McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@ebruenig getting owned by your spouse and kids when you're trying to be serious is one of the underappreciated joys of fatherhood — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@JaBogen lol — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@maggieNYT @errollouis That's a great title. Congratulations! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tomgara: OK sure, but aside from work, education and healthcare, everything is already back to normal — PolitiTweet.org

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.@Yascha_Mounk, who was one of the first people to call for America to "cancel everything" in March 2020, writes today that it's time to end pandemic restrictions: "Open Everything" https://t.co/ieh1PP2S4z — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@elainaplott Welcome back! — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@gmeluski Has the pushback stopped now that it's breaking? I'm getting weekly emails from the school district updating everyone on the status of their lawsuit... — PolitiTweet.org

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@gmeluski The surge is breaking in Northern Virginia, too. — PolitiTweet.org

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A weird thing is happening where consensus is starting to turn against school mask mandates in blue states with Democratic governors, just as liberal school districts in Virginia are fighting the new Republican governor to keep them in place. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a certain breed of COVID contrarian whose early skepticism may turn out to be justified on a lot of things (hospitalization numbers, cloth masks, masking kids, etc.) but who were way off on the main thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Finished The Anomaly, which was fun (that ending!) but I was slightly amused by Le Tellier's American characters. The unsympathetic ones were universally dim and/or violent, while the sympathetic ones were all improbably erudite and comfortable with philosophical abstraction. — PolitiTweet.org

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In case you missed it, this is one of the most affecting things I've read in the past year: https://t.co/HCbNHIkT7J — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Submitted a story yesterday for a Young Journalists award, turned 35 today. It's just Old Journalists awards for me from here on out. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaelkruse Thank you, Michael! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdrienneLaF: 160 years ago this month, The Atlantic first printed the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." https://t.co/PYCcI8rKM8 https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Joelmentum @PeterHamby @Bencjacobs never again — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeterHamby @Bencjacobs See, my takeaway from that was "Whoa, Joe Rogan is way more famous than I realized" — PolitiTweet.org

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"The 200 most popular new tracks now regularly account for less than 5 percent of total streams. That rate was twice as high just three years ago." This is a fascinating story on the shrinking cultural imprint of new music: https://t.co/dqF2tWMF1t — PolitiTweet.org

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Just read this aloud to my kids and my 3yo daughter, who knows every single word of every Encanto song, immediately busted into the room like the Kool-Aid man and goes "THAT'S NOT RIGHT!" — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin @GrahamDavidA I think it's more interesting—he started out warning against the thing that he eventually became in his desperate bid to gain traction in the GOP primaries. Which speaks to David's thesis! — PolitiTweet.org

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That's the core irony: These guys may think their voters are dumb, but they're often smart enough to realize when they're being pandered to. Sometimes, as in Trump's case, they don't care (they're even flattered!) More often, the performance comes across as pathetic and cringey. — PolitiTweet.org

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Running for president in either party involves all kinds of indignities. But having talked to Jindal at length, I knew he was smarter than the stuff he was saying on the campaign trail. And of course it didn't even work—voters saw through the schtick & he dropped out before Iowa. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wrote about Jindal extensively in my 2015 book (probably too much given how irrelevant he was by the time it came out!) But I thought his trajectory was revealing: Begins his rise with famous "stupid party" speech, ends up campaigning with Duck Dynasty dudes & pandering to Fox — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth noting that this is not an exclusively Trump-era phenomenon. Consider the case of Bobby Jindal, who @GrahamDavidA begins his piece with: https://t.co/PFK05lUksq — PolitiTweet.org

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Good piece by @GrahamDavidA on the ambitious Republican men who act much stupider than they are in a condescending bid to become what they believe their voters want. https://t.co/3IupZ8O8rp — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichelleCarey @KelleyLCarter @quintabrunson @iSmashFizzle @KFILE @byjoelanderson @SylviaObell Not sure I belong on this list, but it was a really special place to work. So many weird geniuses. (And there are still lots of talented people there!) — PolitiTweet.org

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"The chief executive of the Prince George’s County public schools in Maryland recently downplayed the idea of a future without masks, saying: 'The only off-ramp I want is the one where Covid no longer exists. I don’t think that that off-ramp will exist.'" https://t.co/CXl1V0TiQ3 — PolitiTweet.org

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"We reviewed a variety of studies...to try to find evidence that would justify the CDC’s no-end-in-sight mask guidance for the very-low-risk pediatric population, particularly post-vaccination. We came up empty-handed." https://t.co/wmAEwrI9zl — PolitiTweet.org

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The absolute meltdown this tweet is causing in Chris's mentions is... revealing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jennyrogersDC @moody Yes! Also, his best moment, where they show the utility of his gift, is in the opening song when he shape-shifts to give an exhausted mother of a newborn a break. — PolitiTweet.org