Alexander Yaffe

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

Our daughter Arden’s surprise 9th birthday was supposed to be her first big concert: @OliviaRodrigo in DC with Dad. We got inside, then learned our resale tickets weren’t valid and had to leave as Olivia started. Heartbreaking. We’re trying again in Philly 11/7. Fingers crossed!

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Please read this from Russell.

[Sr. Theresa Aletheia @pursuedbytruth]

“The Church doesn’t belong to any political party. Rather, she helps form your conscience. The Church helps form your conscience so you can think and act with wisdom and love.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Here is an assessment of the dimensions on which American democracy is backsliding, from an organization of former members of the US intelligence community, @steadystate2025.
https://t.co/i0kLR631LM

Here are the first 3 out of 6:

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@davidfrum @DCrittenden1 Congratulations!!

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@TansuYegen 56

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.

His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.

He’s pushing us toward a recession.

He’s threatening to invade allies.

They’re grabbing students off the streets and deporting them for legally protected speech.

He’s attacking every part of our judicial system from judges to law firms.

He’s letting an unaccountable MAGA billionaire illegally dismantle the government.

That same MAGA billionaire is working to buy elections by literally handing out million dollar checks to people.

Republicans are helping him.

We’re losing the things that are great about America—free speech, due process, strong allies, a functional legal system—right in front of our eyes.

America better find its backbone, and soon.

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@davidfrum Exactly

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@JonLemire @davidfrum @TheAtlantic @MSNBC Fantastic!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump's win shows us who we really are: This article by professor Aaron W. Hughey is one of the most powerful and accurate post-election indictments of America you'll ever read. 😳👇

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Because I came up in the conservative movement and spent endless hours listening to/reading conservative tastemakers and policy wonks, the way “conservatives” are embracing these cabinet picks—even after everything I’ve seen the last 8 years—is next level nihilism.

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@davidfrum I’m aure that was difficult in some respects. I’m sorry. I’m with you.

[Bonnie Kristian @bonniekristian]

ICYMI, I'm in @thedispatch this week talking about how to take our differences seriously without letting them destroy our relationships: https://t.co/aN4UQCz3nI

[David French @DavidAFrench]

More of this, please.

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@PreetBharara Happy Birthday Papa Bharara! Wishing you many happy and healthy returns!

[U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell @SenMcConnell]

Like Mugniyah and Soleimani before him, Hassan Nasrallah authored decades of terror and suffering across the Middle East. Israelis, Americans, Lebanese, and Syrians are safer without him on the battlefield. America should heed this reminder of what it means to impose costs and justice on those who wish us harm.

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@bizarchive That’ll make the show even sweeter! Enjoy, and thanks for all you do.

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@TomMarshall111 @antine7 Congratulations!!

[Alexander Yaffe @ayaffe]

@NancyAFrench And we, you!

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

My kid, now a freshman in college, told me her professor announced today (first day of class) that she’s so tired of obvious AI generated essays that she’s carving time out for in class essay writing: shorter essays, hand written, with just the printed primary source material.