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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I really do like the lede here on this WaPo profile:

"Let's start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn't used to have one."

washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…
J.D. Vance seems to think his changing image is a part of being a more interesting person:

“The price of being beloved by the establishment is you don’t say anything interesting... Dominant elite society is boring, it is completely unreflective, and it is increasingly wrong."
This was combined with Vance being upset with the negative critical response to the movie 'Hillbilly Elegy,' based off his book
washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…
"One unlikely text Vance has cited is Elizabeth Warren’s 2004 book 'The Two-Income Trap,' about the financial pressures families experience when two parents enter the workforce."

washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…

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Tim Mak Profile picture
4 Jan
Over the holidays I was cleaning my apartment and came across an old Blackberry.

Powered it up out of curiosity and it was like a time capsule. Texts, emails and yes, tweets, frozen in time from 2011.

(and on Ubersocial, the twitter app -- remember that?)
What struck me especially is how much kinder, funnier, and insightful Twitter was a decade ago, compared to today.

Genuine conversations between people with opposing views.

And with less characters per tweet!
I've struggled over the past two years or so to find the value of Twitter -- other than to get my blood pressure up.

I've tweeted less, and read less too. Twitter used to be a kind of informal assignment editor: conversations/ideas/pitches all whirling around
Read 8 tweets
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6 Dec 21
Hard to imagine now, but just years ago the House Intelligence Committee was seen as one of the most bipartisan in Congress.

Nunes and Schiff once had a bromance! They jointly launched an investigation into Russian meddling into 2016 election!
That all changed when Nunes, who was traveling with a cmte aide, jumped out of an Uber and disappeared one night in 2017.

The next day Nunes gave a press conference, saying a whistleblower had given evidence of Trump wiretapping

I broke the story here:

thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-va…
Nunes then rushed to the White House to brief the president.

It later came out that White House officials were the ones who gave Nunes the information. But it did stir up a lot of dust at the time around Trump's wiretapping allegations

nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/…
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6 Dec 21
Journalist Ian Urbina accused of using his NYT email after leaving the publication to solicit musicians for songs about the ocean, which he then published for personal gain

"The allegations are troubling," said a NYT spokesperson

inputmag.com/culture/ian-ur…
Benn Jordan, in a video, says that the former NYT reporter "creat[ed] a marketing scheme that resulted in him collecting the majority of royalties for an immense collection of music that he did not write."

Jordan claims that the work of 462 artists were accumulated by the former NYT reporter in this way, leading to hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify for Ian -- who never wrote any music.
Read 4 tweets
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29 Nov 21
Former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch has written a book for kids about the right to have guns

The book is titled 'Paws Off My Cannon' and features Bongo, a gorilla who enjoys cupcakes

foxbusiness.com/politics/new-d…
Fox on Loesch's book:

"when hyenas, armed with coconut cannons, come to steal the cupcakes, Bongo has to use a cannon of his own to chase them away. Half of the town wants to ban cannons, but Bongo insists on keeping his, and his heroism saves the day"
Loesch promoted her *children's* book by saying:

"We’ve seen rioting, looting, and assault — even murder — go unchecked... coddling criminals and reducing deterrents… tears our nation apart at the seams and people live in fear"

foxbusiness.com/politics/new-d…
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9 Nov 21
SCOOP: The day after Columbine shootings, top NRA execs, PR experts, lobbyists scrambled on conference calls to strategize.

Over 2.5 hrs they laid out the playbook of the NRA after mass shootings for the next 20+ years.

I have the secret tapes.

npr.org/2021/11/09/104…
Columbine was the worst high school shooting of its time. 13 lay dead.

By coincidence, the NRA's annual meeting was scheduled just miles away in Denver, and just days away.

It was a full blown crisis for the NRA, and its strategists organized a call.

npr.org/2021/11/09/104…
The tapes show all the emotions the NRA officials feel as they grapple with this situation.

"Everything we do here has a downside," griped NRA official Kayne Robinson. "We are in deep s*** on this deal."

npr.org/2021/11/09/104…
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8 Nov 21
In Politico today, an excerpt of the NRA's behind-the-scenes efforts to negotiate Manchin-Toomey gun legislation...

before pulling out and dooming the bill to failure:
politico.com/news/magazine/…
And I joined The Reload, to talk to pro-2A individuals about why this book about the NRA should interest them:

I also wrote in the @latimes about what would happen if the NRA were to disappear:

latimes.com/opinion/story/…
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