Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Stuff you should know about Patrick Healy. From presswatchers.org/2025/07/the-... He defends the indefensible: presswatchers.org/2020/10/how-... He did this: presswatchers.org/2019/12/the-... He was #2 opinion editor when the NYT ran the most idiotic editorial ever: presswatchers.org/2022/03/the-...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3mxwomprl7c2t

Katie Zacharia passed the bar exam like I pass trees and trash containers when I drive down the street or take Ollie for a walk.

(Disclaimer: While Ollie routinely pees on trees and trash containers, I am not implying anything about Katie's behavior regarding the bar exam. Although if she did sit for the exam and failed, she might have been pissed off. But that's just hearsay or whatever.)
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“Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, „Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate”, 1944