Personal account. Work-related tweets over at @NYTBlake.
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12 Jul 2022
PSA: I am moving my work-related tweets over to another account, @NYTBlake. Not sure what I'm doing with this one, but it's become a bit unwieldy. Please follow me there if you are interested in politics & news.
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14 Jul 2022
Thus embracing Trump's one and only diplomatic breakthrough. Interesting.
14 Jul 2022
"Tomorrow I'll be the first American President to fly from Israel, directly to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia." - @JoeBiden
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11 Jul 2022
Big news in the opinion journalism world. And big shoes to fill, in the late Fred Hiatt. David was a great editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, my hometown paper.
7 Jul 2022
Bittersweet news. Departing beloved Bloomberg @Opinion for The @WashingtonPost. Congratulations to @TimOBrien on the new job. This team won't miss a beat.
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10 Jul 2022
Your periodic reminder that the Delaware Court of Chancery is the least known but low-key most quietly important court in the country
8 Jul 2022
The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
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7 Jul 2022
This seems like an unfair advantage
vice.com/en/article/3adz38/q…
cc: @EllenLWeintraub
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Blake Hounshell retweeted
7 Jul 2022
I am beyond thrilled to announce that I will serve as Director of the new "Safeguarding Democracy Project" @UCLA_Law. SafeguardingDemocracyProject…. Here is the mission statement:
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7 Jul 2022
.@jonathanweisman on the writings of Blake Masters, the hardline Republican candidate for Senate in Arizona:
nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/po…
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7 Jul 2022
What about the stance, though?
7 Jul 2022
I have resigned as a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft over the institute’s position on the Ukraine War.
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7 Jul 2022
I spoke with the irrepressible Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, whose new obsession is a kind of 'Moneyball' for American government >>>
nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/po…
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6 Jul 2022
NEW: Tomight's On Politics:
I wrote about how Democrats' chances of keeping the Senate have gotten brighter in recent weeks. Will it last?
nytimes.com/2022/07/05/us/po…
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1 Jul 2022
Those of us who have spent a lot of time in one industry have all known people like Cassidy Hutchinson — young, talented, idealistic, poised before their life experiences might suggest.
To poorly run organizations where integrity is lacking, such people are often dangerous.
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Blake Hounshell retweeted
1 Jul 2022
In tonight’s On Politics, the great @kzernike walks @blakehounshell through the new political era on abortion. nytimes.com/2022/06/30/us/po…
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30 Jun 2022
Talking to @Timodc is always as enlightening as it is entertaining, and I could easily write 5,000 more words on this nuanced and soul-searching book that has elements that touch on much more than politics:
30 Jun 2022
Thanks to @blakehounshell for a textured take on Why We Did It that delves into the psychological and personal elements I really wanted to tease out. nytimes.com/2022/06/29/us/po…
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29 Jun 2022
NEW: Welcome to the Steampunk edition of Biden in His Basement — John Fetterman's edgelord campaign for Pennsylvania Senate:
nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/po…
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26 Jun 2022
Free story idea for someone: Are my aging AirPods and intermittent cell service making me seem crazy to people on the other end of the phone?
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Blake Hounshell retweeted
26 Jun 2022
Because I've known him since childhood, the @KCStar asked if I could explain how Eric Greitens went from Obama-boosting Dem to ultra-MAGA star. Here's my take ⬇️
26 Jun 2022
“I always remember that he was a really big Obama fan,” says one progressive Missourian who used to consider the ex-governor a friend. | Opinion kansascity.com/opinion/reade…
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Blake Hounshell retweeted
26 Jun 2022
A popular alternative model of journalism is to seek stories so morally unambiguous that nuance is their enemy, and whose moral clarity is itself the source of urgency and narrative delight for readers. Personally I think stories produced under this model tend to suck
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26 Jun 2022
The best journalists are the people who seek out complexity, work to understand it — and then try to capture it while making the material feel urgent and compelling to normal people, without losing nuance. It’s really hard to do.
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