It was all show-business performance, plus loyalty tested power-clique horseshit. Not at all about solving the very real problems faced by those he represented and was supposed to serve. Which, you know, sounds familiar.

When I reported a long 2021 piece about Cuomo, a thing that many people who worked for him for years told me about (besides the corruption, incompetence & cruel domination tactics) was that he & those in his senior circles JUST DIDN'T CARE about policy, or about actually getting anything done.

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

Augusta, Maine

The Baileys

Remembering how when I profiled him in 2023 and asked him how he was preparing for the job he then wanted — the presidency — he told me he was very prepared: he’d published his first foreign policy article at the Atlantic back when he was a sophomore at Harvard!

Just in case you were curious, Kerry had certainly NOT been running on full-throated enthusiasm for abortion access (see also Harris campaign's effortful distance from trans issues)

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

Tomorrow I'll be at Harvard Bookstore with Rhaina Cohen talking about the role of friendship in adult life. Come join us!

Huh. What if expanded unemployment, a child tax credit, increased access to affordable healthcare and other humane economic measures helped people to not be poor.

Gladis. You’ve come.

This @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social piece about how Tina Turner was seen and not seen is just so fucking good:

And then there’s this:

“But being no worse than Strom Thurmond was not the standard to which we were supposed to aspire at this juncture.” I wrote that a year ago and yet somehow couldn’t have guessed how on the nose we were gonna take this. https://www.thecut.com/article/dianne-feinstein-abortion-gun-civil-rights.html