So, I got laid off late last week as part of the ABC News layoffs. I won’t lie, it was a bit of a surprise, but if anything 2020 has been perspective-setting & I’m grateful for the past 5 years, if a little sad. So...onward. Some of my best work follows. (Hi, editors!) 1/
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's been in touch and if I haven't replied, I will soon!
It's very rare that the internet is a nice place and today it's been that. My dad is gonna have a hell of a read when he gets his "Clare Malone" google alert. ❤️
Hasan Minhaj has built a comedy career in part on the strength of his autobiographical standup, talking about harrowing threats and police entrapment. Does it matter if many of these things never actually happened to him?
My story:
I mean, Fauci's pretty obviously the *actual* person of the year, right?
No offense to Biden/Harris, but "leadership" doesn't just mean winning an election. Fauci was unknown to most Americans and became THE stabilizing/omnipresent voice in the midst of mass chaos/misinfo.
The panic buttons in Ayanna Pressley's office were ripped out (according to her chief of staff) & AOC said on InstaLive that she had a close call and thought she might die.
Pretty at a loss with those details, to be honest.
Lotsa 538 readers are men. Here is a lesson for you: Don't talk about my appearance, positive or negative. Don't tell me to "be nice" when I tell you that's not what this Twitter feed is for. It's the start of 2020 & we might as well be clear. Unfollow if you don't like. ✌️🖐️
I spent a lot of time covering the GOP, which led to this look back at the historical roots of its racism-as-electoral strategy. Excited for bigger projects like this—would love to write a book. 4/
Just a little Twitter out of office notice: going to be mostly off here for the next few months because I gave birth to a couple of very cute human beings the other day. 1/
I spent a lot of the past four years talking to my dad about people and politics, about good and evil. That's kind of where I think this piece about the Trump era came from. Here it is:
So incredibly excited to be heading back to
@NewYorker
! Covering media biz, journalism and politics starting Monday.
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This is trending in my timeline. It’s difficult to articulate in a single tweet the corrosive effects that Stan culture migrating to politics has, but: reporters are on YOUR side. Criticize them, sure! But they’re in the room to hold power to account on your behalf.
Just to clarify (stop talking about the fucking fly): Pence didn't answer the question about accepting election results/peaceful transfer of power. And there was no followup.
This is our coverage philosophy. It will not be driven by POTUS misinformation:
"The outcome of the 2020 pres elec. is still in doubt, and likely won’t become clearer until PA and MI finish counting all their votes. We’re also waiting for official projections in GA, AZ, WI."
In keeping with 538’s new wellness mentality re: election stress, this my my reminder to get off the internet for a while! I just went for a run, walks are great too. You don’t get bonus points for staring at your screen the whole day.
To all people who write me emails about how we can't empirically prove sexism plays into voter choice: There were a historic number of women running and now the woman who shared an ideological world view (by and large) w/one of the male frontrunners is gone. Don't be stupid.
🎧New pod🎧 from my friends
@NateSilver538
@galendruke
@perrybaconjr
. Continue to like and subscribe! Know I will; the discussion has been and will always been smart, unexpected, and fun. Don't miss out!
There are too many others to thank—the art, data viz, and analysis that makes 538 what it is comes from so many smart, talented people. I'm rooting for all of them. 11/11
A friend said this last night and I think it's true: 538's demise should be a bigger journalism story than Don Lemon being fired. Obv I've got some biases but...that site changed the way mainstream reporting on politics gets done (data + on the ground). 1/
I’ve spent a lot of the past 5 years gabbing on a podcast (which is a lot of fun), but I’m also excited for many other possibilities that the medium holds (got some ideas). 6/
I'm honestly not sure the way that TV news is reporting these INCOMPLETE RESULTS is very responsible. Only 62 percent of the votes have been tabulated and that's not being emphasized, just the big pics of the candidates next to percentages.
If you're not at least kind of depressed about covering politics right now, I would humbly offer that you're not actually thinking hard enough about it.
So, just to clarify where we are at 12:25 am: Biden surrogates are saying maybe we can't trust any of the results and Buttigieg has just declared himself the winner. 2020 has begun.
More on the
@FiveThirtyEight
news: Nate Silver is out when his contact expires (soon), & the models (election/sports) that are licensed to Disney will see the expiration of their license term when Nate's contract expires.
So...that's basically the data that drives the site.👀
One week til the Election. I think I probably speak for many women on the political internet when I say, I am REALLY looking forward to it being over so that I can go to a cabin in the woods with no internet. This is not at all what I planned for when I got my writing job here:/
Literally almost just died when a red F150 turned into my pedestrian right of way IN FRONT OF a nypd traffic cop, who just told me he couldn’t do anything about it even though he said it was also “scary.” Vision Zero is going great, NYC!!
@NYPDnews
I might offend some people on here with this: please stop ruining your $$ pre-war apartments with this variety of chandelier. It’s really not as cute as you think.
Not to sound whatever but...it remains intensely embarrassing and stupid that network television continues to employ partisans for lame analysis like this. What exactly did we learn here?
Tv networks should not have partisans on these election night broadcasts. When you’re trying to communicate a clear FACTUAL report on allegations of election “stealing” from the president, it really uh, muddles things.
Two male callers to CSPAN: one says Blasey Ford is lying, the other said he would take her out to the woodshed (if I heard correctly). One 76 year old woman caller says, weeping, she was molested in 2nd grade and that this testimony is bringing all the memories back.
The GOP has wrestled with the morality of greater racial inclusion & its strategic benefits for decades. Time after time, it has chosen to pursue White voters.
Here's my story, spanning 5 decades, about that consistent choice:
I’m just tweeting right now to confirm to my editors that I am up late looking at Twitter and have read the story everyone else has read and agree it’s big news.
Typically I wouldn't RT something like this, but I get a LOT of feedback that boils down to you have "feminist ideas and bias." Said b/c I'm a woman.
Think of being a journalist of color covering what's happening and being told your "bias" is showing. 1/
Coronavirus is going to put on display Americans' belief in "American exceptionalism" & the idea that nothing very bad could happen here. It's a mindset that we've nourished in our civic education & politics for years and it doesn't really jibe w/pandemics
So, Oprah might well run for prez, but I find our collective compulsion to jump to post-speech discussions of her presidential viability vaguely irritating. Doesn't anyone want to linger over the specific content of what she said first? Ya know, all that women's equality stuff...
Consider this: there are only 25 women serving in the United States senate and two of them have recently shared that they were raped. How wholly depressing.
Anita, due respect, but every time I speak professionally, it’s with my “big girl voice.” I’m sorry you don’t like the way it sounds. Note bene: radio reporters will have the same response to this.
Anyhow. I'm not a statistician or a man & I've written for 538 for 4 years (jesus) Love to hear your feedback about how I'm not doing it right, but until they fire me, or drag the keyboard from my cold dead hands, you're just going to have to put up w/me. Or like, unfollow me✌️
Thank god New York is a low key city that doesn't have a lot of young, computer-savvy, anxious people in their 30s. It should be very easy to get an online vax appmt!
My interview w/
@staceyabrams
. We talked not just her presidential decisions, but her thoughts on the VP speculation abt her, media coverage of her race and much more.
(This will also appear in your
@FiveThirtyEight
podcast feed)
Do you think the country will elect a woman president in the next 20 years?
Stacey Abrams: Yes.
Do you think they'll elect a black woman?
Stacey Abrams: Yes.
Do you think they'll elect you?
Stacey Abrams: Yes. That's my plan. And I'm very pragmatic.
One more thing before I block twitter for the rest of the day: I hate to inform you of this, but not everything you disagree with is "both sides-ism". Think harder.
Honestly, I think a better glimpse into the thinking of the Democratic candidates would be a 4-hour dinner party that's video-taped where everyone just talks politics and gets a little too heated. It's how everyone else talks politics!
Not sure who's running this twitter feed, but these aren't real quotes & it's misleading for them to be in quotation marks. You might think the "joke" is obvious but a lot of people on the internet won't know it's satire. This is how disinformation spreads
In his letter, Justice Scalia criticized UVA for rejecting admission of three of his children. He concluded by saying: "I will not accept the Jefferson Award, or anything else, from the University of Virginia. Not now. Not ever." /4
If you're a DC reporter on the scene at the Capital please stay safe and remember the (terrible, horrible, but good for safety) girl-at-a-party rule: stay in pairs.