Zev Karlin-Neumann
@zkarlinn.bsky.social
Writer of speeches and righter of wrongs. Now: Founder at JustWriteComms.com. Once: State Dept, DPC46, Pete For America, Sen. Kamala Harris, NSC44, @westwingwriters.bsky.social. Views and puns my own.
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In this incredibly challenging moment, I'm excited to launch justwritecomms.com to help some of our foremost leaders tell their stories and advance their agendas.
If you've got something to say that people should hear, let's chat!
In this incredibly challenging moment, I'm excited to launch justwritecomms.com to help some of our foremost leaders tell their stories and advance their agendas.
If you've got something to say that people should hear, let's chat!
Genius.
financially entangling myself with isaac chotiner until it becomes unethical for him to interview me
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Genius.
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Farewell to this legend who represented Palo Alto and Asian-Americans on a global stage; he'll be a success in whatever he chooses to do next www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/31/f...
Former NBA star, Asian American trailblazer Jeremy Lin retires
On the verge of being out of the league, Lin saved his NBA career over a two-week stretch during the 2011-12 season with the New York Knicks.
www.mercurynews.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Farewell to this legend who represented Palo Alto and Asian-Americans on a global stage; he'll be a success in whatever he chooses to do next www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/31/f...
“The only way to change the power structures in those states is to organize people,” Mr. Kennedy said. “That’s not a short fix. But what else can you do?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
A Kennedy Toils in Mississippi, Tracing His Grandfather’s Path
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“The only way to change the power structures in those states is to organize people,” Mr. Kennedy said. “That’s not a short fix. But what else can you do?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
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Stephen C > Stephen A
Colbert should just run for President. I mean, it worked for Trump when his show was cancelled.
July 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Stephen C > Stephen A
Just 15 years ago, we had:
🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK.
🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate.
🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses.
Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK.
🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate.
🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses.
Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party’s Status Quo
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Just 15 years ago, we had:
🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK.
🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate.
🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses.
Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK.
🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate.
🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses.
Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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Sometimes calls for prayer are sincere and sometimes they are an argument: a claim that this is God’s fault and our choices and policies have nothing to do with it.
Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
July 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sometimes calls for prayer are sincere and sometimes they are an argument: a claim that this is God’s fault and our choices and policies have nothing to do with it.
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Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
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Happy Birthday to my favorite Skee-ball expert, best-selling author, dog dad, fixer of dolls and bikes and dinners, and amazing parent to our kids. What a year it’s been, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social - and here’s to the adventures yet to come!
June 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy Birthday to my favorite Skee-ball expert, best-selling author, dog dad, fixer of dolls and bikes and dinners, and amazing parent to our kids. What a year it’s been, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social - and here’s to the adventures yet to come!
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the embarrassment of the first Trump term combined with the shame of the second Bush term is a helluva place to be
June 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
the embarrassment of the first Trump term combined with the shame of the second Bush term is a helluva place to be
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Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner, sends a message to President Trump.
Narges has spent around 13 years in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prisons over the last 15 years.
Narges has spent around 13 years in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prisons over the last 15 years.
June 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner, sends a message to President Trump.
Narges has spent around 13 years in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prisons over the last 15 years.
Narges has spent around 13 years in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prisons over the last 15 years.
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The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
June 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
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Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.”
Welp.
Welp.
June 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.”
Welp.
Welp.
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This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now.
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump.
This is how you want a leader to talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
Interested in speechwriting? Love hearing about the State Department clearance process? Don’t absolutely hate the sound of my voice?
Check out the podcast I did with Caitlin Dallaire and the Public Service Project:
open.spotify.com/episode/5cFD...
Check out the podcast I did with Caitlin Dallaire and the Public Service Project:
open.spotify.com/episode/5cFD...
On Research and Writing with Zev Karlin-Neumann
The Public Service Project · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Interested in speechwriting? Love hearing about the State Department clearance process? Don’t absolutely hate the sound of my voice?
Check out the podcast I did with Caitlin Dallaire and the Public Service Project:
open.spotify.com/episode/5cFD...
Check out the podcast I did with Caitlin Dallaire and the Public Service Project:
open.spotify.com/episode/5cFD...
“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”
This would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”
This would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
June 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
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It’s my birthday on Sunday but you really shouldn’t have, this is just too much, I don’t deserve it
June 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It’s my birthday on Sunday but you really shouldn’t have, this is just too much, I don’t deserve it
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Hassett has now taken to forecasting what going to happen last week, and he’s still wrong.
STEPHANOPOULOS: When will we see an actual trade agreement? Will we see any this week?
HASSETT: I expected we were probably going to see one perhaps as early as last week
HASSETT: I expected we were probably going to see one perhaps as early as last week
June 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hassett has now taken to forecasting what going to happen last week, and he’s still wrong.
“At a recent luncheon at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan, a top lawyer for Citadel delivered a message to leaders of some of the country’s biggest law firms. Brooke Cucinella told them that the hedge-fund company likes to work with law firms that aren’t afraid of a fight.” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients
After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere.
www.wsj.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“At a recent luncheon at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan, a top lawyer for Citadel delivered a message to leaders of some of the country’s biggest law firms. Brooke Cucinella told them that the hedge-fund company likes to work with law firms that aren’t afraid of a fight.” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
“They told us Putin would take all of Ukraine if we didn’t send weapons so we sent tons of weapons and he never even took all of Ukraine.”
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June 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“They told us Putin would take all of Ukraine if we didn’t send weapons so we sent tons of weapons and he never even took all of Ukraine.”
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Hey Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel & the rest of the MAGA goons & bullies
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a message for you:
Go f***k yourself."
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Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a message for you:
Go f***k yourself."
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May 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hey Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel & the rest of the MAGA goons & bullies
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a message for you:
Go f***k yourself."
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Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a message for you:
Go f***k yourself."
🔥
“Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...