Tony at Desk

Marketing Director @palantirtech Former Advertising Lead @NBA MBA from @harvard #GoPackGo

[22 U.S.C. § 2304 @RefrmDemocracy]

Susan Collins voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh despite accusations of sexual assault far more credible and corroborated than this. End of discussion.

[Andrew Mercado @AndrewMercado]

I’ve seen more liberal influencers and Democrats talking about Graham Platner and fucking Hasan Piker for the past week instead of the New Jersey problem and it’s wild to me

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@PatrickSvitek @EricMGarcia Hell ya

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

BREAKING: LITERAL PEDOPHILES IN THE EPSTEIN FILES SAY GRAHAM PLATNER WAS A BAD BOYFRIEND TO (SOME) OF HIS EX'S

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@capitolhunters He’s going on MSNOW. Campaign spox denials aren’t where truth is found haha

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@RichGuineaPig @leftist_lawyer @SteveCollinsSJ He doesn’t have one

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

when the New York Times interview Ken Paxton’s former partners?

[Nαтe Blαncнeтт @NateBlanchett]

Running for office for 10 months. No scandals. No turmoil. Just 1 man who loves Mainers and is destined to be their next Senator.

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@NateBlanchett This one got me

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@JaredLPatterson Loser

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@campaignmarcher @DRBoguslaw Doesn’t really prove it since it’s from a Republican operative

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@NYMag It’ll tide over

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@andrewwdz @NYMag Says the heritage foundation social media manager

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Video of Anna Paulina Luna in 2019 putting her hand on a staffer while shouting at Kamala Harris at an airport

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@Ally_Sammarco Is this the chick that works for heritage foundation

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@PollTracker2024 Nothing burger

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW : Epstein survivors blast Todd Blanche following hearing in front of the House.

“Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ cannot continue to claim it is protecting victims while refusing to meet with survivors, failing to explain what it has done with their evidence, and dismissing legitimate outrage as hysteria.”

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@adammocklerr @MuellerSheWrote @NYCMayor Hell ya!

[Tony at Desk @NotTony_Hawk]

@zeteo_news @David_J_Bier @mehdirhasan @patrickbetdavid The difference between you and I is, I have cognitive dissonance on my side