Nick Rider

Coastal Elitism™ is a state of mind.

[Joe Kristol @JoeKristol]

It is disgraceful that an Afghan interpreter who served honorably with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines in Sangin — one of the most dangerous deployments of the war — is being denied a Special Immigrant Visa. We must do better.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

The news that one prominent Member of the incoming GOP majority publicly declared she would have run a more effective, better armed insurrection is obscuring the revelation that another Member of the incoming majority urged Trump to impose "marshall law" to overturn the election.

[Nick Rider @NRider]

@mikesamonek @RightWingCope Are we sure it isn’t satire? Some of his tweets feel so insanely over the top that even after everything we’ve seen in the last few years, I can’t bring myself to believe it’s sincere… Poe’s law is messing with my head.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

I don’t have it in me to comment much on this Twitter Files farce - but it’s really striking how all these supposedly scandalous “revelations” have either been public knowledge - or make the old Twitter regime look eminently reasonable: People trying, in difficult circumstances.

[Jimmy Conrad @JimmyConrad]

Never let the same guy take two penalties in the same game.

[Nick Rider @NRider]

Somewhere, CR7 is watching this sequence and thinking, “psssht… Why didn’t Messi just fire off a shot 4 feet over the crossbar, then frustratedly smack his thigh, cuss, yell “God, why?!?!” Then turn around and sulk back down the field?”

[R.D. Football Scout @RdScouting]

Messi, Molina, beauty.

[Nashville SC @NashvilleSC]

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[Nick Rider @NRider]

A really great piece with a bunch of good points. A quick read. Highly recommend.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"For seven years, the right has been explaining, excusing, avoiding, and eventually cheering the most morally depraved figure in American politics. That takes a toll on the psyche." https://t.co/CoAvVhzBpw

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this chyron is like something from one of those 2016 thought experiments about how bad a Trump presidency could be

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

I'll just note that as Taibbi and Glem accuse other outlets of ignoring this MAJOR story, Matt and Glem constantly ignore actual major stories, ones which they commented on a ton in the past, when the outcomes do not fit their narratives. https://t.co/P1HlFNNUjW

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Here's from Taibbi's latest circle-jerk substack:

"This story couldn't have appeared in a legacy publication." Right, b/c a legacy publication with editors would have never published such a sloppy, innuendo-filled mess, because their goal isn't to help RW narratives, like Matt.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

First, give it to a partisan outlet that won't do any fact-checking and will spin it how you want. 2nd, refuse any other outlet. 3rd, cry MSM MEDIA CENSORSHIP!

It's almost as if...this is all an organized play by a bunch of RW partisans. No....couldn't be.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Ironically enough, this is the exact same play that they did with the actual Hunter Biden 'laptop' the first go around.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

How long did Twitter keep in place its ban on linking to the NY Post article about Hunter's laptop?

[Nicholas Grossman @NGrossman81]

Team Trump spent years setting up Hunter Biden as Hillary’s Emails 2.0.
Literally years. Even blocked legally allocated military aid to Ukraine to extort Zelensky into helping, which looks even worse now.
And it flopped.
That, still, is why they’re so upset about it.
Good thread.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🎯 If you’re still confused what’s going on with the #TwitterFiles and the @elonmusk attempt to make Hunter’s laptop a thing again, @Timodc sums it up perfectly here👇🏽 https://t.co/gOyYlX4TWw

[Will Steakin @wsteaks]

"That's a remarkable statement…You just said you'd support a candidate who's come out for suspending the Constitution."

[Dan Cluchey @dancluchey]

This wholly anodyne Taibbi thread is unwitting evidence of a much bigger bummer: every day, American conservatives seem to sink deeper into a dirtscape of utter nonsense — of gibberish code words and inscrutable signals that mean nothing to normal people.

[Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin @JRubinBlogger]

THIS is the problem: Supports someone who subverts Constitution and pals with White nationalists. Exhibit 9999 why GOP is beyond repair.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

Clint Dempsey said it -- but the USMNT 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 needs to find a way to get involved in elite tournaments moving forward.

We need to find a way into 2024 Copa América.

Gold Cups and CONCACAF Nations League just aren't going to cut it if we want to get to where we want to be.