Andrew Egger

White House Correspondent @BulwarkOnline. Christian, husband, dad.

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[Tiana Lowe Doescher @TianaTheFirst]

I’ll just say it because apparently no other Republican will: Howard Lutnick is a threat to national security and his sons are making billions on the backs of American taxpayers, bondholders, and shareholders in way that would make Hunter Biden blush.

[Kevin Seifert @SeifertESPN]

The final — and best — moment of today’s press conference.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

One of the greatest and most haunting poems ever written, by Wilfred Owen:

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Former CIA officer @Mpolymer tells @michaeldweiss about the time foreign intelligence operatives tried to lure him into a honeypot trap.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Wow

[Keith @nagy_minaj]

This is how they’re counting votes in Mississippi and Alaska

[Gabe Fleisher @GabeFleisher]

NEW: Jim Jordan is, empirically, the most ideologically extreme congressional leader in modern history.

I calculated how far to the left or right every recent leader was on a widely used scale of legislator ideology.

Jordan zooms pas any of them: https://t.co/hPjwgiqIhU

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Dems will roll their eyes at the tone here, but I bet it's the last time Garcia tells a podcaster "maybe it's because I'm gay, but pettiness is a thing."

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The case for why Democrats do NOT have to descend into a factional, self-defeating fight over Medicare for All, as brought to you by the smartest health care reporter in the business, @CitizenCohn

https://t.co/Fm4mrkT4C0

[Justin Baragona @justinbaragona]

"Account is not actively managed."

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

@igorbabywizzus I have a very vivid memory of running into him at a Stop the Steal protest on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol in Dec 2020 where he was holding forth to a knot of followers about how important it was that they not trust Dan Crenshaw or listen to his podcast

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

People underrate how strategically Fuentes chases his market share. Back in 2019-20 he saw his attention rivals as guys like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro, so he spent his time going after them. Now it's the motley crew of antisemite influencers. So the message changes a bit.

[David Reaboi @davereaboi]

This is literally the argument I make in my book—and the one I’ve made publicly for the last two years. Wild.

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

I think the reason that the Douthat question works — and the reason that many of his questions on this topic produce surprising resonance on social media — is that he quite genuinely cares about the salvation of the soul of whichever famous person he is currently talking to.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

It’s a nice idea but it’s making me hungry and I am nowhere near the museum. They have no solution for people in my situation

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"For the last six months at least, Trump has been palling around with Huang...All the while knowing it was very possible that everything he said was being passed on to the government of China."

The China chip scandal and more from @BillKristol and @EggerDC: https://t.co/0ox86nXPrJ
https://t.co/0ox86nXPrJ

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

There have been awful cases of teen mental health harms and suicides from chatbots like GPT-4o and Character AI that were sycophantic and misbehaving. But these were all text-based, and extremely rudimentary as “companions”. I’ve talked to many people trying to hold the industry to account for teen safety and almost none are thinking about the coming wave. Completely realistic video avatars are already here, but expensive today and limited to enterprise applications. Within a year or two they will be cheap enough for always-on, ad-supported video companions. What happens then? 

Uptake of AI companions will likely explode — not just the number of users but, more importantly, the time spent per day. Social media levels of compulsive use. I also predict the whole framework of guardrails and safety will prove to be of limited value at dealing with the most widespread negative consequences. Preventing chatbot misbehavior through guardrails is important, but that only protects against serious consequences like self-harm. When the concern is that millions of kids (and adults) are overusing AI companions, losing sleep, wasting time, and displacing real relationships, it doesn’t matter how “safe” the bots' responses are.

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

Total vindication for Atlantisheads

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)

[Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin]

The good news for D’s is they found a winning, unifying message!

The bad news: It may rest on irreconcilable promises on taxes, spending, and inflation

Good to start grappling with this before 2029, @EricLevitz writes

https://t.co/3NEPpdUEAW

[Charles Hilu @charleshilu73]

.@NRO has a makeover! I’m honored to be a part of this new era of a storied institution. Check out our new and improved website at https://t.co/BG85Hc3GOC!