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  • 1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Elaine Godfrey

    News of the tragedy unfolded in the group chat: Two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses had been shot in their homes overnight by a man allegedly impersonating a police officer. One of those lawmakers was the former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, someone everyone in the group chat knew.

  • 1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Elaine Godfrey

    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Earlier this month, after it became clear that the Trump administration would not be facilitating the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran megaprison, I texted a close childhood friend. He’d voted for Donald Trump in each of the past three presidential elections, and I asked for his evaluation. “Trump might be taking it too far,” my friend replied.

  • 1 month ago | internazionale.it | Elaine Godfrey

    Qualche giorno fa, quando è apparso evidente che l’amministrazione Trump non avrebbe facilitato il ritorno nel paese di Kilmar Ábrego García da una prigione di massima sicurezza in Salvador, ho inviato un messaggio a un mio amico d’infanzia che ha votato per Donald Trump alle ultime tre elezioni presidenziali. Volevo chiedergli quale fosse la sua opinione sulla vicenda. “Forse Trump si sta spingendo troppo oltre”, ha ammesso. “Ma lo fa perché è un uomo d’azione e noi volevamo un cambiamento”.

  • 1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Elaine Godfrey

    Earlier this month, after it became clear that the Trump administration would not be facilitating the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran mega-prison, I texted a close childhood friend. He’d voted for Donald Trump in each of the past three presidential elections, and I asked for his evaluation. “Trump might be taking it too far,” my friend replied.

  • 2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Elaine Godfrey

    For federal workers, the problem isn’t just low morale. It’s the dysfunction. The employees who have so far survived the Trump administration’s federal defenestration project are morose. For some, the new workload is untenable. For others, chaos reigns. Scientists have been unable to purchase mice for research, while human-tissue samples have sat on dry ice, unsent, thanks to worker layoffs.

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Elaine Godfrey
Elaine Godfrey @elainejgodfrey
9 Jun 25

RT @russellberman: “We have a people-pleasing problem in our party." Democratic organizers are hesitant to admit when get-out-the-vote effo…

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Elaine Godfrey @elainejgodfrey
9 Jun 25

RT @MarkLeibovich: “This might be one of those times for Obama to take a break from the long arc of the moral universe and tend to the imme…

Elaine Godfrey
Elaine Godfrey @elainejgodfrey
9 Jun 25

RT @YAppelbaum: Extraordinary work here, from Liz Bruenig: https://t.co/jp3GBkkmMH