Trina's Kitchen: Chicken Spaghetti Casserole in the Kitchen

From yesterday, that's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "MAGA Matt and Mark Pal Around." Today, Lewis e-mailed to note Real Simple's Chicken Spaghetti Casserole:

Ingredients

1 pound spaghetti
4 tablespoons (½ stick) salted butter
¼ cup all-purpose flour
2 ½ cups whole milk
12 ounces Asiago cheese, shredded (about 4½ cups)
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3 cups shredded rotisserie chicken (10 oz.)
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh basil, plus more for serving
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, plus more for serving
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives, plus more for serving
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon)

Directions

Place oven rack in middle position. Preheat broiler to LOW. Lightly coat a 9-x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup cooking water. Set aside.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-low. Add flour and cook, whisking constantly, until bubbling, about 2 minutes.
Increase heat to medium; slowly whisk in milk. Cook, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until sauce thickens, 5 to 6 minutes.
Add cheese and salt and cook, whisking constantly, until smooth, about 2 minutes.
Remove mixture from heat. Stir in chicken, basil, parsley, chives, lemon juice, and cooked pasta. Stir in reserved cooking water as needed to create a creamy sauce.
Spoon mixture into prepared baking dish. Transfer to oven and broil until warmed through, about 4 minutes.
Garnish with additional basil, parsley, and chives. Serve immediately.

It is oven time. The temperatures are getting cooler and we can use our ovens without worrying about turning our homes into an oven.

News? Elsie Carson-Holt (LGBTQ Nation) reports:

A North Dakota judge sided with the Catholic Diocese of Bismarck and a Catholic employers association, successfully blocking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from enforcing anti-discrimination regulations related to abortion, fertility treatments, and LGBTQ+ workers.

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor, a Trump appointee, criticized the regulations as “clearly anti-religion,” following arguments heard in federal court in Bismarck the previous week.

[. . .]

Chris Geidner, a journalist who focuses on law and the former legal editor at Buzzfeed News, called the decision “an extreme ruling that, if upheld by a higher court, could have dramatic consequences.”

He pointed out that “the injunction is open-ended, includes for-profit businesses that say they’re Catholic and agree with the CBA’s positions, and is — in its potential effect — nationwide in scope.”

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Wednesday:

Wednesday, September 25, 2024. Donald Trump flops in Georgia, Kamala Harris fights for women's health, the media -- as Dan Abrams points out -- is applying a double standard with regards to a recently exposed affair.

Later today, Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris will be in Pittsburg delivering an economic speech. Convicted Felon Donald Trump attempted to deliver an economic speech in Savannah, Georgia yesterday and flopped. Justin Glawe (GUARDIAN) reports:

t an event intended to tout economic policies that would usher in what his campaign calls a “new age of American industrialism”, Donald Trump spent as much time discussing personal grievances and blaming immigrants for everything from fentanyl overdoses to crime and taking Americans’ jobs as he did discussing the economy.

“This is a speech on economic development but this is a big part of economic development,” the former president said of immigration at a speech in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday.

[. . .]

Trump then became sidetracked with immigration, questioning Kamala Harris’s intelligence and patriotism, and reliving an assassination attempt in July in Pennsylvania and another scare in Florida earlier this month.

Trump claimed it had been more than luck that saved his life the day he was grazed by an assassin’s bullet.

“People say: ‘It was God, and God came down and saved you because he wants you to bring America back,’” Trump said as the crowd began to chant “USA!”

The mind is gone. Completely gone. He's 78 years old and he's unfit to be president. An angry, confused old man who attacks in his confusion does not belong in the Oval Office with the nuclear codes.

As bad as Georgia was for him, Pennsylvania was worse.

He's an idiot who thinks anyone will believe him when he talks about abortion.

Last Friday, Kamala spoke in Georgia.

The Vice President: And we all know how we got here. When Donald Trump was president, he hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court — the court of Thurgood and RBG — with the intention that they would overturn the protections of Roe v. Wade. And as he intended, they did.

And now more than 20 states have Trump abortion bans — extremists that have passed laws that criminalize health care providers, doctors and nurses, and punish women. In two states of those states, they provide for prison for life — prison for life for health care providers for simply providing reproductive care, the care they so earnestly and rightly believe must be delivered. All Trump abortion bans.

And think about this: Many of these bans make no exception even for rape and incest.

Now, many of you know I started my career as a prosecutor specializing in crimes of violence against women and children. What many of you may not know is why.

So, when I was in high school, my best friend, I learned, was being molested by her stepfather. And I said to her, “Look, you’ve got to come and stay with us.” I called my mother. She said, “Of course she does.” And she came and she stayed with us.

And so, I made the decision early in my life that I wanted to do the work that was about protecting the most vulnerable among us and doing the work that was about giving them dignity in the process.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Thank you.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: And so — well, thank everybody here for being here, standing in solidarity around the importance of that. (Applause.)

And so, I say to you, then, from that experience and from the work that I’ve done, the idea that someone who survives a crime of violence to their body — a violation of their body — would not have the right to make a decision about what happens to their body next, that’s immoral. That’s immoral.

And let us agree, and I know we do: One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling her what to do. (Applause.)

If she chooses — if she chooses, she will talk with her pastor, her priest, her rabbi, her imam. But it should not be the government or Donald Trump telling her what to do with her body. (Applause.)

And think about it — the stories that Dr. Reddick shares with us, the stories we heard last night, the stories we’ve been hearing for two years.

One in three women in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban. This includes Georgia and every state in the South except Virginia.

Think about that when you also combine that with what we know has been long-standing neglect around an issue like maternal mortality. Think about that when you compound that with what has been long-standing neglect of women in communities with a lack of the adequate resources they need for health care — prenatal, during their pregnancy, postpartum. Think about that.

And these hypocrites want to start talking about “this is in the best interest of women and children.” (Applause.) Well, where you been? Where you been — (applause) — when it comes to taking care of the women and children of America? Where you been?

How dare they? How dare they? Come on.

And — and we understand the impact of these bans and the horrific reality that women and families — their husbands, their partners, their parents, their children are facing as a consequence every single day.

Since Roe was overturned, I have met women who were refused care during a miscarriage — wanted to have a child, suffering a miscarriage. I met a woma- — a woman — I’ve actually met several who were turned away from the emergency room. One, at early stages after the Dobbs decision came down, told me with tears — she was with her husband — about how only when she developed ses- — sepsis did she receive emergency care. Only when she developed sepsis did she receive emergency care.

And now we know that at least two women — and those are only the stories we know — here in the state of Georgia died — died because of a Trump abortion ban.

One — and we heard about her story last night — a vibrant, 28-year-old young woman. She was ambitious. You know, we — I talked with her mother and her sisters about her, and they described such an extraordinary life of a person. She was excited. She was working hard. She was a medical assistant. She was going to nursing school, raising her six-year-old son.

She was really proud that she had finally worked so hard that she gained the independence. Her family was telling me that she was able to get an apartment in a gated community with a pool for her son to play in. She was so proud, and she was headed to nursing school.

And her name — and we will speak her name —

AUDIENCE: Yes.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Amber Nicole Thurman.

AUDIENCE: Amber Nicole Thurman.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Amber Nicole Thurman.

AUDIENCE: Amber Nicole Thurman.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: That’s right.

And she had her future all planned out, and it was her plan. You know, let’s understand — just take pause on that for a moment. She had her plan, what she wanted to do for her son, for herself, for their future. And so, when she discovered that she was pregnant, she decided she wanted to have an abortion, but because of the Trump abortion ban here in Georgia, she was forced to travel out of state to receive the health care that she needed.

But when she returned to Georgia, she needed additional care, so she went to a hospital. But, you see, under the Trump abortion ban, her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she needed.

Understand what a law like this means. Doctors have to wait until the patient is at death’s door before they take action.

You know, on the other side of my — you know, the — the other folks, th- — Trump and his running mate, and they’ll talk about, (deepens voice) “Oh, well, yeah, but I — you know, I — I do believe in the exception to save the mother’s life.” (Laughter.) Okay. All right. Let’s break that down. Shall we?

AUDIENCE: Yes!

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Let’s break that down. (Applause.) Let’s break that down.

So, we’re saying that we’re going to create public policy that says that a doctor, a health care provider, will only kick in to give the care that somebody needs if they’re about to die? Think about what we are saying right now. You’re saying that good policy, logical policy, moral policy, humane policy, is about saying that a health care provider will only start providing that care when you’re about to die?

And so, Amber waited 20 hours — 20 hours, excruciating hours — until finally she was in enough physical distress that her doctors thought they would be okay to treat her. But it was too late. She died of sepsis. And her last words to her mother — which her mother, as you know, tears up and cries every time she speaks it — last words to her mother, “Promise me you’ll take care of my son.”

So, I met last night and I spent time with Amber’s mother and her sisters, and they spoke about Amber — a daughter, a sister, a mother — with the deep love that you can imagine and how terribly they miss her. And their pain is heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking.

Amber’s mother, Shanette, told me that the word “preventable” is over and over again in her head when she learned about how her child died — the word “preventable.” She cannot — she can’t stop thinking about the word that they spoke to her. It was “preventable.”

Because, you see, medical experts have now determined that Amber’s death was preventable. And through the pain and the grief of her mother, who courageously told her story, I promised her, as she has asked, that we will make sure Amber is not just remembered as a statistic — (applause) — that she will not just be remembered as a statistic, so that people will know she was a mother and a daughter and a sister and that she was loved and that she should be alive today — (applause) — and that she should be alive today.

And many of us remember — there’s so many leaders here — from two years ago when the Dobbs decision came down, we knew this could happen. There is a word “preventable,” and there is another word: predictable.

AUDIENCE: Yes!

THE VICE PRESIDENT: And the reality is for every story we hear of the suffering under Trump abortion bans, there are so many other stories we’re not hearing but where suffering is happening every day in our country, an untold number of people suffering.

Women who are also being made to feel as though they did something wrong. The judgment factor here is outrageous — being made as though to feel as though they are criminals, as though they are alone.

So, to those women, to those families, I say on behalf of what I believe we all say: We see you, and you are not alone, and we are all here standing with you. (Applause.) Standing with you. You are not alone. You are not alone. (Applause.)

So, Georgia —

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We will not be silent.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: We — and we will not be silent.

AUDIENCE: We will not be silent.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: And we will not be silent. But this is a health care crisis.

AUDIENCE: Yes!

THE VICE PRESIDENT: This is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis. He brags about overturning Roe v. Wade. In his own words, quote, “I did it, and I’m proud to have done it,” he says. He is proud.

Proud that women are dying? Proud that doctors and nurses could be thrown in prison for administering care? Proud that young women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers?

How dare he? How dare he?

Donald dismisses abortion as a non-issue. It remains an issue and his actions have endangered women throughout the country. Julia Conley (COMMON DREAMS) reports:

Reproductive justice experts have long warned that the erosion of abortion rights in the U.S. would harm people in a wide range of ways, and a report released Tuesday quantifies some of that harm—namely, the criminalization of pregnancy.

In the report, Pregnancy as a Crime: A Preliminary Report on the First Year After Dobbs, the rights group Pregnancy Justice found that from June 24, 2022—the day the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade—to June 23, 2022, the number of people who faced criminal charges related to their pregnancies rose to its highest level in U.S. history.

At least 210 people were charged with crimes related to pregnancy in the first year after Roe was overturned, with prosecutors accusing them of child endangerment, substance abuse, attempting to end a pregnancy—or even researching abortion—and abuse of a corpse, among other charges.

Along with clearing the way for right-wing lawmakers in 22 states to ban or severely restrict access to abortion, said Pregnancy Justice president Lourdes A. Rivera, "the Dobbs decision emboldened prosecutors to develop ever more aggressive strategies to prosecute pregnancy, leading to the most pregnancy-related criminal cases on record" in a single year.

The rise in pregnancy criminalization "is directly tied to the radical legal doctrine of 'fetal personhood,' which grants full legal rights to an embryo or fetus, turning them into victims of crimes perpetrated by pregnant women," added Rivera.

Roughly half of the cases detailed in Pregnancy as a Crime—104 of them—were reported in Alabama, one of several Republican-controlled states that have so-called "fetal personhood laws."

"Without fetal personhood, pregnancy criminalization could not exist," reads the report.

Prosecutors in Oklahoma filed 68 of the cases, and South Carolina had the third-most charges with 10 pregnant people criminalized.

All three states with the highest numbers of cases have near-total abortion bans and some of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the U.S., according to Pregnancy Justice.

"To turn the tide on criminalization, we need to separate healthcare from the criminal legal system and to change policy and practices to ensure that pregnant people can safely access the healthcare they need, without fear of criminalization."

In nearly all of the cases brought against pregnant people, actual harm to a fetus or baby did not have to be proven—prosecutors focused only on the perceived risk that the defendants allegedly exposed their pregnancies to.

For example, all 68 defendants in Oklahoma were charged with child neglect, delinquency, or abuse for testing positive for a substance while pregnant or giving birth.

"Defendants can be found guilty even if the pregnancy results in a healthy child and even when the science does not support the
assumption that a positive drug test proves the fetus was harmed," reads the report.

Such "no harm" prosecutions can result in severe punishment for defendants, said Pregnancy Justice; the Oklahoma residents who were charged face sentences up to life in prison if found guilty, and 93 Alabama defendants who were charged with chemical endangerment of a minor could face up to 10 years in prison.

"These findings strongly suggest that, rather than focusing on fetal harm, these prosecutions seek to control and punish pregnant people," said Pregnancy Justice.

Substance abuse charges—for both legal and illegal substances—were involved in a majority of cases studied by the group, while five cases included allegations regarding abortion care, including an attempt to end a pregnancy or to research the possibility of an abortion.

Twenty-two people were criminalized for experiencing a pregnancy loss, said Pregnancy Justice.

Charging documents included 15 allegations of "lack of prenatal care" and 10 cases in which the defendant failed "to seek help during or after birth." Three people were accused of breastfeeding and placing their infant at risk of drug exposure.

"The allegations in these cases are particularly notable for the way that they criminalize precarious pregnancy and birth and meet healthcare needs with punishment rather than care," reads the report. "It is also noteworthy that several women who appear to have faced serious health conditions, devastating pregnancy losses, and enormous trauma, were met not with offers of care but threatened with punishment for finding themselves in allegedly dangerous situations or allegedly not seeking help quickly enough in traumatic moments. Striking, too, in the midst of a wide-ranging crisis in maternal healthcare, is the condemnation of pregnant people for not accessing prenatal care."

In one case, police charged a woman with abusing her "unborn child" just after they administered Narcan to save her from a drug overdose.

Criminalization of pregnancy, said Pregnancy Justice, "only worsens" the crisis of opioid-related deaths among pregnant people.

Rivera said that "to turn the tide on criminalization, we need to separate healthcare from the criminal legal system and to change policy and practices to ensure that pregnant people can safely access the healthcare they need, without fear of criminalization."

The report was released a day after KFF Health Newsreported on the story of Amari Marsh, a South Carolina resident who was charged in May of 2023 with "murder/homicide by child abuse," two months after she went into preterm labor and gave birth in her bathroom. Marsh spent 22 days in prison—and faced a potential sentence of 20 years to life—but her charges were ultimately dismissed by a grand jury.

Marsh's case, and other instances of pregnancy criminalization, represent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "plan for America," said Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Tuesday. Trump has boasted about his hand in ensuring Roe v. Wade was overturned and spread misinformation about abortion rights, including the demonstrably false claim that Democrats support "an execution of a baby after birth."

The Dobbs decision, made possible by Trump's appointment of right-wing Supreme Court justices, paved the way for "increased suspicion and surveillance of pregnant people," said Wendy Bach, principal investigator of the report and a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law. "With this report, we hope to see both more attention on pregnancy-related prosecutions and more advocacy to reverse course on the criminalization of pregnant people."

While Donald dismissed women's concerns -- justifiable and understandable concerns -- about reproductive freedom, Kamala talked about what can be done. Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) reports:

The Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, on Tuesday endorsed eliminating the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade, the federal abortion rights ruling that was overturned two years ago.

"It is well within our reach to hold onto the majority in the Senate and take back the House," Harris, a former U.S. senator, toldWisconsin Public Radio. "I would also emphasize that while the presidential election is extremely important and dispositive of where we go moving forward, it also is about what we need to do to hold onto the Senate and win seats in the House."

"I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe," she continued. "And get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do."

Multiple current lawmakers joined a wide range of reproductive rights advocates in welcoming Harris' comments about ending the filibuster, which requires 60 of the Senate's 100 members to agree to hold a final vote on a bill.

"This is so important," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has shared her own abortion story. "Abortion access is under attack as extreme MAGA Republicans pass cruel laws to strip away our rights. Congress needs to step up and codify abortion rights—and we do that by ending the filibuster."

Unable to pass any defenses of reproductive healthcare in the divided Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has instead held recent votes on legislation regarding abortion, birth control, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) to call out Republicans.

"The filibuster is an undemocratic rule that prevents us from passing policies that a majority of Americans want. Look no further than last week's IVF vote," Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said Tuesday. "Could not agree more with Vice President Harris."

Meanwhile it's one sexual scandal after another for MAGA these days. We noted Corey DeAngelis aka Seth Rose yesterday but let's note him again. Daniel Villarreal (LGBTQ NATION) reports:

Anti-LGBTQ+ activist Corey DeAngelis has been placed on leave from the right-wing “school choice” organization American Federation for Children (AFC) amid online allegations that he previously performed in gay adult films. DeAngelis’ automated email reply states he’s “out on paternity leave.”

DeAngelis served as a senior fellow for AFC. But a week ago, AFC removed a webpage mentioning his role from its website. AFC said that he has been placed on leave while the organization investigates a claim that he once performed as “Seth Rose” on the gay adult video website GayHoopla.

On the GayHoopla website, Rose is described as a “hot otter,” and he performs in a solo scene, a video entitled “Jerk-Off Race,” and another entitled “Super Star Compilation! How Many Strokes Til You Cum?!” The videos appear to have been released at around 2014.

DeAngelis — who wrote The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools, a 2024 book endorsed by former President Donald Trump — has repeatedly advocated for redirecting taxpayer money to fund private for-profit schools, a major goal of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives. Such schools can reject students for any reason and operate largely without government oversight to ensure that they adhere to federal nondiscrimination laws.

In a recent Fox News appearance, DeAngelis claimed that public schools are “focusing more on the LGBTs than the ABCs,” a statement echoing a right-wing claim that accepting LGBTQ+ students and opposing anti-LGBTQ+ bullying in schools degrades the quality of public education.

“It’s just propaganda and a way for the left to control the minds of other people’s children,” he said.

So there's that. There's Matt Gaetz and Mark Robinson. Now there's John McEntee. Hafiz Rashid (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:

A former aide in Donald Trump’s presidential administration and a senior adviser to Project 2025 is in trouble for sending creepy internet messages to teenagers.

John McEntee, who also co-founded the conservative dating app The Right Stuff, sent messages to multiple young women offering in some cases to give them free trips to Los Angeles and making sexual advances, Wired reports. The app’s sole investor is right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and it has been criticized for its mostly male user base.

One of the women, Grace Carter, said McEntee reached out to her through Instagram in October last year when she was an 18-year-old freshman at North Carolina State University. McEntee used the business account of The Right Stuff to message Carter, asking if she wanted free merchandise.

Initially, Carter was interested in a free hoodie but didn’t know much about the app, and didn’t know she was corresponding with McEntee. He introduced himself as John and gave Carter a southern California phone number to message him at, which a Wired reporter recognized as one that McEntee has used in the past. Carter doesn’t know how or why McEntee decided to reach out.

“I actually have no idea how he found me,” Carter told Wired. “Based on the other accounts I follow and things I post, it’s very leftist. So I was surprised when he found me.”

Carter didn’t use McEntee’s number, although she accepted his offer of a free hoodie. Despite the fact that she rarely answered his messages, he offered to fly her and one of her friends to Los Angeles. She responded in a sort of “trolling” way to see if he’d actually follow through on the free trip, but the conversation fizzled out when Carter decided not to visit him.

Later, McEntee’s views on reproductive rights would provoke Carter’s ire. After the September 10 presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris, McEntee posted a video on TikTok asking, “Can someone track down the women Kamala Harris says are bleeding out in parking lots because Roe v. Wade was overturned? Don’t hold your breath.”

Carter was incensed, and posted her own video to TikTok sharing her interactions with McEntee. Soon she began receiving messages from other women who said they had similar experiences with the conservative operative.

The publication spoke to one of those women, who asked to remain anonymous. Also aged 18, she said that McEntee reached out to her on The Right Stuff’s app before moving to text messages, using the same southern California phone number he sent to Carter. Over text, he sent her clearly identifiable selfies and began mentioning explicit sexual acts that made her uncomfortable, and encouraged her to come to California.

“It was very sexual from day one,” she said. “He kept making comments about my age and how hot it would be to sleep with someone who was my age.”

And then there's Junior. Robert Kennedy Junior, the disgrace of a political legacy, when not humping Donald Trump's leg, can be found entangle with women who are not his wife Cheryl Hines. Robin Abcarian (THE LOS ANGELES TIMES) notes:

There are just so many cringey things about the New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi‘s inappropriate relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

First of all, he’s married. (The political scion’s wife is the actor Cheryl Hines.) Second, Nuzzi is 31, and Kennedy, straying into Hugh Hefner territory, is 70. Third, she was until recently engaged to the political journalist Ryan Lizza, who was “MeToo’d” in 2017, when the New Yorker dismissed him for what it described as improper sexual conduct.

Apart from prurient interest, why should any of us really care?

[. . .]

The relationship between Nuzzi and Kennedy was an open secret in certain media spheres, according to Business Insider. Kennedy, a one-time heroin addict whose second wife once found a diary in which he rated his various sexual conquests, boasted to friends that Nuzzi sent him intimate photos. Word got back to New York‘s editor in chief, David Haskell, who confronted his star reporter.

You know is an issue in terms of journalism. But, here's the thing, we covered that here in real time with Gina Chon when no one wanted to. She was fired by THE WALL STREET JOURNAL for this same type of behavior but no one wanted to address that so excuse me if I'm not jumping on the bus to attack Nuzzi. She was wrong. But just GOOGLE us and "Gina Chon" and it'll apply.

There's a different factor at play here and Dan Abrams rightly called it. Zachary Leeman (MEDIAITE) reports:

Dan Abrams argued the treatment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 70, versus reporter Olivia Nuzzi, 31, amid their relationship scandal shows real “sexism.”

[. . .]

Abrams, the founder of Mediaite, argued on The Dan Abrams Show, which can be heard on SiriusXM, that if Kennedy and Nuzzi’s roles were reversed, the treatment would be completely different. Nuzzi is currently waiting to see what her employer will “do to her,” Abrams explained, while Kennedy is still out giving speeches and campaigning in favor of former President Donald Trump.

Abrams said:

It’s not a good look for her — but it’s also not a good look for him. He is married, he is 70, she’s 31. And I do think there is some — I do think that some of the reaction to her versus him is sexism. The reports are that she sent him, quote, “demure” nudes of herself. And now he’s trying to claim that they were unwanted. There is no way she is sending nudes of herself without him making it clear that this was going both ways, meaning he wanted them or whatever.

But more importantly, she’s sitting on the sidelines now waiting to hear what New York Magazine is going to do to her for violating journalistic ethics. Yeah, I mean, this is a seeming violation of journalistic ethics. But what about him? He’s sitting back out there making speeches, no one’s really asking him much about it.

If it had been a 70-year-old woman politician caught up in a similar scandal with a young man, there’d be more questions for the politician, Abrams added, questions he does not seem to be facing today.

Exactly. And when we called out Gina Chon here, we also called out Brett McGurk.

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