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30 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Like all good BYU fans, I'm enthusiastically rooting for Zach Wilson tonight and quietly praying that he somehow ends up on literally any team other than the Jets.
[sigh]
On the bright side, Zach Wilson about to become by far the most eligible bachelor in NYC’s Mormon singles scene.
On the one hand, I think most of these tweets are from people who didn't see a single game Zach Wilson played in last year. On the other hand, Jets fans have earned the right to respond to every move their team makes with abject despair.

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16 Apr
"President Biden is quietly maintaining one of the Trump era’s most discriminatory policies and a key element of Trump advisers’ broader agenda of making America white again: the throttling of refugee admissions." Important piece by @AdamSerwer: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
In 2016, Obama's last year in office, the US admitted 85K refugees.

In 2020, Trump's last year, the US admitted only about 12K.

In 2021, Biden's first year, the US is on track to admit even fewer: only about 2K so far.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
This is quite revealing: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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12 Mar
"[T]he days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over," Rubio writes in a USA Today op-ed posting this morning. "I stand with [workers] at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse."
Whatever you think of his motives here, the fact that onetime donor-class darling Marco Rubio is siding with labor in a high-profile union battle is an interest indication of which way the winds are blowing in Republican politics.
Rubio pretty blunt about his calculus here: "Here’s my standard: When the conflict is between working Americans and a company whose leadership has decided to wage culture war against working-class values, the choice is easy — I support the workers."
usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
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2 Mar
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
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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…
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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…
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