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Parker Molloy
@ParkerMolloy
I write the media/culture/politics/whatever newsletter @readTPA: https://t.co/b5eKnkYTbA / Not really on Twitter anymore. Check my links to find me 👇
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Oct 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
People acknowledging that this image is AI but still insisting that it's real on some deeper level...

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Sep 5 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
It really is jarring to read Trump's comments as he actually delivers them vs. how they're eventually cleaned up in mainstream news outlets. This was the topic of my @newrepublic piece from yesterday newrepublic.com/article/185530…
Aug 23 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I immediately logged into my Getty account to download this at the highest resolution possible
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Aug 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
"If someone has a Y chromosome, they're a man!!!"

My dudes, if you karyotype tested every female athlete currently competing at the Olympics, you'd surprise a fair number of them with news they were "men" (by your definition). Think about how much your world would be turned upside down if you're just going along, born a girl, raised a girl, training your whole life... and suddenly people are like, "lol, actually, you're a man." And all of this is totally news to you.
Aug 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Figure today's as good a day as ever to re-up this 2019 piece I wrote about how trans people get dragged into debates over intersex athletes (who aren't trans) and vice versa, fairness, etc. cjr.org/criticism/cast… There are zero trans women competing in the Olympics this year. Now transphobes have moved on to screaming at people who were born female and raised as girls for likely having a genetic abnormality they weren't aware of. This is how it goes, I guess!
Jul 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This truly is fascinating

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Image Anyway, I sent the author of those columns a request for comment (because that's absolutely going to be the subject of my newsletter tomorrow, plz go subscribe). I wonder if he'll respond.
Jul 19 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Lotsa papers clearly printed today's front pages based on the prepared, not the delivered, remarks


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Nov 30, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with Yashar's big pivot to rage-bait over the past month, but it's been disappointing to see. A lot of those quotes are bad. At least one of them is just wildly out of context, though. If you want to create rage bait, city council meetings are a great place to find it. There will always be a few totally unhinged people there, a few people with wacky views, a few extremists out of hundreds of speakers.
Nov 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
They Phil Donahue-d him. This genuinely upsets me. Mehdi is one of the best (if not *the* best) interviewers on TV. And having him as a fill-in host or an on air analyst is no substitute for him having his own show. This is just shameful on MSNBC's part.
Nov 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Just asking questions" strikes again apnews.com/article/israel…
Image Listing journalists *by name* and just "raising questions" about whether they're actually terrorists is a pretty surefire way of getting them killed.
Oct 23, 2023 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Yeah, I get that emotions are intense right now, but it's been unsettling to watch as people demand newspapers print things they don't yet know are true. The truth is that, no, the motive is not *yet* known, and it would be irresponsible to claim otherwise. Like, look, I agree that NYT (like a lot of news orgs) nees to stop making stealth edits to articles. But jumping directly to claims that this was some obvious instance of bias and that the paper only changed it "under pressure" is conspiratorial. It's not helpful to anyone.
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Oct 18, 2023 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Seeing a lot of, "Well, no, it's not cancel culture because these are HAMAS SUPPORTERS who SUPPORT TERRORISM." But then, when you actually look into who and what they're describing, it's just some standard Palestinian human rights organization that doesn't mention Hamas at all. Like that specific event that Crenshaw was referring to (which he was successful in getting it canceled) makes no mention of Hamas in any of its panels or workshops on its website uscprconference.org/workshops
Oct 16, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
It's the fact that the man who did this *knows* this family, and had an existing relationship with this family, that makes this so incomprehensible to me. Whether or not there's some direct connection between the specific media that man consumed and his actions, I just can't wrap my head around this. It's awful. I'm worried for the well-being of Jews and Muslims around the world.
Oct 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Today is a good day to watch the speech @IlhanMN gave in 2019 that right-wing media stripped from context and misrepresented. It was about the flaws of collective punishment and collective guilt. It was about her experience as an American Muslim in the aftermath of 9/11 and being blamed for something she had nothing to do with. It was about seeing people as human beings.
Aug 16, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Keep in mind that whenever these guys bring up Stacy Abrams to go, "But she thought the 2018 election was rigged against her!" that 10 days after the election, she dropped her legal challenge, sayings she wasn't going to try to "scheme [her] way into the post." https://t.co/GfiYS8EhYp
Image "If Trump wants to claim a similar 'victory,' he can do that. Contrary to right-wing media, staying in the race isn’t what makes him similar to Abrams; it’s what makes him different." - me, 11/20/20 mediamatters.org/erick-erickson…
Aug 2, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
It's pretty frustrating that the people who were the most wrong about... well, everything, like Barro, have been the people who've continued to get handed sweet jobs in media, while those of us who accurately tried to sound the alarm have been treated as insane. Mick Mulvaney wrote a WSJ op-ed that said if Trump loses, he'll concede gracefully... and CBS went right out and hired him. Literally could not be more wrong, but he had an "R" next to his name, so CBS got out the checkbook.
Apr 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I think this might be the final straw for me on this site. Gotta figure out what to do here. I'll be locking my account in the meantime. Like, look at this crap. This is what gets *prioritized* on the site now.
Apr 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The weird dudes at Ben Shapiro's media outlet keep getting more extreme. This is the kind of stuff those guys want to bring back, btw: jacobin.com/2023/03/cross-… "Although cross-dressi...
Apr 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Cenk is a moron His genocide-denying media company sucks, too
Apr 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When was the last time a party held debates (that included the sitting president) during his reelection campaign? 2020? No
2012? No
2004? No
1996? No
1992? No
etc.
Apr 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
WTF is wrong with CNN? Image Again, the Bud Light controversy was over... a sponsored post on a trans influencer's social media page. That's it. The controversy wasn't over content, but simply that the right thinks that association with a trans person in any way is bad.