Andrew McCarthy

Principal, @FenwayStrat. Former speechwriter, @KathyHochul, @MikeBloomberg, and @BilldeBlasio. Bostonian in exile. Opinions are my own, for which I apologize.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

FYI. In August of 2025 Trump issued a proclamation that described the Abbey Gate attack in Kabul under Biden (which cost the lives of 13 service members) this way:

“one of the most shameful and heartbreaking moments in our Nation’s collective memory” and an “unimaginable loss of human life.”

https://t.co/tgudtZwfh6

Also in this clip he calls the Iran war a “military conflict” but then proceeds to compare it to other wars.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

JD Vance’s personality must be so nervous right now. How much longer before these sleuths identify the main culprit?

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: "JD VANCE’S POLITICAL OPERATION is growing increasingly annoyed by what it sees as a brewing plot to sabotage the vice president’s chances of winning the 2028 GOP presidential nomination"

https://t.co/Gy6Yh8YE2u

via @JakeLahut

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Canadian firefighters poured into New York after 9/11 to help with search and recovery efforts. 159 Canadians died fighting on behalf of the US in Afghanistan. This crap from the White House is stupid and embarrassing and shameful, and long-term will hurt the US the most.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Words cannot express how evil this operation is. People are being targeted by ICE not because they are criminals, or fraudsters, or bad people, but because Stephen Miller and the mass deportation fanatics demand videos of Black people in chains.

Today a PASTOR was arrested.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

Hilariously absurd pearl-clutching from two people who owe their entire careers (and marriage!) to appearing on two of the most debaucherous and overtly-liberal seasons of The Real World.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Sean Duffy tells his daughter she cannot go to Harvard because they have "professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds"

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

Sox, kid

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

Lol. The "counterterrorism analyst" here also wrote a book titled 'Unmasking Antifa.'

I don't know who was unmasked (so weird it wasn't national news), but I assume they would've gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids... and that dog, too!

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

SENATOR CRUZ: Does the Muslim Brotherhood also partner with the Democratic Socialists of America?

COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST: Yes sir they do.

Welp… there you have it.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

If I see one more person with a culturally-Catholic name fear-mongering about Sharia Law on this hellsite, I might actually lose my mind. It's no different than the "will they answer to the Vatican or the American people" bullshit our people dealt with. And they know it.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

By his own logic, we're left with no choice but to conclude that Rafael (Ted) Cruz, of Cuban descent, is a communist sleeper agent. See how stupid, hypocritical, and transparently Islamophobic this is? God he sucks.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cruz: They want to cancel Thanksgiving, they want to cancel Christmas. El-Sayed is also an Islamist, as is Mamdani. They want Sharia law.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

There are only blue cities, because no one who lives in a major city trusts republicans to run one, due to their complete disinterest in competent governance. Their A team can't even successfully install a pool liner.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump on Blue Cities: But what else do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy dirty. The streets are dirty. The streets smell. The storefronts are broken. The trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. And I don’t want to mention any specific city. It’s really all of them. You go into these cities that are blue… they’re filthy and disgusting.

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

They’re doing it again!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sorry, what? 1971 and 1972? Is this a joke?

Here's what a 2024 study by the Justice Department’s own research arm found - that the Trump DOJ then deleted from its website: far-right attacks “outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” and since 1990, “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I wrote a year ago, watch the actions of the Trump admin through the eyes of someone who has watched democracy turn into autocracy. Centralizing election authority, expanding federalized troops and putting them in the streets, cracking down on the press. It's not original.

[Allegra Rosenberg @llegrarosenberg]

this is really huge for people obsessed with the history of antarctic exploration circa 1910-12

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

Hmmm I wonder if this is written by a middle-aged white guy who's big mad that the Museum of *American History* has exhibits about slavery.

(It is. Of course it is.)

[NY Post Opinion @NYPostOpinion]

Free the Smithsonian — and our history — from America-hating elites https://t.co/THmzslkzRN

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

The USMNT is playing like they spent half of matchday answering questions about an international controversy.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

I promise it’s ok to hold these two thoughts at the same time:

Stoked about Balogun. Would walk through fire for this team. Hell yeah America etc.

The corruption president maybe strong arming the guy who gave him a fake peace prize is, uh, not a great look.

Nuance is allowed!

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

MLS should take advantage of a successful World Cup by:

- Merging with USL
- Ending the common ownership aspects of the league
- Adopting pro/rel, with parachute payments to get current franchise owners on board
- Eliminating the salary cap so that clubs can buy the best players

Let American capitalism make it the best league in the world.

[Andrew McCarthy @_ajmccarthy]

Shhhhhhhh, no sudden movements everyone, these morons might actually do the Romney/Ryan thing again

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Musk: Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker.