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Liz Mair
@LizMair
UK-US libertarian comms hack.Pro-Rishi ('22);Blunt(‘16);Walker(‘12-'15);Rand(‘13);Perry(‘12);Fiorina(‘10);RNC spox(‘08)/Clarke/Cameron(‘05). I ❤️ Arsenal.
Mar 8, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Since this is the third time in a row that I’ve witnessed major anti-Semitic behavior from @JFKairport staff— especially but not only TSA— I’m going on a rant about it. Typically it’s just generic rudeness, yelling at people who are obviously Jewish (eg ultra-Orthodox) while treating everyone else nice as pie, etc. Today was much worse.
Mar 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I am extremely hesitant to wade into the gender and gender transition wars, and probably err much further on the progressive/trans-supportive side than people assume... (1/several) But I also want to be clear as someone whose life has been ravaged by endometriosis: From everything I know (a good bit), the only way the "anyone" & "a person’s sex assigned at birth" phraseology is right is if the person is in some way genetically female
Sep 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If I were Biden, I wouldn’t do this. There’s a chance it elevates DeSantis to the level of the President which is not really what you want. You want him to look like some dumb fucker who can’t play one-dimensional chess but thinks he’s the smartest strategist on Earth. If people want DeSantis to come out of this badly, it would probably be better to get a bunch of hardened Venezuelan anti-communists who were duped about where specifically the flight was going to sue him for kidnapping or something.
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Eric Adams, are you really going with masking the under 5s? I get it… I probably got COVID from my kid. They can transmit. But it’s on us adults to get vaxxed so we don’t sustain worse COVID than what I just had (which was not mild!). Before the vaccine, I had more tolerance for this stuff. Now, I have very little. Kids rarely, rarely get severe COVID. This is making them deal with crap at a very developmentally active age entirely for the benefit of us adults.
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I feared from the outset of this that we’d end up seeing Russia engage in ethnic cleansing and this looks like what’s happening at least in some instances. One thing I hate— and I wrote a whole dissertation about this back in the day— is in the international system it’s pretty easy for nationalist authoritarians to take and hold territory if they rid it of ethnic minorities. Holdover of the concept of the “nation-state.”
Mar 1, 2022 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
I have avoided weighing in on this bill but the more I read about it, the more it seems to fall afoul of this recovering lawyer’s biggest pet peeve: BAD DRAFTING! thebulwark.com/desantis-shapi… With it being noted up front that the bad drafting may indeed be the point (I don’t know, I don’t live in the sponsors’ heads), the fundamental issue here is if you assume what the backers say they want to be what they want, the bill leaves what is actionable so open to debate.
Oct 4, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I think the thing that most gets me about this + similar explanations Re what this segment in politics really wants is that it’s somehow about Christianity and fidelity to that as a founding principle. A ton of fans of this stuff *rarely go to church.* theatlantic.com/politics/archi… By no definition that actually involves real, agreed upon terms are those people “Christian.” They are largely white and people who have experienced or been at risk of downward mobility, though.
Oct 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pretty fucking weak when the apparent response to a kids’ soccer team defending physically— as they should—is that the other team won’t shake hands and say “good game” and the coaches don’t make them. It’s soccer, not fucking bridge, and the other team did still win… Personally I’m treating that as a moral victory. I guess we rattled them and played hard even though we had zero subs, two of our best players out and had to play a kid who I think had never played soccer at all before just to not forfeit the match.
Jun 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Okay Twitter, I have a stupid question that I’m just insufficiently American to know the answer to.

My kid has recently discovered he has a really good arm for pitching in baseball. This was unexpected because he’d never played before about 2 weeks ago. I was always great at baseball… at school. I never played elsewhere because in my day, girls couldn’t (softball yes but I suck at underhand pitching and am good at baseball not softball).

So… what do I do to get this guy into competitive baseball? Little League? What?
May 6, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
It’s not unconstitutional and when you tweet stuff like this you look stupid and like you should never have been admitted to a top flight university. I worked with Elise a little bit when I briefly consulted for Tim Pawlenty. She’s a smart person who is playing stupid. The issue this creates IMO is she is broadcasting inauthenticity, which never works out well for politicians.
Apr 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I’m glad to see Planned Parenthood finally being honest about who Margaret Sanger was and what she believed but half of this oped seems like them saying “now please don’t hate us because we too can word salad.” nytimes.com/2021/04/17/opi… It seems like it would be better to just have said sorry and then talk about how Planned Parenthood really intends to not disproportionately focus on service provision in minority neighborhoods or to minority communities going forward because the org is now firmly anti racist.
Mar 26, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Fact, as reported by the @WSJ today: During the same period in 2019, about 3.5x the number of families were apprehended crossing the border as in same period, 2021. And Trump spent less on border agents, so it's not because more of them were on the clock. wsj.com/articles/men-l… I am deeply, deeply unimpressed with how Biden is handling this situation, but the fact is, what we are seeing now is not as it stands the highest numbers on record insofar as families are concerned. wsj.com/articles/men-l…
Jan 4, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Listening to this podcast now at the gym. @MichaelCohen212 says right upfront that the Trump campaign allegedly offered @AJDelgado13 **$1.2 million** to go away. I bet a lot of people missed that detail before today... .@AJDelgado13 talks here about child separations at the border being a breaking point for her with Trump. I do not think she’s alone in this— it was and continues to be a huge problem for a lot of women. Stephen Miller has a lot to answer for.
Jan 2, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Taking a hiatus from my Twitter hiatus to say it amazes me that these senators who want to have an “audit” of the election and plan to press the matter next week have evidently not considered that this scuppers all GOP arguments, forever, about getting the feds out of elections. A secondary point is that they obviously haven’t considered the question of “what’s next,” which I was told to ALWAYS be asking as a young lawyer. Who does the audit? What happens when the audit inevitably comes back clean? What’s next?
Sep 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Here's my explanation.

1) SC has been moving a little more in a leftwards/moderate direction in part because of race politics and in part because the state is gradually recognizing it has a climate change problem.

(1/several) 2) Lindsey Graham has always been soft with Rs. DeMint types never liked him. Lindsey relied a lot on McCain for support. Now he looks weaker and more like a flip-flopper, unprincipled guy with his embrace of Trump. Just a bad look-- not a strong sell.

Sep 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This should piss off strict constructionists and original it’s. Amy Coney Barrett already got passed over (unfairly) for a (less-well-qualified) Brett Kavanaugh, supposedly because Trump was savings Ginsburg’s seat for her. Now, she’s getting passed over again. People will say that this is bc Collins and Murkowski won’t vote for a justice as conservative as Barrett but Collins doesn’t vote against POTUS’ SCOTUS nominees no matter who they are. She never has. So why shaft Barrett? Because Trump used her as a prop. https://t.co/FXxJVl8hXj
Sep 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I may vote for Biden-Harris but I continue to be unimpressed by Kamala Harris. I do not believe she is ready for prime time. I think she can be ready to be President if the time comes but Joe Biden really should have picked someone else. She’s probably likely to prove no less competent than Trump (low bar), and yes, I’m sure she’d be more competent. But I could name about 100 big names who could be President from both parties that I’d trust more than her and think are more ready than her at this point.
Sep 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I’m probably the rare parent who will read this and is somewhat sympathetic. I think the answer, though, during the pandemic is to give non-parents some flexibility too. The risk if you don’t is they feel like they do NOTHING but work. nytimes.com/2020/09/05/tec… Obviously, dealing with your kid’s distance learning or attempts to watch Frozen for the millionth time instead of doing homework are not down time or relaxing or anything that parents WANT to be dealing with.
Aug 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s the last thing I hope I’ll ever tweet about the Post Office/USPS drama. 1) I have real concerns that Trump would happily find some way to fuck up the mail to try to eke out a victory but 2) he and his lot are pretty incompetent and his numbers are so bad now... ... that nothing he does may enable him to win 3) I suspect more of his voters than Biden voters will be screwed by Post Office/USPS interference but 4) let’s also remember the Postal Workers Union is totally amping up noise here to achieve policy objectives they’ve had for years
Aug 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It’s nice that people can develop sympathy in hindsight but speaking as someone whose job it was in 2008 to defend Palin with progressive bloggers, it’s worth noting the Left all too happily stuck her on a pile of hay and threw on the matches. (This isn’t me dinging @samstein; Sam was always very good about fact-checking things with the RNC and hearing my take before running anything. But of course he was and is more professional than a ton of other folks.) https://t.co/Gg1XQjg12Q
Jun 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I haven’t read Tom Cotton’s oped and I don’t intend to. I will say this: If it were Cotton v Trump, I’d take Trump every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I think Cotton is an over-ambitious inauthentic fraud in over his head who also has always struck me as surprisingly wimpy Yeah I know you’re all gonna @ me. But Cotton is bad on policy AND he’s just an unappealing person by literally any standard other than “I went to Harvard and deeply, personally enjoy badly posturing as a populist for kicks.”