Garnet Henderson

Amid the news of the day, I have some news of my own. 😊

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Another item from today's roundup: People aren't even clutching their own pearls anymore. They're having ChatGPT do it for them.

It's similar with abortion - they say they want better evidence but they break the systems for building strong evidence and elevate weak systems because they know those systems will empower their allies to inject bias into the "evidence."

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I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

One of the big findings in my research is that people invested in disbelieving victims are not swayed by evidence. Just like other issues of misinformation, they cherry pick irrelevant details to allow them to continue to believe whatever they want.

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There’s a reason big names writing about abortion access don’t touch stories like this. The most well-known have either directly taken money from reproductive rights groups or huge repro funders, or they’re getting financial help from sponsors supporting repro advocacy. We’re different by design.

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Worrying about abortions in the water when she should be worrying about whether she still has immunity to measles

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Seeing tons of posts about this on threads now, people are absolutely apoplectic thinking they’re real

Not even the first such case recently 🫠

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NEW: America Next—the PAC paying plants to heckle Abdul El-Sayed at events—gave $1 million to support a Missouri ballot measure that would reimpose an abortion ban and prohibit youth gender-affirming care. Vote Yes on Amendment 3 is new group by former FBI/MO AG Andrew Bailey w/ ties to Josh Hawley

Last year, a Students for Life exec said that when it comes to restricting abortion pills, "I’m for using the devil’s own tools against them." (talking about environmental law) A Texas woman forced to give birth has now sued the organization under a law it lobbied for. My latest in @autonomynews.co

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"Frankly, I’m for using the devil’s own tools against them," this anti-abortion group's comms director recently said. And I just think that's poetic

They go to the abortion clinic and get abortions? You don’t say…

So is this what Trump meant about post-birth abortion...

sixty minutes and five days

Dozens of masked settlers attacked Palestinian villagers and savagely beat a Washington Post photographer today. "Israeli troops arrived shortly before the attack, which seemed to embolden the settlers. Soldiers fired tear gas at Palestinians and 'did absolutely nothing about the settlers.'"

Lol

This year’s Novavax is the least bad I have felt after any Covid vaccination, hallelujah

EXPOSED: Our lawyers sued the Trump admin under FOIA, and got papers showing the White House’s fingerprints all over FDA’s scientifically unjustified re-review of safe, effective abortion pills. Political interference with medical safeguards should outrage every American—because it endangers us all.

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com

The No on 3 canvassers had an impact on this Richmond Heights man, who was enjoying a cold porch beer, god bless. “They put the transgender surgery for minors thing on there when it’s already against the law!” Wissner told @assignedmedia.org www.autonomynews.co/missouri-ame...

New: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia calls herself a lawyer. There’s no evidence she was admitted to practice law in the United States, and legal experts say foreign citizens cannot take the bar in China. My deep dive: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A lot of people say they hate misinformation, but then they gobble up clickbait meant to enrage them because an internet famous person said it. I fear I’m going to have a menty b