National Editor, The Atlantic. Author of My Age of Anxiety and Sarge. Retweets mean "this is interesting," not necessarily "I agree with it."
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"If Venezuelans aren’t convinced that their country is making progress toward democracy, it’s also because the apparatus that carried out this wave of repression is still in place."
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"Trump’s 'biggest oil deal in world history' seems to have been designed to encourage American companies to start drilling faster and, more important for him, to distract from the oil crisis created by his war in Iran."
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Scott Stossel retweeted
Those who turn their politics into religion are “accepting only half of what religion has to offer you,” @JeffreyGoldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, tells @DavidBrooks224. “You engage in judgment, but you don’t really engage in mercy.”
Watch the full episode of The Permanent Questions: youtu.be/CkvfYg2DdIg
"The most logical way to understand Trump’s motive is that he has always viewed laws as suggestions rather than hard requirements, and tended to assume that people in power will abuse it to protect their friends and punish their enemies."
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"Trump's administration has managed to wreck the country’s finances worse than any government in U.S. history, without the excuse of an economic crisis or a successful major war."
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"Stephen Miller will not dare whisper to his boss: 'Sir, you know that we keep snidely implying that James Talarico is secretly gay? Your obvious love of buff soldiers is giving—mixed messages.'"
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"Liberalism is rooted in a justified fear of the real world, where people with power often use it to oppress, torture, and kill...From the beginning, Trumpism's assault on liberal democracy has been about legitimizing cruelty."
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Nobody writes better, as a normal person, about sex than @sarahhepola
I wrote about vibrators for @TheAtlantic, because someone had to. (gift link) theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
"If Stalin and his Cold War successors could see what Trump and Putin have created, and how the mighty United States has been humbled and humiliated, they might think that their evil hopes were not wrong, but only that they dreamed them too early."
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I wrote about vibrators for @TheAtlantic, because someone had to. (gift link) theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Why consciousness needs a body (with emotions). The great neuroscientist Antonio Damasio outlines his theory to explain the hard problem of consciousness.
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"Because of the rapid and imperfect reorganization that the parietal lobes underwent during human evolution, the region doing much of the brain’s hardest cognitive work has some of the most precarious infrastructure."
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"We drove to Walmart but it didn’t have the Cadillac of vibrators. Aaron picked up an alternate model he declared the “Ford Taurus of vibrators.” The picture on the front resembled a plug-in hand mixer. Whatever, I’d come this far."
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"The rabbits I ordered had USB chargers and a variety of speeds. They had safety locks and silencers, like guns."
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Scott Stossel retweeted
SSRIs aren’t turning people into zombies. Untreated depression is. They’re among the best studied treatments we have for moderate to severe depression and anxiety.
Most people tolerate them well and many improve significantly when they’re used properly and monitored.
Real risks exist, including sexual side effects and a higher chance of suicidal thoughts early on in younger people, and those should be discussed clearly before starting.
But the loudest takes online usually skip the people who get their lives back and downplay how dangerous the illness itself can be. Balanced information helps patients make better decisions. Pure fear does the opposite. – at Delhi, India
The MHRA is introducing a series of new measures to strengthen how risks associated with antidepressant medicines are communicated to patients, carers and healthcare professionals. Read the full drug safety update here: brnw.ch/21x6qlr
"Humanity must not allow a handful of multibillionaires to recklessly attempt to replace us. We must place an immediate pause on advanced-AI development and ban artificial superintelligence"--Senator Bernie Sanders
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"Even a president who’d brought a bloody mixed-martial-arts fight to the White House lawn apparently didn’t relish the thought of an afternoon spent watching Army soldiers shoot bullets into a paraplegic."
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"Had the German people voted in March 1933 the way the Hungarians voted last spring, there would not have been a Third Reich. There would not have been a Holocaust. And Hitler would have been out of office within weeks."
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"The most important problem with inviting Piker to join the pro-democracy coalition is that, by any reasonable definition of the term, he does not believe in democracy."
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