Claire Potter 🇺🇸

My piece on the 50th anniversary of The Hite Report, published with all the dirty words intact: newrepublic.com/article/210698…

In addition to what Leslie said, my intuition is that Tufts and Greenidge had a separation agreement which involved money and an NDA: that is usually the case when it comes to breaking tenure for any reason. My question is--how did the story actually get reported? I understand that speculation is what social media does, but in this case, whatever your hunch, it is cruel to Kerri to keep it in the news, and I wish everyone would stop being such a lookie-loo

And it also strikes me as pretty remarkable that all three of these institutions unpersoned Greenidge so quietly and without fanfare. *This* actually poses serious questions. Why have Norton, Tufts, and the AHA been so tight-lipped about this?

Strikes me that the response of *many* historians to the Greenidge scandal—that the NYT is whipping up a moral panic against a Black feminist scholar—overlooks that the story was merely noting that Greenidge had already been unpersoned by her publisher, Tufts, *and* the AHA

I'll be talking live to Maine's premier political Substacker, Amy Fried, about the post #GrahamPlatner Senate landscape at 4:00 pm open.substack.com/live-stream/27…

@RyanGirdusky End of an era.

Holy moly. I only met Lindsey Graham once, after disliking him for his political positions for years I immediately understood how he got to his place in politics. He was engaging, warm, and hysterically funny. Rest in peace. Very sad news.

Two very senior GOP Senators appear to have had heart attacks within the month. They say that all luck comes in threes. thedailybeast.com/shock-details-…

@TheRickWilson I do not think Fetterman can win reelection in Pennsylvania anyway.

He's gonna flip.

This is a good piece: #Echobox=1783532511" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newsweek.com/i-dated-graham…

@RyanGirdusky Another issue that is vital to the economic status of the average voter.

Do we have a head count for how many Democrats running for statewide office are willing to protect girls sports?

@RyanGirdusky On the other hand, so is promoting MAGA lunatics. Same business, different tunes.

Promoting socialists is extremely lucrative

@RyanGirdusky Snippy, I tell you. Snippy.

@TenuredRadical flip the record, it's skipping

The press didn’t do jack shit. This man lied for a year and they fell for it hook, line, and sinker

@RyanGirdusky 10 years later we still have the rapist grifter President, and Platner is gone--what does that tell you about hte right-wing press?

@TenuredRadical A year late and a dollar short

@RyanGirdusky Don't be snippy--

@TenuredRadical He launched his campaign a year before that…groundbreaking journalism

@RyanGirdusky Feminist Moira Donegan in October 2025, in the Guardian, about how lionizing Platner as "working class" allowed progressives to excuse and rationalize his flaws: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@RyanGirdusky New York Times in May, 2026, reporting on the question of his class origins: nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/…

Fox News did not cover the rape allegation until July 7. But my point is that the feminist and liberal Jewish press did: Jewish Insider broke the Nazi taboo story on October 21, 2025, asserting that he had joked about it years before he claim to have understood it. Fyfeld was quoted in that story. CNN broadcast a story about it four days later, along with a number of outlets across the spectrum.