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18 May 2024
- 01:1901:19, 18 May 2024 diff hist −2 Zooey Zephyr →2023 legislative session: fterwards, members of the conservative Montana Freedom Caucus, in a letter that once again misgendered Zephyr, accused her of "standing in the middle of the floor encouraging an insurrection. current
- 01:1501:15, 18 May 2024 diff hist +21 Zooey Zephyr →2023 legislative session: On April 24, about 100 people gathered at a rally in support of Zephyr, prompting a heavy police presence. Later that afternoon, Zephyr was once again denied speaking privileges, prompting every single Democratic lawmaker who was present to stand in protest. All but two Republican members of the chamber's supermajority voted to uphold Regier's ruling. Protests in the House Gallery resulted in a half-hour delay in proceedings as riot police were brought in to clear
- 01:0801:08, 18 May 2024 diff hist +15 Zooey Zephyr →2023 legislative session: Zephyr's comments prompted a backlash from House Republicans. The Montana Freedom Caucus issued a statement misgendering Zephyr and calling for her censure.
- 00:3600:36, 18 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Zooey Zephyr →Career: added paragraph break Tag: Manual revert
- 00:3500:35, 18 May 2024 diff hist −2 Zooey Zephyr Undid revision 1224366505 by Cathradgenations (talk) Tags: Undo Reverted
17 May 2024
- 23:5423:54, 17 May 2024 diff hist +2 Zooey Zephyr →Career: added paragraph break Tag: Reverted
- 23:5323:53, 17 May 2024 diff hist +16 Zooey Zephyr →Career: Over time, Zephyr came to believe that she needed to "get into the room where the laws are being written
- 23:4823:48, 17 May 2024 diff hist +58 Zooey Zephyr →Career: ephyr's role as an activist began in 2020. She testified before the Montana legislature in defense of LGBT rights and met with Republican Governor Greg Gianforte, but felt her words were not heard. Having watched in frustration as bills limiting the rights of transgender people passed by a single-vote margins; these included, for example, legislation making it difficult for transgender people to update birth certificates. Zephyr came to believe she needed to "get into the ro
- 23:3623:36, 17 May 2024 diff hist +73 Ben Domenech →Other controversies: Also in 2020, ''The Federalist'' received slightly more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the Biden administration's Paycheck Protection Program. Despite the fact that the ''The Federalist'' was found to be one of "the internet's top sources of false, misleading or conspiratorial information related to COVID-19" the newsite still received the loan from the federal government to stay afloat during the pandemic. The funds were primarily used to help ''T current
- 09:1409:14, 17 May 2024 diff hist −8 m Ben Domenech →Other controversies
- 09:1209:12, 17 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Ben Domenech →Salt mine tweet
- 09:0909:09, 17 May 2024 diff hist +22 Ben Domenech →Plagiarism: Domenich launched his column for the ''Post'' website, ''Red America'', on March 21, 2006, but resigned three days later after having written only six posts, when his fellow bloggers posted evidence online that Domenech had plagiarized the work of other journalists from ''The Washington Post'', ''The New Yorker'', ''National Review'', the humorist P. J. O'Rourke, the film critic Stephanie Zacharek, the writer Mary Elizabeth Williams, and that of several other
- 08:5908:59, 17 May 2024 diff hist +415 Ben Domenech →Personal life: Ben is the son of Douglas Domenech, who served during the George W. Bush presidecy as the United States Department of the Interior's White House Liaison and the Secretary of the Interior's Deputy Chief of Staff,<ref name="DOI" /> and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular and International Affairs during the Trump administration.<ref name="DOI" />
- 08:5108:51, 17 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Ben Domenech →Salt mine tweet
- 08:4908:49, 17 May 2024 diff hist +58 Ben Domenech →Salt mine tweet: In 2019, 'Federalist'' workers, following the staffs of other American media companies unionizing, ''Federalist'' co-founder Domenech tweeted that the "first one of you [who] tries to unionize I swear I'll send you back to the
- 08:3708:37, 17 May 2024 diff hist +47 Ben Domenech →Other controversies: Also in 2020, ''The Federalist'' received slightly more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the Biden administration's Paycheck Protection Program. Despite the fact that the ''The Federalist'' was found to be one of "the internet's top sources of false, misleading or conspiratorial information related to COVID-19" the newsite still received such a loan from the federal government to stay afloat during the pandemic. The loan was later forgiven by the gov
- 03:3703:37, 17 May 2024 diff hist +3 Charles Lane (journalist) →Controversies: n 2009, Lane faced criticism for an opinion column he authored for the ''Post'' entitled "Medical Marijuana Is An Insult to Our Intelligence," in which he belittled a woman named Angel Raich, who was a plaintiff in a Supreme Court case claiming a right to medical marijuana. Lane wrote of Raich that she "might consider a consultation for hypochondria, or perhaps marijuana dependency."
- 03:3603:36, 17 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Charles Lane (journalist) →Controversies
- 03:3403:34, 17 May 2024 diff hist +9 m Charles Lane (journalist) →Controversies
- 03:3403:34, 17 May 2024 diff hist +3 m Charles Lane (journalist) →Controversies
- 03:2903:29, 17 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Ben Domenech →Other controversies
- 03:2403:24, 17 May 2024 diff hist +45 m Ben Domenech →Other controversies: In 2020, ''The Federalist'' received slightly more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the Biden administration's Paycheck Protection Program. Despite the fact that the ''The Federalist'' was found to be one of "the internet's top sources of false, misleading or conspiratorial information related to COVID-19" the newsite still received such a loan from the federal government to stay afloat during the pandemic.
- 03:1503:15, 17 May 2024 diff hist +236 m Ben Domenech →Other controversies: In 2020, ''The Federalist'' received more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the Biden administration's Paycheck Protection Program. ''The Federalist'' was found to be one of "the internet's top sources of false, misleading or conspiratorial information related to COVID-19" while receiving sizable loans from the federal government to stay afloat during the pandemic.
- 03:0303:03, 17 May 2024 diff hist +768 m Ben Domenech →Other controversies: In 2020, ''The Federalist'' received more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds from the Biden administration's Paycheck Protection Program.
15 May 2024
- 21:3221:32, 15 May 2024 diff hist +48 Marty Peretz Wildman wrote that the sexual harassment which she and other women at the magazine faced went hand in hand with gender discrimination at the magazine during Peretz's tenure: "The women knew we had a far shallower chance of rising up the masthead than our male counterparts; all of us hoped we'd be the exception. To do so, we entered into a game in which the rules were rigged against us, sometimes pushing us well past our point of comfort in order to remain in play."
- 21:2821:28, 15 May 2024 diff hist +7 m Marty Peretz During his tenure, ''The Nation'' would later assess, "the magazine promoted many of the worst decisions in modern American history–the killing fields in 1980s Central America, the invasion of Iraq, the downgrading of diplomacy in preference to military solutions in foreign policy, the neoliberal economics that has fueled inequality and instability, the brutalization of the Palestinians, the revival of scientific racism, and the persistent whittling-down of the welfare state."
- 21:1621:16, 15 May 2024 diff hist +481 m Marty Peretz n 1974, he purchased ''The New Republic'', and he later assumed editorial control of the magazine. During that tenure, the Nation would later assess, "the magazine promoted many of the worst decisions in modern American history–the killing fields in 1980s Central America, the invasion of Iraq, the downgrading of diplomacy in preference to military solutions in foreign policy, the neoliberal economics that has fueled inequality and instability, the brutalization of the Palestinians, the reviv
- 21:0321:03, 15 May 2024 diff hist +457 Marty Peretz →Allegations of gender bias in hiring: Speaking at a 1994 conference on Black-Jewish relations, Peretz said, “So many people in the black population are afflicted by deficiencies—and I mean cultural deficiencies—which Jews, for example, didn’t [have].” He added: “In the ghetto, mothers—a lot of mothers don’t appreciate the importance of schooling,” and added, “A mother who is on crack is in no position to help her children get through school.”
- 20:4220:42, 15 May 2024 diff hist −186 Marty Peretz Undid revision 1224027883 by Cathradgenations (talk) Tag: Undo
- 20:3820:38, 15 May 2024 diff hist +186 Marty Peretz →New Republic magazine: His 1967 marriage to Anne Labouisse Farnsworth, an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, helped him buy ''The New Republic'' from Gilbert Harrison in 1974. "The Singer company had a history of union-busting and a soul-crushing enforcement of 'scientific management' designed to turn workers into efficient cogs," the Nation later observed. Tag: Reverted
5 May 2024
- 11:0911:09, 5 May 2024 diff hist +3 m Ben Domenech →Other controversies
- 11:0711:07, 5 May 2024 diff hist +8 Ben Domenech →Other controversies: In fact, however, numerous reports confirmed that Kagan was not gay, forcing Domenech finally to issue a public apology to Kagan "if she is offended at all by my repetition of a Harvard rumor in a speculative blog post."
- 11:0511:05, 5 May 2024 diff hist +81 Ben Domenech →Other controversies: Domenech, however, doubled down, writing in an addendum to his column, "I have to correct my text here to say that Kagan is apparently still closeted—odd, because her female partner is rather well known in Harvard circles." Domenech once again provided no credible evidence, however, to verify his claim.
- 10:5910:59, 5 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Ben Domenech →Plagiarism
4 May 2024
- 14:5014:50, 4 May 2024 diff hist −11 m Ben Domenech →Career
- 14:4514:45, 4 May 2024 diff hist +20 m Leon Wieseltier →Career current
- 14:4214:42, 4 May 2024 diff hist +177 m Leon Wieseltier →Career
- 14:3914:39, 4 May 2024 diff hist +7 Leon Wieseltier →Career: On October 24, 2017, Laurene Powell Jobs withdrew funding for the journal Wieseltier had been working to establish after Wieseltier admitted to sexual harassment and inappropriate advances with several former female employees
- 14:3514:35, 4 May 2024 diff hist +1 Leon Wieseltier →Career: In January 2016, it was announced that Wieseltier would be joining Laurene Powell Jobs to form a new publication devoted to exploring the effects of technology on people's lives.
- 14:3214:32, 4 May 2024 diff hist −34 Leon Wieseltier →Career: removed opinion-- "increased stature"
- 14:2114:21, 4 May 2024 diff hist +8 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group which is a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation,
- 07:2507:25, 4 May 2024 diff hist +56 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.''' (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials '''RFK Jr.''', is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group, a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
- 07:1507:15, 4 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Ben Domenech →Payments for Malaysian opinion pieces
- 07:1307:13, 4 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Ben Domenech →Plagiarism
- 07:1107:11, 4 May 2024 diff hist −1 Ben Domenech →Plagiarism: Domenico launched a new website, ''Red America'', on March 21, 2006, but resigned three days later after having written only six posts, when his fellow bloggers posted evidence online that Domenech had plagiarized the work of other journalists from ''The Washington Post'', ''The New Yorker'', ''National Review'', the humorist P. J. O'Rourke, the film critic Stephanie Zacharek, the writer Mary Elizabeth Williams, and that of several other publications and writ
2 May 2024
- 06:0106:01, 2 May 2024 diff hist +9 Ben Domenech →Career: On March 21, 2006, only three days into his appointment, however, Domenech resigned his position after evidence surfaced showing that he had earlier plagiarized the earlier works of others that had originally appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''National Review'', and several other publications. The ''Post'' said it had not known about his plagiarism when the newspaper hired him, and had editors known, they would never have offered him the job i
- 05:5305:53, 2 May 2024 diff hist +7 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. →Conviction for heroin possession: To satisfy one of the conditions of his probation, Kennedy worked as a volunteer for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and was required to attend regular drug-rehabilitation sessions. His probation ended a year early
- 05:4705:47, 2 May 2024 diff hist +5 Leon Wieseltier →Sexual harassment acknowledgment (2017): He was also fired by the Brookings Institution where he been the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy.
- 05:4505:45, 2 May 2024 diff hist −1 Leon Wieseltier →Sexual harassment acknowledgment (2017): After it was revealed on October 24, 2017, that several former women employees of ''The New Republic'' had accused Wieseltier of sexual harassment and inappropriate advances,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> he admitted to "offenses against some of my colleagues in the past." In a statement he made after the allegations became public, Wieseltier said: “I am ashamed to know that I made [anyone]... feel demeaned and disrespected. I assure them that I
- 05:4305:43, 2 May 2024 diff hist +58 Leon Wieseltier →Career: Wieseltier served on the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and was an outspoken advocate of the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq and the Iraq War. "I am in no sense a neoconservative, as many of my neoconservative adversaries will attest," Wieseltier wrote in a May 2007 letter to Judge Reggie Walton, seeking leniency for his friend Scooter Libby
