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Editorial Features Editor, in charge of op-ed pages. Best of the Web columnist 2000-17.

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Joined July 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 3

    Finale: Parting thoughts on journalism, authority and the Trump era, by via

    186 replies 163 retweets 320 likes
  2. 10 hours ago

    I even LOL'd at the social-media summary after tweeting it!

    This piece is hilarious.
    3 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
  3. 10 hours ago

    This piece is hilarious.

    13 replies 14 retweets 33 likes
  4. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Uh. Oh. Infamously, every person John Oliver has come at is either dead or in prison.

    John Oliver is coming for Geraldo Rivera, too
    4 replies 7 retweets 26 likes
  5. 11 hours ago

    LEARN TO THREAD

    BREAKING: Here is a thing I know you want to be true that I have absolutely no idea is true but I am spreading it around anyway 1/632
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  6. 11 hours ago

    first 3 words could go on any Salon hed:

    11 replies 20 retweets 71 likes
  7. 12 hours ago

    I'm canceling my subscription before they hit me.

    14 replies 124 retweets 410 likes
  8. 12 hours ago

    Ever misspell "public schools"?

    I write about education a lot, and I gotta tell you, my biggest fear is misspelling "education."
    7 replies 5 retweets 19 likes
  9. 12 hours ago

    "I think it's a bit early to start imposing roles on it, don't you?"--Monty Python's The Meaning of LIfe

    A new study suggests Gorsuch is male!
    7 retweets 18 likes
  10. 14 hours ago

    A new study suggests Gorsuch is male!

    18 replies 22 retweets 53 likes
  11. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    RT if you're a writer and someone's told you they have a great idea for a book and you could write it and you'll split the money.

    44 replies 653 retweets 662 likes
  12. 18 hours ago

    *Obamas Also are you sure this is true?

    The Obama's spent every Easter attending church service. Trump hasn't attended church once since his inauguration. Where's the GOP outrage?
    32 replies 11 retweets 41 likes
  13. Retweeted
    Apr 16

    Hey, , if the Easter Bunny pooped on my lawn, can I take him to a pellet court?

    9 replies 96 retweets 315 likes
  14. Apr 16

    poidh

    Literally an Ex-Im supporter once wrote attack-poem against me mocking my supposed innate fear of Ireland exporting all its potatoes. 🥔
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  15. Apr 16

    I think we have a winner!

    When we stand up and fight back we can change the country in very positive ways.
    7 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
  16. Retweeted
    Apr 16
    Replying to

    Middlebury is a safety mob for people applying to the Harvard mob..

    1 reply 11 retweets 26 likes
  17. Apr 16

    The mobs at Harvard are much more classy and cerebral.

    Turns out that the students who assaulted were not just a mob, but an ignorant mob.
    10 replies 11 retweets 43 likes
  18. Apr 15

    Berkeley today sounds like the Weimar Republic.
    4 replies 16 retweets 52 likes
  19. Apr 15

    High gluten? But people keep saying Trump is intolerant.

    At in Manhattan. Making cookies great again.
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  20. Apr 15

    next he'll try to put his wife in

    More openly than any president before him, Trump is running his West Wing like a family business
    21 replies 42 retweets 111 likes
  21. Apr 15

    DARK

    6 replies 3 retweets 16 likes

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