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Elon Green
@elongreen
author of LAST CALL: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, LUST, AND MURDER IN QUEER NEW YORK (us.macmillan.com/books/97812507)
elongreen.comJoined July 2011
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The pure essence of conservatism is disdaining the federal government until you personally need it to bail your ass out.
would like to see an analysis of lost productivity because every few weeks we have to call our lawmakers and beg them not to kill us.
NBC spent $15 million so a lady who's offended at the prospect of a black Santa Claus can interview a man who thinks 20 dead kids is a hoax.
This won’t be a popular take, probably, but: if Biden wins, it will be an achievement. The campaign will have (barely) overcome the most sustained assault on voting rights in recent memory and the largest disinformation operation—conservative media—in American history.
Sept 11 will be particularly intolerable this year, as conservatives solemnly pretend to care about 3,000 dead Americans. They can fuck right off.
Maybe spending weeks berating the country’s most high profile Muslim lawmaker wasn’t a great use of time and resources.
I wonder what kind of story he imagined the Times was writing. nytimes.com/2020/03/14/tec
What this story makes clear: Edward Gallagher is a serial killer who pretended to be a Navy SEAL. nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/
People tend to dance around it, but conservatives liked AIDS; for years the plague was, from their perspective, killing the right people.
The subtext of the NYT piece is that, despite Trump's demonstrable unfitness for office, a small resistance within the administration is still helping him efficiently commit crimes against humanity.
Jane Mayer is one of those reporters who, if you hear from her, you might as well get your affairs in order.
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Blitzer asked the question so hopefully and seemed crushed
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I think people underappreciate the scope of conservative media. It’s not just fox. It’s talk radio, it’s Sinclair, it’s Facebook. It’s millions of thumbs on a single scale.
Part of why the Parkland students are so effective is they're assigning blame. They're saying YOU are the cause of this problem. As opposed to "we" or "America" or "humanity," which is the usual lazy posturing.
These kids have identified the cause of the atrocity.
A reminder that "she's not Trump" was, in fact, an excellent reason to vote for Clinton.
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Trump administration wants to investigate colleges for discriminating against white applicants, document suggests nyti.ms/2uinALA
I remember when top reporters were chastising us for reading too deeply into Trump's remarks about immigrants and "animals" twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/st
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young writer: i LOVE not having an editor
old writer: dear god someone edit me
No Jew in the history of the world has ever used the term "Judeo-Christian". Because it means Christian.
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Because of these massive constraints, I’m skeptical that either of my preferred candidates (Sanders, Warren) would’ve done any better.
it’s not a smear if it’s completely accurate, Richard
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another argument in favor of abortion
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Steve King is on the House floor talking about how your aborted baby could have been "the next Ronald Reagan." Just FYI.
"After former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee this morning, managed to demonstrate, with uncharacteristic brevity, his basic misunderstanding of the requirements of his job..." cjr.org/public_editor/
just thinking about people who survived the heights of the AIDS epidemic by the skin of their teeth watching millions of americans needing to be BEGGED to take a vaccine that will save their life.
jfc you idiots, stop asking manchin if he will nuke the filibuster and start asking if there’s a level of voter suppression he isn’t willing to tolerate
can’t be said enough that republicans allowed the virus to spread because a) it was killing Americans who weren’t voting for them and b) it enabled them to run traditional campaigns while democrats were (rightly) more cautious
the boy, now into Harry Potter, has been walking around on the house with his "invisibility cloak," which is actually a black bathroom towel, and is using it as an excuse to ignore us.
The generation’s smartest writers telling Andrew Sullivan what they think of him, in public, is healthy and overdue. He’s a vdare-level mediocrity who’s been coddled by an unending series of prestige publications because of his British accent.
chuck todd is the kind of guy who surprises himself each morning when his fridge light turns on
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—@chucktodd on @MeetThePress: “Ask yourself: Is this the 1950's or the 1850's? The 1950's, when we overcame our McCarthy-era crisis and pulled together. Or, the 1850's when the nation broke apart?”
it’s never not jarring to hear a somber podcast about a horrific murder and then “do you know what’s scarier than tales of true crime? A lumpy old mattress”
[narrator] nestle steals water bloomberg.com/news/features/
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Hi, we don't steal water. We care deeply about preserving the high quality & quantity of water supplies in Ontario, and continually monitor our groundwater withdrawals to ensure that there is no adverse effect on the watershed or the associated ecosystem: bit.ly/2aKHl9h
one of the upsides of pregnancy that rarely gets talked about is you don't have to change the kitty litter and then somehow 5 years later you still don't have to change the kitty litter.
weird. I reached that conclusion before this week.
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One conclusion from the week’s events: Mike Pence is more orderly and disciplined than Trump, but no more respectful of truth & legality
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historical memory has turned their actions into negligence, but they we cheering the epidemic on.
*taps tweet*
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No Jew in the history of the world has ever used the term "Judeo-Christian". Because it means Christian.
ok, tell me your best celebrity sighting.
Mine is Geraldo exiting a Prospect Park portajohn during a Dylan show.
For , I talked to Mavis Staples about Trump, Prince, her exercise regimen, and her gorgeous new record:
I think a lot about how conservatives spent years pretending 3,000 dead Americans was, to them, a grave and significant event
i feel like it's not too much to ask that, if you @ someone that I've retweeted, you do not conduct yourself like a fucking embarrassing moron.
90% of takes wouldn’t get published if the editor made the writer define “we”
Megan McArdle's plan for preventing a mass shooting is worse than I remembered.
because bad journalism
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I don’t get why post office operating costs not covered by post office revenues started being called “losses,” unlike with other services the government provides, such as military defense. Especially since Article 1 of the Constitution provides for creating post offices. twitter.com/TheEconomist/s…
the wiki for Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” is a thing of beauty
Nicknames like "Mother Of All Bombs" are so dangerous because it becomes fun for pundits and reporters to cover a war.
The women accusing Cuomo are heroes. They have nothing to gain by putting it all on the line.
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Breaking News: A woman described an unsettling encounter with Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York at a wedding. The account follows separate accusations that Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed two female state employees. nyti.ms/3e5hVmN
*whispers* when you say “the media doesn’t cover x,” you’re talking about tv news. So just say tv news.
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this from one of William Buckleys less odious columns on AIDS, about a 60 Minutes episode from 1985. the second sentence is the tell.
GOOD MORNING.
Mark Penn has been giving shitty advice for literally forever. thecrimson.com/article/1973/1
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I mean, you'd think it would only be necessary to tell your lawmaker once that you don't want to be killed.
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*ring ring* I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU ABOUT THE NOT WANTING TO BE KILLED THING
Conservatives, 2007: why aren't republicans welcome in Hollywood?
Conservatives, 2017: let's destroy the national endowment for the arts
I think we're running out of content
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Here's What 10 People Look Like With and Without Their Glasses On bit.ly/2b4HEu7
“I’m sure we’ll make enough money to please our investors now that we’ve fired all our good reporters” is such a weird and yet pervasive mindset
I can’t believe “It’s really, really hard to write a 10,000-word cover story. There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it” was this year.
Lyra is my writing partner. If this is true, it's gutting. I don't know how to even begin to absorb this. twitter.com/praddenkeefe/s
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apparently it’s that time of year again when I share this Bill James passage. STOP ASCRIBING PERSONALITY TO EYES
Ah, I see it's conservatives pretending to be upset by a mass shooting o'clock
the reporter took her date back to her apartment & they'd been banging for 30 brutal minutes. "christ," she muttered. "when is he going TK?"
I’m sure everyone has their favorite Twitter Experience™️ and mine is That Time Nicole Watched The Eagles Documentary.
I hear they’re not going to bury Law; his corpse will just be periodically reassigned to different churches.
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You’ve worked for decades for the very people who have hollowed out the federal government. Any regrets?
Holy shit.
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Nice piece in the @NewYorker...
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Reporters: Bernie Sanders is the first Jew to win a primary
Jews: Ssshhhhhhhhhh
I've been wondering for some time about the whiteness of the true crime genre. How, exactly, did that happen? Thanks to , , , , among many, who sharpened my thoughts.
We give Mrs. Santa Is White & her fellow conservatives too credit by assuming that they even want to stop mass shootings. Conservatives have shown that they’ll run roughshod over rights to end what they despise—abortion, drag shows, etc.
Best to assume they like mass shootings.
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No, YOU F off. I am sick and tired of nothing changing after mass shootings bc we get mired EVERY TIME IN THE DAMN GUN DEBATE. You have LOST. It’s DONE. For the love of God what else can be done? You are ruining any chance at change by not admitting that the gun debate is lost. twitter.com/happycrazytown…
If we’re going to justify killing someone because of what they *might* do, I would give the armed anti-abortion anti-trans zealots a hard look
It’s a testament to the worthlessness of Mark Halperin (as a journalist) that I keep forgetting he’s not around. There was no vacuum to fill.