Platner: "Susan Collins has voted to send billions of our taxpayer dollars to fund other people's wars. How do you justify closing hospitals in Maine while using our tax dollars to destroy them halfway across the world? If you reflect Maine's values, why are you funding masked agents ... "
Bari Weiss is holed up in her private CBS suite, inaccessible to staff and surrounded by a few handpicked sycophants, such as the former NYT Chik Fil A sandwich guy.
Normal, competent editors do not act this way.
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Credit where it’s due: Steyer did the right thing.
He conceded, endorsed Xavier Becerra, and urged his supporters to unite against Trump’s handpicked candidate.
That’s what putting California first looks like.
Now it’s time to win November. 💥
An excellent read.
a) she's been having a years-long breakdown in public
b) people having breakdowns are not all hate-mongering bigots as a result and that is still on her
c) I hope she gets the help she very obviously needs, which includes repentance.
Thank you, Trump voters.
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FWIW, I got to know Nancy Mace pretty well when I got back into reporting after being an editor. She was always fairly conservative, albeit somewhat heterodox. But I realized her outright transphobia and otherwise increasingly unhinged behavior sort of happened in tandem.