#isaac schorr

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"Give no place to the devil."¹ "...he (Bobby) put baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.

Update Jan 30th: Bobby just lied under oath. Perhaps he should have been asked whether or not it was Robert Strong who made those unwanted sexual advances. Will he later blame his perjury on the same "cognitive problems" (short & longterm memory loss) he used to legally terrorize Mary Catherine? Just Unbelievable.

I've never agreed with Caroline Kennedy on anything until today, Wednesday, January 29th 2025: RFK Jr/Robert Kennedy Jr aka Robert Strong is a "PREDATOR." Caroline should have shared where ALL the bodies are buried. She knows Bobby has blood (real blood) on his hands. God will NOT be mocked. Like Abel's blood, the blood of untold innocents cries out to the Lord for justice against Bobby. To those who have suffered abuse at his hands and wonder if the nightmare will ever end: don't lose heart. Sometimes we think God has forgotten our abusers because evil people seem to get away with their wicked deeds, and in the case of Bobby they get promoted before our very eyes. What we see throughout history is that God will NOT be mocked. Whatever we sow, we reap. Though God may be silent, He is NEVER still.

To Donald Trump: "You knew what I was when you took me in."

Trump Central Casting picks their face of Health & Wellness:

¹Ephesians 4:27 from the greek word topas "physical location"

"I am who I am. I'm not a church boy. "-Bobby Kennedy

The operative name in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “Kennedy.” by Isaac Schorr

At his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services fielded countless questions about the countless views he’s articulated and actions he’s taken that make him uniquely unsuited for this position.

And, as you might expect of any Kennedy, his answers were full of obfuscations, half-truths, and outright lies.

In his opening statement, Kennedy tried to sidestep the single biggest cloud hanging over his nomination.

“I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care,” he proclaimed.

“All of my kids are vaccinated, I’ve written many books on vaccines, my first book in 2014, the first line of it is ‘I am not anti-vaccine’ and the last line is ‘I am not anti-vaccine.’”If only saying it made it so.

Kennedy has a decades-long record that reveals him to be exactly what he says he’s not.

While he touted his kids’ vaccination status at his hearing, he has previously said he would “do anything” and “pay anything” to go back in time and change that fact.

In 2021, he said that “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get them vaccinated.’”And that’s to say nothing of him being the founder and former chairman of an anti-vaccine group going by the Orwellian name “Children’s Health Defense,” which is currently promoting a film called “Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill.”

In another notable moment, Kennedy was quizzed about his role in exacerbating a measles outbreak in Samoa that claimed the lives of more than 80 people – most of them young children – in 2019.

Kennedy traveled to the island nation in June of that year at the invitation of another anti-vaccine activist following the deaths of two babies improperly administered vaccines.

On Wednesday, Kennedy insisted his visit had “nothing to do with vaccines” and that he “never gave any public statement about vaccines.”

The Samoan Ministry of Health sees it differently.

“It is well documented that RFK Jr.’s visit to Samoa in 2019 coincided with increased anti-vaccine sentiment, particularly among certain groups,” it said in a statement.

Moreover, in the aftermath of the outbreak, Kennedy sought to exploit the tragedy to push the Samoan Government toward anti-vaccine policies.“It is critical that the Samoan Health Ministry determine, scientifically, if the outbreak was caused by inadequate vaccine coverage or alternatively, by a defective vaccine,” wrote Kennedy in a letter to the prime minister.

There he was again, just asking questions.

Kennedy’s attempts to explain away his own words – nay, his life’s work – fell short in numerous other instances.Asked about his suggestion that Covid-19 may have been genetically engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, Kennedy insisted that he was only quoting an NIH study.

The truth? That he said that the virus “is targeted to attack caucasians and black people,” while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese “are most immune.”

As to whether it had been engineered to do so, well, Kennedy thought that was an open question.

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not,” he added.

Asked about a series of overwrought, irresponsible comparisons he’s drawn while promoting his dangerous lies, he denied having ever made them.

Roll the tape, however, and you’ll find that he’s said that the CDC’s decision not to deem autism an epidemic was “like Nazi death camps,” and analogized the agency’s priorities to those of fascist regimes and the Catholic Church’s “pedophile scandal.”

And then there’s his cynical abortion flip-flop, which was addressed by senators of both parties on Wednesday.

“I agree with him [President Trump] that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year,” declared Kennedy at his hearing.

If that’s the case, why did he express support for full-term elective abortions on the campaign trail less than a year ago?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is many things that his famous family resents: A kook, an embarrassment, and, worst of all, in league with the Republican Party.

But his most ignoble trait – the one on full display on Wednesday – is one that he shares with the rest of his clan: He’s a power hungry charlatan willing to say anything to take the next step up the ladder.

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Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 7/27/2023

Fifth Place: Elon Musk

Remember back in 2017 when shaky evidence of ads appearing on neo-Nazi and racist content caused YouTube to have take a much stronger stance on who they do and don't monetize? Well it looks like Twitter could reach the same problem soon, given Media Matters posted an article today with the headline "Twitter placed ads for USA Today, National Women’s Soccer League, and other major brands on a terrorism-linked neo-Nazi account." One such group is quite literally called the National Socialist Network, a play on the National Socialist German Workers Party, or the Nazi Party. This is especially notable because Musk has had a hard time getting advertisers to invest in the platform ever since he bought, even resigning as CEO specifically in hopes of making the process of finding advertisers easier.

Fourth Place: Isaac Schorr

Hey Isaac, how has selling your soul to Ron DeSantis been? Today, our old buddy Isaac published an article with the headline "AP African American History Includes Similar Lesson to Controversial Florida Curriculum Blasted by Kamala Harris." The article parrots a claim by DeSantis's Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern showing a line from the AP African American History course that Florida opposed--which I guess makes it okay in the mind of these two.

Of course, just because this AP class does something, that fails to make it okay--especially when, again, this same group of people opposed said AP class in the first place. Academics can hold racist views and pass said ideas down to their students--eugenics was an idea supported largely by academics, remember.

Also, what's with that headline? If your citation for this is a tweet from the Press Secretary, shouldn't it be something like "DeSantis Press Secretary Fires Back Against Kamala Harris's Claims, Points Out AP African American History Course Includes Similar Material." Or do you not want to admit that somebody else is DeSantis's Press Secretary given your desire to turn Mediaite into nothing more than his biggest supporter website?

Third Place: Allie Beth Stuckey

I would like to thank Justin Horowitz on Twitter for finding these tweets from Stuckey, regarding the aforementioned controversy of DeSantis's history courses:

The argument boils down to "It wasn't a good thing, but a lot of people did benefit from it." But wait--if so many people benefitted from this or that event, why exactly was it a bad thing?

Also, I love the use of the phrase "skills learned there," as if Japanese-American Internment Camps had free sewing classes or something along those lines.

Second Place: Pamela Paul

Yes, the famously transphobic New York Times columnist gets an entry today through her article "Don’t Call Her ‘Karen.'" Most of the article is fine, correctly pointing out that misleading video is what led to the campaign of Sarah Comrie, but instead of blaming this on people being too damn willing to believe short videos about interactions they weren't present for, she blames the word Karen or something.

And there’s something else I know for sure: Once publicly labeled a “Karen,” Comrie was placed in a no-win situation. There is no doubt that the violent history of white people making false accusations against Black people should give anyone pause when making an accusation against a group of Black teenagers. But it cannot be the case, morally or logically, that it’s impossible for a white woman to have a justifiable complaint and impermissible for her to speak up if she thinks she’s been wronged. Yet that is what the term “Karen” implies: that if you are a white woman, your relative privilege renders suspect any complaint you might have; if you try to defend yourself, you thereby prove the case against you.

For the record, I have never seen the word "Karen" used in this racially charged context like Paul claims. It's describing the behavior of a certain strain of white women through comedic hyperbole, and although the term did originate among black people, it has since been used rather race neutrally in reference to who somebody labeled it can effect. The term is often used in reference to people who ask to speak to the manager at a store at the slightest provocation, but that has nothing to do with the race of the people involved.

I also found this part of the article rather interesting:

The Karen trope reflects a pervasive strain of misogyny in our culture. “Karen has become synonymous with woman among those who consider woman an insult,” Helen Lewis wrote in The Atlantic in a detailed anatomy of the slur. The journalist Nina Burleigh has also observed the term’s distinct tilt toward white women over 40, long a punching bag in popular culture: “White middle-class women of a certain age are among the last groups one can hurl targeted abuse online without being canceled.”

Can somebody--anybody--tell me what separates this from the vaguely white nationalist writings you find on most conservative websites across the internet? Declaring any group of white people "the last group you can make fun of" (which is utterly nonsensical for a number of reasons) is the basis of the vast majority of white victim complex pieces in existence, and that is the basis for modern western white nationalist thought. Although I am not going so far as to say that Paul and these two other women are white nationalists, I am saying they are publishing their talking points and they--along with The New York Times--should be fucking ashamed of themselves for allowing this to go unchallenged.

Winner: Chip Roy

I'll just allow this Mediaite headline to say it all: "Chip Roy Condemns Fellow GOP House Members Not Wanting To Impeach Mayorkas: They’re ‘Hiding Behind The Constitution.’" You mean the document they're sworn to uphold as members of Congress?

Chip Roy, you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

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L'Uomo Vogue December 2021

Isaac Cole Powell by Collier Schorr

Styled by Dara Allen

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isaac Schorr at Mediaite:

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account. Musk not only follows an account called “Boer” (@twatterbaas) but is one of two accounts to pay it for “bonus content and extra perks.” Boer charges $5/month for said perks and content. In one of the account’s most recent tweets, Boer submitted that “Atrica [sic] has 54 countries, 1.487 billion people. On the Southern tip lays South Africa, with the largest Economy and best infrastructure. Guess what makes South Africa different from the rest of Africa? 4.6 million white people.”

In other instances, the account has touted rape rates in “Black ruled” countries, used pictures to suggest that the country was better off under racial apartheid, asked “why do blacks like to destroy and break what white man made?” and urged “these racist blacks of #SouthAfrica to stop being selfish and transfer the strategical jobs and planning to us whites of this country.”

Elon Musk loves far-right racists.

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by Isaac Schorr

Much of the overtly antisemitic rhetoric and action across the West has been situated on the left, and conservatives have rightly pointed out as much, chalking up the deluge of hatred and wickedness on display to fallacious progressive theory.

But there is a cohort on the right complicit in this great reawakening of an ancient evil.

And that brings us back to Owens and Carlson.

The past few weeks have seen Owens repeat a series of blood libels.

In one breath, she’s implied the Israeli government is committing a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

In the next, she’s submitted that Jerusalem’s historic Muslim Quarter (population: 22,000) is a ghetto where the city’s Muslims (population: 350,000) are forced to live.

After being called out on her ignorant smears by her Daily Wire colleague Ben Shapiro, Owens responded on X.

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake,” wrote Owens, quoting the Book of Matthew’s fifth chapter.

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other,” she added.

“You cannot serve both God and money. Christ is King.”

And just like that, the mask clinging to her face by a thread fell off.

Shapiro, she argued without evidence and hardly any plausible deniability, had forsaken righteousness for wealth; is there a more textbook example of an antisemitic charge?

When Shapiro responded by reminding Owens she’s welcome to stop taking a paycheck from their company if it’s threatening her soul, Owens hid behind her Bible verse.

“You are utterly out of line for suggesting that I cannot quote biblical scripture,” she cried, affixing another performative “Christ is King” to her digital flop. 

Then on Wednesday night, Carlson released a fawning interview of Owens in which both professed not to know why Shapiro had criticized her in the first place. 

Carlson brought up the feud by playing the video of Shapiro “attacking” Owens stripped of all context.

When he asked Owens what might have inspired it, she insisted that “there isn’t much of a background” to it.

Later, Carlson said that while he was “horrified” by Hamas’ attack, he thought that “the emotional response” to it from “some commentators” was “disproportionate.”

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A casual new dress code doesn’t suit the Senate

“Dressing formally conveys respect for the sanctity of the institution and for the real-world impact of the policies it advances. Putting on a suit creates an occasion for lawmakers to reflect, just for a moment, on the special responsibilities with which the people have entrusted them and on a deliberative process that at least aspires to solemnity. Judges are perfectly able to choose what they wear while on the bench, but court wouldn’t be court unless they put on black robes.”

— The Washington Post editorial board

Fetterman’s "slovenly disrespect of Congress is a disgrace"

“Few would submit that the United States Senate is not an institution worthy of respect and observation of its traditions. The room where constitutional amendments have been approved, civil rights acts have been passed, and Supreme Court Justices have been confirmed is deserving of deference. After all, if Henry Clay, Charles Sumter, John Kennedy, and John McCain put pride aside and dressed in their Sunday best to do the people’s business, so too can John Fetterman.”

— Isaac Schorr, the Telegraph

But most Americans are dressing less formal at work

“The truth is the Senate is just following the trends toward less formal attire that we’re seeing throughout the workforce. Take a look at a Gallup survey from earlier this year. Just 3% of men said they wear business dress (such as suits) on most days. That is down from 14% about a decade ago. Women largely follow the same trend. Only 3% of them normally wore a suit or business clothing to work in 2023.”

— Harry Enten, CNN

And this isn’t the first time the dress code has been challenged

“There was a call to arms for female reporters when former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., ran the show. Chamber security personnel prohibited female reporters from entering the Speaker’s Lobby because their arms weren’t covered. Ryan then eased the policy, granting women a right to bare arms.”

— Chad Pergram, Fox News

Perspectives from the comments:

Dough B

4d ago

If the rationale is, "It's what the rest of America is doing," then the average pay for senators should be reduced to $71,000 without paid business expenses.

Luke

4d ago

They wouldn't care - they make all of their money by sacrificing the rights, health, and safety of American citizens to make the rich richer.

HillDad

4d ago

Is it really too much to ask that those holding public office - including those in the upper chamber of congress - adhere to a high standard of dress? It's tough, no matter how eloquent or persuasive, to take seriously a public official who gives the visual impression that he'd (or she'd) rather be at a skateboard park.

Chris

4d ago

Fetterman took a job knowing the rules. He even promised during the campaign to follow the dress code. He essentially reneged on his promise and asked the rules be changed just for him, which is a problem in society these days. Don’t renege on promises, don’t take jobs where you can’t do them, and don’t ask others to accommodate you when everyone else can follow the rules.

midwestmama

4d ago

Good point. Every job I've had, I've been informed of the dress code when I was hired and expected to follow it.

Jay

4d ago

If the dress code is not important why they are applying the dress code on their senate staff and visitors?

nforcer146

4d ago

"Rules for Thee not for me."

I could go on but...

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DC Court Hearing Committee recommends Giuliani be disbarred

Mediaite Story by Isaac Schorr A report issued by the he DC Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility’s Hearing Committee found that a “frivolous” lawsuit filed by Giuliani in Pennsylvania after the 2020 presidential election “attempted unjustifiably and without precedent to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters, and ultimately sought to undermine the results…

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Men Only Tower

Showing in Masculinities at La Mecanique d’Arles as part of the les Rencontres d’Arles. Opens 4th July 2021.

Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the exhibition brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and filmmakers including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine Opie. In the wake of #MeToo, the image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today’s society. This exhibition charts the often complex and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities, and how they have developed and evolved over time. Touching on themes including power, patriarchy, queer identity, racial politics, female perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and the family, the exhibition examines the critical role photography and film have played in the way masculinities are imagined and understood in contemporary culture. Bas Jan Ader (1945-1975), Laurie Anderson (1947), Kenneth Anger (1927), Knut Åsdam (1968), Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Aneta Bartos, Richard Billingham (1970), Cassils (1975), Sam Contis (1982), John Coplans (1920-2003), Rineke Dijkstra (1959), George Dureau (1930-2014), Thomas Dworzak (1972), Hans Eijkelboom (1949), Fouad Elkoury (1952), Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989), Hal Fischer (1950), Samuel Fosso (1962), Anna Fox (1961), Masahisa Fukase (1934-2012), Sunil Gupta (1953), Peter Hujar (1934-1987), Liz Johnson Artur (1964), Isaac Julien (1960), Kiluanji Kia Henda (1979), Karen Knorr (1954), Deana Lawson (1979), Hilary Lloyd (1964), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), Peter Marlow (1952-2016), Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), Annette Messager (1943), Duane Michals (1932), Tracey Moffatt (1960), Andrew Moisey (1979), Richard Mosse (1980), Adi Nes (1966), Catherine Opie (1961), Elle Pérez (1989), Herb Ritts (1952-2002), Kalen Na’il Roach (1992), Collier Schorr (1963), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (1982), Clare Strand (1973), Mikhael Subotzky (1981), Larry Sultan (1946-2009), Hank Willis Thomas (1976), Wolfgang Tillmans (1968), Piotr Uklański (1968), Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006), Marianne Wex (1937-2020), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), Akram Zaatari (1966).

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Tamas Tuzes for L’Uomo Vogue

Photographer Collier Schorr

Stylist: Dara

Talent: Alton Mason, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Isaac Cole Powel,James Cusati-Moyer, Finargus, Zackary Arthur

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Reading Between the LIES

A Double-Minded¹ man is UNSTABLE in ALL he does:

wavering in character & feelings

restless & confused in thoughts, actions & behavior

like a drunken man who is unable to walk in a straight line

"I'm fiercely pro-vaccine." RFK Jr

...unless I'm hiking which is when I tell strangers "...better not get (that baby) vaccinated..."

or when I intend to use 6 month old babies as non-consenting VOLUNTEERS aka "human pin cushions" to TEST (study) vaccine safety & efficacy

"Reading between the LIES" by Peggy Hall

¹James 1:6-8

The operative name in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “Kennedy.” -Isaac Schorr

At his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services fielded countless questions about the countless views he’s articulated and actions he’s taken that make him uniquely unsuited for this position.

And, as you might expect of any Kennedy, his answers were full of obfuscations, half-truths, and outright lies.

In his opening statement, Kennedy tried to sidestep the single biggest cloud hanging over his nomination.

“I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care,” he proclaimed.

“All of my kids are vaccinated, I’ve written many books on vaccines, my first book in 2014, the first line of it is ‘I am not anti-vaccine’ and the last line is ‘I am not anti-vaccine.’”If only saying it made it so.

Kennedy has a decades-long record that reveals him to be exactly what he says he’s not.

While he touted his kids’ vaccination status at his hearing, he has previously said he would “do anything” and “pay anything” to go back in time and change that fact.

In 2021, he said that “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get them vaccinated.’”And that’s to say nothing of him being the founder and former chairman of an anti-vaccine group going by the Orwellian name “Children’s Health Defense,” which is currently promoting a film called “Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill.”

In another notable moment, Kennedy was quizzed about his role in exacerbating a measles outbreak in Samoa that claimed the lives of more than 80 people – most of them young children – in 2019.

Kennedy traveled to the island nation in June of that year at the invitation of another anti-vaccine activist following the deaths of two babies improperly administered vaccines.

On Wednesday, Kennedy insisted his visit had “nothing to do with vaccines” and that he “never gave any public statement about vaccines.”

The Samoan Ministry of Health sees it differently.

“It is well documented that RFK Jr.’s visit to Samoa in 2019 coincided with increased anti-vaccine sentiment, particularly among certain groups,” it said in a statement.

Moreover, in the aftermath of the outbreak, Kennedy sought to exploit the tragedy to push the Samoan Government toward anti-vaccine policies.“It is critical that the Samoan Health Ministry determine, scientifically, if the outbreak was caused by inadequate vaccine coverage or alternatively, by a defective vaccine,” wrote Kennedy in a letter to the prime minister.

There he was again, just asking questions.

Kennedy’s attempts to explain away his own words – nay, his life’s work – fell short in numerous other instances.Asked about his suggestion that Covid-19 may have been genetically engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, Kennedy insisted that he was only quoting an NIH study.

The truth? That he said that the virus “is targeted to attack caucasians and black people,” while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese “are most immune.”

As to whether it had been engineered to do so, well, Kennedy thought that was an open question.

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not,” he added.

Asked about a series of overwrought, irresponsible comparisons he’s drawn while promoting his dangerous lies, he denied having ever made them.

Roll the tape, however, and you’ll find that he’s said that the CDC’s decision not to deem autism an epidemic was “like Nazi death camps,” and analogized the agency’s priorities to those of fascist regimes and the Catholic Church’s “pedophile scandal.”

And then there’s his cynical abortion flip-flop, which was addressed by senators of both parties on Wednesday.

“I agree with him [President Trump] that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year,” declared Kennedy at his hearing.

If that’s the case, why did he express support for full-term elective abortions on the campaign trail less than a year ago?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is many things that his famous family resents: A kook, an embarrassment, and, worst of all, in league with the Republican Party.

But his most ignoble trait – the one on full display on Wednesday – is one that he shares with the rest of his clan: He’s a power hungry charlatan willing to say anything to take the next step up the ladder.

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Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 7/19/2023

Third Place: Jim Bakker

Right-wing Watch posted a clip to their Twitter account of the televangalist saying the following:

For reference: 1966 was the year before the Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage.

Second Place: Isaac Schorr

Today on Mediaite, Isaac's article "DeSantis’s Impressive Interview With Jake Tapper Shows Why He Should Leave the Echo Chamber" was published. In it, he fawns over how presidential the semi-fascist Florida Governor did in his interview, noting that the man who would gladly end the lives of all transgender people in the United States was so presidential.

Any news network that talks about him in anything less than those terms is an echo chamber, far as I'm concerned. You know what else I'd consider a DeSantis echo chamber? A place where an opinion writer would feel like it's okay to write something like this, which sounds like it's straight from the mouth of the DeSantis campaign:

During the pandemic, he bucked national trends to insist that children return to school and reject vaccine mandates. On education, he’s insisted on removing pornographic materials from school libraries while advocating a back-to-basics approach to curricula. And on the environment, he’s prioritized conservation while rejecting burdensome regulations.

Notice the lack of any mention of him, among other things, arresting a woman who had COVID-19 data counter to the narrative his government was pushing and banning people from saying the word "gay" in school.

And that's not even getting into this article saying that DeSantis's far-right campaign tactics have somehow been outside the norm for a man whose press secretary shared videos from Libs of TikTok and called everybody who disliked the Governor a pedophile. And by the way, any media platform he's allowed on that makes no reference of at least some of the things I mentioned above is an echo chamber.

Honestly, I've been reading Mediaite for six years--if articles like this continue to be published on that website, I will start boycotting it--I'm not joking.

Winner: Marjorie Taylor Greene

Remember yesterday how I talked about the Biden White House using attacks from Greene as positive campaign points? Well, after I published that post, Joe Biden's Twitter account released an entire ad just made up of Greene's words.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

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Media Assessment of Criminal Justice

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1ZQ14K     Neutral Source

Subject: Presidential candidates’ opinions on criminal reform

Authors: Trevor Hunnicutt, Sharon Bernstein. Both authors are staff writers for Reuters. 

Context: this article was written on Jan. 27, 2020 in London, UK

Audience: Reuters is an outside source from the UK, so there is less bias than that of an american news source. this article is meant for all readers.

Perspective: This article has the different perspective of each of the 2020 presidential candidates. Each candidate has their own perspective and policies that they think can help win the election.

Significance: the candidates policies about certain topics are what voters care about.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/fair-act-civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-bill/ Conservative source

Subject: civil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement can take a person's property if they are a convicted felon. this article discusses how this process needs to be changed.

Author: Isaac Schorr is an american author who writes for the National Review. He went to Cornell University in New York, which has Conservative background.The National review is also a typically right skewed news source. 

Context: this article was written on Aug. 21, 2020 in the United States.

Audience: this article was published by a notoriously known right skewing source, so the audience reading this article is likely a republican. 

Perspective: This article shows the perspective of a right leaning person. The author, Isaac Schorr studied at Cornell University, which is a conservative school.

Significance: this article shows that all people throughout the political spectrum think that there must be a change to the way that crimes are handled in the United States. Democrats and Republicans just have different opinions on how to do this. 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/23/20706987/joe-biden-criminal-justice-reform-plan-mass-incarceration-war-on-drugs Liberal source

Subject: Joe Biden's criminal justice and reform policies

Author: German Lopez from Vox. He is a senior correspondent ot Vox. Before working at Vox he worked for a local news company in Cincinnati, Ohio, which its political affiliation often changes. 

Context: This article was written on Aug. 12, 2020 in the United States.

Audience: this article explains what Joe Biden would do about the criminal justice system if he were to be elected president. The people who would most want to know about his policies would be Democrats and liberals. 

Perspective: this article shows the perspective of Joe Biden and his ideas about the current state of criminal justice and how he wants to change the system.

Significance: Joe Biden’s policies are what people vote on. If people like Biden’;s responses to certain problems, they  are more likely to vote for him. 

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Jewish virtual Library about Gerar

GERAR (Heb. גְּרָר), a city and region in the Negev in which Abraham and Isaac dwelt (Gen. chs. 20, 26). Gerar was located on the way to Egypt and is mentioned in connection with Kadesh (identified in ancient sources with Petra and now mainly with ʿAyn Qudayrāt) and Shur (the fortifications on the Egyptian frontier). In the north it bordered on the territories of Beersheba and Gaza (Gen. 10:19; 26:1–2; II Chron. 14:12–13). Its area included Rehoboth (which some scholars identify with the later Ruheibah, 12½ mi. (20 km.) south of Elusa, Sitnah, Esek, the valley of Gerar, and the royal city of Gerar.

Through Abraham's oath to Abimelech, the land of Gerar was excluded from the territory destined to be conquered by the Israelites (Gen. 21:22–32; cf. Ḥul. 60b) and it was outside the area of Israelite settlement (Josh. 15).

According to the patriarchal tradition, the land of Gerar was inhabited by Philistines originating from Casluhim who lived in Gerar as shepherds ruled by a king; a treaty existed between them and the Hebrew Patriarchs (Gen. 10:14; 21:32–34; 26:1, 15ff.).

These references to the Philistines, however, are considered an anachronism. Gerar is again mentioned in the time of Asa king of Judah (c. 908–867 B.C.E.) who pursued Zerah the Ethiopian from Mareshah to Gerar and destroyed all the cities in its vicinity (II Chron. 14:8–14). If the Septuagint version of I Chronicles 4:39–41 is correct (reading Gerar instead of Gedor), the land of Gerar was inhabited in the period of the monarchy by remnants of Ham and by Meunim. The name Gerar survived as a geographical term even after the destruction of the city and designated the district occupied by the former land of Gerar. The reference to it in II Chronicles 14:12 may already have this meaning and it certainly has it in II Maccabees 13:24 (cf. I Macc. 11:59). The district was later known by its Greek name Geradike (TJ, Shev. 6:1, 36c; Gen. R. 52:6; 64:3) or Geraritike (Eusebius, Onom. 60:6ff.), which was identified with the biblical Gerar. Eusebius (loc. cit.) locates it 25 Roman miles "from Eleutheropolis (Bet Guvrin) toward the south"; it is similarly represented on the Madaba Map southwest of Beersheba. Various scholars have accordingly proposed to identify it with Tell al-Sharīʿa, 12 mi. (19 km.) northwest of Beersheba or with Tell Yamma further to the west. Y. Aharoni, however, has suggested a site midway between these two mounds – Tell Abu Hurayra (Tell Haror), the largest tell in the area and containing pottery dating from the Middle Bronze Age and later periods.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Horowitz, Ereẓ Yis, S.V.; I. Ben Zvi, Sefer ha-Shomeronim (1935), 116ff.; Grintz, in: Koveẓ… M. Schorr (1944), 96ff.; idem, in: Tarbiz, 17 (1945/46), 32ff.; 19 (1947/48), 64; Aharoni, in: IEJ, 6 (1956), 26ff.; Aharoni, Land, index.

[Yehoshua M. Grintz]

Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.

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Isaac Schorr

Fri, May 13, 2022, 8:48 AM

Nina Jankowicz, the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s newly established Disinformation Governance Board, recently suggested that verified Twitter users be granted the ability edit others’ tweets if they deem them misleading.

“There are a lot of people who shouldn’t be verified, who aren’t legit, in my opinion. I mean, they’re real people but they aren’t trustworthy,” began Jankowicz, who went on to propose that verified users be able to “essentially edit Twitter… by add[ing] context to certain tweets,” Jankowicz said in a video obtained by The Post Millenial.

I wonder if John Green has any comments on the subject of letting other people edit your posts