"Donald Trump’s use of the military as his 'personal militia' is everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become,” SAYS Tom Nichols at #TAF25
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At The Atlantic Festival, contributing writer Jemele Hill answered some questions about what she’s reading, lessons on the WNBA’s embrace of social justice, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJIJiBDoxQ
Learn more about #TAF25 at the link,
At #TAF25, Monica Lewinsky says she’s grateful to younger generations for helping shift the perception of her story, saying they wondered: “How is it that the 24-year-old person with the least amount of power in this situation had the largest consequences for what happened?” bit.ly/3IkhDd9
I saw a panel discussion about it at #TAF25, and basically everyone on stage was like, "I didn't sleep after I saw it."
Ashley Parker: Donald Trump “is always trying to get through the minute, the hour, the day, the week. And he is trying to win over whoever is directly in front of him … And it will make him say things that don’t make sense, that are in contrast with each other.” #TAF25
Watch here: bit.ly/3ItaNSB
Watch the full conversation here: bit.ly/46AaAoO #TAF25
David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: “Who is hiring these goons—Mario Puzo?”
Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25
“This thing called women’s sport is a beautiful thing, and it’s been here for everyone. And we’ve wanted the audience; we’ve wanted people to pay attention,” the broadcast journalist Cari Champion tells @jemelehill.bsky.social at #TAF25.
Watch more: bit.ly/465zTjy
Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
At #TAF25, Monica Lewinsky says she’s grateful to younger generations for helping shift the perception of her story, saying they wondered: “How is it that the 24-year-old person with the least amount of power in this situation had the largest consequences for what happened?” bit.ly/3IkhDd9
Mike Pence tells Tim Alberta at The Atlantic Festival that he respects ABC’s right to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, but “I would have preferred that the chairman of the FCC had not weighed in.”
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
W. Kamau Bell to Jemele Hill at #TAF25: “It is so gross what Joe Rogan has done, not only to discourse in this country, but just to comedy ... He has made comedy worse again.”
Watch here: http://bit.ly/46a5DUE
“It’s weird to think of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the canaries in the coal mine,” the comedian @wkamaubell.bsky.social tells @jemelehill.bsky.social. “But if they’re telling us, ‘We’re not afraid of rich white men,’ what can the rest of us do?”
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
@anneapplebaum2000 on the current moment of political violence: For the first time, “we have a social-media system that encourages the most outrageous, the most extreme statements, and then rewards them financially.” #TAF25
Watch here: bit.ly/46lDaLT
H.R. McMaster to Jeffrey Goldberg: Donald Trump “is a bit different now.” bit.ly/46a5DUE
“He has a deeper sense of aggrievement, some of which is justified ... and I think he has been convinced, really, by some of the people around him, that his own staff was kind of the deep state.” #TAF25
David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: “Who is hiring these goons—Mario Puzo?”
Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25
“This thing called women’s sport is a beautiful thing, and it’s been here for everyone. And we’ve wanted the audience; we’ve wanted people to pay attention,” the broadcast journalist Cari Champion tells @jemelehill.bsky.social at #TAF25.
Watch more: bit.ly/465zTjy
David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”
Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25
Ashley Parker: Donald Trump “is always trying to get through the minute, the hour, the day, the week. And he is trying to win over whoever is directly in front of him … And it will make him say things that don’t make sense, that are in contrast with each other.” #TAF25
Watch here: bit.ly/3ItaNSB
Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
Mike Pence tells Tim Alberta at The Atlantic Festival that he respects ABC’s right to suspend Jimmy Kimmel, but “I would have preferred that the chairman of the FCC had not weighed in.”
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
W. Kamau Bell to Jemele Hill at #TAF25: “It is so gross what Joe Rogan has done, not only to discourse in this country, but just to comedy ... He has made comedy worse again.”
Watch here: http://bit.ly/46a5DUE
H.R. McMaster tells Jeffrey Goldberg that Trump is "a bit different now" at #TAF25
Monica Lewinsky, decades after the presidential scandal that made her famous, told Sophie Gilbert at #TAF25 that she sees herself as “a poster child for having survived shame”:
“It’s weird to think of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the canaries in the coal mine,” the comedian @wkamaubell.bsky.social tells @jemelehill.bsky.social. “But if they’re telling us, ‘We’re not afraid of rich white men,’ what can the rest of us do?”
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
@anneapplebaum2000 on the current moment of political violence: For the first time, “we have a social-media system that encourages the most outrageous, the most extreme statements, and then rewards them financially.” #TAF25
Watch here: bit.ly/46lDaLT
H.R. McMaster to Jeffrey Goldberg: Donald Trump “is a bit different now.” bit.ly/46a5DUE
“He has a deeper sense of aggrievement, some of which is justified ... and I think he has been convinced, really, by some of the people around him, that his own staff was kind of the deep state.” #TAF25
David Letterman to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “The institution of the president of the United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show.” #TAF25
“It’s weird to think of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the canaries in the coal mine,” the comedian @wkamaubell.bsky.social tells @jemelehill.bsky.social. “But if they’re telling us, ‘We’re not afraid of rich white men,’ what can the rest of us do?”
Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25
Monica Lewinsky, decades after the presidential scandal that made her famous, told Sophie Gilbert at #TAF25 that she sees herself as “a poster child for having survived shame”: