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Jan 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote about the worst possible scenario in “Wait, what” in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61f1…
A lot has been made of the rivalry between Governor Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump: The story of a mini-Trump who won Florida’s governorship on a Trumpist platform displacing the real Trump has shades of Macbeth and Richard III ….

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“Republicans in places like Texas have weaponized Trump’s Big Lie to enact the most sinister voter suppression efforts since Reconstruction. They’ve embraced his lies and misinformation to undermine our elections....." @JulianCastro

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"Whether or not Abbott is worse in his aims and ideals than Trump, he certainly seems more effective. He has functionally overturned Roe and attempted to ban mask mandates, and is floating the idea of a “do not hire” list...."

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Jan 27
I am on the worlds hottest Amtrak train 🚂. Why is it so hot?
Also I will now tweet everything I overhear on this train 🚂
A four top of older doctors, one looks like Alan Alda. They are talking about emergency medicine. They are quite cute but no one is wearing their mask right.
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Jan 12
I wrote about rage farming in my newsletter “Wait, what” in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61df…
The trick for these accounts like Texas GOP is to harness the energy of other users in order to get their own ideas or accounts to trend,” @samuelwoolley told me.

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The modern GOP is for just one thing: Making Democrats mad. Think of Representative Thomas Massie’s Twitter Christmas greeting showing him and his wife and children holding what Forbes estimated was tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of guns...

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Jan 6
I wrote about marjorie Taylor Greene in “wait, what” in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61d5…
But Greene has not had any trouble fitting into Trump’s Republican Party. If anything, she’s become one of the most prominent voices in the GOP’s antidemocratic iteration.

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If you need proof that Greene is simply a manifestation of where the Republican base is right now, just look at her fundraising numbers: According to Politico, in the first quarter of 2021 she raised $3.2 million from over 100,000 individual donors

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Dec 23, 2021
I wrote about the case for hope in "Wait, What" in @TheAtlantic

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I remember when they built the field hospital in Central Park. There’s something really weird about knowing you’re in the center of a crisis, that the hospital they’re interviewing people in front of is the hospital you had your children in.

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Dec 21, 2021
They’re spending the child tax credit on food and heat
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Dec 16, 2021
So Facebook is going to do cute interviews in the Metaverse and we’re all supposed to pretend that we didn’t read all that horrifying stuff in the Facebook leaks document dump?
Facebook is sewing division

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Facebook is rewarding anger

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