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Jonathan M. Katz
Personal blog · theracket.news/ppoliticswriting
Jonathan M. Katz writes The Racket, a personal blog at theracket.news about politics and writing. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonathan M. Katz's Racket newsletter for its pieces on Stefanik and civil liberties, COVID lab-leak reporting, and critiques of Jon Haidt. Comments cite its posts as backgrounders or sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore the unseen connections behind world affairs, politics, disaster, and more. By Jonathan M. Katz
What Hacker News says?
And if you need a backgrounder on Stefanik, she got elected before Trump, decided she preferred staying in DC to her hometown, sold out her previously-stated principles almost immediately when she saw a chance to gain power, and is now doing as much damage to civil liberties as Nixon and McCarthy ever managed: https://theracket.news/p/stop-going-stefanik-committee-fools She doesn't care about whether the bill does s…
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on “DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate”Submitted 'As somebody who has helped plan coups...' as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTake: > Wrote Andersen on February 1, 2020, “I think the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.” A few days later, he and the other authors were searching for a plausible intermediate host such as a pangolin that would allow them to refute…
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on “STEM professionals ask Nature to retract COVID-19 lab leak paper”Submitted Highway Robbers of the Knowledge Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"largely ignored outside of right wing outlets" because of pieces like "Everyone should be skeptical of Nate Silver: And anyone touting the lab-leak 'theory' of COVID's origin at this point" at https://theracket.news/p/everyone-should-be-skeptical-of-nat... . > Likely in hopes of fostering that illusion of inevitability, as well as of transparency, the Public crew made the Slacks and a separate document trove contai…
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on “STEM professionals ask Nature to retract COVID-19 lab leak paper”He's an asshole, he's insulting to students, and most of all, he's a fraudulent piece of shit who misrepresents or doesn't even try to handle research respectably. He's also affiliated with Heterodox Academy, which is a Bari Weiss Freedom University like entity that 'protects diversity of thought on campuses' (while also trying to get professors fired for things conservatives don't like to hear). There's so many dot…
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on “Let Jon Haidt Speak at NYU”
