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Film critic for @wsj and theater critic for @NewCriterion .

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2 years
Banning the Babylon Bee turned out to be as wise as killing John Wick’s dog
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I’m confused, when did Antifa become white supremacists
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It is rather odd to see NY journos losing their shit about FL beaches when the NYC subway is still running.
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4 years
The dog who wanted to be ⁦ @Harry_Styles
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4 years
Hey @NYGovCuomo did Donald Trump make you keep schools open as long as you did? Did Trump make you keep the subways open w/o cleaning them? Did Trump make you say "fear is worse than the virus" 3/19? Did he tell you to force nursing homes to accept Covid patients 3/25?
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Hollywood has somehow managed to turn a scandal of its own making into three more hours of colossal self-righteousness.
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"I am the Democratic party right now.”- Biden "Not according to Harris.” - Trump
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5 years
Remember 13 years ago when Al Gore said we had 10 years to save the planet?
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If George W Bush had confused Egypt with Mexico there would have been 2 solid years of SNL sketches and late-night jokes about it.
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3 years
MLB pissing off half of their potential customers and probably 2/3 of Georgia.
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4 years
watching Jimmy Kimmel without an audience really clarifies how untalented he is
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6 years
This is actually worse than Dukakis on the death penalty.
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Matt Wolking
6 years
Asked about Mollie Tibbetts being murdered by an illegal immigrant, Elizabeth Warren says "I know this is hard" for her family, but they "have to remember" that we need to focus on "real problems" like illegal immigrants not being able to see to their kids
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Senator Kennedy just called Ibram X. Kendi “some butthead professor at Boston University” in a confirmation hearing.
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There is absolutely no doubt that Pence has won this debate.
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5 years
Who had the Democratic Party coming up with “our flag is racist” on the Fourth of July on their Self-Destruction Bingo card?
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4 years
Pretty sure he has staged at least one production before
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Jussie Smollett is preparing his feature directorial debut
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3 years
@VP Is this intended to insult the memory of the fallen? Because that’s how it reads.
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5 years
Can anyone explain why Ralph Northam still has his job but Megyn Kelly lost hers?
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357 Former Intelligence Chiefs Sign Open Letter Blaming Russians for Cocaine in White House Library
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5 years
If this is the Washington Post's standard it should retract and apologize for all of its Christine Blasey Ford stories.
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2 years
I can’t even wrap my mind around this: GDP growth just went from +6.9 percent last quarter to - 1.4 percent this quarter. That’s worse than the swing from the last quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2020 (+1.9 percent to -5.1). Absolute disaster.
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4 years
When my little daughter acts like this I try to get her to take a deep breath then ask her if she wants a snack
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3 years
Military called out to enforce lockdown in Sydney for at least a month. No leaving the house except for government approved reasons. Australia has seen 9 COVID deaths.
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4 years
Trump is correct. Biden did not endorse the idea of shutting down foreign travel until April 3. Trump did the partial China shutdown on Jan. 31. All Biden did during that period was cry xenophobia.
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4 years
Weird how he didn’t cheer when it hit this milestone on the way up
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Dow 25,000!
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Dallas jukebox
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3 years
Who says innovation is dead
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5 years
So to recap, a member of the public asked @AOC why her boyfriend is listed as staff in a public document and Twitter locked him out for asking. Don't be impertinent to powerful public officials on Twitter, folks!
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Kyle Smith
5 years
And said boyfriend is listed as a member of her staff. This is public information as it should be. Moreover, Riley Roberts has been publicly id'd as AOC's boyfriend before, for instance in a Marie Claire profile.
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4 years
Can someone please explain to me why teaching children is intolerably dangerous but grocery store workers kept reporting for duty every single day of this year
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6 years
Refusing to salute tyranny strikes me as a good thing.
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AP Sports
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The Latest: Vice President Mike Pence and his wife did not stand for the combined Korean team’s entrance. #OpeningCeremony
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2 years
Disney has obviously thought better of taking on Ron DeSantis in Florida. Its current strategy is the forget-we-said-anything move.
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5 years
The rage about Louis CK seems to be that he said something irreverent but obviously true - that surviving a school shooting does not confer any public-policy expertise on you.
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3 years
The lesson here is whenever they rail against millionaires and billionaires, they’re coming for you.
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Fiorella Isabel
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Speaker Pelosi confirms IRS monitoring account deposits of $600+ will be in Reconciliation Bill. “Yes there are concerns that some people have but if people are breaking the law & not paying their taxes one way to track them is through the banking measure.”
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3 years
Confused elderly drivers often hit the gas when they should be hitting the brakes
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Josh Kraushaar
3 years
Axios: “President Biden's hitting the gas — not pumping the brakes — to pass his two massive spending bills ASAP, and doesn’t read his party’s poor electoral showing in Virginia as a rebuke of the massive costs”
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4 years
Americans are going to flee the cities like we did in the post-68 era. 30 years of great progress for cities undone in one spring. Everyone gonna be moving to suburbs/exurbs & buying guns.
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5 years
wow I did not know who Megan Rapinoe was until a week ago and I'm already sick of her
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4 years
What if you could go back in time and kill Baby Twitter
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3 years
One of these people serves in the real West Wing
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7 years
Hey @united , it goes like this: 1) Admit error 2) Make amends 3) Announce policy change to stop it happening again. You haven't done #1 yet
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2 years
@JoeBiden How’s your plan going Joe
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4 years
Good news, NY bar owners: all you have to do to comply with Cuomo’s moronic “all bars must serve food” order is break out the potato chips. Now known as “Cuomo Chips.”
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New York: everyone’s been masking for 18 months, there have been strict vaxx mandates for > 4 months. Result? Leading the nation in cases
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The leftists are more upset about 7 accidental deaths in Gaza than 1400 intentional murders in Israel
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LOL a bailout for the media is a sure way to make this disaster of a bill more popular
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3 years
Every WH reporter at every briefing
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“Wow, the WH press secretary is so civil when....uh, all of the reporters except one are shameless sycophants”
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10 months
Try to imagine “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” as written by someone who not only hated Mario and Luigi but blamed them for highway fatalities, climate change and gorilla abuse while tossing in Proust references. My ‘Barbie’ Review:
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6 years
If the Democrat takeaway is "Let's run resolutely left-wing Senate candidates everywhere, even in red states" rather than "It sure is lucky when your opponent turns out to be a child molester," they are reading too much into this.
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FBI has confirmed what seems pretty obvious: it wasn’t an insurrection.
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3 years
Any chance Anthony Fauci plays up doom incessantly because he wants to keep being on television 23 times a day and being scary is how you get to do that?
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6 years
There goes @benshapiro again, using that unfair Jedi mind trick “logic.”
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Harvard’s current position: plagiarists can’t be president of the university but they can be full professors.
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2 years
I’m just thankful we got ourselves a calm, temperate and measured leader for a change
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4 years
Bill de Blasio may be more to blame than any other individual for the catastrophe. 3/10: “If you’re under 50 and you’re healthy..there’s very little threat here. This disease, even if you were to get it, basically acts like a common cold or flu.”
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4 years
NEW: Kamala Harris Lies Repeatedly in First Press Conference as Biden’s Running Mate
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6 years
Except you said this in your explanation: "Sinema was a law student at the time who participated in a series of vigils and anti-war protests in Arizona. In at least one of those instances, she wore what looks like a pink tutu."
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. @marthamcsally said @kyrstensinema protested troops in a pink tutu. We looked into that claim and rated it Mostly False | #AZSen
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Well, the media panic campaign is working. (It’s completely absurd to think the worst is ahead when 70 percent of adults are vaccinated.)
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6 years
That America still functions with a complete idiot as president is a tribute to America.
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4 years
Brave of Judd Apatow to speak out about this and he's absolutely right: "China Has Bought Our Silence"
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The U of Penn president being forced to resign because she had no idea how to respond to antagonistic questioning tells us a lot about life inside an Ivy bubble
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6 years
So Enterprise gains 4 points among Democrats, loses 61 points among Republicans. This is what happens when you mistake signals from a handful of cultural elites for the pulse of the country.
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Guy Benson
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POLITICO/Morning Consult: “All companies who cut business ties with the NRA last week saw their public opinion decline this week.” Cc: @united
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My favorite part of the Super Bowl salute to women was the scantily clad woman twirling on a stripper pole
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The only way to save the Oscars is to invite Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan to co-host.
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Frank J. Fleming
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When are they going to announce the Oscars host so we can get to canceling him or her?
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It’ll be funny when the next GOP president is widely decried as “so much worse than Trump.”
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Paparazzi agency’s response to Harry & Meghan demanding they turn over all their footage is 💯
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Maybe this is just me, but I think 1 year of lockdown is enough.
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Ron DeSantis….just a terrific performance on @billmaher . Had a liberal LA audience applauding. No question whatsoever that he’d be a stronger candidate to beat Biden.
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It’s so sad Trump isn’t even bothering to troll these dorks
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Halftime score! Maroon 5 New England & Los Angeles 3
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Caption this photo!
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This is extraordinary: the NYT opinion editor, who almost never discusses her own take, essentially dismisses Claudine Gay’s op-Ed as self-serving and points us to 4 other essays, all critical of Gay.
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Seems very clear that the pollsters utterly bungled this thing. Biden could still win but to quote @JakeTapper : a hot mess inside a dumpster fire on a train wreck.
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I just hope there isn’t some Iranian-American town in a swing state that Biden’s lunatic staffers are afraid of
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“The launch of CNN+ has not been as successful as we at McKinsey & Co forecast. We predicted a larger initial sign-on from subscribers eager to get a closer and more personal look at CNN superstars like Don Lemon…” from @rcbl
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oh no somebody please check on Paul Krugman
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PM Breaking News
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Breaking: Dow Jones closes up nearly 1,300 points, or 5.1%. This marks the largest point gain in a single day.
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Theresa May could shut up the Brexiteers by saying they’re just catcalling
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I was a platoon leader in the Third Infantry Division in the Persian Gulf War.
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50 for 50, bay-bee 🍞🐀📈
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@rkylesmith @benshapiro Kyle Smith can't tell the difference between war and the people that fight it while he watches from the sideline
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So any insult that gets you steamed is the equivalent of the n-word for your group. Go with that. Sure.
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Princeton’s obvious next step is to assert to the federal government that it isn’t racist while reassuring students and faculty that it is.
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And said boyfriend is listed as a member of her staff. This is public information as it should be. Moreover, Riley Roberts has been publicly id'd as AOC's boyfriend before, for instance in a Marie Claire profile.
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Ben Jacobs
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So it seems @ltthompso 's account has been locked by Twitter after noting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's boyfriend has a House email address
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Dudes will bankrupt a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund rather than just go to therapy.
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2 years
The Democrats are about to DOUBLE the size of the IRS. Think again if you think they’re going to extract more revenue from the rich folks and corporations who already hire the smartest and costliest accountants.
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In retrospect it didn’t take long at all for the @bariweiss Substack to become more interesting than the offerings of her last employer
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Wow. “Mask mandates and use are not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread among US states.”
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The Senate basically dumped 200 years of standards because an extremely junior but extremely rich Democratic senator had a branding problem if forced to dress like a white-collar worker.
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