Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Writing a book about Frank M. Johnson and George Wallace for @penguinpress. Alum @nytimes. Tuscaloosa native. Ruth 1:16.
Aug 27 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
In the course of reporting on Patel, and the threat that he and other loyalists like him would pose to the country in a second Trump term, I struggled to shake what I learned about a series of events that took place on October 30, 2020. I want to share them with you here. 🧵
On that Friday, according to multiple reported accounts, SEAL Team 6 was awaiting the green light on a rescue mission in West Africa. The admin had recently learned where gunmen were holding an American who had been kidnapped that week from his farm near the Niger/Nigeria border.
Dec 5, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I did a lot of reporting for this piece, but nothing quite stood out like my interview with Johnny Tallant, a teacher at Marjorie Taylor Greene's high school whose class was held hostage by an armed student in 1990. This was during Greene's junior year... (Brief thread)
What happened was this: A sophomore entered the school, fired a rifle overhead, and marched students from one classroom into Tallant's (also full) classroom next door. In other words, Tallant was among those held hostage and experienced everything firsthand.
