Trump’s inauguration is right around the corner, and there is so much to cover about the new White House. In the coming weeks, we’ll have key figures in the Trump administration on Honestly to talk about what they are planning.
But, we all know that if Trump 2.0 is anything like Trump 1.0, there are going to be a lot of twists and turns here. And we want to analyze and break down each development that unfolds in Trump’s new administration.
Starting today and for the next few months, we’re going to bring you weekly episodes with two of my favorite guests: Batya Ungar-Sargon and Brianna Wu.
Batya Ungar-Sargon is a Free Press contributor and the opinion editor at Newsweek. Brianna Wu is a Democratic fundraiser and activist, and in her past life, a video game developer. If you’ve heard them together on Honestly before, you know that these two come from different sides of the political spectrum, but we really value hearing both of their perspectives, even—or especially—when they disagree. We think you will too.
Today, we’re going to cover the LA fires and their political implications, the civil war inside the MAGA movement between the nationalist populists and the free marketers over H-1B visas, and Mark Zuckerberg’s red-pill moment and changes at Meta—and the pair give us their predictions for confirmation hearings beginning this week.
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I am disappointed that I subscribed to the Free Press at exactly the same time Bari Weiss began platforming Brianna Wu. I have been fighting for women’s sex based rights for over a decade (long before the topic became trendy) and am painfully familiar with Wu’s history of lying as well as his multiple campaigns to deplatform women who dared to disagree with him.
Wu is a grifter, a liar, a bully, and as any woman with intact instincts can tell, a creep. Everything about Brianna Wu makes my skin crawl.
If you would like to see his unmasked misogyny on display, please listen to his interview with Nina Paley and Cori Cohn on the Heterodox podcast.
I am disgusted that I am now paying Bari Weiss money to play into this man’s fetish.
I find it bizarre that Brianna Wu has been embraced by the Free Press given Wu's long track record of lying, doubling down on lies and refusing to apologise to those Wu lied about. I'm not going to cancel my subscription but Wu's presence undermines my trust in the Free Press and fundamentally contradicts their commitment to truth