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Staff Writer for The Atlantic. Formerly: The Washington Post. Originally: Birmingham, Alabama. smccrummen @theatlantic .com

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How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland
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Trump depends on the loyalty of white southern women to win re-election - but some are questioning old alliances:
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‘Love Thy Neighbor?’ In a rural midwestern town, a Muslim doctor feels different after his neighbors voted Trump.
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What happened when a guy named Kevin took on QAnon believer Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th District Congressional race...
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As we consider what a president did to overturn an election, here is what one African American woman faced when she won election in a rural Alabama town. Investigations, police, a lawsuit aimed at unseating her. Breaking the Rule of One:
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In the Syrian town of Kobane, where the US alliance with Kurds began in 2014, thousands of Kurds marched in anger and dismay toward a U.S. base, many clutching photographs of their children killed fighting ISIS alongside U.S. forces. ⁦ @LizSly
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Horrible scoop: Father kills himself after being separated from 3 year old son at the US border. “They had to use physical force to take the child out of his hands,” an agent said, after which the father was put in a chain-link cell. ⁦ @NickMiroff
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Statement from one of the #RoyMoore women, Gloria Deason, who says she dated him when she was 18:
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Paula Cobia, attorney for Roy Moore accuser Gloria Deason, has released a new statement challenging Moore's denials. It is STRONG. #alpolitics #ALSEN
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NEW: Pipeline of undocumented workers from Latin America built Trump's golf course, and everyone seemed to know it. “It’s been a very open secret." via @nickmiroff @fahrenthold @partlowj
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Meanwhile, regarding democracy: In Georgia, county election boards are being dissolved and remade with people who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent. The story of one...
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Deepening suspicions. A parallel voting system. Dumpster diving for documents. In northwest Georgia, a woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming.
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A U.S.-born woman traveling w/ her Iranian parents said border agents seemed "clueless." “They would say, ‘Your case is being processed.’ And we’re like, what do you mean? We’re not criminals — what case?” @ahauslohner
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Advocates allege delays at U.S. border for travelers linked to Iran, a claim the government denies
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The psychology at work when Raffsenberger says no, he did not allow ballot shredding etc and Trump says, “I’m notifying you that you are letting it happen.” Notifying.
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Huge via ⁦ @ksieff ⁩ - “Diez represents dozens of U.S. citizens who were denied their passports or had their passports suddenly revoked. Among them are soldiers and Border Patrol agents.” ICE agents have gone to homes w no warning & revoked passports.
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The WP's story of the extraordinary day, based on reporting of at least 14 colleagues including many who took personal risks to gather details such as this one: "MURDER THE MEDIA," read a message written on one door.
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A Haitian ethics professor seeks asylum, is detained two years without seeing daylight, appears in court, ankles shackled: “I am so embarrassed,” he whispered to his courtroom interpreter... via @elisaslow
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On a day like today, read @danbalz -- Kavanaugh "will either become a member of the Supreme Court or he will not. But the process by which that fate is ultimately determined is likely to leave a stain on Washington..."
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NYT: Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows pressed DOJ to examine debunked election fraud claims including a fantastical theory that people in Italy had used military technology and satellites to flip votes to Biden....
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NEW: Woman shares new evidence of her relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17, he was 34, as Moore says, "I don't know any of these women."
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Example of old-fashioned journalism mattering: Congress is taking action as a direct result of @hannahdreier 's stunning story, which you can read here --
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Congress is trying to stop the Trump administration from using confidential therapy disclosures against young asylum-seekers. New bills in the House and Senate would ban the practice.
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And Sen. Tuberville sent out fundraising email today calling proceedings a “sham” etc.
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NEW: Woman shares new evidence of her relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17, he was 34, as Moore says, "I don't know any of these women." w/ @jongerberg
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In Western Pennsylvania, a Trump supporter says, "Finally. Someone who thinks like me."
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“That decision is without precedent in modern American history: the president used his public office to direct a massive contract to himself.” ⁦⁦ @ToluseO @Fahrenthold
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Classic ⁦ @paulschwartzman ⁩ here, while giving the moment the dignity it deserves: “In 2017, Briskman was engaged in a different form of flipping, this one involving her middle finger...”
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A dispatch from Heflin, Alabama, where the great American reckoning has arrived...
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In a small Alabama town, one Southern Baptist congregation reckons with God, Trump, and the meaning of morality ...
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Republicans are flatly misstating what's in their health-care bill, and here's why from @daveweigel
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After decades of silence about a long-ago Virginia lynching, one man pursues accountability and the meaning of racial reconciliation
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Trump depends on the loyalty of white southern women to win re-election - but some are questioning old alliances:
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She says he called her out of trig class: “I said ‘Hello?’” He said, “‘Gena, this is Roy Moore...’”
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At a moment when "cold civil war" was being used to describe America, a young woman returns home to Trump country...
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Amazing: As new lynching memorial opens in Montgomery, Alabama, the local paper uses front page to confront its role in laundering the crimes...
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Long before the debate, there were troubling signs for Biden in the strongest of Democratic strongholds, where loyalties are fraying, and right-wing propaganda is seeping into social media feeds of young black voters.
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Alabama woman says Roy Moore touched her sexually when she was 14, he was 32 & Deputy D.A. Three others say he pursued them as teenagers. with @bethreinhard
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“José Eduardo Huerta Rodríguez,” the crowd began to chant. The boy had been pulled out.... alive. @Paulina_VV
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In Mexico, an astonishing 89 politicians have been killed since September as one of its most violent election cycles in modern times comes to a close. Read ⁦ @marybsheridan ⁩ to understand—
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In light of #MarjorieTaylorGreene news, a reminder that the people who ran against her included an actual brain surgeon, and a guy named Kevin who wanted to "bring civility back to Washington." The 31-day campaign against QAnon
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New: A rising Christian movement wants a nation under God's authority, and it has become a grassroots engine of Trump's GOP. An American Kingdom
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In the annals of post-presidency homecomings, Obama's was ...fleeting. “Did anyone see the president?” @GregJaffe
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To better understand the modern incarnation of white nationalism, I highly recommend the book by my brilliant and talented colleague @elisaslow - Rising Out of Hatred
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It's not just Christian nationalism. An insurgent religious movement of apostles and prophets is beginning to feel its strength.
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In Maine, a staffer for Susan Collins absorbed anger, stories, death threats... “Thank you for sharing that,” she said over and over... ⁦ @GregJaffe
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Alabama State Auditor defends Roy Moore: “Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth..."
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Gold Star father & Muslim-American #KhizrKhan offered his worn pocket copy of Constitution to Trump. Now:
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A pocket version of the US Constitution has become a best-seller on after speech at DNC.
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A woman has been living in a church for nearly nine months to avoid deportation...
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“The response is hard to understand without reckoning with the power of apathy, a much undervalued political tool.” ⁦ @anneapplebaum
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Dispatch from Alabama...
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As COVID surges in Alabama, mass vaccination efforts have given way to a pained conversation between doctor and patient, one by one by one….
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Inside Alabama’s covid vaccine effort: ’We’re going to take care of you, okay?’
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This is @elisaslow doing what he does best: a story about the lives at the far, fragile end of dysfunctional policy.
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A desperate search for health care forces a husband and wife apart after 63 years. This is now the way life ends for many as basic care disappears in parts of rural America.
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The rapid rise of the NAR has been obscured by more dominant narratives about Christian nationalism. But it is not lost on Trump, or #RogerStone - who see the value of a huge well of untapped voters primed to hear what the prophets have to say...
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Increasingly, this is the world that the term “evangelical voter” refers to - a rising Christian movement that is key to Trump’s GOP.
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AJC adds: On the call, Mark Meadows urged election officials “in the spirit of cooperation and compromise” to find a path forward outside the courts. ⁦⁦ @bluestein
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He checked the stock graph on his screen — up $2.6 million in the past five hours. His accounts were equal to the average net worth of 23,000 middle-class American families. @elisaslow on one of the nation's 745 billionaires.
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Read ⁦⁦ @elisaslow ⁩ on the lost students of the pandemic: “...he’d found students who slept in tents, students who lived in homeless shelters...but the home visits that haunted him most were the ones where he discovered nothing at all.”
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In one of the small Alabama towns where the civil rights movement was born, representation had come down to showing up for a parade... "Everything here came at a cost and we don’t want to lose anything,” said one councilwoman.
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The Post has just published the full audio:
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John Prine’s first review via Roger Ebert in ‘70: “They’re nothing like the work of most young composers these days, who seem to specialize in narcissistic tributes to themselves....”
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Latest in the relentlessly great @elisaslow series: "‘How is this possible? What are the odds?’: The Graveson family, on what the coronavirus has done to them.
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The inheritance was the exact opposite of intergenerational wealth: his father’s end-of-life expenses, thousands of dollars in debts, a continued regression from the middle class into the expanding bottom of the American economy. ⁦ @elisaslow
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Via @ktumulty — “This is a place for practicality, not politics. Some of Sister Norma’s greatest admirers are the law-enforcement officials who witness the loaves-and-fishes miracles she works with the donations she gets...”
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My latest column has little to do with politics, but it meant a lot to me to be able to write it. I'd love it if you would read it, and pass it along, if you feel so inclined:
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Definitely see pages 20-21...
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Regarding @jdawsey1 scoop on Trump immigrants comment, see pages 20–21 from Trump Revealed, how his mother Mary emigrated from Scotland.
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The man who stood behind Trump and laughed is now the man wondering: "I'm a good person. Isn't that what people say about me?"
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Wild conspiracies, investigations, a failed lawsuit aimed at overturning an election result - here is what an African American woman went through to win a city council seat in a rural Alabama town...
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In Kiron, Iowa, pop. 229, the meaning of a life, a death and another cup of coffee
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Sudan: Pretty stunning images here of huge protests unfolding in towns and cities across #Sudan despite internet blackout to thwart organizing. Hard to underestimate the risk protesters are willing to take after decades of repression...
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#Sudan 🇸🇩: the entire town of Sinja ( #Sennar state) is out in the streets to call for freedom. #SudanUprising #مليونيه30يونيو
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The full story on Steve Bannon, formerly President Trump's top political strategist, charged with defrauding donors to help himself as part of a private effort to raise money for a border wall. @mattzap @jdawsey1 @postroz @shaynajacobs
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Great, tragic story here that begins with what happened when a small Alabama town simply recognized an 1889 lynching. @elainaplott
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The Aspen Institute —with a board populated by billionaires — takes $8 million in SBA funds, and defends the decision. ⁦ @OConnellPostbiz
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What happened when a KKK banner appeared in Dahlonega, Georgia became a sign of anxious times.
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Worth noting: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district has roughly 517K eligible voters, of which 449K vote regularly. Greene won with 229K. That leaves.... a lot of voters.
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splenetic @jdawsey1 ⁩ ⁦ @PhilipRucker
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In Alabama, not much hesitancy among people waiting in these vaccine lines: “Here I am!” said an elderly woman bumping her walker across the gravel. “I’m right here!” said a man raising a hand holding a worn Social Security card.
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Nice dispatch via @ahauslohner in which regular joes play role of pros, using words like "roger" & "copy that."
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After decades of silence about a long-ago Virginia lynching, one man pursues accountability and the meaning of racial reconciliation...
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NEW: New York attorney general sues Trump Organization, revealing state investigation into the company’s financial dealings, via @fahrenthold
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The death phase of the pandemic that Trump said would "miraculously" go away is now overwhelming a funeral home near his old Queens neighborhood. "It's too many," the funeral director says.
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Hearing the actual audio puts it all in another dimension: @AmyEGardner
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After their neighbor was arrested on terrorism charges, how would the subdivision react? “I was nervous to find out what kind of people we were,” one woman said....
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Another singular @gregjaffe story on the forces behind the low-wage worker revolt: This time, a young woman from rural Tennessee becomes obsessed with Eugene Debs, wins a Rhodes scholarship, organizes the first Starbucks union in the U.S. and... now what?
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Congrats to our cherished colleague @gregjaffe - dogged reporter whose hard-won stories are grounded in the basic act of bearing witness, and do what the best of them can do- transport us into places we might not know.
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1/ A note on @GregJaffe - a @PulitzerPrizes finalist for feature writing this year about the impact of the pandemic on Americans living on the economic edge. He is not just one of my most talented colleagues in @washingtonpost - he is among the most reflective and thoughtful.
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Read ⁦ @MonicaHesse ⁩ - the sharpest columnist on the most difficult subject:
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