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Tim Alberta Profile picture
@TimAlberta
Mar 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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đź’ŚLetter to Washingtonđź’Ś

I went Sam's Club last week, wanting to know how everyday Americans were reacting to the #COVID19 crisis.

3 hours later, I'd stocked up on a single item: fear.

politico.com/news/magazine/…
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I met a Trump voter, Peter Molloy, who's super high-risk (needs oxygen every night before bed), super worried, and went *off* on the president's handling of #COVID19 >>>

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I met a couple, the Clancys. They wore masks & gloves, and had probably $500 of stuff jammed into their cart.

"Two million deaths! Two. Million. Deaths. That’s where we’re headed," Mark said.

Their daughter fled Manhattan for quarantine in New Hampshire.
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There are different strands of fear. I met people afraid of dying, afraid of never seeing loved ones again, afraid of having no idea what the future holds.

I also met people afraid of not living.

Take Matt Cauley, a Trump supporter who rejoiced at the president’s “Easter” idea: Image
Duane, a middle-aged black man, said he's afraid of "these right-wingers talking about acceptable losses," and how those opinions contribute to a feedback loop w/ POTUS
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Here's one for the #Coronavirustruth crowd:

Fresh off her shift at University of Michigan hospital, Seleta Dantzler struggled to put into words what she's been witnessing day in & day out.

"The more casualties we're seeing, the quieter it's getting."

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Jul 26, 2023
Dear @TatianaSiegel27

1) I met w Licht on 7 different days

2) I used zero off-record details or quotes, as our FC team can attest

3) His trainer overheard portions of 1 interview

4) Licht is quoted extensively in a neutral context (sorry it wasn't positive enough for you/him) Image
5) In August 2022, Licht himself (not just Dornic) met with me over dinner. They knew I was pitching a profile, because...

6) When you propose to spend months and months reporting on someone—using them as a "case study" for larger trends—we journalists call that a "profile." Image
7) "Two sources," eh? Four people present. One, the trainer, was out of earshot (Licht grunted the remark directly to me.) The other, Dornic, didn't quite catch it, and I relayed the full quote to him afterward. And your piece says Licht didn't comment. So... who are the sources? Image
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Jan 11, 2023
Numb. It's no exaggeration to call Blake a once-in-a-generation talent. The guy could do it all—write short and long, edit newsletters and mag cover stories, conceptualize features in the midst of a tweetstorm—and do it with excellence. But that's not what made him special. 1/
Six years ago, I had to tell my new boss something. I was dealing with sudden onset of panic disorder—ferocious, debilitating anxiety. Couldn't leave home. Couldn't make eye contact. Wasn't sure I could practice journalism at all. His response was something I'll never forget. 2/
"Want to compare notes?" he asked me.

So we did. My new boss, a dude I barely knew, became my mental-health confidante. We'd start every work-related conversation by trading stories about our respective struggles. I started to improve. And my new boss was a big reason why. 3/
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Jan 7, 2022
Actually, let's use the 1/6 anniversary to smear the cowards who systematically deceived those millions of Trump voters. Their mistake was not invading the Capitol; it was believing these professional liars who were radicalizing them for personal/political gain.

A brief thread:
Kevin McCarthy, take a bow
Lindsey Graham and Sean Hannity, dynamic duo
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Oct 15, 2021
If you want to understand the @CNN / @joerogan situation, think of the media as a clique-obsessed high school.

A brief thread:
Rogan is the stoner who does wild stuff, breaks all the rules with with few consequences, and hangs out with shady characters (and some straight-up criminals). Therefore most of us don’t want to be associated with him, even though a bunch of us secretly love to get high with him.
CNN is the pompous rich kid who lives in a bubble. He gets high, too, but rarely faces the kind of accountability he preaches for the stoner. That drives some of us crazy—but we tend not to say anything, because you’d rather stay on his good side. Plus, he throws awesome parties.
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Jan 6, 2021
My goodness. Kevin Williamson this morning. Read every word.

"No one who has participated in this poisonous buffoonery should ever hold office again."

nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/tr…
"I have on many occasions criticized the abuse of the word coup in our politics, but that is what this is: an attempted coup d’état under color of law. It would be entirely appropriate today to impeach Trump a second time and remove him from office before his term ends."
"Trump’s media cheerleaders, who like to call themselves constitutionalists & patriots, are no such thing. They are, for the most part, profiteers who will justify anything if it helps them to hold onto one point of audience share as they peddle their various blends of snake oil"
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Jan 5, 2021
States administer elections in this country. States canvass. States certify. States appoint slates of electors to the EC.

Once those state results are certified, and EC votes cast, there is no federal role beyond Congress tallying them and the sitting VP announcing a winner.
This is very straightforward. Can members of Congress object to the count? Yes. But objections have historically been extremely rare and narrow in scope. They've also been ineffectual—because federal lawmakers wouldn't dare, with the stakes so high, usurp the will of the states.
This is what makes 2020 so special. The same folks who've screamed about federal overreach and #makeDClisten are now proposing Congress disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans and strip states of their electoral sovereignty.

It would be stunning if it weren't so predictable
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