Ed mentioned this earlier today. Christopher Rufo has been digging up some of Katherine Maher's old tweets and word of that is now getting some attention including at NPR. But NPR doesn't include any of the tweets it merely describes two of them.

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR's new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network. Among others, those posts include a 2020 tweet that called Trump racist and another that appeared to minimize rioting during social justice protests that year.

For those that follow the link, they can see at least one of the tweets in question, but even that one has been downplayed by NPR. She didn't just call Trump racist, she called him a "deranged racist sociopath."

What is that deranged racist sociopath ranting about today? I truly do not understand.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) May 14, 2020

Similarly, the NY Times has a story up which only mentions a couple of tweets Rufo has turned up.

“Also, Donald Trump is a racist,” read one of Ms. Maher’s posts in 2018, which has since been deleted. Another post, from November 2020, shows Ms. Maher wearing a hat with the logo for the Biden presidential campaign.

Neither one of these tweets would be considered very daring by most Democrats these days, which is probably why they were selected. But there are lot more tweets that deserve some air time because they help pin Maher down as a person who is not just left but far left on every issue. Consider a few examples that won't make it into the NY Times. Here she is tweeting about her "cis white mobility privilege."

Lots of jokes about leaving the US, and I get it. But as someone with cis white mobility privilege, I’m thinking I’m staying and investing in ridding ourselves of this spectre of tyranny.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) July 30, 2020

This one seems pretty relevant. How can we make our organization anti-racist if anti-racism isn't the point of the organization?

Absolutely. Questions like, "how do we make our organization's work anti-racist, while also recognizing its mission is not racial justice, per se?" Do we muster forces when our interests are at risk, or our values more broadly? Are they different? (Usually, yes.) A lot in here.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) February 2, 2021

Her idea of balance was to eliminate anything deemed "discriminatory content" which you can probably guess would not leave much room for criticism of whatever the left is saying at any given moment.

Hi Fae, as you know, the community sets and enforces editorial policies. I support the community revising its policies to eliminate racist, misogynist, transphobic, and other forms of discriminatory content.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) June 21, 2020

The idea that she could possibly run NPR with anything approaching a moderate take on the news is ridiculous. She's not even aiming for that. Of course she was terribly upset by Tom Cotton's op-ed back in 2020. The NY Times should never have published it, she said.

I think many people, including myself, would assert Cotton's interpretation of data and conflation of concepts was willfully manipulative, e.g., misinformation. It shames the NYT to publish an op-ed that sh/would never have passed journalistic editorial review.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) June 4, 2020

Meanwhile, her thoughts on white silence from the summer of 2020:

White silence is complicity. If you are white, today is the day to start a conversation in your community.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) June 2, 2020

More thoughts on whiteness.

I know that hysteric white woman voice. I was taught to do it. I’ve done it. It’s a disturbing recognition. While I don’t recall ever using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it’s not impossible. That is whiteness.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) May 26, 2020

Of course she supports reparations.

“America begins in black plunder and white democracy.” I appreciate the day off today to finally fully read The Case for Reparations. https://t.co/BtlWm6CjDP

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) January 20, 2020

New NPR CEO supports race-based "reparations" https://t.co/BiIa3XPjKb

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 15, 2024

It's pretty clear where all of the world's problems are coming from in Maher's view. Substitute any other race and we would call this blatant racism.

The elderly battered, babies caged, black people murdered, women assaulted, and patrician white men in robes assure us this was the framers' intent all along. https://t.co/nL15Ob5Wrk

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) July 10, 2018

White supremacy...It's the real issue:

(The nice thing is I’m a woman so VC Twitter will ignore me entirely. So! America is addicted to white supremacy and that’s the real issue.)

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) May 29, 2020

It's the reason she hates Silicon Valley:

I can’t find it but hive mind - how the 1970s (white) hippie cultural was functionally highly patriarchal and how that informed the racist, misogynist “change the world” culture of the Bay that venerates the lone white male genius/savior archetype of SV.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) February 12, 2020

And folks wonder why The Valley can’t find the words to reckon with its white supremacy legacy.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) July 9, 2020

And on and on it goes.

I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught.

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) January 20, 2020

A few more from Christopher Rufo:

New NPR CEO approving quotes brother: "White men, we really are pretty much the problem these days" https://t.co/a7LdQZupsJ

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 15, 2024

And of course she's against the gender binary.

New NPR CEO celebrates "rejecting binary gender frameworks" https://t.co/4GevQVxF1Y

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 15, 2024

She decided not to have kids because of climate change.

New NPR CEO explains that she didn't have children because "the planet is literally burning" https://t.co/kynQbEhR7S

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 15, 2024

My brothers and I had some deep talks about this recently. We're each over thirty with real jobs, and deep discomfort about what it would mean to bring a child into a warming world. https://t.co/qFW31DUrPO

— Katherine Maher (@krmaher) March 26, 2019

She has repeated every leftist trope of the last five years.

New NPR CEO is "so done with late-stage capitalism" https://t.co/DMJVWj467R

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 15, 2024

Here's the one on "transit justice."

It's about transit justice. It's about climate love. We need humble hunks of rolling metal throughout America. Blasting NPR, addressing inequities. Next stop: liberation station. https://t.co/Qm9qAHlK39

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 16, 2024

Anyway, I wanted to drag all of these into a thread because they collectively created a very different impression than the couple of mild tweets that NPR and the Times chose to highlight. This isn't just someone who is left-of-center, this is someone who is a hard left ideologue. She's clearly someone who has no intention of running any organization with anything approaching fairness. It's amazing that her outspoken partisanship was seen at a plus at NPR with no sense at all that maybe a publicly funded outlet should make an effort to represent more than a small sliver of the country.