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Sep 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Nothing to see here, just the exalted former head of WaPo telling CSPAN about the time he colluded with a CIA agent to steal the diary of another CIA agent’s ex-wife (and JFK mistress) after her murder… while he was DC bureau chief at Newsweek.

c-span.org/video/?c451390…

Jul 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

GOP leadership aide bragging to NBC News about “taking [their] foot off the gas” on cultural issues in order to win elections. To be clear, running on “Trump” in generals might not be helpful, but when they say Trump and abortion, they mean the culture war in general.

Principles aside, it’s dumb politics. Look at Youngkin. Want to win suburban moms? Maybe don’t take your foot off the gas. Dem candidate supports abortion up to birth? Might want to mention it.

Aug 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

The film determined to hit reopened theaters first is eerily well-suited to the moment at hand. It's literally called "Unhinged."

Producer Mark Gill tells me that was "an accident of timing." The midsize thriller could say a lot about Hollywood's future. thefederalist.com/2020/08/05/set… Gill, a former Miramax exec., describes himself as "a recovering employee of Harvey Weinstein."

Now, Hollywood is "a lot better,” he told me. “Almost everybody I ever worked for was a serial screamer, so this is quite a nice change."

Jun 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Far left activists behind the protests believe capitalism and social justice are fundamentally incompatible. Their movement is being boosted by media, Hollywood, and corporations. Make no mistake: elites in Hollywood, media, and Wall St have no interest in dismantling capitalism A movie star grabs headlines for issuing their statement of support (because the media profits off the clicks) for the movement, creating publicity, and helping them rake in more millions from the box office and corporate endorsements

Jun 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read

Some picture from the WH protest today.

May 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

During quarantine, traffic at rehab.com is up 382 percent, @AManInRecovery tells me. "Relapses are through the roof right now." thefederalist.com/2020/05/19/rel… In addition to fueling relapses, isolation is also pushing people towards addiction who haven't struggled with it before, Ryan said. "So what’s happening is people need purpose, they need connection, they need fellowship. Now they’re all alone."

May 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

After rescinding the Obama admin guidelines in 2017, Betsy DeVos issued new Title IX rules this morning, set to go into effect on Aug. 14. Senior department official called it "a historic day for the country and the Trump administration." www2.ed.gov/about/offices/… DeVos anticipates criticism, but encourages press to read the plain text of the rule, which any "objective" analyses will show "meaningfully addresses sexual misconduct and treats all students fairly."

Apr 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read

Donald Critchlow wrote the biography “Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism” for Princeton University Press. His assessment of Mrs. America? "Deplorable." Critchlow ran through a factcheck of the show's claims about Schalfly with me. thefederalist.com/2020/04/22/fac… One egregious smear involves a scene that shows Schlafly tolerating naked racism in STOP ERA. Critchlow told me "there's no record" of Schlafly tolerating racism.

Apr 16, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

Apr 6, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read

Alyssa Milano and due process, a thread. Here’s what Milano told Larry King about due process after Kavanaugh was confirmed:

“As far as women standing up and holding men that have abused their power accountable, we don't really know what that due process looks like.”

Mar 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read

“We have time to kill on TikTok because of communist China’s cover-up. TikTok is complicit with communist China.” thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/tik… Douyin is owned by ByteDance, which also owns TikTok.

Mar 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

New York Times "reporter"

NYT's social media policy.

Jan 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

This article, about women who saw a movie deciding Civil War Poverty is their new aesthetic, might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read. nypost.com/2020/01/22/eve… Fine line.

Jan 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read

New in @FDRLST this morning: my deep dive into the future of Hollywood’s close relationship with China. thefederalist.com/2020/01/15/why… Here’s what @marcorubio told me. Yes, China is “leveraging market access” to export its authoritarianism, but “What’s especially disturbing to me is how willing American film studios are to self-censor and carry water for the CCP."

Nov 7, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

You know what this primary needed? A 77-year-old centrist billionaire. She'll need to be sharper, but this contrast should help Warren.

Oct 24, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

NBC reports there's "no evidence" Hunter Biden "acted improperly," then reports evidence of him acting improperly in the next sentence and later in the story. Trading on your name is improper, whether it's Trump or the Biden. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

Here it is again, in the same story, this time about Ukraine. It's the same line Anderson Cooper used. thefederalist.com/2019/10/15/and…

Oct 22, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

It takes an impressive level of obliviousness not to recognize (or care?) how smears like Tapper's play in the rest of the country.

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1186653943885160449

How did GOP voters go from the Tea Party to Trump? Elites with huge platforms called everything they did racist, so some prioritized that fight over the other ones.