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@pastpunditry
Jun 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Thrilled to share the trailer for WELCOME TO YOUR FANTASY, our new podcast about how Chippendales, a seedy strip club in West LA, became an international phenomenon — and how paranoia and greed turned it into a hotbed of drugs, corruption, and murder. Image
Of course, it’s not JUST about an international criminal conspiracy. We've also got feminism, culture wars, gay rights, civil rights, ‘80s music, Playboy. Oh, and lots of men taking off their clothes. (On a podcast, so you'll want to follow us on Instagram too!)
Subscribe now, and catch the first episode on August 11, everywhere you find podcasts.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3peO5EoD0…

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wel…
And massive shout-out to the team at @pineapplemedia who we've been working with for more than a year now! And to @nataliapetrzela and @NeilJYoung17, the best podcasting partners a person could hope for.
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Feb 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh radically transformed the Republican Party. He elevated conservative media into a coequal branch of party politics, and pioneered a style of rhetoric, argument, and entertainment that would come to define conservative politics.
The things we now think of as particularly Trumpian features of conservatism — the insults, the conspiracies, the blend of entertainment and politics and anger — Limbaugh had been doing it for a quarter-century before Trump showed up to the party.
He did what the first generation of conservative media activists had failed to do: he made right-wing media entertaining, profitable, and politically powerful. Though he was building on their work, he also transformed it.
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Feb 9, 2021
Impeachment 2.0, which is about to get underway, is extraordinary and unprecedented, as were the acts that brought it about: the effort of a president AND HIS PARTY to overthrow an election, backed by a violent mob. /1
Trump’s lawyers and his supporters have tried to leverage the unprecedented nature of this impeachment as evidence of how determined Democrats are to take down Trump. /2
But it is instead a reflection of just how extraordinary Trump’s violations were: he is facing charges of inciting an insurrection, a second impeachment, and a post-presidency trial precisely because he presents a unique threat to the U.S. /3
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Jan 20, 2021
Donald Trump is leaving the White House within the hour. Re-reading his inaugural speech from four years ago, it’s clear the two words he wanted to define his presidency were “America first.” But the two words that ultimately did were “American carnage.” /1
Even the opening lines are a reminder of what his presidency cost us: “Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.” That tradition ended on Jan. 6. /2
(He also thanks President and First Lady Obama “for their gracious aid throughout this transition,” which suggests he can recognize grace, but not actually offer it.) /3
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Oct 4, 2020
I’ve been thinking about the 1912 election a lot, as one does.

On Oct. 14, Teddy Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, was shot by a would-be assassin. /1
Roosevelt *did* go on to do a campaign event immediately after being shot, though he did not infect the gathered crowd with gunshot wounds. Nor had he spent the previous six months mocking fears of assassination (having become president when Wm McKinley was assassinated). /2
Woodrow Wilson briefly suspended his campaign out of respect (and also because he needed to rest his voice) but largely had the field to himself for the last few weeks of the campaign. /3
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Sep 24, 2020
As many (many!) listeners to @thisdaypod noticed, I got a little garbled talking about narwhals in today's episode, calling them "mythic." Just to clarify, I am not a narwhal truther! I just got too excited.
@thisdaypod Narwhals are fascinating (real!) creatures, and I have a tiny obsession with them, and did not think I'd get to indulge in that on a podcast about American political history!
@thisdaypod But they're actually amazing. Did you know that their tusk is not just a long tooth, and probably not a real defensive tool — it has too many sensory nerves. Some biologists think it could be used for echolocation.
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Aug 20, 2020
Fascinating look at the relationship between Trump, Hannity, and Fox News, excerpted from @brianstelter's new book. vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/s…
@brianstelter This, from a veteran staffer, is particularly interesting: “I feel like Fox is being held hostage by its audience." It's common for people to believe Fox manipulates its audience, but the power balance between the network and the audience doesn't quite work that way.
@brianstelter The audience, and the Republican base more broadly, shapes what Fox News covers and how they cover it. The network is sensitive to unhappiness among its viewers.
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