Isaac Chotiner
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New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan; formerly a staff writer at Slate and senior editor at The New Republic.
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For the latest issue of The New Yorker, I wrote an essay on Stuart Reid’s very good book on Congo, decolonization, American Cold War policy in Africa, and Patrice Lumumba’s assassination.
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I think Americans who followed the news got a good sense of Trump’s flaws these last four years, with one exception: He’s a serial sexual predator. Somehow, that never really sunk in or became a constant part of mainstream discourse after the 2016 campaign ended.
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Trump hasn’t tweeted much today. Why? My guess: He’s taken to heart the criticisms he received about the rally, from the racial insensitivity to the lack of focus on the concerns of regular Americans. Personal growth is important, & I welcome his newfound seriousness of purpose.
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Mitch McConnell criticizing the Muslim ban, then getting Gorsuch on the Court to uphold it, and then celebrating the decision is such a perfect metaphor for both the establishment GOP paving the way to Trumpism, and then ideologically embracing it fully.
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This is correct. The reason it was called The Great War at the time is because it was a great time.
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New Interview: I talked to Daniella Weiss, a West Bank settler and activist, about how her religious views shape her view of the conflict, why she thinks human rights should not be considered universal, and her movement’s extreme plans for the region.
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People this naive should perhaps do something other than write about American politics for a living.
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Unbelievable. Bannon concocts a scheme in which he is arrested to distract us from Joe Biden's convention speech, and everyone falls for it. A chess grandmaster has just made his all-time-greatest move.
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This country has over 300 million human beings and we elected someone who really might be in the bottom 20 or 30 (not percent)
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
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This speech is a good example of why I voted for Putin: He tells it like it is. I don’t agree with the underlying policy of invading Ukraine, but I want my politicians to tell it to me straight. That’s more important than policy.
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My advice to President Trump regarding his speech tonight in Georgia: Stick to the issues, explain the governing visions of Perdue and Loeffler, and avoid personal attacks & factual inaccuracies.
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I have immense respect for Breyer as a man & a jurist, but I worry this decision reeks of partisanship. If the Court becomes just another instrument of partisan politics, then we’re truly lost. What about waiting until a 2nd Trump term to prove this isn’t about Team R & Team D?
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The most prominent organization fighting anti-Semitism in America will commend your “leadership in fighting hate” 24 hours after you endorse vile neo-Nazi anti-Semitism…if you take a strong stand against critics of Israel
This is an important and welcome move by
@elonmusk
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I’ve read 1000 stories today on Trump and the DOJ and my main takeaway is that if the identical thing was going on in a foreign country, the tone of the stories would be 100 times less wishy-washy.
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The amount of media coverage given over to Bernie Sanders talking about a dead dictator versus Donald Trump spending today(!) fawning over a man who presided over a mass murder is rather disheartening.
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I suppose being outside the courtroom cheering for Johnny Depp is less morally grotesque than going to a fascist rally or something, but in terms of just being an absolutely pathetic loser, it’s hard to think of something really equivalent.
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I think it’s the latter. Trump’s views have always stemmed from his readings of Burke, Hayek, and Oakeshott. He doesn’t deny that government has *some* role to play in a functioning society, but he is keenly aware of how it must also be a limited one.
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New Interview: I talked to one of the lawyers who spent her week with immigrant children, many of them separated from their families, at a border facility. The conditions are horrific.
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New Interview: I spoke with law professor Richard Epstein, whose controversial article on coronavirus circulated in the Trump administration, about why he believes many coronavirus models are wrong, and the dangers of sloppy science during a pandemic.
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It’s a high bar, but this is the most tone-deaf he has been in the last 96 hours
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It’s possible this is the worst tweet of all time
Biden’s speech just now was a missed opportunity & plays right into the hands of divisiveness
Millions of Americans had doubts about the election but didn’t sign up for a riot
Using today to re-litigate the events of the last year forces people back to their respective corners
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New Interview: I talked to Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks working at a hospital in Gaza, about her experiences, and what Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient medicine into the territory has meant for Gaza’s children.
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YOU ARE A JOURNALIST
During GOP policy retreats, Boehner would gather reporters for a happy hour where he would tell us stories, razz us and shoot the shit about politics and life. It was terrific. If this book is anything like that, it’ll be fascinating
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Disappointing rally tonight for the president—and for America. The guy whose rallies were once focused on solving the JFK assassination & calling out women for their looks now seemed mostly concerned with petty matters, like drinking water & walking down ramps. Americans noticed.
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Feeling bad for Amy Coney Barrett. A woman of great character who prioritizes life above all else, she had to watch all these mask-less people at her nominating event risk lives. She must have been desperate to speak out, but didn’t want to appear rude. Sad, poignant, moving.
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Interesting to think about how the country would be different today if NBC had fired Trump after his birther remarks, and if he’d then become persona non grata on tv generally. Actually it’s not interesting: Trump simply wouldn’t be president.
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Little understood dynamic 👇
I spent lots of time reporting in Pennsylvania diners in 2016, & I heard over & over again that if a pandemic struck, average voters wanted a president who’d lie to them about it publicly while *simultaneously* revealing the truth to elite DC journos
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Susan Page has been very bad all night, but choosing to read this question has elevated her to very, very bad
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This attempted firing is Trump trying to distract us from the Tulsa rally he chose to hold to distract us from his failed Layaette Park stunt, which was intended to distract us from his failed handling of the Floyd protests and coronavirus. And you all fell for it.
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Romney’s comment today that the way to show respect for voters is by telling them the truth rather than lying to them is obviously correct, and also goes against a lot of the media discourse of the past four years about who is and who isn’t showing respect for Trump voters.
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President Trump is losing badly and in need of a message that appeals to disaffected Dems, frustrated centrists, and his hardcore Republican base. Can I recommend two weeks of mocking Ben Sasse? Nothing could unite the country more.
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A reminder that no journalist has to work for Fox News and no company has to advertise on Fox News
Tucker Carlson: "So are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would."
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It’s worth remember how many people disgraced themselves in 1989.
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People making fun of a guy genuinely “wanting to be a good dad” after growing up with a father who killed JFK is exactly why I hate this hellsite
Cruz breaks his silence. “With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.” Says he’s in “constant” touch with TX authorities
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One crucial part of Limbaugh and his legacy was just how mean he was. A presidential candidate and then president who mocked disabled people didn’t obviously follow from Sean Hannity or even Glenn Beck. But Limbaugh’s ostentatious cruelty was definitely a harbinger.
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Sarah Isgur, one of the Trump administration’s most dedicated practitioner’s of child separation, keeps tweeting about parenthood. One lesson I have learned from her tweets is that raising kids is easier when they have not been forcibly taken from you.
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I was looking for one thing from the president tonight: A governing vision. He chose to focus on petty grievances instead. This was a setback, but I think he can grow into the office.
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Conservatives are correct that liberals complain more about the electoral college AFTER conservatives vote for authoritarian maniacs who win elections without pluralities of the vote. Great point.
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It’s fun how in two weeks a majority of non-Muslim French people are likely to vote for a fascist after years of lecturing their Muslim fellow citizens about insufficiently understanding and respecting liberal values.
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This is disappointing, but the Stone case was also distracting the President. With it out of the way, all Americans should hope for a renewed focus on the virus.
Senior administration official confirms to Politico that President Trump has commuted Roger Stone's sentence
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Kudos to the journalists who spent their time last week arguing that Trump was taken out of context about immigrants, and his remarks weren’t that racist, and everyone should calm down. Hope you all sleep well tonight and are happy with how you have chosen to spend your life.
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Just when I thought this week couldn’t get any worse, I remembered that we still have ‘SNL’ skits about all this in front of us.
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I’m not sure what the common thread is here, but I’m going to give it some thought and try to come up with an explanation.
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I’m not a scholar of these things, but is there a non-bigoted way to interpret the idea that “multiculturalism” makes America weak and is not “who America is?”
Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker.
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This can only end with Trump supporters cheering on a pardon for the guy who took their money and thinks they are complete idiots
BREAKING / NBC News: Former advisor to President Trump, Steve Bannon, and four others have been indicted for illegally funneling money from the "We Build The Wall" fund.
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They should be what? The woman who helped separate children from their parents thinks children should be what?
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I’m completely agnostic on how to get more people to accept the vaccine, but it’s amusing that saying “you can’t just give them the facts; you have to try talking to them in ways A, B, and C” is perceived as being the least condescending, most respectful type of communication.
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The desire of news anchors to give Pence credit for not trying to stage a coup is truly pathetic
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I’ve seen some snark about Trump-obsessed voters, but voting against one party in a two party system because it is still led by Donald Trump and therefore needs to be defeated at all levels seems about as rational an approach to voting as I can fathom
"In interviews outside Fairfax’s early-voting site, every McAuliffe voter cited Trump as a reason for supporting the Democrat. Transportation, education and taxes — longtime core issues of Virginia governor’s races — were scarcely mentioned."
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Horrific. Imagine being in favor of people wearing masks in March 2020, being outraged about law enforcement’s treatment of Black Americans in June 2020, being in favor of everyone getting vaccinated last year, and now feeling solidarity with Ukraine.
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One thing I’m hearing from pollsters surveying the Midwest is that Leslie Stahl hasn’t really gotten her economic message across there. Worth keeping an eye on with only twelve days to go.
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Just astonishingly bad stuff from Playbook this morning.
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I just love that
@baseballcrank
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Holy shit, Isenstadt got this one. Every era has a Woodward, I guess.
SCOOP: Trump to blast Biden in convention speech tonight >>
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New Interview: I talked to Senator Ben Cardin, the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about why he believes aid to Israel should not be contingent on human rights concerns.
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One rarely discussed problem with ‘Gone With the Wind’ is that it is extremely boring.
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I’ve told Sarah many times that her skill lies in separating children from their parents, rather than public speaking or politics. Stick to what you love doing.
Sarah Isgur, a former DOJ spokesperson for the Trump administration, is part of the panel on This Week, where she's lying about the Mueller report with impunity
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I see a lot of people saying that the story below represents the worst kind of journalism. But remember: If Shams didn’t write stuff like this and get in good with his sources, he couldn’t do the vital work of breaking news 43 seconds before everyone else.
Inside Kyrie Irving’s stance to bypass the COVID-19 vaccine, with reporting on his reasoning, and where this leaves the seven-time All-Star and the Brooklyn Nets — on
@TheAthletic
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Several years ago, I interviewed Michael Oren, Netanyahu’s former ambassador to the US. I thought his answers here were worth thinking about now, in terms of both Gaza and the West Bank.
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This is a bit too on-the-nose as a metaphor for the way various institutions have dealt with Trump over the past five years
Chris Wallace just said on Fox that Trump arrived too late in Cleveland to have been tested by the clinic and that there was an "honor system" for the candidates to have arrived after already testing negative.
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My bold prediction is that he will declare victory on election night even if he doesn’t “appear” ahead.
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You can be opposed to Trump’s reinstatement this August (I am), and still think it’s important for Biden to attend Trump’s reinstatement ceremony.
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The press complaints about Biden not giving enough press conferences, and says it is bad for democracy, and then gets the chance to ask him questions, and asks questions like this
“Don’t ask me if I’m confident,”
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One real problem with media coverage of Trump supporters was the amount of time given over to what they say they care about (important and possibly revealing) to what they actually care about (more important and more revealing)
I will admit that I thought people on the right would at least *pretend* to care more about the fact a MAGA mob killed a cop.
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Good way to show support for the president👇
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This is moving. Fox News viewers were so emotionally impacted by the death of John Lewis that they couldn’t even watch his funeral.
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This formulation continues to be maddening. Kevin McCarthy and The Washington Post’s editors do not in fact exist in two different realities. All of them are perfectly aware of what is going on, and what went on. McCarthy has chosen to lie about it. That’s the only difference.
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New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel.
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Smart point from a friend: This was “the strongest indication yet of trump’s racism...not just bc you have to be a racist to do it. but bc the racism blinded him to how outraged other people would be. why would people be outraged by what happens to a bunch of brown kids?”
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New Interview: I talked to Tareq Baconi, an expert on Hamas, about what the group hoped to accomplish, why Israeli government policy toward Hamas has changed over the years, & how to understand the sheer scale of the violence & cruelty of recent days.
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It’s odd for Sasse to say that the GOP can be the “party of Eisenhower” when it hasn’t been the party of Eisenhower for Sasse’s entire life and even he doesn’t want it to be
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Must be nice for your parents to have a child that wasn’t forcibly taken away from them.
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Everyone knows about Michael Wolff’s shoddy journalism. Fewer people know about his sentences. Just try reading these out loud.
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New Interview: I talked to Alan Dershowitz about getting shunned, the January 6th committee, and the end of his friendship with Larry David.
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I’m all for doing anything it takes to convince people to get vaccinated, but when someone gets really mad at, say, drunk drivers, is there an army of people who come out to lecture the person about this not being the most effective way to get them to stop driving drunk?
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The media has spent years calling Trump a liar. In response, he finally tells the truth about trying to slow down testing. And what do these media folks do? They attack him! Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. The best thing for the president to do now is tune them out—and lead.
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If Obama had had a bday party with real meat, Maureen Dowd would complain about the double standards and hypocrisy of the global warming-concerned elite. If he has Impossible Meat, she can call him an out of touch elitist. Nice gig.
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Bob Woodward just said on CNN that the media is too focused on getting the story of what’s going on with Trump’s health, and that the focus should be on wishing him well and treating him medically.
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People who favor heads of state being chosen according to their bloodlines should say so. And if you favor an established state religion which that monarch will lead, say so. Too many people celebrating a system they don’t have the guts to forthrightly argue for.
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Aside from the fact that Gallup finds over 70% of people support this, I appreciate Cornyn’s clarity in arguing that his party finds anti-bigotry initiatives to be divisive
Another "unifying" move by the new Administration?
Biden Ends Partial Ban on Transgender Soldiers in U.S. Military
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Seems odd stuff like this isn’t a bigger story. Tulsa was.
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The stupidity of conservative media is truly something to behold.
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I don’t wear my mask outdoors for any health reason, but when the temperature is below 50 degrees, especially in the morning, I like wearing it for warmth. I now realize that if I do continue to do this I am likely to be part of some inane anecdotal Twitter complaint
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This is such lazy phrasing that leads to pointless cynicism about “our government.” If you want to direct blame somewhere, list actual people.
If the government isn’t funded by Monday, it will be a massive massive embarrassment for Congress and the White House. We’re in the middle of a pandemic — thousands are dying each day — and our government is paralyzed by an issue it saw from miles away.
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New Interview: I talked to Arif Husain, the chief economist of the World Food Programme, about the food crisis in Gaza, why it may get worse, and what it means for Gaza’s children.
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To recap: The piece’s argument was that regular Georgians didn’t love Trump, but were concerned about Dems/lawlessness. Turns out two of those interviewed—1 now removed—were respectively a GOP consultant & a Young Republicans leader/son of Trump’s Ambassador to Luxembourg.
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