Ashley Parker
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social
I remain skeptical about Bluesky. Also: @TheAtlantic staff writer. MSNBC analyst. And Washington Post + New York Times alum. Mainly links to my stories and posts about my kids. Email: aparker@theatlantic.com.
If you fear your country is slipping toward authoritarianism, isn’t sacrificing your late-night Subway snack the least you should do? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you fear your country is slipping toward authoritarianism, isn’t sacrificing your late-night Subway snack the least you should do? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
At one point, sandwiches were served for lunch, an irony not lost on a jury spending hours contemplating the many possible uses of the breaded form (nutrition, satiety, projectile). “Then we had lots and lots of jokes about the condiments,” the juror told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
At one point, sandwiches were served for lunch, an irony not lost on a jury spending hours contemplating the many possible uses of the breaded form (nutrition, satiety, projectile). “Then we had lots and lots of jokes about the condiments,” the juror told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn confessed to law enforcement upon being apprehended—a sort of modern Williams Carlos Williams (“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”) for the more carnivorous, angrier set. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn confessed to law enforcement upon being apprehended—a sort of modern Williams Carlos Williams (“I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox …”) for the more carnivorous, angrier set. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I talked to a Sandwich Guy juror. Inside the Dadaist deliberations on the case that captivated the nation's capital: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I talked to a Sandwich Guy juror. Inside the Dadaist deliberations on the case that captivated the nation's capital: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“You won’t fuck up this profile,” Rahm Emanuel said, faux-menacing, jabbing four-and-a-half fingers at me, “because if you do, your kids won’t have a mother anymore.”
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“You won’t fuck up this profile,” Rahm Emanuel said, faux-menacing, jabbing four-and-a-half fingers at me, “because if you do, your kids won’t have a mother anymore.”
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My weeks w Rahm: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel just wants your f*cking vote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Rahm Emanuel just wants your f*cking vote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Love him or hate him—and plenty do both—Rahm Emanuel is likely be a force in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. My profile, several months in the making: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Love him or hate him—and plenty do both—Rahm Emanuel is likely be a force in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. My profile, several months in the making: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel is running to the be president, in the honey-badger lane. My favorite tale of his relentlessness — below. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Rahm Emanuel is running to the be president, in the honey-badger lane. My favorite tale of his relentlessness — below. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel is almost certainly running for president in 2028, and I spent the past few months with him. My profile on the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl's lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Rahm Emanuel is almost certainly running for president in 2028, and I spent the past few months with him. My profile on the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl's lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"With age comes what happens when you get older." More Karine Jean-Pierre koans... in this NYT take on the current mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Karine Jean-Pierre and a Book Tour Most Authors Would Not Dream Of
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"With age comes what happens when you get older." More Karine Jean-Pierre koans... in this NYT take on the current mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
My two kids, epitomized:
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My two kids, epitomized:
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
6-year-old: “We either play it properly or not at all.”
2-year-old: “Play NOT properly!”
Reposted by Ashley Parker
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
Could you pass the ICE personal-fitness test? 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Could you pass the ICE personal-fitness test? 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Many new "athletically allergic" ICE recruits cannot. One of many great details in this @nickmiroff.bsky.social special: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Whenever your lawyer is forced to claim that you are “the furthest thing from a Nazi,” you're losing: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Whenever your lawyer is forced to claim that you are “the furthest thing from a Nazi,” you're losing: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
My boss, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social , just wants to build "the greatest writer’s collective on the planet." Cool, cool.
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
During troubled times in news industry, 168-year-old Atlantic thrives with newspaper-magazine hybrid
Jeffrey Goldberg has bold goals: “We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer's collective on the planet,” the magazine's editor-in-chief said.
apnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My boss, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social , just wants to build "the greatest writer’s collective on the planet." Cool, cool.
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
Fun piece here on how @theatlantic.com is growing and thriving, and where we're headed: apnews.com/article/atla...
💛❤️Things I recently learned: It is hard to take yourself seriously in therapy while wearing bright yellow and red “Quit Playing Ames With My Heart” socks. ❤️💛
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
💛❤️Things I recently learned: It is hard to take yourself seriously in therapy while wearing bright yellow and red “Quit Playing Ames With My Heart” socks. ❤️💛
OH at a coffee shop near Georgetown, uttered unironically, on what seems to be a date: "I can't believe you were born in the 1900s."
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
OH at a coffee shop near Georgetown, uttered unironically, on what seems to be a date: "I can't believe you were born in the 1900s."
This is such a fun read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
And reminds me of my high school days running "Suicides," though I have to imagine the name has since been changed...
And reminds me of my high school days running "Suicides," though I have to imagine the name has since been changed...
I tried to pass Pat Riley’s infamous conditioning test. Hint: I did not
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is such a fun read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
And reminds me of my high school days running "Suicides," though I have to imagine the name has since been changed...
And reminds me of my high school days running "Suicides," though I have to imagine the name has since been changed...
Pete Hegseth gathered generals from around the globe to unveil new physical-fitness standards in a speech that felt like a TED Talk. @nancyayoussef and @Missy Ryan talked to military officers about what it all means:
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Hundreds of Generals Try to Keep a Straight Face
Pete Hegseth gathered commanders from around the globe to unveil new physical-fitness standards.
www.theatlantic.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Pete Hegseth gathered generals from around the globe to unveil new physical-fitness standards in a speech that felt like a TED Talk. @nancyayoussef and @Missy Ryan talked to military officers about what it all means:
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
6-yr-old: “Music is the key to life.”
Me: “I thought we were just talking about how reading is the key to life.”
6-yr-old: “Yeah, I know that. BUT in KPop Demon Hunters…”
Me: “I thought we were just talking about how reading is the key to life.”
6-yr-old: “Yeah, I know that. BUT in KPop Demon Hunters…”
September 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
6-yr-old: “Music is the key to life.”
Me: “I thought we were just talking about how reading is the key to life.”
6-yr-old: “Yeah, I know that. BUT in KPop Demon Hunters…”
Me: “I thought we were just talking about how reading is the key to life.”
6-yr-old: “Yeah, I know that. BUT in KPop Demon Hunters…”
Having kids apparently means finding handcuffs in the silverware drawer; a single Pokeman card on every stair; and no one willing to take a bath (except under threat of no Harry Potter at bedtime).
September 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Having kids apparently means finding handcuffs in the silverware drawer; a single Pokeman card on every stair; and no one willing to take a bath (except under threat of no Harry Potter at bedtime).
"It’s just autumn: The perfect time to discuss approved subjects." Always read @petridishes.bsky.social, even when she's saying nothing, nothing at all... www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
www.theatlantic.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"It’s just autumn: The perfect time to discuss approved subjects." Always read @petridishes.bsky.social, even when she's saying nothing, nothing at all... www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Worth listening to NYT's David Marchese's The Interview podcast w Cameron Crowe, just to hear Marchese float not one but three (!!!) theories directly to Crowe, on why his latest work just isn't as good. Riveting stuff.
September 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Worth listening to NYT's David Marchese's The Interview podcast w Cameron Crowe, just to hear Marchese float not one but three (!!!) theories directly to Crowe, on why his latest work just isn't as good. Riveting stuff.
A death in the MAGA Family. @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social + I on how Charlie Kirk became who he was, and how much he meant to the president and his inner circle. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Charlie Kirk Built the MAGA Youth Movement
The conservative activist was one of the most influential unelected people in America.
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A death in the MAGA Family. @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social + I on how Charlie Kirk became who he was, and how much he meant to the president and his inner circle. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Read the first excerpt of Kamala Harris's new book—"107 Days"—here in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Constant Battle
The first excerpt from 107 Days
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Read the first excerpt of Kamala Harris's new book—"107 Days"—here in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...