Yair Rosenberg
@Yair_Rosenberg
Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Teller of stories, troller of Nazis. Newsletter: http://theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/deep-shtetl Music: http://bit.ly/azyashir
Twitter makes possible so many amazing things we couldn't do before. Like trolling the Nazis:
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
#Putin bots & trolls are aggressively pushing hashtags on social media promoting Trump & Clinton conspiracies about #Epstein death. It’s sad (and frightening) to see so many Americans on both sides of partisan unwittingly helping them. Putin has weaponized our polarization.
Having two guys playing second base is the big new thing. Rays have been doing it for months.
Schlittler on the bump as the Yanks look for their first win in Toronto this season
"The larger Epstein belief system is QAnon for people who went to college." We've had lots of this since 2016, because many people prefer to live in an evil but directed world than the cruel and chaotic one that we have.
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My latest: Outside Israel, Netanyahu appears ascendant. But inside, the reality couldn't be more different. His government just lost two parties and now effectively controls only 50 of parliament's 120 seats and is careening toward collapse. I wrote about why and what comes next:
Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
No baseball today, so here's the most important news from the real world
Area Twitter user trying to decide if he is an Epstein expert or a Druze expert today