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Elaina Plott Calabro

19 days

I spent the past two-and-a-half months profiling Mike Johnson for @TheAtlantic , chronicling his improbable rise to the speakership, his anachronistic approach to the job, and his uneasy detente with Trump:

The Accidental Speaker

What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?

www.theatlantic.com

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Elaina Plott Calabro

@elainaplott

1 year

Paul Whelan begged your father merely to tweet about him in 2019. When I profiled Elizabeth Whelan and her efforts to free her brother a few months later, the Trump White House did not so much as acknowledge my requests for comment.

The American Prisoner Caught Between Trump and the Kremlin

Elizabeth Whelan has only one goal: getting the president to pay attention to her brother’s case.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Biden Admin was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine.

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🙋🏻‍♀️

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Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town? America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations. No more…

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Smiled like this all of Saturday.

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“Friends still get a kick out of a story about how Johnson once told Trump that he was praying for him, to which the then-president responded: ‘Thank you, Mike. Tell God I said hi.’”

The Accidental Speaker

What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?

www.theatlantic.com

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1 year

In my first feature back with @TheAtlantic , I profiled Marjorie Taylor Greene:

Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?

On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe

www.theatlantic.com

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2 years

I wonder at what point I'll stop thinking of the 1980s as 20 years ago.

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I profiled Lara Logan for the July/August issue of @TheAtlantic :

A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality

Lara Logan was once a respected "60 Minutes" correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened?

www.theatlantic.com

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“It just really is distressing to me that people can’t do the math and realize that Trump was the president when Paul was arrested—and that he was the president for the next two years." My interview with Paul Whelan's sister about politics and grief:

How Politics Compounded a Hostage Family’s Grief

This week, Paul Whelan’s sister watched as politicians and pundits weaponized the imprisoned American’s plight.

www.theatlantic.com

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3 years

If he thinks I’m just going to continue propping his head up all night…he’s right.

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2 years

The year was hard but one day was perfect.

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@ASFleischman (It was called Turnaround Tuesday because he quite literally refused to defy an injunction against the march that day. Even as the troopers cleared the path for him!)

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2 years

Stop trying to make the sentence interesting. Just write what you mean to say.

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it’s Thursday and he has simply given up

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I profiled Kamala Harris for the November issue of @TheAtlantic :

The Kamala Harris Problem

Few people seem to think she’s ready to be president. Why?

www.theatlantic.com

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2 years

how much good parents do for the world when they are good to their children

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3 years

Merlin is 2! 🎉

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1 year

Why not indulge yourself this holiday season and read many thousands of words on Marjorie Taylor Greene from the January issue of @TheAtlantic ?

Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?

On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe

www.theatlantic.com

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3 years

Guard cat

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what a marvel

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some news!

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Ok

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Sat up after nap, confused

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I did a lot of reporting for this piece, but nothing quite stood out like my interview with Johnny Tallant, a teacher at Marjorie Taylor Greene's high school whose class was held hostage by an armed student in 1990. This was during Greene's junior year... (Brief thread)

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Apparently the teacher whose class was held at gunpoint by an armed sophomore at Marjorie Taylor Greene's high school told her in 2019 that no, he shouldn't have been armed. She's cited the episode in explaining her views on guns.

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A crossing of paths in Queens —

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@mrfishtopher love to see all the good boys find their homes ❤️

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DAR ES SALAAM — Twenty-five years after the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania, @VP meets with survivors:

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what is it that we are doing here, on this earth

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#NewProfilePic

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Monitoring a few situations

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just found this listed as a "vintage pencil holder" on etsy and feel it's no longer appropriate to refer to my grays as "premature"

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🎄🎄🎄

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Extremely historian voice: they're never ...just... documents 🥺

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It appears this raid was, in fact, just about documents. As even some on the left have opined: that is simply outrageous.

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Back to school!

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3 years

increasingly he will not eat unless he can sit at the bar too

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He’s so tired of reviewing my draft pages

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First time at the Kennedy Center and it was a marvel!

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it’s going up!

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finding his center

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Very happy to hear that Fred Gray is tomorrow receiving the Medal of Freedom. And very happy to have played a role in reminding Americans of his story.

For a Civil Rights Hero, 90, a New Battle Unfolds on His Childhood Street (Published 2020)

Before he defended Rosa Parks and became a leading legal force, Fred Gray grew up on an avenue named for Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Ala. Now a push is underway for a new name for the street: Mr....

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So close to understanding how chairs work

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ACCRA — Following his appearance with Vice President Harris at Vibrate studio, @idriselba addresses James Bond speculation: “Never say never.”

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2 years

Back from honeymoon, now headed to Tuscaloosa to retrieve a MERL (who looks like a lion cub next to his new cousin 😂)

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Before the 19-hour-44-minute-44-second flight home from Africa. (You don’t want to see the after.) @AnnieLinskey

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that kid? he was Anne Frank

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it is so nice to be back here

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I am simply begging audio book readers to cease trying to speak in a Southern accent.

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VP’s staff greeted by the following as they touch down in LaGuardia —

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9am —> 9pm

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@TheAtlantic (also, first piece with my new name! which I’d change on Twitter if Elon would actually let me!)

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An honor to spend the afternoon interviewing Judge Myron H. Thompson in Montgomery. My apparent color coordination with the courtroom was unintentional.

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If it doesn’t crash the family PC and get me grounded from “computer time” then I don’t want it

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LimeWire in 2000: here's a free MP3 LimeWire in 2022: this JPEG costs $20,000

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When in NOLA…

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Do you remember the “cool S”? Giving cootie shots with a mechanical pencil? Singing “Jingle bells, Batman smells”? How is it that so many of us had the exact same childhood experiences? @julieebeck reports on children’s folklore, and how it spreads:

Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood?

Children have a folklore all their own, and the games, rhymes, trends, and legends that catch on spread to many kids across time and space.

www.theatlantic.com

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2 years

Yesterday basked in the light of this strange, brilliant, mesmerizing rainbow in Madeira. Now I am back at Dulles, where there are no rainbows

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Happy Fourth from Omaha Beach 🇺🇸

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me @ Gary tonight

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1 year

My grandfather died on Friday. He was so special. He loved me, and he always let me ride the tractor, even as I suspect my disproportionately-sized head risked tipping us over at any given moment.

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In short: she lied.

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My great-grandfather, a U.S. Merchant Marine, went to England and met my great-grandmother, an aircraft spotter for the Royal Air Force. Then they got married.

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Happy Mother’s Day, mama. I love you so.

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Merlin, it’s Wednesday

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The truth is that Julia Fox got her Birkin 25 in black ostrich with gold hardware and she peaced. A lot of you have been asking and this is my only comment on the matter.

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This is a hell of a story.

'Where the Crawdads Sing' Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder

A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie.

www.theatlantic.com

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getting your booster but remembering when the needle is half a centimeter from your left arm that you have a bullet in there and can we please do the right side actually 🥰🥰🥰

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For your weekend consideration:

A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality

Lara Logan was once a respected "60 Minutes" correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened?

www.theatlantic.com

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First catch in Idaho!

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Out of town and missing this little entomologist. *Reposted because I initially called my cat an etymologist, and while I think he is a duly impressive creature, we are not quite there yet!

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Last night I dreamt I caught a big rainbow named Allen. Today I caught a big rainbow and named him Allen.

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Stages of a Merl nap: monitor the birds + insist not sleepy; give in to sweet slumber; pop back up *once* more to remind birds of presence; go down for good.

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A merry Merl

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3 years

Good morning Merlin might you have any idea of how my to-go bag from dinner came to be in the closet

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Despair is measured by the number of cups on your nightstand.

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3 years

but i think of u all often ❤️

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1 year

Anyway, thanks for following along. I hope you'll read the rest of the piece!

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3 years

Man, when you've got congregants accusing David Platt of a "liberal drift," things are getting out of hand. God have mercy.

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What happened at McLean Bible Church has become a pattern in evangelical churches. Addressing issues like diversity and racism, even from a biblical perspective, sets leaders up to be accused of liberal drift. Story from @CTmagazine :

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Saturday sleepies

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Happy Friday! I went to CPAC and wrote about the return of the John Birch Society -

The Return of the John Birch Society

The organization, once relegated to the outermost edges of the conservative movement, now fits neatly into its mainstream.

www.theatlantic.com

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1 year

“Another huge problem:”

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Mr. Beast paid for 1,000 people to have blindness curing surgery, raised awareness for it, and this is the reaction.

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Ask dumb questions and stop talking.

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“heh”

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A masterpiece.

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happy Friday from Merl!

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“If only I had the words to tell you.” So much of Gilead reads to me like Paul’s letter to the Philippians. Marilynne Robinson is a wonder.

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"Humanities departments judge their undergraduate students on the basis of their essays. They give Ph.D.s on the basis of a dissertation’s composition. What happens when both processes can be significantly automated?" - @StephenMarche

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Wow who remembers this absolute banger

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Some branch inspection by Merl

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joke's on him I already do this

Daily Loud

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Kellogg’s CEO suggests people should eat cereal for dinner to save money

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pulling up twitter dot com this morning

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I find it interesting that I have 76,000 followers and yet when I publish a story, I do not get 76,000 retweets. Anyway, just something I find interesting

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@SamAdlerBell Congrats on the high IQ!

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