Ashley Parker
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
I remain skeptical about Bluesky. Also: @TheAtlantic staff writer. MSNBC analyst. And Washington Post + New York Times alum. Mainly links to my stories and posts about my kids. Email: [email protected].
Perhaps the only RFK Jr. story this week that doesn't have you Googling a sexual term you've never heard of. And we have @michaelscherer to thank for this legitimately great read... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Perhaps the only RFK Jr. story this week that doesn't have you Googling a sexual term you've never heard of. And we have @michaelscherer to thank for this legitimately great read... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he's right? @michaelscherer spent hours debating with him to find out... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he's right? @michaelscherer spent hours debating with him to find out... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
My v self-aware 7-year-old: "I am FULL of CRAZY ideas — and some even turn out to be good ones!"
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My v self-aware 7-year-old: "I am FULL of CRAZY ideas — and some even turn out to be good ones!"
Profile in personal liberties and free markets and courage... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The Epstein files will come out. No one is looking good.
Conspiracy theories are unlikely to be put to rest with looming disclosures.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Profile in personal liberties and free markets and courage... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Would like to do my part to contribute to the Larry Summer's discourse, so sharing this old NYT story I did, which happens to have a scene of Summers working out, shirtless, in the EEOB. www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/u...
White House Sweats, and He’s the Cause (Published 2011)
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November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Would like to do my part to contribute to the Larry Summer's discourse, so sharing this old NYT story I did, which happens to have a scene of Summers working out, shirtless, in the EEOB. www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/u...
Come for the Make America Hot Again conservatives having sex in the bathroom lede... Stay for the fascinating exploration of “city Republicans” v “tradwives.” From @elainejgodfrey, natch. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
What does it mean to be female and conservative in 2025?
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Come for the Make America Hot Again conservatives having sex in the bathroom lede... Stay for the fascinating exploration of “city Republicans” v “tradwives.” From @elainejgodfrey, natch. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Be sure to check out @TheAtlantic Holiday Gift Guide. Because after you've gotten everyone in your life a subscription to...The Atlantic...you still might want some other options: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The 2025 Atlantic Gift Guide
None
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November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Be sure to check out @TheAtlantic Holiday Gift Guide. Because after you've gotten everyone in your life a subscription to...The Atlantic...you still might want some other options: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
💰💰Money money money. 💰💰Trump’s fundraising haul is approaching $2 billion, sources tell me and
@michaelscherer.bsky.social—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
@michaelscherer.bsky.social—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Eye-Popping Postelection Windfall
Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
💰💰Money money money. 💰💰Trump’s fundraising haul is approaching $2 billion, sources tell me and
@michaelscherer.bsky.social—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
@michaelscherer.bsky.social—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Ashley Parker
NEW: On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser: "I want you to keep going." A year later, his fundraising tally is approaching $2 billion. w/ @ashleyrparker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection Windfall
Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
NEW: On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser: "I want you to keep going." A year later, his fundraising tally is approaching $2 billion. w/ @ashleyrparker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I just googled “wforgith” — curious to learn a wild new word — but I believe it’s just a… typo?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
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Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
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November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I just googled “wforgith” — curious to learn a wild new word — but I believe it’s just a… typo?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
If you fear your country is slipping toward authoritarianism, isn’t sacrificing your late-night Subway snack the least you should do? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you fear your country is slipping toward authoritarianism, isn’t sacrificing your late-night Subway snack the least you should do? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
At one point, sandwiches were served for lunch, an irony not lost on a jury spending hours contemplating the many possible uses of the breaded form (nutrition, satiety, projectile). “Then we had lots and lots of jokes about the condiments,” the juror told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
At one point, sandwiches were served for lunch, an irony not lost on a jury spending hours contemplating the many possible uses of the breaded form (nutrition, satiety, projectile). “Then we had lots and lots of jokes about the condiments,” the juror told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn confessed to law enforcement upon being apprehended—a sort of modern Williams Carlos Williams (“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”) for the more carnivorous, angrier set. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn confessed to law enforcement upon being apprehended—a sort of modern Williams Carlos Williams (“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”) for the more carnivorous, angrier set. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I talked to a Sandwich Guy juror. Inside the Dadaist deliberations on the case that captivated the nation's capital: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I talked to a Sandwich Guy juror. Inside the Dadaist deliberations on the case that captivated the nation's capital: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“You won’t fuck up this profile,” Rahm Emanuel said, faux-menacing, jabbing four-and-a-half fingers at me, “because if you do, your kids won’t have a mother anymore.”
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“You won’t fuck up this profile,” Rahm Emanuel said, faux-menacing, jabbing four-and-a-half fingers at me, “because if you do, your kids won’t have a mother anymore.”
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel just wants your f*cking vote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Rahm Emanuel just wants your f*cking vote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Love him or hate him—and plenty do both—Rahm Emanuel is likely be a force in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. My profile, several months in the making: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Love him or hate him—and plenty do both—Rahm Emanuel is likely be a force in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. My profile, several months in the making: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel is running to the be president, in the honey-badger lane. My favorite tale of his relentlessness — below. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Rahm Emanuel is running to the be president, in the honey-badger lane. My favorite tale of his relentlessness — below. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel is almost certainly running for president in 2028, and I spent the past few months with him. My profile on the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl's lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Rahm Emanuel is almost certainly running for president in 2028, and I spent the past few months with him. My profile on the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl's lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"With age comes what happens when you get older." More Karine Jean-Pierre koans... in this NYT take on the current mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Karine Jean-Pierre and a Book Tour Most Authors Would Not Dream Of
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October 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"With age comes what happens when you get older." More Karine Jean-Pierre koans... in this NYT take on the current mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
My two kids, epitomized:
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My two kids, epitomized:
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
Reposted by Ashley Parker
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
Could you pass the ICE personal-fitness test? 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Could you pass the ICE personal-fitness test? 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Whenever your lawyer is forced to claim that you are “the furthest thing from a Nazi,” you're losing: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Whenever your lawyer is forced to claim that you are “the furthest thing from a Nazi,” you're losing: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
My boss, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social , just wants to build "the greatest writer’s collective on the planet." Cool, cool.
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
During troubled times in news industry, 168-year-old Atlantic thrives with newspaper-magazine hybrid
Jeffrey Goldberg has bold goals: “We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer's collective on the planet,” the magazine's editor-in-chief said.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My boss, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social , just wants to build "the greatest writer’s collective on the planet." Cool, cool.
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...