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Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, democracy defender. Actor for a day on Succession, Jeopardy champ. Atlantic Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y
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Quite a moment when top military commanders are reacting to Elon's latest manic weekend email outburst as though it's a provocation from a rival state power

11 years. Don’t ask me how she puts up with me.

Detailed and clear post on the dangerous implications of firing all the top military lawyers from Charlie Dunlap sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2025...

I've heard Trump tell the "Raizin" Caine story numerous times. It's incredibly telling about how he sees the military.

Everybody’s an editor

As the Atlantic's @radiofreetom.bsky.social explains, Trump is capturing all the key ministries one needs to hold power in a dictatorship www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

I already have an editor and I already had a mom, but thank you

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

french far-right leader jordan bardella canceled his remarks at cpac today reason given: “one of the speakers allowed himself, out of provocation, a gesture referring to nazi ideology.”

Too many details in this just-published @ashleyrparker.bsky.social @matteowong.bsky.social @michaelscherer.bsky.social @shaneharris.bsky.social piece to pick just one. Trust me when I say, just read it: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A must-read about how to deal with online trolls.

Words fail.

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It is my considered and expert opinion that Miss Lily C. Nichols is something of a goofball

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

There is zero question that the Trump Administration is going after mail voting.

This man is zooted into the next dimension

Classic con structure: the big returns are coming!

I hate when people do this. Yeah, if Pence were wagging a finger at Biden I might roll my eyes. But it's useful to have Trump's former VP standing up to Trump & for the truth. Why on earth would you want to slap him down for it? What purpose does it serve, other than making you feel smug?

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Literally begging people to read @radiofreetom.bsky.social I. @theatlantic.com today (I’ve gifted the link to you) because facts matter, history matters, expertise - expertise like his - MATTERS, IT COUNTS, IT IS CRUCIAL, OH MY GOD: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Instant ejection

send help, i'm in danger of becoming a "it's a republic not a democracy" guy

Replaying #Fallout 4 with some of the new content. It's a nice graphic upgrade and while some of the new content isn't that wild, it was fun to drop a Minutemen artillery strike on an Enclave camp.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.