Right now: 17 congressional staffers are sitting in at Chuck Schumer’s office in the Senate, demanding that he reopen climate negotiations.
Andrew Marantz
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Andrew Marantz
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Joined September 2009
- Funny, I used to get a lot of people asking me why I spent so much time reporting on white nationalists, whether I was being a bit hysterical or maybe even paranoid. I don't get that so much anymore!
- I've spent much of the past 5 years thinking and writing about the worst people on the internet, because they reveal something important, if terrifying, about our new attentional economy. Even I never imagined that Laura Loomer—Laura Loomer!—could win a Congressional primary.
- I spent four years reporting on white supremacists, online and offline. I can say with 100% confidence that they will hear Trump's smirking, winking "denunciation" of them for what it is, and openly rejoice, and they will be right.
- If you're trying to guess how White Settlement, Texas got its name, you're right
- What is happening right now is the logical culmination of many many years of rhetoric and strategy. This is not the result of one year, one campaign, or one person.
- Replying to @andrewmarantzAll 17 are House or Senate staffers wearing business attire. All calm and orderly so far. AFAIK, no internal protest like this has ever happened before within Congress
- Replying to @andrewmarantzHolding up banners (“Climate Action Now!,” “Keep Negotiating, Chuck”) and singing “Solidarity Forever”
- For a few years, I've wanted to get inside a big social-media company and watch it make tough decisions about what to let slide and what to ban. Finally, Reddit, the fourth-biggest site in the country, let me in. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
- Replying to @andrewmarantz.@JaneMayerNYer ends pretty much every section of this piece with a mic-drop quote. Here's one from Robert Caro:
- I snuck into CPAC Hungary and all I got was this lousy article (and a heightened sense of foreboding about the fate of the American republic)
