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Evan McMurry

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · Nov 26

Porting over my pinned tweet: I write short stories! Some of which get published, a few of which win awards. (Don't worry, plenty get rejected, too.)

"Nothing Kinky": bit.ly/2IFUYsY
"Nixon in Heaven": bit.ly/37VCtJp
"After the Water": bit.ly/3mg7NrP
"The Fall of Rabbi Gold": bit.ly/39WTEgB

Nothing Kinky | Evan McMurry

A soldier hellbent on getting himself honorably discharged, and the waitress who changed everything when he saw the way the sun itself tried to reach her with its gaze. Nothing kinky here… ju…

Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 19h

Robert Worth: “It is impossible to spend more than a few minutes near the front line without being confronted by Ukraine’s greatest vulnerability: lack of soldiers. Yet I came away from a recent trip to Ukraine believing that the country may actually be able to achieve its military goals.”

Ukraine Might Be Winning Its War of Attrition

Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 22h

Take a wild ride with @matteowong.bsky.social as he tours the NYC subways looking at the defaced Friend posters with the Friend founder who says he loves it all:

The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters

Avi Schiffmann says he’s enjoying the angry reaction to the Friend AI pendant. Is he serious?

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 1d

@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social: “Trump successfully bullied Netanyahu—and if this latest round of talks is going to get results, he’ll need to do more of it.”

Trump Is Successfully Bullying Netanyahu

The more the president puts the prime minister in his place, the more likely it is that the Gaza war will end.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 1d

The link!

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Stalled This Summer

Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 1d

Despite a huge boost in funds, ICE’s buildup stalled over the summer. Good new reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:

Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 1d

@annielowrey.bsky.social: “The shutdown won’t cause a nationwide recession, provided it is over soon. But it could certainly worsen some smaller ones already gathering force.”

The Everything Recession

First Washington, then the nation?

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 5d

“Trump’s social-media order deploying the National Guard to Portland caught even senior military commanders unaware, and the soldiers he wants in the city could still take days to arrive.”

Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online

There’s more absurdity than menace on the city’s streets—at least for now.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 5d

@isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social went to Portland: “What I’ve found is an atmosphere that is more like a carnival than combat.”

Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online

There’s more absurdity than menace on the city’s streets—at least for now.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 9d

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social: “The U.S. military’s policy of opening the Pentagon to the press was never a favor to the journalists who cover the military, but rather an obligation to a country that asks its sons and daughters to volunteer for service.”

Why Is the Pentagon Afraid of the Press?

Pete Hegseth’s department is imposing restrictions that threaten to limit media scrutiny.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 10d

Searching for a McDonald's play place has led me into the black hole of "online McDonald's reviews"

Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 12d

“James Comey’s rights and liberties are not the only ones at risk today.”

The Comey Indictment Is Not Just Payback

It’s an advance glimpse of Trump’s next attempted seizure of power

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 12d

@adamserwer.bsky.social: “These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is.”

Lower Than Cowards

The surrender of America’s elites

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 13d

“At the rate things are going today, we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it.”

The MAGA Media Takeover

Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 13d

“Alaa waited until the bombing stopped, and then resumed her lesson.”

Back to School in Gaza

When the air strikes are over, the teacher resumes her lesson.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 13d

love that Dashiell Hammett made this list:

Seven Books About What Corruption Actually Looks Like

Dishonest governance is rarely a single act or brazen deal; more often, it appears as a set of habits that spread through a society.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 15d

“Viewing Zionism historically helps reveal it not as a caricatured monolith but as a national movement like so many others—one that encompasses a complex past, competing ideas, and a future whose possibilities have not yet been exhausted.”

Understanding Zionism

The movement for Jewish settlement of Palestine resembles other nationalisms of its era.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16d

H.R. McMaster to Jeffrey Goldberg: Donald Trump “is a bit different now.” bit.ly/46a5DUE

“He has a deeper sense of aggrievement, some of which is justified ... and I think he has been convinced, really, by some of the people around him, that his own staff was kind of the deep state.” #TAF25

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16d

David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”

Watch here: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19d

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19d

David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.” #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 19d

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late-night is a chilling precedent that could have deep consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone, David Sims argues:

An Escalation in Every Way

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late-night is a chilling precedent that could have deep consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 20d

NEW: @jonlemire.bsky.social: “As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her ‘first choice’ was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be ‘too big of a risk’ for a Black woman to run with a gay man.”

The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose

“I love Pete,” she writes in her new book. But picking a gay man would have been too risky.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 20d

@annielowrey.bsky.social: “If and when America’s bill comes due, comfortable pencil-pushers might be the last people paying reliable, predictable sums to the tax man.”

The Last Americans Really Paying Taxes

The tax code is becoming more chaotic and less fair.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 21d

This article, its structure, and especially its hall-of-fame kicker should all be taught in writing classes:

The Greatest Fight of All Time

Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali met Joe Frazier in Manila.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 22d

“Unless China agrees to restart its purchases as part of a trade deal, farmers that depend on the Chinese market will be facing steep losses that could fuel farm bankruptcies and farm foreclosures around the United States.”

China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers

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