Paul Stelter

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@jonfavs @mkhammer If he didn't have any tattoos, the Beltway media would hate him just for this. x.com/TheTNHoller/st…

I don’t know, you strike me as someone smart enough to know that a good test as to whether someone is sympathetic to Nazis is if they’ve ever said a single word in their entire life that could be construed as sympathetic to Nazis. But I guess the story you’d have us believe is this: a group of American marines, who risked their lives for this country, decided to get skull and crossbones tattoos together in their 20s that they all knew were Nazi symbols. Then they all kept their actual Nazi sympathies hidden for the next decade, a time when Platner frequently took his shirt off in front of his Jewish family, who I suppose either didn’t care about his Nazi sympathies or didn’t recognize the symbol you claim is extremely obvious. And then Platner, who was clearly not shy about expressing all kinds of views on Reddit, especially all the offensive shit he now regrets, somehow managed to keep his Nazi sympathies hidden from the world, as did his Nazi-sympathizing Marine friends who got the same tattoo. Yes, this makes sense. You cracked it for sure. Bravo. Congrats on being smarter than all those rubes in Maine who’ve fallen for the secret Nazi’s cover story.

I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate and someone noticed. It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to suggest otherwise. Sorry, his Medicare thoughts from last week are not permanent body art or absolution.

@OmarJimenez @pressfreedom File under: "stories you won't hear once Bari Weiss takes over"

This World Press Freedom Day comes after the deadliest year for journalists and media workers on record globally since @pressfreedom started tracking this decades ago. It's a profession that has become increasingly dangerous and one for which too many lives have been taken.

Yes, we have less cards 😎

@BenjaminPDixon screenshots like this are why we can never quit Twitter

The nation is split

@brianstelter When a President AOC pardons Luigi Mangione, then Republicans can complain about violence.

"I don’t think we fully appreciate how much the country is descending into political violence. We aren’t seeing the speed and pitch of the descent." wsj.com/opinion/how-no…

@thesnlnetwork can't unsee it

Kash Patel 👀 Aziz Ansari #SNL

@PollTracker2024 Because if there's anything Frank has always hated, it's...identity politics. 🙃

NYP: Dying ex-Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) delivers stark warning from hospice about Democrats swinging too far left “It’s precisely because I have been on the left that I have undertaken this,” Frank told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “Many of us fought to get inequality on the Democratic agenda.” “But the problem was, as we succeeded in bringing the mainstream of the left into a concern with inequality, we also enabled people who wanted to use that as a platform for a wide range of social and cultural changes, some of which the public isn’t ready for.” nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-…

@LeadingReport "Like that gay marriage thing -- no one supports that!"

Former Rep. Barney Frank, who is in hospice care, warns Democrats against swinging too far to the left on social issues—and says it will cost them voters.

@MythoMAGA be glad Portishead got better

Ok, whether you’re pro- or anti-Epstein, I think there’s one thing we can all agree on: This photo goes hard as hell. They look like they’re about to drop the most revolutionary synth pop album of all time.

@CNNSOTU Yes he's utterly confused, but let's blame it on the drugs and just let him go in peace.

Former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank has a message for progressives as he enters hospice: "I think they make a mistake by taking the most controversial parts of the agenda and turning them into a litmus test."

my culture is not your costume

@CNNSOTU @jaketapper Odd that the media hadn't cared about Barney Frank for years until he started bashing "the left" 🤨 (defined, as usual, as anyone the DNC donors don't like)

TODAY on #CNNSOTU at @jaketapper ➡U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro ➡Former Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank ➡North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis ➡Former Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler., Former Rep. Conor Lamb, Nayyera Haq and Shermichael Singleton Tune in on 📺 @CNN, 🌎🌍🌏 @cnni, 🎧📻 @Audacy, @tunein, @SIRIUSXM Ch. 116 & 🖥️💻📲 cnn.com/GO!

@FareedZakaria @CNN Bari Weiss isn't done reviewing it?

an update: My latest @CNN documentary, “The Imperial Presidency,” will air at a later date. We will keep you posted

@tparsi Is this is actually created by the Iranian government, and if so who did they get to write the lyrics?

WOW! The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out. They are doubling down on building bridges between Americans & Iranians while depicting the US gov and "system" as the real enemy. The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.

@ggreenwald That's classic "whataboutism" though: all of those people are horrible excuses for human beings, albeit in slightly different ways. You <can> criticize the NYT for treating politicians with deference because they don't want to alienate their sources.

The NYT interviewed Tucker Carlson and pressed him on why he had Nick Fuentes on and wasn't more aggressive, to which Tucker replied: the NYT and its ilk talk to and treat with deference infinitely far worse people, like Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Randy Fine, Netanyahu etc. What wars has Fuentes started? Who has he killed? Which babies have his policies extinguished? The NYT sought a reply from Cruz, who has has spent more time in the last 18 months thinking and talking about Tucker Carlson than anyone in the world possibly including Tucker's own family. In response, Cruz -- with characteristic self-awareness -- chided the NYT for platforming someone who doesn't matter:

Trump on US Navy Seizing Ships: It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates.

@jaketapper None of this, of course, will stop the media from their brow-furrowing about how Democrats threaten "civility."

The president posted this about House Democratic Leader Jeffries shortly after 11 pm last night.

@amanpour Pretty sure the "fight" was lost a while ago. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/09/isr…

On #TheAmanpourHour this week: •Fmr. US-Iran negotiator Wendy Sherman & analyst Vali Nasr on where the Iran war is headed; •Czech President Petr Pavel tells me what Trump needs to hear from Europe; •Fmr. Israeli diplomat Colette Avital on the fight for the soul of her nation.