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Tony Clark

@anthonyclark.bsky.social

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Writer. Former senior Hill staffer, consultant, and campaign staffer; and executive branch civil servant, contractor, and volunteer. More than just the NARA / presidential libraries / presidential and federal records guy.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d

*DEVELOPING*: I've updated my scoop with previously unreported details about the State Dept. staffer who requested the sword, NARA's response, and that the gift Trump gave King Charles III wasn't even a replica of Eisenhower's West Point Officer's Sabre:
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

I know the sword was the hook, but don't sleep on the land deal.

Jim Byron didn't fire Dr. Arrington after the sword, but after he told his staff about Jim's plan to allow a private organization to construct its building on public land.

If that's on the up and up, why is telling staff fireable? 🤔

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

They intentionally fire crucial people

There's a giant backlash

Oops they didn't intend to fire them

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

Saw someone else (an attorney, no less) with an even larger account claim that "literally anyone" federal or state law has authorized to administer oaths (they even said a "notary" 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️) could swear her in once the state certifies the election—and I didn't reply.

(Ed. Note: No; of course not.)

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 10h

Proud of myself: I saw a ~large account complaining that House Dems haven't asked a federal judge to swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva—and I didn't reply.

No A1S5; no that's not how it works, not even after certification; no do you think if it was possible they wouldn't already have done it?

💪😃

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 11h

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American actress Diane Keaton goes for a walk in New York, New York, circa 1975. (Photo by Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images)

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 15h

The truth is that the Qatari plane will be transferred not to the nonexistent Trump presidential library, but to the private Trump Foundation—which is under no obligation to build anything, much less a library, nor to display the plane there (or anywhere).

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 17h

"Today, Tom Homan stood up t̶o̶ ̵ [in the vicinity of] his critics!"

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 19h

They keep leaving out an essential preposition, "at", which completely changes the meaning of the sentence from a self-aggrandizing lie to a banal truth: She stared down AT protesters. Big deal. What next, "Steven Miller looked out of a window"? "RFK Jr examined his fingernails"?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 18h

Interested to know what you think he got wrong with that story.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 21h

Sometimes it's a spectacular, brilliantly lit, cloud-breaking sun sinking into the ocean horizon, and sometimes it's just the way the setting sun lights some wildflowers on a trail.

A bright, focused setting sun peeka through the trees to backlight some wild yellow coneflowers along a trail.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

If we survive this as a country and we don't hold every one of these people accountable we will not have survived this as a country.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 23h

In the last four years, I've stayed in hundreds of state, county, and municipal campgrounds. Perhaps no more than 10% of the campers had kids; at least 60% had dogs.

100% of the campgrounds had playgrounds (many had more than one).

Only two of the campgrounds—not two percent; two—had dog parks.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 23h

I read this as "federal employees in programs, divisions, and departments we believe are associated with Democrats' values" (public health, equal justice, clean air and water, safety net, etc.) rather than "federal employees we think are Democrats."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 23h

Conquer freedom?

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Remember: even before the shutdown, too many military families needed public assistance.

"In 2019... 22,000 active-duty service members received SNAP benefits. The rate of food insecurity in the military, at 24% in 2020, far outstripped the national average of 10.5%"
thewarhorse.org/military-foo...

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Jumpin’ Punkin @jumpinpunkin.bsky.social · 1d

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 1d

Bob Ross created thousands of paintings on PBS’s ”The Joy of Painting.” Now, 30 of his works are being sold at auction to benefit public broadcasters suffering under President Trump’s federal funding cuts.

30 Bob Ross Paintings Head to Auction to Support Public Media

The happy little fundraiser will benefit broadcasters affected by Trump’s funding cuts.

hyperallergic.com

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 1d

Exhibit A, even for probationary terminations. Partisan political reasons is one of the few things a probationer can appeal to the MSPB.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

If we survive this as a country and we don't hold every one of these people accountable we will not have survived this as a country.

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Alex Blackwood @alexblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

Friday night massacre at CDC

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

This exclusive club: still just these four.

US President Theodore Roosevelt, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.

US President Woodrow Wilson, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.

US President Jimmy Carter, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

US President Barack Obama, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited pick pic

A still image of Jerry Seinfeld picking his nose, from Season 4, Episode 13 of Seinfeld, "The Pick."

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

And what is "cooler than art thou"?

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Or from the same source where he saw all those 9/11 celebration videos.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited triptych pic

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

1490 - 1500. Grisaille, Oil on oak panel. Museo del Prado

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Dustin 𓅃 @librarydust80.bsky.social · 1d

FOR THE LOVE OF *GOD*, SOMEONE, *ANYONE*, CALL HIS BLUFF.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Would that have included Charlie's later craven, obviously opportunistic "apology" when his popularity flags, only to abandon said "apology" when his fortunes turned around once again?

Or was that just for Glenn to do?