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Editorial Board @dissentmag. Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.
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It's good to see the NYT discover something that @MichaelLangeNYC has been banging the drum on for a while: support for and opposition to NYC-DSA candidates is largely divided by age, not race. nytimes.com/2026/07/12/nyr…
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Wow.
Am hearing that as many as 150 Democrats could vote YES on the measure to cut all aid to Israel.
A show vote, but still, if so, will be a real dramatic moment marking a shift in decades of American foreign policy.
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There’s going to be a bidding war for the film rights
Ashley Parker@AshleyRParker
Like anyone who’s spent any time around politics, I have many Lindsey Graham stories. This is perhaps my favorite… I was covering Congress (Best! Beat! Ever!) for the NYT when the Mother Emanuel shooting happened in Charleston. It was summer, but I was wearing pants and a sweater that day because it was always SO freezing in the Capitol. Anyhow, news of the shooting came down, and the DC Bureau chief called me with an order: Get yourself to Charleston ASAP and glue yourself to Graham’s side. She wanted a piece on the senator grappling with the unimaginable. So I headed straight to the airport, arriving in Charleston with just my backpack and what I’d be wearing to work that day, and linked up with Graham. He had me meet him at a restaurant, where I told him I needed to shadow him for the next 48 hours. And he looked at me, with amused distaste, and said: “You are sticky. And you are icky. If you want to shadow me, go buy some nice new clothes—maybe a dress—and take a shower, and then we’ll talk.” (He was not wrong; I was sweaty and gross). So I drove to a local big box store, bought a dress (he seemed to have a strong preference for a dress), and spent the next few days with him, resulting in this piece (which, for reasons not worth getting into, ended up being fairly different than the original assignment): nytimes.com/2015/06/20/us/…
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@yeselson @owenjonesjourno Mahmood is a good performer. She’s more conservative but also comes from a minority background. So he’s trying to cover all bases. But the truth is we don’t know how he will govern.
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If Andy Burnham does this, then there will be one advantage.
No stringing alone, no false pretences.
It’ll just be Starmerism with a Northern accent.
And that will mean a renewed assault by the Greens to gobble up Labour’s urban vote.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has decided against appointing Ed Miliband as Chancellor Senior Allies say Shabana Mahmood is now the frontrunner to replace Rachel Reeves [@thetimes]
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@daveweigel I’m genuinely shocked he was so blunt there. Was saying he want gonna run, now jumper to firing a ticket partnership!
On paper, yes, it’s a very good ticket.
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@EricMGarcia And she’s winning black voters by an insane number.
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@EricMGarcia Yeah it does. She’s a terrible candidate. But he’s a vulnerable candidate and is getting bombarded with paid media.
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@OrigenOfSpices @JHWeissmann distaste.” It is what is, from a strange land so close, yet so raw away.
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@OrigenOfSpices @JHWeissmann ??? I’m not criticizing either of them. I’m reading the anecdote symptomatically—it’s archaic, from another time.
The idea that, “Oh he was doing for his constituents” is just conjured out of thin air! He didn’t say that! He did tell her, with to change and shower “with amused
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I think the reactions to this tweet are a reminder that most of America and the commentariat have entirely lost the ability to read subtext.
Ashley Parker@AshleyRParker
Like anyone who’s spent any time around politics, I have many Lindsey Graham stories. This is perhaps my favorite… I was covering Congress (Best! Beat! Ever!) for the NYT when the Mother Emanuel shooting happened in Charleston. It was summer, but I was wearing pants and a sweater that day because it was always SO freezing in the Capitol. Anyhow, news of the shooting came down, and the DC Bureau chief called me with an order: Get yourself to Charleston ASAP and glue yourself to Graham’s side. She wanted a piece on the senator grappling with the unimaginable. So I headed straight to the airport, arriving in Charleston with just my backpack and what I’d be wearing to work that day, and linked up with Graham. He had me meet him at a restaurant, where I told him I needed to shadow him for the next 48 hours. And he looked at me, with amused distaste, and said: “You are sticky. And you are icky. If you want to shadow me, go buy some nice new clothes—maybe a dress—and take a shower, and then we’ll talk.” (He was not wrong; I was sweaty and gross). So I drove to a local big box store, bought a dress (he seemed to have a strong preference for a dress), and spent the next few days with him, resulting in this piece (which, for reasons not worth getting into, ended up being fairly different than the original assignment): nytimes.com/2015/06/20/us/…
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@AndyKHLiu Yaxel better get his ass in shape—gonna have to go 48 every nit with this crew.
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@OrigenOfSpices @JHWeissmann included it in order to make a recently deceased man look as generous as possible. But she didn’t—because it was just about what *he* thought about *her.*
*disparagement* *story* and *Parker* above.
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@OrigenOfSpices @JHWeissmann Yeah maybe—but you’re just inferring all of that, rather than looking at the plain words on the page.. What he actually said was, “Clean it up young lady!” with a look of displacement on his face.
Moreover, if that was the “real” meaning of the study, Oarker would have likely
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@OrigenOfSpices @JHWeissmann But that not at all how she herself tells the story. She didn’t say or even remotely imply that, from *his pov*, it was about Black churchgoers.
Hwas a very blunt guy. Don’t you think if his first concern was who they would visit, he would have said that directly to her?
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@yeselson @JHWeissmann Isn’t a big part of the subtext here that they would be visiting black churchgoers in South Carolina ?
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@DanFriedman81 @JHWeissmann He said nothing about any of that!
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@yeselson @JHWeissmann His reactionary ideas? He was doing a condolence visit to a church where people had been murdered and she showed up wearing a sweater in SC in June and smelling like dirty gym socks, and he told her she couldn’t go with him unless she took a shower and changed clothes.
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@DanFriedman81 @JHWeissmann And he didn’t say anything about “constituents”—that just your inference. She conveyed *his* direct reaction to her. He talks about her spending time with *him.*
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@DanFriedman81 @JHWeissmann with brio, as if we’re reliving a moment with Oscar Wilde.
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@JHWeissmann I don’t think she’s a horrible person for retelling it. But it’s like something strangely from another era—there’s really no spark or wit to it, Graham’s (a sometimes witty man), hers, or anybody else’s.
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@JHWeissmann Yeah, but it’s so reactionary and banal—so retro, in fact, that the fastidious gay man, well into the 21st century, remains closeted—which is, um, icky. The story makes her smile, I guess, but I can’t imagine it making anybody else—any other faction even—smile.
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