Columnist @DCExaminer. Host of On Deadline every Tuesday at 2pm. Formerly @NRO, @USC_Econ Review. Kafkaesque. Don't say I didn't warn you. ig: @TianaTheFirst
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One week ago, my routine ob visit turned into a severe preeclampsia diagnosis and a crash, unplanned c-section to bring Anastasija into the world almost a month early (and about an hour after @TimothyDoescher flew home last minute from business in Florida). Our little Annie is a firecracker, but despite otherwise pristine vitals, she proved just too tuckered out to fully feed herself, necessitating an admission to the NICU on her first day. 29 hours after delivering her, I was limping between the maternity ward and the NICU, and on Mother's Day, we were discharged to go home without our little girl. I'll be back in the pages of the Examiner & annoying you on TV later this summer, but right now, getting Annie out of the hospital is my full time job. I cannot thank so many you enough for the well wishes and prayers ❤️ The feeding fatigue aside, Annie is thriving with a wonderful prognosis -- she has the world's greatest dad and a very, very, very tired mother who loves her beyond measure. I'm confident we'll be out into the world shortly, and I know that Annie can't wait to meet everyone as soon as she can
I’ll just say it because apparently no other Republican will: Howard Lutnick is a threat to national security and his sons are making billions on the backs of American taxpayers, bondholders, and shareholders in way that would make Hunter Biden blush.
SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. axios.com/2026/11/11/trump-l…
.@jimantle am I allowed to use "Huang's wang" in the headline for this week's column?
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As someone who loves miniskirts & Botox and does believe it is a virtue to maintain a baseline of fitness & appeal, I find this sort of transactional & compulsory approach to aesthetics abominable. No, plastic surgery should never be the default, much less as marital blackmail.
If your husband reaches a certain level of wealth or status, you need to start looking after yourself more. Get the boobs done, get the facelift (if older than 35), and wear the mini skirt to his office unannounced.
A man’s morality is tested under power, but there’s nothing birthday sex on a random Tuesday can’t fix.
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As recently as 15 years, Lori Huang would have been considered a perfectly fine looking 65 year old woman. She's clearly not overweight, dyes her hair, and seems to wear fine clothing and makeup. If she got lip fillers and a face lift, y'all would be dragging her like you do Lauren Sanchez. For a non-trivial slice of the Internet, the answer to "how should a woman age past 45" is "don't," because either you're Lori Huang or Lauren Sanchez, because realistically the Goldilocks starlets over 60 everyone points to as "aging gracefully" (Helen Mirren, Monica Bellucci, Salma Hayek, etc) are all in the 0.01% of genetics. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/Liathetrader/status/21…
Not excusing infidelity, but she looks like his mom. She isn't even trying to look somewhat sexy. With all her money.
And then everyone is surprised.
He is still pretty charming in his age.
Women need to keep themselves sexy for their men, otherwise this happens!
Just my opinion. And don't judge me but I'm Slavic.
We're extremely feminine and sexy, and no matter what age, we do our best!
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Just to reiterate the point for the 27th time: every word out of Amodei’s mouth needs to be understood as a sales pitch for a $2 trillion valuation despite posting $81 billion in net loss in q1+2 of this year. Much easier to go public if you’ve deluded investors into believing Claude is omnipotent rather than a merely useful tool!
This is f*cking wild. Someone asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei what a kid finishing high school should do right now. He didn't sugarcoat it:
"AI can do entry-level law work. It can do entry-level finance. It can do entry-level consulting.
AI will also eliminate jobs, and probably a large number of them"
In 42 seconds, he lists the first careers in the line of fire: junior law, junior finance, junior consulting
He's already put a number on it: half of entry-level white-collar jobs disrupted within 1 to 5 years
Every shift before this one, from farms to factories to the internet, gave people time to catch up. This one, he says, cuts deeper and moves faster
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A protectionist trade policy to shore up US jobs at the expensive of cheap goods is always suboptimal. Turns out it’s TERRIBLE politics when the labor market is already near full employment thanks to aging and mass deportations and voters’ top concern is affordability.
My husband and I, parents who both work full time, don’t even have dental, hearing and vision insurance. Why the hell should we be paying for the wealthiest generation in history to expand Medicare, which is hitting insolvency in the next 7 years anyway???
TLDR: normie libs who pivoted to the center for the general wildly overperformed, while the socialists (El Sayed, Jackson, and Nixon) all dramatically underperformed
Say what you will about RDS — and there is a LOT to be said about how much better he is at local *policy* versus national *politics* — but this is the third, consecutive, god awful midterm performance for Republicans where the ONLY bright spot has been Florida
The One Big Beautiful Bill was obviously a piece of must-pass legislation. It did contain genuine victories (federal student choice, full expensing, permanent standard deduction doubling), and frankly, because Trump has mostly governed by pen-and-phone, the OBBB is probably the only part of his second term that will last President AOC. But relative to the 2017 tax cuts, the OBBB was deeply flawed, complicating the tax code and adding to the deficit in large part because leadership bent over backwards to appease blue state RINOs with the SALT deduction cap increase, adding hundreds of BILLIONS to the national debt over the next decade. And for what? What was even the point of "Mike Lawler" if we were going to dilute the OBBB for nothing? A total Faustian bargain. Nancy Pelosi made her majority walk the plank to pass Obamacare because she understood that political power is "use it or lose it." So what if Dems temporarily lost their control? Pelosi gambled that Obama could fundamentally transform the American healthcare system, and guess what? She was right! Instead Republicans cowered to the weakest among us, minimizing the GOP majority's one shot at actual LEGISLATION for nothing.
Mike Lawler concedes to Cait Conley, flipping NY-17 seat to Democrats 7ny.tv/IMBMkT
ALT Mike Lawler concedes to Cait Conley, flipping NY-17 seat to Democrats
If Trump:
--Didn't threaten Tillis with a primary challege
--Didn't endorse Cornyn's primary challenger
--Didn't coronate Lindsey Graham's political neophyte sister to steamroll an open primary
could the GOP have saved 3 Senate seats & hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the majority? washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
There's a reason why JPM was pricing in a tech selloff in the case of a blue tsunami. The only good news? Treasuries will rally for 45 seconds in the temporary delusion that Dem gridlock will mean "deficit reduction" and not "socialist spending spree on Uncle Sam's credit card"
It's almost like CANDIDATE QUALITY MATTERS. Voters are begging both sides to stop picking criminals, predators, charlatans, hacks, and morons, and for some reason Haley Stevens & Nikki Haley are outside of the Overton window of both of their parties.
I dug into the early vote for Senate and frankly, things are a lot better than the polls would indicate in a number of states. Maine, SC, KS, and IA all look decent for the GOP. Michigan's young voters (El Sayed's base) is getting KILLED by seniors. Basically go vote. washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
I understand the NYT’s decision to release the polls (they cost a LOT of money), but this caveat cannot be overstated. Obviously the GOP is behind *across* the polling, but if the under sampling bias of white, disproportionately rural/GOP voters is systemic, then these polls are indeed inflating Dem performance and these races are much narrower than the CW
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I constantly see people equate El Sayed with Mamdani, but a HUGE difference is that Mamdani is very skilled and suiting up and giving “happy class president” energy, which is appealing to normies and conceals his radicalism, whereas El Sayed seems so bitter and resentful. Just a total vacuum of charisma.
This place is poisoned by the selection bias of a user base that's MUCH more educated & high-income than average. The median American mom works full time but also does NOT employ paid childcare, even for moms of young children. Instead: grandparents, non-9-to-5 jobs, WFH
I think if you are a married woman with kids who makes a modest salary and your husband is the clear breadwinner and you aren’t someone who is locked in to your career and would be cool staying at home and your husband doesn’t have the forethought to be like “daycare is gonna basically cost your entire salary anyway so just stay at home” he should be tarred and feathered
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The "tradwife" and the "girlboss who spends 50 hours per week in a cubicle while baby languishes in a crappy daycare" dichotomy represents two extremes pretty foreign to the average mom. I keep writing about this because it's a myth that will not die. washingtonexaminer.com/premi…
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If it isn’t someone already in the press shop (@AnnaKellyGOP comes to mind) it REALLY needs to be a proven star with extensive experience under fire and existing relationships with the press. I also LOVE @ScottJenningsKY, but I think @TriciaOhio is severely underrated here
