The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.

This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

Changing this label would have required finding someone who understands FORTRAN at a level that NORAD could not afford.

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Hello. It’s me again. Please take a look. Bebo got boosted by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Rachel Maddow.

Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.

ICE might not be slowing down for the holidays. At the rate of arrests for the first half of the month, December could see the highest number of immigration arrests in 2025. See the analysis below. 

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.