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It's been in the works for a while, but I'm really excited to come on board Trevor's podcast as an EP. And what a lovely first episode to work on. Also, I cry laughing at the Mandela/Grammys bit every time. Shoutout to the whole team that makes What Now, honored to be a part.
To celebrate
@Trevornoah
40th birthday,
@SizweDhlomo
and I jumped onto his podcast on Spotify with him. This is the most open we have all been about our friendship.
Enjoy
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My daughter just tried pizza for the first time.
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There are dozens of ways to call out the wrongness of this tweet but the most productive one is to point out that we have mobilized research and funding to significantly reduce many of these harms; but been unwilling to do so for gun violence.
In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…
500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
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Turned on CNN and the first thing I heard was the anchor say was “we know this is a game changer, and we know the US will have to respond.” Do not accept this premise; do not employ this language.
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The Bucks immediately made a statement asking the WI legislature to reconvene. Lebron James started a voting rights organization that is finding new poll workers. If you are not seeing the concrete efforts you are doing so on purpose.
Jared Kushner says he'll reach out to
@KingJames
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"What I'd love to see from the players in the NBA--again they have the luxury of taking a night off from work, most Americans don't...I'd like to see them start moving into concrete solutions that are productive."
@politico
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Just stumbled across a photo I took in the back office of a small museum in Iowa last year. I think about this list a lot.
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(While I appreciate the love this is getting I notice that a few Chicago pizza shops have tweeted it and I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that whatever it is you’re subjecting your customers to — it’s not real pizza)
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My hunch is that the conversations taking place among Trump’s cabinet and staff about invoking the 25th amendment are less “we should consider the 25th amendment“ and more “we should tell reporters that we’re considering the 25th amendment.”
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England, USA, Iran is just an incredible geopolitical grouping. Get Canada in there and it’s basically the plot of Argo.
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What is a major American city where getting to and from the airport is not, as they say, “a whole thing.”
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It almost took a year, but this was inevitable.
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Free idea for my former employer: ESPN should fill slots for canceled games with the absolute best games in their archives, called by today's analysts and sharp historically-minded context. Might hit on what I think will be a strong desire for comfort-viewing over the next month.
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I think about this tweet every single day. It also gets at why I found the final line of Don't Look Up so devastating.
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My two favorite things about New York are this and the fact that people are acting like this is no big deal.
http://t.co/tDtSAsiKeo
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Here's Trump claiming he's always cautious about hidden cameras. Worth noting that he said those things to Billy Bush *while on a film set.*
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Jemele, still having this photo at the ready three years later, and using it in this moment, is the greatest gift me and my daughter could ever ask for.
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I'd never cried at a picture of a group of lawyers staring at laptops before today.
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Congratulations to John McCain, new recipient of the James Comey "Wait, Does Everyone Now Like This Guy Again?" Award.
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I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that as a country we decided, fundamentally, that we’d rather fight about covid than fight against covid.
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Shoutout to the screaming baby on Tom Price’s first commercial flight.
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Shout out to those who've said less than five words out loud all day and are leaving their house for the first time right now.
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Something that sticks in my craw about The Lincoln Project. When a new ad comes out, lefty internet goes nuts, often along the lines of “See this is how you attack Trump! Call him unfit, attack his character. Where has this been?!” You know who ran ads like that? Hillary Clinton.
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I know if I uncovered Nixon/Watergate, thirty minutes later I'd be tweeting about TV ratings.
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In breaking news moments like this, there should be a type of podcast you can listen to in real time, easily accessible for free.
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Youth may be wasted on the young but goddam if this year isn’t showing us that power is wasted on the old.
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Sanders: "We have to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine..."
[45s of boos]
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the real world."
What a moment.
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One thing I’m keeping my eye on are the results of the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia.
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Four years ago, I cried (during a taping of a podcast) when it fully hit me how willing this country was to reward someone with a fundamental lack of decency. I’m teary-eyed today as I‘m reminded we still have the capacity to rebuke those people.
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Celebrate July 4th:
- Eat a burger
- Revel in the collapse of our former colonial masters
- Slowly realize it might happen here
- 2nd burger
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@chrislhayes
I feel like with a lot of events, the initial images are especially dramatic/scary and then you get more context and perspective as other images come out. I’ve found this to be the opposite. The more that emerges, the more you realize how chaotic and dangerous it really was.
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I'll tell you what, it certainly seems like Donald Trump kept *his* NYTimes subscription.
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On the Winter Solstice, my daughter arranged three of her dolls in some sort of half-moon praise circle of a Dolly Parton botanica candle. I think we need to get outside more.
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Becoming a parent has helped solidify a theory I've been working on for a long time: Book jackets should not exist.
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I think that my very tenuous hold on the twists and turns of the Mueller investigation finally snapped in the last 48 hours. I read news alerts where like half the words don’t even make sense anymore.
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This may actually be the most dangerous thing Trump has ever tweeted.
Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
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Shoutout to the sophomore-year me who dropped out of a US-Russia poli-sci class to take puppetry. Coming in very handy these days.
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Lots of talk about how the loss of commutes is hitting podcast listening. I have a slightly more nuanced take - that it's the scrambling of routine. Podcasts are built on routinized listening. When it feels like you're inventing every day from scratch, harder to fit them in. 1/2
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Truly a golden era for sipping your coffee and muttering the phrase “this fucking guy...”
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I walked into 36th St station in the immediate aftermath of this morning's incident, turned around as cops were swarming. Didn't realize how serious it was. Sunset Park is my home, one of NYC's truly special communities. We will band together. My heart goes out to my neighbors.
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Imagine if this event had accidentally been booked in front of a random Chase ATM in downtown Wilmington.
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Shoutout to my Lyft driver who just checked waze, turned around, looked me in the eye and said “buddy, I’ll be honest — you should take the train.”
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We visited a hall of mirrors and it went about as you’d expect.
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One advanced-level NYC skill is scanning an incoming train for the car that is empty but not *too* empty. Can take years to perfect this calibration.
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This is exactly the right framing. Important to think of polling, and the work that Ariel and 538 and others do, as mapping uncertainty rather than “making predictions” or whatever. Over the next few days, remember to keep asking yourself what we don’t know.
I have definitively reached a stage where my first thought on seeing new polls is "oh, that's a nice presentation of uncertainty" rather than anything about the actual findings.
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Resist the urge to retreat and harden. Look for the helpers. Be a helper.
(mostly writing that for myself, but I could use your help)
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In line at a bodega, look around, four different people are looking and laughing at the Lebron tweet.
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Trading three parking spots for space in which twenty people can eat and drink is such a no-brainer. I can’t believe it took a pandemic for everyone to realize.
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Start watching at 1:13:50, you will be richly rewarded.
Jeff Sessions to Sally Yates: “People will be asking you to do things you just need to say no about.” (1:15:57)
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Like, honestly, I think much of the RNC messaging tonight was as solid as they're gonna do. It's just really tough to run on "remember how good you had it in late January?"
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Some personal-work news: I'm leaving ESPN. Starting podcasts at
@FiveThirtyEight
and then being brought on board to build the audio arm of
@30for30
, and the many other cool things we've done around the edges, has made for a really fulfilling few years. 1/
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This, of course, almost two years to the day after Graham told reporters "if, in the future, there is a pandemic during an election, and I'm asked to take a test, I will absolutely do so, you can use my words against me."
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@chrislhayes
I thought I'd long ceased to be amazed by political euphemisms, but Sasse's repetition of "preserving the employee-employer relationship" floored me.
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Breaking today's news to
@ForecasterEnten
, who was in a video taping the whole afternoon.
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Basically the Trump argument is: I'd be happy to release a concession speech, I'd love to concede, but the election is under audit.
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I know it's not this simple, but I can't help think of the millions that was lit on fire for this project in the context of the many brilliant podcast people who were just let go. Genuinely enraging.
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Scaramucci stuff is the logical end point for what Trump's been up to for two years: turning the national media into the NY tabloid media.
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Perfect, perfect video.
Happy Birthday Bernie!! Best husband, father and grandfather over all these years!
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One thing you learn by actually reading the Cotton op-ed is that he's not just advocating for troops to restore peace, but explicitly for "an overwhelming show of force."
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@mikiebarb
look, it's just a dumb internet joke -- but I have been thinking about how a ton of people, when faced with a choice to 1) assume a stranger on the internet is making a joke 2) assume a stranger on the internet *does not know what a radio is* -- they chose the latter.
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@ClareMalone
hell ya, Clare, thanks for saying this. fwiw, you're the best part of the podcast, always have been.
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Your occasional reminder that the Gilded Age was followed by the Progressive Era.
"I don't quite understand why" federal workers are needing to go to food banks, says Secretary Wilbur Ross on CNBC.
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"What are the most interesting domino effects in history?" Holy shit.
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You’re sitting at the front desk of the landscaping shop you work at. You caught the Saturday morning shift, bummer. The phone rings. It’s someone from the Trump campaign. They ask if they can hold an event at your facility. And you, you roll with it and book the damn gig.
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Still think about that from time to time.
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Suffice it to say, this is crappy news. But honestly, I've long wondered when some other outfit was going to offer Clare the chance to write and talk about whatever the hell she wants -- now's the time!
So, I got laid off late last week as part of the ABC News layoffs. I won’t lie, it was a bit of a surprise, but if anything 2020 has been perspective-setting & I’m grateful for the past 5 years, if a little sad. So...onward. Some of my best work follows. (Hi, editors!) 1/
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Woody Guthrie’s list of 33 New Year’s resolutions from 1943. 29 of them work word-for-word for my list in 2022.
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Shoutout to “add 30 seconds.” There are a dozen other buttons on a microwave but you’re literally the only one I’ve ever hit.
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Perspective: To some, the most important news of the day is still the whereabouts of the little birdie that lives in the tree outside your house.
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I'll take White People for $5 billion.
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10-ish?! What kind of lawless shit is this.
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Piece I would read: how Netflix prepares for the entire east coast having a snow day.
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@jbouie
This is not new information to me, but every time I see it summarized like this, I still kinda can't believe it.
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My dad’s dog is trained to visit patients at the hospital and was just issued an official ID.
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@chrislhayes
And I like to imagine that Forbes already has multiple "golf charity experts" in their contact list available for comment.
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This is kind of a remarkable thing for Biden to admit. His brand throughout his career has in many ways been one of civility defeating bigotry.
"I used to think you could defeat bigotry. But it only hides," Joe Biden says. "And when it's given oxygen ... it, in fact, brings out the worst in — it sort of condones activity that is, across the board, totally inappropriate. And we must speak out"
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Parenting trick: I blocked Cocomelon in the settings, then gently explained to my daughter that due to a North American rights dispute between Moonbug Entertainment and Netflix Inc the show would no longer be available on nonlinear direct-to-consumer platforms. Blame the lawyers.
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Fun history fact: This is only the sixth time Rosie O'Donnell has been mentioned in a presidential debate.
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You what I think is probably the greatest decade in the history of popular music? The exact period from your sophomore year of high school to when you were three years out of college.
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Once a week, I roast a chicken with little potatoes. Every week, I get excited when I take it out of the oven, eat a potato too early, and burn my mouth. That takes one week to fully heal, just in time for me to roast another chicken with little potatoes and do it all again.
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I cannot believe that the first time I actually needed this auto-correct, it didn’t happen.
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I take some solace in the fact that I'm still getting about ten of these a day.
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In The West Wing version of this moment, McCain's driver, set to bring him from the airport to the chamber, detours past a free clinic...
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Of course. We just wrapped up taping this week's podcast. Nope, not re-recording.
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@netw3rk
part of me is most disappointed that they just couldn't be bothered to prep beforehand and come up with a consistent false timeline.
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I hadn’t done the research up to this point, but it took about fifteen seconds to confirm my hunch that there just had to be some ultimate frisbee in Ossoff’s background.
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I really do wish, after his opening statement yesterday, someone had asked Kavanaugh directly about judicial temperament and political dispassion. That's the thing that's sticking with me, and feels like may have changed the nature of SCOTUS hearings for a long long time.
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It's happening.
THE DAILY IS GOING LIVE ON ELECTION DAY!
Wait, what?
Yes, live! For four hours. Starting at 4 pm. EST
Join us:
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I think we may have to retire the Bad Use Of Polling trophy.
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
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