Tommy Vietor
@TVietor08
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Former Obama NSC staff, cohost Pod Save America, Pod Save the World @crookedmedia
Joined June 2010
Last month, my daughter Margot was stillborn at 6 months. On yesterday's @PodSaveAmerica, I talked about grief, healing, and the need for people - especially men - to talk more openly about miscarriage and loss. Here's the clip. Hope it helps someone else:
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The look on Tracy Chapman's face when the crowd realizes its her.
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This is pretty fucked up. The issue with Andrew Tate isn’t that he said something offensive or the result of cancel culture. It’s allegations of assault and human trafficking, many of which appear to be backed up by videos or his own statements.
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This fall, from the party that brought you LOCK HER UP, comes How Dare the FBI Investigate Politicians. .
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Tried to help my mom find and reset the wifi. Didn’t go great…
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Yesterday, Hanna & I lost our baby daughter. Tragically, cruelly, this was not our first miscarriage. Before, we suffered privately. This time, we want to share and honor our beautiful girl, and for others who’ve been through this to know you’re not alone.
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During quarantine, my dog has used a combination of intense sitting and adorable staring to bargain her dinner time down from 5 to 330. It’s now 2:50. hold the line, Tommy. Hold the line.
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Every five years or so Mark Zuckerberg makes Facebook policy changes and does an interview where he acts like he’s a newborn baby who just appeared on earth and has no understanding or ownership over what came before. But this time, he’s styled like Drake’s molly dealer.
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My wife and I had multiple, soul-crushing miscarriages, and one still born daughter before we were able to have children. Millions of parents are desperate to have kids but simply can't. Treating people without children like they are lesser human beings is unbelievably cruel.
Political leaders should have children. Certainly they should at least be married. If you aren’t running or can’t run a household of your own, how can you relate to a constituency of families, or govern wisely with respect to future generations? Skin in the game matters
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Jesus Christ Trump is signing an EO specifically designed to punish one person, Miles Taylor, who wrote a critical book of him. The EO strips Taylor of his security clearance and directs DOJ to investigate him. This is the most authoritarian shit imaginable.
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@GovMikeHuckabee Remember when your sociopath son murdered a stray dog and then you fired the head of the Arkansas state police because he wouldn’t help you cover it up? Good stuff, Mike.
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For those keeping score at home. Things that WILL NOT get you expelled from the TN state legislature:.- child molestation.- domestic violence.- federal investigation.- peeing on your colleague's chair. Things that will:.- fighting to protect kids from gun violence.
Wow: Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, one of the Dems that the GOP is trying to expel from state legislature to protesting gun violence, calls out his colleagues on the floor. ‘For years, one of your colleagues, an admitted child molester, sat in this chamber – no expulsion’
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Trump's NABJ interview was a great example of why calling the guy weird is so effective. He wants to look like a strongman. He loves when we build him up. But the reality is he's a petulant little bitch who can't get through an interview without flipping out.
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Trump says BANNING vaccines is on the table??? Not getting rid of vaccine mandates, actually BANNING the vaccines themselves for diseases like polio and measles? That is batshit crazy.
On RFK Jr. and vaccines:. DASHA: Do you think banning certain vaccines might be on the table?.TRUMP: Well I'm going to talk to him and talk to other people, and I'll make a decision, but he's a very talented guy and has strong views.
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These MAGA protestors violently storming the capitol are, quite literally, terrorists. This is the definition of terrorism.
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The Obamas are going to sign Amanda Gorman to a Netflix deal before she leaves the stage.
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Trump has a briefing room and press corps to himself. He is the least censored man on the planet.
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When you were warned to take half but you wanted the full edible
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@RichardEngel The way you tweet about whether the US and NATO should engage in a full-on war against a nuclear-armed super power is shockingly glib. It's not as simple as "watch in silence as it rolls" or not. The stakes are risking nuclear annihilation.
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I will never get over the fact that Jared Kushner got a $2 billion kickback from the Saudi government right after leaving the White House, and democrats in Congress can't seem to muster the will to investigate it.
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Today is a reminder that 99% of Trump's interviews are with Fox News or other pliant, right-wing media outlets. Whenever he gets pressed by a real reporter he loses his shit.
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ICE is arresting third graders, handcuffing them and putting them in detention with adult criminals.
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NYT on how Elon Musk is trying to buy the election for Trump:.- Spending $140-180MM on Trump super PAC.- Twitter coordinating with the Trump camp to throttle links to leaked campaign documents.- Musk rallying other billionaires to support Trump.- Musk temporarily moving to PA.
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Trump attacking HR.1 at length shows how important it is to pass it immediately. The entire GOP comeback strategy hinges on voter suppression and gerrymandering and is enabled by democratic senators who are more worried about senate tradition than democracy.
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Hard to believe that only two months ago we endured five straight days of election night coverage.
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Because an assistant coach is referred to as coach you fucking dork.
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Don’t miss my comments on how conservative voices are being silenced on Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, The Federalist, The Washington Examiner, Fox Business, Sinclair, The Daily Caller, RedState, The Daily Wire, National Review, The American Spectator, Town Hal.
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Assistant coaches are still coaches you dumb fuck.
Walz was an ASSISTANT Coach, not a COACH. Donald Trump Truth Social 10:36 PM EST 08/22/24 @realDonaldTrump.
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Kamala Harris has the chance to make the funniest VP selection ever.
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Lindsey Graham is the ultimately Washington shapeshifter. He sucked up to McCain when that got him press. He kissed Trump's ass and repeated his lies when that gave him power. Now he's pretending to be reasonable. It's an act. No one should take @LindseyGrahamSC seriously.
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JD Vance lies a lot, but this is bad even for him. - No US tax dollars were sent to Iran. Iranian funds frozen in South Korea were transferred to Qatar. - That money can only be spent on humanitarian supplies. - NONE of the funds have even been spent yet.
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Not one question at that press conference about covid. What a ridiculous failure by the press corps to focus on the issue that the vast majority of Americans care about most.
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Oprah's about to tell us there's a democracy under our seat.
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You should not trust anything that @elonmusk or the DOGE team says about spending cuts or savings. They're liars or incompetent or both.
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Everyone in LA is terrified right now and trying to figure out what to do, where to go, and how to keep their kids safe from fire and smoke. Our president-elect's response is to launch another stupid political attack and pretend that the governor can stop the Santa Ana Winds.
President-elect Trump goes after Gov. Gavin Newsom over LA wildfires
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I am hopelessly biased but Barack and Michelle Obama are generational talents and those two speeches nearly tore the roof off the United Center. Hell of a night for the Harris/Walz campaign.
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These fucking assholes lecture and condescend to Zelensky and then fluff Putin at every possible opportunity. Absolutely disgraceful.
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Well that settles it.
Press Sec clarifies that Elon Musk will self-determine when there is a conflict of interest involving him and DOGE.
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Frustrating to watch Sunday show segments about the impending surge of covid cases and how much states needs relief, followed by pearl clutching about bipartisanship. No one cares if the legislative process makes Susan Collins sad! They want a vaccine. They need to pay rent.
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My takeaway from this speech is that this guy is beatable we just have to get our shit together.
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Give Elon Musk money or else you will be prosecuted is just a classic limited government, free market principle.
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It is not late in the hurricane season we are in the middle of hurricane season. This kind of comment would be treated as a political disaster for any other candidate, but somehow Trump says idiotic shit like this all the time and it just gets lost.
Trump: Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it’s so late in the season for hurricanes
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This was a huge fuckup by Hegseth. There's no walking back his initial comments that Ukraine won't join NATO or gain back all the territory lost since 2014. He wrote Putin a big check that has already been cashed. Maybe don't make an unqualified Fox News host @SecDef?.
BREAKING: @SecDef walks back his statement yesterday that a negotiated settlement is not likely to end with Ukraine in @NATO: "These negotiations are led by @realDonaldTrump. Everything is on the table. In his conversations with Vladimir Putin and Zelensky, what he decides to.
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I personally think having a Ketamine-addled billionaire oligarch deciding which bills get passed by Congress is a great way to run the government.
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It’s hard to take Megan McCain’s complaints about civility seriously knowing that she’s married to this guy
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@mehdirhasan When you get past the islamaphobia, the racism, and the horrifying conspiracy theories, you are still left with the scary reality that she is a complete and total idiot.
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I have now lost count of how many DOGE "savings" turned out to be completely made up, but @elonmusk taking credit for contracts that ended during the BUSH ADMINISTRATION is still some impressive lying.
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Ted Cruz retweeted a Russian propaganda video and called the US military weak. That's how he thinks you appeal to the republican base in 2021. Truly bizarre.
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Biden stole the man’s signature move in his old office. Vicious.
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This is a frustratingly bad decision by Pelosi.
PELOSI rejects calls to ban lawmakers and spouses from trading stocks, reports @HouseInSession.
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Speaker Johnson is all fucked up about when to clap and when to roll his eyes. Do I like Putin? Did I enjoy the insurrection?.
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Walz's story about "the hell of infertility" straight to the cut shot of his proud kids crying made everyone in our studio tear up.
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Enraging the most rabid fan base on the internet is a strange political decision
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BREAKING: Unemployed racist delivers remarks to cult gathering.
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Congrats to Nicole for burning nearly $20 million on RFK jr’s campaign to end up as a Trump surrogate. What value!.
I’m not a Kamala Democrat. I’m not a Trump Republican.I’m an INDEPENDENT American who is endorsing ideas, not a person or a party. I will continue working to give a voice to the voiceless and bring power back to the people.
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Chinese Communist Party running ads for Trump on TikTok
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This is incredibly dangerous rhetoric. Half of Gaza's population is kids. Your position can't be that Hamas is worse than ISIS, but also that there are no innocent civilians because a bunch of women and children should have risen up and defeated them. That is madness.
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Not often you get to see a presidential candidate self-immolate live on stage! A day we'll remember for a long, long time.
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Summary of Ted Cruz's speech:. [Ted throws his own feces around the room]. "39% of Americans think this room smells like shit. That's a problem.".
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Publicly demanding a cover up of a Republican-led ethics investigation into the Attorney General nominee doesn’t suggest much confidence that it will exonerate Gaetz.
NEW : Mike Johnson urges Ethics panel to not release report on Matt Gaetz, an unprecedented move since investigation is supposed to be separate from speaker’s office.“I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report" Johnson tells @alisonkmain.
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All of America is going frame by frame through foreign oscars footage like the Zapruder film.
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Viktor Orban's speech Saturday caused his own adviser to resign and label the remarks a "purely Nazi diatribe worth of Joseph Goebbels" and yet CPAC won't disinvite him from their event in Dallas next week.
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Jen Psaki handled economic issues when we got to the White House in 2009. She briefed from the podium at the State Department. She later became the White House communications director. There's literally no one better prepared for the @PressSec job and it shows.
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It's long-past time to stop pretending that the Supreme Court is some kind of virtuous entity that floats above politics and rules on the merits. Congress needs to put in place stringent ethics rules and be honest about the fact that our courts are full of partisan hacks, too.
In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case. #SCOTUS.
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I've watched 23 minutes of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant coverage and just googled IAEA for the first time. Some thoughts:🧵(1/48).
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We probably disagree on like 75% of policy issues, but I have enormous respect for @AdamKinzinger. He has shown guts and character at a time when most anti-Trump republicans bent the knee put their careers ahead of the country, and he is a smart, decent human being.
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Pretty sure the shameful day was electing the guy who had to cover up fucking the adult film star because he was scared he'd lose.
My statement on President Trump trial verdict: . Today is a shameful day in American history. Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges, predicated on the testimony of a disbarred, convicted felon. This was a purely political.
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Blood on your hands @HawleyMO you preening, blow-dried piece of shit.
From our Francis Chung, Sen. Josh Hawley greeting protesters in the east side of the Capitol before riots began.
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The “you will not replace us” chants in Charlottesville were based on the great replacement theory. The El Paso shooter, a 21-year-old white man who killed 22 people, mentioned it in his manifesto. The Christ Church shooter cited it. This is dark, dark stuff.
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When Texas needs his help, @tedcruz heads to Cancun. When no one wants his ass in Israel, he’s on the next flight there.
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Trump is taking the bait EVERY TIME. Wasting breath defending his crowd size and whining that people aren't bored at his rallies. THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS!!!.
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thank god people in chicago finally have an excuse to day drink.
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Pete Hegseth fucked up the biggest foreign policy issue on his plate on his first foreign trip. Tell me again how this cabinet is a meritocracy?.
With regard to Ukraine's potential membership in NATO, SecDef Hegseth now says “everything is on the table” when it comes to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and that he is "not going to stand and declare what President Trump will do or won't do, what will be in or what.
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The RNC attacking Joe Biden for petting a dog that’s been searching a disaster site for human remains is one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen in politics.
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An "urgent message for the residents of Gaza" telling them to relocate from north to south, delivered in English after Israel cut off Gaza's telecommunications and internet networks. Just a completely cynical PR move for western audiences.
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I remember being so happy when Bill O'Reilly got booted off of Fox News, and then we got Tucker. Anyway, happy trails, Lou. Seek help.
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New Jersey just got a huge upgrade.
Andy Kim wins New Jersey Senate race to fill Bob Menendez's old seat
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I think that was the best speech I’ve seen @POTUS give as president. This is a huge moment in history and he needed to project strength and unity and absolutely delivered.
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USAID is filled with idealistic people who work long hours, often in dangerous places, to save lives. Debate policy or spending levels all you want, but calling them evil or claiming that they hate America is truly disgraceful.
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He went into his pre-programmed, practiced-in-front-of-mirror pose for kid asking questions. And then he got stuck there.
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CNN is airing an interview with John fucking Bolton and letting him assert with no evidence that Iran directed the timing of the Hamas attack. Bolton has no access to intelligence besides the newspaper. Zero lessons learned from the Iraq war propaganda disaster.
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Tfw the Molly hits and you forgot you had to testify before Congress
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Kamala Harris wins the debate and gets Taylor Swift's endorsement. Not a bad night.
Oh! Taylor Swift endorses @KamalaHarris at debate’s conclusion … with a photo of her with her cat, no less.
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🚨Some personal news. I've accepted an opportunity working on a campaign in NC. Mark, my new boss, is a creative communicator willing to personally engage with voters on message boards & other non-traditional fora. He's close with his family, especially his wife's sister (1/11).
Mark Robinson’s campaign staff had the integrity to flee. NC Republicans don’t. | Opinion
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People realize Macron's coalition lost 100 seats, right? He called elections early, lost 100 seats, but the far-left and the center wisely came together to encourage candidates to strategically drop out of races to defeat the far-right. .
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Every rare utterance from Jared Kushner reminds you of what an arrogant, insufferable little shit he is.
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Try these words: “I’m sorry about all the ways I have profited off of and enabled Trump”.
I don't have the words for my anger.
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Signature match is antiquated and stupid and from an era when people signed physical checks all the time. It's insane that we are using this "technology" in 2024.
Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:. “It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures.
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I know there are a lot of @Yankees fans out there who are sad and angry today, and I just wanted to say…good. Your team sucks. You deserve it.
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The WaPo endorsing Harris would move exactly zero voters her way, but still lol at this cowardly shit from the crew that brought us "democracy dies in darkness".
Washington Post's announcement: "The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.".
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