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This is the story of what followed—and what I learned about love, grief, and the stories we all need. 8/8
Jennifer Senior
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Jennifer Senior
@JenSeniorNY
Currently: Staff writer @theatlantic. Formerly: Columnist @nytopinion; daily book critic @nytimes. Author of All Joy and No Fun and On Grief. Wife, mom, etc.
- Notable: Joe Biden has twice tonight admitted he made mistakes. I want a president who does that.
- This may be the most beautiful picture of the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
- We now live in an alternate-universe season of The Apprentice, in which a new guy gets fired each week for sexual harassment. Except the host.
- What's breaking my heart right now is Ford's desperate and quite earnest desire to please.
- Still marveling at the irony that Trump, out of office, was hoarding documents he was famous for never reading while *in* office.
- I cannot believe what Trump is doing to my city. If my column could cry, it would.
- Interesting: The overwhelming majority of former White House staffers have now publicly said that the election *wasn’t* stolen. Whereas the overwhelming majority of Republican members of Congress still say it was.
- I'm just astonished by how blunt Hillary was in her interview with me yesterday. She's genuinely afraid—as I am, as so many of us are–that this country will descend into minority rule. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
- Hey, @jack: Is there a reason why esteemed epidemiologists and contagion experts and virologists like @NAChristakis, @mlipsitch, @trvrb, and @florian_krammer aren't verified, while verified kooks are still spreading misinformation? They're indispensable voices right now. Thanks.
- Imagine his surprise when someone explains that on average we all have one testicle.Interesting that ActBlue raised an average donation of $30.38. This would imply people are donating in uneven numbers, including pennies, which would be odd. OR it would indicate untraceable foreign donations and an exchange rate translation, which would be illegal.
- I too had doubts about Biden, certain that on Nov 6, I'd be on a flight bound for another hemisphere, squinting back at the smoking ruins of democracy, praying I wouldn’t turn into a pillar of salt. But the SOTU showed he's still the king of "the connect":
- So … I just did a long feature for the Atlantic about friendship in midlife. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. Published online today. 1/8
- So, I just did an essay for the upcoming issue of the Atlantic about how old we are in our heads. I personally am obsessed with this question. If you ask someone “How old are you in your head?” they almost immediately grasp what you mean. 1/6
