McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@JeremiahWJohn Genuine question: How often do you think the First Presidency issues statements taking positions purely to be in line with elite consensus even when that consensus is wrong? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bhumikatharoor: For many of them, time is running out. For some, it already has. All of this was foreseeable—all of it was foreseen. G… — PolitiTweet.org

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And for what it's worth, I think the Mormon tradition food storage, etc. is more nuanced—and often more beautiful—than "doomsday prepping" as it's commonly understood. I actually wrote about it early in the pandemic: https://t.co/riUFkgyuZo — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think it requires 10,000 words. Refusing to get vaccinated has become, for a subset of the American right, a way to signal political allegiance. And for some (not most) Latter-day Saints, that political allegiance is more important than following the church's counsel. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LidiaK444 @ADouchewitz https://t.co/MZsiThKrYs — PolitiTweet.org

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Listen, young lady, I know... — PolitiTweet.org

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3yo daughter—sitting in the same room as me as I read aloud a paragraph that I'm writing/rewriting/endlessly tinkering with—finally gets fed up: "WHY ARE YOU SAYING THE SAME THING?" — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan @RachelRizzo @TheAtlantic Surprised I haven't heard of this. Though based on the description it doesn't sound like it has much to say about contemporary Mormon life. Or am I wrong? (Some of us are slightly burned out on stories about polygamists...) — PolitiTweet.org

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The top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints release a new statement once again urging member to get vaccinated: https://t.co/z9ohkrNjlV — PolitiTweet.org

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"New polling shows that the large majority of vaccinated adults—including a substantial portion of Republicans—support tougher measures against those who have refused COVID-19 shots." https://t.co/eG12k8MNOs — PolitiTweet.org

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Assuming we continue to multiply our subscriber base by 166 every century or so, we should have roughly 140 million subscribers by 2132. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RachelRizzo: I wrote an essay that reflects on identity, culture, & my upbringing as a non-Mormon kid in Salt Lake City, UT. It's compl… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ItsUrBoyEvan @every Thanks! Glad you got something from the piece, but mostly I hope you get the hat. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @robbysoave: DC gyms approached the government with a bargain: if we can skip masks, we’ll require vaccines. This was a great deal—vacci… — PolitiTweet.org

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Question for people following this more closely than I am: How much are US vaccination rates expected to rise once kids under 12 can get it? What about once the FDA grants full approval for adults? Are there good predictions out there or is the answer just "we have no idea"? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillFilipovic: The chance of death from Covid for a person vaccinated against Covid is lower than the chance you die of the flu (assumi… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/MZcNaqfRJK https://t.co/aR4rZr83XF — PolitiTweet.org

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Some strong late-empire vibes in this dispatch from a Utah ice cream shop. https://t.co/MZcNaqfRJK — PolitiTweet.org

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@SethAMandel @AndersenTy He just means handsome and talented — PolitiTweet.org

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@JaBogen Halt and Catch Fire (like Mad Men but set in Texas during '80s/'90s personal computer boom) — PolitiTweet.org

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@asmithfield My kids’ public school teachers have been (almost) uniformly wonderful! Can’t say the same for the administrators, school board, and union leaders… — PolitiTweet.org

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After fighting to keep schools closed for more than a year, teachers unions are now opposing vaccine requirements for teachers. Starting to feel like some of these unions are trying to radicalize every conceivable political faction in America against them. https://t.co/OFRsYO1VOY — PolitiTweet.org

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(Fortunately, I'm on a non-Cuomo-related deadline so that's all you're going to get from me.) — PolitiTweet.org

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I stopped doing my told-you-so tweets about Andrew Cuomo a few months ago because it started to feel undignified, but feeling a strong urge to come out of retirement today. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kathrynw5: Instead of a mask mandate, NYC is doing something that could potentially encourage more people to get vaccinated rather than… — PolitiTweet.org

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@brklynmind OK here’s the latest one https://t.co/hGrxfoJ7Ay — PolitiTweet.org

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@brklynmind This was 5 days ago. The CDC map will change obviously but as of now I’m not sure that headline is quite accurate https://t.co/XpgF9xkA9j https://t.co/hoOcezqsgd — PolitiTweet.org

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“in areas with high or substantial transmission” — PolitiTweet.org

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@just_mindy Probably a decent amount of overlap between the vaccinated and those with natural immunity, right? And also, just… last year people were being way more cautious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricDSnider The utility of this story really depends on who the "you" is in the headline. — PolitiTweet.org