#the atlantic

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Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election

I swear to God if you wrote something like this into a political satire like Spitting Image, it’d be called too on-the-nose.

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this is the most timeline ever!!!!

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Signal is not an approved app for state-secret conversations — it appears that the Trump Administration figures were trying to use the "disappearing messages" feature to get around public records laws.

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Elizabeth Tsurkov (the Russian-Israeli academic who was kidnapped in Iraq by a pro-Iranian militia, who was released a few months ago) has written an article in the Atlantic titled “ I was Kidnapped by Idiots” which is a fascinating read if you can get access to it. My favorite part is when she was being initially held the men holding her were apparently ordered not to torture her (this was eventually changed, and Tsurkov spends a lot of time explaining how very good they were at torture when they were so incompetent at every else). Anyways, apparently they tried to improvise with other interrogation techniques Tsurkov assumes they got from movies they had watched. Her main interrogator tries to do the whole “blowing smoke in your face” thing, except he was using a vape, so what Tsurkov got blown in her face was in fact just strawberry flavored vapor. It….did not have the intended effect

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Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources corroborating her reporting

Sarah Fitzpatrick reiterates that she stands by ‘every single word’ of her story and says the people she spoke to were ‘frightened’ by the F

Sarah Fitzpatrick, The Atlantic investigative journalist behind last week’s bombshell story about FBI Director Kash Patel, has said she has since been “inundated” with messages from new sources corroborating her reporting.

Fitzpatrick’s story alleged that Patel drinks to excess – so much so that, in one instance, breaching equipment was ordered to break into a locked bedroom when he did not respond to inquiries about his well-being. The profile and also characterized him as deeply paranoid about being fired by President Donald Trump.

Patel has denied the allegations, dismissed the article as a “hit piece,” and, on Monday, launched a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the magazine.

“I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia,” he said at a Department of Justice press conference Tuesday. “And when they get louder, it just means I’m doing my job.”

Speaking to the Radio Atlantic podcast one week after the article, Fitzpatrick was asked about the director’s retaliatory moves and said she was undaunted.

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The ending to Adam Serwer's remarkable dispatch from Minnesota in The Atlantic.