The “MN Reformer” is yet another effort to start a news organization by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – because after the Minnesota Monitor, the Minnesota Independent and MNPost, certainly the fourth time’s the charm.
They’ve actually done some decent reporting over the last year.
Emphasis on “in the last year” – when there wasn’t an election on the way.
But there is.
The Reformer ran an op-ed by Dr. Hannah Lichtsinn calling for the state medical authorities to revoke Dr. Scott Jensen’s medical license. Jensen is, by the way, the GOP candidate for Governor. He’s also been an out-front skeptic of our state’s hamfisted, tyrannical public health response.
Neither the op-ed, the Reformer’s bio-blurb about Dr. Lichtsinn, nor any of the Reformer’s social media traffic makes any mention of any political bent that she might have.
Anecdotally – and I’m the one with the anecdote, here – Dr. Lichtsinn has been pretty much the polar opposite of Jensen; on social media, she was a positively strident proponent of lockdowns, mandates of every kind, and draconian enforcement.
And the reason for that is, she’s every bit as much a Democrat activist with portfolio as she is a doctor:
It’d be fair to say that, when not playing nice and empirical in op-eds intended to be marketed to the unconvinced center, she’s a “groaningly strident” progressive
Apparently the Reformer didn’t think the reader needed to know that.
Which is why the Reformer – unlike the MN Monitor and the MN Independent before it – bothered with all that “decent reporting” last year; to put up a veneer of legitimacy around what was intended to be yet another DFL PR operation during the 2022 campaign season.
The “Reformer” is a product of “States News Room”, which is a product of a really nasty group of degenerates called “Arabella”, which is a product of The Hopewell Fund“. The degenerates are very skilled at false fronts and hiding truth.
No one knows where they get their money, since they wont disclose that information, and to avoid the risk of another lengthy disagreement with jpa, I won’t mention the names that have bubbled to the surface ….but you can guess.
I hope that someone asks “Doctor” Lichtsinn to define a woman.
Cuz’ I bet she can’t do it.
It would be pretty scary, wouldn’t it, to be treated by a physician who cannot tell if you are male or female after giving you a physical exam.
I bet Jensen can define a woman.
Lichtsinn is, I imagine, very good at “performative democracy.” Note that in her tweet women go unmentioned. Apparently she believes that men, as well as women, should be able to receive abortions as part of their primary care.
To be fair, he DID violate the Democratic Oath: “First, do no harm to The Narrative.”
I suppose that Jensen will have to answer for his eccentric belief that the CDC does not have powers to supersede the US constitution and dictate restrictions on American’s speech, freedom to worship, and freedom to assemble and associate.
Lichtsinn does get one thing right by saying abortion should be part of primary care, at least implicitly. She knows that if, given a choice, most people will not patronize an abortionist for other care because of the “ick” factor and the (for obstetrics care) possibility of “muscle memory taking over”. Even otherwise pro-choice people–I remember Dr. Warren Hern of Boulder complaining that he hadn’t found anyone to love. My instant thought was “yes, your average woman is going to be more than a little creeped out at the profession–what’s she going to say? I want to conceive some babies for you to kill?”