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Tony Clark

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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 · 6d

*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 · 24m

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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 · 4h

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 · 6h

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

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 13h

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 · 7h

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

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 22h

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 · 11h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

Conquer freedom?

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 22h

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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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

Friday night massacre at CDC

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

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?

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

(I'm looking forward to seeing it, in any case. Again, my complaint has nothing to do with that project, but with wrong the notion that Harry Hopkins couldn't carry a limited series. Not only could he, but there's never been a time in our history where we needed his story more than we do right now.)

Panel of photographs of Hopkins with a variety of leaders, and art from his New Deal programs

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

No shade on anyone involved in this.

But I can't get traction for a 12-episode series on the US's greatest civil servant—who pioneered public health, disaster relief, and social work, invented work-relief, created & ran the most successful New Deal programs, and won WWII—yet 4 eps just on Guiteau?

Poster for an upcoming limited series with a photograph of
MATTHEW MACFADYEN as
CHARLES GUITEAU in
DEATHBY LIGHTNING

Page from my pitch bible for "HARRY HOPKINS"

SOURCE REPORTS ON SUBJECT: HOPKINS, HARRY

General George C Marshall, Chief of Staff, US Army: "If it hadn't been for Harry Hopkins, the war would have lasted two years longer - and we might have lost it."
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the World "Thousands and thousands of peopie in the United States owe to Harry Hopkins the chance they had to live again, not on relief, but with the self-respect that cores fros earning one's living."

Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdon "Harry Hopkins' love for the causes of the weak and poor was matched by his passion against tyranny, especially when tyranny was, for the time, triumphant."

Francis Perkins, first female secretary of labor, "Every time I read of a gun going off the way it ought to, and a shipload of soldiers being where they ought to be when they are needed, and when I see the ships come rolling off and the supplies going where they ought to go, I say, 'Bless Harry Hopkins for that.'"

Another page from my pitch bible

SERIES SYNOPSIS
PART I
Harry hopkins rises from poor social worker to become "Assistant President" of the United States. larry develops his organizational genius, motivational talent, and disdain for red tape while fighting poverty and sickness in 1910s New York City slums and leading Red Cross relief in the South during orid War I. One year out of college, he peets, falls in love with, and carries a lungarian Jewish immigrant and co-worker, Ethel Gross. Thirteen years later, he leaves his wife and three sons for his secretary a month before the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Putting aside his family and tinancial worries, harry batties the early years of the Great Depression across New York State.
Through his good friend, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, harry pitches an innovative approach for national reliet to new President Frankiin D. Hoosevelt. ich FDR's go-ahead, liarry institutes his pian and becomes the chief architect and administrator of the New Deal. Norking quickly against great opposition and sniping from businessmen, the wealthy, Republicans, the press, and conservative Democrats - and his chiet rival, Interior Secretary haroid Ickes - harry puts 18 million unemployed Americans to work, rescues thousands of faras and factories, and revitalizes communities across the country. lie spends money on an unprecedented scale, giving people food, jobs, dignity, and hope.
harry iitts the country out of the depression but loses his second wite to breast cancer, as well as his shot at being FDR's hand-picked presidential successor to his own stomach cancer. with war approaching, harry, gravely ill, resigns from the Cabinet and Toves into the Ahive house to spend his remaining days wich the Hoosevelts.
PART立
Harry rallies, wich FDR's support and the best medical care, to become chief architect of the Allied fight against the Axis Powers. Facing opposition again - from conservative Desocrats, Nazi sympathizers, and millions of isol…

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Happy He Didn't Win It This Year, Either Day to all who celebrate.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

Not every tree turns at the same time. #fall #leaves #shelterbelt

Multiple rows of trees that have turned brown, orange, and yellow in the fall—a shelterbelt in a farming community—can be seen through a break in a perpendicular row of green trees that have not yet turned. In the foreground the grass is mostly bare, while in the distance, among the turned trees, is a wonderful orange carpet of fallen leaves.

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