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As much of a mess as Liz Truss was, in January 2023, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, leading a slim House majority packed with several dozen lunatics, will ask her to hold his beer.
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The “why” piece is really what gets me. Because you were miffed that the wedding was closed to press? Because you need a “both sides” narrative? Because the WH press corps instinctively believes all WH teams lie? The lack of self awareness on this one is really weird.
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My read is that you and some of your colleagues on the WH beat have manufactured a “lie,” and in so doing, misled your readers. The wedding was closed to press. As the WH said it would be. A fashion magazine got a photo shoot 2 days prior. Who is fibbing here? And why?
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I spent four years covering the Trump WH and two years covering the Biden WH. What’s fascinating is that they both lie, albeit in v different ways. Trump team was shameless, whereas Biden team is too cute by half. twitter.com/katierogers/st…
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This tweet has to win some kind of award. Can’t put my finger on what to call it.
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Will Republicans now seek the tax returns of Obama and the Clintons?
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The White House press corps, or some very prominent members thereof, are really disgracing themselves this week over a wedding they had no right to attend and which *no reporters* were present at. Far from holding the WH accountable, they are in fact misleading the public.
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Kobe Bryant's daughter Natalia, 19, asked a court for a restraining order against a stalker with a criminal history involving guns. The man has shown up repeatedly at her college: thedailybeast.com/kobe-bryants-d
Federal law allows people convicted of misdemeanor stalking to buy guns.
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something profoundly hollow and morally degenerate about pretending to care about these murdered peoples’ humanity while lashing on another dollop of the hate that motivated the man who killed them.
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The Colorado Springs PD is posting photos of the victims with their preferred pronouns as if that is what is most important to their humanity. twitter.com/CSPDPIO/status…
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2/ I think everyone agrees Tesla stock price was greatly overvalued. And this decline is in a more general market downturn. But Tesla isn’t like most other tech stocks. A substantial amount of the downturn is tied to Musks being a freak and not being focused on Tesla.
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I’m hearing from lots of folks who follow me that, much to their surprise, Twitter stopped them from following me. Don’t know what going on, but I’m still here & I’m still tweeting. Follow me again. Let’s keep following each other no matter what’s going on.
Please retweet this.
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Thankfully, has a terrific chapter on this kind of ahistorical idiocy in the MYTH AMERICA collection, so be sure to check it out.
Maybe send a copy to the editors.
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I don’t even think I need to contextualize the question. What do we think is driving these decisions?
- Psychological breakdown6.6%
- Ideology11.3%
- Hubris/arrogance70.9%
- Cocaine (or some such)11.3%
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How far we haven’t come. Watch this video of interviewing Steve Jobs, who would have found today’s “visionaries” shabby:
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For any reporters covering the fact that Musk just reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter, take a look at who his new followers are. I’d say 30% to 40% are clearly fake accounts with zero, 1 or 2 followers.
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I don’t even think I need to contextualize the question. What do we think is driving these decisions?
- Psychological breakdown6.6%
- Ideology11.3%
- Hubris/arrogance70.9%
- Cocaine (or some such)11.3%
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Anyway, it’s interesting to see the position of the Republican Jewish Coalition is that American Jews suck.
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Elon Musk promised that the issue of Trump’s reinstatement would go before a committee. Now he’s making such decisions unilaterally. How can advertisers trust this man’s promises?
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It really makes a mockery of the idea Roberts has a deep concern for the integrity of the judiciary.
He would clearly have fired any lowly court clerk who leaked an opinion for political gain. But if a justice did it? Eh, let's just forget all this ever happened.
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This Times story about SCOTUS is not just obviously incredibly damning for Alito, it looks really bad for Roberts too.
After treating the Dobbs leak as a serious threat to the Court's legitimacy, he got the letter with these allegations and then sat on it and covered it all up.
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The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them.
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Ford pardoned Nixon, knowing he would never again be in a position to abuse presidential power again. It was arguably the wrong decision, but that was the context. Trump committed these crimes *after* leaving office and is running again. Different context.
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For the good of the nation, Ford pardoned Nixon.
For the good of the nation, Biden should pardon Trump.
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They think we’re stupid. Jeff Sessions appointed the last special counsel. Jeff Sessions is a Republican.
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John Roberts’ tenure as Chief Justice will likely be remembered by historians as one of the worst. An era when the court lost popular legitimacy through a combination of intellectual dishonesty (originalism) corruption (Alito, Thomas), Christian nationalism masquerading as law.
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I’ve been followed by, had my posts commented/engaged by, people who are infinitely more accomplished than I, way smarter, people I really respect. But if I need to single out one favorite interaction: replied to me once. That was a head rush.
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what was your personal favorite interaction or moment on twitter? like, something that happened to you personally
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With the Holmes verdict, FTX collapse, tech downturn, and Elon being Elon all happening at the same time, I'm really hoping we as a society are over the con artist fascination boom that's defined the last few years.
Truly, one of the least interesting cultural milieus.
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There was a baby chimp born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had to be put on oxygen for a few days. This is a clip of it being reintroduced to its mother for the first time.
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I was under the impression that White House cooperation with congressional oversight committees is an optional exercise. Wasn’t that how it worked from January 2019 through January 2021?
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I put myself on the waiting list for this, per ’s thread. Hoping it turns out to be a good substitution for Twitter, when the inevitable comes.
Sign up for Post Prod!
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We may not still have Twitter next May, so my normal self-promotion begins today!
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It has a lot to say about Lincoln’s spiritual journey, but also his keen ability to recognize and harness the power of an evangelical majority — the first president to do so. He was a keen political actor and understood how to use biblical vernacular in politics.
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The book examines the way in which evangelical Christianity helped Northerners make sense of the war, and how the war itself reshaped American Protestantism. Abraham Lincoln is a central organizing figure, but the book is more broadly about religion and politics.
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A little premature, but since this site seems unlikely to last till spring, I’m excited to share my next book, which will be published in May 2023, on evangelical Christianity and the Civil War.
a.co/d/9GrtcyK #Amazon
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Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight
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“Twitter is going down. We interviewed 7 people in a diner in rural mid-central Pennsylvania to find out what they think about it. The results will shock you, and they are behind a paywall.”
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Congratulations on a remarkable, historic run of service in the People's House. We were able to disagree without being disagreeable. You've been unfailingly gracious to me and my family.
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My kids are like "maybe you'll spend more time with us" and I'm like, "NO!!!!!! DON'T LET THIS PLACE DIE"
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I'm trying to explain to my kids why Twitter might disappear, and I honestly don't know what to tell them. They're not accepting "Elon Musk is an idiot"
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Most people don’t want to work for a jerk, in the absence of any tangible economic upside. Thats the free market baby.
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