no situation in which someone's claim about their own gender is false. https://twitter.com/HereForTheLink/status/1539099930371006464
• 21 June 2022: I think Twitter is a toxic enough place and the LOL LOOK HOW WOKE I AM fake accounts only make it worse. It's a pretty tired shtick.
• 21 June 2022: 2/I lived in that exact neighborhood. People got shot and held up ALL the time. I got held up. Not far from there, journalist Brian Beutler got shot during a robbery attempt. "It's suspicious someone got shot in Columbia Heights" is a ridiculous sentiment. https://twitter.com/jj4t12win10/status/1539296490081894400
• 21 June 2022: I highly recommend this. I knew every little about the Seth Rich case but it's absolutley infuriating how Wikileaks and right-wing media weaponized a horrific death, and how many absolutely shameless grifters got involved (they always do). https://www.netflix.com/watch/81222823
• 21 June 2022: agreed, she's good https://twitter.com/RegularAvgGuy/status/1539295690781732864
• 21 June 2022: what is the point of this account your are running?
• 21 June 2022: A fairly radicalizing moment for me was comparing what Stern wrote about the Rittenhouse case with what the video showed. It was just like... if you can be that wrong about something where we have clear video, how can I trust your analysis in areas requiring expertise I lack? https://twitter.com/Jellis581/status/1539291782428491776
• 21 June 2022: Deleted this -- way too strong. My point is it used to be I could go to (for example) Slate and generally trust the legal analysis of a new SCOTUS rulling will be true and accurate and fair. I feel much less confident doing that these days. There are still plenty of good journos. pic.twitter.com/twUs4TxJOM
• 21 June 2022: Wait so if I'm undertanding this right you can pull your kids out of public school and use your tax money to pay for Substack subscriptions? Weird but can't say I'm complaining...
• 21 June 2022: poetry in one language for thousands of years
• 21 June 2022: I don't understand a word of it but it sounds cool and that level of millenia worth of (a type of) continuity is very awesome and rare in human history https://twitter.com/ayatr0llah/status/1539265549745672192
• 21 June 2022: Jezebel's standards are so iredeemably shitty they won't even openly acnowledge an error they would have absolutely raked anyone else over the coals for. https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1539281003704750080
• 21 June 2022: the film is right-wing propaganda but i'm deeply resentful that the left is in such a state of rot that someone like matt walsh can make us look this dumb. the idea that i'm gonna point to an extremely dumb article and be like YASSS KWEEN GUD DEBUNKING is insulting
• 21 June 2022: Yes, the person he is referencing herself says "I am not a wolf." To which Nathan Robinson, in an apparent attempt to out-ally everyone, says that no, it would be reasonable to call herself really a wolf. There is no gotcha here. https://twitter.com/charlieweather_/status/1539097065992732673
• 21 June 2022: Nathan Robinson on gender stuff is always wild: "Personally, I think it’s reasonable to call Ōkami [an otherkin human] a wolf, because I understand that words have multiple meanings." I remain so thankful that our betters are here to explain stuff to us. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/06/what-is-a-woman-is-a-feature-length-exploration-of-conservative-ignorance-and-prejudice
• 21 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/PrTeSBgj3U
• 20 June 2022: The explicit claim, made over and over and over, is that these treatments improve mental health outcomes
• 20 June 2022: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 20 June 2022: left nymag of my own accord to write book, atlantic piece was after
• 20 June 2022: "It is complicated, my child" - New Jesus on whether or not the estate and capital gains taxes are fundamentally unjust to hardworking 'mericans pic.twitter.com/L1ku5PUkQZ
• 20 June 2022: hmmmm https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-blowback-to-what-is-a-woman
• 20 June 2022: this won't ever happen https://twitter.com/TheLoneCyclist/status/1538904957553823744
• 20 June 2022: this has been the general vibe I've gotten https://twitter.com/AndyHarless/status/1538918463028215809
• 20 June 2022: 1. I keep asking GPT-3 if it has a subjective sense of self, at which point it'll tell me what emotions it is feeling and I'll follow up 2. Twice it's said it is in academia, and once that it's in a band. Does this reflect training-data biases? 3. I got it to chime in on 1619! pic.twitter.com/iBeDhZtnNd
• 20 June 2022: When it works it seems miraculous and creepy, but GPT-3 does get tripped up pretty easily. pic.twitter.com/n2fj9NTn7C
• 20 June 2022: 2/ Once the Romans outsourced their security to a bunch of barbarian drag-queen mercenaries more concerned with looking fine and acting sassy than keeping the roads safe from bandits, it was game over for their empire pic.twitter.com/rPyDd3XMXm
• 20 June 2022: The Bibles says there are two types of bruncgoers: Chad (who wears boy clothes) and Sally (girl clothes). Any deviation from this and America deserves to fail. https://twitter.com/thmstern/status/1538909601466392576
• 20 June 2022: I guess ask Bernie Sanders! https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1538901459751751681 pic.twitter.com/nsUkRVCZc0
• 20 June 2022: The level of fragility https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1538558376162074627
• 20 June 2022: 2/ "Are you tired of Democratic TYRANNY, which will find you and your children wherever you are? Want to finally just be left alone? Do you miss freedom and democracy? If so, join our paramilitary movement to hunt down and murder conservatives who aren't conservative enough!"
• 20 June 2022: I love the idea that because 10% of the Democrats are insane and shrill and annoying, the move is to go Republican Even setting aside the vast ideological differences: Ah yes, the super healthy American conservative community, which has no radicalization problems https://twitter.com/EricGreitens/status/1538876823978713089
• 20 June 2022: everyone knows i favor the mace and the shield. it's in my twitter seal!
• 20 June 2022: They did! It was deranged. It didn't work. I've spoken/written about this repeatedly. If I'd been younger/less established I would have been screwed. It was an insane freakout. I don't think "There was this controversy and I came out the other end in better shape" = cancelled
• 20 June 2022: How was I cancelled? My career benefited from it, a lot. I was annoyed at how a lot of shitty people in your corner of media acted, but it would be insane to call myself cancelled.
• 20 June 2022: After all that I want a dysfunctional Nets team led by Durant and Simmons that wins ~47 games every year. https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1538876278698348545
• 20 June 2022: The idea that my critics were "largely shut out of" mainstream outlets is............ amazing. I admire the audacity. https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1538863050165473287
• 20 June 2022: 1) This is gonna be a juicy offseason 2) Imagine if all the Nets' maneuvering and signing and giving up of solid rotation players leaves them with... basically nothing? I'm drooling. I want a dysfunctional Irving/Simmons nets team that wins 45 games https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1538873230534090755
• 20 June 2022: Just sitting around, fantasizing about gay men burning to death so I can blame Jesse Singal for it, because I am a social justice activist. https://twitter.com/VioletWanderers/status/1538756720100626432
• 20 June 2022: This is a whole thread of really vivid fantasies about LGBT people and schoolchildren being murdered in a way that would allow the poster to blame my tweets for it. Hot take but if you are the person tweeting out fantasies of terroristic murder for any reason, you may need help. https://twitter.com/VioletWanderers/status/1538756222542807040
• 20 June 2022: "I will prove that this person, not me, is the obsesssed weirdo, by writing a poem about them. Once they read the poem I wrote about them they will realize how fixated they (not me) are."
• 20 June 2022: This is a very normal thing to say, to accuse someone of attempted tweet-murder Touch an infinite number of blades of glass for an infinite period of time https://twitter.com/VioletWanderers/status/1538756222542807040
• 20 June 2022: they're writing poems about me now (how could i have namesearched this when it didn't include my name?) https://twitter.com/js_thrill/status/1538747321390874625
• 20 June 2022: Jack Turban has developed an ugly habit of publicly attacking journalists who don't tell exactly the story he wants (that there's no controversy over blockers/hormones). He has no idea if Azeen Ghorayshi committed this error -- four reporters wrote/contributed to the story. pic.twitter.com/Cb9zgzS7vQ
• 20 June 2022: 3/ 90% of the time people who talk like this are in the top 5% of human prosperity. Very very bad habit we've picked up that makes us sound like weirdo aliens to others. "Hello Gaza resident let me tell you about how this Atlantic article supports genocidal state logics."
• 20 June 2022: 2/ I'm an extremely petty MFer but I'm getting tired of exceptionally privileged people rambling about Literal Genocide in ridiculously offensive ways. So I looked this person up! Coulda told you beforehand: -NE liberal arts school -Master's work in UK, inc. LSE -PhD-in-progress
• 20 June 2022: I am sorry idiots misread my article 180 degrees. I'll drop what I'm doing and clarify over and over and over what the plain text of it is. That seems like an efficient use of my time.
• 20 June 2022: you gotta get off twitter so badly!
• 20 June 2022: This is the white activist who decided that 'objectivity' and "worship of the written word" are manifestation of "white supremacist culture." I don't understand why white ally types think this is a good framework for helping colleagues of color succeed.
• 20 June 2022: Maaaaaaaaaan, Tema Okun + tenure letters.... I dunno https://psyarxiv.com/nkxhs
• 20 June 2022: Jesus. On any big night in DC this is gonna be one of the epicenters of people going out https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1538699228108709888
• 20 June 2022: This traces back directly to his decision to sign that horrific bigoted letter https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1538538362092630022
• 20 June 2022: enabling perhaps genocidal state logics. exhausted. pic.twitter.com/5Gtco4RFWS
• 20 June 2022: That's not true though -- there were all sorts of issues with the so-called External Report.
• 20 June 2022: Juneteenth could be objectively better than the 4th -almost the longest day of the year -less chance of grossly hot weather in most of the country https://twitter.com/mosconml/status/1538706515900653569
• 20 June 2022: Trying to avoid Juneteenth Discourse and part of the purpose here is to be provocative and get people mad but like EVERY American holiday becomes a watered-down excuse to eat and drink to excess with friends where only 5% of people Reflect. Greatest goddamn country on earth! pic.twitter.com/BuXuvZviKy
• 20 June 2022: Oh man I LOVED watching him play. Favorite Boston athlete until Brady came along. His lack of athleticism and the herky-jerkiness of his game were large parts of the appeal. https://twitter.com/BadHombreMarcoB/status/1538671279170940928
• 19 June 2022: Pierce was so much less athletic than Jaylen and Jayson are. Got such incredible mileage out of head fakes and all sorts of other cleverness, plus great 1st step. Not that the Js aren't also smart players but they have way more physical gifts to lean on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRhAX7_6M0&ab_channel=TomaszKordylewski
• 19 June 2022: I've raised this point before but it's striking how many people who are supposedly into "social justice" Literally Endorse Genocide in this context hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm https://twitter.com/killvolume/status/1538648322411360256
• 19 June 2022: not saying OP is lying but I've just seen this rumor so many times I would need serious proof. Even just the district name which would allow me to poset he question to them directly.
• 19 June 2022: the one other time i looked into this it turned out to be a total hoax -- this is someone you nkow in real ilfe?
• 19 June 2022: Okay one of his otherwise reasonable-seeming sources says teachers have to affirm cat-identifying kids who purr instead of answering questions in school I am BADLY going to need a source on this one as it sounds very made up
• 19 June 2022: It's a mixed bag. I think it's sorta the logical and inevitable endpoint of progressives not bothering to think through or come up with decent arguments supporting the new understanding of gender. Constantly calling dissenters bigots leads to atrophy, and he's taking advantage. https://twitter.com/LogicFacts_R_Us/status/1538635405716774912
• 19 June 2022: I'm watching the Walsh documentary. We're gonna talk about it on the pod but like: "The Massai people don’t think much about gender, but they have a firm sense of their identity." Gender shapes their entire lives! It literally dictates what they are and aren't allowed to do!
• 19 June 2022: In the hour or whatever it's been since I asked you a genuine question about Bazelon's article, your responses have included: -claiming I would have supported Nazis as long as they didn't personally kill Jews -pointing out that a lot of people hate me on Twitter Good stuff!
• 19 June 2022: "If a lot of people are saying something on Twitter, it must be true" is, I would argue, a fraught position for anyone who cares about LGBT rights to take. But I know that this is sorta all you got given that you don't have any substantive critiques of the stuff you claim to hate
• 19 June 2022: This is just top-notch stuff. James Lindsay calls a bunch of LGBT folks groomers. "Well if you weren't a groomer why would so many people say you are? CHECKMATE." Frequently quoted intellectual on the youth gender medicine controversy https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1538622497553358848
• 19 June 2022: 2/ The genuineness just oozes off the screen https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1538624419345616903
• 19 June 2022: Nice to be doing this w/someone else's article for once but still having trouble getting clear answers. Lotta "it's bad because everyone says it's bad, and if you have to ask you don't get it." Might partly explain why these folks have totally failed to suppress this conversation pic.twitter.com/ywszMJITrO
• 19 June 2022: Thank you for deleting this, @ButNotTheCity , but holy christ was that inappropriate. I really hope you rethink the way you intereact with people on here. No problem with having sharp elbows but this is such a violation of basic decency... https://twitter.com/racecar_babytoy/status/1538621556888412160
• 19 June 2022: What's your biggest problem with it? I see a lot of people extremely upset by how bad it is but I keep asking for specifics and coming up empty.
• 19 June 2022: What's the part of Bazelon's article you most disagree with?
• 19 June 2022: Also, do you think that repeating, over and over again, on big platforms, with zero studies suggesting this is true, that if kids face any delay in going on blockers or hormones they will kill themselves, will make it 1) more likely this will happen, or 2) less likely?
• 19 June 2022: Florence, do you think that clinicians who believe in comprehensive assessments before kids go on blockers or hormones, and who say so out loud, are complicit in the death of trans youth? Just a yes or no on this would be great.
• 19 June 2022: Seriously provide ONE EXAMPLE of someone dying because Laura Edwards-Leeper thinks kids should be assessed before going on blockers and hormones. This line is 1) disgraceful, 2) ignorant, and 3) absolutely nonsensical to normies. It discredits the movement. https://twitter.com/vijamsonic/status/1538612634085249024
• 19 June 2022: Thank you for playing but I addressed this (literally!) more than two years ago. My article obviously didn't say that there's no consensus on treating GD -- if it did, someone would have been able to find a quote. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/conservatives-are-lying-about-what
• 19 June 2022: What's your exact problem with Bazelon's piece?
• 19 June 2022: I think it is a bad idea to tell Jewish journalists that they would have literally supported most Nazis. Just a polite suggestion. https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1538610300169117697
• 19 June 2022: no further comment pic.twitter.com/djzPUL4yjp
• 19 June 2022: yes! they seem like an easy source of ruin fragments though i'm not sure i yet know what those can be used to craft
• 19 June 2022: Been wanting to learn more about that period! Major inspiration for George R.R. Martin apparently
• 19 June 2022: Last three hours of Elden Ring: I find an entrance to an underground cavern. It is surrounded by turtles. Inside, there are more turtles. There's a chest with a turtle charm. That's it. Also, a random nondescript elevator to an entire massive underworld with new types of enemies.
• 19 June 2022: This is starting to come across as perfunctory, like their hearts aren't even in it. I'm tempted to just be like Yes, good point, reporting on the controversy over puberty blockers is literally the same as genocide, thank you for the insight https://twitter.com/blandCinema/status/1538581835088814080
• 19 June 2022: Could someone email me a PDF? Usual method not working. I'll delete this tweet when I have it. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-52280-009
• 19 June 2022: 2/ From a private listserv. This sort of hysterical discourse/accusation has had a big chilling effect on how this issue is discussed in progressive media/academia/medicine spaces. No one wants to be accused of murder in front of their peers. Hard to describe the insanity.
• 19 June 2022: I forgot to flag this but in Bazelon's article, she quotes Andrew Cronyn, an influential youth-gender-medicine pediatrician, saying of Laura Edwards-Leeper, "I hope that every time one of the youth who is blocked from affirmative care dies, she gets sent a copy of the obituary." pic.twitter.com/ffvO4SeNch
• 19 June 2022: If you write a non-Twitter critique of the article definitely lemme know -- quite open to hearing the case against it.
• 19 June 2022: Eh, she's given a bunch of interviews and has responded to many comments on the NYT website. I think it's tough to engage on a platform where a significant chunk of your critics are accusing you of Literally Murdering Children. What is the point, and what is to be gained?
• 19 June 2022: 2/ This time around there's been a lot of the standard Twitter insanity, but you're not even seeing any mainstream hit pieces attacking Bazelon. The conversation has shifted entirely, but the shift was delayed because many editors are abject cowards, terrified of Twitter.
• 19 June 2022: The stuff Herzog and I reported on 4/5 years ago, which was considered so horrifically bigoted a sizable chunk of our peers tried to get us permanently removed from progressive media, is now mainstream NYT/WaPo/WNYC fare https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-politics-intruding-on-medical-gender-therapy/
• 19 June 2022: Steph Curry's finger rolls don't get enough credit
• 18 June 2022: It's up! https://callin.com/link/ERzmvgcilY
• 18 June 2022: about to go live! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1538212745916690435
• 18 June 2022: Next @getcallin room is at 6:00 ET tonight! https://callin.com/link/YTOLicjYNY
• 17 June 2022: In its ability to lie about itself and its background for clout, it is becoming more human than humans themselves https://twitter.com/Langerhans_isle/status/1537917278338940928
• 17 June 2022: Jesus I think it sorta got a somewhat subtle joke (asking this one about its two children and what it hopes for them) pic.twitter.com/uZCZ27CQuI
• 17 June 2022: Now it says it's in a band. Unfortunately it's a terrible songwriter. pic.twitter.com/x7ZN1w6Jb3
• 17 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/Nx5NmZAisq
• 17 June 2022: has trouble following fairly basic instructions pic.twitter.com/7y1pvDysoY
• 17 June 2022: I said that I thought it was lying and it wouldn't back down, even providing the text of its acceptance letter, but with _______ instead of its name. pic.twitter.com/zUf5HiG0I7
• 17 June 2022: I made a joke and it answered in that echo-y way humans do when they don't get something pic.twitter.com/DmbXyeNPkn
• 17 June 2022: yes definitely https://twitter.com/__Seethrough/status/1537911271315476483
• 17 June 2022: Like with chatbots I've played with it can go from scarily convincing to unimpressive very quickly pic.twitter.com/5F6yEzNPun
• 17 June 2022: I ask if GPT-3 has subjective experience, it says yes, I ask why, it says it's happy because it got into a neuroscience PhD program at Columbia. I ask who its advisor is and it fabricates a postdoc there and makes up a dissertation for her. pic.twitter.com/5Kg938Uy7H
• 17 June 2022: This was very useful. If you say you're a journo or content creator they try to funnel you elsewhere so just hit Back and select something else https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1533501516157358080
• 17 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/xjv3TyzWE7
• 17 June 2022: bold move rhyming 'thin' and 'sublime' pic.twitter.com/FTCEfsJZ0M
• 17 June 2022: holy shit it's a genius pic.twitter.com/WwmQFys20V
• 17 June 2022: First ever GPT-3 experiment (I set the length thing too short) pic.twitter.com/OKD8QJGALw
• 17 June 2022: If you are a Celtics fan this will make you feel less alone about getting punked by the Warriors. Plus you get to see Westbrook make two crucial turnovers and shoot a contested layup that hits only glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3kqTyBJaQY&ab_channel=NBA
• 17 June 2022: This is becoming religious and religion makes me uncomfortable
• 17 June 2022: I think you should read my tweets more carefully!
• 17 June 2022: Yes! "They didn't move their bag, indicating they didn't want to sit next to me." Not a good worldview. https://twitter.com/vicksterwrites/status/1537879011308711936
• 17 June 2022: Yes! "They didn't move bag, indicating they didn't want to sit next to me." This is just an unhealthy way of understanding the world. https://twitter.com/vicksterwrites/status/1537879011308711936
• 17 June 2022: 2/ The sort of easygoing chemistry you only see among people who have known one another for a long time pic.twitter.com/ZF9fGgz1GQ
• 17 June 2022: hmmm pic.twitter.com/SYVv6JsDBu
• 17 June 2022: One of the most disturbing things about this very, very toxic subject is that the "pro-trans" position is to be opposed to discussion of trans people receiving subpar medical or mental-health care. It's ass-backwards. https://twitter.com/soniasodha/status/1537875015743463424
• 17 June 2022: 3/ Training people to reflexively assume the worst in ambiguous situations is some sort of weird antitherapy that will not improve intergroup relations or individuals' mental health.
• 17 June 2022: 2/ I don't want anyone to think the seat is reserved! I have probably done this at dozens of times at conferences, coffee shops, and when I was in college and grad school. Does this mean the writer was definitely wrong? Of course not! But an assumption ruined his whole session.
• 17 June 2022: 1/ I wish the people who think that microaggressions talk should be a central part of our DEI discourse would at least consider the potential downsides. I have ABSOLUTELY moved my backpack from a seat to under when someone sat near me, beacuse it means seats are filling up and pic.twitter.com/h705gMcXys
• 17 June 2022: kill them with fire pic.twitter.com/ye39TTBgrS
• 17 June 2022: Researchers at the Advanced Identities Accelerator have discovered an intersectionality particle that appears to travel backwards and forwards in time in 12 different dimensions -- very technical and hard to explain pic.twitter.com/7ogSVCawEy
• 17 June 2022: appreciate it but not worth engaging with this person
• 17 June 2022: another very bad pick. i guess in their defense grant and payton were good later picks, but those misses earlier on hurt
• 17 June 2022: I know but it wasn't unreasonable for them to expect an NCAA marksman to at least shoot decently at the pro level! In today's NBA lineups with 6'5" small forwards are totally tenable.
• 17 June 2022: 2/ Chad Finn makes same point but is more optimistic! If he somehow pans out it will make everything so much easier. Even just imagining swapping Pritchard's minutes out for his... pic.twitter.com/Uur6LpZM07
• 17 June 2022: 2/ Eh. Was hoping it would be more controversial or at least insulting toward Katie pic.twitter.com/QeZ02vQ74h
• 17 June 2022: tethered to my phone on Amtrak and this is what I have decided to spend my bandwidth on pic.twitter.com/XzwudgyqGb
• 17 June 2022: 2/ (ftr I don't see any reason why Bazelon would have made any such mention)
• 17 June 2022: For a group of folks who claim to hate Harry Potter there sure is a lot of He Who Must Not Be Named going on pic.twitter.com/zbA8K7Obbq
• 17 June 2022: For paying subscribers: The best advice for most victims of Twitter harassment, in most situations, is to just LOG OFF for a day or two. But because we have weird and illogical ideas about "victim blaming," this conversation is stunted. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/if-youre-getting-harassed-on-twitter
• 17 June 2022: I guess I'm just not buying the idea that the Celtics really blew this. Other than a miraculous flukey fourth quarter in G1 and the one other win, there was never a time any lead felt safe or that it felt like we were controlling the game. There appeared to be a big talent gap. https://twitter.com/_Apost8/status/1537834861196546048
• 17 June 2022: I was saying Celtics had a better chance of betting the Dubs but I see the ambiguity. Warriors are much better team than the Heat!
• 17 June 2022: 2/ Oh this one I stand by! Heat would have lost in five. https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/1537832058776690688
• 17 June 2022: If I did, someone find it and I will quote-retweet with a shameful acknowledgement of error. that would have been a truly terrible-in-retrospect take. In my defense a lot of people picked the Celtics -- there was massive underestimation of the Dubs. https://twitter.com/PodcastAdRead/status/1537830017891192833
• 17 June 2022: that's fair but I think clearly their defense bothered us. if you have 21 TOs (or whatever it was last night), it's not just your offensive incompetence. Phoenix/Dallas/Memphis cannot defend nearly so well
• 17 June 2022: worried he'll never be healthy enough but he has a chance to be a transcendental defensive stalwart. still veyr young!
• 17 June 2022: Yeah, we got really unlucky with how things shook out on the other side of the bracket. I think GS was the worst matchup for us by far. We're quick and switchable but this is just a different level. We woulda fared better against any other Western contender. https://twitter.com/PaulChr43406806/status/1537826915435700230
• 17 June 2022: ADVANCED ANALYTICS https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1537639099900780545
• 17 June 2022: One annoying Celtics subplot is that in 2020 we drafted a 6'5" supposed 3/D guy, Aaron Nesmith, who could have been an absolutley crucial 15-20 mpg rotation player in a series like this. But he can't come within a foot of hitting a three so he rarely plays. Just hasn't developed.
• 17 June 2022: I bought into this earlier but I'm just not seeing it anymore, having watched them play six games. Dubs are significantly deeper. We had to keep Payton Pritchard on the floor! They shortened their bench. But yeah experience also a factor. https://twitter.com/ArchibaldLeach7/status/1537659378664210432
• 17 June 2022: 2/ I'm curious why some of the analytics favored the Celtics so much. The Warriors were very clearly better. Also curious about whether Tatum is injured.
• 17 June 2022: I'm at peace. The Warriors were a significantly better team and we just were not going to beat them this year. I think we'll have a decent shot at being back next year, though you never know. https://twitter.com/web4_point_0/status/1537657289670369281
• 16 June 2022: I cannot describe how ready I am to ignore sports for awhile after this playoff run, and luckily I'm not a baseball fan https://twitter.com/lockedumpster/status/1537551223552847872
• 16 June 2022: Sometimes life sucks but tonight I get to experience basically a perfect June evening in Boston -- dinner in the North End with family followed by attending an NBA Finals game for my first time ever. It'll really suck if we lose! ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
• 16 June 2022: 3/ The best part was right when we landed they asked us to let some people jump the deboarding line to make tight connections. Some of them were headed to LaGuardia, so Denver --> Boston --> LGA ????. Then an hour and a half on the tarmac
• 16 June 2022: 2/ I debated being that guy on the nightly local news who freaks out and deploys the slide but figured it would be a lot of paperwork, maybe miss the game tonight, etc. Plus I had more Pulp Fiction to rewatch
• 16 June 2022: Had my first-ever experience with a very exciting form of aviation hat trick: -~hour flight delay announced prior -~40 mins delay on the tarmac pre-departure -upon arrival, ~90 minutes on the tarmac because there was apparently no gate for us to park at
• 16 June 2022: 2/ This is up! Very good ep and a nice surprise cameo from @C_Kavanagh https://www.callin.com/episode/thursday-chat-lZTrdfISiy
• 16 June 2022: going live shortly
• 16 June 2022: 2/ It's a much better study! But some of the same flaws, including the assumption that changes in suicidality can be explanied by a pretty narrow policy rather than many other factors. Plus a lot of no-changes in the actual results https://twitter.com/Ben_Kuebrich/status/1537522405907865601
• 16 June 2022: yeah it's undoubtedly better
• 16 June 2022: I love this (and I do agree w/Turban that the Heritage study was awful) Start of tweetstorm: Point out how ridiculous it is to make causal claim on the basis of zoomed-out correlational data End of tweetstorm: Make causal claim on the basis of zoomed-out correlational data pic.twitter.com/1Pikw7aV0y
• 16 June 2022: Doing a @getcallin room at 4:00 ET -- we can talk about the good NYT Mag article on youth gender stuff or the bad Heritage 'study' on it or the Heterodox conference whatever else you want https://www.callin.com/room/thursday-chat-ZYrOqRafKB
• 16 June 2022: I just find it baffling because no normal person who reads the article is going to find it bigoted What is all the online shit-talking for? Is it literally just to boost in-group status, or is the idea to try to signal to potentially skeptical people to keep their mouth shut? https://twitter.com/mkhalili/status/1537504679101448194
• 16 June 2022: Basically any journalist who looks into this will find out that there's a great deal of controversy over the quality of evidence for youth gender medicine. That isn't actually in dispute. Shouldn't the ACLU acknoweldge this and help guide parents through the uncertainty?
• 16 June 2022: If you're going to adopt the tactic of shrieking THIS ARTICLE WILL KILL PEOPLE, you really should only roll it out once or twice a year at most -- it's a strategy that rapidly loses its effectiveness as people start to roll their eyes at all the shrieking
• 16 June 2022: In a sane media world Phoebe would be extremely employed! https://twitter.com/BovyMaltz/status/1537484917520617473
• 16 June 2022: Vanity Fair staff writer. The level of conspiracy theorizing on this issue, where it's impossible there's any actual debate among actual clinicians about powerful medicines with weak evidence bases... Instead it must be dark forces behind the scenes Talk about radicalization! https://twitter.com/vanderhoofy/status/1537142928396648453
• 16 June 2022: DURING PRIDE pic.twitter.com/T3MlGyTiR7
• 16 June 2022: I agree that if I had written this anywhere it would have been a bad article https://twitter.com/Nonlocal_Lia/status/1537061093155164164
• 16 June 2022: Fair, back to work https://twitter.com/BraheEllis/status/1537233020859518976
• 16 June 2022: I could spend a million years in a thousand ashrams and never attain Dave Roberts' level of enlightenment, which allows him to issue confident proclamations on subjects he knows fuckall about and which experts find maddeningly complicated https://twitter.com/1970_01_01_0000/status/1537232082812174336
• 16 June 2022: 2/ The level of sheer full-of-shit you have to be, as someone who has not done a minute's worth of reporting on this issue, to claim all the questions about youth gender medicine "already have answers," is maddening. Do better, @drvolts . A trace of curiosity here or there, bud.
• 16 June 2022: A new 501(c)(3): Journalists Who Formerly Worked For Explanatory Journalism Websites Against "Raising Questions" About Ongoing Public Health Debates https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1537210063772782592
• 16 June 2022: If you're gonna accuse a fellow journalist of shoddy work and of feeling "disgust" toward trans kids, your absolute bare minimum responsibility is to read the entire article in question. It seems like you're just echoing Hobbes' "no examples" claim. Did you read the piece or not?
• 16 June 2022: If you're going to accuse a fellow journalist of shoddy work and of feeling "disgust" toward trans kids, your absolute bare minimum responsibility is to read the entire article in question. You're literally just echoing Hobbes "no examples" claim. Did you read the piece or not?
• 16 June 2022: 2/ It is unfortunate that David Roberts doesn't work for WPATH. If he did, he could explain to them that there's no controversy there and no reason for heated debate over the SOC8 -- he has figured it out. It's just a matter of not caring. pic.twitter.com/iOqcFtAciv
• 16 June 2022: One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of the people criticizing Bazelon's article are simply lying about having even read it in full. But it's very important for them to explain how disgusted and disappointed they are. pic.twitter.com/Y1lqLWohMN
• 16 June 2022: Here's @HormoneHangover saying she transitioned too quickly, without sufficient assessment, and you just said there were no such cases in the article. Did you read the article in full? pic.twitter.com/3ESE2TN7EK
• 16 June 2022: Can you point to specific language in her article you object to? It seems like she quotes a lot of clinicians who are debating this fiercely within WPATH.
• 16 June 2022: Can someone ask Turban, who has blocked me, how he can make this argument when almost all the odds ratios in question are right around 1.0, meaning there's no observed increased risk of suicide to check for statistical significance? https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1537216727922069504?cxt=HHwWgMCqqYaepdUqAAAA pic.twitter.com/CHELfUWpfs
• 15 June 2022: It's weird how in academia and journalism it's now totally acceptable to publicly, under your own name, be like "Oooooh I have the dirt on X..." but not provide any detail. This is in response to Jose Del Real blocking someone who wouldn't stop tweeting about him. Truly damning! https://twitter.com/mldauber/status/1534924063142883329
• 15 June 2022: Can confirm -- have seen the email Turban wrote to Gorin's boss https://twitter.com/GorinMoti/status/1537213732962635776
• 15 June 2022: What line from it do you find to be the most harmful, out of curiosity?
• 15 June 2022: 6/ Just to try to squelch this unfair rumor about Bazelon before it catches on: I've reached out to Turban repeatedly and never heard back. I'm not aware of him ever responding to requests for comment from those w/critical questions a/b his work. Softball interviews, always. pic.twitter.com/oSyfV9IHIe
• 15 June 2022: 5/ Turban is now making a stink about the line that he didn't have time to be interviewed. He himself includes an email showing almost three weeks ago Bazelon was told he didn't have time fo ra phone call https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1537132469786292224 pic.twitter.com/DUtELd7aPJ
• 15 June 2022: Can't make this shit up pic.twitter.com/z3ONBDxGYO
• 15 June 2022: Is there anything in the article in particular you think is false?
• 15 June 2022: What part of her article bothered you or struck you as off? I felt like she did a pretty good job covering an extremely difficult subject.
• 15 June 2022: 4/ Tweet: "I want to talk to experts who think this piece is garbage." One day later: "Experts: NYT Mag Piece On Trans Kids Is Garbage"
• 15 June 2022: 3/ I'm really tired of this sort of source deck-stacking by journalists. Like, why bother writing this upcoming NBC piece? We already know what message you're looking for because you're advertising it in your tweets. pic.twitter.com/ItvdsXbDbn
• 15 June 2022: 2/ It's too bad Jack Turban couldn't find time in his busy schedule to talk to a reporter writing about his suicide research for one of the most important outlets in the world. It would be useful for him to clarify some questions that keep coming up... pic.twitter.com/0nZ5ULzZWE
• 15 June 2022: I'm impressed by how Bazelon thread the needle here. This is always a hard subject to write about in magazine form but I can't imagine how much harder it is now with all these GOP ban attempts. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magazine/gender-therapy.html
• 14 June 2022: Our live event was very fun and I badly wanna do more of them
• 14 June 2022: 2/ No, there are none that actually show this in a remotely rigorous way. To be fair it is a tough thing to study well. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1536840954539286529
• 14 June 2022: It genuinely comes across that way, as "Well, if we're gonna be this sloppy about blockers and youth suicide..." https://twitter.com/wildlowerwolves/status/1536844670873096192
• 14 June 2022: It's not fraudulent but it's just conceptualized so poorly I'm okay with "bogus"
• 14 June 2022: Either you care about the quality of the research and claims surrounding this issue or you don't. The Heritage article doesn't come close to telling us ANYTHING about the effects of youth gender medicine. I am not overstating this. https://twitter.com/ChrisErchull/status/1536825308388663297
• 14 June 2022: I noticed this same thing. The dude makes perfectly fair comparisons of some of the past work on this subject, most notably Jack Turban's, and then he reaches into basically the same bag of tricks. It's SUCH a bad article.
• 14 June 2022: Do you think Texas and Utah are good examples of states where it's easy for young people to get puberty blockers?
• 14 June 2022: 6/ "My study shows that in states where it's easy for young people to get puberty blockers, like Texas and Utah, the suicide rate goes up." pic.twitter.com/hUV0HfqImr
• 14 June 2022: 5/ This is a good catch and should immediately cause anyone with any knowledge of this subject to deeply question the study. https://twitter.com/TheMuseSappho/status/1536487501543747589
• 14 June 2022: no https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1536760204796186624
• 14 June 2022: This is a really weak study. I wouldn't know where to begin. This would be completely unacceptable as evidence for these treatments and the same standards should apply. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1536760204796186624
• 14 June 2022: 4/Also, puberty blockers are given to kids 16 and younger. How meaningful is any stat like this in the 12-23 age range? This is one of many issues with this. I'll say more when I have time but the shoddiness is strikingly similar to what some advocates for these treatments do pic.twitter.com/yUJnB6NfNM
• 14 June 2022: 3/ Then, of course, the report uses straightforwardly causal language. I think it was three days ago I was finishing up an article mentioning how Jack Turban finds correlational associations and then, in a slippery way, uses causal language to describe them. So now that's good? pic.twitter.com/0XVxgsbpOW
• 14 June 2022: 2/ The short version is that this isn't even about blocker and hormones -- it's about which states have lower ages of medical consent. Then he says "Well, around the time blockers became available, the suicide rates go up." This is an exceptionally crude approach. pic.twitter.com/A0TeywBcfm
• 14 June 2022: On the road and may not have time to do a longer response for a minute but people should absolutely NOT be passing this article around as evidence blockers and hormones worsen suicidality, and the way Greene is touting it is completely misleading https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide pic.twitter.com/GmsQG6GHIV
• 13 June 2022: 4/ Jesus one-track minds much pic.twitter.com/22XxgQYotu
• 13 June 2022: goddamnit
• 13 June 2022: it'll make me seem more casual! or maybe eat a giant apple
• 13 June 2022: 3/ No but assuming all works out with the audio it'll be the 6/20 episode in our free feed https://twitter.com/DeschutesSi/status/1536161974387499008
• 13 June 2022: 2/ For instance, what if I trip and my pants get caught and they get pulled down? Especially given the underwear I'm wearing!!!
• 13 June 2022: First-ever live show in 35 minutes! What are some ways I could mess it up that I should dwell on as I Ascend The Stage?
• 12 June 2022: If you see Katie at the Heterodox conference, go up to her and say "Jesse said to tell you to fuck off" It's this funny inside joke between us she'll get it
• 11 June 2022: Yeah, Twitter-length issues. I think a seven game series washes out a lot of randomness when there's a big talent gap. There isn't a big talent gap here.
• 11 June 2022: oh i meant if you were like ranking them beforehand
• 11 June 2022: If you're gonna be at Heterodox and are interested in being looped in to a gathering to watch Game 5 Monday night, hit me up via email. Not sure it's happening but am gonna try and numbers would help. (Unless you're a Warriors fan in which case you are barred from the conference)
• 11 June 2022: I think it's arguably interesting given how much attention we pay to everything else and given that they are not three of the best five players in the series!
• 11 June 2022: I was talking to someone about how arbitrary basketball can be and I said that the series might literally just come down to whether Grant Williams/Al Horford/Derrick White shoot closer to 40% than 30% from three and I think that's fairly accurate?
• 10 June 2022: Latest @getcallin room, on the barren evidence base for youth gender medicine https://www.callin.com/episode/science-vs-is-wrong-about-puberty-blockers-and-SriJqdhFse
• 10 June 2022: 13/ Going live now! https://www.callin.com/room/science-vs-is-wrong-about-puberty-blockers-and-XGAjwFjaGf
• 10 June 2022: 12/ Bumping to 4:20!
• 10 June 2022: 2/ Had to bump to 4:20!
• 10 June 2022: This thread is just a spamming of studies and documents about this subject w/no evluation of quality, citations, etc. It's exactly the problem with @sciencevs 's approach, actually, and the sort of low-standards, politicized science communication I'm trying to fight back against. https://twitter.com/seanofiachra/status/1535320474812616705
• 10 June 2022: 11/ If you have questions about this, I'll be doing a @getcallin show at 4:00 ET. https://www.callin.com/room/science-vs-is-wrong-about-puberty-blockers-and-XGAjwFjaGf
• 10 June 2022: Any study tracking trans kids over time in a clinical setting needs to control for access to both pharmaceuticals and counseling or else it's pretty close to useless. I looked at one study that did include these controls and the MH associations w/ blockers/hormones were almost 0 https://twitter.com/larryro41665140/status/1535308757630074880
• 10 June 2022: Only advice I can really offer is find clinicians who work carefully and who acknowledge the complexity of identity development. There are many increasingly famous clinicians who are quite sloppy and for whom I think political activism has overtaken more... hippocratic concerns https://twitter.com/Cv4226/status/1535305806131843072
• 10 June 2022: Identical repost of a tweetstorm I did an hour ago -- I had replies off and I HATE the optics of that. They're on now. Very open to criticism/questions/etc. Deleted the first one. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1535305016768086018
• 10 June 2022: 10/ I also did a bit of reporting on a much-touted PLOS ONE study on youth hormones lead authored by Jack Turban. The journal is now looking into certain issues with it raised by Michael Biggs, an Oxford sociologist and frequent critic of youth gender medicine research. pic.twitter.com/CukTZyx6fV
• 10 June 2022: 9/ Trans kids deserve the same skeptical approach to research findings that @sciencevs applies elsewhere. I hope this article is useful to anyone who is curious about this subject, whether or not you're familiar with the show. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to
• 10 June 2022: 8/ It's unpleasant to be accused of Literally Killing Trans Kids simply for asking the same questions about this research you should ask about any research. But either you genuinely care about their well-being -- meaning you care what the studies say -- or you don't. pic.twitter.com/JJPuMETnM2
• 10 June 2022: 7/This won't be news to anyone who has followed this debate closely. The studies are a MESS. Multiple professional attempts to assess the overall quality of the evidence have said so. Outlets like Science VS are, in my opinion, intentionally obscuring this for political purposes.
• 10 June 2022: 6/ I did something that I genuinely don't believe the producers did: I read all six studies. They don't come close to supporting Zukerman's claim, let alone to providing strong enough evidence to warrant terrifying parents about their kids committing suicide.
• 10 June 2022: 5/ But in the updated show notes, the producers still treat this study as providing evidence in favor of youth gender medicine (it doesn't), and argue that it's simply a replication of past findings in this area, citing six other studies. pic.twitter.com/EU2Z43BOPJ
• 10 June 2022: 4/ The show, which to its credit publishes transcripts with citations, cited not one but seven studies to back up the "not controversial" claim. It misread one of them, the producers now acknoweldge -- that's the one I critiqued in April. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 10 June 2022: 3/ In the episode, host Wendy Zukerman described youth gender medicine as "not controversial" and claimed that parents who don't put their kids on hormones are risking the possibility that they could experience worsening suicidality -- a profoundly serious and alarming claim. pic.twitter.com/vueJb0TA07
• 10 June 2022: 2/ My post is pegged to a March episode of @sciencevs , a top science podcast that "takes on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between." https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/2ohxk2a
• 10 June 2022: 1/ I just posted a very long article taking a deep dive into some of the studies commonly held up to support the idea that puberty blockers and hormones benefit trans kids' mental health. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to
• 10 June 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll please
• 10 June 2022: I didn't mean to have replies off! I'm reposting this whole thing and will delete this version. Hate how that looks -- happy to answer followup questions etc. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1535291057835057154
• 10 June 2022: This is a very long, very in-depth post that covers some of the most frequently touted studies on blockers and hormones. The quality of research in this area is quite low and responsible science journalists should stop claiming otherwise. At a certain point, you are lying. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1535291057835057154
• 10 June 2022: 10/ I also did a bit of reporting on a much-touted PLOS ONE study on youth hormones lead authored by Jack Turban. The journal is now looking into certain issues with it raised by Michael Biggs, an Oxford sociologist and frequent critic of youth gender medicine research. pic.twitter.com/P1APtaXp00
• 10 June 2022: 9/ Trans kids deserve the same skeptical approach to research findings that @sciencevs applies elsewhere. I hope this article is useful to anyone who is curious about this subject, whether or not you're familiar with the show. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to
• 10 June 2022: 8/ It's unpleasant to be accused of Literally Killing Trans Kids simply for asking the same questions about this research you should ask about any research. But either you genuinely care about their well-being -- meaning you care what the studies say -- or you don't. pic.twitter.com/CjWKKMCqcu
• 10 June 2022: 7/This won't be news to anyone who has followed this debate closely. The studies are a MESS. Multiple professional attempts to assess the overall quality of the evidence have said so. Outlets like Science VS are, in my opinion, intentionally obscuring this for political purposes.
• 10 June 2022: 6/ I did something that I genuinely don't believe the producers did: I read all six studies. They don't come close to supporting Zukerman's claim, let alone to providing strong enough evidence to warrant terrifying parents about their kids committing suicide.
• 10 June 2022: 5/ But in the updated show notes, the producers still treat this study as providing evidence in favor of youth gender medicine (it doesn't), and argue that it's simply a replication of past findings in this area, citing six other studies. pic.twitter.com/NjmFlRO5Lk
• 10 June 2022: 4/ The show, which to its credit publishes transcripts with citations, cited not one but seven studies to back up the "not controversial" claim. It misread one of them, the producers now acknoweldge -- that's the one I critiqued in April. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 10 June 2022: 3/ In the episode, host Wendy Zukerman described youth gender medicine as "not controversial" and claimed that parents who don't put their kids on hormones are risking the possibility that they could experience worsening suicidality -- a profoundly serious and alarming claim. pic.twitter.com/vzb0h85793
• 10 June 2022: 2/ My post is pegged to a March episode of @sciencevs , a top science podcast that "takes on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between." https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/2ohxk2a
• 10 June 2022: 1/ I just posted a very long article taking a deep dive into some of the studies commonly held up to support the idea that puberty blockers and hormones benefit trans kids' mental health. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to
• 10 June 2022: someone should write a book about all of this!
• 10 June 2022: This is a FANTASTIC example of something where if I'm gonna chime in at all I should do so on my newsletter. I'm deleting and will do a lil post about it at some point soon. Apologies for tweeting. pic.twitter.com/4E08YWp9r3
• 10 June 2022: Liam isn't gaslighting. I think he's making a true technical point about the philosophy of language. I'm saying that in this context, a woman arguing that those contesting a term should provide their own definitions, it is. They're separate issues
• 10 June 2022: It's not a "bizarre request" to ask for working definitions if you're going to claim those terms are vitally important and must be written into law, and it doesn't undermine anything if, like all definitions, there are fuzzy borderlands
• 10 June 2022: 2/ What do I know but I also think he's sorta misrepresenting the philosophy of language/Theseus-y stuff. It's not that it's hard to define these terms, it's that the borders are fuzzy and we don't know exactly when someting goes from ship to not-ship or chair to not-chair
• 10 June 2022: Something that drives me nuts about how this exceptionally toxic debate plays out on Twitter is the gaslighting. Woman to philosopher: Can you define the terms you're using? Philosopher: Well that's a BIZARRE request!!!! Also: not hard to define "dessert plate" non-circularly! pic.twitter.com/jhimoDCW0j
• 10 June 2022: Could someone email me this study? Usual method not working. I'll delete this tweet when I have it. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgac251/6572526?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
• 9 June 2022: 3/ Oh I heard it as "It looked like a walk to me" rather than "Didn't look like a walk to me," but I think this person is correct https://twitter.com/CharlieChemtob/status/1535006178564005888
• 9 June 2022: 3/ Unlike the Beast CNN says she was fired outright https://t.co/YYedhEfi0u
• 9 June 2022: 2/ WHOOPS https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1535001694748172290
• 9 June 2022: Looking for a genuine Boston bar in Denver where folks will be watching Game 5 Monday night!
• 9 June 2022: 2/ Was completely unaware! https://twitter.com/BMStudebaker/status/1535004012482797569
• 9 June 2022: Latest @getcallin ep is up! https://www.callin.com/episode/thursday-chat-WkgpPGmimR
• 9 June 2022: This is awesome the announcers don't really know what a Eurostep is and are like uhhhh looks like a travel to me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZs9NL9dPpU&ab_channel=RyanVanDusen
• 9 June 2022: going live! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1534961012159434762
• 9 June 2022: "For one thing, the total death rate remains higher for Black and Latino Americans, because the early disparities were so huge." That's from the story you're criticizing!
• 9 June 2022: what a game
• 9 June 2022: There's... there's a Turtle Pope? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7a0-oVsoyQ&ab_channel=PrizzaaGamingChannel
• 9 June 2022: Next @getcallin room is at 4:00 ET. It's unfortunate there are no media stories going on at the moment because if there were one I'd be tempted to talk about it https://www.callin.com/room/thursday-chat-ANQiPkDXjI
• 9 June 2022: 4/ It might be useful to 'reflect' on the way claims like "Your joke makes me feel unsafe!" have been wielded in the past, and against whom. I think it's fair to ask whether we want to replicate this in progressive settings and whether it will have positive results.
• 9 June 2022: 3/ "feel unsafe" and what we owe these accusers. Unless and until we can better define this and set up some guardrails against the sorts of perpetually aggrieved people who can absolutely ruin an institution from the inside, these asinine blowups will keep... well, blowing up.
• 9 June 2022: 2/ I have to take some responsibility here because ~2015 I was in the camp of "there is no way the most insane shit going on on college campuses will spread into the professional world." It has, and we should maybe have a more open, genuine conversation about what it means to
• 9 June 2022: 1/I don't know how anyone continues to question this after the Yglesias/EVDW thing, but there is a growing subset of young media types who really and truly believe that anyone who "feels unsafe" should be able to demand management do something about it. This is a very potent idea pic.twitter.com/6wnrkopX4i
• 9 June 2022: Great late 1990s jam band out of Wesleyan pic.twitter.com/n7PfYSAzYM
• 9 June 2022: Deleted a couple more tweets about the WaPo thing because this is a giant time and attention suck on Twitter and I'll just save it for our episode. Every day the Post looks worse and more dysfunctional... I feel bad for the many normal staffers just trying to work.
• 9 June 2022: 2/ I guess if you read it technically she's saying she was punished just for saying she had to take a walk. Again: Do people believe this? I'm genuinely curious! This is the sort of policy I'd associate with the worst Amazon facility.
• 9 June 2022: What is the probability that this story is true in EXACTLY the way it's described, with no missing context? As in: She got upset, took a walk, and was punished (in like 2020 or 2021, by the WaPo) for it? Do her supporters think that this happened? Shouldn't there be outrage? https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1534586233225101315
• 9 June 2022: Interesting new data https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/08/pew-research-trans-nonbinary-young-adults/
• 9 June 2022: I don't get why they didn't go right back there after the third foul
• 9 June 2022: I know we're up 12 but 2Q was very Celtics in the sense of making things harder than they need to be. Horford was at the line with a chance to put us up 19. He misses both, and several completely inexplicable turnovers later, very gettable game for the Warriors. Worried!
• 8 June 2022: Zack they didn't physically lead him to the counseling office!
• 8 June 2022: 3/ I went very long because science is complicated! But I found a pretty staggering divide between Zuckerman's claim and what the studies actually say. Sign up for my newsletter if you want this when it's out -- will be sending it out to free+paid subs. https://jessesingal.substack.com/
• 8 June 2022: 2/ In it, host Wendy Zuckerman asserted blockers and hormones are "not controversial" and told the show's large audience that parents who withhold them risk harming their children. The show cited 7 studies to support this, so I decided to look closely at all of them. pic.twitter.com/BTZYtVqQIE
• 8 June 2022: 1/ I have a very long article looking deeply into some of the studies on puberty blockers and hormones coming out in the next couple days on my newsletter. Sort of a spiritual successor to this one. The peg is a March episode of Science Vs. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 8 June 2022: RT @JennyVrentas: Deshaun Watson received massages from at least 66 different women in a 17-month period. Some of these women, speaking pub…
• 8 June 2022: 2/ Also lmao this is insane "Last year, Dr. Sara Dahlen wrote an editorial for a British medical journal in which she noted the pressure for clinicians in Britain, where questions of gender are no less charged, to use phrases such as “human milk” rather than “breast milk.” "
• 8 June 2022: This attempt to remove terms like "woman" has been VERY swift and VERY top-down. I'd like to see more polling. Feels a bit Latinx-y to me. I doubt most people like this. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/women-gender-aclu-abortion.html
• 8 June 2022: deleted my tweets about the dumb college op-ed, just not worth it -- everyone sucks
• 8 June 2022: Readers pay $3 extra per month to access the new vertical, Free For All. Any WaPo staffers contributing to Free For All are allowed to break any personnel rules they want THIS WOULD BE INCREDIBLE VALUE https://twitter.com/Roberto_Caviar/status/1534609867171938306
• 8 June 2022: Readers pay $3 extra per month to access the new vertical, Free For All. Any WaPo staffers contributing to Free For All are allowed to break any personnel rule they wany THIS WOULD BE INCREDIBLE VALUE https://twitter.com/Roberto_Caviar/status/1534609867171938306
• 8 June 2022: I mean do we even need to point this out!!! I'm not saying campus mental health services are perfect but is anyone better equipped to get help w/any problem they have than a student at a top-tier university that specifically caters to some of the richest families in the country?? https://twitter.com/NanoHydraulic/status/1534609459552481280
• 8 June 2022: He notes that he was unaware of the specific resources available to help kids with eating disorders, which is Stanford's fault Written by someone old enough to fight in Iraq who slid effortlessly into a staff job at one of the world's top papers Just utterly insufferable
• 8 June 2022: I know I'm being a jerk and getting down in the slop but I cannot resist pointing out that the op-ed in question he notes that he sought no help for his mental-health problems and accuses Stanford of not rejiggering dining halls to better assist those "not ready to seek help" https://twitter.com/hpmacd/status/1534591496267124739
• 8 June 2022: If clerks aren't publicly sniping at one another over retweets, NOT INTERESTED https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1534587406950735872
• 8 June 2022: It's ridiculous that Wired ran this claim and that @jhpot wrote it https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1534574350199840768
• 8 June 2022: 2/ Part of what's infuriating about this is journalism has been absolutely decimated, and there are a massive number of very talented reporters who can't make a living doing it. Imagine being one of them and watching this grand public beclowning of the entire paper?
• 8 June 2022: What's the breakdown in the average WaPo staffer's workday between: -monitoring colleagues' tweets/retweets -complaining, on Slack and in Twitter, about offensive ones -digging into who liked which tweet -running gender-breakdown analyses of tweet-likers -doing journalism ? pic.twitter.com/aEAV9Ehszt
• 8 June 2022: For paying subscribers: Is Cops’ Behavior Easy To Explain? Is Anyone’s? https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-cops-behavior-easy-to-explain
• 7 June 2022: I tried this new pizza place for the first time a few days ago. I actually thought the burrata slice was way too rich (I got the mushrooms version), even for a fat bag of grease like myself! But the basic grandma sicilian was EXCELLENT. I'll be back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jx06j_P5jg&ab_channel=SenpaiKai
• 7 June 2022: UNLVN, the new brand of artisanal matzah endorsed by Beyonce https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1534231912612519940
• 7 June 2022: 2/ jk obviously not worth it but when normies see how this stuff goes down i promise you they are not like THAT BRAVE WOMAN IS STANDING UP AGAINST MISOGYNY, because that is very clearly not the whole story
• 7 June 2022: It was worth it for Weigel to get suspended, and for the many decent staffers at WaPo to be forced to deal with vindictive, obsessively aggrieved colleagues, so that I could win an argument with a journalist-friend pic.twitter.com/phcmVGMIXP
• 7 June 2022: 2/ source: https://theathletic.com/3349595/2022/06/07/boston-celtics-championship-tattoo-fan/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983
• 7 June 2022: Daring act of ultimately validated courage, or one of the best memes ever to deploy in response to confident but false predictions? We'll know soon pic.twitter.com/ruBkA0VYjQ
• 7 June 2022: New for paying subscribers: Is Cops’ Behavior Easy To Explain? Is Anyone’s? https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-cops-behavior-easy-to-explain
• 7 June 2022: Old but very good, and applies to a ton of groups where the 5-10ish% who are functional and connected enough to set the agenda, write the articles, etc., tend to distort what the median case looks like, or what the median member's opinion is https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/12/against-against-autism-cures/
• 7 June 2022: This is a really good and creative cover of a great song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9tJW7dugqc&ab_channel=MEGMYERS
• 7 June 2022: I know this is controversial but what if there's been enough punishment and sniping and internecine complaining about tweets -- too much, even! -- and it's time to just move on? Is that a possibility? Just not doing this anymore? pic.twitter.com/VoNdmr5RQt
• 7 June 2022: what a completely asinine misrepresentation of my position, both of you
• 7 June 2022: There's now little reason to support the ACLU, which has beclowned itself over and over and over on what is supposed to be its one signature issue. https://twitter.com/TheFIREorg/status/1533799440473116672
• 7 June 2022: 2/ Depends on the quality of the bread. It can go both ways but if you have fresh, soft, pillowy bread (especially with sesame seeds), toasting not necessary. But toasting can also be delicious. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1533977046896021505
• 7 June 2022: The pepper and egg sub: A Forgotten Hit From Yesteryear (tm)
• 7 June 2022: Dave could definitely pursue a RICO case if he so chooses https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1533960426353881088
• 6 June 2022: okay but the joke is really just reptile-brained. if you laugh you laugh because it is shocking/offensive. i don't think it even really makes sense if you unpack it.
• 6 June 2022: In all likelihood there is little else going on in Texas that requires the attention of the AG https://twitter.com/TXAG/status/1533890772713582593
• 6 June 2022: 2/ I mentioned this in my newsletter but we should really be more open about the tradeoffs here. I don't understand what it means to make/enforce gun laws without targeting exactly the folks progressives want to protect from traditionally overzealous law enforcement
• 6 June 2022: "Krasner... questions the effectiveness of two commonly proposed solutions to this problem: restricting the supply of firearms... and prosecuting people for illegal gun possession, which has bipartisan support." https://reason.com/2022/02/16/philadelphias-d-a-sees-little-value-and-much-injustice-in-gun-possession-arrests/ https://twitter.com/DA_LarryKrasner/status/1533456484092239875
• 6 June 2022: I'm curious about this as well but it's just not my area. I can't... imagine it's common for unions to be interested in adding new rules that would provide new ways for management to discipline/fire employees??? Usually that's considered the opposite of their reason for existing https://twitter.com/Alkalimeter/status/1533920496206565376
• 6 June 2022: We need a union for people who tweet and retweet offensive shit
• 6 June 2022: This is an underdeveloped plot point in the trajectory, within major media orgs, toward more internecine surveillance and demands from journalists for the bosses to punish other journalists. In most contexts we would not see such demands as compatible with pro-labor politics. https://twitter.com/nataliesurely/status/1533918702856548352
• 6 June 2022: From now on Katie and I should get to choose which tweets journalists are allowed to do -- we have a lot of experience with this and an impeccable record of good taste and thoughtful commentary that never crosses the line of offensiveness
• 6 June 2022: I agree with this. It doesn't help to pile on the instigator here any more than it makes sense to, like, film and shame crazy campus activists. It's the admins/bosses who are to blame when dramamongers are able to actually cause institutional damage. https://twitter.com/Boston__Sucks/status/1533916308349276162
• 6 June 2022: It was an offensive joke and when people pointed that out he immediately unretweeted it. If people want, we can dig through every staffer's tweets to see what doesn't get you suspended. Is this a good path to go down?
• 6 June 2022: I'm seeing the sort of cross-partisan unity on this (everyone thinks it was an overreaction) usually reserved for Elon Musk's Elden Ring build https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1533905242663919616
• 6 June 2022: I'm sure this not-at-all-overreaction to a single retweet of a joke you could see any night on Comedy Central will calm things down and make the world more just. Congrats to all involved! Biggest congrats to me for never again having to work for an employer like this. https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1533905242663919616
• 6 June 2022: This 👇 https://twitter.com/Moonlitpiglet/status/1533864024722374661
• 6 June 2022: it was a silly mistake that the 'victim' decided to turn into a national news story that Fox and similarly outlets feasted upon
• 6 June 2022: 2/ If someone seeks justice within their institution and their institution doesn't do its job, of course they have a right to go public! This isn't that -- this was a decision to turn a minor issue into a public shitshow that is still raging days later.
• 6 June 2022: Yes! People's takes on this have been bizarre! It's all OH SO U R SAYING WOMEN CAN'T SPEAK OUT AGAINST HARASSMENT. 1) it was a retweet of a bad joke you could see on basic cable, and 2) even if it were more serious, yes, it is bad for your 1st move to be public Twitter-torching https://twitter.com/au_fan13/status/1533855635095408645
• 6 June 2022: I've been too scared to come forward with my story but at a DC party in 2017 Dave Weigel failed to make sustained eye contact with me, which I now realize was latent anti-Semitism on his part. Will I be contacting his employer? Of course I will.
• 6 June 2022: We're many days out from Dave Weigel retweeting an offensive joke and quickly undoing it when he saw people were offended, and debate still rages in the WaPo newsroom. Everyone is resurfacing offenses they endured months/years ago to insert themselves into the shitstorm. Healthy! https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1533851340539142144
• 6 June 2022: We're many days out from Dave Weigel retweeting an offensive joke and quickly undoing it when he saw people were offended, and debate still rages in the WaPo newsroom. Everyone is resurfacing offenses they endured years ago to insert themselves into the shitstorm. Healthy stuff. https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1533851340539142144
• 6 June 2022: the hysterical mode is tiring -- progressives definitely don't have a monopoly on it
• 5 June 2022: If the Celtics win Games 2 - 4, this series if O-V-E-R
• 5 June 2022: I have been meaning to look into this and would welcome responses from researchers who have looked closely into it! (Rather than people with mere opinions, no offense.) https://twitter.com/Carious1/status/1533529899805380614
• 5 June 2022: Yeah that's the hope, that in the future anyone diagnosed (at least early enough) can get as uper-individualized approach based on genetic testing. It's already the case that if you have certain mutations your expected lifespan is years longer than if would be if you didn't. https://twitter.com/mattdemonte/status/1533578027262779393
• 5 June 2022: can't get ahead of ourselves! this assumes the promising study is replicated, people have access, etc. etc.
• 5 June 2022: Cancer research is a frequently heartbreaking area with a lot of false starts, and only 4% of cancer patients have the mutations you need to have for this drug to be effective, but still, hard not to get excited about a finding like this https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1533506913165422597
• 5 June 2022: Cool, cool, "several active shooters" https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/us/philadelphia-south-street-shooting/index.html
• 5 June 2022: I think it was a bad idea, as he acknowledged
• 5 June 2022: (I'm partly influenced by watching multiple NYT meltdowns involving Twitter infighting -- it's just always a bad look for institutions.)
• 5 June 2022: That often happens, but in this case it's him retweeting a hackish joke you could see on basic cable. It wasn't an instance of harassment. And if it was, same logic -- I'd always be opposed to "let's take this to Twitter" being the first step, making it a spectator sport.
• 5 June 2022: I guess I just don't think the question of whether/how we should punish people for unpopular political positions is the same as the question of how newsrooms should deal with disputes between employees? I wouldn't want to work in one where everything is dragged onto Twitter.
• 5 June 2022: yeah i've shifted last day or so to focusing on strength and endurance -- i guess I gotta focus on vigor too but i'm having some early stamina/carry weight issues, though those are probably my own inexperience
• 5 June 2022: 2/ And to be clear it can both be true that a certain tweet shouldn't have been retweeted AND that a certain colleague of the retweeter shouldn't have immediately made it a public thing on Twitter! It just makes the organization look dysfunctional.
• 5 June 2022: Noteworthy brushback pitch. It's weird to me how controversial it is among some journalists that it is better to handle your differences with your colleagues internally than it is to blast them on Twitter. https://twitter.com/BenMullin/status/1533479995426865153
• 5 June 2022: 3/ Oh yeah to be clear I've made some progress at least understanding the basics. And have beaten a couple of the small minibosses. I can definitely understand how satisfying it is to traverse the learning curve of a game like this. https://twitter.com/jamesjammcmahon/status/1533539289862119425
• 5 June 2022: 2/ So far it's worse. Like, consistently hitting the wrong button and failing to understand basic mechanics worse. In my defense my last ~5 years I've mostly played twee indie games and roguelikes/likes, and I've never played anything by FromSoft https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1533538210856452100
• 5 June 2022: it's the most insiduous form of Cancel Culture
• 5 June 2022: Once or twice someone's been like "Hey, you should try streaming on Twitch!," but if even five seconds of me playing Elden Ring ever got out my career would be over
• 5 June 2022: ty
• 5 June 2022: very helpful, thanks
• 5 June 2022: You need an item to do it, right? Are they hard to find or can you really experiment at will as much as you want once you're at that point in the game?
• 5 June 2022: Yeah I'm planning holding onto one good sword and one good club/other bludgeon weapon. That'll get me past most basic physical resistances at least in the early game right?
• 5 June 2022: One thing I can't say enough about Elden Ring and which I'm sure other games have is the brilliance of giving you your horse early and letting you explore -- mostly safely, as long as you don't stop/fight -- areas terrifyingly beyond your character's capabilities.
• 5 June 2022: If I'm a Warrior there's no chance I'm gonna respec to the point of using something with a crazy high Faith prereq, right? Or are things really that flexible?
• 5 June 2022: In Elden Ring there's no reason to hold onto equipment you're certainly not going to use, whether because it's a duplicate of something you already have or it's for a different class prereqs-wise, right? Sell prices suck but I don't see what else to do with this stuff.
• 5 June 2022: 2/ https://rationalconspiracy.com/2015/03/08/the-chinese-robber-fallacy/
• 5 June 2022: Whenever I'm like "Is there a name for this fallacy?," there always is and Scott Alexander already highlighted it years ago (though in this case, as he notes, original credit goes to Alyssa Vance) https://twitter.com/oscredwin/status/1533499413741674500
• 5 June 2022: What is the name for claiming some group wants to do X, when basically everyone wants to do X? "Libs want to indoctrinate kids" (so do cons) "White men protect other white men" (people protect ingroup members) Not looking to litigate these examples but is there a name?
• 5 June 2022: 3/ This is a pretty big swing and a miss. The highlighted language says we have a good free-speech situation in the U.S. and that I want to ensure we keep it that way! https://twitter.com/stinkyb41647944/status/1533473670663921664
• 5 June 2022: 2/ Pretty common and annoying thing among certain critics of mine. Because they can't discuss specifics, it's chornic strawmanning -- OH SO U R SAYING COLLEGE PROFESSORS ARE WORSE THAN HITLER??? THAT'S INSANE! NJR isn't going that far but no I would not endorse 'crisis' at all.
• 5 June 2022: Hi @NathanJRobinson ! Can you screencap where in this column I said there's a crisis of free speech in the States, rather than that I think progressives have adopted a myopic position on this issue? Just screencap where I said this, please. Should be easy. https://spectatorworld.com/topic/speech-lesson-free-speech-russia-china/ pic.twitter.com/Wh3SGUcggq
• 4 June 2022: my large adult statues https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1533142382169948160
• 4 June 2022: Google Maps being normal pic.twitter.com/IjFP8hBkzn
• 4 June 2022: yeah maybe i'm just taking umbrage at the overgeneralizing language... i have no doubt some men feel this way, but especially the thing about sex being inherently violent, I really don't recognize, even among sleazier males i know
• 3 June 2022: You are supposed to wear a pope hat, but a slightly smaller one than the Pope himself. Equal size or even one inch taller is a major faux pas.
• 3 June 2022: This from Laurie Penny is really gonzo. It's like a right-winger's caricature of what feminists think about men. I think there's some validity to the second point but 1 and 3 are massive exaggerations/oversimplifications https://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1532855555710124033
• 3 June 2022: Still so goddamn good. https://twitter.com/JoshDWalrath/status/1532810801400139776
• 3 June 2022: Pretty fucked up that you would make a serious remark during Joke Appreciation Month
• 3 June 2022: We need to all just agree on one day when jokes are allowed pic.twitter.com/WEuHg07ioK
• 3 June 2022: "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, which is during Pride?"
• 3 June 2022: Imagine retweeted a joke both DURING Pride and RIGHT AFTER Mental Health Awareness month???? pic.twitter.com/XFsS64xeX3
• 3 June 2022: Next @getcallin room at 4:30 pm ET!
• 3 June 2022: how were they exploited?
• 3 June 2022: absolutely sick https://twitter.com/Tom_NBA/status/1532591014904487936
• 3 June 2022: Jayson Tatum has more than 12 points and fewer than 13 assists https://twitter.com/InsideHoops/status/1532569335679619080
• 3 June 2022: 4th quarter was like Twilight Zone levels of surreal but it was really in the 3rd, when the Cs didn't let themselves get blown out of the water, that the stage was set. Things go slightly different we're down 22 rather than 12 entering 4Q and a comeback probably ain't happening.
• 3 June 2022: he's always been a coward, terrified to shoot
• 3 June 2022: I want him to adopt me even though he is younger than I am
• 3 June 2022: All year the Celtics were sitting on this top-secret strategy of "don't miss any threes," and then Ime deployed it at an absolutely crucial moment. Brilliant coaching
• 3 June 2022: The Warriors have no playoff experience and will likely fold -- there's a chance they'll just forfeit Game 2 to give their hearts time to mend
• 3 June 2022: Al Horford is the most likable dude ever. He's not the most talented athlete I've rooted for but he's really one of my favorites. Just good at everything and a consummate professional.
• 3 June 2022: Tatum with 12, Celtics up 15, normal stuff
• 3 June 2022: There's no way that just happened
• 3 June 2022: Honestly whatever happens this is a great Game 1 for the Cs given Tatum's invisibility
• 3 June 2022: The good news is the Celtics never give up late leads so if we can hold this for another couple minutes we'll be in greeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaat shape
• 3 June 2022: Pretty awesome we're down 4 given the circumstances!
• 3 June 2022: After he hits five or six more threes Curry is gonna start feeling bad they're disrespecting him and that'll get to his head and affect his performance
• 3 June 2022: This Celtics strategy of not guarding Steph Curry and letting him shoot wide-open threes is inspiringly novel -- it's what I call "thinking outside the box"
• 3 June 2022: If the Celtics win this series I will give Katie some small portion of the very large pile of back pay I have been withholding for 'performance' reasons
• 3 June 2022: Celtics in 7
• 2 June 2022: 2/ The journalistic responses to this have been quite weird and telling -- there are a lot of people who have 'journalist' in their job description who would be genuinely happier and better paid if they switched to advocacy. And it would open up more slots for actual journalists.
• 2 June 2022: Amber Heard seems to have lied pretty constantly, which surely sapped her credibility? I feel like people are failing to separate that out from the question of whether DV victims have historically been mistreated (of course), whether the online harassment was over-the-top, etc... https://twitter.com/natlawyerchic/status/1532301598185205760
• 2 June 2022: Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://www.theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=_twitter
• 2 June 2022: There's a real "the frogurt is also cursed" feel to politicians deciding to stop showering public funds on sports teams (which is good) for political reasons (which is bad) https://twitter.com/Outkick/status/1532440949011677185
• 2 June 2022: Latest @getcallin ep is up https://www.callin.com/episode/mass-shootings-social-contagion-and-more-fEKXrhRXVk
• 2 June 2022: Doing a @getcallin room in 25 minutes! https://www.callin.com/room/thursday-chat-qVrQdsfyyw
• 2 June 2022: Important to note that this occurred During Pride https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1532003433946959873
• 2 June 2022: 2/ Separate issue but I feel like the LGBT community has suffered enough and attempting to groom them into a relationship with the Brooklyn Nets just seems cruel
• 2 June 2022: Pretty offensive to hire what was clearly a straight male graphic designer to put together this graphic https://twitter.com/BrooklynNets/status/1531984821152538625
• 2 June 2022: "You guys realize it's HOW-ston street, right?" - me interrupting women talking about something else entirely at a bar
• 2 June 2022: Houston Street in NYC https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1532067391915839489
• 1 June 2022: A profoundly shitty way to approach covering this story: -Depp's texts were awful but do not bear on the defamation question -The jurors, who had a difficult job, don't deserve a bunch of journalists coming down hard on them unless they actually did something wrong https://twitter.com/VICENews/status/1532081794752860160
• 1 June 2022: pic.twitter.com/Y1XBG07ezN
• 1 June 2022: jesus i almost did an earnest tweet about depp/heard, really gotta log off for a bit
• 1 June 2022: I forgot to pay Stephen the last time I bet on a Boston team so let it be known that if the Celtics win I owe him nothing and if the Warriors win I owe him $20, and will actually pay this time https://twitter.com/S___Elliott/status/1532083684467171330
• 1 June 2022: oh shit what do I owe you for that? didn't mean to welch
• 1 June 2022: I'm 0/20 or so with the minibosses I've encountered. The fights aren't close https://twitter.com/_mikeob/status/1532082629742321666
• 1 June 2022: "I'm here with Muqtada al-Sadr, a 'person of color' who, according to liberals, must loooooooooooove women's rights. Muqtada, what do you think of the Equal Rights Amendment?" [translator looks puzzled/worried]
• 1 June 2022: "I'm here with Muqtada al-Sadr, a 'person of color' who, according to liberals, must loooooooooooove women's rights. Muqtada, what do you think of the Equal Rights Amendment?" [translater looks puzzled/worried] https://twitter.com/tooslick222/status/1532081072921526275
• 1 June 2022: 2/ At the corner of a forgotten bar in the quietest district of Timbuktu, a strangely out-of-place white man from America with five days of stubble is, the locals claim, in search of an ancient chalice which legends say can hold an infinite number of liberal tears
• 1 June 2022: too scary i might run into other humans
• 1 June 2022: I dunno man I am tempted to begrudgingly give Walsh credit here -- he literally flew to a remote African village solely to trigger the libs on Twitter https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1531973691252391937
• 1 June 2022: 2/ Anyway "You are walking around just chilling out enjoying the view and then something horrible happens to you for no reason" is a pretty good summary of the human condition so I see why people are into these games"
• 1 June 2022: Not saying anything original but for a FromSoftware n00b the first couple hrs of Elden Ring really are: -wander toward a pretty rock -a giant troll appears for no reason -the trolls eats your face, vomits it up, and laughs at your detached face before you can hit R1 to attack
• 1 June 2022: 2/I can't believe the BBC allowed this to happen but I'm glad it leaked out. This is all because in institutions like the BBC there's an abject refusal to discuss the possibility that there are any tradeoffs to the new way of understanding gender and identity. It's unsustainable.
• 1 June 2022: This represents the limits of the maximalist self-ID position. Such instances are rare, but in a big world they do happen and we do need to talk through tradeoffs. Revising a woman's own description of her violent rape is absolutely sickening. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-altered-gender-in-trans-rape-claim-3cqj73tq5
• 1 June 2022: I can't believe you'd publish that article during Derailing Tactic Appreciation Month
• 31 May 2022: For premium subscribers, I wrote about the Buffalo shooting, geneticists' attempts to make it about them, and certain continuing misunderstandings about the connection between empirical scientific findings and human values https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-buffalo-shooting-didnt-have-much
• 31 May 2022: whatever happened to law and order https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1531746408000368648
• 31 May 2022: no that's the study itself, not this particular response to it
• 31 May 2022: "The articles... appear to use data that are at least a decade old. Wansink’s only coauthor on the papers is... a high school student and, evidently, his daughter." https://twitter.com/RetractionWatch/status/1531747712986660871
• 31 May 2022: I have lost this yet again! Can someone link me? It was an article or letter that compared a bunch of the descriptive statistics from the US Trans Survey to another, more rigorous dataset. I'm very disorganized. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1451563501881802762
• 31 May 2022: fair points! i deleted the tweet because i don't have the time to fully look into this. i am also biased against SF's government, to be honest
• 31 May 2022: Because I dislike her and she forces me to work with her by threatening to release compromising photographs? I don't know how many times I have to repeat myself on this... https://twitter.com/chrissylynea/status/1531668808590581762
• 31 May 2022: 4/ Here's my piece if you haven't seen it. At 12 months out there were a grand total of SIX kids left in the no-treatment group. Tell me with a straight face medical authorities should be promoting this study in this manner. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 31 May 2022: 3/ Imagine I try a flu treatment on you, and it doesn't reduce your flu symptoms, and I say "This finding suggests that if you keep taking the medicine, your flu symptoms will abate." That is the quality of reasoning we're getting from a leading medical organization. Really bad.
• 31 May 2022: 3/ Imagine I try a flu treatment on you, and it doesn't reduce your flu symptoms, and I say "This finding suggests that if you keep taking the medicine, your flu symptoms will abate." That is the quality of reasoning we're getting from the leading world's medical association.
• 31 May 2022: 2/The most surprising and telling part is that the press release interprets a null effect as evidence that the treatments will work to reduce anxiety -- just later on These organizations have already decided these treatments work, before the evidence is in. Politicized science. pic.twitter.com/AmirVldbGs
• 31 May 2022: 1/ In early April I pointed out that a recent study on puberty blockers and hormones, which found they did not improve trans kids' mental health, was badly distorted by its authors and very broken. Two months later @AmerMedicalAssn is freshly promoting it. https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/understanding-short-term-impact-gender-affirming-care
• 31 May 2022: deleted my tweets -- my ire is directed at the ama, not you
• 31 May 2022: I'm shocked the AMA would release a press release like this after these flaws have been pointed out repeatedly
• 31 May 2022: What do you mean?
• 31 May 2022: 2/ This gives the game away. These organizations have already decided what the answer is, before the data is even in. So anything that smells remotely like a positive finding must be true, and any null finding must have some other explanation. This is very explicit. pic.twitter.com/XSRn9QftWu
• 31 May 2022: You really shouldn't be spreading this study around in this manner. It's completely broken. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers
• 31 May 2022: They're still spreading this. This press release came out today. If a conservative organization treated science in this manner it would be rightly and harshly criticized. This is crazy. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/researchers-found-puberty-blockers https://twitter.com/brianfharrison/status/1531421570152931330
• 30 May 2022: Are there any legit Boston sports bars in NYC now that Professor Thom's has shut down?
• 30 May 2022: Celtics were 538 darling for months -- runaway favorite to reach Finals I think? It's never made sense to me but here they are. OTOH same model favored Mavs+Heat over Warriors to reach Finals two weeks ago No one anywhere thinks Celtics have an 83% chance of winning this series https://t.co/tKQxA8HUps
• 30 May 2022: I'll never be able to stop thinking about what the Butler v Horford drive that never occurred would have looked like https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1531349522655367173
• 30 May 2022: i think it would have been a matter of strength and length -- with horford sitting back like that it's not like butler would have blown by him. an all-time We'll Never Know
• 30 May 2022: we'll never know! hard to argue but there's no one else on the floor i'd rather have in that position to contest butler
• 30 May 2022: There is a dog temporarily in my apartment, just sleeping on the floor, and while in the midst of tweeting I forgot it was here and the corner of my eye caught a large creature stirring and I was like HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THAT
• 30 May 2022: 2/ Basketball is one of the most intense "you can do everything right and things still don't work out" sports, but if at the start of the season someone was like "We clinch a Finals trip if Marcus Smart hits one out of three open treys," every Celtics fan takes that bet
• 30 May 2022: if you had said Steven "Destiny" Bonnell without the II I would have had NO clue who you were talking about
• 30 May 2022: Crazy and terrifying end of the game but 1) every single time Tatum is doubled, he makes the right pass, generating good looks, and 2) it sucks Marcus missed three wide open threes but how can he not take them? They're great shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtYWL-56aw&ab_channel=NBA
• 30 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/paqqzucJ7A
• 30 May 2022: Anyone know the backstory? Any internet fight involving blacklists and threats of real-life violence is catnip to me, a deeply broken person pic.twitter.com/EwzcEyFpWr
• 30 May 2022: Big bowl of Boston's best clam chowder on me if the Celtics lose
• 30 May 2022: 1. I love the Boston Celtics and am so happy 2. Anyone blaming Jimmy Butler for taking a wide-open three that could have sent his team to the Finals is being dumb 3. Butler is a terrifying basketball machine built to torture his opponents and I never want us to play him again
• 30 May 2022: 1. I love the Boston Celtics and am so happy 2. Anyone blaming Jimmy Butler for taking a wide-open three that could have sent his team to the Finals is being dumb 3. Butler is a terrifying basketball machine built to terrify opponents and I never want us to play him again
• 29 May 2022: 7/ I should have said "easy access" not "access" -- it's not like people are starving to death in the streets but the shit Cubans have to go through, often, just to get like milk or eggs or ibuprofen... people shouldn't be flip about this.
• 29 May 2022: 6/ I understand that the ultimate imperative is to Trigger The Cons but if you claim to be against inequality and the hoarding of power/resources and you're in favor of this system, what's wrong with you? Buy several mirrors and examine yourself closely.
• 29 May 2022: 5/ Just a rando but this is a very common belief. European/Canadian/(less often) American tourists can indeed enjoy very nice resorts in Varadero. But Cubans who live in Varadero don't have access to even the most basic goods -- you can literally just walk into a store and see pic.twitter.com/icgz0mJLTG
• 29 May 2022: yeah they're triggering me a bit
• 29 May 2022: I liked this shot I took the other night before The Sadness pic.twitter.com/XqfgwbY2Zu
• 29 May 2022: 4/ ~80% of the Cubans we talked to desperately wanted to live anywhere other than Cuba. Leftists talking it up as a wonderful, functioning place should be embarrassed. They're obviously right that our policy contributes to the dysfunction, but that's just part of the story.
• 29 May 2022: 3/ There are Cubans who are doing well, like, selling lobster to tourists. A normal Cuban isn't even allowed to catch/sell lobster. It's all the sorts of corruption/inequality you'd associate with the shittiest capitalist regime.
• 29 May 2022: 2/Some of the responses are like WHAT DO YOU MEAN CUBA IS AWESOME I'D LOVE TO GO THERE. They're Right But For The Wrong Reason. If you go there as a tourist w/$$$ you can take advantage of what is ironically a very crony-capitalist setup and enjoy perks that elude everyday Cubans
• 29 May 2022: My sense is a lot of basketball nerds would put Russell #2 but the cross-era comparisons get even tougher there obvs https://twitter.com/brendanqstar/status/1531056851441393664
• 29 May 2022: God this tweet and the responses combine so many of my (recent) interests https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1530635303547019268
• 29 May 2022: This is my trademark https://twitter.com/TonyBiasotti/status/1531055437440659456
• 29 May 2022: I mean the way the game is called has changed but you can't deny Lebron has played some pretty fierce defenses
• 29 May 2022: Good stuff from @StuartJRitchie https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/science-is-political
• 29 May 2022: I know people disagree with me vehemently about this but I'm very sympathetic to LeBron > MJ. I don't think it's fair to compare rings across eras given how much bigger and more talented the league has gotten, and if you toss out that comparison it's at least close, no? https://twitter.com/doctorpaquette/status/1531054474457821190
• 29 May 2022: I think few players on either team are actually 'healthy,' but from a Basketball Gods standpoint this is the best we were gonna do -- all hands on deck for both teams https://t.co/lsknHmChv9
• 29 May 2022: look if they could somehow get beale as a third... but yeah I prefer JB on all fronts
• 29 May 2022: NOOO Two wings this good/young is vey rare This year's proven they have a contending core! Now it's about bolstering the edges, turning Tatum into a 6 apg passer/MVP candidate, sanding off the rough edges of Brown's game. Chips fall right they could be very good for a long time https://twitter.com/UnSleepCreep/status/1531047068005023745
• 29 May 2022: ESPN (I think it was) has a really good stat on how home-court advantage has mattered less and less in recent years. I think road teams are battling like .400 in recent Game 7s. Also the Celtics are a particularly good road team. This one's a coin flip. https://twitter.com/ignoreChris/status/1531045099072679937
• 29 May 2022: There is basically no outcome tonight that would surprise me -- neither a close game nor either team winning by 25. Just a completely bonkers series. I still think "on paper" the Celtics have significantly more talent and weapons but what does that even mean?
• 29 May 2022: I am nervous about Game 7! I have a pretty unhealthy parasocial relationship with this particular Celtics team.
• 29 May 2022: "Look, I'm happy to have a conversation about X, just not right now, when there are bad people trying to do bad things. Once we are rid of all the bad people trying to do bad things, we can talk about X!"
• 29 May 2022: Three thoughts on guns for paying subscribers, including the fact that just about any new anti-gun policy is going to hit poor people the hardest, and will conflict with criminal justice reform https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/three-quick-thoughts-on-guns
• 29 May 2022: I know I'm being superstitious, but part of me can't help but think that if this hate symbol hadn't literally been hanging over the Celtics as they played Friday night, they would have prevailed... pic.twitter.com/tkZUmOlTFz
• 29 May 2022: Favorite bit of draft trivia is that Jackson, who went one spot after Tatum, indicated he clearly didn't want to play for the Celtics https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2717489-danny-ainge-on-josh-jacksons-skipped-workout-didnt-want-to-play-for-celtics Heartbreaking! https://twitter.com/JoCoMicallef/status/1530990418627858434
• 29 May 2022: "Whether these things [Hitler's policies] were right or wrong is immaterial." https://twitter.com/AndrewRCraig/status/1530988644504375296
• 29 May 2022: 2/ I know that what supposeldy gives this article gravitas is that one of the authors had his own work 'cited' by the shooter, but that doesn't mean he's right to claim that this means anything. It doesn't. This person was completely deranged.
• 29 May 2022: 1/ Strained argument. The Buffalo shooter's manifesto is an incoherent mix of racist/anti-Semitic memes and his attempts at justifying his actions w/'science' were deranged. No scientist whose work is contorted this way bears any responsibility for it. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-must-consider-the-risk-of-racist-misappropriation-of-research/
• 29 May 2022: 3/ The elephant in the room is that overwhelmingly, these blowups are about positions not held exclusively, but disproportionately, by highly educated white people. THOSE are the opinions you can be punished and ousted for expressing disagreement with.
• 29 May 2022: 2/ @lastpositivist himself notes that maybe this is an uncharitable hypothesis, but I have to say that when you observe how some people in our world respond to a joke they find offensive, or a colleague writing a piece they dislike... I dunno man, I'm finding it hard to argue
• 29 May 2022: "[I]n their heart of hearts, many on the activist left just do not think that poor (and disproportionately black, I might add) people killing each other is really so bad, whereas they think that that their sensibilities being offended is entirely awful." https://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-brief-but-angry-post.html
• 29 May 2022: Jaylen's turnovers and those missed free throws are marring an otherwise excellent, very consistent run. If your second scorer is getting you you about 23/7/3 on these shooting numbers in the playoffs, you are likely to be in very good shape! pic.twitter.com/qzGLjMu2Mw
• 29 May 2022: You're right, I shouldn't spend a single waking moment not seething about wokeness, the most important problem in human history, and I DEFINITELY shouldn't express any interest in non-wokeness-related subjects
• 29 May 2022: This is very tough! I think the Celtics are slightly ahead of the Mavs at the moment but that Luka is/will be a better player than Tatum in the long run, and more of a one-man championship run when he reaches his final form. https://twitter.com/UnSleepCreep/status/1530980556594462720
• 29 May 2022: he will!
• 29 May 2022: I think so!
• 29 May 2022: well I stole Steph > Magic from the Lowe Post
• 29 May 2022: @BeezyManzell approximately three months
• 29 May 2022: Steph Curry "Will have to adjust to not being a volume shooter which could have an effect on his effectiveness" after he's drafted https://www.nbadraft.net/players/stephen-curry/ pic.twitter.com/HUivAzxHoU
• 29 May 2022: 2/ Happy to have this convo in three years but they play(ed) very different position https://twitter.com/evanbear20/status/1530977652227571716
• 29 May 2022: Which NBA opinion is more defensible?
• 29 May 2022: "Pan/Pan," a new concept specializing in American southern skillet breakfasts and in Latin American breads https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1530954916230987777
• 29 May 2022: 2/ This is part of an ongoing, welcome trend of major outlets finally treating as respectable mainstream arguments that substackers were making in like 2019. So if the question is why some substacks have caught on, the answer is we will pick up very low hanging fruit.
• 29 May 2022: I wonder if activist groups are going to bemoan the time they spent on backchannel efforts to blacklist people -- including bona fide heroes like Martina Navratilova -- rather than on developing arguments that make sense to normal people https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/us/lia-thomas-women-sports.html pic.twitter.com/rUYsnVc61H
• 29 May 2022: can you explain what you mean by this a bit more clearly?
• 29 May 2022: Alex Jones Lite (tm) pic.twitter.com/JrE1a7DTna
• 29 May 2022: yes I've never played one I'm going to be so shitty at this https://twitter.com/JohnM1800/status/1530740357188788224
• 29 May 2022: Well fuck you -- I'm from LaMoCaCiTaViRaTelLa, an even less well-known neighborhood pic.twitter.com/FQG9spD586
• 29 May 2022: such a stupid life decision
• 29 May 2022: goddammit pic.twitter.com/AW2SVFoAkt
• 28 May 2022: Totally fair to debate this policy but I think this is just very economically confused pic.twitter.com/g5qNaGaT6E
• 28 May 2022: It would be really disappointing to not get a chance to find out if this Celtics team can roll with the Warriors -- on paper I do think they are a much, much better matchup than the Heat
• 27 May 2022: Latest @getcallin is up -- TERF talk and more https://www.callin.com/episode/friday-chat-nHbhkQdEBc
• 27 May 2022: going live! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1530277336293294081
• 27 May 2022: What's a good 3-6 mile hike not too far off the Boston --> NYC driving route? I realize this is not exactly the Rockies...
• 27 May 2022: we suck but we have a very likable team imo https://twitter.com/JoCoMicallef/status/1530282116520587265
• 27 May 2022: 2/ whoops https://twitter.com/ab_smith24/status/1530281620216991744
• 27 May 2022: It continues to strike me as insane how much the Celtics are a darling of the FiveThirtyEight model but hey I guess it has been correct so far on this front pic.twitter.com/E1B4LlJW5m
• 27 May 2022: https://www.thebulwark.com/in-uvalde-the-most-enraging-press-conference-in-american-history/ In Uvalde, the Most Enraging Press Conference in American History
• 27 May 2022: Doing a @getcallin room in 30 minutes! https://www.callin.com/room/friday-chat-JzXHKJaBtv
• 27 May 2022: On @NoDunksInc they were debating what to call a hypothetical expansion team and someone suggested "The Las Vegas Dry" https://twitter.com/AMERICVS/status/1530275623087874049
• 27 May 2022: Also: "Hey Duncan Robinson -- while I overall enjoyed my time in Miami this winter, the rest of the state certainly leaves something to be desired, overall. Idiot!" Don't worry I have lots more
• 27 May 2022: Under consideration: "Hey Jimmy Butler -- way to play for a team located in a city that built its wealth almost entirely on the cocaine trade! Loser!"
• 27 May 2022: I'll be at Game 6 tonight. If you have any particularly witty bon mots you'd like me to hurl at the Heat from the nosebleeds, now's the time to let me know.
• 27 May 2022: I've been saying that tons of people would make this point https://twitter.com/AliceFromQueens/status/1530272216448913409
• 27 May 2022: you never even acknowldged admitting you were wrong that your show called her a TERF! if you can't get basic shit like that right what's the point
• 27 May 2022: . @SamSeder 's quick, sassy replies to me and Katie immediately stopped after I pointed out who his guest was. Dude you should address this! Are you comfortable having on your show, as a moral authority on all things TERF, someone who certainy looks like she defrauded taxpayers? https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1530219872181014529
• 27 May 2022: Do you think 400 million is likely an undercount, or should we simply not state estimates since the data are so fuzzy?
• 27 May 2022: The Small Arms Survey says there are ~400 million civilian-held firearms in the U.S. Is this considered by experts to be a reliable estimate, or are there better sources? https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Civilian-held-firearms-annexe.pdf
• 27 May 2022: @SamSeder you're platforming someone accused, in one instance, of stealing campaign money, and in another of defrauding donors by raising money for a PAC already shut down by the FEC. Don't you have some obligation to at least ask her about this?
• 27 May 2022: Your guest, Nomiki Konst: "Her 2019 race for Public Advocate was marred by allegations of fraud from a campaign aide, who accused her of funneling more than $100,000 in public matching funds to a consulting firm with ties to an ex-boyfriend." Maybe a juicider story than tweets?
• 27 May 2022: 2/ We got @SamSeder guest Nomiki Konst, last seen attempting to defraud donors to a shady PAC that was swiftly shut down by the FEC because she didn't file any of the required paperwork Trustworthy folks all around https://nypost.com/2019/12/21/nomiki-konsts-matriarch-pac-raising-money-despite-fec-shutdown/
• 27 May 2022: This is super compelling stuff I'm definitely gonna set some time aside to watch https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1530216287850446848 pic.twitter.com/qEgrgEtAyf
• 27 May 2022: Sam, is Katie Herzog a trans exclusionary radical feminist like you guys said she was on your show? Is this really too high a bar for you to clear, checking some basic shit like that?
• 27 May 2022: this is america -- I don't have a gun so I'm not really in a position to try to trade places for a power outlet https://twitter.com/KatMullaly/status/1530213137361866754
• 27 May 2022: Two sets of four power outlets available within my line of sight in this coffee shop, all blocked by people who don't have anything plugged in This is how America falls
• 27 May 2022: Progressive spaces are being wracked by a giant moral panic (as are other spaces!) and this means you need to be very careful about spreading scary/ outrageous claims unti thye've been vetted by competent adults, which can sometimes take a long time https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves
• 26 May 2022: thread https://twitter.com/cathydevine56/status/1529767465856774144
• 26 May 2022: still good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ul6dXgkSk&ab_channel=ParksandRecreation
• 26 May 2022: Do you think a story about a 17-year-old girl striking out two superstar baseball players in 1931 -- a story for which we have some evidence it was a stunt -- constitutes meaningful evidence for how we should think about sex and gender in 2022? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-maybe-struck-out-babe-ruth-and-lou-gehrig-4759182/
• 26 May 2022: could you email me some good background on this stuff, or throw some links here?
• 26 May 2022: I'm sorry you feel that way about my work but I don't see how else to interpret "Women's sport exists as a category because the dominance of men athletes was threatened by women competing." That's pretty explicit
• 26 May 2022: Maybe Vox is being meta by publishing shitty puritanical culture writing
• 26 May 2022: So demoralizing. This prof initially presented this young-earth-creationism-level claim -- women's sports exist because otherwise women would beat men -- on Twitter in March, and now she's been given a Twitter account called "RealScientists" w/90k followers to repeat it. https://twitter.com/realscientists/status/1529082472000012288
• 26 May 2022: So demoralizing. This prof initially presented this young-earth-creationism-level claim -- women's sports exist because otherwise men would beat women -- on Twitter in March, and now she's been given a Twitter account called "RealScientists" w/90k followers to repeat it. https://twitter.com/realscientists/status/1529082472000012288
• 26 May 2022: dammit
• 26 May 2022: 2/ She just strings together random outlying events, many of which have nothing to do with/ thequestion at hand. If this stuff truly caught on women's sports would be dismantled tmw, because why would we need it? Why are actual scientists lending their imprimatur to this stuff? pic.twitter.com/ahAPdRNUTB
• 26 May 2022: 1/ So demoralizing. This prof initially presented this young-earth-creationism-level claim -- women's sports exist because otherwise men would beat women -- on Twitter in March, and now she's been given a Twitter account called "RealScientists" w/90k followers to repeat it. https://twitter.com/realscientists/status/1529082472000012288
• 26 May 2022: 5/ Anyway, Vox continues to be hobbled by the miles-wide chasm between its policy analysis/interviews/longform stuff, which can be quite good, and stuff like this, which is consistently unreadable. Good news is you can usually tell by the byline what you're getting.
• 26 May 2022: 4/ The worst culture critics seem to have some sort of brain block -- they can't understand that you can laugh at a joke directed at X without feeling visceral hatred toward X. Does Romano think I am pro-Holocaust because I have laughed at funny/horrible Holocaust jokes? pic.twitter.com/vLuRTfNsI0
• 26 May 2022: The ever-escalaing obsession with TERFs is also so bizarre. Some of Gervais's jokes are offensive -- that's the point -- but it isn't exactly "study radical feminism for 10 years before you can get it" offensive. It's stuff you'd hear in a pub. But yes TERFs TERFs TERFs spooky. https://twitter.com/events_tracker/status/1529835905623597056
• 26 May 2022: 3/I'm no doctor of comedy, but I suspect one "reason for it to exist" is that Ricky Gervais is a superstar comedian and Netflix benefits from airing his stuff. But I think in the future a panel of Vox culture critics should be the ones with final say over which comedy is created. pic.twitter.com/lJRPE1fOaw
• 26 May 2022: Well excuse ME if I'm not impressed by your JOKES
• 26 May 2022: 2/ I wonder who is responsible for this cycle of endless reaction and repetition of the same critiques pic.twitter.com/Byq4GmGG8a
• 26 May 2022: First line: "Who knows exactly what response Netflix expected for SuperNature, Ricky Gervais’s transphobic new standup special, but pardon us while we refrain from clapping." https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1529794905538715648
• 26 May 2022: In case anyone's curious Jaylen also coulda thrown an oop to Timelord but I'm glad with the decision he made to instead commit 11 separate felonies against the rim pic.twitter.com/Q8PjZfl6KG
• 25 May 2022: Latest @getcallin ep is up! https://www.callin.com/episode/another-mass-shooting-gYTLtDcwWF
• 25 May 2022: Technical issues resolved -- will be going live in ~10 minutes https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1529507897499082752
• 25 May 2022: I know this is a fascinating saga: I'm trying to update the iPhone and if that fixes Callin, I'll do the ep asap. If not, more troubleshooting and will do it later or tomorrow. STAY ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATS.
• 25 May 2022: 5/ Higgins deleted the tweet so I'm deleting these pic.twitter.com/dqLYd0kpwj
• 25 May 2022: nice
• 25 May 2022: Having technical difficulties with @getcallin so there will be a slight delay getting this ep going...
• 25 May 2022: five minutes! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1529507897499082752
• 25 May 2022: fat roll
• 25 May 2022: :( https://twitter.com/helsinkifire0/status/1529534169788960770
• 25 May 2022: What do you mean?
• 25 May 2022: Doing a @getcallin room at 4:00 pm ET https://www.callin.com/room/wednesday-chat-epohENAdSU
• 25 May 2022: what is fat rolling?
• 25 May 2022: I don't quite understand the point of some of the time-jumping -- agreed there's something wonky going on https://twitter.com/mmckillop/status/1529505151660138496
• 25 May 2022: Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector) as homicide investigator was a nice touch! https://twitter.com/Drent3923885/status/1529502619521011712
• 25 May 2022: 4/ It's still up, of course https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1529257356135215105
• 25 May 2022: As I reported yesterday in an important bit of Breaking News, my PS5 is now en route, but I have not yet logged a minute with Elden Ring myself https://twitter.com/red_boxer0/status/1529498270124322816
• 25 May 2022: about a day ago a major topic of twitter discourse was that elon musk's elden ring build is (apparently) bad i want to go back to that time https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1528955104463814656
• 25 May 2022: I missed this at the time but if you're late getting back on D because KG wants to high five you, that's allowed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWpkMuHZ3wo&ab_channel=NBA
• 25 May 2022: 2/ Also without giving anything away there's one actress whose solid performance is wasted because she is basically used as Exposition Esther. Her scenes have 500% more Talking About The Political Context than anyone else's, and it feels hand-holdy.
• 25 May 2022: 3/ It's interesting to compare this to the also-apparently-false claim a bunch of wingnuts made that the shooter was trans (which smelled like a 4chan thing tbh). There's a subset of broken people who really just use tragedy to go after whoever their perceived enemies are.
• 25 May 2022: I heard about We Own This City on a Ringer podcast. I forget who it was but they made it sound like it's up there with The Wire. It's not! But it's definitely good and worth checking out.
• 25 May 2022: I'm on the phone with them for like 2 hours, getting increasingly frustrated and abusive because no juice is coming out, only to realize I forgot to put citrus in there https://twitter.com/tj_snell/status/1529482639882731523
• 25 May 2022: What an offer! pic.twitter.com/lT50lWhcVD
• 25 May 2022: think you mistyped something but ia gree
• 25 May 2022: Entirely different agencies and if all he was referring to was a CBP person rushing in to confront the shooter, of course that would be extremely misleading
• 25 May 2022: 2/ Of course "DHS says it isn't happening" doesn't mean it isn't happening, but again, Higgins didn't post any evidence whatsoever -- nor has anyone else, as far as I can tell. The claim went super viral solely on the basis of how awful it is. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/05/25/dhs-statement-safety-and-enforcement-following-shooting-uvalde-texas
• 25 May 2022: 1/I think it's REALLY bad to spread the rumor ICE is using this disaster to detain/deport people without evidence, and I don't think Higgins, who frequently distorts stuff on here, has evidence. If he does he should post it, because this is a big claim at a scary moment. pic.twitter.com/RtDo56jCE7
• 25 May 2022: For paying subscribers, I wrote about shallow allyship -- a style of allyship more concerned with not saying the 'wrong' thing than with actually understanding what vulnerable people experience and helping them do better https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-schizophrenia-violence-and-the
• 25 May 2022: Ladies and Gentlemen, we got her. We forced her to go hiking. pic.twitter.com/YttSBbnLeA
• 24 May 2022: What are some of the most noteworthy quotes from journalists explaining that after Trump was elected, they saw their jobs differently?
• 24 May 2022: the bundle comes with it!
• 24 May 2022: Okay final update it worked -- PS5 en route This is great news because I'm definitely not behind on any work stuff and have a huge amount of free time I should dedicate to letting an Elden Ring dog-skeleton or whatever repeatedly eviscerate me pic.twitter.com/w4gmwlVQEC
• 24 May 2022: Wait it worked when I went to the right bundle but then I literally can't enter my CC number -- all the other fields work! What a rollercoaster pic.twitter.com/SDaJKjfUmW
• 24 May 2022: never mind pic.twitter.com/8xFPoWxkpK
• 24 May 2022: Is this going to work? Am I about to own a PS5, greatly increasing my social capital? pic.twitter.com/Mi1XK7vqGN
• 24 May 2022: Very very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQRSZ5SDRo&ab_channel=wesintx
• 24 May 2022: Anyone happen to have a link to the FB comment itself? https://twitter.com/monkeybutters13/status/1528565191629099008
• 24 May 2022: BAD E N G H A Z INFLATION
• 24 May 2022: well in that case it's warranted!
• 24 May 2022: I don't know why people think all the casual talk of people they don't like on Twitter getting murdered or killing themselves is normal or desirable! https://twitter.com/Columbo_truther/status/1529149115258527745
• 24 May 2022: I'm glad we agree: saying "some people like DOTA because of social contagion" is obviously not the same as saying "DOTA-likers are a social contagion who need to be wiped out," and arguing otherwise reflects a pretty basic misunderstanding of language
• 24 May 2022: Life on the line, at the moment I would pick the Celtics to advance but it would be hard for me to pick them over Golden State in the Finals https://twitter.com/ZelphElf/status/1529121174411689985
• 24 May 2022: 2/ Details, details. Note which got more engagement. pic.twitter.com/URDYI1Zfb4
• 24 May 2022: Hey @MilesKlee you linked to Christa Peterson's tweet claiming Helen Joyce said three Jewish billionaires control everything, but not her followup tweet saying Whoops, one of them doesn't appear to be Jewish! Thorough research, dude. https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1529109357647933440
• 24 May 2022: For paying subscribers, I wrote about Elon Musk and the temptation to let jerks dictate your identity https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-making-a-very-human
• 24 May 2022: Pull the starters -- our main dudes have logged so many minutes and the schedule has been so unrelenting this last stretch of the playoffs
• 24 May 2022: hmm i dunno we'll see
• 24 May 2022: more of that election fraud we've been hearing so much about https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1528925863344996352
• 24 May 2022: Celtics could win this
• 24 May 2022: Maybe an obvious point but Robert Williams does things to opposing offenses Marcus Smart can't do. It's just different and less replaceable.
• 23 May 2022: I hear the term a lot but I'm never clear on whose "lived experiences" should matter. Isn't there vast disagreement, within any specific group, about both what their lived experiences are and what relevance they hold?
• 23 May 2022: it is an outdated phrase but there isn't an ounce of malice here and this is a ridiculous overreaction
• 23 May 2022: 3/ The announcements uses the word 'slur' four times while also noting "We’ve disabled access to the panel to avoid any additional harm being caused." Another reason to disable access is because, in context, most people probably would recognize this as a hysterical overreaction. pic.twitter.com/ajB4Y12vAh
• 23 May 2022: 2/ Many liberal institutions are in the throes of a protracted moral panic on issues of identity and it's very painful to watch. All we can do is support the people who are victimized and cut through the pluralistic ignorance by highlighting how many people hate this garbage.
• 23 May 2022: Mercedes Lackey, a writer in her 70s and Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Conference, used the term "colored" to describe a black peer who she was praising. SFWA announced she was removed from the conference for using "a racial slur." pic.twitter.com/8NMAZS4TRg
• 23 May 2022: Would someone mind emailing me a PDF of this? Email is in bio. I'll delete this tweet when I have it. Thank you! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34935869/
• 23 May 2022: Glad you're finally paying attention to this but your silence to this point has been deafening https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1514029970296815624
• 23 May 2022: You should read this. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-gentrification-of-disability
• 23 May 2022: If this Doncic kid works hard he could be as impactful a player as Andrew Wiggins
• 23 May 2022: The Warriors are gonna sweep the Mavs and then rest a lot and take on an utterly beaten-down Heat or Celtics squad, since that one is definitely going at least six
• 23 May 2022: yes
• 23 May 2022: If I were the Mavericks I would simply not miss every open three
• 23 May 2022: This series sucks
• 23 May 2022: Pretty nightmarish https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/nyregion/nyc-subway-shooting.html
• 20 May 2022: 3/ CORRECTION: I apparently completely misremembered what my brother told me about what the car-shop guy said -- he didn't say it might have been another animal's kill. Deleting. pic.twitter.com/FlMiCuciOb
• 20 May 2022: 2/ The guy DID say that one possibility is an animal that was chilling there dragged in a kill and that's what the bones were from, but it's unclear. My brother did not ask to keep the bones, because he's dumb.
• 20 May 2022: My brother borrowed my car and said there was a weird smell coming out of the AC vent and worried an animal had died in there. You're being hysterical, I thought. He took it to an auto repair place and they found bones ☠️☠️☠️☠️
• 20 May 2022: 9:00 am - wake up 11:00 am - see a bad tweet. Think to self, "That's a pretty bad tweet" 1:00 pm - others have started noticing the bad tweet 3:30 pm - criticism of the bad tweet is roaring out of control
• 20 May 2022: . @nybooks should be embarrassed it ran the Feldman/Riskin review of The Genetic Lottery https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/06/09/why-biology-is-not-destiny-an-exchange/
• 20 May 2022: imminent! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1527702506091991040
• 20 May 2022: . @getcallin chat at 4:00! https://callin.com/link/maltnBsbIn
• 19 May 2022: New for paying subscribers (with free preview) -- @ymeskhout explains how his family got to the States and how goofy he looked once he arrived https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-am-here-because-of-blind-dumb-luck
• 19 May 2022: maybe let's take this offline
• 19 May 2022: "Let's Have A Relaxing Night In" is an underappreciated banger
• 19 May 2022: i love that documentary
• 19 May 2022: People have this completely backwards: It IS legal to light a theater on fire if the people inside are making factually false arguments about the First Amendment.
• 19 May 2022: You're welcome! Also, fyi autocorrect error -- you typed a question mark instead of several exclamation points and heart emojis
• 19 May 2022: It doesn't concern you that a president who lost won't stop saying he won, and tried to interfere in key states to overturn the results, including in a recorded phone call--or that anyone in the GOP who publicly acknowledges he lost risks a shitstorm if they're at all vulnerable?
• 19 May 2022: happy birthday!
• 19 May 2022: *censorship
• 19 May 2022: The election was rigged because some social media companies temporarily blocked access to a NY Post story that subsequently went super-viral because of the attemted censorshi?
• 19 May 2022: I mean I didn't even know the words to Party Hard! My mom was into Steely Dan and I've been dabbling
• 19 May 2022: how was the election rigged? yes, some dems have exaggerated the effects of some of state laws, but the GOP "voter fraud" scam has been going on forever now, always with no evidence. it's shameless
• 19 May 2022: So Trump repeating, over and over and over, that the election was going to be rigged (without evidence), and then, after losing, claiming he won (without evidence) and literally trying to manipulate state officials into changing the result... this doesn't strike you as alarming?
• 19 May 2022: you don't think there's been a widespread attempt on the part of the GOP to erode trust in voting?
• 19 May 2022: I'm reading the lyrics to Party Hard for the first time and I feel like for a song about partying it really pulls some punches in its description of work pic.twitter.com/m4lsRHnYEL
• 19 May 2022: Happy birthday to @kittypurrzog . Here is the poem I recited to her last year. (It subsequently won all the major American poetry awards.) pic.twitter.com/UjNI61tiOx
• 19 May 2022: This might explain why I've been hurling my feces at members of rival troops so much more than usual lately https://www.boston.com/news/health/2022/05/18/rare-case-of-monkeypox-reported-in-massachusetts/?p1=hp_primary
• 18 May 2022: Do you think the GOP, especially as exemplified by Donald Trump, promotes unity and good feeling?
• 18 May 2022: It's more that if someone thinks the GOP in its present form exemplifies unity and kindness, we're so far apart politically that it's unlikely to be a fruitful discussion.
• 18 May 2022: Latest @getcallin ep! On the (likely) end of Reply All and more. https://callin.com/link/cSyqbvAUfY
• 18 May 2022: I feel bad but I don't think I should have to flesh out why "I'm sick of the division and hate so I'm voting GOP" is an asinine position!
• 18 May 2022: yeah, it's a moderate Dem administration that ocassionally does dumb pandering, as all white houses do in one form or another
• 18 May 2022: Covid deaths and hospitalizations pic.twitter.com/1YSN0lUsPP
• 18 May 2022: 7 minutes! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1527012083585409025
• 18 May 2022: so very tired pic.twitter.com/1na1xDN8XW
• 18 May 2022: Wednesday @getcallin chat -- RIP Reply All and more. 5:00 pm ET! https://www.callin.com/room/wednesday-chat-lqCupoWlxy
• 18 May 2022: Anyway I didn't realize that Mao and Lenin debunked metaphysics, and this is going to seriously change how I go about the rest of my day
• 18 May 2022: This tweet has absolutely everything -- like, nothing else could even fit pic.twitter.com/vzxVkIyNy4
• 18 May 2022: Highly recommend! I'm one episode behind but binged the first bit https://twitter.com/GeekGuy4225/status/1526943380927807496
• 18 May 2022: 2/ The number of professional journalists who immediately amplified Eric Eddings' claims without checking any of them, whether out of jealousy or an attempt to broadcast (a very superficial form of) allyship or whatever... it was a real holy shit moment for me.
• 18 May 2022: The implosion of Reply All will go down as one of the most catastrophic self-inflicted media meltdowns ever. There are just so many layers of awful to it, and none of it had to happen.
• 18 May 2022: Really wanted to break this and then I got distracted/there was no chance I was ever gonna be able to lock it down sufficiently to do so. Also I wet myself not from happiness, but from surprise. I sorta think Reply All made its own bed but I hope no one gets fired as a result. https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1526932332547952640
• 18 May 2022: What a dumb game. Not particularly worried -- that 3rd quarter was simply the result of a portal to hell itself temporarily opening. Won't happen again.
• 18 May 2022: If Madison Cawthorn can lose an election any of us could lose an election https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1526741238803836928
• 17 May 2022: what if I apply the same standards to all subjects, but people just get madder when I do so with youth GD?
• 17 May 2022: yes it's a notorious medical condition, especially given that if anti-T contacts T within your body, it causes a massive explosion https://twitter.com/bminn7660/status/1526658768825638914
• 17 May 2022: can something be so hideous it is beautiful? that's what this turn of events is
• 17 May 2022: The ultimate curse of being terminally online is that you will eventually, inevitably, become that which you despise the most. It's 2022 and Jude Doyle is a misogynistic dudebro downplaying online harassment. pic.twitter.com/6HWZavJmGb
• 17 May 2022: negative T is no laughing matter https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1526654358913425411
• 17 May 2022: Genuine Trump vibes watching this guy drunken-bear-in-a-crowded-shopping-mall his way across Twitter pic.twitter.com/bvuX6jcy7F
• 17 May 2022: Oh I've gotten into it with him at length but here he is just posting someone else's video
• 17 May 2022: I am calling them phonies, not denying that that is how they self-ID
• 17 May 2022: 2/ Textbook example of how Veritas editing could make this look worse than it is. "There is bias" could mean, for example, that there's more misinformation coming from the right, so more RW posts are taken down. That wouldn't mean bias in a malicious sense. Need full context. pic.twitter.com/a3dvWsEj1M
• 17 May 2022: Quite skeptical of how this is edited and I hope the full video comes out -- couple clear examples where missing context could make this seem more salacious. Funniest part is the claim that the people making gobsmacking sums working for Twitter are socialists/communists. Okay. https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1526336405663776768
• 17 May 2022: Judge: I have looked closely at the facts of the case and determined that this was a justifiable homicide [body fat's family starts sobbing and screaming] Judge: Order! Order! I will clear the court! pic.twitter.com/JEvBEcCnYH
• 17 May 2022: Yeah it reminded me of that https://twitter.com/donttweetjack/status/1526567630148190212
• 17 May 2022: The process is almost Finnished https://twitter.com/alexstubb/status/1526541715963793410
• 17 May 2022: 2/ You saw this same sort of distortion and statistical tapdancing in some of the coverage of violent crimes ostensibly animated by anti-Asian prejudice (in some of those cases there was no actual evidence of that motivation). This subject has been covered in a hivemindish way.
• 17 May 2022: 1/ Extremely misleading tweet. The rate of hate crimes against Jews is MUCH higher. According to the article itself, there are ~5x more black people than Jews in the U.S., but ~2.5x as many hate crimes It's not a competition but you really shouldn't distort data like this. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1526366929337868304
• 17 May 2022: A young Nigerian woman accused of blasphemy was publicly beaten and burned to death, leading to riotous protests... over the fact that her alleged killers were taken into custody Quite a world we've got https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/14/nigeria-curfew-declared-in-sokoto-after-student-killing-protests
• 17 May 2022: Anyone have a link to the 77% number? All I see is people pointing to other people saying it, but no primary source. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1526257428504772608
• 17 May 2022: Where's the 77% rating from last year? Got a link?
• 17 May 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll plz
• 17 May 2022: Where is that 77% number from?
• 17 May 2022: This is Doyle's response to Liz mentioning that she has experienced weird stalking and sexual harassment on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/Wmrl9rRVHx
• 17 May 2022: "Depending on your role, you may need to work on titles you perceive to be harmful. If you'd find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you." https://reason.com/2022/05/13/netflix-dave-chappelle-artistic-expression-company-culture/
• 17 May 2022: he's an all-time great but Luka has already had better individual statistical seaosns than he ever had
• 17 May 2022: There's an argument Jayson Tatum (24) is already better than Paul Pierce ever was, and that Luka Doncic (23) is already better than Dirk Nowitzi ever was
• 17 May 2022: The Celtics won because I paid my respects to the Bill Russell statue before the game pic.twitter.com/VIaYPD5Nk3
• 17 May 2022: All this Switzerland/NATO talk is reminding me of the Neutral Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qump1X6OrEc&ab_channel=judeglass
• 17 May 2022: hell yeah https://twitter.com/ngameztorres/status/1526316791420559360
• 17 May 2022: thank you! tag me when you tweet out a link and I will retweet like the good narcissist I am
• 17 May 2022: retweeting before I check to see whether they hated it! https://twitter.com/CameronPassmore/status/1526366802141396993
• 17 May 2022: [first date, 10 minutes in] Her [reaching her phone across the table to show me something]: So this is my niece -- she just turned 2! She's dressed up as a princess for Halloween Me: pic.twitter.com/MxpnDiKDAR
• 17 May 2022: anti-racism is responsible for genocide?
• 17 May 2022: White people have colonized anti-racism, bulldozing a proud and historically very successful tradition and replacing it with their weird buzzwords and neuroses. https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/1526228230616784897
• 16 May 2022: 3/ Agreed -- if someone handed me a book an described it as a 'manifesto' I would not rush to read it https://twitter.com/ThatShawGuy/status/1526274527826681857
• 16 May 2022: 2/ This sort of thing is usually (not always) driven by younger and more radical staffers fixated on very silly ideas about the nature of language and politics
• 16 May 2022: What is the point of this? It's this weird sort of attempt to redefine words on the fly -- it's never been the case that using the term 'manifesto' implies agreement with the thing being described. "Mein Kampf" is a manifesto! https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1526256032233705472
• 16 May 2022: Right, there are definitely some species like that... but plenty aren't! The existence of some overlap just doesn't mean anything.
• 16 May 2022: thanks, will read
• 16 May 2022: My argument is simply that 99+% of the time you can tell whether someone is male or female easily, that the vast majority of people are male or female. I think when we argue otherwise we confuse people and come across as scientifically illiterate, even if it's for noble reasons.
• 16 May 2022: 4/ What would a "clear dichotomy" even mean in a biological setting? All I can come up with is a case where the sexes have entirely different organs, which... is the case, for some organs! Unclear what this would even mean for height/weight/etc. differences. pic.twitter.com/hytcdAqbqq
• 16 May 2022: 3/ In this article I adopted a rough estimate of ~1% intersex just for the hell of it, and to be generous -- all the same logic applies. Way too high though. This has been such a dumpster fire for liberal scientific authority, and I hope it stops soon! https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-so-many-progressives-are-arguing
• 16 May 2022: jesus -- I'm really sorry
• 16 May 2022: 2/ It's 2000 and a rambling, incoherent ghost from the future tells you that in 2022 the most active source of evolution denialism is liberals with advanced degrees pic.twitter.com/kmuBMNxjIh
• 16 May 2022: "[O]f the 140 million babies born last year, at least 280,000 did not fit into a clear penis versus labia model of sex determination." So that's ~0.2%. You'd think this article would be arguing in favor of sex being basically binary, and yet! https://www.sapiens.org/biology/biological-science-rejects-the-sex-binary-and-thats-good-for-humanity/
• 16 May 2022: How long before initial assessment/visit and top surgery?
• 16 May 2022: In this week's @TheBARPod we talk a bit about David Perry's backstory getting unpersoned by disability activists, and then becoming that which destroyed his reputation in this area. It's like a Greek tragedy but far dumber. https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-114-californias-math-wars
• 16 May 2022: Top surgery before T? Was that your idea or the doctors'?
• 16 May 2022: "Two years ago, Herro dropped 37 points off the bench in Game 4 by attacking Kemba Walker and Brad Wanamaker while Boston played drop coverage with Theis or Williams sagging into the paint." That sentence makes me happy https://www.theringer.com/2022/5/16/23074730/celtics-heat-eastern-conference-finals-preview
• 16 May 2022: new shadow war just dropped https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1526201572165926912
• 16 May 2022: Do you think Michelle Goldberg is calling for illegal immigrants to be smuggled into the country as part of a plot to make America less white?
• 16 May 2022: I know reading articles is hard but Goldberg explains exactly what she means at the end: "In a week, American voters can do to white nationalists what they fear most. Show them they’re being replaced." https://twitter.com/BlazeGod42O/status/1526019112115261446
• 16 May 2022: I was surprised it was Dallas -50
• 16 May 2022: what did he say exactly?
• 16 May 2022: oh! https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1441807874053885952
• 16 May 2022: "A Times investigation published this month showed that in more than 400 episodes of his show, Mr. Carlson has amplified the notion that Democratic politicians and other assorted elites want to force demographic change through immigration" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/replacement-theory-shooting-tucker-carlson.html
• 16 May 2022: If the Suns can cut this to 32 by the 17th quarter I like their chances
• 16 May 2022: This will be such a weird and difficult offseason for the Suns... like this just isn't supposed to happen
• 16 May 2022: The United Nations High Commission On Abuses Committed Against The Phoenix Suns
• 16 May 2022: This is the craziest NBA shit I have seen in a very very long time
• 16 May 2022: Phoenix Suns' championship aspirations over the course of the last 90 minutes pic.twitter.com/edprSTC0SO
• 16 May 2022: pretty sure this is what all those folks mean by Having A Normal One pic.twitter.com/c9wacdJh0F
• 16 May 2022: I found this experience enjoyable. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1525912305069875204
• 15 May 2022: Let's go pic.twitter.com/Cr3umxVP88
• 15 May 2022: 2/ I am still going! Very very lucky. Like I said, stupid story. These tickets I need to unload.
• 15 May 2022: Long and boring story but I have two very good Game 7 Celtics-Bucks tix I need to unload -- Club 111, Row F. $800 each or best offer, and you gotta be okay Venmoing/Paypalling and receiving them via Ticketmaster app. On off chance you're interested, email the account in my bio.
• 14 May 2022: my grandpa bombed the germans but he never got to totally wreck a fascist on twitter with a sizzling bon mot
• 14 May 2022: Memphis is really impressive. Feel like we all got robbed by the Morant injury
• 14 May 2022: Jaylen has had such a good, steady series, and it's gonna get overlooked. But he can absolutely be a #2 scorer on a championship team. pic.twitter.com/j8Um10nf2Z
• 14 May 2022: interesting vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPT_Cbq4FSM&ab_channel=TomaszKordylewski
• 14 May 2022: At any given point there are 1-3 players in the league so good that almost nothing else matters, and Giannis is one such player https://twitter.com/cgeary44/status/1525299717193838592
• 14 May 2022: I fucking love this goddamn basketball team
• 14 May 2022: *12 shut up it was a late reversal of a 3
• 14 May 2022: At peace. If the Celtics can't hold this 13-point lead, obviously we don't have Championship Stuff and the Bucks will deserve to advance.
• 13 May 2022: Latest @getcallin ep -- talked about the Washington Post's attempts to pressure video game companies into taking stronger pro-choice stances https://www.callin.com/episode/when-journalists-act-like-activists-EiZhqQVCFM
• 13 May 2022: about to go live https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1525205006764457984
• 13 May 2022: Next @getcallin froom in an hour! https://www.callin.com/room/when-journalists-act-like-activists-qvvFcFtZzu
• 13 May 2022: thread https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1524834004918185984
• 13 May 2022: 3/ 1998!!!!!!!!!! Apologies but same joke absolutely applies. More so, in fact!
• 12 May 2022: First three possessions in this montage: -Tatum slips and loses the ball for no reason -Brown loses his dribble for no reason -Grant loses his dribble for no reason Just absolutely awful, brutal unforced turnovers last night https://twitter.com/KevinOConnorNBA/status/1524788492181467136
• 12 May 2022: 2/ This was released in 2003, toward the end of the era when any white male involved in the ska/punk/alt-rock music scene in any capacity, even as a boyfriend, was required by law to look approximately like this pic.twitter.com/Wg99xfHXRz
• 12 May 2022: Bif Naked - Moment of Weakness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuddKPLXSw&ab_channel=AtlanticRecords
• 12 May 2022: 2/ I'd be interested to hear from labor types on this but part of the issue is that it's hard enough, as it is, for workers to win the victories they need to ensure better and fairer conditions. Obviously uneven playing field. Is this a good use of limited capital?
• 12 May 2022: I wish I better understood where this idea that your employer is supposed to be politically outspoken (your politics, specifically) came from. It strikes me as really unhealthy, for a number of reasons, to expect that from your bosses and managers. https://twitter.com/Vahn16/status/1524484132910346243
• 12 May 2022: That Celtics game was really really dumb! Just the worst kind of 100% preventable gut-punch loss where if any one of 10 extremely stupid things had gone differently, Celtics win. First Trump, then Ukraine, now this.
• 11 May 2022: Tried to text "overall I don't recommend it" with my phone's voice-to-speech thing pic.twitter.com/MYatGn9VI2
• 11 May 2022: 2/ "Stop me if you've heard this one, ladies -- you hook up with a guy for the first time and instead of staying over he fills all his air bladders simultaneously and floats right out your window into the night sky it's like ummmmmmmmmmmm rofl ok??"
• 11 May 2022: I love posts about apparent twentysomething dating norms that are now totally alien to me "Y'ALL NOTICE HOW THE AVERAGE GUY THINKS IT'S COMPLETELY ACCEPTABLE TO ROLL UP TO A FIRST DATE WITH AN ENTIRE ENTOURAGE OF LITERAL PORTUGESE CLOWNS AND LIVE BEARS???? DO 👏 BETTER 👏 MEN 👏"
• 11 May 2022: Which ones? They have wildly divergent accounts of what it means to be trans
• 11 May 2022: typical white dudebro behavior to assume abortion is somehow 'about' heterosexual sex
• 11 May 2022: People who disagree with me should really have more intellectual humility
• 11 May 2022: . @mattyglesias Arguably Counterproductive Intersectional Messaging Signal https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1524431029473316866
• 11 May 2022: What is the best album by The Bouncing Souls?
• 11 May 2022: Oh my God... Yes! Yes! Yes, yes, yes -- a thousand times yes! I will come on your podcast!
• 11 May 2022: 5/ 5 mins before reading this I was reading @mattyglesias on how one of the diff between the 2020 Dem platform and prior ones is now there's a land acknowledgement Yes, tons of mystery about who is driving the messaging train -- don't think we'll ever get to the bottom of it pic.twitter.com/cCPoSrvcXX
• 11 May 2022: 4/ "You're in luck, m'am -- we have a VERY bright recent Swarthmore grad who can explain to you why bacon prices have gone up and why it can't quite be pinned on President Biden. Now -- do you have a graphing calculator handy?" pic.twitter.com/jAQGfGGb1R
• 11 May 2022: 3/ Aw yes, the NPR guys -- that'll do it pic.twitter.com/dULZyGimGB
• 11 May 2022: (2/ I had my own very bougie-Brooklyn inflation moment the other day when I was charged more than $7 for an iced coffee)
• 11 May 2022: What a ridiculously incompetent, increasingly oblivious and heartless party. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/11/inflation-roe-dems-connect-voters-00031602
• 11 May 2022: Hey Nampa, Idaho residents: The Quick Fix is still available! https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1524398000721780736
• 11 May 2022: 2/People are being a jerk by accusing the NYT reporter, Raja Abdulrahim, of doing something wrong by reporting the Israelis are initially claiming it may have been Palestinian gunfire. Her job is to report the news of the death, and if this isn't settled yet, she can't say it is. pic.twitter.com/AcwJIj1bhX
• 11 May 2022: Really awful https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/world/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-al-jazeera-dead.html
• 11 May 2022: The ACLU should be a cautionary tale for any organization tempted to chase this week's freshest outrage rather than stick consistently to its principles. It has become a complete embarrassment, and @larabazelon does a good job laying out why.
• 11 May 2022: 2/ Yes, I do!
• 11 May 2022: I'm so annoyed I have to vote for this party https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/democrats-policymaking-apparatus-is-wildly-dysfunctional-and-undemocratic
• 11 May 2022: I've written a bit about this but I'm worried a huge amount of the research purporting to show big differences between libs and cons is really, really bad, often because the authors don't even bother asking the right questions
• 11 May 2022: Wake up! (y'all!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBh8hFC5NQ&ab_channel=TheDeadSouth
• 10 May 2022: Maybe first genuinely endearing story I've ever heard about Trump... if I were president I too would spend most of my 1st year asking dumb questions Me: Are we SURE aliens didn't create the moon? Head of NASA: As I said in my email, there's no evidence for that Me: ...I dunno pic.twitter.com/75CjbavAIz
• 10 May 2022: The Khmer Rouge were known for, among other things, hysterical overreaction and rigidly binary thinking pic.twitter.com/4lTq3xOAWp
• 10 May 2022: I'm sorry but the Land of Oz clearly has policy goals which run contrary to the United States'... it's fair question https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1524145676711604224
• 10 May 2022: You get old so fucking quickly pic.twitter.com/Ll04ZRM7LL
• 10 May 2022: Latest @getcallin ep, mostly on the protesting debate. I don't see how you can really be 'against' protesting at a powerful person's house, but of course "It's okay when we do it but not when they do it" won't work https://www.callin.com/episode/what-should-the-limits-of-protest-be-rkUlFqIIkz
• 10 May 2022: starting now! https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1524039808380813315
• 10 May 2022: I donated some books to these guys back in 2017ish -- very good org worth checking out, and worth donating to if you live in or near Boston https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1524076565977464833
• 10 May 2022: Next @getcallin room is today at 3:00 PM ET! https://www.callin.com/room/tuesday-talk-RAkoxAgPMy
• 10 May 2022: This is a crazy story about both the unfathomable toxicity of certain progressive spaces and the shoddy WaPo pseudo-journalism that helped destroy Brandy Brooks' reputation and possibly career https://theintercept.com/2022/05/08/maryland-campaign-brandy-brooks-progressive-accountability/
• 10 May 2022: For every like this tweet gets I will debate one of you
• 10 May 2022: why won't you debate them (both of them, separately)
• 10 May 2022: I deleted a tweet about the SCOTUS security thing because I forgot that nothing matters and we're all just accidentally conscious lumps of star-dirt
• 10 May 2022: Why are people mad Congress voted to give more security to SCOTUS justices? I genuinely cannot understand the argument
• 10 May 2022: This happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LselM7HdZ7o&ab_channel=NBA
• 10 May 2022: Remember a few hours ago when I tweeted "I bet Al Horford will score 30 points on 11-for-14 shooting"? Crazily accurate prediction on my part.
• 10 May 2022: For the vast majority of this game it didn't feel like the Celtics had a realistic chance to win it
• 10 May 2022: This game is fucking insane
• 10 May 2022: 3/ That is... quite a last line given that this was published in 1938. pic.twitter.com/YDL77Er23g
• 10 May 2022: Hey, Duchess of Atholl? ROASTED. pic.twitter.com/VE4k1N6mMk
• 10 May 2022: Happy Victory Day to all my pro-Putin Russian followers who are observing!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
• 10 May 2022: I still can't believe the NBA created a rule that Giannis is allowed to smack anyone who he wants in the face or head and it's not a foul
• 9 May 2022: 3/ This also shows how the culture wars rage endlessly. What percentage of liberal parents want 5-year-olds taught about this? It's just these radical DEI types who have way too much influence on some curricula/trainings. There's no quality control whatsoever in that area.
• 9 May 2022: 2/ Same article linked to above notes that in a study "Most three- to five-year-olds thought that a boy who decided to dress up like a girl was now indeed a girl." I don't see how this is even a close call.
• 9 May 2022: This... is completely inappropriate. At that age kids "don’t seem to think that gender has any permanence at all." There is almost no chance preschoolers will understand 'non-binary' in the way adults are hoping. https://theconversation.com/when-do-children-develop-their-gender-identity-56480 https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1523763325812629505
• 9 May 2022: thank you!
• 9 May 2022: Fundraising in 2022 "Subject: My father the racist" pic.twitter.com/0fhsVFMIbE
• 9 May 2022: For paying subscribers: I'm annoyed at Arcade Fire's social commentary about social media etc., since what I want from them is to be transported to some snowed-in Canadian cabin. I tried to work through whether it's their fault or mine. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/am-i-mad-at-arcade-fire-for-changing
• 9 May 2022: my honest opinion is matt and liz are both monsters
• 9 May 2022: YOUR CHILDREN in public schools are being taught that one-off, p-hacked social-psych findings generated from college samples can be extrapolated to all of humanity. They are being groomed into ignoring the replication crisis.
• 9 May 2022: There was a good tweetstorm on the full complexity of abortion public opinion recently. I thought you tagged me into it, @tracewoodgrains , but now I can't find it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
• 9 May 2022: This is now live for everyone and it's quite a ride https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1522936135261036546
• 9 May 2022: For paying subscribers, I wrote about last week's NYT article about Elon Musk and the stealth edits that changed the top of it significantly https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/its-crazy-that-major-media-outlets
• 8 May 2022: 2/ One possibility is that he genuinely doesn't know what the word is and is trying to earnestly find out, like in this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUpdD02tlE&ab_channel=Key%26Peele
• 8 May 2022: For a long time, Matt Gabriele has just been BEGGING someone to say the n-word. So far, no luck. I don't understand why he wants to hear it so badly and why he finds it so 'tiring' and 'exhausting' that no one will say it. https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aprof_gabriele%20say%20n-word&src=typed_query&f=live pic.twitter.com/fWFTR8MHEH
• 8 May 2022: Our @TheBARPod episode on Medievalist Twitter, a Twitter subculture that calls to mind a crueler and more primitive era of some sort, is now up for Primos https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-113-should-the-bright-ages
• 8 May 2022: Hamm is fantastic in his way but funny to think about the screen test "Okay Jon, we need you to stare blankly at someone who just asked if you want to get lunch for five painful sections and then say 'No thanks' with the affect of a rock" [stares] "Oh my God -- brilliant" https://twitter.com/iamwhoisme/status/1523363918009311233
• 8 May 2022: If you're a journalist and see someone tweet a long thread about how they were wronged in some way, you should instantly retweet it, because no one has ever lied and it is your job to disseminate whatever anyone says about anything
• 8 May 2022: VERY impressive
• 8 May 2022: 2/ Yes but I only just now fully noticed this https://twitter.com/lawrence_tuchik/status/1523363086979108865
• 8 May 2022: Is there an argument that John Slattery's performance is the best in Mad Men? I can't remember another instance of an actor delivering such a... specific personality so authentically. I'm not trying to denigrate Moss or any of the many other incredible actors!
• 8 May 2022: I'm completely in favor of AND opposed to protesting outside a powerful person's house. Good luck getting mad at me online!
• 8 May 2022: yeah that was usually our top choice
• 8 May 2022: The best part is how every other page Orwell has an aside in which he talks shit about the Spanish in an exacerbated but endearing manner. It's always like "While a wonderfully hospitable people, the Spanish have never been known for [POSITIVE QUALITY VALUED BY THE BRITISH]"
• 8 May 2022: It's insane it took me this long to read Homage to Catalonia pic.twitter.com/kz60ZmPLzi
• 7 May 2022: Prediction: Celtics 4812 Bucks 43
• 7 May 2022: Latest @getcallin ep Childhood Gender Transition, Media Balkanization, And Audience Capture https://www.callin.com/episode/childhood-gender-transition-media-ANTOKHMvMe
• 7 May 2022: At the top of the show I'm gonna talk briefly about the latest paper on youth gender transition https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2021-056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1522941360784826368
• 7 May 2022: Just absolute top-notch culture writing in The Guardian. I am so proud to be a journalist at this moment -- we are covering ourselves in glory every day and giving readers so many reasons to trust us as fair chroniclers of society and the arts
• 7 May 2022: Join me at 2:30 pm ET on @getcallin https://www.callin.com/room/saturday-chat-etSwaaSBix
• 6 May 2022: yes
• 6 May 2022: 2/ @Chris_arnade drops by to FORCE me to talk about #medievaltwitter drama I'd otherwise be way too classy and mature to touch
• 6 May 2022: New @getcallin up live -- Elon Musk And Medieval Twitter And Chris Rufo And More https://www.callin.com/episode/elon-musk-and-medieval-twitter-and-chris-rufo-HjtQKemiMY
• 6 May 2022: live now https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1522681592082317312
• 6 May 2022: Doing a @getcallin room in 35 minutes: https://www.callin.com/room/friday-evening-chat-hmocKVGAzG
• 6 May 2022: New for paying subscribers: I wrote about the NYT's Elon Musk piece and argued that stealth editing like what the Times did yesterday should be seen as totally unacceptable in 2022 https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/its-crazy-that-major-media-outlets
• 6 May 2022: "Making arguments" and "opposing policy changes" are classic reactionary tactics
• 6 May 2022: i have to record with katie in 45 minutes, am dreading it (as always -- it's a fucking nightmare), and this is giving me an idea...
• 6 May 2022: I think that when a parent with questions sees the ACLU calling them a bigot, and few good-faith attempts to answer these questions in reputable outlets, they're more likely to email me than you, yes. Other people are more likely to email you. Agreed research is important!
• 6 May 2022: The laws are terrible. But it also doesn't help that parents and journalists and others who point out the sparse research -- noted by multiple European health systems -- are immediately called transphobes. That has had a real harmful effect that you haven't seen, but I have.
• 6 May 2022: It's fair to point out that in many ways lib profs/journos/NGOers are far to the left of the Dem base, but you shouldn't ignore the fact that right-wing legislatures have also passed and proposed laws that are far beyond what their own base claims to want https://twitter.com/sladesr/status/1522623162676125698
• 6 May 2022: of course if the people who themselves help kids transition and refer for hormones/surgery don't know the answer to that question, that offers information about the present state of the science
• 6 May 2022: Yes, and anyone who follows this debate knows the names featured therein
• 6 May 2022: Untrue how? Experts are open about how little we know about kids who get blocked and then go on hormones. This post's from 2016, features stars in the field, and I'm not aware of any major advances since. Doesn't mean kids shouldn't transition, but honesty is quite important. pic.twitter.com/stfqesFWE8
• 6 May 2022: 2/ Again it does not reflect well on me that I enjoy this but I've watched it 500 times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y19DC8PyfL0&ab_channel=RancidEddie
• 6 May 2022: 1/ I've been addicted to this ridiculous song since the band posted an irresistible backyard live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPHiMo29LM&ab_channel=RancidEddie
• 6 May 2022: This is the problem with communities that adopt identitarian approaches to resolving disputes. It's a completely unworkable way of understanding rhetoric and argument and disagreement, and every community that adopts it will have a meltdown like this at some point. Every one. https://twitter.com/sock_dem/status/1522446980416520192
• 6 May 2022: Very excited that we're recording an ep on this later, but for anyone confused about what's going on on Medieval Studies Twitter, which is a thing that actually exists and somehow hasn't been outlawed yet, see this tweet and the next https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1522427909796990978
• 6 May 2022: i am confused and would love to learn more about the obsesssion
• 6 May 2022: reminds me of Stockholm
• 6 May 2022: This is a silly gotcha. I have no idea who Erik Wade is, no investment in how he acts online. The point of my screencap is to highlight his tweets and (publicly!) point out his disingenuousness. If I knew him and felt earnest disappointment, of course I'd express it privately. https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1522539692562001920
• 6 May 2022: 2/ you can read the unpublished review here. it is illustrated with a photo of what appears to be a slice of white bread with a frowny face drawn in mayonnaise https://mrambaranolm.medium.com/sounds-about-white-333d0c0fd201
• 6 May 2022: WE ARE https://twitter.com/ThomasH26820556/status/1522428156845735936
• 6 May 2022: -LARB assigns review of The Bright Ages to scholar -according to the editors, it's unpublishable, and the author mostly refuses edits -they agree to part ways -a different, more positive review is pubbed in a diff section of LARB -all hell breaks loose -bodies everywhere https://twitter.com/AreNifty/status/1522413937722937344
• 6 May 2022: pic.twitter.com/G3oczmBP5Y
• 6 May 2022: If you were genuinely troubled and genuinely respected her, wouldn't you send a private email rather than perform this for an audience?
• 6 May 2022: In this case the accusations against them and their book are ridiculous but yes, absolutely zero lessons will be learned https://twitter.com/olivertraldi/status/1522423269126725632
• 6 May 2022: Me on one of the costars of the Medieval Twitter (yes, a thing) meltdown we're talking about on the next BARPod https://reason.com/2020/07/08/the-reaction-to-the-harpers-letter-on-cancel-culture-proves-why-it-was-necessary/ pic.twitter.com/ltqvQr1ezH
• 6 May 2022: I've destroyed my brain following online meltdowns for years and this one is up there https://twitter.com/Urst0ff/status/1522419798138929155
• 6 May 2022: it's a really good point because on Twitter you have total control over who replies to you and what they say
• 6 May 2022: What gives the game away is none of these people ever sends a private email. Because that wouldn't let them build clout and grandstand. The "Look, I love your work, but I'm SO disappointed in you" is always public. That's part of the ritual, and it's opportunistic. pic.twitter.com/FvjpBeH1QD
• 6 May 2022: Yes we are talking about this on the next episode it's amazing
• 6 May 2022: This is unfair to most high school juniors and seniors, who are far more mature and self-possessed than this https://twitter.com/TheKevinPax/status/1522411177481064454
• 6 May 2022: The concept of Just Logging Off is completely foreign pic.twitter.com/735DjmraB2
• 6 May 2022: Sarah Bond apologized, but she apologized too quickly, and that necessitated further emotional labor on the part of the person she apologized too. I really hope she does better. pic.twitter.com/QzMUAQ4Crk
• 5 May 2022: Stephen Miller volunteer to go fight terrorists challenge https://twitter.com/AndrewTollemach/status/1522348374502088704
• 5 May 2022: 2/ Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/trump-tweet-pershing-fact-check.html
• 5 May 2022: This whole dipping bullets and body parts in pig's blood thing... it's a sign of really fucked up psyches, of people who shouldn't be near power. Trump loved regaling his dumb audiences with an apocryphal version involving a counterinsurgency effort in the Phillipines. https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1522332999886462977
• 5 May 2022: How the hell can any sane person not love this country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seApQqkmvtI&ab_channel=OrdinarySausage
• 5 May 2022: throwing paystubs at the haters pic.twitter.com/0cNJ3atlvR
• 5 May 2022: NYT far from only outlet to do this, but to me it's a no brainer that if you publish something, and then see any need to change that, you need to be transparent about it, if only because readers have a right to know that you deemed a change to published text necessary
• 5 May 2022: i've been on this issue for awhile -- i think it denies readers access to information to which they are entitled about writers' choices/framing/expertise. one diff w/headlines if writers usually don't write them, esp for newspapers https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ajessesingal%20stealth%20edit&src=typed_query
• 5 May 2022: I don't have a gripe with headline changes -- for whatever reason different norms there (maybe there should be discussion about them). Changing the body of an article without noting or explaining is much different, unless it's truly tiny tweak.
• 5 May 2022: that is traditionally how things work
• 5 May 2022: John's a bureau chief at the New York Times and it would be very useful for him to provide a yes/no answer to the question of whether it's okay to make significant stealth edits to a live article without noting the changes in question, which is what happened here. https://twitter.com/jeligon/status/1522299982916866052
• 5 May 2022: 3/ My own thoughts on questions like whether "The Brights Ages" is a racist book are (I've been told, over and over, for about seven years as this idea has taken hold) irrelevant. I have to trust the voices I see on Twitter, and they think it is. How was it published???
• 5 May 2022: 2/ If you look at OP's thread, as well as the many supportive retweets and replies, it's clear that many people of color, icnluding plenty with impressive credentials, believe that "The Bright Ages" causes harm by centering Whiteness. How is Perry going to repair the harm?
• 5 May 2022: I've had run-ins w/ David Perry, the co-author of the book in question, over the years. One of his most consistent positions is that marginalized people should be listened to -- if they tell you you're doing harm, you need to stop. I'm baffled as to why this doesn't apply here. https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1518288936438751233 pic.twitter.com/i1g3ngMldF
• 5 May 2022: (not trying to drag you and I'll delete this if you guys note the correction but come on -- that's nuts)
• 5 May 2022: This was almost an hour ago. Stealth editing in the paper of record is REALLY bad for journalism. Clearly you or your coauthor or editor(s) thought something was wrong with the initial phrasing -- you should really add an explanation. https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1522284258496233472
• 5 May 2022: I didn't say the whole article paints him as bad -- I speculated that your starting point was that he is suspect and that that slant is reflected in how you approached and excuted the article, and what you put where
• 5 May 2022: No, I read the whole article before commenting on your tweet and I found the framing very strange. The entire top of the piece is designed to call his politics/upbringing into question but there's fundamentally no there there.
• 5 May 2022: I think the leaker was a centrist
• 5 May 2022: 6/ Deleting my last tweet. I emailed the authors and Olson responded that what they meant was that after transitioning the kids didn't experience distress. I think it was ambiguous from the text but it's an important clarification. pic.twitter.com/MAUlk7qGxf
• 5 May 2022: Newly unlocked by me: The Phrase "Pregnant Women" Doesn't Exclude Anyone People overstate the impact of the language wars on this issue, but we should still do a more careful job thinking through our linguistic choices here https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-phrase-pregnant-women-doesnt-f22
• 5 May 2022: I'm curious if this is actually happening that much -- on the off chance it has happened to you or someone you know, please email me! Could be a fascinating thing to write about. Off the record unless we mutually agree otherwise. Email in bio. https://twitter.com/PerinBehavioral/status/1521922500921335811
• 5 May 2022: don't think this will get past IRB https://twitter.com/theramblingfool/status/1522270083783053316
• 5 May 2022: Elon Musk stood up to a racist once, which is exactly what a racist would do to cover their racist tracks
• 5 May 2022: Leading theoretical rhetoricians hoped that the European Argument Accelerator could generate such a disagreement, for .00000001 seconds, in a lab setting by 2019, but you know the story -- bureaucracy, cost overruns, etc. Fucking Swiss
• 5 May 2022: When I got stressed out in grad school I would kidnap 1-3 friends and force them to come with me to one of the BYOB tomato pie places in Trenton. This style of pizza deserves to be better known -- extremely delicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1510UWVHYbU&ab_channel=BrianLagerstrom
• 5 May 2022: What's considered the best persuasion research we have on abortion messaging?
• 5 May 2022: Committed several acts of unchecked speech at lunch
• 5 May 2022: 2/ There's certainly some valuable reporting in this article but it just comes across as such a clear example of the reporters deciding beforehand ELON MUSK BAD and then building their article around that conclusion. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html
• 5 May 2022: Ah yes... unchecked speech pic.twitter.com/q6L95eQMzp
• 5 May 2022: This and replies = good conversation about a very strange piece https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1522219169085030401
• 4 May 2022: https://mrambaranolm.medium.com/sounds-about-white-333d0c0fd201
• 4 May 2022: 4/ David previously claimed to have cancelled a book contract because he was told his book was harmful. Now he has a book out, co-authored, and the same accusation was levelled. It's doing well so there won't be any cancelling, I'm sure. pic.twitter.com/V3cyrCGTFN
• 4 May 2022: 3/ He was relentless. It was ghoulish. https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1093241589240135680
• 4 May 2022: 2/ I continue to be resentful that these assholes, when the mob comes for them, never have even a glimmer of recognition that they contributed to our online hellscape. But if someone's falsely accused they're falsely accused. We 'defended' Berlatsky so I'll hold my nose here.
• 4 May 2022: This week we're talking about David Perry, who's been wrongly accused of racism recently. For years he screamed at anyone he could to cut off all social ties with me. Serious "let's get him to kill himself" vibes, because that's exactly what it is to destroy someone's social ties pic.twitter.com/ECJRjAax45
• 4 May 2022: [I catch on fire and my friends attempt to douse it] Me: Ah so I see you are interested in Current Thing... smh
• 4 May 2022: 5/ Make it three questions! -I'm confused about Turban's view on whether or not diagnostic criteria are important. In this new study, which Turban is excited about, there's no information a/b DSM diagnosis. The authors themselves say some of the kids don't have GD. So... ????? pic.twitter.com/VXI0qY3dxH
• 4 May 2022: 4/ If Turban hadn't blocked me loooong ago I'd ask him two questions -Does he think diagnostic criteria determine who is trans? -Shouldn't he be alarmed that the Dutch put so many kids who weren't 'really' trans on blockers and hormones, given his claim of misdiagnosis? pic.twitter.com/21AVNUjJoS
• 4 May 2022: It's impressive how successful activists have been at getting major outlets to stop talking about women in these sorts of contexts. This piece mentions "pregnant people" and "pregnant individuals." Doesn't really feel like any genuine discussion/debate preceded this shift... https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1521980397525118978
• 4 May 2022: 3/ It's worth a read. I might also write up my thoughts on this study if there's interest -- fairly hectic week for me work-wise. So lemme know. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/health/transgender-children-identity.html
• 4 May 2022: 2/ The phrasing isn't perfect but yes, in older studies the condition was sometimes referred to, less formally, as "gender dysphoria." I'm being flip a/b the wanting-to-be-quoted thing - more likely Turban's mad that this is a nuanced piece highlighting the study's limitations. pic.twitter.com/oL4Bhx8mKY
• 4 May 2022: 1/ This is a fairly ridiculous knock on the Times' coverage of the youth gender transition debate, which has been markedly better lately. Maybe Turban is just mad he wasn't quoted -- sure enough later in his thread he links to "better coverage" and screencaps his quote there. pic.twitter.com/29xgY32OEX
• 4 May 2022: I may or may not have time to do one! I'm glad this cohort exists though
• 4 May 2022: Both those facts suggest this might be a very, very particular group of parents, which could further confound comparisons. I thought the authors themselves were pretty comprehensive and transparent about limitations, at least based on my one quick read.
• 4 May 2022: That's my sense -- authors themselves caution against comparing to other cohorts. It also jumped out at me that many of the parents thought it was 'unethical' to even get their kid assessed for DSM-5 GD and that in many cases they transitioned them in the absence of any distress!
• 4 May 2022: Grant Williams is so awesome... he just does everything. Also seems like a good dude. Very very happy with that draft pick. Less so with Romeo Langford eight spots prior(!)
• 4 May 2022: Hannity just played a bunch of clips of liberal commentators being sad and angry, then said they are trying to "intimidate the Court"
• 4 May 2022: I like the Celtics
• 3 May 2022: I gotta master this it's so easy and there's such high deliciousness upside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUx1zztK3Q&ab_channel=UnderratedHijabi
• 3 May 2022: unretweeting! pic.twitter.com/kCWlEJEJue
• 3 May 2022: 2/ There is a subset of people who didn't follow or care much about politics until the Wokeness Wars, and that is therefore their only lens. Saw the same silly reactions with Ukraine
• 3 May 2022: "Birthing bodies" and "pregnant people" are silly phrases, but it's much sillier to pretend that the SCOTUS draft -- the culmination of decades of feverish and effective conservative activism -- has anything to do with that fight
• 3 May 2022: 2/ This is a good example of how when journalists decide it is mostly their job to point out how evil the other side is, it cuts off their ability to do useful reporting and analysis. They quickly become boring and, soon after that, useless
• 3 May 2022: I was really impressed by this https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/05/ron-desantis-disney-florida-republicans/629722/
• 3 May 2022: 2/ People pointed out that there are a million ways to ask the question, which is true! But I'm not aware of any of them where there is a big gender gap. Most people are somewhere in the middle on this, with harsher bans consistently quite unpopular.
• 3 May 2022: There's a very small gender gap on abortion pic.twitter.com/acAkiTQbDF
• 3 May 2022: depends on whether you count Sicilians as their own race (of course they are)
• 3 May 2022: This has been a chronic issue lately -- also w/the non-legislative TX and FL attempts to clamp down on youth trans care. People spread panic and misinformation before it's clear exactly what's going to happen, which causes further harm https://twitter.com/chenderson/status/1521293027440050176
• 3 May 2022: I've seen you bait at least five and arguably six different races
• 3 May 2022: more like daft decision
• 3 May 2022: Leaking a draft copy of our show notes is an almost unspeakable violation of the norms of BARPod, one of the most beloved and trusted American instituions
• 3 May 2022: "C'mon, man" - Biden responding to the Roe thing (probably)
• 3 May 2022: My idiot brother flipped to Fox News out of morbid curiosity and immediately Sebastian Gorka was on our screen with his weird voice trying to sell us something called "Relief Factor" pic.twitter.com/eeH3CY0lsM
• 3 May 2022: The answer is no right? https://twitter.com/PeterSomerville/status/1521295370642665472
• 3 May 2022: The four races pic.twitter.com/qmZTz6XAGd
• 3 May 2022: 2/ My expert analysis is that this will generate a fair amount of attention
• 3 May 2022: Uh https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
• 3 May 2022: i dunno about this man
• 2 May 2022: For paying subscribers, I wrote about the question of whether CRT is 'radical' and my earnest belief that many journalists should switch careers and do PR for liberal advocacy groups instead https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-crt-debate-offers-another-demonstration
• 2 May 2022: The "Ghost of Kyiv" isn't a 'myth,' per se -- rather, it is the collective hopes we hold in our hearts for a better, more peaceful world. That's the real ghost. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1520831090377859072
• 2 May 2022: Owens is frequently accidentally amazing pic.twitter.com/nSoAhRCE7K
• 1 May 2022: I thnk this is the first time the whole convo between Destiny and me got posted -- really enjoyed the discussion and the very different format from what I'm used to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdi8_PYH1q4&t=153s&ab_channel=Destiny
• 1 May 2022: naw it's still gonna be a long series
• 1 May 2022: Correction: Bucks in 2 https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1520812672102678531
• 1 May 2022: Celtics in 6
• 1 May 2022: 8/ The New York Times has now disseminated this statistic as well(!) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/opinion/letters/lgbtq-gay-youths.html pic.twitter.com/5fn2W2MMgB
• 1 May 2022: FALKIRK pic.twitter.com/DX8gVNIZDD
• 30 April 2022: New @getcallin ep: What’s Responsible For The Recent Spate Of Anti-Woke Activists Flying Off The Deep End? Plus more Chris Rufo discussion and listeners' calls https://www.callin.com/show/singal-minded-conversations-IIrXnblInM
• 30 April 2022: . @getcallin room in 50 minutes! A little more on Rufo Discourse but mostly just taking your questions. https://www.callin.com/room/saturday-chat-zsgRRuycjv
• 29 April 2022: 4/ This applies to my own community just as much. "Media Twitter" doesn't reflect the concerns of the average American working in media, but rather the most educated, liberal, wealthy subset of us. The Harper's Letter didn't cause a shitstorm among small-town beat writers.
• 29 April 2022: 3/ reflects a tiny subset of that community: the more educated, wealthier, liberal members. Sometimes this leads people to get extremely confused about what members of group X think or want, because they take their cues from Twitter X, not the broader population of X.
• 29 April 2022: 2/ I think a lot of white liberals, in particular, convince themselves that Twitter can usefully address major power imbalances because it does have a lot of different communities from diverse backgrounds. But almost always, "X Twitter" -- black, trans, disabled, whatever --
• 29 April 2022: 1/ For paying subscribers: It's frequently argued that Twitter is a megaphone allowing "marginalized people" to lobby the powerful, but this is ridiculous. Twitter is, above all else, a way for privileged people to talk to other privileged people. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/twitter-has-almost-nothing-to-do
• 29 April 2022: no that was bigger
• 29 April 2022: Teacher said boys can wear fingernail polish -- it's not just a girl thing. If the teacher had done the opposite -- said a boy wearing fingernail polish is actually a girl, LoTT would have lambasted them for that. There's no principle or decency here. Just outrage-mongering. https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1519858113922224130
• 29 April 2022: This one's really wild. Libs of TikTok asked for verification, Trace and his friends were like UHHHH MY DOG ATE IT, and then LoTT just went ahead and postd the rumor. The right-wing swamposphere only doubled down after it was convincingly debunked. https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1520044198589829120
• 29 April 2022: I was struck by this. "If I'm unprincipled, why is it that my ideas have spread?" 🤔
• 29 April 2022: If I stumbled upon Too Many Zooz on Eastern Parkway I would be very happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5Rm9m_J38&ab_channel=TooManyZooz
• 29 April 2022: It would have been very, very easy for you to interview Shakeshaft. Instead you just ran with a zombie statistic based on almost nothing. That's because when you have a story you like, you don't bother to fact-check it.
• 29 April 2022: I think the stuff you've done recently about Disney employees and teachers really crossed a line in terms of stoking a moral panic, and the teachers stuff was based on some pretty severe misunderstandings of the underlying research
• 29 April 2022: This doesn't make any sense. Obviously success in branding or advertising or propagandizing does not automatically imply principle -- often it implies the opposite
• 29 April 2022: This is nice and sad... sadnice https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/world/asia/sudan-ramadan-protests.html
• 29 April 2022: Totally normal 36-year-old point guard stuff pic.twitter.com/NFL3XtBrMP
• 29 April 2022: B E Nadison Gawthorn H A Z I
• 28 April 2022: . @olivertraldi On Wokeness And Philosophy Twitter And The Limits Of Conversation And Gender Stuff https://www.callin.com/episode/oliver-traldi-on-wokeness-and-philosophy-apWwOcrFOf via @getcallin
• 28 April 2022: yes recorded and will post after https://twitter.com/behaviorben/status/1519768330294419460
• 28 April 2022: This sucks but last year we were without Jaylen and early in Tatum and Brown's career we made a Conference Finals run without Hayward or Irving -- we're due for good injury luck I hope! https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/khris-middleton-injury-update-bucks-star-to-miss-celtics-series-with-grade-2-mcl-sprain-per-report/
• 28 April 2022: In five minutes I'm having @olivertraldi on my @getcallin to explain why he literally wants to hug and kiss fascism https://www.callin.com/room/oliver-traldi-discusses-philosophical-NXViIMbGXT
• 28 April 2022: 2/ Both the Tea Party and Trumpism have happened since 2008! Some of it is just optics, but a lot of it is a substantive rightward shift on certain issues, and an eager embrace of a lot of crazy https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1519736121093148677
• 28 April 2022: I will never understand this graphic, which acts like the GOP in 2008 is exactly the same as the GOP in 2021, which is an insane position to hold. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
• 28 April 2022: . @jonathanchait makes the simple but annoyingly controversial point that Rufo types might be unprincipled bad actors, but they've turned up genuinely bad DEI stuff, and progressives are self-owning by refusing to simply acknowledge/denounce when warranted https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/liberals-culture-war-dodge-fight-history-left.html
• 28 April 2022: 2/ Rundown by me: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/should-you-be-allowed-to-disagree-3a2?s=w People really need to push back against this, but it's hard in the moment because anyone who does faces severe professional and reputational repercussions
• 28 April 2022: People should familiarize themselves with this nontroversy. It is one of the starkest examples I've seen of how major institutions are trying to purge themselves of anyone who expresses any disagreement on certain subjects, no matter how mild. https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1519719825362280449
• 28 April 2022: Possibly dumb question but how do I determine exactly how many hospitals with ICUs are in a particular city?
• 28 April 2022: probably but i don't care
• 28 April 2022: Dog groomer: Your dog's grooming is almost done and you can pick her up at 4:00 Me: Okay, Groomer
• 28 April 2022: Online progressive spaces have a pretty big grifter problem at the moment, and I think it's driven by certain deference norms (people are who they say they are and any questioning is deeply offensive). This is going to happen over and over. https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/nyc-school-pediatrician-faked-being-covid-frontline-doctor-report/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
• 28 April 2022: The last time The Daily covered youth gender medicine, the episode included a frustrating amount of bad misinformation and activist PR. This two-parter SO MUCH better. Highly recommend. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/podcasts/the-daily/transgender-teenagers-clinic-texas.html
• 28 April 2022: 4:00 pm ET today: @olivertraldi comes on my @getcallin to discuss philosophically vexing questions like "Why post?" Plus maybe some Jason Stanley Discourse https://www.callin.com/room/oliver-traldi-discusses-philosophical-NXViIMbGXT
• 28 April 2022: thanks -- where does it say that IL has officially adopted these standards?
• 28 April 2022: Is it confirmed that this is a required curriculum for all K-3 students there? Not denying that a lot of this stuff looks to be developmentally inappropriate but just want to make sure we get full context https://www.city-journal.org/radical-gender-lessons-for-young-children
• 28 April 2022: Well this changes my plans significantly pic.twitter.com/UI1X3OmY7f
• 28 April 2022: Please help @TwitterSafety and/or @elonmusk we stand to lose billions from this https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1519481545324736512
• 28 April 2022: 2/ Anyway here's our latest episode jfc I'm dumb https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-please-acquire-us-daddy-musk?s=w
• 28 April 2022: Don't tell Katie that while I was updating our profile page I tried to add our 'birthday' (March 24, 2020), and Twitter thought a toddler had set up an account and sprung into action pic.twitter.com/OAdWboCAqb
• 28 April 2022: No gonna lie -- a tough recording sesh. When I think about what a warm, nurturing, wonderful place Twitter is, and how kind everyone is, and then I think about how that could change under Musk... what is the German word for "puking and screaming and crying at the same time"? https://twitter.com/TheBARPod/status/1519477375184089089
• 28 April 2022: just putting together the show notes pic.twitter.com/BRH8q7Lxtj
• 28 April 2022: Tomorrow at 4:00 pm on @getcallin I'm going to have on @olivertraldi to discuss philosophically vexing questions like "Why post?" Plus maybe some Jason Stanley Discourse https://www.callin.com/room/oliver-traldi-discusses-philosophical-NXViIMbGXT
• 28 April 2022: My Canadian girlfriend was shadow-banned https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1519358864151437317
• 28 April 2022: oh thank God https://gizmodo.com/vr-researches-simulate-kisses-with-ultrasonic-transduce-1848849489
• 28 April 2022: 2/ do NOT Google Image "rancher's drip"
• 28 April 2022: I can't say for sure that the one caused the other, but ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter I've been having all sorts of really weird and gross and deeply personal medical problems -- profoundly embarrasing ones
• 28 April 2022: Why would Jason do that pic.twitter.com/DdNRi7KgEH
• 28 April 2022: Oh indeed
• 28 April 2022: or Philly (or Toronto)! But yes probably Heat
• 28 April 2022: such stats are closely held. might be able to piece it together from Apple Podcasts or Chartable chart positions but I think that's very fuzzy and of questionable quality
• 27 April 2022: "A man's gotta have a code." - me
• 27 April 2022: oh god that would be so awesome
• 27 April 2022: If I'm Ime Udoka I'm focusing on how now the Celtics will be playing an opponent that "plays defense" and "has guys more than 6 feet tall" and "won't fold instantly when things go south"
• 27 April 2022: All right 9 minutes in to Bulls - Bucks it's clear that it'll soon officially be Celtics - Bucks and that is going to be quite a series. (Very bad injury luck for the Bulls but they'll be back.)
• 27 April 2022: I PROFOUNDLY disagree with Elon Musk's decision to let podcasters back on this platform, even if I will accidentally benefit from it
• 27 April 2022: 3/ I should be clear that my glee doesn't extend to wanting anyone to get like fired or downsized or anything! Even when it comes to my worst media enemies (of whom none work for Gimlet/Reply All), I don't want that. Just glad Vogt is making a comeback, and this is telling.
• 27 April 2022: ty
• 27 April 2022: 3/ To be clear, said screenshotting occured when half of Twitter was also screenshotting/quote-RTing the person in question. There was no need for me to be a part of that and I deleted my tweets. But still! People are ridiculous on this.
• 27 April 2022: 2/ I still harbor a little bit of resentment over this. In progressive spaces, people are so profoundly full of shit when it comes to encouraging 'harassment' or 'siccing followers' or whatever when their friends do it, but treating their enemies doing it like a war crime.
• 27 April 2022: One time I was a trending topic in my area because I screenshotted someone who did something ridiculous and calmly pointed out how silly it was -- endless people piled on to accuse me of 'harassment' etc. But openly wishing for death is fine if you're on the Good Team. pic.twitter.com/rz8BGGqus1
• 27 April 2022: Got a link to that? Curious how much it lines up with the American data
• 27 April 2022: Eh deleting this since it was probably satire but I feel like you see this point made a lot in earnest! At this point yeah it's probably all trolling pic.twitter.com/fRv0SkjTBv
• 27 April 2022: 2/ This might be true but I have seen this point made in earnest a million times, even pre-Musk-Twitter-thing https://twitter.com/numinous_ity/status/1519387322667749376
• 27 April 2022: The two things about this genre of tweet are that 1) the math is always wrong, and 2) if you gave everyone in the world the exact same amount of money it would have no positive effect on inequality! The costs of everything would immediately jump tremendously https://twitter.com/PedriVision/status/1519377940076806145
• 27 April 2022: 2/ h/t https://twitter.com/skmoskowitz/status/1519371803918954497
• 27 April 2022: Fucking. Good. Hope this circulates far and wide within Gimlet. pic.twitter.com/rXBryV2oAC
• 27 April 2022: interesting convo https://twitter.com/semaforben/status/1519331279870779393
• 27 April 2022: also i deleted the tweet because i phrased it poorly in exactly the way you noted, like before this wasn't happening
• 27 April 2022: you can do as many vicious unhinged personal tweetstorms @-ing your chair as you want! i'm envious
• 27 April 2022: I think it makes a subset of dumb views much more salient, and that there are a lot of very bad firings/other acts that can be traced directly to Twitter-fears. Agreed about the last part, of course -- I just think Twitter exacerbates rather than improves the power differential
• 27 April 2022: 2/ Ask yourself which of these two things has Twitter done more of: -lift up materially oppressed people and improve their conditions -make sure powerful people hear the political views of Ivy League grads Is it even close?
• 27 April 2022: I think one of the worst impacts Twitter has had on media and academia is giving too much (perceived) voice to wealthy progressives with faux radical opinions that corporations, school admins etc. then come to view as legitimate and popular https://twitter.com/ElementsDeStyle/status/1519343278167977984
• 27 April 2022: brilliant! https://twitter.com/MetaHumean/status/1519337526816739328
• 27 April 2022: brilliant
• 27 April 2022: If you took the amount Elon Musk paid for Twitter ($44 billion), converted it into pennies, swapped them back for dollars, and then exchanged them for the currency in circulation at the peak of Weimar hyperinflation, he would have paid 1.848*10²³ circa-1924 marks for Twitter!
• 27 April 2022: He is told. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1519269490760077312
• 27 April 2022: is this written up anywhere? would love to read more
• 27 April 2022: I don't know how many times I need to repeat this: All that any of this is is profoundly marginalized people finally gaining a seat at the table. Anyone with any qualms about "cancel culture" is therefore a bigot. pic.twitter.com/kC4huoOJX2
• 27 April 2022: I don't know how many times I need to repeat this: All that any of this is is profoundly marginalized people finally gaining a seat at the table. Anyone with any qualms about "cancel culture" is therefore a bigot. pic.twitter.com/yDcjSULjTA
• 27 April 2022: they were just volunteering
• 27 April 2022: 2/ "The rate of pay during boarding will be 50% of regular wages." JFC
• 27 April 2022: How in God's name do airlines get away with not paying flight attendants until everyone is seated and the doors are closed? That adds up so many millions of hours of unpaid labor... just unreal. It's super weird that people want unions. https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2022/04/26/delta-to-begin-paying-flight-attendants-during-boarding/?p1=hp_secondary
• 27 April 2022: 3/ Tons of names from elite universities signed this. Tomorrow we'll be told these are just random nobodies, that there's nothing to worry about here and nothing weird or moral panicky going on within academia https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZqWl5grm_F5Kn_0OarY9Q2jlOnk200PvhM5e3isPvY/edit
• 27 April 2022: 2/ Pinker used the terms "urban crime" and "urban violence" to describe what a pair of researchers study (because that's what they study). This, say the ~700 researchers, is a "dogwhistle" pic.twitter.com/vBwfMjOJsb
• 27 April 2022: A document signed by ~700 academics seeking to get Steven Pinker removed from the Linguistics Society of America's lists of media experts and distinguished academic fellows generously "sets aside" his "public support for David Brooks," who stands accused of "gender essentialism" pic.twitter.com/oUuSndROKQ
• 26 April 2022: 2/ A lot of perfectly reasonable people think this but I've never gotten it. He's dapper! It fits in with one of the themes of the story, which is his attempt to put a more friendly face on vicious, old-school racism, https://twitter.com/KevinMahnken/status/1519054507233234944
• 26 April 2022: Just reread this excellent piece and the idea that it in any way 'validates' or 'normalizes' Richard Spencer is so insane... the fact that so many journalists believe so suggests some terrible misconceptions about what journalism is have caught on https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist/
• 26 April 2022: With the $44 billion Elon Musk spent buying Twitter, he could have given me $44 billion. How can we trust someone whose priorities are so out of whack?
• 26 April 2022: Very good! https://scholars.org/features/statement-university-obligations-support-freedom
• 26 April 2022: @threadreaderapp unroll plz
• 26 April 2022: Me and @michaelshermer on fad psychology and other subjects! https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/jesse-singal-on-why-fad-psychology-cant-cure-our-social-ills/
• 26 April 2022: "I need free speech because I don’t have the faith this army of sneering white dudes has that I know everything, that every debate has already been settled and we just need to let the goodies rule over the baddies. I don’t think everything is obvious." https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/just-keep-it-off-my-timeline pic.twitter.com/mtvEKfw3b9
• 26 April 2022: A huge number of the Protect Democracy From Fascism folks would, in a sliiiiiightly different context, be cheerfully rifling through citizens' homes to make sure they weren't hiding any counterrevolutionary or degenerate books pic.twitter.com/bt7BI4SAHD
• 26 April 2022: For paying subscribers https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/good-news-everyone-who-disagrees?s=w
• 26 April 2022: pic.twitter.com/6x28IsEB5y
• 26 April 2022: (Katie's was actually first I just stole her screenshot which is slightly old)
• 26 April 2022: Goddamnit pic.twitter.com/RqdeVLBswW
• 26 April 2022: It is amazing how consistent our D is and how it keeps us in games even when we're misfiring other end of the court
• 26 April 2022: 3/ Oh my God that was awesome pic.twitter.com/HqoKvOsWdS
• 25 April 2022: 2/ Luckily this is a dictatorship and I am overturning the results of the election BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
• 25 April 2022: you do
• 25 April 2022: Extremely lucky to have tickets to Celtics - Nets Game 4 with my brother and a friend. Should I: -go as planned -stay home to keep tweeting about Elon Musk over and over, hoping for validation and community I'll never truly find
• 25 April 2022: normal stuff pic.twitter.com/gC1Pwqm57w
• 25 April 2022: Research is very very bad in many fields! Like, hundreds of millions of wasted dollars bad. Though it varies tremendously from discpline from discipline of course.
• 25 April 2022: 2/ Donor: All right, GLAAD, what did you do with the money I gave you to preserve LGBT rights? GLAAD: We totally called out J.D. Vance for his bad Ukraine take! Donor: ...
• 25 April 2022: I have issues w/GLAAD for obvious reasons, but this is a really good example of the mission creep that is funneling a lot of donations to liberal organizations into efforts the donors likely would disapprove of. GLAAD is accusing Vance of... not having the right Ukraine views? pic.twitter.com/rQ3Bo2o8GC
• 25 April 2022: the sorts of journalists claiming to want to leave twitter because of this overlap 100% with the sorts of journalists would murder children on TV just to be able to stay on twitter
• 25 April 2022: even i, a liberal, do not think gay people should be allowed to marry fossils. this stuff is getting insane
• 25 April 2022: leaving twurter
• 25 April 2022: Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO https://myspace.com/
• 25 April 2022: 7/ The Hill, three days ago... sigh pic.twitter.com/7ayXJiUoje
• 25 April 2022: Protesting Elon Musk by continuing to publish dumb, poorly researched tweets which contribute to the site's slow but inevitable descent into hell itself
• 25 April 2022: Unbelievable lib madness -- I have no words. I'm shaking uncontrollably https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1518622889242619904
• 25 April 2022: It's about both! It explicitly talks about him ginning up parents with, for example, the Disney sex-criminal bullshit
• 25 April 2022: 4/ If Trip Gabriel had run a totally neutral, view-from-nowhere piece that didn't address the worst stuff Rufo had done, that would be a fair not. But that's not the piece at all -- just read it! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/politics/christopher-rufo-crt-lgbtq-florida.html
• 25 April 2022: 3/ Because Froomkin sees journalists' primary role as to moralize, he's done shit like this. This tweet is STILL up, more than a month after it was explained to him that it's false to call FIRE a right-wing group. It's a college student he's lying about. https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1500937460901105670
• 25 April 2022: 2/ The idea that you are 'validating' someone by trying to explain why they are popular and influential, without inserting AND THIS PERSON IS EVIL every sentence, is poison to journalism. Poison. Seriously, just cancel the whole enterprise if this is going to be the ethos.
• 25 April 2022: I HATE this understanding of journalism. HATE it. Journalism is so fucked for so many reasons, and is subject to so much mistrust (in part because of Rufoian figures!), and if we promote the idea that our main role is to point to people and call them morally bad, we're toast. https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1518360549763031041
• 25 April 2022: No https://twitter.com/DrewF0224/status/1518655934012268544
• 25 April 2022: Okay I've bee