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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Shut Up and Show Me the Fall Lines
Teen Vogue, publisher of stirring and age-appropriate material like anal sex manuals for “persons” both with and “without prostates,” has done it again with an article about how the truly stylish are Communist radicals.
 

 
“Can’t #endpoverty without ending capitalism,” Teen Vogue Tweeted yesterday, with a link to a poorly-written diatribe that reads like a B student’s Marxism 101 paper. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, stores are running out of basic goods like toilet paper and baby formula and once-democratically elected leaders rig the vote and eat at five-star restaurants.
 
I have an idea Vogue: shut up and show me the fall lines. Leave the half-baked social and economic theory to stoned undergraduates.
 
Treasury Employee Leaking Admin Info Caught with Flash Drive in Hand
From Fox News:

“Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, 40, a senior official at the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), is accused of illegally giving a reporter bank reports documenting several suspicious financial transactions, known as Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”), from October 2017 to the present.
 
The financial transactions involved Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, campaign official Richard Gates, accused Russian agent Maria Butina and the Russian Embassy, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.”
 
The flash drive also contained “highly sensitive material relating to Russia, Iran, and the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.” Edwards’ boss is also cited as a co-conspirator in court filings, although he or she remains unnamed at this time.
 
Louis Farrakhan Compares Jews to Termites, Twitter Shrugs
In a Tweet on Tuesday, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said he wasn't an anti-Semite, but an "anti-termite." Despite this language, Twitter, which has been quick to ban conservatives for vague reasons, didn't ban Farrakhan. In a statement to Buzzfeed, Twitter said his statement didn't violate their new policy of banning those who "dehumanize" people because it hadn't yet  been put into effect.
 
But it’s cool for a former Democratic president to share the stage with Farrakhan because why not, right?
 
Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Humiliation Continues
Despite widespread mockery, and blowback from the Cherokee tribe, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is sticking by her media blitz claiming Native American ancestry. “There’s a distinction between [tribal] citizenship and ancestry,” she said to the Globe. “I’m not a citizen, never have claimed to be, and I wish I had been more mindful of that 30 years ago.”
 
At two-something percent Neanderthal, I literally have more DNA from an extinguished species than Warren has from Native peoples. Where’s my Indigenous Species Day?
 
David Marcus asks if Elizabeth Warren is at least as guilty of cultural appropriation as a college kids with an insensitive Halloween costume.
 
“Warren didn’t wear a headdress for Halloween or don the jersey of a certain subpar NFL team from Washington DC. She claimed to be of Indian descent to the extent that she described it as her racial identity. Whether it was her intent or not, she did so in a way that was quite likely to increase her professional opportunities. She didn’t appropriate some aspect of Indian culture; she appropriated the whole thing.
 
While most cases of cultural appropriation are criticized for offending actual members of the culture being appropriated, Warren’s might really have created less opportunity for actual Native Americans.”
 
Fashion Moment of the Week
If you’ve been on the edge of your seat just WAITING for my fall fashion tips (obviously), your moment has arrived.

“Most people love October for the rainbow leaves, the crisp air, and the pumpkin spice everything. I love it for the fashion.
 
Fall is when silhouettes get more structured, beautiful colors like burgundy, eggplant, and forest green reemerge, and that huge stash of turtlenecks I have in my closet goes on rotation. Forget Starbucks PSLs, autumn style is everything.

Here are five fall trends to get you started this season!”

 
Check out my five trends for the next couple months at The Federalist here. There are exactly zero political points scored in it, which makes me better at writing about fashion than Teen Vogue.
 
Thursday Links
Is Trump right to be cautious with Saudi Arabia over the Kashoggi disappearance?
 
Moms use the hashtag #postcardsforMacron to send a message after France’s President made a condescending comment about women with large families.
 
Loretta Lynn has a new album.
 
Betsy DeVos delivers a rare Twitter clapback after Senator Patty Murray misrepresents her Department’s actions.
 
Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke debate in Texas.
 
The five most important guns in American history, via David Harsanyi. I’d include whatever type of pistol misfired twice during the attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson, but these five are pretty cool too.
 
An Indian (subcontinental) cop who scared away criminals by making bullet noises after his gun jammed is receiving an award for valor.
 
Keira Knightley doesn’t let her daughter watch Disney movies like Cinderella because they don’t teach girls to “rescue yourself.” Giant eye roll.
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Inez Feltscher Stepman is a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and a senior contributor to The Federalist. She is a San Francisco Bay Area native with a BA in Philosophy from UCSD and a JD from the University of Virginia. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Jarrett Stepman, her puggle Thor, and her cat Thaddeus Kosciuszko. You can follow her on Twitter at @inezfeltscher and on Instagram (for #ootd, obvi) under the same handle. Opinions expressed on this website are her own and not those of her employers. Or her husband.
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