Ish Entertainment (https://xitter.cf/t.co/8ZkioM0ZNn), , https://xitter.cf/t.co/S9Q9bzvNz2, formerly: head of programming VH1, writer The Atlantic, NY Mag, The People PAC

New York, USA
Joined February 2009
Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage “When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him. Silence of the Lambs. Who the hell else would even remember that? I have a great memory, but they always hit me. I don't bring it up too much because they have to take such a— he brought up Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do with this? What is it? It has everything to do with it, right? He was… So I've done something for you for you that I haven't done in 20 speeches. I brought up Doctor Hannibal Lecter and we're allowing him, you watch, you watch these fake people will say again, he brought up Hannibal Lecter has absolutely nothing to do. You know I do the weave, right? The weave. It's genius. You bring up Hannibal Lecter, you mention insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter. You go out, no. There'll be a time in life where the weave won't finish properly at the bottom and then we can talk. But right now it's pure genius. Hey, I have an uncle, my uncle, Uncle John, my father's brother, 41 years at MIT, longest serving professor has so many degrees, he didn't know what the hell to do with them all in the most complicated. I understand a lot of this stuff, you know, I believe in that. Like, I mean, Jack Nicklaus is not gonna produce a bad golfer. Right. You know, that's the way it works. It's just one of those things and it's in the family and it's whatever”
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1/2 But…the full data have been in the public domain for years, in some cases decades. Anyone with internet access can go to the PubMed National Library of Medicine database. The data are unequivocal: vaccines don’t cause autism and there’s not even a plausible mechanism.
To be clear, my wife and I trust our doctors and following their advice have vaccinated our children and ourselves. However, not everybody trusts such advice or the FDA. We would be doing everyone a service if the government respected Bobby Kennedy’s request to make the full data available.
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Wow. Mike Johnson was caught on a hot mic saying that he and Donald Trump will repeal the Affordable Care Act. Spread this everywhere.
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More than 1 million.
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Have you heard that even most Latino voters support Trump’s mass deportation plans? That’s because of what I call “poll-washing”—using surveys to “reveal” popular support for something the survey-takers don’t fully understand. It’s time for pollsters to poll the policies, not the euphemisms for the policy. The same surveys show even higher Latino support for a path to citizenship—for the same people Trump wants deported!
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We're trying to stand up to a fascist who's in cahoots with the world's richest man, and our only weapon is: knocking on doors and having conversations. Of course it feels scary. Right now our job is to be brave and keep knocking.
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At this point in October 2020, I wrote a piece for the glorious @BulwarkOnline, imploring my new Dem friends to finish the campaign with confidence and swagger. I wrote that if I ran the Dem party, my message would be: We are going to crush Donald Trump and the sickness he represents. There are more of us than there are of them. We are right. They are wrong. This is our moment. This is our destiny. Walk with confidence. Do not falter. Victory will be ours. I once again make the plea. Arrogance is walking on the field, bragging you will win without having done the work. The Harris-Walz campaign and thousands of volunteers are doing the hard work. You've earned it. No team wins the Superbowl thinking, "We might have a shot." This is yours. Walk out and take it. You will look back at this moment with quiet pride and satisfaction for the rest of your life, knowing that when America called, you answered. thebulwark.com/p/victory-is-…
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On @TheBeatWithAri in < hour to discuss this essay and many more uncomfortable things about Reality, reality, and our increasingly inability to distinguish between the two
When Donald Trump says outrageous things, “doesn’t he know people are going to be shocked?” @hirschorn asks. Of course. “He says them specifically because people will be shocked. He has succeeded in making himself the most most-hated man in America.” nyti.ms/3XGJEjN
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We should be alarmed by how unalarmed we are about a second Trump administration. This race is closer than it would be if more people understood what a second Trump term would actually mean for them. 🧵
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If Democrats would go on offense and wedge abortion/freedom as hard as Republicans are wedging immigration and gender pronouns, I would sleep much better at night. We are not learning the lessons from 2023 on most of the swing may, which continues to run old strategy.
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I wanted to tell the autistic boy at the concert that his shrieks and coos reminded me of my own son. Too bad not everyone in the audience was able to appreciate them, writes Tom Fields-Meyer. on.wsj.com/4ec1t08 on.wsj.com/4ec1t08
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A reminder: Do not trust any polls at any time. We're behind until we've won.
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This here is some brilliant writing
Joe Rogan is “the human embodiment of America’s vexed relationship with free speech: a complex tangle of arguments and conspiracy theories all boiled down into one short, swole man who likes to wear a fanny pack,” @helenlewis writes. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Terrific piece by (my old friend and collaborator) @hirschorn about the terribly consequential reality TV-ication of American life and politics, an obsession of mine since the turn of the century. Gift link: nytimes.com/2024/09/13/opini…
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"Trump is still doing Gordon Ramsay, Kamala Harris is giving us Lisa Vanderpump." My pensees on the connection between Haitian cat eaters and Richard Hatch
When Donald Trump says outrageous things, “doesn’t he know people are going to be shocked?” @hirschorn asks. Of course. “He says them specifically because people will be shocked. He has succeeded in making himself the most most-hated man in America.” nyti.ms/3XGJEjN
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hirschorn retweeted
From a few minutes ago: the top of the WaPo homepage and the top of the Times’s.
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Fixin' to rant here. Fiercely. Come along for the ride. My subject is the astonishing the intellectual and moral energy I've witnessed in the last 48 hours from people absolutely PASSIONATE about figuring out ways to conclude that Tim Walz might, actually, suck. [THREAD] 1/x
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hirschorn retweeted
“What a monster!” Such a good answer.
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It boggles the mind that this active attack on birth control is not taken more seriously by journalists & pundits. Trump is repeatedly given the benefit of the doubt on this topic (& every other...) while his supporters are crystal clear on what the plans are if trump wins.
Top MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, pushing Trump’s Project 2025 plan to go after contraception, says birth control “screws up female brains”
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