McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@ScottNover currently getting roasted by my league because they saw these tweets and i'm projected to come in 9th place — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

(@ScottNover heard my plea for help and DM'd me advice throughout the draft. If my team sucks, it's his fault.) — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

My team: https://t.co/7KX4UGyBcz — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@ScottNover "tom brady,,, he's good right?" — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

My fantasy football draft begins in 90 seconds and I've done literally no research/homework. Will someone who is good at fantasy football please help me my family is dying. (I pick 9th in a 10-person PPR league.) — PolitiTweet.org

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I looked into this and it checks out. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@olgakhazan To be fair, my favorite kind of writing makes sense and is interesting, so he might be right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss It's both the least rational and the one most viscerally appealing to a certain contingent of people. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"Under one interpretation of the murky data, the country might even have a teacher surplus on its hands, because so many parents have pulled their children out of public schools." @DKThomp digs into the "catastrophic national teacher shortage" narrative: https://t.co/UFVrpTUxqO — PolitiTweet.org

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@katherinemiller The best part of that whole episode was when I forwarded Paladino's email to you guys and @semaforben immediately wrote back "Give him the address!! Will he come to bushwick??" — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, I ended up interviewing Paladino at some length for a piece in 2016, which you can read here. (My favorite quote: “It doesn’t matter to me what some lame idiot says about me. You can’t hurt me.” He was kind of right!) https://t.co/f98YNsBjXn — PolitiTweet.org

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A couple years later, when he was serving on Trump's campaign, I emailed Paladino for comment on a story and he responded with a series of angry emails which ended with, "McKay, I look forward to meeting personally ... What's your address and phone?" (lol) — PolitiTweet.org

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When I wrote an insufficiently flattering profile of Donald Trump way back in February of 2014, Paladino (who I'd never met before) sent me this email: https://t.co/FaZUUxCfyr — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

I keep forgetting that Carl Paladino, one of the most ridiculous people I've interacted with as a political reporter, is running for Congress. https://t.co/AxfmnStJDz — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Excuse me, please have some respect for Freedom Headquarters. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@watware @AllieQiu @theblackcapemag @JonitaLDavis @bykitstone Not sure where you read that, but 15% of US Mormons were people of color as of 2014, according to Pew. (The percentage is obviously much higher if you include the entire global church, though I take your point about Utah in the 1980s.) https://t.co/QgKSN1BaOY — PolitiTweet.org

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But with the Republican governor potentially on board, it does seem like there's growing momentum for changing the clergy exemption to mandatory reporting laws in Utah. Curious to see if there's similar momentum in other states with similar exemptions. https://t.co/PklsZEuHJM — PolitiTweet.org

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Context: AP recently published a story about alleged systemic failures that prevented LDS bishops from stopping child abuse in their congregations. https://t.co/Av4M4ZKfwq The church disputed the premise and timeline presented in the AP story: https://t.co/4ddhl2fQ9A — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

I missed this from a few days ago, but Gov. @SpencerJCox—a Republican and practicing Latter-day Saint—signaled support for a law requiring clergy in Utah to report confessions of child abuse to law enforcement. https://t.co/pzmQnTtImG — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@bendreyfuss every once in a while a screenshot of my dumb tweet will pop up on a weird instagram feed or website like this and I'll hear from some friend from high school who thinks I'm famous now https://t.co/O60dPtAMhZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss I am 90% sure I wrote the first viral tweet with this screenshot, in ljke 2013. — PolitiTweet.org

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@idvck I'm being sincere! — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Remember when Tom Friedman just casually tossed this out in a column about Nancy Pelosi like three weeks ago? I may have missed it, but has there, uh, been any additional reporting on this? https://t.co/W9DqJv8BhL https://t.co/51Rv3HahyT — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@MattZeitlin this is actually one that i'm ruthlessly avoiding because it makes me feel bad — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

My favorite type of twitter scold is the "WHY AREN'T YOU TWEETING ABOUT X?" guy. The only reasonable question when it comes to twitter is, "Why are you tweeting about anything, ever?" — PolitiTweet.org

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"He locked himself in a hotel room, told his secretary to hold all his calls, and prayed. 'And the one thing that came to me was, like, just apologize.'" This @mollyesque profile of Utah governor @SpencerJCox is worth your time: https://t.co/tXP1lsdI53 — PolitiTweet.org

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@beastieboys — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

RT @AdrienneLaF: Remember when magazines used to tell you which newsstands to go to in various cities? From 1976: https://t.co/YA6N2k4kde — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@DSGoodman2 Exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

This movie does not actually exist and never will as long as we collectively decide not to acknowledge its existence. — PolitiTweet.org