Richard Whittaker

Award-winning journalist and reviewer.
Rotten Tomatoes critic.
Vice-president, Austin Film Critics Association.
Yes, I married above me.

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

OK sports fans, so this is my last bulletin for my position at @LosAngelesTimes. I resigned yesterday in protest of the paper's and owner's cozying up to Trump. Here's my explanation on my substack, where you can still follow me going forward.

https://t.co/L2XzOg5YXv

[zou bisou bisou where are you @lilgrapefruits]

Constantly juggling a beautiful diva, a kindhearted girl-next-door, and a sexually tense male friendship… none of us could ever understand an archie comic the way he does

[SKLOSS @SKLOSSDUO]

Cracking review of the new single and music video Thanks @YorkshireTX at the @AustinChronicle x

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@caryn_coleman Can you DM me?

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

Dear @caryn_coleman, please, please, please bring THE GRADUATES to Austin. You are a hero for getting this timely, beautiful movie out there. Number three in my annual list of Top 10 Festival Films You Haven’t Seen Yet for 2023. https://t.co/3DuVDUAzF6

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@arsetechnica @evan7257 These clowns are not spending money on infrastructure.

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

My deepest sympathy to @evan7257 because there's no way there'll be an Ike Dyke in our lifetime with this incoming administration (meaning the likelihood of there being a Texas coast in our lifetime is also a lot lower).

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@Noahpinion I spent years pointing out to Texas Dems that you can't expect a demographic with that many Catholics to automatically be progressive or great on women's rights, especially reproductive rights.

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@Forrest4Trees @mkerrhardy You put him on the cover looking like an affable uncle at checkouts around the state. Where was the comparable Allred coverage?

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

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[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@Forrest4Trees @mkerrhardy You lost your way, Forrest. You've been the frog in the pan for too long.

[KYLIE RAE @IamKylieRae]

Please tell me how there’s not glass ceilings for women.

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

Don’t ask whose fault this was. Plenty of time for second-guessing and recriminations. Ask instead, what can you do? For my part, that means telling the truth as I see it, as long as I can. The media will be under a lot of pressure to toe the line; don’t capitulate in advance

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@mspark HP Sauce.

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

Americans: British people hate food that tastes of anything.

Meanwhile, on board a regular British train, the in-seat menu ...

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

Americans are shockingly blind to the stranglehold the Catholic Church has had on SCOTUS for decades.

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

Holy Hell. JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, told the Napa Institute in 2021 that Dominic Legge was the first priest w/ whom he discussed converting. This matters bc Legge sits on the board of the Napa Legal Institute where Leonard Leo is a director! 1/ #LeoPuppet

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've worked in campaigns for a long time, and known so many operatives in both parties.

There has never been a collection of just awful human beings assembled around one candidate like the Trump campaign. Here you have a 42 year old obese incel @TheStevenCheung, who never did anything of note in politics before the Trump garbage truck picked him up, writing stuff you'd find on a bathroom wall at a truck stop.

Like deadbeat dad Jason Miller, Lewandowski, Bannon. The whole crew. All of these people tried to work in presidential politics before 2016 and no one would come near them.

These same freaks will surround Trump if he wins. And they are one of the reasons he will lose.

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@goodst3r @TheRealGameGod @AOC @juandalmauPR Shut it, sock puppet, the humans are talking.

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@davidehrlich If we're at the "makes Wonka look good" stage then we're all in trouble.

[Richard Whittaker @YorkshireTX]

@politico How are you so bad at this?