Thread by @DanaHoule

Let’s keep going back: did she derail Matt Breunig’s career by making him say she “tried to starve me and my mother” by working on Clinton welfare “reform” (which she never worked on), then calling her a scumbag, then refusing to apologize, which is all he had to do to keep...

https://twitter.com/benspielberg/status/1363721742993166336

…his job at Demos (which I’m not sure he was even supposed to have, given that—unknown publicly—he was also on staff at the NLRB)?

The demented obsession w Tanden goes back to her firing current National Review contributor Ziad Jilani (which was obviously prescient!)…/2

…her getting rid of Lee Fang, who ended up as Glenn Greenwald’s ally at The Intercept, & had to apologize after being accused by a co-worker for racist behavior (again, prescient!).

So, those are Spielberg’s “social justice advocates.” (BTW, forgot to mention Bruenig…/3

…recently praised Romney’s child payment proposal, which would eliminate TANF; you know, the last shreds of welfare that remained of the 1996 welfare bill…which Bruenig accused Tanden of working on & nearly starved him & his mother.)

Finally, all these accusations that…/4

…Tanden is a union buster have a pretty big problem: the Union they claim she tried to bust never accused her of union busting. CAP eliminated Think Progress, reassaigned some staff elsewhere in CAP, & w the Newspaper Guild negotiated severance packages for the people they…/5

…didn’t keep on.

I’ve worked for organized labor, & done labor policy in a legislature, & I gotta tell you, if that was union busting it was probably the only time it included contractually obligated severance packages.

I mention all this bs not to be petty toward the…/6

…supposed progressives who have attacked her for years. I raise it to show the pettiness of the supposed long pattern of crushing progressive careerists & supposedly crushing progressive causes & institutions. It’s BS.

ALSO, & this is very important: the reason Bernie…/7

…& his acolytes hate her also includes some blunt (& IMO accurate) comments about Bernie & his staff. One would generously call them impolitic. If they were public statements.

But they weren’t public. Russians stole them from John Podesta’s emails & used them to help elect…/8

…Donald Trump.

So, petty & dishonest people who weren’t actually committed & coherent progressives got fired, publicly blamed her, & found supporters who were offended by her private reading comments used against her by Russian state actors

That’s what the anti-Tanden…/9

…crowd is defending.

It’s bullshit. /10