Jonathan Chait
@jonathanchait
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Atlantic staff writer. Liberal (not leftist, not centrist). Tweets with links are prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments.
Washington, D.C.
Joined June 2009
Some personal news. Sad to say goodbye to @NYMag but thrilled to be joining @TheAtlantic
nymag.com
The closing of a wonderful chapter in my career.
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Is this a joke? Half of young Republicans "might hate Jews" because of the influence of their progressive friends? Not because they love listening to Fuentes, Owens, Carlson, and other right-wing anti-Semites with millions of followers/viewers? Sure, that makes perfect sense.
It's hard to accept that half of young Republicans might hate Jews, but you have to remember that they are still heavily influenced by their progressive friends, who all hate Jews
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Really good @tomfriedman column on Israel at the moral abyss
nytimes.com
Netanyahu has gotten Trump to focus on Iran and ignore the destructive things Bibi is doing in Gaza, in the West Bank and inside Israel.
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"Mick is the only coach I know who doesn’t film his practice. You know why? He doesn’t want evidence.”
usatoday.com
UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin did it again Tuesday night — he keeps doing this — and someone needs to get him under control.
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Trump: Every last remaining hostage living and dead has been returned back home. They dug dug dug… Hamas did a lot of that work, you got to give them credit for that
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are they saying people don't live in corporations? or corporations don't live in homes?
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Kids, the premise of the most popular TV show in America was that the guy on the right could beat up the guy on the left (or anybody) but chose not to
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The original "Band of Brothers" was actually about internet creeps, but the audience hated it, so the studio changed it to be about war heroes
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Democrats desperately need to get over the delusion that there’s some secret enormous bloc of progressive voters in the south searching for the great liberal hope. https://t.co/gbiIdaz3k4
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Perhaps because the Democratic party’s donors push it to the left, not right, on economics
Thread: In every interview he does, Obama makes time to criticize the Online Left for being too stringent on social issues. Much less frequently does he criticize the powerful Democratic donors who have trimmed the party's sails on economic issues https://t.co/sVSg8p2kAz
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The real reason is that people are too lazy to open a jar of sauce
Jimmy Fallon Kills Planned Pasta Sauce Line With Pal Tommy Mottola as Epstein Friendship Is Revealed
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“Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends. But the truest understanding of slavery doesn’t serve any political
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There’s enough material in this story for an entire movie
Gift Article… for the missing blanket https://t.co/HkAE5Wac5F
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Really good article, and I don’t know which is upstream of the other (or maybe it’s a feedback loop?) but there’s a version of this mindset very prevalent in the art and literary worlds right now that is similarly impacting the work being produced
I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today. 🧵
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them?
theatlantic.com
Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them?
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An all-time high, 58%, of voters say the Dem Party is too liberal. This comes as 1-in-3 Democrats think of themselves as Democratic Socialists! And the % of Dems who say they're very liberal has quadrupled since 1999. NJ-11, NYC mayor & Bernie Sanders are no aberration.
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NEW: Inside the Moroun money machine: Competing bridge owners ramped up lobbying before Trump’s Gordie Howe threats The Ambassador Bridge company is using Ballard Partners, a top lobbying firm in Trump’s Washington with deep ties to his administration. https://t.co/m0MGCp9Ubc
cbc.ca
An analysis of U.S. federal lobbying and campaign finance data sheds fresh light on how the Moroun family has sought to influence the political landscape around the busiest land border crossing...
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This bridge fight should be getting more attention. Corruption all the way down the line—and a big fuck you to the people of Michigan.
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Trump's bridge scam is the prototypical exercise of his economic worldview
theatlantic.com
The president’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else.
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Michigan native @jonathanchait explains the full history of the Detroit-Windsor bridge saga and the ways it illustrates Trump's warped economic worldview
theatlantic.com
The president’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else.
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Will Lewis, the former CEO of the Washington Post, who resigned under pressure after gutting the newspaper, received a salary of $3 million from Jeff Bezos, according to a government document showing H1B employee pay, Gene Weingarten writes in his newsletter.
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