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@newyorker staff writer in ATL // charles_bethea@newyorker.com Winding down here
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Nov 9, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Important olfactory note: the ballroom at the Herschel party is beginning to smell strongly of feet (heels are being removed) and very expensive perfume which a young woman just told me "is for old women" I will now endeavor to find out what kind of perfume has overwhelmed the room...but not enough to mask the feet
Mar 6, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Scoop: Mark Meadows’s voter registration has been linked, since the fall of 2020, to a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina. Meadows has never owned the mobile home. He has apparently never slept there, either. This could constitute voter fraud. (1/4) The local board of elections has not considered the matter because no one has challenged Meadows’s claim that this 14x62-foot mobile home—now owned by a Lowe’s retail manager—is the legal domicile of Donald Trump’s former chief of staff. (2/4)
Apr 14, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
I just read the scorching 5-page letter recently "written on behalf of thousands of parents, alumnae, community supporters & financial donors of Westminster," the most elite of Atlanta's private schools. It's a doozy of a document, signed by "The No Longer Silent Majority." 1/ It takes issue with how "Westminster has gone secular & is being led down a distinct political and ideological track," ie. how an old and conservative bastion of civic power has begun to evolve, under pressure, in ways uncomfortable to those it has historically served best... 2/