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Feb 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote about What Fox Doesn’t Cover in “Wait, What” in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6204…
If a story doesn’t run on Fox, will Fox viewers even know it happened? Fox has created an alternative universe where all American cities are burning dystopian hellscapes...
newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6204…
“In the rare instances where they think a development may be so significant that it could pierce the bubble, they’ll distract or deflect or offer a counternarrative to latch onto” @GoAngelo told me.

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/6204…
You can subscribe here and then you can email me and complain about my smoking hot takes.

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Feb 3
Imagine deciding that it was time to laundry the image of one Rudy Giuliani by making him the masked singer.
Also good for @kenjeong
Perhaps Reality television shows could stop laundering far right politicians who work to undermine democracy?
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Feb 2
I wrote about the cancel culture crew’s odd silence on book banning in “wait, what” in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61fa…
The people who are obsessed with cancel culture have been conspicuously silent when it comes to banning books and politicizing libraries. Dispensing anti-vaccine content from an enormous platform is literally a matter of life and death.

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61fa…
The guy with the $100 million contract having to stop spreading lies about the vaccine is not the same as the removal of books that upset oversensitive parents.

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61fa…
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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 26
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 ….

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61f1…
“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

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61f1…
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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.

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61df…
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...

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61df…
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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.

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61d5…
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

newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61d5…
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