Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillis
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@ProPublica. Author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC.
Baltimore via Pittsfield, Mass
Joined December 2011
RT @Empty_America: There is a point during the teenage years when a boy suddenly stops playing with childhood toys, begins chasing girls, e….
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RT @JHWeissmann: As I’ve been saying, nonzero chance retired boomers are going to launch a property tax revolt that ends up defunding publi….
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RT @ryangrim: The founding fathers of this country would be proud of the Washingtonians in this video. DHS agents came to Mt Pleasant and t….
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RT @janecoaston: for unknown reasons, many people seem convinced that people (generally women) have dozens and dozens of sexual partners in….
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RT @ryangrim: Update to this: Jake Sullivan’s wife, Maggie Goodlander, won her congressional race. Since taking office, she hasn’t said a p….
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RT @benryanwriter: Taylor Lorenz: "I am not selling phones.". Also @TaylorLorenz: "That's why I'm proud to partner with Bark phone. a phon….
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NYT: "For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most would vote Democratic. Mr. Trump upended that calculation with the.
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RT @ryangrim: Times front page today. Strong candidate for the Pulitzer Prize in Understatements.
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RT @dlippman: SCOOP: Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison is jumping on the Substack trend, but he seems to have overlooked the fine print by ru….
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Harrison recently uploaded his 2020 Senate campaign list to his Substack, appearing to violate Substack’s rules. People are not happy.
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RT @expatanon: I don’t have advice for young men in general, but I would recommend you read Saint-Ex, especially his memoirs and novel Nigh….
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RT @SeanTrende: We haven’t seen how he holds up as an actual candidate, but Collins is at her core an old establishment R in a state whose….
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RT @daveweigel: More about this from me. One question is whether this issue has the same power for Rs in 2025 that it did in 2021, when it….
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The commonwealth is the only GOP-led state facing an Education Department investigation stemming from gender policies.
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RT @DylanoA4: Maybe the most baller story of a writer is how Cormac McCarthy bought an Olivetti typewriter for $50 in a pawn shop in 1963,….
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"After Tuesday evening’s contentious meeting, which went on for almost four hours, Midland Lee is back, making Midland the first city in Texas to rename a school for a Confederate general." @MckeanCarrie:
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Front page of the FT: "Reading for pleasure in the US has declined by more than 40 percent over the past 20 years.".So bleak:
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RT @StatisticUrban: NYC has, if nothing else, proven itself nearly unkillable over its ~4 centuries. Pandemics, bankruptcy, terrorist attac….
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