Grateful for new followers. So it's worth restating some rules of my threads:
Nonsense will be muted.
Incivility will be blocked.
Proven falsehoods and threats will be reported.
"Objectivity is a marketing tool."
@HugoBalta of @fulcrum_us spent 30 years at NBC, MSNBC, Telemundo, CBS, ABC, ESPN. Then he left mainstream media to say that out loud.
The press is the only industry the Constitution protects. He thinks newsrooms forgot why.
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Here's the note I sent our exec editor after I first read this powerful piece on Trump and Trumpism from @coreysnathan.
"This is incredible. I’d love to publish it. He says so many things that I’ve thought or even attempted to say - but much better than I ever have. And there’s so much grace in here for the people who have strayed and humility about his own culpability and powerlessness."
@stephenfhayes Note to self: check X more often. @stephenfhayes, thank you. This is a hell of a thing to stumble on two days late. Grateful to you and @michaelreneau and the whole @thedispatch team for giving it a home.
@SocalReporter@stephenfhayes Totally fair point. The whole "TDS is real, it's just not what you think" is a bit glib. But it was really just an entry point into a more weighty inquiry. Mostly, a quandary to grasp what I don't understand and connect with those I may have lost.
Out this morning in @thedispatch: Does Trump Derangement Syndrome Have a Cure?
There is such a thing. It's just not what you think. The real damage comes from those who look at Trump's words and actions and can't see them for what they are.
Some are people I love and respect.
Most Americans get 2 civics classes total, then we act surprised when politics feels like something done to us.
@DCInbox Lindsey Cormack on raising citizens, the 3 questions that fix hard conversations, and her new podcast Government That Doesn't Suck.
https://t.co/Z38G1rkYWI
I had such a fun conversation with
@coreysnathan on Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other.
We talked powerlifting, founding cross-fitters, parenting, and why democracy depends on people actually knowing how to use it.
It's all here: https://t.co/Im36rvZbir
A #4thJuly essay, though not the fireworks kind. It starts with a firebombed synagogue in 1984 and ends on the right to peaceably assemble, which turns out to have faces. What survives after a sacred place is desecrated. Psalm 74 underneath the whole thing.
We're excited to launch Terms of Service, a new podcast miniseries produced by Future Caucus and guest-hosted by our President & CEO @layla_says that takes you inside the statehouse through conversations with the next generation of bipartisan lawmakers — people you may not know yet, but will want to.
The series lives in the @coreysnathan Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other feed — and in the first episode, Layla joins Corey to dig into what our Exit Interview report reveals about keeping talented people in public service.
It was a joy to join host @coreysnathan on the acclaimed Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other podcast recently. @TPandRPod
Give the episode a listen wherever you find your podcast or listen here https://t.co/KZuTTyJZhy
Yeah, I'll admit it. This whole thing tweaks my beak.
It's about Ken Paxton and James Talarico. It's about the silence of Christian leaders when the shoe is on the other foot. And it ends with a word I don't use lightly.
Link in comments.
Every prediction your bank, insurer, or algorithm makes about you? @CarissaVeliz says it's not really about the future. It's about power.
Her new book PROPHECY (@doubledaybooks) makes the case — and she makes it brilliantly on the latest @TPandRPod episode.
🎙️ Link in comments.
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