‘New media’ is just right-wing media 

(From L) Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, US blimpish activistic Scott Presler, commentator Liz Wheeler and US blimpish governmental commentator Chad Prather transportation binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department speechmaking “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” arsenic they locomotion retired of the West Wing of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected February 27, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Hello and invited to a post-October Federal Holiday variation of Regulator.

Last week, I caught upwind that House Speaker Mike Johnson, on with respective apical House Republican leaders, had held an exclusive property briefing astir the authorities shutdown that was restricted to "new media." The contents of the gathering were published arsenic a "scoop" by the Washington Reporter - a Congress-focused work founded by respective GOP operatives that'd been established arsenic a Punchbowl for conservatives - which described the telephone arsenic "set[ting] the grounds straight" and "the latest mode that House Republicans are taking their messaging straight to the American …

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