I don’t think what you said is untrue (perhaps I’d quibble with safety), but I’m in the relatively small overlap of being both a journalist and a reader of his research writeups so I wanted to offer more context.

Absolutely agreed on the quality of the piece. I think you are selling him a little short in a way: He‘s an excellent writer and public speaker, and those are a core part of his research work.

Put another way, workers still feel the consequences of stagnant wages and lack of public sector investment, even if consumer goods get cheaper, because essentials like childcare are labor-dependent.

@burness.bsky.social has been on top of this story for years, read him here on this latest: boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

Any sort of undercover investigation or exposé has to meet a high bar to be ethical, both in quality—you’re wasting everyone‘s time if people see through it—and that you couldn’t get the information otherwise. It sounds like this case fails both.

Has she said outright that disabled people shouldn’t get mRNA vaccines? I may have missed her doing that. I thought it was more downplaying their efficacy and overstating how fast they wane.

Yeah, her posts on Covid have been sloppy with the facts for a while, to my frustration.

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

Importantly: Polls are still open in Atlanta. It's really not a good practice to call races while polls are open in a region of the state.