Also, a total blackout on the Waukesha drive through massacre.

The trial has been going on for a week and the Root is only now getting around to covering it? Also, a total blackout on the Waukesha drive through massacre. Is there anybody in the office?

Ah, good luck with that. I used to be ungrayed on Gizmodo. Then I was only ungrayed on the Earther sub-blog. And now I’m completely grayed.

It’s not the same!

Here’s an abacus! Go make ice cream like my grandfathers used to!

yeah, but, ice cream!

Bleeding out of the bottom

For context, far more people have died of drug overdoses in the U.S. than Covid, this year, in many cities. Let that sink in.

Dottie definitely dropped the ball on purpose. There’s absolutely no way she would transfer the ball from her glove to her right hand while falling down otherwise. The catcher will have the ball in her glove to make the tag and only take it out afterwards to show the umpire that they still have it. Otherwise they’re…

Recent Inspectors General report states the Administration knew all of this was going to unfold the way it did. Biden still went on vacation with no change in plans. What exactly was 40yrs of government experience good for? 

All asylum seekers have to do is go to the airport with all their documents and explain to the Taliban why they want to leave the country.

What good had he done. Shawn King isn’t the only activist that has a twitter account.

Also:

The issue is if it’s indeed natural transmission into a major city, then why would a country known for squashing information spent the past year coming up with propaganda rather than just let researchers to determine the origin so this wouldn’t happen again?

So the concern is that this was a modified virus. Scientists do this all the time, and for very legitimate purposes. These gain of function modifications often increase pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range and can be used to study which specific proteins are responsible for a virus’s function. Again, these…

For the most part, US based media ignores Asia in general, and China in particular. When they do report on China, it usually falls into the categories of, “Trade Imbalance”, “China is a superpower, is that OK?”, and “Look at this thing they built”.

Probably quite a bit. ABC, ESPN, CNN, NBC and MSNBC aren’t really capable of journalistic honesty in reporting on China because of how much their parent companies count on that market for revenue. As a result, most of the reporting on the Lab leak theory is by independent media companies, some of which are total…

Dismissing it outright feels naive at best, and fuels distrust of media and government.

Agree. I think as well the article seeming to offer scientists a carte blanche seems somewhat strange. Look - I’m a scientist and I think science has made the world a better place, but scientists are also human, and some of them can be reckless, and some (all?) governments can also be reckless.

The idea that Covid-19 either originated from the WVI or as a result of sample collection without proper PPE seems credible. Dismissing it outright feels naive at best, and fuels distrust of media and government.