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Former CMO of Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, & Men's Journal. Other brands touched: Vanity Fair, Glamour, Details, and Adweek.

Palm Springs, CA
Joined May 2008
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I’m at the ATL airport and my @Delta flight has been continuously delayed because they can’t find another pilot. It’s midnight and they don’t know when or if they’ll find another pilot but won’t give out hotel vouchers until the flight is cancelled, which they can’t say when that’ll happen. This is a hot mess for Americans. One of them just said, “pick another flight…pick another transportation secretary.” 🤷🏾‍♂️
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BREAKING: 🚨 Bomb threat at Dallas Love Field Airport. All flight diverted, departing flights grounded.
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A film you've watched more than six times with a gif. No Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.
A film you've watched more than six times with a gif. No Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.
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UPS Boeing 767 collides with Copa Airlines 737 while taxiing at Miami International Airport. — ATC
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UPDATE: Democrat Mary Peltola’s lead in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race continued expanding Saturday with another 4,000 or so ballots counted, crossing the 50% threshold and keeping her on track to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan. adn.com/politics/2026/11/13/…
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A note to my friends in TV news: If you can bring together a group of Black analysts to discuss race, as with Colom's historic win, you can do the same when the topic is the economy, foreign policy or national security. The expertise isn't limited to Black history or "Black issues."
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Gary Armstrong retweeted
These betting markets are so silly! I never said Pattinson (or anyone) is getting the Bond gig. I reported he has a more favorable test deal and laid out why he makes the most sense to me. Pls read the actual column. (And no I’m not betting on market moves this post will cause.)
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Turns out that less than three months before being awarded the SMART contract, ASI’s pac donated $2,500 to Sec Duffy’s son-in-law’s congressional campaign. It also donated $11,000 to Steve Womack’s re-election bid. Womack is chair of the appropriations transportation subcommittee
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The FAA decides to keep shabbat and everyone freaks out. Antisemitism is alive and well.
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Amtrak booking also down, overloaded because of the ground stop / canceled flights. Can't complete the process.
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The size of the gaggle for @PeteButtigieg
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💈this is the newsiest and frightening clip: Mullin: “What it appears to be right now is, as Secretary Duffy was going in and putting patches into the system, they were putting new equipment and new technology. And that new equipment, new technology, just wasn’t, it was overwhelming the older system. Which is why Sec. Duffy made it very clear, the patchwork doesn’t work. We need one complete system.”
WOW MULLIN SAYS THE UPGRADES DUFFY PUT IN CAUSED THE OUTAGE “The new technology was overwhelming the older system”
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DUFFY: How many times does this have to happen before congress gives the money to fix it? R: You’ve been in office almost two years now, Republicans controlled both chambers of congress and still do. DUFFY: What your network are you from?
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What they are describing - routers overloaded with data, leading to instability, sounds like a cyber attack. Can they say with 100% it wasn’t? I asked here:
The FAA’s nationwide ground stop is exposing a major weakness in America’s aviation system, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says decades-old technology is to blame. Pressed by Fox News’ @pdoocy on what caused the widespread outage, Duffy points to aging switches, routers, and copper lines dating back to the 1980s. “It’s an old system that went down and went down everywhere. It got overloaded.” And he makes one thing clear: The FAA is still relying on technology far older than the networks Americans use every day. Get continued FOX News coverage streaming live on @foxone : fox.com/?cmpid=org=fn::ag=sy…
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Markwayne Mullin stunningly admits that the Trump administration is at fault: What happened was we put in new technology that overwhelmed the system
Nov 12: Trump’s FAA launches a new AI-based air traffic control system Nov 13: The FAA announces a nationwide ground stop for only the second time since 9/11, citing significant air traffic control issues
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💈💈💈Mullin says: “the new equipment, the new technology , it was overwhelming the older system.”
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Replying to @mattmfm
Democrats want WINNERS. Van Hollen is BAD AT FIGHTING
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Markwayne Mullin says Sean Duffy will provide the update on FEMA...which is part of the cabinet department that Mullin leads. Off to a good start here at the WH brieing.
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It’s official — @FAANews ground stop lifted
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