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senior editor , family & education. don't make me turn this thing around

Washington D.C.
theatlantic.com/julie-beck/
Joined December 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 3

    I’m looking to interview pairs/sets of friends about their friendships! Interested in any unique stories but here are a few I’m particularly looking for. reach out — julie at the atlantic dot com — if you AND your friend(s) are down to talk please don’t spam me 🙏🏻

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  2. 7 hours ago

    google docs is shaming me

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  3. 7 hours ago

    I just found this stuck to my shoe...an omen

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  4. Sep 2

    sir.... no you don’t also marry me

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  5. Sep 2

    at a beach bar, hollering about how the shape of water is bad bc “2 hardboiled eggs does not a relationship make, even though no one loves hardboiled eggs more than me” and from the establishment next door a man yells through the fence “I love hardboiled eggs more than you”

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  6. Aug 31

    DID U KNOW: American Girl published ‘The Care and Keeping of You’ 20 years ago in response to a study about early onset puberty? “A girl of 7 doesn’t wonder about the same things a girl of 12 or 14 does,” the author said

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  7. Aug 30

    There is a lot to unpack in the Trump administration’s new proposed rules for campus sexual assault. and broke them down extremely helpfully, by following a hypothetical case from start to finish

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  8. Aug 29

    KFC’s latest marketing stunt is so insanely dystopian I couldn’t help adapting this article into a screenplay

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    Aug 27

    Hello Twitter! I'm writing a story on: • engagement photo shoots • the reasons people have them • the Wedding Industry's role in all of this If you/anyone you know has partook in this phenomenon, I'd love your help! My DMs are open, and my email is nescobar@theatlantic.com

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  10. Aug 28

    single people and those who live alone aren’t necessarily socially isolated—or even physically isolated. (many people deliberately live near friends). yet they’re constantly (falsely) blamed for the loneliness epidemic

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  11. Aug 27

    crazy/sad detail from this piece about how schools decide when to reopen after shootings: "Very often a school [that’s had a school shooting] will call the one that had the one before” and ask what they did

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  12. Aug 27

    “In the summer of 2010, we journeyed to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to pick up our youngest child. From the instant we saw her, we loved her with our whole hearts. But hovering just outside the frame...are people who hate that our family exists.”

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  13. Aug 24

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  14. Aug 24

    UM JULIEN BAKER LUCY DACUS AND PHOEBE BRIDGERS ARE IN A SUPERGROUP NOW???? WHOM HAS BEEN READING MY DIARY??

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  15. Retweeted
    Aug 22

    My friend just cracked the Mandela Effect

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  16. Aug 24

    . got her hands on the 5-year blueprint for ’s school—and it really is interesting (for reasons beyond the obvious). Read it in full here:

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  17. Aug 23

    hey g̶u̶y̶s̶ peeps/scholars, you should read this great story!

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  18. Aug 23

    I spilled smoothie all over myself and my desk while fielding multiple news slacks, thus making me officially a rom com heroine. I am sticky and awaiting the arrival of my standard issue hunk by post or courier

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    Aug 23

    girls like it when you emerge from a box with a top hat and cane dancing and singing hello my baby hello my darling but only when they’re looking

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  20. Aug 22

    The idea of loving yourself before you can love someone else "keeps [us] forever able to blame ourselves for wanting, when the fact of wanting is both the reason for never finding a relationship and the proof that we are not ready for it"

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  21. Aug 21

    bad vibes 4ever :(

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