Benjamin Ryan
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Joined August 2013
Study That Critics Call Weak Finds Suicidality Dropped After Youths Began Cross-Sex Hormones https://t.co/mzbT26ResV 🧵⬇️I report: As is often the case with pediatric gender medicine studies, critics said the study authors have overstated hormones’ impact, given that it’s not
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Two thirds of the University of Michigan faculty supported a motion calling pediatric gender-transition treatment “medically necessary” and “life saving.” Neither of these are evidence-based claims. WPATH put the term “medically necessary” into its trans-care guidelines to
What does the ultra-educated class believe about gender affirming care for minors? Last month the UMich faculty senate decisively passed a motion describing GAC as “medically necessary” and “lifesaving” (67% Yes, 15% No, 18% Abstain). This has been “demonstrated,” no less! The
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Jake Auchincloss @JakeAuch just unveiled the UnAnxious Generation package, designed to target Big Tech's legal immunity, their digital ad revenue, and the time teens spend on their apps. "We're going for the jugular" he told me https://t.co/7s8uCv8L9w
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Rep. Jake Auchincloss and bipartisan co-sponsors introduced three bills to curb social media companies’ legal immunity, strengthen safeguards for kids, and tax their ad revenues.
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When one searches for Olivia Nuzzi's book on Google, it shows up...with a picture of Cheryl Hines.
It's publish day for Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto, which recounts her lurid relationship with a "politician" (RFK Jr.) and turbulent split with Ryan Lizza. The book's sales are...not good. I generally find that a halfway decent debut on Amazon for a book by someone who is not
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It's publish day for Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto, which recounts her lurid relationship with a "politician" (RFK Jr.) and turbulent split with Ryan Lizza. The book's sales are...not good. I generally find that a halfway decent debut on Amazon for a book by someone who is not
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Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir Can American Canto turn scandal into literature? By @helenlewis "American Canto is Nuzzi’s attempt to elevate a grubby affair to the status of the mythic, to transmute the base metal of Page Six sexting stories into the gold of literary
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Canadian publisher Kids Can Press "strongly condemns any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image" following Pete Hegseth's post:
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On Giving Tuesday, activist-blogger Erin Reed calls for people to support her for-profit Substack.
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@NYMag Ryan Lizza reports on how Olivia Nuzzi told him Robert F. Kennedy Jr. manipulated her and got her to cross journalistic ethical lines: "Here’s how it worked, according to her. Bobby would show Olivia intense love and affection and express, say, a deep commitment to having a
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@NYMag Ryan Lizza reports that Olivia Nuzzi said about her relationship with RFK Jr: "Olivia explained that Kennedy had told her he wanted to 'bind,' 'subdue,' 'tame,' 'possess,' and 'discipline' her, and that these sexual proclivities for bondage and 'total submission' carried over
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@NYMag Ryan Lizza reports that Olivia Nuzzi told him the following gossip about RFK Jr: "Olivia believed Kennedy was a sex addict and that he was having multiple affairs, including with both his [REDACTED] and his [REDACTED]. "Olivia believed Kennedy had recently cut off contact with
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@NYMag Among the numerous pieces of gossip Olivia Nuzzi told Ryan Lizza, per Lizza, are that he doesn't believe a lot of the anti-vax stuff and that he was using ketamine. "I kept a running list of some of what she described, including: "*Kennedy has a pregnancy fetish. *Kennedy
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BREAKING: Ryan Lizza has just dropped Part 4 of his saga on Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. 🧵👇👇Part 4: Means of Control The Mar-a-Lago tape, the Bobby phone call, Olivia's side of the story, and the neighbor who cracked the case. "Bobby [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] and Olivia planned
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Breaking - WH confirms second deadly strike on alleged drug boat was deliberate: CNN: White House said Monday that Admiral Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering a second, targeted strike on an alleged drug vessel
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Research such as the papers below find that smartphones are tied to negative health outcomes in teens. But Taylor Lorenz asserts that phones are good for youth and that efforts to keep them away from kids are a conspiracy to shield them from progressive values, such as abortion
Here's a link to that study by Sapien Labs, showing the correlations of earlier first smartphone with later mental illness. https://t.co/4nQaE3QcDw And here is a link to the study in Pediatrics, quoted in the NYT article, including a video abstract: https://t.co/Fz8X8kFitb
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Here's yet another study showing that kids who get smartphones earlier have worse mental health as teens. So what's the right age for a first smartphone? I'd say its whatever age you want them to cut back on sleeping, reading, exercise, and socializing. I advise not doing that
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Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.
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If Olivia Nuzzi had had RFK Jr.'s child as she reportedly fantasized she would, she would've joined the likes of Andrew Cuomo and Arnold Schwarzenegger in being the parent of a fourth-generation descendant of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Ryan Lizza reports that Olivia Nuzzi believed she could have a baby with RFK Jr. (which would have made her the mother of a Kennedy G4, as @NYMag reports the 4th generation is known): "The attempts to prevent me from moving on with my life were obviously nonsensical, but Olivia
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Kabas catches on that Lizza was likely secretly tape recording Nuzzi. (This is legal in DC, where they both live.)
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Marisa Kabas, an independent reporter whose bread and butter is slaying other journalists, deems Ryan Lizza a “sociopath” for secretly documenting his ex-fiancée Olivia Nuzzi’s recollections of her dalliances with RFK Jr.
BREAKING: Ryan Lizza has just dropped Part 4 of his saga on Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. 🧵👇👇Part 4: Means of Control The Mar-a-Lago tape, the Bobby phone call, Olivia's side of the story, and the neighbor who cracked the case. "Bobby [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] and Olivia planned
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Ryan Lizza reports that Olivia Nuzzi told him that RFK Jr. was, she believed, a sex addict and that he was having multiple affairs. She named names (to Lizza):
@NYMag Ryan Lizza reports that Olivia Nuzzi told him the following gossip about RFK Jr: "Olivia believed Kennedy was a sex addict and that he was having multiple affairs, including with both his [REDACTED] and his [REDACTED]. "Olivia believed Kennedy had recently cut off contact with
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