‘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 base nan seal of nan US Justice Department reference “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” arsenic they locomotion retired of nan West Wing of nan 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 version of Regulator.

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

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