McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@jkimballcook I don't how much "institutional power" is concentrated with seminary teachers in Utah. But most of the lay-ministry benefits I'm talking about are at the local ward/branch/stake level where I think implementing a paid clergy would be very bad. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@jkimballcook What percentage of people with ministerial callings would you guess are paid in the church? Less than 1%? — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrysonWebster @EricBiggart Yeah, I understand the concern and I know it can be a problem. But I've also spent many years in a branch where the leadership was made up almost entirely of "everyday working people" (and know this is true in much of the world). — PolitiTweet.org

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@MrSmithInDC I don't think having paid clergy would change variance in leadership. (See: virtually every other organized religion in the world.) I'm down for more robust training, though. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mormon counter-take: The lay ministry is at the root of many of the faith's most admirable traits. Eliminating it would be a tragedy (and possibly catastrophic in the long run). — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@eb454 It's so nice! — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Me: “Did you color on this wall?” 3yo, pivoting: “Yes BUT did you see what I drew? It’s a blue ocean.” Checkmate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BS1339 Using this one tonight! — PolitiTweet.org

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@pragmatometer The piece is largely framed around intra-party blowback — PolitiTweet.org

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@pragmatometer Should have stopped at “haven’t read the rest of the story” — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"Gone are the days of intimate elopements necessitated by travel bans and capacity restrictions." This year is seeing a huge surge in weddings, shorter engagements, and giant receptions, @allieevolpe reports. https://t.co/5s3WP5wySk — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

This research is interesting, and raises more questions. If there was an industry-wide "difficulty in reaching certain segments of Trump's supporters" and pollsters see "few immediate fixes," shouldn't that still influence how we are interpreting polls?https://t.co/5yJPCVbvu4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Possibly dumb question: Where do we stand on the state of political polling? Has the savvy take somehow circled back to "actually the 2020 polls were fine"? Because it seems like we're all still passing around a lot of polls without any discussion of whether they're, uh, right. — PolitiTweet.org

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Read @AsteadWesley's fascinating story about how Black democrats in Virginia responded to Northam's blackface scandal—by extracting policy concessions rather than forcing him out of office. https://t.co/mwOIAyeAgp — PolitiTweet.org

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.@AsteadWesley asks Gov. Ralph Northam about that infamous news conference where it looked like he was about to moonwalk in the middle of his blackface apology. Northam responds that he doesn't actually know how to moonwalk. https://t.co/v4hQCV31Xx https://t.co/z84MnnkZ5n — PolitiTweet.org

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An astonishing thread. (This textbook was published in 2015.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@DLind lol ok fair! FWIW I cold-call people all the time, I've just always used other platforms to track them down (though source-hunting is why I finally returned). If/when our industry fully collapses, I figured I could always start a new profile—this one still has a pic of me at 21😬 — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@DLind lol it wasn't meant as one! (I actually don't even know what the flex is!) — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Just logged in to LinkedIn for the first time in like 7 years. So far it seems I missed a lot of form letters from recruiters for vague jobs like "senior editor at digital media organization" plus a few nice notes from readers/old friends. Debating whether to delete the account. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

I keep thinking about BuzzFeed circa 2012, when I joined @benyt, @RosieGray, @KFILE & @ZekeJMiller to start reporting on politics for a (wonderful) website that wasn’t known for journalism. So many great reporters/editors have spent time there since then. I’m in awe of their work — PolitiTweet.org

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Also very happy for my former colleagues at BuzzFeed News, which just won its first Pulitzer for helping to expose China's detention of Muslims in Xinjiang. https://t.co/PNl64crSwJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Thrilled for my colleague @edyong209, who couldn't deserve this more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheDarrach This one is gloriously gross — PolitiTweet.org

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@RachBK16 I'll need to clear this with my kids—will report back. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Today in wholesome internet news: I talked to @HeidiStevens13 about what it was like watching thousands of strangers on Twitter rally to supply interesting bedtime facts. (My kids thank you!) https://t.co/vbi4oMktHF — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Yes, I would like to see more reporting on this https://t.co/HF8aaw9F57 — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@pamelacolloff On behalf of many, many writers, I hope you discover the answer in this thread! — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@other95 I didn't make this illustration or write this story, but it seems pretty clear that's a shadow... — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"When a child can have up to five possible parents—a gestational surrogate, a sperm donor, an egg donor, and two intended parents—whose citizenship counts?" Fascinating reporting from @sarahzhang on birthright citizenship and IVF: https://t.co/zEo2OvcNFQ — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

"Unemployment fraud during the pandemic could easily reach $400 billion, according to some estimates, and the bulk of the money likely ended in the hands of foreign crime syndicates" https://t.co/Z0gXxBjnda — PolitiTweet.org