Adrienne LaFrance
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This Is the Coronavirus Election
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 91d 7 tweets
In January, the COVID-19 pandemic will still be burning its way across the U.S. Next week, Americans will choose whether to bring it under control.
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Adrienne LaFrance One horrifying detail in this must-read piece is the reminder COVID-19 is merely a "starter pandemic... neither as contagious nor as lethal as other pathogens." 91d
'I Moved on Her Very Heavily'
The Atlantic 92d 1 tweets
The E. Jean Carroll Interviews
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Adrienne LaFrance A federal judge just knocked down DOJ's attempts to shield the president from 's defamation suit. Carroll has spent recent months interviewing and profiling women who, like her, accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Read her series 92d
The Plot to Kidnap Me
The Atlantic 92d 14 tweets
Every time the president ramps up his violent rhetoric, every time he fires up Twitter to launch another broadside against me, my family and I see a surge of vicious attacks sent our way.
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Adrienne LaFrance "I won’t let anything distract me from doing my job as governor, I will not stand back and let the president, or anyone else, put my colleagues and fellow Americans in danger without holding him accountable." 92d
The Internet Speaks American
The Atlantic 92d 12 tweets
Sharing the internet with America is like sharing your living room with a rhinoceros. It’s huge, it’s right there, and whatever it’s doing now, you sure as hell know about it.
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Adrienne LaFrance “American readers: If you think being stuck in a culture war is bad, imagine being stuck in someone else’s.” 92d
Pack the Court, Save the Vote
The Atlantic 97d 23 tweets
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to entrench minoritarian rule without the consent of the electorate.
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Adrienne LaFrance “In any democracy, there will be a fight over the rules... But disenfranchisement of rival constituencies is not the same as boxing out a primary challenger or arguing over the shape of a ballot; it is an attack on democracy itself.” Must-read 92d
Trump’s Really Bad Bet on Older Voters
Ronald Brownstein - The Atlantic 96d 5 tweets
Millennials and Gen Z are only a few years away from dominating the electorate.
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Adrienne LaFrance “The electorate is beginning its most profound generational transition since the early 1980s, when Baby Boomers became the largest voting bloc, dislodging the Greatest Generation of Americans, who came of age during the Depression and World War II.” 94d
The Smears Against Biden Don’t Need to Make Any Sense
The Atlantic 96d 16 tweets
The vague rumors about corruption are incomprehensible outside the right-wing-media universe. The point is just to create doubt.
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Adrienne LaFrance Must-read on the "well-trod path by which acolytes of Reaganism become accessories to ratfucking." Brilliant, fearless, and chilling 96d
The U.S. Is Sleepwalking Into an Election Day Virus Surge
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 97d 10 tweets
Cases are rising in all but nine states. Unlike the past two waves, this one has no epicenter.
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Adrienne LaFrance “What’s happening now might be best understood as three smaller types of outbreaks. You could call them the rural explosion, the swing-state surge, and the fatigue creep.” 96d
Bruce Springsteen and the Art of Aging Well
The Atlantic 96d 20 tweets
What the happiest Springsteen album in decades can teach us about Joe Biden, the wisdom of maturity, and the meaning of life
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Adrienne LaFrance “Memory is many things. It is a call to resolve in us what simply will not go away.” 96d
I Found a Clinton-Trump Voter
The Atlantic 97d 4 tweets
My hunt took me to an unlikely place: Center City, Philadelphia.
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Adrienne LaFrance A fascinating piece by that raises a question I've been thinking about a lot lately: How many Republicans in polite society—like Philadelphia's Main Line, where the subject of this piece is from—are voting for Trump but not talking about it. 97d
The Case Against Donald Trump
The Atlantic 97d 37 tweets
The president of the United States poses a threat to our collective existence. The choice voters face is spectacularly obvious.
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Adrienne LaFrance From ’s endorsement, The Case Against Donald Trump, published this morning: 97d
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Adrienne LaFrance The choice before us is spectacularly obvious. Read ’s endorsement, written by our editor in chief 96d
Hundreds of Thousands of Voters Do Everything Right—Then Get Their Ballots Discarded
David A. Graham - The Atlantic 98d 6 tweets
The process—which one expert described as “witchcraft”—could lead to thousands of legitimate ballots being thrown out.
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Adrienne LaFrance “...judges almost always side with voters. But a challenge requires a voter to be aware that his ballot has been rejected, and to either have the resources to fight against it in court or know where to turn for help.” 98d
The Resistance Is Just Warming Up
Elaine Godfrey - The Atlantic 98d 8 tweets
How anti-Trump women in America’s suburbs are ushering in a new era of political activism
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Adrienne LaFrance “It felt like the climax of a heist movie whose central characters are a band of exasperated, middle-aged women.” 98d
The Right’s Disinformation Machine Is Getting Ready for Trump to Lose
The Atlantic 99d 15 tweets
QAnon has become a linchpin of far-right media—and the effort to preemptively delegitimize the election.
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Adrienne LaFrance "The question isn’t whether QAnon will persist past this presidential term; it’s in what form." A very smart and very important piece by 99d
Subscribe to Weekly Planet
The Atlantic 104d 3 tweets
A new guide to living through climate change
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Adrienne LaFrance We have a new newsletter over here, from your new BFF . The Weekly Planet! Sign up 99d
25 of the Best Horror Films You Can Watch, Ranked by Scariness
David Sims - The Atlantic 100d 2 tweets
This list should have something for everyone, no matter your fear-tolerance level.
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Adrienne LaFrance Obviously I reject the premise that horror movies are for everyone (sorry ) but Vanilla Sky is good and this list is brilliant and terrifying. 100d
Biden Wants to Transform America (Really)
Franklin Foer - The Atlantic 103d 13 tweets
He doesn’t talk like a revolutionary, but he won’t be satisfied with a placeholder presidency.
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Adrienne LaFrance "One of the great failings of the modern Democratic Party is that its technocratic elite often permitted themselves to govern in the realm of abstraction, to construct overly elaborate blueprints." Read 's latest 102d