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Published: January 13, 2025 02:32

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Published: January 12, 2025 22:45

I thought this was startling, too. They say no only to Hegseth and RFK. It read as if they think by greenlighting almost everything maybe they can get something and thus claim continued relevance despite capitulation. I feel sad for every good journalist…

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Published: January 12, 2025 21:41

Please read this thread. As the Trumpocene festers, I’m seeing more and more good-hearted liberals & leftists start mucking around in the same misinformation/conspiracy theory as the fascists. That’s not a both-sides statement. It’s saying let’s not let…

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Published: January 12, 2025 21:37

Oh man how about some “strings attached” for Wyoming which functions at all only because of the tax dollars of states like California and New York? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 12, 2025 20:40

Billionaires and multi-millionaires volunteering (briefly) to fire lower middle class civil servants in order to cut taxes on billionaires and multi-millionaires is about as pure a form of class warfare as you'll find short of Stalin. (Do not defend…

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Published: January 12, 2025 19:21

Just discovered that the Unabomber's manifesto is the #1 "most gifted" book in Amazon's fascism category, (which is a weird gift category), #4 in "radical political thought," & #1 in "anarchism." My students tell me of peers w/ Kaczynski posters. This dumb…

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Published: January 12, 2025 18:30

I don’t think we need the updates on looting arrests in the fires. A couple dozen, aka very few. The updates feed the fiction that the poor are the predators. The anti-social behavior right now is that of the President-elect, the Fox hosts cracking jokes,…

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Published: January 12, 2025 18:06

Oh no are we doing that thing again where we imagine the wives of bad men are somehow captured saints who’ll symbolically represent justice when they reject their men? Remember “free Melania”? The imagination of inherent female virtue is just as much a…

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Published: January 12, 2025 16:08

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Published: January 12, 2025 04:46

In my town we must take our trash weekly to the dump, where a shed is maintained for books residents wish to be rid of. Today I found an 1824 edition of Vermont Gazetteer, and flipped it open to this engraving of my town, 201 years ago.

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Published: January 11, 2025 21:47

The problem of media literacy. I definitely notice this in my Dartmouth students: even tho what I teach is adjacent to journalism, very few students have real high school experience or class time. We didn’t decades ago at my public school. If other people…

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Published: January 11, 2025 21:44

C storyline on the realistic newsroom show @emilynussbaum.bsky.social proposes: a grey zombie at a desk, staring into space, frozen by FOIA. (Ha ha! Just joking. The paper would just lay that reporter off.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 11, 2025 20:15

Some people express hope that the military would not respond to unlawful orders to deploy domestically. Some portion of the military revolting against civilian rule isn’t any more of a solution. That’s civil war either way.

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Published: January 11, 2025 19:32

Reminds me of the time years ago when for an appearance on CNN about The Family I proposed talking about their deep involvement in the destruction of Somalia and the producer said "What's a Somalia." and told me to stick to the sex scandal. (I didn't.) …

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Published: January 11, 2025 19:25

Some folks are responding to my thread about the problems with Pete Hegseth with, "What! I knew he was a drunk and maybe a rapist, but what's this about wanting a civil war? I didn't hear that!" Which is the problem. My meager attempts to address it: …

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Published: January 11, 2025 19:11

A very good book to read right now is @jaimeroselowe.bsky.social’s brilliant BREATHING FIRE, on the incarcerated women firefighters risking their lives to save L.A. I got to speak with Jaime about it a few years ago for @powells.bsky.social:…

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Published: January 11, 2025 18:13

Problems with Pete Hegseth ranked from very bad to way, way worse: 6. drunkenness (common); 5. incompetence (common); 4. corruption (common); 3. raving bigotry (common); 2. alleged rape (less common); 1. Proposing military attack on US cities to…

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Published: January 11, 2025 17:52

Pete Hegseth, the Trump Defense pick who wrote a book calling for the actual military invasion of US cities as enemy territory—seriously—is still on deck. FBI just finished its background check. But “finished” is doing a lot of work here… (via NBC News)

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Published: January 11, 2025 17:13

This but each season is an article end to end, with each episode including a B story about an individual article begun & ended that episode. Sometimes quality work, sometimes a flub, & sometimes the flub is dangerous. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: January 11, 2025 17:05

This. X 1000. Plus the resistance to teaching media literacy k-college, & understanding it requires not just critique but knowledge of how reporting is done. Ivy at which I teach asks me not to use the J-word. Brilliant scholars routinely reproduce…

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Published: January 11, 2025 15:42

Read this as a college sophomore 33 years ago and it was devastating then. I can only imagine the experience of reading it now, an “old” book, and discovering that it still feels urgently of the moment. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 11, 2025 01:47

Friends, Rufo & Kirk don’t give a damn one way or the other about sign language. They’re trolling you. Don’t take their nasty bait.

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Published: January 10, 2025 21:08

I think the eye-rolling we do at Musk distracts us from just how powerful and thus dangerous he is. Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg… that scares the hell out of me.

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Published: January 10, 2025 21:01

Musk has been insufferable so long that I fear some can’t see the extent & danger of his devolution. “I always knew he was a Nazi” obscures how he’s gone from twit to shmuck to wink-wink fascism to the open, full, real deal, to the right even of Trump.

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Published: January 10, 2025 19:46

Ah, yes, the kind of “free speech” where you restrict the speech of those disfavored by the powerful, currying favor by demonstrating your willingness to kick the vulnerable. A cowardly man with a quivering bowl of curdled milk in place of a beating heart.…

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Published: January 10, 2025 00:00

And any death toll we arrive at will be inadequate, won’t be able to account for fatally-weakened hearts, next-to-last-gasp lungs, end-of-the-line suicides, the ODs that come from the disruption of maintenance…

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Published: January 9, 2025 21:52

Very disappointed in my junior senator Peter Welch, normally a decent guy, for voting for this farce of racist demagoguery [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 9, 2025 03:57

Elon Musk truly is a remarkable man. It’s like every day he wakes up and asks himself how he can go farther, where no human has gone before. And every day he succeeds. Attacking firefighters as they battle an inferno to save countless lives? A new low.

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Published: January 9, 2025 03:50

Always relevant but particularly poignant right now [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 8, 2025 19:28

I’m not into kink shaming but I don’t think auto asphyxiationists have any right to foist their self-harming fetish on the rest of us [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 8, 2025 18:46

I think they’re really going to do it. Panama most likely, Greenland a possibility, even some imperial rearrangement of terms with Canada along the wink-wink lines of the Soviet bloc. Just listened to Rep Brandon Gill go on about a “golden age,” “new…

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Published: January 8, 2025 13:13

TBH I think what Jeff calls “insane washing” has been responsible for much more liberal/left inaction or paralysis. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 8, 2025 13:10

Driving my 15 to school today I looked at the ridge of trees above the river and almost said to my kid — who’d been reading about the fires — “imagine if those were aflame.” But I didn’t want to scare them, &, I told myself, things don’t burn so close to…

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Published: January 8, 2025 13:06

Doomscrolling the fires while I re-read Tom Junod’s “The Falling Man” (seeking the identity of the most “famous” 9/11 jumper) to teach it tomorrow and on the radio comes Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes.” Stars are aligning. And the picture isn’t good.

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Published: January 8, 2025 13:02

I recommend @jaimeroselowe.bsky.social’s Breathing Fire, in which she follows a crew of female incarcerated firefighters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 8, 2025 12:26

This thread… god help us [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 8, 2025 02:16

If you’re human you’re frightened for L.A. If you’ve read Stephen Markley’s The Deluge, which imagines the fire this could become, or @johnvaillant.bsky.social’s Fire Weather, which reports on such a fire in Canada, you’re terrified. Is this it? Or just…

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Published: January 7, 2025 21:44

I'm going to gently suggest that all the folks speaking in earnest, or even joking, about how Canada would fight back against an invasion are, w/ best of intentions, inadvertently playing into a rhetorical maneuver intended to make us imagine this is like…

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Published: January 7, 2025 18:10

Of course he is. What’s new here is the openness with which he acknowledges using Putin’s methods to control oligarchs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 7, 2025 18:08

The freedom fries of our time (look it up, kids) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 7, 2025 18:07

It seems so outlandish that Trump would use force or coercion to absorb part of Canada in some regard that we don’t take it seriously. Just like, before J6, many didn’t take those of us who said “slo-mo coup” seriously. The man attacked his own country.…

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Published: January 6, 2025 22:38

Autocorrect in my work email just started suggesting that instead of signing my emails "Jeff" I write "jeffective." Is AI trying to tell me I'm defective? Or to boost workplace productivity by turning all our names into corporate slogans? Is this a sign…

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Published: January 6, 2025 18:44

I write in The Undertow that the particular fascist rhetorical mode of Trumpism is joking/not-joking as a means for testing & normalizing new extremes. This—just now, following Trudeau’s resignation, which in Trump’s mind is his victory—is moving a step…

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Published: January 6, 2025 14:46

Today is *not* a “peaceful transfer of power.” It’s the completion of a violent coup attempt that began this morning four years ago. Yes, Trump won the ‘24 election; but he was only able to run because we failed to fully confront the fact of that violent…

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Published: January 6, 2025 14:32

2 1/2 years ago I published a story on the martyr cult of Ashli Babbitt in Vanity Fair they called “January 6 Was Only The Beginning.” I called it The Undertow, and it became the book I published last year. No gift link, alas. But yr library probably has…

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Published: January 6, 2025 01:59

Recommendations for recent (last 5-10 yrs) magazine profiles of women who aren’t a) celebrities; b) reduced to flat illustration of an argument?

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Published: January 5, 2025 20:57

Gotta get around my non-subscription to NYer, but worth doing so for @jesspish.bsky.social’s latest [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 5, 2025 16:27

The preferred party of Musk & Vance [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 5, 2025 13:53

This is the most glaring misrepresentation of the far right I’ve seen in a while. Thanks for the essential correction, @joshtpm.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 5, 2025 05:30

Schenectady.

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Published: January 5, 2025 04:06

Somewhere in my notes I have her name, my great-great grandmother, I believe--there's nobody left alive who could tell me--but the even greater mystery is who took this photograph. Because it's a really, really good photograph.

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Published: January 5, 2025 03:44

Strong recommend for @josh-kaplan.bsky.social’s “The Militia & the Mole.” Years ago it used to drive me crazy when magazine bros called a story they liked, usually a yarn about a heist, “bonkers.” That time is past, so it’s safe now: this story is bonkers.…

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Published: January 4, 2025 16:41

A thread that does more than say “Johnson is a liar!” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 3, 2025 18:15

Wait — you’re telling me THIS guy is a villain?! I never would have guessed based on appearances

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Published: January 3, 2025 18:11

If church is meaningful to you I think that’s great but it’s funny to think about all the rightwing former know-it-all atheist dudes now sitting through masses and high church services just to own the libs. It’s like reading a boring book to impress people…

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Published: January 3, 2025 18:01

Interview of the year already [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 3, 2025 18:00

This is an amazing thread. [contains quote post or other embedded content]