Tarnished is not the word I would use. I can’t think of anyone who did better work on the pandemic (contrast with, say, Leana Wen) and then went on to publish two best-selling science books.

I don’t subscribe to them anymore. But @edyong209.bsky.social did heroic reporting on Covid for them.

If you read his statements about infectious diseases, he’s sounding like 1920s and 1930s American eugenicists. There’s a reason the Nazis co-opted the language of Americans as they defined the purity of the Volk.

“No healthy child should die from measles.” Why should any child die from measles? Do you, Mr. Kennedy, get to decide which kids get to live and which die?

Yes, racism in itself does not explain the US also doubling down on supporting the Saudis, UAE, and other highly problematic regimes. (Hint—oil and more weapon sales). She is brave and well-spoken. We live in an era of 40 second clips. You cannot speak to the complexity of any issue in 40 seconds

Now “the fear is that ACID will be filled up by people who nothing about vaccines, Dr./Senator Kennedy?” Now? And we’ll believe that you will “ensure this isn’t the case” because…? Way to slam that barn door. What an utterly worthless and feckless excuse for a physician and elected representative

Best of luck getting people to care. At this point, 99 percent of the doctors I need to see simply shrug at Covid. It’s so demoralizing.

Is this really about how many republicans are or aren’t on BlueSky? Or actually about how to monetize it? Even if a billion new voices come to BlueSky, if they aren’t selling ads, how does that matter? Not saying I want ads. Is there a different and viable model for social media apps?

Wildfire smoke in the form of PM 2.5 and Covid can also cause permanent lung damage. One N-95 keeps you safe from both!

Thank you for continuing to speak up on the continuing pandemic. Thank you

It’s also an absurd argument for great swaths of this country. My kid was out of school for 8 weeks. Not saying those 8 weeks weren’t challenging—and much more challenging for front line workers. But it’s collective amnesia to say the entire country was languishing under lockdowns

Nice! Hamilton is beautiful

But there was a run up to the Holocaust. Germany didn’t go from zero to 1,000 mph in one year. It was the rapid erosion of the Weimar Republic’s democracy. In 1930s Germany. So we are both right 🤗🌻

I don’t mean to sound pedantic or obnoxious. Keep up the good work please!

I could make a good case that’s what happening in Texas is much more like 1930s Texas than Germany. American Midnight by Adam Hotshchild is a disturbing and excellent book about exactly these kinds of issues in the US in the 1920s-1930s

Good points. I’d still argue that until they are rounding up women who seek any information about abortion and imprison/mass murder them, you are minimizing 1930s Germany and potentially creating a false equivalence between terrible things and a specific historical events

What’s happening in TX as reported in this article is *not* 1930s Germany. I’m not saying TX isn’t horrifying. But comparing everything to 1930s Germany implies that this is an aberration in the US (see genocide, slavery, and 1930s America) & that only a world war can fix this.

Also not a doctor. And someone who spikes fevers after vaccines. I don’t pre medicate and I hang on for as long as I can before taking Tylenol. I figure better to be vaxxed and take 2 Tylenol 4 hours later than not be vaxxed. Feel better!

I wish he wasn’t so annoyingly whiny on top of being extraordinarily evil.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

No way the real estate agents paid her ginormous speaking fee, right?

Yes yes yes! The best it can offer is garbled and boggy corporate-speak. There’s a reason we writers *think* as we rework drafts. Producing words isn’t the goal. We’re aiming for compelling ideas told in compelling ways

Not sure if you can convince the “we won’t swing at all the pitches” team, but be the opposition. There are some great ideas in this thread (walking out one at a time). We are past the need for careful civility. Dems need to give the rest of us a sense that you are fighting with and for us.

I am ashamed to be an American today.

I stand with Ukraine.

I stand with Canada.

I stand with Panama.

I stand with Greenland.

I stand with Europe.

This is one very small thing we can each do. If we do it together, it is one very big thing. Listen to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social. Feel the Force and let’s do this!

Ramadan mubarak

Trump and Musk are for they/them. They're not for you.

Thank you, Ed, for all of your writing.

Ed Yong is amazing—incredible writer, deeply decent human.

Was he always such an ass? Feels like he’s on an embarrassing downward trajectory and sucking up to those “high IQ” sociopaths in such a needy and obsequious way