Staff Writer, New York Mag. Screenwriter. New Englander in Iowa City.
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NYT names Bottom’s Up and The Devil Laughs among the top ten books of the year! nytimes.com/2023/11/28/books…
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My son just asked me if I when I was little I had to stay inside for COVIDs 1 through 18
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A student just signed off an email “thank you for being loving but still scary” and this is the only evaluation I will be submitting for tenure
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I have a difficult time believing that hundreds of gymnasts could be molested by a single osteopathic physician over decades, and not report it
I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it.
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every tweet is like BREAKING: anonymous source potentially senses a shift of vibe
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It’s just really unclear to me what a newspaper is nytimes.com/2022/04/17/opini…
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As a former intern for Charlie Rose, let me advise extreme skepticism toward close colleagues of these men who claim to be "in shock."
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Reality Winner discovered hard evidence of Russian interference, printed it out, sent it to The Intercept, and remains in jail for that decision. Last we talked she didn’t have a working sink. Think of her today.
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I was annoyed by tedious anecdotes about any given candidate’s decency until I encountered a candidate about whom no one could tell a single such story
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Fetuses are great but have you ever met a live woman? They can survive independent of a host and their heartbeats come from actual hearts
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I have zero fear of flying but have developed a crippling fear of highway driving, which is harder to kick because it’s basically rational
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Josh Hawley reacted with more energy and anger to a tweet about a feature I wrote for The New Republic than he did to the violent and deadly storming of the US Capitol. Fascinating
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Looks a lot like the “war on human trafficking” ended up harrassing a bunch of sex workers and immigrants while a man who likely enabled a billionaire sex trafficker was elevated to the cabinet position most relevant to the crime.
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Look I'm not very tech-savvy but I do know that when a Chinese asset hands you a thumb drive you should immediately stick it in a government computer just to see what's going on
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Did... did anyone tell them about federalism
It does not serve the public good to fund education systems that are not educating children. President Trump should announce that he will pull federal funds from any public school and district that refuses to fully open this fall.
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Here’s a piece I wrote about pandemics and parenting and imagination : newrepublic.com/article/1570…
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As your first act in office pls declare four seasons total landscaping a historical site
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The only way to make sense of The Discourse at the moment is to understand that prolonged isolation has driven everyone slightly mad
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Best job in the Biden campaign is deciding which visuals to pair with “I don’t take responsibility at all”
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Oh, you’re mad I gave a student an A in exchange for cleaning my house? Sorry losers, giving grades in exchange for hard work is the defining reason professors supposedly give grades
Democrats want people to be alarmed by a Latin phrase, but, really, making foreign aid contingent on behavior is actually the defining reason that countries supposedly give aid — to influence the behavior of the receiving country. breitbart.com/politics/2019/…
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Nothing I read about Larry Nassar answered my most basic questions about how abuse on this scale was possible. So I spent a good part of a year writing this week's cover story.
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Weird way to ask for a divorce
When people come into our Country illegally, we must IMMEDIATELY escort them back out without going through years of legal maneuvering. Our laws are the dumbest anywhere in the world. Republicans want Strong Borders and no Crime. Dems want Open Borders and are weak on Crime!
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What do you do the day after you storm the Capitol? I wrote about three lives transformed in the year since. nymag.com/intelligencer/2021…
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My son has a baby toy that's just knobs and buttons you can press for the joy of pressing, with no causal power. Can't wait to introduce him to the grownup version, Facebook Privacy Controls.
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Reality Winner shared a document meant to inform us about our fragile election infrastructure. Now she is housed in close quarters in a prison infected with Covid. A judge denied a request for a quick hearing to consider home confinement. Know who gets to go home? Michael Cohen.
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Old enough to remember when Very Serious People were relieved to see Trump appoint Bill Barr, man of integrity
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Ashton Kutcher’s awful Anti-Sex-Trafficking org “uses human trafficking — especially child trafficking — as a ruse to erode everyone’s privacy rights worldwide.” thecut.com/article/ashton-ku…
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My profile of the smart, funny, strange Reality Winner inevitably became a story about who we have become as a country. Months after I first got in touch with her, it's finally up.
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My younger brother just arrived at a small hotel in Aruba for his honeymoon. Room wasn't ready so he's at bar. "Hey Ben!" he hears. It's his ex-girlfriend, with HER new husband. They also just arrived. There all week. Anyway someone write a prestige HBO drama about this.
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At some deep level "go set up a meeting" offends me more than anything he said about pussy-grabbing
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Jordan Peterson is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person sounds like. This is a lucrative space.
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If I owe you an email take comfort in knowing that many people owe me emails and you are part of a great chain of absence
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For the crime of mishandling national defense information the Trump administration sent @reazlepuff to jail for five years, the longest sentence ever for an Espionage Act violation. nymag.com/intelligencer/2017…
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Trump will stop believing Putin the minute Putin becomes five people of color exonerated by DNA evidence
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Wow watch this know-it-all schoolmarm Tracy Flick clone being cold and unlikeable
.@ewarren cold called some of her small donors, and their reactions were priceless
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congrats to all the small-government types who voted for a guy who will expand the power of the executive to violate property rights in the service of spending billions to restrict freedom of movement. At least you didn't vote for a woman!
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Tulsi Gabbard really, really does not want to talk about the secretive religious sect in which she grew up. But it may be the only way to explain her campaign.
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I lived in Myanmar for two years and was later blacklisted and sent home. “The people” are not uniformly “full of joy.” In fact they appear to experience a full range of human emotions, as with everywhere except Silicon Valley.
Myanmar is an absolutely beautiful country. The people are full of joy and the food is amazing. I visited the cities of Yangon, Mandalay, and Bagan. We visited and meditated at many monasteries around the country.
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Beginning to think the entire shadow government we built in response to the deaths of 2,977 people wasn't about those deaths at all
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Naptime is a great time to think "this is your only time to be productive" over and over in an escalating state of panic and agitation until your child wakes up and you have done nothing
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I am developing a novel... it’s in my head, I think about it mostly in the shower... planning to roll it out eventually with hope of publishing in future
Statement from Verily: "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.
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That this woman has to debate this man seems at once incredibly outrageous and deeply familiar to intelligent women everywhere
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Maybe someone could hold a job fair or something where the 20 presidential candidates learn there is a job called senator
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Bourdain was under-appreciated as an essayist because he could do so much else. But he was a real writer and real reader, curious and open and intellectually nonconformist.
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Hearty congrats to all the free market types who couldn’t see any difference at all between a corrupt authoritarian tinpot protectionist and a boring neoliberal with bad email security. At least you got to vote for a man !
The cost of Trump’s tariffs has fallen "entirely" on U.S. businesses and households, Goldman Sachs has said. cnb.cx/2nkSXI8
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This is a story about how a man risked everything trying to tell us about what we were doing in Afghanistan, but almost no one cared to listen. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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While the Russians attempted to interfere in the election, the feds utterly failed to inform state-level officials actually running elections. Many realized the extent of it only after a leak from a worried 25 y.o. NSA contractor. Reality Winner wakes up every day in prison.
Breaking News: Election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, a Senate report said, showing a more far-reaching effort than previously known
nyti.ms/2Y6RINA
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Every American is going to know someone whose death can plausibly be attributed to the Trump Administration.
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I wrote a pink book about a three-legged dog, Lady Gaga, Reality Winner, Satan, selfies and the way surveillance changes the way we talk to ourselves. 🧵
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Reality Winner is in jail today because she thought we should know about a specific instance in which Russian Intelligence tried to access government computers via a third party vendor.
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A good time to become a single issue voter is the year "concentration camps for kids" becomes an issue
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No one is panicking. When people say “don’t panic” they appear to mean “I for one am going brunch.”
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Trump’s sex crimes feel far away; he’s an outlier with a personality disorder. But BK is a conformist, a man who has spent a lifetime running from the possibility of a distinguishing characteristic. The women around you have met 1000 Bretts. He could not be more familiar.
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Starting to reconsider my conviction that the biggest threat to our freedom is three annoying SJWs in a creative writing workshop at Oberlin
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It is depressing beyond belief that 100 peaceful kids can’t block a quiet intersection in the middle of Iowa without being tear gassed. I had not realized that the defense of multiple paths to the highway was our highest priority as a society.
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I don't know what Mueller is feeling right now but I do know what it's like to lead a seminar full of very opinionated men who did not read the assigned text
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What I do like about the very large field is that it’s slightly humiliating for all of the candidates
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It’s weird to me how there was endless money to create a massive, unaccountable global surveillance network but none at all to ventilate public schools. Anyway, America first!
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While media speculated about the identity of a "Second Snowden" in 2015, the government almost certainly knew who he was. He knew that they knew. They kept him waiting for five long, paranoid years. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Reality Winner was spirited away from her GA jail in the middle of the night, taken to FL, put in isolation, taken out of isolation, bussed to Oklahoma. Now she's in a filth-ridden warehouse in withdrawal from prescription meds they won't give her. She shared one document.
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Last week the University of Iowa invited students back to campus. Sunday’s positivity rate at the university hospital: 48 percent.
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I don’t like to throw this word around but if you prefer the royal family to the girl from Suits, that’s Treason
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I don't know what ideology you're representing when you ban *private* schools from mandating masks, but it's... not conservatism thehawkeye.com/story/news/20…
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Angry violent mobs with no respect for private property are boarding ships and throwing chests of tea into the Atlantic. Very Unamerican. Vote for me I will crush the mobs
"Our Nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values & indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials & unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities."
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Many thanks to @chrislhayes for having me on his podcast for this conversation about Reality Winner, surveillance, the deep state, and the unfortunate prosecutorial enthusiasms of the DOJ.
In the summer of 2017, a young government contractor named Reality Winner leaked classified US documents, and paid a heavy price.
On the latest #WITHPod, @chrislhayes speaks with writer Kerry Howley, who wrote an in-depth profile on Winner. on.msnbc.com/2N24pSm
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Throughout her ordeal, Reality lacked full support from the left because her leak was thought to further a false narrative about Russia.
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Undergrad Short Story: Two paraplegic lovers murder thousands of people and then themselves during a civil war, also there's an earthquake
MFA Short Story: A sad girl stares at a river
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The people I least want to share a lifeboat with are the people who will say "and you're surprised??" as we drift into the void
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I wrote about two endearing young scientists, an argument, and the worst day in the history of the planet nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Just found out a five year old I know and love can’t join Girl Scouts because she happens to be severely immunocompromised and multiple scout parents in her troop won’t vaccinate. This is who anti-vaxxers punish and isolate—kids who have already been through so much.
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Every single man loyal to Donald Trump is the John convinced the sex worker really loves him
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I wrote about the radical decontextualization of the fetus -- and how it broke our politics. thecut.com/article/marjorie-…
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The end result of giving local police military firepower appears to be that they will sit around and wait endlessly for the arrival of equipment that negates the fleeting possibility of personal risk
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I wrote about the greatest poet of her generation, being mothered by an artist and mothering as one, writing into time, and "late work." vulture.com/article/jorie-gr…
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Congrats to all the free trade fundamentalists who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a friendly neoliberal with bad email security
Ford is planning to lay off workers after they say President Trump’s tariffs have cost them $1B.
on.msnbc.com/2yCGtx0
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I simply could not be more excited about working with @SusannaFogel and @BigBeachFilms. variety.com/2019/film/news/r…
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