I fail to see why any journalist felt the need to report on a shop owner making such a insignificant donation rather than to get them harassed. It’s unconscionable and journalists need to do better. https://twitter.com/alisonmah/stat

I wish journalists wrote the articles they think they are writing.

Sorry to say it, but your stories aren’t always balanced and often have a clear political bias.

Calling it out isn’t harassment or journalist bashing. Everyone has a right to critique your story and it’s merits.

Ps. I fully read the article multiple times and I still don’t believe there was merit to the story as reported other than further harassment. You all are entitled to your opinions, but my opinion remains the same. These kinds of stories ruin people’s lives and are uncalled for.

A journalist *didn’t* report on the shop owner’s $250 donation. The shop owner’s name appeared on the leaked donor list, then on Twitter. The journalist reported on the threats the shop owner received after her name was leaked. You should correct your tweet.

It literally says this in the article she’s quote-tweeting, which she apparently didn’t read.

The journalist whom Ilhan Omar falsely accused of doxing a convoy donor and inciting harassment against them has now been forced to lock her account because of the harassment she’s receiving over this false claim.

Also worth noting: Rep. Omar is regurgitating right-wing disinfo.

Just a thought, but maybe don’t jump in the middle of a complicated and very tense situation in another country if you don’t know enough about that country and the ongoing situation to avoid making things worse. That goes for everyone, but especially elected officials.

The Daily Caller — the right-wing publication cofounded by Tucker Carlson — is celebrating Ilhan Omar for falsely accusing a journalist of doxing a convoy donor.

Many complaints could have been filed about Oz over the years. After all, this is a man who promoted mediums and numerous fake therapies. But most of what Oz promoted (or what I saw him promote) was snake oil, not super harmful in the direct medical sense, as in if you take supplement A 30% of people will get liver failure. More harmful in the broader sense, such as promoting magical thinking and the idea that there was always some belly blasting, metabolism hacking food known only to the ancients, but recently discovered by Oz himself.

But not all of his medical recommendations have been useless berries and magical beans. He chatted with his gal pal Gwyneth Paltrow about the benefits of colloidal silver, falsely claiming that there was “a ton of data behind it”.

There is none. No supporting data. Zilch.

Colloidal silver can damage the kidneys, liver and nervous system and can cause a permanent bluish discoloration of the skin. Colloidal silver has no known health benefits. It is literally toxic.

https://vajenda.substack.com/p/why-i-reported-dr-oz-to-his-state

WASHINGTON — A Virginia man who pleaded guilty to joining the Jan. 6 insurrection notified a judge this week that he’d completed his court-ordered community service: He spent his 60 hours reviewing “educational” materials on topics like “American Government” and “Civics” through a website that offers online community service, for a fee.

Edward Hemenway pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for illegally parading at the US Capitol. He was sentenced to 45 days in jail plus community service. His lawyer filed a letter on Tuesday from an organization called Logan Social Services certifying that Hemenway performed his service by reading “training materials” about “Anger Management, Civics, Drug and Alcohol Awareness, Parenting and American Government” and providing “structured feedback.” The organization explained that it generally uses this feedback to “improve” online courses that it provides to people facing court-ordered education requirements, also for a fee.

Hemenway’s codefendant and cousin Robert Bauer, who received the same sentence, also confirmed to the court that he’d finished his 60 hours of service. Bauer appeared to take a more traditional route, attaching a letter from the public works department in his hometown of Cave City, Kentucky, that he’d performed “general labor.”

Hemenway and Bauer’s case offered a rare look at how people who have pleaded guilty to storming the Capitol are carrying out judges’ orders to give back to their communities, beyond any jail time or probation. It’s unusual to see records of what they’ve done filed on the public docket so far. Last month, a federal judge in a different Jan. 6 case denied a request by a coalition of media outlets (including BuzzFeed News) to release community service records for defendant Anna Morgan-Lloyd, finding they weren’t covered by the general right of access to judicial records.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-rioter-online-community-service

RYE — After a group of Rye Junior High School students built a roughly six-foot-long miniature boat and filled it with gifts in late 2020, they set it out in the Atlantic Ocean, hoping it would eventually wash ashore and be opened by someone across the globe.

While some students wished for it to drift to Europe, then-sixth grader Solstice Reed wasn’t as convinced the voyage would be successful. “Honestly, I thought it would sink,” she admitted.

Fortunately, to her and her peers’ pleasant surprise, Reed’s initial skepticism turned out to be unfounded.

The Rye Riptides boat, equipped with a tracking device, spent 462 days at sea and registered its coordinates at different points throughout its journey. And this month, at long last, a curious sixth-grader in Smøla, a small island near Dyrnes, Norway, found the semi-dismantled boat, later bringing it to his school and opening it with his own delighted classmates.

https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/education/2022/02/14/rye-nh-miniboat-found-smola-norway-rye-riptides-educational-passages/6726124001/

Kamila Valieva had three substances that could be used to treat heart conditions in her sample. Only one is banned.

The teenage Russian figure skater at the center of a doping case at the Beijing Olympics had three substances that can be used to treat heart conditions in the sample she provided to an antidoping laboratory before the Games, according to a document filed in her arbitration hearing on Sunday.

The skater, Kamila Valieva, was cleared to continue competing in the Games by a panel of arbitrators on Monday even though one of the drugs found in her system, trimetazidine, is on the list of drugs banned by global antidoping officials. Valieva, 15, provided the sample in December, but Russian antidoping officials said they only learned of her positive result last week.

But according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and confirmed by someone who took part in the hearing, the Stockholm laboratory that carried out the examination of Valieva’s sample also found evidence of two other heart medications, hypoxen and L-Carnatine, that are not on the banned list.

The presence of trimetazidine in Valieva’s system may have been a mistake, Russian and Olympic officials have suggested. But the discovery of several substances in the sample of an elite athlete, especially one as young as Valieva, was highly unusual, according to a prominent antidoping official.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/sports/olympics/valieva-drug-test-heart-medications.html

Bath — Michigan State Police troopers on Tuesday morning searched the Lansing area home of former state House Speaker Lee Chatfield's top political and legislative staffers.

Spokespeople for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the state police declined to provide information about what was happening at the home of Rob and Anne Minard. But Shanon Banner of the state police said the agency was working in conjunction with Nessel's office as part of an "ongoing investigation."

"There is no further information to disclose at this time," Banner said.
Michigan State Police employees work at the home of Rob and Anne Minard, two staffers of former state House Speaker Lee Chatfield on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.

In January, Chatfield's 26-year-old sister-in-law, Rebekah Chatfield, accused the former speaker of sexually abusing her beginning when she was 15 years old. The woman's attorney, Jamie White, said there were also unspecified financial allegations involving Lee Chatfield.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/02/15/michigan-state-police-home-lee-chatfield-top-staffers-minard/6796614001/