Jack Whalen
@jackwhalen.bsky.social
Former many things, in many places. Fave thing: Philly cabbie. Or maybe Santa Barbara drummer. Or Eugene 9-1-1 dispatcher. Or really, ethnographer all over the place. Anyway, now full time grandparent. Proud dual-national
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Israel is a sick siciety, its IDF and worse, most of its citizens, tolerating and even supporting the terror being rained on Palestinians by its depraved settler communities and enthusiastically promoted by Netanyahu’s ministers
A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Israel is a sick siciety, its IDF and worse, most of its citizens, tolerating and even supporting the terror being rained on Palestinians by its depraved settler communities and enthusiastically promoted by Netanyahu’s ministers
The president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms.
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms.
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Just know that “conversion therapy” is three incoherent pseudoscientific ramblings standing on each other’s shoulders under a trench coat. It’s not therapeutic (it doesn’t help, does net harm), it doesn’t convert (practically no “success” documented), and it should absolutely be banned.
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just know that “conversion therapy” is three incoherent pseudoscientific ramblings standing on each other’s shoulders under a trench coat. It’s not therapeutic (it doesn’t help, does net harm), it doesn’t convert (practically no “success” documented), and it should absolutely be banned.
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eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.
or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.
or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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October 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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“…The party was a celebration of all that TIME had done that year. I had forgotten that (Crown Prince) MBS was one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.”
Important context: the regime-aligned WaPo fired Attiah, their last black columnist, last month.
Important context: the regime-aligned WaPo fired Attiah, their last black columnist, last month.
The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.
Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi
I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.
wapo.st
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“…The party was a celebration of all that TIME had done that year. I had forgotten that (Crown Prince) MBS was one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.”
Important context: the regime-aligned WaPo fired Attiah, their last black columnist, last month.
Important context: the regime-aligned WaPo fired Attiah, their last black columnist, last month.
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More guns than people…
Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
September 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
More guns than people…
Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
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Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
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Powerful new piece from Ta-Nehisi Coates @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Powerful new piece from Ta-Nehisi Coates @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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One thing I look at in today's post is the different perceptions of local and national. (And personal and national). This is key to defeating the "burn it all down" tendency.
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Just to confirm my suspicions that people’s perception of the national position (via social/media) is very different from their local perceptions, these graphs from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social via @samfr.bsky.social’s sane and vital Substack, illustrate the difference
September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
One thing I look at in today's post is the different perceptions of local and national. (And personal and national). This is key to defeating the "burn it all down" tendency.
bsky.app/profile/pete...
bsky.app/profile/pete...
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i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked
I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next
OPINION: “No matter your race, background or beliefs — none of us should have to fear being silenced, detained or dehumanized by the very government meant to protect us.”
www.sfchronicle.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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My friend Jane Leavy aka @ballgirl.bsky.social
--author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...
--author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...
Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It
I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It
bookshop.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My friend Jane Leavy aka @ballgirl.bsky.social
--author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...
--author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...
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“I’ve never seen this before—I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."
Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
"It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."
www.motherjones.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“I’ve never seen this before—I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."
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Exclusive by me: US research agency upheaval costs UK universities millions
Scale of disruption to British medical research caused by Trump’s science cuts revealed
Been working on this (intermittently) for months
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Scale of disruption to British medical research caused by Trump’s science cuts revealed
Been working on this (intermittently) for months
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
US research agency upheaval costs UK universities millions - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Scale of disruption to British medical research caused by Trump’s science cuts revealed
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Exclusive by me: US research agency upheaval costs UK universities millions
Scale of disruption to British medical research caused by Trump’s science cuts revealed
Been working on this (intermittently) for months
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Scale of disruption to British medical research caused by Trump’s science cuts revealed
Been working on this (intermittently) for months
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
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OMG
DeSantis and his Surgeon General are not only utterly stupid, they are lethal to many #Florida citizens of all ages, no matter their immune response status.
Where is the community-mindedness that used to make Americans proud to protect ourselves and our neighbors from death and disfigurement?
DeSantis and his Surgeon General are not only utterly stupid, they are lethal to many #Florida citizens of all ages, no matter their immune response status.
Where is the community-mindedness that used to make Americans proud to protect ourselves and our neighbors from death and disfigurement?
Florida Seeks to End State’s Vaccine Mandates - The Wall Street Journal
Desantis and his surgeon general are going to kill people
Desantis and his surgeon general are going to kill people
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
OMG
DeSantis and his Surgeon General are not only utterly stupid, they are lethal to many #Florida citizens of all ages, no matter their immune response status.
Where is the community-mindedness that used to make Americans proud to protect ourselves and our neighbors from death and disfigurement?
DeSantis and his Surgeon General are not only utterly stupid, they are lethal to many #Florida citizens of all ages, no matter their immune response status.
Where is the community-mindedness that used to make Americans proud to protect ourselves and our neighbors from death and disfigurement?
This is SO bloody insane - the height of arrogant stupidity, sacrificing the lives of children (and their teachers and families too) just to own the libs, curry favor with the MAGA/MAHA lunatics
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is SO bloody insane - the height of arrogant stupidity, sacrificing the lives of children (and their teachers and families too) just to own the libs, curry favor with the MAGA/MAHA lunatics
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%… Reducing vaccinations — through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jr’s lunatic theories/claims) — will kill people – adults and children alike.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%… Reducing vaccinations — through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jr’s lunatic theories/claims) — will kill people – adults and children alike.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
As the new military leadership scrutinized so-called “DEI” initiatives aimed at gender equity, the vicious harassment that Williams faced during her eight years at Delta Force is a cautionary tale for female service members in elite units shrouded in secrecy and steeped in privilege and impunity
‘My Life Became a Living Hell’: One Woman’s Career in Delta Force, the Army’s Most Elite Unit — POLITICO
Courtney Williams wanted to serve her country. What happened next shocked her.
apple.news
August 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
As the new military leadership scrutinized so-called “DEI” initiatives aimed at gender equity, the vicious harassment that Williams faced during her eight years at Delta Force is a cautionary tale for female service members in elite units shrouded in secrecy and steeped in privilege and impunity
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