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2 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Pandemic year 2 update: My wife is trying to sell our kids on "the 24-hour challenge," which is just daring them to stay in their bedrooms for a full 24 hours.
Each room would be stocked with toys, a fully-charged screen of some kind, and several lunchables.
We haven't worked out all the kinks
I think I may not know what “virtue signaling” means Image

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27 Jan
I'm really glad @JuliaLMarcus wrote this. So much media coverage/public-health messaging in the U.S. lately has felt like a competition to see who can produce the bleakest, most pessimistic "THIS WILL NEVER END" take. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Trying to eliminate even the lowest-risk changes in behavior both underestimates people’s need to be close to one another and discourages the very thing that will get everyone out of this mess: vaccine uptake." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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20 Jan
So, I'm going to indulge in one of those annoying threads about my stories from the Trump era. I promise not to make it too long! (Honestly, just mute me now.)
About 7 years ago, a fluke blizzard and a rerouted flight ended with me spending a two days at Mar-a-Lago with Trump. Yes, he hated my story. (And yes, that picture was meant to be a joke.) In retrospect, this was the beginning of "the Trump era" for me. buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/3…
I revisited the Mar-a-Lago experience a couple years later when Trump was about to win the GOP nomination. My story on how Trump's campaign was part of his lifelong revenge march against the "haters" who'd snubbed and sneered at him (myself included): buzzfeednews.com/article/mckayc…
Read 15 tweets
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18 Jan
How will the GOP recover from the complicity and corruption of the Trump era? To many Republicans, the answer is simple: Pretend it never happened.

My story on the collective case of amnesia about to set in among conservatives:
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“We’re about to see a whole political party do a large-scale version of ‘New phone, who dis?’” says Sarah Isgur, a former spokesperson for the Trump DOJ. “It will be like that boyfriend you should never have dated—the mistake that shall not be mentioned.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
When I asked Doug Heye, a longtime GOP strategist, how his party will remember the Trump years, he responded with a litany of episodes to memory-hole: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Read 6 tweets
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6 Jan
As the Trump era draws to a close, the Republican Party is fractured, out of power, and bitterly fighting over core tenets of democracy.

My story on the spectacle in Washington today, with quotes from Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Thomas Massie, and more: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
I spoke to (a fairly sanguine) Romney last night a few hours after he was harassed by Trump supporters in an airport. “A huge portion of the American public has been misled by the president about the outcome of the election," he told me. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“The president was right that there was an effort to corrupt the election," Romney told me, "but it was not by Joe Biden. It was by President Trump.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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29 Dec 20
In the Trump era, many Washington reporters became resistance heroes, showered with book deals, TV contacts, and Twitter followers. I talked to some of them about their (our) ambivalence about that—and what they plan to do next.
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
“On a purely social level, I don’t know that reporting critically on Joe Biden will feel as safe for reporters,” @Olivianuzzi told me. “You’re not going to get yass queen–ed to death.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
One cable-news anchor told me that praise from anti-Trump celebrities on Twitter has become like a “narcotic” for some of his colleagues: “It’s important to people that George Takei likes their monologue." theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Read 6 tweets
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7 Nov 20
I was at Steve Bannon’s rooftop Election Night party when reality started to set in—then I got dramatically kicked out. On failed prophecy, cognitive dissonance, and the future of Trumpism in America: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Hey @Harlan, are we doing that livestream? theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Slightly regretting that we didn't headline this piece "What we can learn about the future of Trumpism from a 1950s UFO sect in Chicago" theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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