Pretty wild that we just went through an election where a top foreign adversary aggressively tried to stop Democrats from voting — including calling in bomb threats to swing state polling locations — and there’s zero media interest in learning what Trump plans to do about that.
Chin up, team. Take some time. Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Take care of your community.
There are a million ways to make a difference—get back in the fight when you’re ready.
And know that, whenever you are ready, I’ll be ready to get back in with you.
Eight years ago this night, my son asked me: "What do we do now?"
I answered,
"We walk to the bar, strike up the band, and sing The Marseillaise."
These past few months, my plan for 2025 was to retire from political journalism.
Seems I'll have to make new plans.
"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal."
In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago: https://t.co/rsDH2BQzwX
In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.