Clare Malone

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

@julia_azari I think Warren in particular is an interesting person on this—she's made it a point to try to midwife more liberal concepts that might be scary to let's say, wealthy Dems...like the overhaul of the capitalist system! But by saying she's a "capitalist through and through." — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Ie, the word choice of activists—whose job it is to make complex concepts punchy and accessible—will cause problems for politicians who need to complicate the concepts/soften the language in order to make it palatable to more people. — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

I have a feeling "defund the police" is going to become the new semantic/political debate that "abolish ICE" was. https://t.co/k8v75VDXL0 — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

So...all of this is to say, I/we at the site think about this a lot. Recommend us to your friends. Finito. — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

538 is a site that was founded with a certain specific ethos and specific audience by a specific (and very smart/good!) person. It's grown since then but I do think the site was marked from the beginning as for a specific kind of person and that's hard to change overnight. — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

3) There's an adage that gets repeated a lot to women and POC, I think: 'if you see it, then you can be it'. Ie, if you see someone who looks like you doing something, then it's easier to imagine yourself doing it ... — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

2) I think politics sites broadly are sort of male-centric. Particularly ones that are horeserace-y—you might think it's just for "political junkies," a phrase I truly hate because it gamifies politics, which has massive implications for so many people...esp women/people of color — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

1)We do have this data niche which I think makes us popular among people who work/study in STEM fields. There are fewer people of color women in STEM fields https://t.co/XbyoBvdt0R — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Great question. THE question. I have many, many thoughts on this, not all of which I'll put here but a few for starters: https://t.co/MBaXaeGNHh — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

@MauraGarven 15 yrs! It’s our crystal anniversary 🥂 — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Anyhow. I'm not a statistician or a man & I've written for 538 for 4 years (jesus) Love to hear your feedback about how I'm not doing it right, but until they fire me, or drag the keyboard from my cold dead hands, you're just going to have to put up w/me. Or like, unfollow me✌️ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Especially when we know that a lot of Americans don't interact in deep ways with people of different races, or at least enough to get their nuanced perspectives on things like, oh, I dunno, police violence. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

And they let the writer of that story know! And often those writers don't look like the readers who are sending the mail. Don't get me wrong: feedback is healthy. Pushback is healthy. But also: having the voices of women and people of color in your daily news is healthy. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

We get a lot of "prove to me with stats that sexism/racism etc" exists. Stats are important. Facts are important. We have them in ALL our stories. But there's a very particular reaction readers can have when analysis doesn't jibe w/their worldview. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Outlets like the one I work for have a very particular audience. Very white. Very male. It shows in the reactions we have to stories that might rub that audience the wrong way, from time to time 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

I'm sure that's happening a lot right now for journos of color What @WesleyLowery said here rings very true for what we in all kinds of newsrooms—including ones like 538—should be striving for right now 2/ https://t.co/14SSdSCqmW https://t.co/qbSO8f0xUE — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Typically I wouldn't RT something like this, but I get a LOT of feedback that boils down to you have "feminist ideas and bias." Said b/c I'm a woman. Think of being a journalist of color covering what's happening and being told your "bias" is showing. 1/ https://t.co/YM5GJ9MccP — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Love my internet community. — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Three months in, I’d say men are still extremely bad at social distancing in enclosed spaces. — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

RT @FiveThirtyEight: During the 1970s, Shaker set up traffic barriers along Scottsdale Boulevard in an effort, the city said, to control ve… — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

I’m paging through a book on Reagan for a story. Note the number of pages cited for Reagan, “sexuality of.” https://t.co/4vIoWmol5r — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

@jbouie @jaycaspiankang You gotta read The Topeka School — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

RT @Tonyhkchow: ICYMI, @YohuruWilliams joined @galendruke and @perrybaconjr on the pod yesterday to talk about the protests. It's an insigh… — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

In part because it's not necessarily in their best interests to back Trump on this. Anyhow, I'm incredibly curious to watch the next couple of months to see if any Washington institutionalists change their behavior. It feels like a pretty stark moment. 6/6 — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Seeing Republicans on TV attacking Mattis as a dupe of liberal media is something else. But it's also instinctual now. Cynical as I am, I was pretty shocked by the (lack of) response to Trump's photo op from GOP electeds 5/ https://t.co/3hTgzIbYLb — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

I have to think that it's been on the mind of Washington bureaucrats and other institutionalist creatures these past four years and this past week in particular, what it actually means to honor/respect an institution. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

I think it's safe to assume Mattis had serious disagreements/worries while in office. But he(& so many others in government) has been professionally reared to honor/respect American institutions. Often, that has meant hold your tongue & trust the institution to work things out 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Obviously, what's prompted each of them is a pretty serious threat to their constitutional oath. But I'm interested that it takes an incredibly blatant threat to move them. In Sept 2019, Mattis said he would speak out "when the time's right" 2/ https://t.co/9ZuYPJjXHj — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

Mattis's denunciation of Trump & the use of military against civilians has me thinking abt the state of institutions & institutionalists. Mattis is speaking out after he has left his office. Esper is expressing dissent while still in his office ... 1/ https://t.co/OxEuuquV1n — PolitiTweet.org

Clare Malone @ClareMalone

@BarackObama And when you're done reading that piece @FiveThirtyEight read this on on how de-escalation tactics have helped reduce police killings in big cities...but they're going up in suburban/rural parts of America https://t.co/AmZhvoshk9 — PolitiTweet.org