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Jul 11, 2023 13 tweets 6 min read
You've probably noticed the consequences of Disney’s belt-tightening all over the media world.

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This morning, the Wall Street Journal reports new trouble at one of the company’s most iconic, lucrative, and reliable moneymakers, the theme parks:

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Jun 29, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read
You could argue that there are three American magazines that are so iconic, so central to the last century of American media and public discourse, that they are instantly recognizable just by the color of the border on their covers.

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The one with the yellow border, which has been around for 135 years, no longer has any full-time staff writers, and soon it will stop appearing on your newsstands — presuming you can find a newsstand anymore.

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Jun 8, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
If my job required me to risk life and limb to fight fires that traced back to gender-reveal parties and nutjob professors on arson sprees, I’d be livid about the persistent pattern of bad judgment around fire in heavily wooded areas, too.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Image So I can’t entirely begrudge Clare Frank, who served as California’s first female chief of fire protection, for writing an op-ed in the New York Times today, with the headline, “We Suffer Too Many Fools Who Start Wildfires.”

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Jun 8, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
It’s not hard to find voices who want the smoky orange haze over the northeastern U.S. and Canada to be an environmental morality tale with a human villain.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… A somewhat-overlapping group of people are speculating, without any supporting evidence, that these forest fires were deliberately set by someone in some sinister plot.

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Jun 7, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
A year ago, the PGA tour saw the golfers joining the alternative league as taking an action that was barely one moral step above treason.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… The PGA could have kept its objection to LIV within the realm of finance. It's not particularly noble, but everyone would have understood.

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Jun 6, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Way back in March of 2022, I looked at the various ways Russia could use its tactical nuclear weapons in an attempt to win a decisive advantage in Ukraine.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… There are ways to attempt to minimize the radioactive fallout from the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, but even if you detonate a nuclear weapon underground, radiation can leak with fatal consequences for a long time.

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Jun 3, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
Well, this is a dumb rejoinder. The objection is not to the existence or use of executive orders, but Trump's terrible record of going back to make sure his executive orders were carried out. rollcall.com/2019/04/18/mue…
Jun 2, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
So far, there is no sign that any U.S. or multinational company is rethinking its decisions to do business in Uganda, despite the country’s enactment of laws that will put a person in prison for five years for attempting to have homosexual sex.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… I’d argue that the most compelling objection to corporate America’s Pride Month is that it represents big companies’ support for the rights of gays in the cheapest and most consequence-free way possible.

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Jun 2, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read
Up until a few days ago, in the country of Uganda, it was literally a crime to identify yourself as gay, lesbian, transgender, or nonbinary — a crime that carried a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Left, right, or center, I’d like to think that we could all agree that if you say, “I’m gay,” your government’s response should not be to _put you in prison for two decades._

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Jun 1, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Trump's increasingly bizarre contradictory statements about Disney - first DeSantis was the aggressor, then Disney was woke but it was DeSantis' fault - reveal the dirty little secret that Trump doesn’t really know what he thinks about a lot of topics.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Trump doesn’t say how he would stop Disney from becoming “woke,” but he merely asserts that it would be, and will be, easy to do. Probably just as easy as ending the Russia–Ukraine war in one day. Or as easy as ending birthright citizenship within 1 day.

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Jun 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
These are apparently the sorts of thoughts that consume the mind of one of the four people most likely to take the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Image The former president seems to think it is a real power move to call the Florida governor “Rob.” I suppose this is a demonstration that DeSantis is so unimportant that Trump can’t be bothered to remember his first name.

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Mar 30, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
If you feel like Biden's policies responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are getting more praise, more credit, and easier grades than they deserve... well, apparently you and I aren't alone.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… We've noticed the plan appears to be to intermittently try to sound like Winston Churchill while sending weapons systems at a snail’s pace, months and months after the Ukrainians have said they need those weapons systems.

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Mar 29, 2023 12 tweets 6 min read
I think it’s way, way too early for any panic for Ron DeSantis or his supporters. But there are some ominous chords being played in the early campaign soundtrack.

nationalreview.com/corner/the-opp… I get that DeSantis wants to peel away 10, 20, 30% of Trump supporters, and thus is either going to emphasize his similarities to Trump or only hit Trump from the right for a while. But a big part of DeSantis' appeal is turning the page from Trump.

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Mar 29, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read
Nashville police chief John Drake held a press conference Tuesday and said that the parents of the shooter told the police the shooter had been in a “doctor’s care for an emotional disorder.”

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… The parents reportedly told police that they believed their daughter should not own guns & did not believe that she had any; they believed their child had purchased one gun & sold it. The shooter reportedly told her parents that she had sold the firearm.

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Mar 28, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
First, everybody weighing in on those WSJ survey results ought to read @PatrickRuffini's assessment of the methodology... @PatrickRuffini Second, the chart that is going viral illustrates the dramatic drop in the percentage of respondents who said that certain values were “very important.” You’re not going to get any argument from me that this is bad news.

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Mar 28, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
In today's Morning Jolt, more from my interview with Paul Clement, the former solicitor general representing Fox News in the defamation lawsuits filed by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Image In Brian v. Richardson, one of the key points was that the claims appeared on the op-ed page and thus were sufficiently labeled as opinion. Clement argues that this is comparable to the claims on programs like that of Lou Dobbs.

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Mar 27, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Also in today's Morning Jolt...

TikTok, and perhaps social media as a whole, have created an entire incentive structure to spotlight the most abnormal behavior people can imagine, particularly among young people.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Image If you do the things you’re supposed to do in life — love your family, be a good friend, work hard, play by the rules, help others when they need it — the TikTok algorithm just isn’t that interested.

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Mar 27, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is now saying he intends to move some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which has been used as a staging ground for Russian forces invading Ukraine.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… (Read more background on the Russian arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons here.)

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Mar 21, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
Roughly one month ago, the Biden administration warned China that shipping “lethal support” or weapons to Russia would constitute stepping over a “red line.”

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Image Crossing a red line is supposed to be the biggest of big deals, a point of no return, a provocation that escalates tension into outright hostility.

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Mar 20, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Indisputably, the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, was a key location in the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… What we don’t know, and what this new report revolving around raccoon-dog DNA does not clarify, is whether the virus entered that market through an animal or through a human being.

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Mar 17, 2023 16 tweets 8 min read
Gonna have to go Rod Serling for this one...

nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo… Image Picture, if you will, a 16-term congressman who plays a major role in overhauling the nation’s regulation of banks. He then retires & joins the board of directors of a New York-based national bank traded on NASDAQ, a bank with assets of about $50 billion.

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