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Lydia Moynihan

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Lydia Moynihan

@LydiaMoynihan

@nypost columnist and reporter 🇺🇸 techno-optimist covering business, politics, and innovation "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

New York, NY

Joined January 2017

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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
May 9
Elon Musk deserves every single penny he has made. And I hope he becomes the world’s first trillionaire. He’s using his wealth to help blind people see and paralyzed people walk. I’d rather that money stay in his hands than go to Elizabeth Warren, who’d likely see it wasted on
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Aug 11, 2025
It was fine for Gavin Newsom to clean up San Francisco for Xi Jinping but it’s not ok for Trump to clean up Washington DC for the American people?
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Nov 1, 2025
If a federal judge can make a ruling about SNAP, why can't she also demand the democrats reopen the government? Republicans want funding for SNAP but they also want funding for the military, FAA air traffic controllers, SBA and everything else.
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Sep 8, 2025
Imagine thinking that a woman being brutally murdered in public is just a niche issue for MAGA influencers
Axios
@axios
Sep 8, 2025
The gruesome video of the fatal knife attack on Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte is drawing attention from MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases. axios.com/2025/09/08/iry…
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Nov 14, 2025
Terrifying how overnight it has become increasingly acceptable to demonize someone simply because they’re from Israel.
Variety
@Variety
Nov 13, 2025
Hasan Piker calls Gal Gadot “a dogsh*t actress” and quips: “She has no business [being at the Oscars] for the crime of what she has done to not only the DC franchise, but really any movie she’s been a part of.” “All jokes aside,” he continued, “Gal Gadot serves an important role
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Jul 15, 2024
Joe Biden has been in government longer than J.D. Vance has been alive.
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Oct 27, 2025
Imagine thinking a news organization asking a democrat a tough question is scary
Kaivan Shroff
@KaivanShroff
Oct 26, 2025
Scary. After Bari Weiss’s takeover of CBS, Margaret Brennan sounds like a Newsmax host in this interview with Hakeem Jeffries.
Aaron Rupar
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Aaron Rupar
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Nov 5, 2025
For anyone who thought Mamdani was moderating his views, his speech began with a quote from a self-proclaimed bolshevik and he said his parents are his inspiration (his dad thinks suicide bombing should be destigmatized and his mom said her son isn't American).
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Nov 1, 2025
Donald Trump became the most important political figure of this century by building a coalition that appealed to moderates -- MAHA moms, working class voters, and those rejecting the far left. That is how Republicans win.
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Oct 25, 2025
I never thought I’d say this but Mamdani’s socialist bent doesn’t scare me nearly as much as his deep ties to terror sympathizers
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Oct 18, 2025
Brokering the most successful peace deal of the modern era probably deserves a mention on a segment devoted to Trump’s week in foreign policy.
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Jul 1, 2025
Replying to @SciSocialist
Because he’s a rich kid whose parents lived the American dream, subsidized his life and insulated him from any hardship or consequences.
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Aug 21, 2025
Nepo babies supporting nepo babies
New York Post
@nypost
Aug 20, 2025
Billionaire hedge fund heir Elizabeth Simons donates $250K to pro-Zohran Mamdani Super PAC trib.al/eDAWnuK
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Lydia Moynihan
@LydiaMoynihan
Nov 17, 2025
Hey wanna go out? - boring - predictable - easy to dismiss May I meet you? - purposefully vague - intriguing - vaguely cannibalistic (was it meat you? or meet you?)
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