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Andrew Egger
@EggerDC
White House / Morning Shots newsletter @BulwarkOnline. Previously @thedispatch, @weeklystandard. Christian, husband, dad. tips/recipes: egger@thebulwark.com
Jan 23 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Quick 🧵 on an insane story:

Yesterday I reported that Lue Moua, a migrant DHS has been insisting is "at large" in Minneapolis--one of the guys they broke down ChongLy Thao's door supposedly looking for--has actually been in state prison since a felony conviction in 2024. Image
Image Last night, @TriciaOhio responded, saying in part: "We are calling on Governor Walz and Mayor Frey to turn this child predator over to ICE, so we can get him out of country where he can never prey on innocent American children."
Jan 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A professional clarinetist went mega-viral today--and drew support from several members of the Trump administration--claiming he was "canceled for resisting DEI" in 2020 and denied a job at a different symphony last year for the same reason. There's, uh, more to it. The event that got Zimmermann fired, as @aaronsibarium reported back in 2021, was an interpersonal meltdown between Zimmermann and a couple black orchestra players. They lodged HR complaints against him; he thought he was being railroaded. But that wasn't the actual crisis event—
Mar 6, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Okay, look, Robinson did in fact say all these words in this order, but if you watch the clip it's plain he *wasn't* saying he thinks women should lose the vote. He was making a way too cute point about how he wants Republicans to see themselves as fighters for social change. The whole relevant portion of Robinson's remarks: Image
Mar 8, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The crux of Tucker's retcon of January 6 is that not everyone who entered the Capitol was an insurrectionist. This fact, which he treats as some major bombshell, was apparent *that afternoon.* Here's how @AudreyFahlberg and I described it that day: thedispatch.com/article/the-st… But the crucial fact of what happened January 6 is that *nobody backed off.* A bunch of actual insurrectionists kicked off the riot, but faced with a clash between "our people" and the Cap police there was zero question which side the rally crowd was going to get behind.
Mar 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Spot anything odd about this picture?
thedispatch.com/newsletter/dis… The graphic appeared briefly last week on a WinRed page for a joint fundraising committee between the NRSC and GOP incumbent senators—the latest apparent example of intraparty angst toward Sen. Mitt Romney
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Frankly this is whistling past the graveyard. GOP incumbents who were liked for other reasons weren't sunk by passing abortion restrictions, but every other data point suggests the issue strongly favored Dems everywhere else It's not rocket science: if Democrats dramatically overperformed relative to historical trends and economic conditions, it probably had something to do w the issue they messaged like crazy and on which voters seem to prefer their position even in red states
Nov 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If Hobbs pulls this out it will be yet another unbelievably funny and embarrassing faceplant for folks (like me) who got high on momentum narratives going into election day "Polls undercount Republicans! We all know this! Simple as!"
Jun 18, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
For the site today, I wrote about the theory--pushed in recent days by Tucker Carlson, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene--that the 1/6 riot was ACTUALLY incited by the FBI.

Does it hold up? It does not hold up!

thedispatch.com/p/the-new-janu… Proponents of the FBI entrapment theory, sparked this week by Darren Beattie, don't have any direct evidence--just a claim that the ordinary reasons why feds wouldn't indict certain co-conspirators in a crime don't apply here.

thedispatch.com/p/the-new-janu…
Jun 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Incredibly cutting and insightful. This paragraph in particular describes a vice that is by no means limited to ideological feminists.

chimamanda.com Image I also now know where @stephenfhayes picked up the knack of denouncing my stories as "false-hearted and burdened by bathos."
Apr 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sometimes video of officer-involved violence is damning to the officer, as with Derek Chauvin. Sometimes it makes the narrative more complicated, as with Kim Potter. And sometimes it comes to the officer's defense, which appears to be the case with this shooting in Columbus. There's something perverse here. An officer shows up to a scene of a disturbance, and suddenly one girl is going after another with a knife.
Jan 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Protesters have torn down a barrier. Fireworks going off outside the Capitol. People in a tower telling the crowd to press forward. "Move forward and we can beat them." Throwing things are police. Crowd pushing up chanting USA. This is unreal Throwing things AT police*
Nov 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I've started to see this image crop up in GOP circles as a shorthand for the election fraud that they claim took place in Wisconsin and other states. This is the FiveThirtyEight chart it's a play on. See if you can spot the difference! "The only thing we did on Election Day was tell them how many votes they needed on election night," reads one viral post with 40k likes and 18k retweets. A Federalist piece that's gone even more viral describes the FiveThirtyEight chart this way:
Nov 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Gingrich on Fox straight up lying about the precinct that temporarily covered their windows to screen out the crowd, saying that precinct had locked out its poll watchers. GOP poll watchers were in there the whole time. Says the votes from that precinct simply shouldn't count. "You tell me why they were covering up the windows with paper," says Gingrich. "All that behavior is completely suspicious, I agree with you," replies Martha MacCallum. Fox has done a good job by and large today but there's a LOT of nonsense like this still going unchallenged.
Nov 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On Fox just now, Jonathan Turley questioned whether the Trump lawsuits will "hit below the water line" or whether they'll call into question far too few ballots to make any actual difference. Turley also suggests Trump's best way of uniting the country might end up being via a concession speech. (Maybe a hint of "today is the day Donald Trump finally became president" there.)
Sep 12, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
"Inside the grossness of Cuties is a reasonable point — but not one you can tell in film, or at least not in this film." Bullseye from Dreher.

theamericanconservative.com/dreher/cuties-… There's a deep irony here I can't quite put my finger on. I've seen many horrified conservatives sharing videos of the worst scenes from this movie--and thus amplifying the # of people that see them-- on the grounds that "we need to see what we're up against," or some such.
Aug 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I've seen about a thousand Trumpworld accounts lighting their hair on fire on here today saying that Biden accused Trump of calling neo-Nazis very fine people in his acceptance speech last night.

But... that isn't what Biden said? Every permutation of this I've seen says Biden explicitly accused Trump of calling neo-Nazis very fine people. ImageImageImageImage
Aug 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The White House is messaging these executive orders as a patch to cover what the law they want would have done. But the limits of executive action ensure they can't actually be more than a patchwork of perhaps somewhat effective gestures.

thedispatch.com/p/how-much-can… The irony is that, because the White House's policy priorities are indisputably legislative, the orders essentially exist on a sliding scale from "ineffective and symbolic" to "arguably unconstitutional."

thedispatch.com/p/how-much-can…
Jun 20, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Quick thread—

My church body, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, has throughout its history been predominantly made up of white people—not surprising, given its roots in communities of confessional German immigrants. I love and am so grateful for my church, but I think a lot of us grew up with a blind spot on racism—not in actively harboring ill will toward minorities, but in a sort of built-in skepticism about concepts like implicit bias and systemic prejudice.
Jun 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In making this decision, Google cites policy against pushing ads to sites featuring "derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race." God knows I'm not the Federalist's biggest fan but I'm going to need to see the math on that! The only Federalist piece the NBC piece seems to cite (I'm guessing, because it's not linked, but it's pretty specifically described) is this diatribe against the news media. I'm at a loss to see how it comes anywhere *close* to meeting that description.

thefederalist.com/2020/06/03/the…
Jun 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What is happening with Ted Cruz's Twitter this month Rep. Jordan waking up to discover he's been volunteered for a charity brawl
Jun 1, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is sickening. The body cam footage doesn't make it look any better. If you watch the body cam video, the driver appears to be having a conversation with one cop about another arrest they just made. Suddenly the cop wrenches open his door without warning and tries to drag him out of the car. He panics and drives forward about ten feet.