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solarbirdThe last item - CNN is not fucking around when it's warning about racist, sexist, and homophobic language. Particularly racist.
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deviant lesbian ⚢
twitter.com/surfacingwater
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/surfacingwater/status/1281518491774918656
today in hot GC takes:
lesbians having equal parental rights is A Bad Thing and IVF should not exist for humans, we should only be using it to preserve rhinos or something
[EMBEDDED IMAGE of TERF activist railing against IVF and against two lesbian parents being on birth certificates]
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Teri Kanefield
twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1281694842666418176
The latest in the GOP Civil War.
Apparently Mitch McConnell isn't enough of a "purist" or racist for Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter is campaigning foramymcgrathky
(searching for the appropriate emoticon)
[EMBEDDED IMAGE: Ann Coulter supporting Amy McGrath, urging the defeat of Mitch McConnell.]
[EMBEDDED IMAGE: Ann Coulter condemning Mitch MicConnell for endorsing "open borders candidate" Roger Marshall (R) over "MAGA candidate" Kris Kobach (R).]
[QUOTED TWEET]
Ann Coulter
twitter.com/AnnCoulter
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1281694842666418176
Mitch McConnell is running this year in a CLOSE ELECTION.
If we do not teach these betraying RINOs a lesson, we will be Charlie Brown with the football for our remaining time on earth.
KENTUCKIANS: STAY HOME ON NOV 3!
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Kate Smith (CBS News)
twitter.com/byKateSmith
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/byKateSmith/status/1281668665323261956
NEW
A judge has blocked a Trump admin rule that would have forced some insurance companies to send 2 separate bills: 1 abortion coverage & another for all other coverage.
The rule would have made patients pay for their general coverage and abortion coverage separately.
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AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
July 9, 2020 at 11:08 pm Updated July 10, 2020
By REESE DUNKLIN
and MICHAEL REZENDES
The Associated Press
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-after-lobbying-catholic-church-won-1-4b-in-virus-aid/
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
The church’s haul may have reached — or even exceeded — $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.
Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep Main Street open and Americans employed.
By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.
The Archdiocese of New York, for example, received 15 loans worth at least $28 million just for its top executive offices. Its iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue was approved for at least $1 million.
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Pandemic, China Trade Deal Fuel Farmer Doubts
April Simpson, Staff Writer
10 July 2020
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/07/10/pandemic-china-trade-deal-fuel-farmer-doubts
When farmers don't have enough money in their pockets, neither do local businessowners or other residents in their small, rural communities.
"It doesn’t matter what you do in North Dakota, your income is based somehow off of agriculture," said soybean farmer Tyler Stafslien, who lives in Makoti, North Dakota.
Buffeted by a two-year trade war, followed by a disappointing — at least so far — trade deal and then a worldwide pandemic, there aren’t a lot of farmers, or rural communities, feeling flush right now. Worried farmers and business groups are urging the United States and China to fulfill their obligations under the first stage of the trade agreement, even as the coronavirus scrambles its assumptions.
"I'm worse off today than I was before the trade war," Stafslien said, “and I don’t see an end in sight.”
Whether it's in agriculture, manufactured goods or energy, neither country is on track to meet its obligations of the Phase One trade deal signed six months ago. Then, as soon as the deal went into effect a month later, the pandemic spread, and reduced demand for many agricultural products.
"The market tends to, especially on the downside, respond to the rumors and then the realities," said Mark Watne, president of the North Dakota Farmers Union. "The reality was we had this Phase One deal. The rumor was that [China] couldn't deliver, and now that rumor is playing out. It tends to keep the market at bay or lower."
During the trade war, soybean-growing states bore the brunt of China’s tariffs on American agricultural products because China was the biggest buyer of U.S. soybeans, according to a March report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
While U.S. agriculture exports fell to $142.7 billion, down 5% from 2017 to 2019, by contrast they were down 10% in South Dakota and 6% in North Dakota. Before the trade war, soybeans accounted for a third of South Dakota’s agriculture exports in 2017, and a quarter of North Dakota’s.
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I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
How my white male co-founder gaslighted me out of the movement we built together.
Nandini Jammi
July 9, 2020
https://medium.com/@nandoodles/im-leaving-sleeping-giants-but-not-because-i-want-to-d9c4f488642
Nearly four years after I began building Sleeping Giants, the campaign to make bigotry and sexism unprofitable, I’m leaving — but not because I want to.
I want to share with you my journey with Sleeping Giants, why taking credit matters and why you must fight for yourself as hard as you do for your cause. I want to show you how a woman of color almost disappeared from the movement she built, and what you can achieve when you refuse to follow the rules your white male “leader” sets for you.
I hope other brilliant WoC and marginalized folks see yourselves in me and don’t wait as long as I did. The stakes are too high for you to disappear.
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Supreme Court rules Trump will have to fight to keep secret his taxes, financial records
Two cases against the president involving the Manhattan DA and House Democrats go back to the lower courts.
July 9, 2020, 7:14 AM PDT / Updated July 9, 2020, 8:52 AM PDT
By Pete Williams
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-new-york-prosecutor-can-get-trump-s-n1232086
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave President Donald Trump a chance to beat back House Democrats' efforts to obtain his financial records but ruled he is not immune from the Manhattan district attorney's attempt to get his taxes.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. wants years worth of Trump's tax returns as part of his probe into hush-money payments to two women while House Democrats sought financial records from the Trump Organization's accounting firm and two banks to determine if foreign governments, including Russia, hold sway over him.
Both matters will go back to lower courts to determine if Trump needs to turn over any documents, which will not likely be settled before Election Day.
In our judicial system, "the public has a right to every man's evidence," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision on the New York case. "Since the earliest days of the Republic, 'every man' has included the president of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson and carrying on through Clinton, presidents have uniformly testified or produced documents in criminal proceedings when called upon by federal courts."
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Emily VanDerWerff
twitter.com/emilyvdw
9 July 2020
https://twitter.com/emilyvdw/status/1281153701290274819
[THREAD]
The following is the last thing I will say on this on Twitter: These two days have been hell. Death threats, rape threats, invitations to commit suicide, constant misgendering, etc. On every platform. The only way I can avoid it is to leave the internet entirely. I can't sleep.
[NEXT]
To my knowledge, not one signatory of the Harper's letter has said anything against this behavior, despite how obvious, extreme, and public it has been. At least two have egged it on or incited it.
They do not believe in free speech; they believe in free speech FOR THEM.
[NEXT]
Note, again, that the only way I can avoid this is to leave the internet entirely. Considering I make my living writing for the internet, this is an actual, genuine attempt at canceling someone. It won't work, but that is its aim.
[NEXT]
I have my employer's support in weathering this storm. I have been given space to decouple for a few days to preserve brain space.
Many, many people would not be so lucky.
[THEAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Sady Doyle
twitter.com/sadydoyle
9 July 2020
https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1281236358577741825
[THREAD]
You have done it behind the scenes for years. You have purposefully cultivated a hateful audience of TERFs, and that mob has been famously abusive for a long time. You're not sorry. You're sorry you didn't realize people would stick up for Emily.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE: Jesse Singal tweet trying to use harassment of Emily VanDerWerff that he caused as justification for the Harper's essay]
[NEXT]
Jesse has been terrorizing trans women for years, and he's been getting away with it because he's willing to make legal threats and trans women are undefended. Watching him try to backpedal now, because one of his targets actually has support within the industry, is disgusting.
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
Updated 7:33 PM ET, Fri July 10, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html
New York (CNN Business)Editor's note: This article quotes racist, homophobic and sexist language, much of which has not been censored.
The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.
Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" Neff wrote, "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down." On June 24, Neff commented, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep." On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins are "white libs and their university-'educated' pets."
And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson's show.
CNN Business contacted Neff for comment Thursday night. After he or someone acting on his behalf passed that email to Fox News spokespeople, a network spokesperson on Friday morning told CNN Business that Neff had resigned. A Fox News spokesperson said Carlson could not be reached for comment. Neff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Neff worked at Fox News for nearly four years and was Carlson's top writer. Previously, he was a reporter at The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet that Carlson co-founded. In a recent article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff said, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me." He also acknowledged the show's influence, telling the magazine, "We're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation, so we try to use it responsibly."
- Today in hot Gender Critical TERF takes: lesbians having equal parental rights is bad.
- The latest in the GOP Civil War: Ann Coulter endorses Amy McGrath over Mitch McConnell because Mitch is opposing white suprematist MAGA candidates, and is therefore a RINO who needs to be purged.
- Judge blocks Trump/Pence rule to make patients pay for their general coverage and abortion health insurance coverage separately.
- AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
- Pandemic, China Trade Deal Fuel Farmer Doubts
- I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
- Supreme Court rules Trump will have to fight to keep secret his taxes, financial records
- Vox writer Emily VanDerWerff targeted for massive harassment by supporters of Harper's letter, spurred on by anti-trans activist Jesse Singal
- Sady Doyle calls out Jesse Singal's years of abusive behaviour
- Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
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deviant lesbian ⚢
twitter.com/surfacingwater
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/surfacingwater/status/1281518491774918656
today in hot GC takes:
lesbians having equal parental rights is A Bad Thing and IVF should not exist for humans, we should only be using it to preserve rhinos or something
[EMBEDDED IMAGE of TERF activist railing against IVF and against two lesbian parents being on birth certificates]
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Teri Kanefield
twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1281694842666418176
The latest in the GOP Civil War.
Apparently Mitch McConnell isn't enough of a "purist" or racist for Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter is campaigning for
amymcgrathky(searching for the appropriate emoticon)
[EMBEDDED IMAGE: Ann Coulter supporting Amy McGrath, urging the defeat of Mitch McConnell.]
[EMBEDDED IMAGE: Ann Coulter condemning Mitch MicConnell for endorsing "open borders candidate" Roger Marshall (R) over "MAGA candidate" Kris Kobach (R).]
[QUOTED TWEET]
Ann Coulter
twitter.com/AnnCoulter
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1281694842666418176
Mitch McConnell is running this year in a CLOSE ELECTION.
If we do not teach these betraying RINOs a lesson, we will be Charlie Brown with the football for our remaining time on earth.
KENTUCKIANS: STAY HOME ON NOV 3!
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Kate Smith (CBS News)
twitter.com/byKateSmith
10 July 2020
https://twitter.com/byKateSmith/status/1281668665323261956
NEW
A judge has blocked a Trump admin rule that would have forced some insurance companies to send 2 separate bills: 1 abortion coverage & another for all other coverage.
The rule would have made patients pay for their general coverage and abortion coverage separately.
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AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B
July 9, 2020 at 11:08 pm Updated July 10, 2020
By REESE DUNKLIN
and MICHAEL REZENDES
The Associated Press
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-after-lobbying-catholic-church-won-1-4b-in-virus-aid/
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
The church’s haul may have reached — or even exceeded — $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.
Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. But as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep Main Street open and Americans employed.
By aggressively promoting the payroll program and marshaling resources to help affiliates navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found.
The Archdiocese of New York, for example, received 15 loans worth at least $28 million just for its top executive offices. Its iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue was approved for at least $1 million.
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Pandemic, China Trade Deal Fuel Farmer Doubts
April Simpson, Staff Writer
10 July 2020
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/07/10/pandemic-china-trade-deal-fuel-farmer-doubts
When farmers don't have enough money in their pockets, neither do local businessowners or other residents in their small, rural communities.
"It doesn’t matter what you do in North Dakota, your income is based somehow off of agriculture," said soybean farmer Tyler Stafslien, who lives in Makoti, North Dakota.
Buffeted by a two-year trade war, followed by a disappointing — at least so far — trade deal and then a worldwide pandemic, there aren’t a lot of farmers, or rural communities, feeling flush right now. Worried farmers and business groups are urging the United States and China to fulfill their obligations under the first stage of the trade agreement, even as the coronavirus scrambles its assumptions.
"I'm worse off today than I was before the trade war," Stafslien said, “and I don’t see an end in sight.”
Whether it's in agriculture, manufactured goods or energy, neither country is on track to meet its obligations of the Phase One trade deal signed six months ago. Then, as soon as the deal went into effect a month later, the pandemic spread, and reduced demand for many agricultural products.
"The market tends to, especially on the downside, respond to the rumors and then the realities," said Mark Watne, president of the North Dakota Farmers Union. "The reality was we had this Phase One deal. The rumor was that [China] couldn't deliver, and now that rumor is playing out. It tends to keep the market at bay or lower."
During the trade war, soybean-growing states bore the brunt of China’s tariffs on American agricultural products because China was the biggest buyer of U.S. soybeans, according to a March report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
While U.S. agriculture exports fell to $142.7 billion, down 5% from 2017 to 2019, by contrast they were down 10% in South Dakota and 6% in North Dakota. Before the trade war, soybeans accounted for a third of South Dakota’s agriculture exports in 2017, and a quarter of North Dakota’s.
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I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
How my white male co-founder gaslighted me out of the movement we built together.
Nandini Jammi
July 9, 2020
https://medium.com/@nandoodles/im-leaving-sleeping-giants-but-not-because-i-want-to-d9c4f488642
Nearly four years after I began building Sleeping Giants, the campaign to make bigotry and sexism unprofitable, I’m leaving — but not because I want to.
I want to share with you my journey with Sleeping Giants, why taking credit matters and why you must fight for yourself as hard as you do for your cause. I want to show you how a woman of color almost disappeared from the movement she built, and what you can achieve when you refuse to follow the rules your white male “leader” sets for you.
I hope other brilliant WoC and marginalized folks see yourselves in me and don’t wait as long as I did. The stakes are too high for you to disappear.
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Supreme Court rules Trump will have to fight to keep secret his taxes, financial records
Two cases against the president involving the Manhattan DA and House Democrats go back to the lower courts.
July 9, 2020, 7:14 AM PDT / Updated July 9, 2020, 8:52 AM PDT
By Pete Williams
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-new-york-prosecutor-can-get-trump-s-n1232086
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave President Donald Trump a chance to beat back House Democrats' efforts to obtain his financial records but ruled he is not immune from the Manhattan district attorney's attempt to get his taxes.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. wants years worth of Trump's tax returns as part of his probe into hush-money payments to two women while House Democrats sought financial records from the Trump Organization's accounting firm and two banks to determine if foreign governments, including Russia, hold sway over him.
Both matters will go back to lower courts to determine if Trump needs to turn over any documents, which will not likely be settled before Election Day.
In our judicial system, "the public has a right to every man's evidence," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision on the New York case. "Since the earliest days of the Republic, 'every man' has included the president of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson and carrying on through Clinton, presidents have uniformly testified or produced documents in criminal proceedings when called upon by federal courts."
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Emily VanDerWerff
twitter.com/emilyvdw
9 July 2020
https://twitter.com/emilyvdw/status/1281153701290274819
[THREAD]
The following is the last thing I will say on this on Twitter: These two days have been hell. Death threats, rape threats, invitations to commit suicide, constant misgendering, etc. On every platform. The only way I can avoid it is to leave the internet entirely. I can't sleep.
[NEXT]
To my knowledge, not one signatory of the Harper's letter has said anything against this behavior, despite how obvious, extreme, and public it has been. At least two have egged it on or incited it.
They do not believe in free speech; they believe in free speech FOR THEM.
[NEXT]
Note, again, that the only way I can avoid this is to leave the internet entirely. Considering I make my living writing for the internet, this is an actual, genuine attempt at canceling someone. It won't work, but that is its aim.
[NEXT]
I have my employer's support in weathering this storm. I have been given space to decouple for a few days to preserve brain space.
Many, many people would not be so lucky.
[THEAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Sady Doyle
twitter.com/sadydoyle
9 July 2020
https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1281236358577741825
[THREAD]
You have done it behind the scenes for years. You have purposefully cultivated a hateful audience of TERFs, and that mob has been famously abusive for a long time. You're not sorry. You're sorry you didn't realize people would stick up for Emily.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE: Jesse Singal tweet trying to use harassment of Emily VanDerWerff that he caused as justification for the Harper's essay]
[NEXT]
Jesse has been terrorizing trans women for years, and he's been getting away with it because he's willing to make legal threats and trans women are undefended. Watching him try to backpedal now, because one of his targets actually has support within the industry, is disgusting.
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
Updated 7:33 PM ET, Fri July 10, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html
New York (CNN Business)Editor's note: This article quotes racist, homophobic and sexist language, much of which has not been censored.
The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.
Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" Neff wrote, "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down." On June 24, Neff commented, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep." On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins are "white libs and their university-'educated' pets."
And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson's show.
CNN Business contacted Neff for comment Thursday night. After he or someone acting on his behalf passed that email to Fox News spokespeople, a network spokesperson on Friday morning told CNN Business that Neff had resigned. A Fox News spokesperson said Carlson could not be reached for comment. Neff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Neff worked at Fox News for nearly four years and was Carlson's top writer. Previously, he was a reporter at The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet that Carlson co-founded. In a recent article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff said, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me." He also acknowledged the show's influence, telling the magazine, "We're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation, so we try to use it responsibly."
