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21 Oct, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Some very exciting news!
I will be availing myself of the generous @mmfa parental leave policy for the next few months. I will not be watching Fox News. I will be staying off this site instead of randomly tweeting “THE POOP MUST FLOW” or “THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED” all the time. See you all in January!
If you want to know what’s happening in the bad places, follow my great colleagues inclu but not limited to @LisPower1 @revrrlewis @pamela_vogel @ndrew_lawrence @sharonkann @existentialfish @NikkiMcR @JasonSCampbell @GoAngelo @AlKapDC @peltzmadeline @brennansuen @zpleat
Everybody be good to each other when I’m gone, I’m sure things will be more normal when I get back!
Thanks for all the congrats! Time to sign off from this website for a while.

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15 Oct
1. Tucker Carlson's snide dismissal of paternity leave is in stark contrast to his network's paternity leave policy, which his male colleagues rave about. mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucke…
Left, Tucker sneering at paternity leave (and gay dads).

Right, Fox corporate doc highlighting how its "parental leave policy allows eligible new parents to bond with their children for a substantial period with full pay."
Left, Tucker sneering at paternity leave (and gay dads).

Right, Fox's Todd Piro op-ed at FoxNews.com praising the network's paternity leave policy after he returned from six weeks with his spouse and infant.
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14 Oct
Good roundup here from Judd of the constellation of right-wing groups in play here.
Another major organization he mentions in the piece, "Fight for Schools," is headed by Ian Prior, a political operative who previously worked at the NRCC, Karl Rove's American Crossroads, the McConnell-allied Senate Leadership Fund, and the Trump DOJ mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…
Fox News regularly tries to pass off GOP activists as regular concerned parents. Yesterday they repeatedly featured the head of "Educators for Youngkin" as a "Fairfax County Parent." mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-s…
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13 Oct
Fox is still passing off GOP activists -- including the chair of "Educators for Youngkin" -- as simply concerned Virginia parents mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-s…
Bill Hemmer opened a segment on Fairfax County parents "defending the right to speak out about what is taught in their kids’ schools."

Who did Fox talk to?
This "Fairfax County Parent" is a former Trump Education Department official who is now a senior fellow at a right-wing group.
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Matthew Gertz Profile picture
8 Oct
It's still like this every single night.
Here's Tucker Carlson airing an ESPN employee's complaint about that network's vax mandate, then saying mandates are "sick and scary" but "happening everywhere and no one is saying anything about it."

He did not mention that Fox has a mandate because he's a hypocrite and coward.
Tonight's the night Tucker shows the courage of his convictions and quits in a blaze of glory, I can feel it. He doesn't care about the paycheck, he's no company man, this is it.
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8 Oct
Fox News keeps turning vaccine resisters into culture war heroes

The network has hosted dozens of people who refuse to get shots in the face of vaccine mandates

mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Twenty-eight individuals who said they were defying COVID-19 vaccine mandates by rejecting vaccination appeared a total of 30 times on Fox’s weekday programs from August 2 through October 5.
The tally includes nine appearances by nurses, six by law enforcement officers, five by teachers, and two by members of the U.S. military.
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7 Oct
After 25 years, this is the best Fox News segment of all time.
For four years, these idiots provided the president of the United States with his morning briefing, shaping his worldview and the federal policymaking process.
Speaking of Fox anniversaries, Tuesday marked 13 years since Hannity hosted a lunatic infamous for calling a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race" to make wild claims about Obama and Bill Ayers mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/f…
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