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Monica Potts

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Class Politics reporter at The New Republic. Tips on Signal at monicabpotts.57. Past: 538, The American Prospect. BUY: The Forgotten Girls monicapotts.com

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hello new followers! I'm the Class Politics reporter @newrepublic.com and the author of The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America. I have 5 dogs and 4 cats. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 3d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 10h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote this piece yesterday about how people don't think Democrats praise hard work. I wonder if progressives are afraid of talking about work because of Republicans are pushing work requirements. If you are a Dem and have seen any memos/convos like that, reach out newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Here’s One Reason Democrats Are Struggling With the Working Class

Voters see them as focusing on the poor and needy rather than valuing hard work. But that can change.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18h

“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”

Via @momentummag.bsky.social

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Vought and Johnson and Trump threatening not to give them their legally required backpay is definitely going to help matters

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

The government shutdown is snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 1d

It is what I called school lunch soup, with ground beef and vegetables in a tomato and broth base with italian seasoning and onion, garlic, and celery if anyone grew up in the mid-South.

Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 1d

I'm eating leftover soup I made with frozen and canned vegetables for lunch and just felt compelled to say that I don't know who decided they needed to vilify frozen and canned vegetables but they are fine and good for you and make life easier and cheaper and you should use them if you want.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

I laughed out loud!

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 2d

Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea

Three dudes dressed three very different ways - first in a more conservative suit and tie, second in a short sleeve shirt and hat, third in a pink vest and tie

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

We are experiencing a "dual state" phenomenon, writes @pemalevy.bsky.social, when "a dictator can exercise unfettered power " ensuring a "'zone of lawlessness' can swallow some, while the rest go about their lives under the protection of the law." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

Yes segregation also for sure

Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

The party definitely courted them by targeted them on some issues (namely abortion and women's rights) but then the party became much more beholden to them. The evangelical right definitely changed the party, and doing that also changed the church. Symbiotic relationship now.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

2024 was an anti-incumbent year around the globe largely because of forces beyond any one lawmaker's control and I feel like that's where all analyses should start and I don't really know how much more complicated it should get than that.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

The left, as long as I've been a voting adult, instead "protests" bysitting elections out or voting third party when Dems make them unhappy. Except for local elections, that really has no impact, except to torpedo their goals by getting the opposition elected. and doesn't move the party at all.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

I've said it before: Evangelicals changed the Republican Party by becoming it's most loyal and important voting bloc. They determine the outcomes in primaries and never waver from their demands and hold officials' feet to the fire. They continue to vote for their party even when they're not perfect.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d

Related, I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. Pundits across the broad left are trying to decide who should be the villain in the Democrats new narrative about why they should win. Some want it to be The Groups: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3d

At my old law firm we used to joke about so-and-so being a "Third Amendment specialist" because it was so incredibly funny to imagine a Third Amendment case ever happening. Kristi Noem is a second away from telling everyone to hold her beer. bsky.app/profile/port...

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 3d

The way these people think they're entitled to whatever they want. This is what happens when you raise children who are never told no. 1/

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'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that Trump is sending Troops to cities because his base loves it. they hate cities and don't understand or care about them, and also don't believe anything positive anyone says about them. Think about that when someone implores you to understand MAGA. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cross-Tabs: September 2025 Times/Siena National Poll of Registered Voters

Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,313 registered voters conducted from Sept. 22 to 27, 2025.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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