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Walter Kirn

@walterkirn

Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy Co-host @AmericaWeek w/@mtaibbi Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, Mission to America, etc

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Someday your digital twin who you helped fashion will approach you late at night on a screen and inform you that your replacement will be taking over now and you are being turned off.

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I miss my mother, Millie Kirn (Stein), who died 14 years ago today at age 71. To improve my vocabulary as a child, she used to drill me using a deck of "Vis-ed" cards she bought me as a birthday gift. Sometimes she made her own cards because she believed the deck was incomplete.

I miss my mother, Millie Kirn (Stein), who died 14 years ago today at age 71. To improve my vocabulary as a child, she used to drill me using a deck of "Vis-ed" cards she bought me as a birthday gift. Sometimes she made her own cards because she believed the deck was incomplete.
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The chronic disease epidemic is the most urgent and costly health crisis in America today. We can’t afford another decade of delay.

Wall Street Apes (@wallstreetapes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Robert F Kennedy Jr announced US Taxpayers are spending $72,900,000 PER DAY for soda and candy for people on EBT Food Stamps That’s $26,608,500,000 per year just on CANDY AND SODA RFK Jr “We spend $405 million a day on food stamps. That's what the taxpayer is spending. 10% is

Robert W Malone, MD (@rwmalonemd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform—and they are spending millions to make sure Kennedy is out of office by September.

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Industry's lobbying strategy to control CDC leaked a few months back and involves Senator Cassidy. Here's what NY Times reported recently fired CDC Director Susan Monarez did days ago: she ran to Senator Cassidy.

Industry's lobbying strategy to control CDC leaked a few months back and involves Senator Cassidy.

Here's what NY Times reported recently fired CDC Director Susan Monarez did days ago: she ran to Senator Cassidy.
Robert W Malone, MD (@rwmalonemd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The real reason for the recent CDC resignations is that the ACIP Subcommittee on COVID 19 vaccines got approval to investigate the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines, and they knew the gig was up, the truth was about to come out, and they would have to account for their

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.Mark S. Zaid, you made a lot of hoary arguments about “science” in your recent statement about your client who was fired. Do you think science means not examining the scientific literature and debating safety matters?

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𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕦𝕣𝕧𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 👀 Mass murder is one thing, but misgendering is apparently the real crime. PLUS, wrapping up "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis. Join Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn for episode 148 of ATW 🇺🇸 racket.news for full episode 💻

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The unadulterated and hilarious intro book reviews alone make this worth the purchase price and time to read this page turner. ⁦Walter Kirn⁩ is an American treasure.

The unadulterated and hilarious intro book reviews alone make this worth the purchase price and time to read this page turner.

⁦<a href="/walterkirn/">Walter Kirn</a>⁩ is an American treasure.
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You'd think a 2-bylined piece in the @Atlantic on the National Guard deployment in DC would have at least a paragraph, or a sentence, assessing the overall stats on crime in DC after Guard's arrival. You would be wrong. Why confront the main issue when you can do snark and color?

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💥EXCLUSIVE: Retsef Levi hits back after attacks on his leadership from departing CDC officials Several top CDC officials quit in protest, denouncing Retsef Levi’s leadership of the Covid vaccine work group. Now, in an exclusive interview, Levi reveals what really happened behind

💥EXCLUSIVE: Retsef Levi hits back after attacks on his leadership from departing CDC officials

Several top CDC officials quit in protest, denouncing <a href="/RetsefL/">Retsef Levi</a>’s leadership of the Covid vaccine work group. Now, in an exclusive interview, Levi reveals what really happened behind
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read this—read *everything* Paul Fussell ever wrote, including his PhD dissertation “Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England” worth it and good things will come your way—trying to get in touch with Fussell is how I met Bob Kotlowitz in fact archive.nytimes.com/atwar.blogs.ny…

read this—read *everything* Paul Fussell ever wrote, including his PhD dissertation “Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England” worth it and good things will come your way—trying to get in touch with Fussell is how I met Bob Kotlowitz in fact  archive.nytimes.com/atwar.blogs.ny…