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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
And so the long-awaited storm of stories for Facebook begin: nytimes.com/2021/10/22/tec…
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27 Sep
I can’t believe how bad the media’s coverage of this week’s legislative agenda is. Total, contextless focus on cost without any meaningful coverage of what the bills would do and what policies are included. Let’s debate the policy, not the dollars.
There are dumbs ways to spend $3T (hi Pentagon budget!) and ways that will transform lives, enable innovation, and unlock economic success and equity. So which America do we want to be? Focus the debate on that question, not some random meaningless dollar amount.
I mean it’s not that anyone even bothers to ask how we pay for this:
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11 Sep
THREAD: Today marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Throughout the day, I’ll be chronologically tweeting quotes from my book THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: An Oral History of 9/11, following Americans as they experience that day.... garrettgraff.com/books/the-only…
We’re also collecting stories from the #my911story hashtag, as people share their own experiences of that day. I’ll be sharing selected tweets and others’ stories throughout the day.
(If you don’t want to see these quotes all day, just mute this thread.)
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28 Aug
THREAD: The first episodes of my 9/11 podcast LONG SHADOW are out now. My goal with this eight-episode series is to try to tell the story of that day for a new generation as well as make sense of some of the questions that linger: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lon…
In some ways, this podcast from @longlead and @goatrodeo, is the culmination of all the reporting and writing I've done on 9/11 and its aftermath over two decades—including five books where that tragic day serves as the hinge of modern history.
The first episode deals with the rescue and collapse of the World Trade Center—an unprecedented and unimagined catastrophe, the scene of some of that day's bravest heroism and greatest tragedy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why…
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27 Aug
An honest question: Has a single pundit anywhere over this last week outlined a concrete and realistic plan for a better path forward in Afghanistan? For all the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching, I haven't seen anyone knowledgable offer a better solution.
Almost everything I've seen—in print and TV—are the same people who previously failed in their own efforts to solve Afghanistan over the last 20 years expressing disgust that Biden didn't miraculously solve all the intractable problems that they themselves kicked down the road.
I really find nothing more tiresome and hack-ish in politics than former officials tsk-tsk-ing on how to do something better, when in reality they—when it was their turn—didn't and couldn't do it better.
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17 Aug
More than 2 1/2 hours ago, Texas Senator @JohnCornyn incorrectly posted that the US has 30,000 troops stationed in *Taiwan*, which should be obviously wrong to a US Senator. But he hasn’t corrected it and deleted the tweet. So enjoy this embarrassment:
Cornyn (or more like a staffer) misread a Google page and didn’t click through to see that the US command ended there in *1979*. It’s a dangerous mistake, but also mostly a dumb one. This is the kind of rookie internet error we expect from Marco Rubio!
See, for instance: nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/…
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16 Aug
THREAD: A quick reminder that, as Afghanistan falls, all of the following can be true:
1) All Biden had left by 2021 were bad options, but it didn't have to be *this* bad. This cake was baked a long time ago; missteps as early as 2002 and the distraction invasion of Iraq meant that we mishandled and mis-fought this war for twenty years.
2) I don't know anyone knowledgeable about Afghanistan who ever imagined that this would end differently. The reason we stayed for 20 years was the unspoken shared assumption that the Afghan government couldn't stand on its own.
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