Former Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz raised eyebrows when she told British talk show host Piers Morgan that she&#8217;d felt &#8220;joy&#8221; upon learning of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a video clip that circulated on Monday, Lorenz sparked an immediate reaction from Morgan when she made the comment on his show.
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&quot;I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy&#8230;&quot;
Piers Morgan is left astounded as Taylor Lorenz gives her thoughts on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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&#8220;I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I think that&#8217;s why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know because —&#8221; she began.
&#8220;Joy?&#8221; Morgan interrupted, his voice incredulous. &#8220;Seriously? Joy at a man&#8217;s execution?&#8221;
&#8220;— it feels like &#8230; maybe not joy, but certainly not — certainly not empathy,&#8221; Lorenz continued. &#8220;Because again, this is a man responsible —&#8221;
Morgan cut in again, showing surveillance video that had caught the execution-style murder, and asking, &#8220;How can this make you joyful? This man is a husband, he&#8217;s a father —&#8221;
Lorenz argued that Thompson was himself guilty of &#8220;murder,&#8221; claiming that he was responsible for &#8220;millions&#8221; of deaths because of his business practices.
&#8220;So are the tens of thousands of Americans — innocent Americans — who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people,&#8221; she complained, quickly revising down her numbers.
Lorenz went on to say that she had personally watched people she loved &#8220;suffer&#8221; because of people like Thompson.
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Morgan asked whether she&#8217;d be &#8220;more joyful&#8221; if those other executives were killed off as well, and Lorenz continued to backpedal. She claimed that feeling &#8220;joy&#8221; at the death of one did not mean she wanted more of them to die.
Shortly after the clip went viral, Semafor <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2024/taylor-lorenz-and-vox-are-parting-ways" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Vox Media — which partnered with Lorenz to distribute her podcast — was severing ties with her. The report indicated that the contract between Lorenz and Vox was set to expire at the end of the year, and that a decision had been made not to renew that contract prior to her controversial comments.
Lorenz has denied that Vox is walking away from the partnership, promising to reveal all on her podcast in the coming days.

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Ex-WaPo Reporter Taylor Lorenz Says United Healthcare CEO’s Murder Brought Her ‘Joy’

Ex-WaPo Reporter Taylor Lorenz Says United Healthcare CEO's Murder Brought Her 'Joy'

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After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA, there was an outpouring of very primal and vicious rage from all corners of the Left — both on social media, and in the mainstream corporate outlets. For the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-deafening-silence-of-academia-and-corporate-america-after-the-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first time</a> in American history, the near-assassination of a president didn&#8217;t bring about a period of national mourning, or condemnations from Hollywood and academia. Instead, the overwhelming sentiment was, in effect, that Donald Trump had it coming. It continued even after their second assassination attempt on Trump, which led the the New York Times to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/trump-violence-assassination-attempt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explain</a> that Trump was blameworthy because he had &#8220;stirred&#8221; anger among the public. Many other publications followed suit.
Obviously, blaming Trump for his own attempted assassination was always demented. But we were supposed to believe that it was acceptable to blame Trump, at least in part, because he&#8217;s such a polarizing figure. The Left insisted that they aren&#8217;t always this bloodthirsty. They said that they didn&#8217;t want to see every single one of their enemies get murdered in public, live on national television. Instead, they said that they just wanted to see Donald Trump get murdered in public, because he&#8217;s basically Hitler, and Hitler is a special case. Once Hitler&#8217;s out of the way, they said, they&#8217;d return to being normal, functioning citizens who don&#8217;t want to murder their enemies all the time.
This is a defense that was never believable. But after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan this week, even the Left is completely abandoning the whole pretense. If anything, the Left seems to be gloating over the execution of Thompson even more than the Trump assassination attempt. It&#8217;s not an exaggeration to say that I&#8217;ve never seen anything quite like this. They are declaring, without any hint of reservation, that it&#8217;s “open season” on everyone they don&#8217;t like. They are gleefully celebrating the horrific demise of a human being. Whether you&#8217;re a politician or a business executive, it doesn&#8217;t matter. They don&#8217;t want you fired, they don&#8217;t want you in prison — they want you dead.
Former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz couldn&#8217;t have been any more explicit about this. She posted an <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-152626476" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> on her newsletter entitled, &#8220;Yes, &#8216;we&#8217; want insurance executives dead.&#8221; She also posted an image of party balloons with the celebratory caption, &#8220;CEO Down.&#8221; And she wrote that, while people shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;murder&#8221; these executives, it&#8217;s &#8220;normal&#8221; to wish death upon them.
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Separately, in response to a news article about how Blue Cross Blue Shield recently announced that it won&#8217;t pay for anesthesia past a certain point, Lorenz <a href="https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1864728908098146642" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;And people wonder why we want these executives dead.&#8221; She also <a href="https://x.com/Legal_Fil/status/1864460915174678961" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> the name and picture of the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield, effectively suggesting that someone assassinate her. There&#8217;s really no other way to interpret it. This is the same woman who says you&#8217;re a psychopath if you go outside without a mask and &#8220;rawdog the air.&#8221; But wishing death on healthcare executives is apparently completely fine.
I could spend the next month going through all of the reactions like this from the Left. Suffice it to say, this kind of response was not unusual. For example, Columbia University professor Anthony Zenkus, who apparently specializes in the field of &#8220;social work,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/anthonyzenkus/status/1864415627844178087" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: &#8220;Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down&#8230;. wait, I&#8217;m sorry &#8211; today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires.&#8221;
Then there was this response from someone named &#8220;Angie,&#8221; who said that the murder of the CEO had made her feel &#8220;reinvigorated&#8221;:
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Brian Thompson&#39;s death gives Angie &quot;hope&quot; and has reinvigorated her. Why? Because her echo chamber makes it seem that &quot;Class consciousness&quot; is on the rise.
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These people are euphoric over the murder of a man with a family, supposedly because they&#8217;re not happy with his company&#8217;s insurance coverage. And now, like Taylor Lorenz, they&#8217;re turning their attention — and their threats — towards other CEOs.
And it appears to be working. Within hours of the online campaign to harass and threaten the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield, the company announced a reversal of its planned policy on anesthesia coverage. They now <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/health/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-claim-limits/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> they&#8217;re going to &#8220;halt&#8221; their proposed limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery. The company put out <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/health/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-claim-limits/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> reading: “There has been significant widespread misinformation about an update to our anesthesia policy. As a result, we have decided to not proceed with this policy change. To be clear, it never was and never will be the policy of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services. The proposed update to the policy was only designed to clarify the appropriateness of anesthesia consistent with well-established clinical guidelines.”
On the surface, this looks like a victory for the assassin and his supporters. The assassin kills one insurance company CEO, and then the next day, an insurance company rescinds its plans to limit coverage. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that seems like a major victory if you have no idea how the health insurance industry works.
The catch is that, as a result of this reversal, anesthesiologists no longer have any incentive to stop overbilling — which has been a major problem in their field in recent years. Blue Cross Blue Shield, along with other insurance companies, was <a href="https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1864856183544168544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trying</a> to force anesthesiologists to accept the standard, per-procedure Medicare rate for their services. Anesthesiologists hated that idea, because they&#8217;d prefer to keep charging high rates for hours that they weren&#8217;t even working. And now, because of a harassment campaign by Left-wing activists in the wake of a CEO&#8217;s murder, those anesthesiologists have won. In other words, the same people who complain that healthcare costs are too high might have just made it a lot easier for anesthesiologists to jack up healthcare costs even further.
It&#8217;s a development that underscores the complexity of the situation here. There are nuances that are lost when you&#8217;re re-enacting the French Revolution and murdering people in the street, instead of discussing complicated issues like reasonable people are supposed to do, in the &#8220;democracy&#8221; that the Left told us was so important.
To be clear, there&#8217;s certainly evidence that companies like UnitedHealthcare are becoming much more aggressive in denying certain kinds of claims. A <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024.10.17-PSI-Majority-Staff-Report-on-Medicare-Advantage.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate report</a> from this year, for example, found that: &#8220;In 2019, UnitedHealthcare issued an initial denial to 8.7 percent of the post-acute care prior authorization requests it received; by 2022, it denied 22.7 percent of all such requests, an increase of 172 percent. &#8230; Its 2022 denial rate for skilled nursing facilities was nine times higher than it was three years before.&#8221; 
The Democrat-led Senate committee concluded that, &#8220;Medicare Advantage insurers are intentionally targeting a costly but critical area of medicine — substituting judgment about medical necessity with a calculation about financial gain.&#8221;
What the report doesn&#8217;t mention is that UnitedHealthCare has profit margins of around 6%. After tax, it&#8217;s really under 4%. That means that, as a matter of basic finance, they&#8217;re not driving up profits to some ridiculous degree. Like any business, they have a lot of operating costs. They assume risks. If they started approving every claim, they&#8217;d go out of business overnight.
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The other important element here that Democrats overlook, for obvious reasons, is that Democrats are the ones who implemented coverage mandates, which inevitably raise the price of insurance for everyone. We saw that immediately after Obamacare, which was supposed to lower everyone&#8217;s premiums. In reality, it increased them dramatically. 
The point I&#8217;m making here is not that UnitedHealthcare is blameless, or that the insurance industry in general shouldn&#8217;t be criticized. Or that the CEO that was just killed is some kind of saint. I have no idea what kind of guy he is. He could be the very face of evil, or he could be a decent guy, or somewhere in between. I have no clue. What I&#8217;m saying is that there are no open-and-shut, clear-cut solutions to this problem. Any kind of solution requires real debate and discussion, not murdering executives in the streets. And that should make you wonder why, exactly, the Left is so supportive of Brian Thompson&#8217;s murder. If they don&#8217;t actually care about fixing the health insurance industry, then what do they care about?
It would be one thing if these Left-wing activists had the view that sometimes, when things get bad enough, an assassin needs to step up and take someone out for the good of the community. I&#8217;m not endorsing that view, obviously, but at least there&#8217;s a kind of moral coherence there. If they really believed that United Healthcare is essentially murdering people, and profiting from unspeakable moral evils, then you can see why some of these depraved Leftists might get excited by the prospect of eliminating one of the company&#8217;s executives.
But any semblance of coherence goes out the window the moment you zoom out a hundred feet, and look at how these same activists are reacting to the trial of Daniel Penny. If these people really thought that it&#8217;s good and righteous to eliminate a clear and present danger to the community — as they do with the CEO of UnitedHealthcare — then why exactly do they have any objection to what Daniel Penny did? Why did they storm the subways in protest after Jordan Neely&#8217;s death, chanting &#8220;No justice, no peace&#8221;? Why have they been outside the courthouse for every day of deliberations, pressuring the jurors to convict? Why isn&#8217;t Taylor Lorenz writing articles about how it&#8217;s &#8220;normal&#8221; to be happy that Jordan Neely is dead? Why aren&#8217;t the Columbia professors telling us not to mourn his death?
Even if we assume that Daniel Penny actually murdered Jordan Neely, which isn&#8217;t true, what&#8217;s the objection? Even if you pretend that Daniel Penny put a silencer on a pistol, waited until 6 AM until Jordan Neely started walking into a Hilton Hotel to terrorize some shareholder meeting, and then shot him in the back — then why exactly would Leftists be upset?
There&#8217;s no way to dispute that Jordan Neely was a menace to the community. He violently assaulted multiple people, including women who were just trying to take a ride on the subway. He was threatening an entire subway car of innocent passengers the day he died. His Michael Jackson impersonation didn&#8217;t seem particularly noteworthy. He was, in every respect, a net negative on society — a clear threat to the safety and well-being of the working class. So why exactly is anyone on the Left upset that Daniel Penny took action to eliminate the threat posed by Jordan Neely, while they&#8217;re busy swooning over the assassin of the UnitedHealthCare CEO in Manhattan?
There&#8217;s really only one way to make sense of it. In their world view, Jordan Neely — as a black drug addict criminal — has a life of greater value than a white male health insurance CEO. Nobody wants to say that out loud, but it&#8217;s true. If Brian Thompson had been the CEO of the same company, but he was a black woman, you would not be seeing any of the gloating and celebration. You&#8217;d probably be seeing the opposite, in fact. The Washington Post would be working overtime to find the assassin and dox everyone in his family. They&#8217;d re-hire Taylor Lorenz and have her track down the white supremacist killer, along with every single social media post he&#8217;s made since he was in kindergarten. They&#8217;d probably solve the case in about ten minutes.
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But as it stands, his victim happened to fit the demographic profile of a greedy, sub-human colonizer. In other words, he was white. It didn&#8217;t even matter to them that this CEO was probably a liberal. His company&#8217;s PAC certainly donated a lot of money to Kamala Harris. That wasn&#8217;t important to them. 
So we&#8217;re left with murderous, unrestrained anti-white race hatred under the guise of concern about health insurance costs — a problem that none of these people actually have any interest in fixing, because all they do when they&#8217;re in power is make insurance premiums even higher. Their primary interest is destabilizing this country by dehumanizing as many white people as possible. And if that means killing some of them, so be it.
That explains the response to what happened in Butler. And it explains the response to what just happened in Midtown Manhattan in front of the Hilton Hotel. If you&#8217;re a white conservative Christian, and you think that these people wouldn&#8217;t gloat the same exact way if you were murdered while you were on your way to work, then you have no idea what the Left is capable of, or what they really believe.
At this point, we don&#8217;t know why exactly Brian Thompson was executed. But we do know why these ghouls are celebrating his assassin, even as they demonize men like Daniel Penny. Pay attention to what they&#8217;re saying. Spend some time reading their euphoric posts on social media. And soon enough you&#8217;ll find that, even if you&#8217;re not the CEO of a major health insurance company, they&#8217;ll have no problem coming for you next.

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson Fatally Shot In Midtown Manhattan

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Taylor Lorenz, a former Washington Post and New York Times reporter and current podcaster for Vox Media, said on Wednesday that she wants health insurance executives &#8220;dead&#8221; just hours after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in Midtown Manhattan.
On the social media platform Bluesky, Lorenz reposted a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield not covering anesthesia costs for the entirety of some surgeries. Lorenz wrote, &#8220;And people wonder why we want these executives dead.&#8221; In <a href="https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1864503233798131957">another post</a>, Lorenz reposted a different link to the Blue Cross report and included a screenshot of Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Kim Keck.
On X, Lorenz <a href="https://x.com/GrittyGetLitty/status/1864357104435249663" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reposted</a> a user who wrote, &#8220;Brian Thompson killed more US Citizens than every serial killer combined, but because he made money off it the media considered him a successful businessman and morally upstanding citizen.&#8221; Lorenz also reposted a Bluesky user who wrote, &#8220;[H]ypothetically, would it be considered an actionable threat to start emailing other insurance CEOs a simple ‘you&#8217;re next’? Completely unrelated to current events btw.&#8221;
Lorenz later justified her posts about Thompson and other health insurance executives, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/taylorlorenz.bsky.social/post/3lcj4y7ndak2x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>, &#8220;People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it.&#8221;
The leftist tech writer told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-wapo-reporter-says-we-want-executives-dead-after-murder-health-insurance-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> that her post &#8220;is explaining the public sentiment.&#8221;
&#8220;That said, healthcare executives absolutely want people dead as long as it helps their bottom line and that’s the entire problem,&#8221; Lorenz added. &#8220;My sympathies are with the innocent people who have died or suffered after being denied coverage by greedy insurance companies.&#8221;
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Other leftists also condemned Thompson and insurance company CEOs after the assassination. Columbia University professor Anthony Zenkus <a href="https://x.com/anthonyzenkus/status/1864415627844178087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1864415627844178087%7Ctwgr%5Eb9ca6c70cde441a1d4ee3f7f974c52462a0b188e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.outkick.com%2Fanalysis%2Ftaylor-lorenz-other-left-wing-nuts-celebrate-murder-health-insurance-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down&#8230;. wait, I&#8217;m sorry &#8211; today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires.&#8221;
David Austin Walsh, a historian and College Fellow at the University of Virginia, <a href="https://x.com/DavidAstinWalsh/status/1864349614821806206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1864351517521694838%7Ctwgr%5Eb9ca6c70cde441a1d4ee3f7f974c52462a0b188e%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.outkick.com%2Fanalysis%2Ftaylor-lorenz-other-left-wing-nuts-celebrate-murder-health-insurance-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>, &#8220;It’s actually kind of touching that the one thing that can bring together our fractious and disunited country is celebrating the assassination of a health insurance CEO.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyway try to live your life in such a way that if you’re murdered the entire Internet doesn’t think that you had it coming,&#8221; he added.
Thompson, 50, was killed on Wednesday morning by a masked gunman in dark clothing. The assassin shot the health insurance CEO multiple times before fleeing the scene and is still at-large. Detectives investigating the scene where Thompson was killed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cryptic-messages-found-on-shell-casings-at-scene-where-health-insurance-ceo-was-gunned-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found shell casings</a> with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” written on them, according to ABC News.
Thompson received multiple death threats before he was killed, and authorities are looking into the nature and source of those threats. UnitedHealthcare has been criticized for denying patients’ claims.

Taylor Lorenz Says ‘We Want These Executives Dead’ After Health Insurance CEO Assassinated

Taylor Lorenz Says 'We Want These Executives Dead' After Health Insurance CEO Assassinated

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One of the main lines of attack against Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil until 2022, was one that we&#8217;re all very familiar with at this point. Liberals claimed that Bolsonaro was an &#8220;enemy of democracy.&#8221; Media outlets — both in the United States and Brazil — claimed that Bolsonaro was an autocrat who wanted to suspend the rule of law and use the force of government to punish his political enemies. This message resonated with Brazilians because some very prominent figures promoted it — including a former prosecutor-turned Supreme Court judge named Alexandre de Moraes. Among the Brazilian Left, de Moraes was something of a hero for taking on Bolsonaro. Most notably, the judge presided over a tribunal that banned Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 years.
Why? Bolsonaro allegedly spread &#8220;lies about voting machines,&#8221; which supposedly inspired a mob to ransack Congress, the presidential palace and other government buildings. It was basically Brazil&#8217;s January 6. So in the name of protecting democracy, the judge prevented people from voting for Bolsonaro for the better part of a decade.
He did to Bolsonaro exactly what the Left wanted to do to Donald Trump.
So what are the &#8220;defenders of democracy&#8221; up to in Brazil, just two years later? How are these crusaders for democratic norms faring in 2024?
As you may have heard, de Moraes just issued maybe the single most undemocratic and authoritarian court decision in the modern history of Brazil. He has unilaterally ordered a total ban on Elon Musk&#8217;s social media platform, X. No one in Brazil — a country where more than 20 million people used X — is legally allowed to use the platform. Anyone caught using a VPN to bypass this restriction can be fined roughly $9,000 per day, which is about 6 times the average Brazilian&#8217;s monthly salary. Additionally, de Moraes has fined X more than $3 million.
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He&#8217;s also frozen the assets of Elon Musk&#8217;s company Starlink, which provides internet access to hundreds of thousands of Brazilians living in remote areas. The point was to compel Starlink, an independent internet provider, to ban X as well. And on top of that, the Brazilian court system is now pressuring SpaceX, even though they have nothing whatsoever to do with the company. So SpaceX now has to pull employees out of Brazil.
The judge has gone to war with X for a very simple reason: The company refused to block certain accounts that, in the eyes of the Brazilian government, &#8220;harmed democratic institutions in Brazil.&#8221; And then, X refused to appoint an in-person local legal representative in Brazil, because the judge had threatened to arrest the representative to extract concessions from X. So in order to &#8220;protect democratic institutions&#8221; supposedly, tens of millions of Brazilians can no longer access the single most popular news app in the country. They have to turn to the corporate press to learn what they&#8217;re allowed to hear. Only approved narratives are allowed in Brazil right now.
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For Elon Musk, the showdown in Brazil is obviously a major test. He&#8217;s long maintained that he&#8217;ll obey the laws of whatever countries his companies are operating in. But he maintains that Brazil&#8217;s judges are violating Brazil&#8217;s constitution, which isn&#8217;t exactly a hard case to make at this point. This week The Economist took a closer look at the judge who issued this order against X and Starlink. <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/09/03/the-all-powerful-judge-taking-on-elon-musk">Here&#8217;s</a> what they found:
<blockquote>Mr Moraes also has form: he is a man who likes and understands power. He has extensive contacts in the federal police, military and intelligence services. &#8230; Other decisions have made the court look authoritarian. In 2019 Mr Moraes was put in charge of investigating misinformation about the Supreme Court and threats against the court’s members and their relatives. These had spiked after the election of Mr Bolsonaro. The &#8216;fake-news&#8217; inquiry was contentious from the start. Normally investigations are opened by the public prosecutor or the police. By giving itself the power to initiate investigations the Supreme Court became victim, prosecutor and judge all at once. No time limit was set, there is no legal definition for disinformation in Brazil and Mr Moraes has not made public which accounts he has ordered shut and why.</blockquote>
This is a violation of one of the most basic principles of every functioning legal system, which is that courts are only supposed to resolve legal disputes that are brought to them. That is their one and only job. Some party — whether it&#8217;s a citizen or the government or some other entity — needs to bring a case to the courts. And then the courts rule on it.
Once the courts have the authority to generate cases on their own, and make up arbitrary rules to enforce, then they&#8217;re not really courts anymore. Instead of judges, you have de facto dictators. And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening right now to Elon Musk and his companies in Brazil.
You&#8217;d hope that an incident like this would trigger immediate condemnations from the State Department. After all, the Biden administration claims to care very deeply about democracy. It&#8217;s essentially all they ever talk about. But there has been no condemnation from the mainstream Left in this country. In fact, if you listen to the corporate press, you&#8217;ll find a handful of reports essentially blaming Elon Musk for objecting to what the courts in Brazil are doing. 
Here for example is the BBC, which for some reason is pretending Taylor Lorenz — who openly hates Elon Musk — is an impartial expert on this topic. Watch:
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&#8220;He could have prevented the ban, but he chose not to.&#8221; Notice how the Brazilian government — which just shut down an entire social media app for millions of people — has no agency in Taylor Lorenz&#8217;s analysis. A private company refused to do the bidding of the Brazilian government. And therefore, it&#8217;s the private company&#8217;s fault that they got shut down. That&#8217;s how Taylor Lorenz, who works for The Washington Post, is selling this decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court. It&#8217;s how the BBC is presenting the news.
It&#8217;s not hard to see what&#8217;s going on here. Brazil is the template for mass censorship in the United States. If they can pull it off in Brazil, they&#8217;re going to try to pull it off here. That&#8217;s why the corporate press is presenting Elon Musk as the villain in this scenario. The media has a vested interest in shutting down X because it&#8217;s one of their biggest competitors. Random posts on X get more viewers than CNN&#8217;s entire primetime lineup. So in order to lay the groundwork for shutting down X in this country, they&#8217;re saying Elon Musk had it coming in Brazil. 
And it&#8217;s not just the media that&#8217;s trying to send this message. Senior figures in the Democrat Party are doing it too. For example, Keith Ellison is the attorney general of the State of Minnesota. He&#8217;s the chief legal officer of a major state. He&#8217;s also closely aligned with Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign. He just spoke at the DNC a few weeks ago. Here&#8217;s what Keith Ellison says about what&#8217;s happening to Elon Musk&#8217;s companies in Brazil.
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obrigado Brasil!
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&#8220;obrigado Brasil,&#8221; which translates to &#8220;Thank you, Brazil.&#8221; 
Again, Keith Ellison is not some backbench politician from a no-name congressional district. He&#8217;s the chief law officer of Minnesota. And he&#8217;s endorsing the total shutdown of a major social media platform because it wouldn&#8217;t censor the political opponents of the government.
Politicians like Keith Ellison crave censorship because they&#8217;re corrupt. They only care about power. And they&#8217;re willing to lie in order to get it. Remember what Keith Ellison did during the George Floyd riots. Ellison&#8217;s office hid bodycam footage showing that George Floyd said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; several times, while he was struggling with cops in the backseat of a police cruiser — long before he was on the ground with a knee near his neck. That was obviously relevant information because it suggested that Floyd was having a fatal overdose, and that he couldn&#8217;t breathe because he had taken a lethal quantity of fentanyl. So Keith Ellison&#8217;s office suppressed the footage.
Democrats like Keith Ellison want total control of social media platforms like X so that they can suppress information like that even more often, and even more easily. They want to be able to shut down any information or opinions that contradict their preferred narrative. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re thrilled with what&#8217;s happening in Brazil. 
It&#8217;s also why they have no problem with what the Biden administration is doing to Tusli Gabbard. Gabbard has emerged as one of the most effective critics of the modern Democrat Party. She has what no prominent Democrat has, which is integrity. She was on the fast-track to be a senior official in the Democrat Party, even serving as vice chair of the DNC. But she threw all of that away because she wanted to follow her principles — particularly concerning foreign affairs — instead of seeking power. So, Tulsi Gabbard can&#8217;t be controlled by party elites. What&#8217;s their solution? They put her on a terror watch list. Watch:
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Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticized her. No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration. I put my life on the line for this country. Now the government calls me a terror threat. <a href="https://t.co/3xjgjmrLhD">pic.twitter.com/3xjgjmrLhD</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1831346487969698259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This should be leading every nightly newscast in the United States. There is no reason for a political figure like Tusli Gabbard to be placed on any kind of terror watch list, or to receive 30 minutes of extra screening every time she tries to fly. The only conceivable explanation is that this is a federal program intended to harass and intimidate her. She&#8217;s not following the party line, so this is what she gets.
But she&#8217;s able to speak freely about what&#8217;s happening to her on X, at least for now. That&#8217;s the platform where Tulsi Gabbard posted that video I just showed you. It&#8217;s where she — and many other political dissidents in many other countries — can speak their minds, for the most part. At the very least, it&#8217;s a freer platform than any of the alternatives. That&#8217;s why the government, in both this country and Brazil, wants to shut X down. It&#8217;s also why France is trying to shut Telegram down and jail its founder. We are in the middle of a historic war on the freedom of speech, in countries where it would&#8217;ve been unthinkable just a few years ago.
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If they&#8217;re allowed to succeed in places like Brazil and France, it won&#8217;t be long until they try the same thing here. Our Constitution won&#8217;t protect us. Brazil and France have constitutions that supposedly protect the freedom of speech, and it&#8217;s not working out so well for them. The only solution is to do exactly what Elon Musk and Tusli Gabbard are doing, which is to respond to censorship and intimidation with more speech — call out what they&#8217;re doing. And in November, do everything you can to prevent these tyrants from seizing any more power than they already have.

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Washington Post journalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-lorenz">Taylor Lorenz</a> shared some details about the &#8220;Hotties for Harris&#8221; party that took place at this week&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-convention">Democratic National Convention</a> in Chicago.
The Instagram account, @houseinhabit, which is run by Jessica Reed Kraus, shared a story featuring Lorenz talking about some of the surprising activities and party favors at the event. The post quickly started making the rounds on X as well.
“Taylor is filling us in on some of the DNC highlights since we haven’t been able to get into the convention,” the person recording says in the video. “And what did you get as a party favor?” she asked.
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At the “Hotties for Harris” DNC event, there was a Plan B gumball machine, “Abortion Access” skeeball, sex themed walls, and more WEIRD stuff.
Democrats are obsessed with abortion and degeneracy.
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Lorenz replied, “So, well I was at the &#8216;Hotties for Harris&#8217; party last night, which was a party a bunch of people went to, and they had like all of these different sort of things. They had like mini golf where like, you put, you like, go mini golf through like, a ring of tampons and stuff.”
She continued, “And then I went through, then there was like a gumball machine, and I was like oh, let me turn the gumball machine, and you know maybe it’s like a ring or something, and um, it was, I have this,” Lorenz said, showing off her prize to the camera.
“It was Plan B,” she said, laughing about receiving the emergency contraceptive pill as a party favor. “It’s a Plan B pill,” she repeats before the video cuts to a photo of the gumball machine stocked with contraceptives.
Plan B, the brand name used for the drug, Levonorgestrel, &#8220;stops or delays the release of an egg from the ovary,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/plan-b-one-step-15-mg-levonorgestrel-information">FDA</a>.
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In another story shared on the same Instagram account, Lorenz mentioned that many attendees were wearing white on Thursday to represent their support for abortion access or, as she put it, “reproductive justice.”
She described Rep. Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (D-NY) as having “charisma” while calling New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul a “void in the room.” 
Besides the tampons and Plan B, Planned Parenthood set up a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planned-parenthood-bus-offering-free-abortions-vasectomies-outside-dnc">mobile clinic</a> a few blocks outside the DNC, providing free abortions and vasectomies.

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The Washington Post&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-lorenz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Lorenz</a> on Saturday sat down with the woman behind the popular &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221; X account, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-censorship-is-ramping-up-libs-of-tiktok-says-account-was-suspended-from-facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chaya Raichik</a>, for a videotaped interview, and made a stunning admission.
Lorenz, who doxxed and has routinely targeted Raichik, mostly for reposting videos that people on the Left post of themselves, admitted that she has not viewed some of the most sexually graphic material aimed at children that Raichik has posted about online. Still, Lorenz was ready to defend the sexual content and suggest Raichik is a hateful bigot for standing against its promotion in schools.
At one point in the interview, Lorenz says she &#8220;doesn&#8217;t know&#8221; about the content Raichik has posted on her feed and argued that any sexual education a &#8220;sex educator&#8221; deems necessary is good. In response, Raichik pulled up images of gay oral sex from controversial book &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; to show Lorenz, who was left speechless for a moment, before defending the content.
Lorenz contended there was missing &#8220;context&#8221; to the images of oral sex and scolded Raichik for not trusting &#8220;sex educators.&#8221;
&#8220;So, should this picture of a b***job be in elementary schools?&#8221; Raichik asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a book like that in elementary schools, but &#8230; I have no idea the context,&#8221; Lorenz answered, adding, &#8220;I would defer that question to a qualified professional, a sex educator.&#8221;
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Taylor Lorenz admits in her interview with Libs of TikTok that she hasn&#39;t read any of the books she&#39;s defending and attacking Chaya for trying to remove from public school libraries. She&#39;s shocked when Chaya shows them to her. <a href="https://t.co/49ZDAqEnZj">pic.twitter.com/49ZDAqEnZj</a>
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During the interview, Lorenz wore a mask, though the pair were outside and it&#8217;s been years since the pandemic. Raichik was wearing sunglasses and a t-shirt of a photo of Lorenz  literally crying over internet harassment during an MSNBC appearance last year. Again, Lorenz doxxed Raichik.
In fact, Lorenz caught a suspension on X in December 2022 for doxxing.
“Taylor Lorenz- the person who doxxed me was just suspended from Twitter,” Raichik posted from her Libs of TikTok account at the time. “Taylor campaigned Twitter to ban me multiple times. She also campaigned substack and shopify to ban me and complained when [Instagram] and Facebook gave me my account back. I have ZERO sympathy.”
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Others recounted their experiences with the journalist. &#8220;I’m not famous and I wasn’t a public figure either when Taylor Lorenz asked for my address, said it wasn’t for publication and then proceeded to dox me in the NYT (New York Times) with the address she had assured me she wasn’t going to publish,&#8221; one woman shared. &#8220;The article was shared many [times] on Twitter.&#8221;
X CEO Elon Musk responded by calling Lorenz&#8217;s behavior &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-suspends-leftist-taylor-lorenz-from-twitter-such-shameful-behavior-will-not-be-tolerated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shameful</a>.&#8221;
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I’m not famous and I wasn’t a public figure either when Taylor Lorenz asked for my address, said it wasn’t for publication and then proceeded to dox me in the NYT with the address she had assured me she wasn’t going to publish. The article was shared many x on Twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> <a href="https://t.co/dsqYai2KNn">https://t.co/dsqYai2KNn</a> <a href="https://t.co/0t80xTCuhd">pic.twitter.com/0t80xTCuhd</a>
&mdash; Ariadna Jacob (@littlemissjacob) <a href="https://twitter.com/littlemissjacob/status/1603575149524971521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A former New York Times journalist claimed Monday that the newspaper only allows its writers to express &#8220;right-wing opinions,&#8221; not Left-wing views, prompting raised eyebrows.
Taylor Lorenz, a tech reporter who now writes for The Washington Post, made the claim in a <a href="https://www.threads.net/@taylorlorenz/post/C0udsGiSPAx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Instagram&#8217;s Threads.
&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s worked as a journalist at the NYT knows that journalists there are absolutely allowed to loudly espouse political opinions, you just have to espouse the *right* political opinions. Right wing opinions are fine, left wing opinions are not,&#8221; Lorenz wrote in her post.
She added, &#8220;For instance, at the NYT I wasn&#8217;t allowed to express the &#8216;opinion&#8217; that online harassment was a bad thing, in the midst of having my entire family harassed and doxxed. I also once had to delete a tweet where I said I don&#8217;t like living in America lol. But saying &#8216;wokes&#8217; are taking over campus is totally fine in their book.&#8221;
Lorenz&#8217;s post was met with amused and incredulous reactions on social media.
&#8220;The parody writes itself,&#8221; Elon Musk, owner of X, posted along with two laughing emojis, reacting to a post about Lorenz&#8217;s comments.
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🤣🤣
The parody writes itself
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1734408017699897350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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This person lives in an alternate reality. <a href="https://t.co/hUOI1HLsSk">pic.twitter.com/hUOI1HLsSk</a>
&mdash; Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubensteinAdam/status/1734311794548814268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This person lives in an alternate reality,&#8221; posted journalist Adam Rubenstein, who also previously worked at the Times.
&#8220;This has to be a joke, right?&#8221; one X user wrote.
&#8220;When I think of the NYT, I definitely think of it being right wing,&#8221; another X user posted.
The Times frequently publishes pieces that platform Left-wing causes and views.
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In October, the Times falsely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-it-lied-about-israel-new-york-times-verification-badge-removed-by-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Israeli military bombed a hospital in Gaza, causing X to remove the Times’ verification badge.
Back in May, the Times published a piece <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/style/polyamory-somerville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advising</a> readers which U.S. cities grant more &#8220;rights&#8221; to people engaging in polyamory.
Lorenz herself frequently attracts criticism for her opinions and reporting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-lorenz-questions-libs-of-tiktok-about-fostering-violence-gets-mocked-in-reply" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tactics</a>.
Last year, Lorenz wrote a controversial article for the Post revealing the identity of Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Libs of TikTok account on X. Initially, the story linked to Raichik’s real estate license, which showed her name, real estate license number, and possible physical address. The Post removed the link after being accused of doxxing Raichik.
Lorenz has also been a vocal critic of lifting pandemic restrictions such as mandatory face masks, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/taylor-lorenz-in-twitter-feud-with-sopranos-meme-account/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> the lack of COVID rules places immunocompromised people like herself at risk. She continued to wear a face mask in public as recently as this year.

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Taylor Lorenz Says NY Times Only Allows ‘Right-Wing Opinions’

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended left-wing Washington Post reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/straight-trash-twitter-explodes-as-washington-post-reveals-who-runs-libs-of-tiktok-account">Taylor Lorenz</a> on Saturday night after saying late last week that her &#8220;shameful behavior&#8221; would not be tolerated on the platform in the future.
Lorenz claimed in a blog post that she &#8220;received zero communication from the company on why I was suspended or what terms I violated.&#8221;
She suggested that she was suspended because she tweeted at Musk asking him for a comment on a story.
&#8220;Never once in my 13 year career in social media have I received a single terms of service or community guidelines violation, for my personal account or any account that I’ve run,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;Twitter has served as an essential real time news source and played a crucial role in the journalism world, but Musk’s arbitrary suspensions of journalists who report on him should worry anyone who values free speech and expression.&#8221;
The popular Twitter account Libs of TikTok posted a screenshot of Lorenz&#8217;s account being suspended.
&#8220;Taylor Lorenz- the person who doxxed me was just suspended from Twitter,&#8221; Libs of TikTok posted. &#8220;Taylor campaigned Twitter to ban me multiple times. She also campaigned substack and shopify to ban me and complained when [Instagram] and Facebook gave me my account back. I have ZERO sympathy.&#8221;
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On Friday, Musk responded to a tweet from Ariadna Jacob, who wrote: &#8220;I’m not famous and I wasn’t a public figure either when Taylor Lorenz asked for my address, said it wasn’t for publication and then proceeded to dox me in the NYT with the address she had assured me she wasn’t going to publish. The article was shared many x on Twitter.&#8221;
Musk responded to the tweet: &#8220;Such shameful behavior will not be tolerated going forward.&#8221;
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Such shameful behavior will not be tolerated going forward
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603903999870062592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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While many conservatives typically oppose online censorship, it seemed as though there was a near-unanimous consensus from the right side of the political spectrum that this was not a typical censorship case.
Podcast host Tim Pool tweeted: &#8220;Taylor Lorenz finally got suspended for all the awful things she&#8217;s done.&#8221;
&#8220;Banning Taylor Lorenz is the best thing Elon Musk has done for this website,&#8221; said digital strategist Caleb Hull.
&#8220;Elon Musk decided to stop entertaining the liars on the far left. Good,&#8221; writer Ian Miles Cheong tweeted. &#8220;We need more of this. These people will stop at nothing to destroy you and all that you stand for.&#8221;
Political commentator Mike Cernovich tweeted: &#8220;Was out with friends and then checked in to see this. Is that what people mean by a night cap (sic)?&#8221;

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Podcaster Tim Pool released a brutal new song on Friday that heaps a whole lot of sarcastic praise on people like ousted CNN host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-disgraced-former-cnn-host-chris-cuomo-gets-hired-by-news-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Cuomo</a> and Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz as it goes to number one on iTunes
Pool and Trash House Records released a song, called &#8220;GENOCIDE (Losing My Mind),&#8221; his third single and second musical collaboration with former Offspring drummer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/listen-tim-pool-releases-first-single-with-ousted-offspring-drummer-pete-parada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Parada</a>, according to a press release obtained by The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Journalists today provide an invaluable service to humanity and protect Democracy from fascists and anti-vaxxers,&#8221; Pool said sarcastically, noting that his new song &#8220;pays tribute to the brave journalistic practices&#8221; while his video takes swipes at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-lorenz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lorenz</a>, Cuomo, MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rachel-maddow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Maddow</a>, CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity, and CNN host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/don-lemon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a>.
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Throughout the music video, Pool uses headlines about everything from the pandemic lockdowns to inflation in order to mock the press’ reports that harmful things are actually good.
Some of these hilarious examples include messages that read, &#8220;Lockdowns are for your own good,&#8221; &#8220;Big Pharma has your back,&#8221; &#8220;$8 gas is a small price to pay for a clean conscience,&#8221; &#8220;Five ways nuclear war benefits you,&#8221; and &#8220;Fiery but mostly peaceful drone strike.&#8221;
At the conclusion of the video, a &#8220;reporter&#8221; seemingly appearing in a foreign country is actually just standing in front of a green screen — another obvious dig at the corporate media.
&#8220;Our goal was to highlight just how important the national media is in rallying support for foreign intervention and safety lockdowns,&#8221; Pool joked. &#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for these great heroes of national media, we would have never liberated Iraq and Afghanistan and untold millions could have died without support for strict lockdowns.&#8221;
&#8220;Libya today is a shining example of the great work our national media does to ensure peace and prosperity around the world,&#8221; he added sarcastically. &#8220;If the fascists had their way, people would have visited their loved ones as they were dying in hospitals making the pandemic much, much worse.&#8221;
At the time of this publication, the video has been seen 141,000 times and counting.
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Taylor Lorenz, who covers technology and online culture for The Washington Post, has once again found herself the subject of ridicule online.
On Monday, Lorenz again questioned the woman behind the Libs of TikTok account on Twitter, asking her for comment on a colleague&#8217;s story.
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Lorenz said her colleague was publishing a story on influencers who &#8220;spread narratives about election fraud in 2020.&#8221;
&#8220;You are not one of these influencers, but your account has received extensive promotion from them. We mention in the story that your account has helped to foster violence and that your posts led to death threats against medical providers at Boston Children’s Hospital, and a bomb threat caused the hospital to be evacuated. We also say you intend to continue to target hospitals. Do you have any comment?&#8221; Lorenz wrote.
Lorenz&#8217;s deadline for comment was less than five hours away at the time she messaged Libs of TikTok. She followed up again before the deadline.
&#8220;I’m sorry but I can’t date you. I’m straight,&#8221; the Libs of TikTok founder replied, adding in a tweet with screenshots of the exchange, &#8220;Why is she obsessed with me?&#8221;
&#8220;I think you accidentally replied to the wrong DM. This is Taylor Lorenz from the Washington Post and we’re asking you to reply to the question above,&#8221; Lorenz replied.
&#8220;Hey Tay, I know getting rejected must be really difficult. In some good news, Ross has a 55+ senior discount on Thursday so maybe that will make you feel better,&#8221; the Libs of TikTok founder shot back.
Lorenz&#8217;s exact age is unknown, with Wikipedia estimating her birth year somewhere between 1984-87 and <a href="https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/taylor-lorenz/">several</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/style/egg-freezing-fertility-millennials.html">different</a> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cries-of-oh-my-god-heard-on-moving-amtrak-train/">newspapers</a> stating different ages.
Libs of TikTok was briefly suspended from Twitter recently for &#8220;hateful conduct&#8221; after tweeting out recordings of employees at Children&#8217;s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., saying the hospital performs gender-affirming hysterectomies on 16-year-old girls. The hospital later said those employees were incorrect and it does not perform gender-affirming surgery on minors.
Police said a bomb threat called in to Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital after Libs of TikTok tweeted about the hospital&#8217;s gender program <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-boston-childrens-hospital-fake-bomb-threat-20220831-7bsd2qp36ngd3c7tolozsw6t6u-story.html">turned out</a> to be a hoax.
In April, Lorenz wrote a controversial article for the Post revealing the identity of Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok. Lorenz knocked on the doors of Raichik&#8217;s family members in the process of writing the story.
Initially, the Post story linked to Raichik&#8217;s real estate license, which showed her name, real estate license number, and possible physical address. The Post removed the link after being accused of doxxing Raichik.
Lorenz frequently complains about facing online harassment herself, even sobbing about her troubles during an MSNBC interview.
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NEW: Taylor Lorenz says she has &quot;severe PTSD&quot; from being a journalist and breaks down in MSNBC interview <a href="https://t.co/G9FymoSdH8">pic.twitter.com/G9FymoSdH8</a>
&mdash; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1509956251026927618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, Lorenz skewered NBC News reporter Morgan Radford, who conducted the April segment on women journalists who are harassed online for their reporting.
&#8220;No bigger regret in my career than making the mistake of thinking @MorganRadford knew how to accurately report on abuse/harassment. Her complete mishandling of the story has led to immense fallout and months of abuse. I cannot warn women loudly enough to stay away from her/MSNBC,&#8221; Lorenz tweeted.
Lorenz added that women journalists should &#8220;NOT trust anyone in the media to tell your story or report on harassment accurately, especially TV news people. They do not care about u or getting it right.&#8221;

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Liberals trashed reporter Matthew Yglesias — for the second time in recent days — after learning that he had dared to venture outside to take a walk in the nice weather despite being infected with COVID.
Iglesias, who revealed on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/country-singer-jennifer-nettles-shares-heartbreaking-news-about-her-dad-on-fathers-day/">Fathers Day</a> that he had contracted <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/trump-surgeon-general-suggests-fauci-got-covid-because-others-were-careless/">COVID</a>, tweeted on Monday about taking a walk outside while the weather was nice.
&#8220;Me after spending all day walking around in nice weather: Manhattan is amazing, why did I ever leave? [checks real estate prices] Oh,&#8221; he tweeted.
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Me after spending all day walking around in nice weather: Manhattan is amazing, why did I ever leave? 
[checks real estate prices]
Oh.
&mdash; Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1538972328738148359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Yglesias continued his thread, wondering about how big New York City could potentially get in a &#8220;Yes, In My Back Yard&#8221; YIMBYtopia — that is, a city filled with people who were not opposed to excess development in order to keep housing costs manageable.
&#8220;Something I always wonder about is how big could Greater New York get in a YIMBYtopia? In theory there is supposed to be some balance point between agglomeration benefits and congestion disamenities, but real wages are already higher in Boston &amp; DC so I’m a little skeptical,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1538975271189204993">said</a>, adding, &#8220;Given that the United States has so many more people than Japan, I think unconstrained New York should probably grow to be meaningfully larger than Tokyo — more than doubling the current population of the metro area.&#8221;
He went on to note that New York had &#8220;a lot of unused subway capacity&#8221; that, if updated and used efficiently, could bring the United States closer to the advanced transportation infrastructure in place in Japan.
&#8220;And the land use near existing commuter rail stations is total garbage. So there’s plenty of room for growth even without improving the infrastructure (which we should of course improve),&#8221; he concluded.
But despite his efforts to raise a legitimate question about urban planning and efficient use of transportation structures, critics quickly harped on Iglesias&#8217; first comment about spending time outside and enjoying the weather.
&#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t you be isolating?&#8221;
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Shouldn&#39;t you be isolating?
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The Washington Post&#8217;s Taylor Lorenz, who had previously <a href="https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1538595952566542336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1538595952566542336%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fwashington-posts-taylor-lorenz-scolds-matt-yglesias-joking-covid">scolded</a> Yglesias for joking about the fact that he tested positive for COVID on Fathers Day, quickly piled on.
&#8220;He should. People who walk around in public knowingly positive w/ a highly contagious deadly virus put those of us who are medically vulnerable at risk,&#8221; she said.
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Lorenz had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/taylor-lorenz-rips-fellow-libs-covid-quip-showing-again-no-one-at-wapo-can-take-a-joke/">lashed out</a> at Iglesias on Sunday for suggesting that COVID should have had &#8220;more respect&#8221; for Fathers Day. &#8220;Frankly, I think the virus should respect Father’s Day more than this,&#8221; Iglesias tweeted, followed by: &#8220;FYI, all future typos are due to long Covid.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m glad it’s a joke for u Matt and that you’re lucky enough to get access to great care, but for those who have had their lives destroyed by the virus and who have had loved ones die from or suffer w/ LC it’s not funny. Hope you can have a little more empathy, especially today,&#8221; Lorenz shot back.

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More evidence has emerged that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post">Washington Post&#8217;s</a> newsroom can&#8217;t take a joke after lightning rod reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-lorenz">Taylor Lorenz</a> took offense at a Father&#8217;s Day COVID quip by a fellow left-wing journalist.
Matthew Yglesias, co-founder of Vox and an influential liberal pundit, tried to crack wise on Twitter after learning he had contracted COVID-19. But Lorenz, like former colleague <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-suspension-of-weigel-and-firing-of-sonmez-highlights-the-tawdry-manners-of-elite-media">Felicia Sonmez</a>, who was fired after blasting a colleague and the paper over a mildly sexist joke, didn&#8217;t think it was funny.
&#8220;Some personal news: I have contracted the novel coronavirus,&#8221; Yglesias tweeted Sunday. &#8220;Frankly, I think the virus should respect Father’s Day more than this.&#8221; He then went on to quip that &#8220;FYI, all future typos are due to long Covid.&#8221;
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Wash Post still working out the struggle I guess. <a href="https://t.co/DIDtZKnrrf">pic.twitter.com/DIDtZKnrrf</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1538610939217424384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lorenz, who was recently dropped from the newspaper&#8217;s vaunted features team after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapos-taylor-lorenz-removed-from-features-staff-after-false-claims-in-story-report">embarrassing screwup</a> in a story on content creators and the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial, wasn&#8217;t laughing or expressing concern for Yglesias&#8217; health.
&#8220;I’m glad it’s a joke for u Matt and that you’re lucky enough to get access to great care, but for those who have had their lives destroyed by the virus and who have had loved ones die from or suffer w/ LC it’s not funny. Hope you can have a little more empathy, especially today,&#8221; she tweeted.
Earlier this month, the newsroom was rocked by another attempt at humor. Star reporter David Weigel retweeted a joke that offended Sonmez, who publicly called out the newspaper.
“Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual,” was the joke that prompted Sonmez to question on Twitter why the newspaper would employ someone who would share such a joke. Sonmez then continued to complain about her colleagues when some defended Weigel, who had immediately apologized.
The newspaper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-reporter-suspended-without-pay-after-coworker-criticizes-him-for-retweeting-a-joke">suspended Weigel</a> for a month without pay but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-fires-reporter-who-trashed-paper-colleague-over-retweeted-joke">then fired Sonmez</a> when she refused to stop publicly complaining.
On Friday, &#8220;Real Time&#8221; host Bill Maher said the Washington Post&#8217;s newsroom was like a &#8220;daycare center&#8221; full of spoiled and entitled scolds. And that was before Lorenz objected publicly to Yglesias&#8217;s tweet. Maher invoked the Post’s storied past, including breaking the Watergate story nearly 50 years ago. &#8220;Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were focused on getting stories, not finding offense in their colleagues’ behavior,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-calls-modern-newsrooms-daycare-centers-after-wapos-bye-felicia-saga">he said</a>.
“If someone named Deep Throat called the paper today and wanted to meet in a parking garage, this crew of emotional hemophiliacs would have an anxiety attack and report it to HR that they didn’t feel safe,” Maher said.

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