Noam and Jen take on the “controversy” surrounding what name Nikki Haley chooses to go by, the Roald Dahl sensitivity edits that everyone hates, and the mind numbingly hard to follow Chait / Singal / WPATH manufactured controversy and the common practice of people believing any damn thing they read on Twitter

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https://www.callin.com/show/all-crossed-out-jVWglWcHxW 

Show notes:

The funniest line in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1626975820114759681

 

Nikki, or Nimrata as her haters call her:

https://twitter.com/MaryLTrump/status/1625649699813195776

https://twitter.com/JamieOGrady/status/1625496305048092675

 

The Lincoln Project wants you to know that DeSantis has a weird laugh and will lose to Trump because of it:

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1626287954317524993

 

A thread of the Roald Dahl edits…

https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1626860237104857089

 

…that nobody asked for or wants:

https://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie/status/1627075835525210113

 

Keanu is thinking ahead, may be smartest actor in Hollywood:

https://www.insider.com/keanu-reeves-contracts-clause-banning-digital-tweaks-2023-2 

 

The movie The Congress, or What Keanu Will Not Be Signing Up For:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/

 

WPATH Standards of Care 8th edition, if you want to read it for yourself:

https://www.wpath.org/soc8

 

Chait piece’s in NY Intelligencer:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/nytimes-letter-trans-gender-youth-accountability.html

 

That lead to Jesse Singal tweeting in defense of Chait:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626363377152061441

 

Which caused E. Kale Edmiston to enter the chat:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1626997603341860865

 

Jeet Heer being a hypocrite and general idiot:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1627022388901859328

 

Billy Binion on "Patient Zero":

https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1626704523270971397

 

Gretchen Felker-Martin has very weird and violent thoughts about Jesse:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1625331210443722753

 

NYT staff memo responding to the two letters, for once deciding to stick up for its employees over the Slacktivists:

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1626324277422133253