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Andrew O'Hehir

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Executive editor at @salon.com, where I feel like I've worked since Al Gore invented the internet. I manage our National Affairs vertical and write weekly on foreign affairs (Goddess help me), whose effects our delightful country has a tendency to ignore.

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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 16h
Join me and the delightful and brilliant @jasonkylehoward.bsky.social as we talk midterms on Wed, Oct 6 at 5 pm ET (that's tomorrow, as I write this) and offer our choice of 10 Races to Watch. For Salon subscribers only! www.salon.com/premium?utm_...
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spot on. I've been considering writing something -- and still may; ah, vanity -- but Alex has pretty much said it.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey there -- It's as good a time as any to return from Bluesky detox and tell all you gorgeous people that I'm now serving as acting EIC at @salon.com. In answer to your next question, yes! I mean, yes, there are some freelance possibilities here for strong political and cultural commentary ...
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Weather situation in Berlin not being exaggerated. Excellent German infrastructure not made for this. AC on trams is failing and at least one line, M8, appears out of service entirely. Not healthy to be outside.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Trite tourist contradiction: it's possible to feel a twinge at the residue of socialism in East Berlin while also recognizing that the DDR was a godawful disaster, the second-worst regime in German history after You Know What
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Lindsey Graham puts the Iran deal squarely on the shoulders of JD Vance, possibly positioning Vance to become the subject of a stab-in-the-back myth to excuse Trump’s foreign policy failure:
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I am pleased to hear the memorandum of understanding with Iran to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open has been agreed to. I will be watching closely the ensuing negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program and other matters.
I am somewhat concerned that Iran's view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.
Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be sent to Congress for review and a vote. I look forward to reviewing the final product and I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners, be part of the process in presenting the final deal to Congress.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Without a shadow of a doubt, last night's game was the biggest win in #USMNT history. Paraguay are not nearly as bad as they looked, honestly. They were not ready for that dynamic ball-control attack; no one was. Future opponents will adjust, and it won't be anywhere near that easy again.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Touch of talent in that family, one might say.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Welp, I think the comments-section types who thought it was outrageous to include Gio Reyna in this side just went super quiet. I was a bit on the fence about Reyna myself -- but that goal was extra class.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Holy shit. May I quote myself?
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Douglas Moran @dougom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Tell me that basically all of these don’t apply to Trump and his toadies. www.azquotes.com/author/5626-...
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TOP 25 QUOTES BY JOSEPH GOEBBELS (of 105) | A-Z Quotes
Discover Joseph Goebbels famous and rare quotes. Share Joseph Goebbels quotations about propaganda, lying and war. "If you repeat a lie often enough, people..."
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Somali referee Omar Artan to miss tournament after being barred from entering US
Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, is dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.
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Carlyn Zwarenstein @carlynzwaren.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My friends, this Mother’s Day tribute is one of my favourite stories I’ve written. This is for all the goth moms, unapologetically unique mother figures, & real ones in our lives bc we’re all part of the glorious animal kingdom (queendom). www.salon.com/2025/05/11/y...
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Your mom's so ugly - Salon.com
The animal kingdom proves mother love doesn't always need a pretty face
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Although the phrasing of the question is idiosyncratic -- equating two constitutional changes that are not inherently related -- that's still astonishing. Likely to be an outlier, but who knows
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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me and 107 other guys are hanging out at odysseus's house eating all his food and perving on his wife. this is awesome because he is certainly dead lol.
12:56 PM • May 7, 2023 • 1.1M Views
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Published on this day 1939
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Patrickworld 🌎👋🏾🎸 @patrickworld.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Born on this day: Daniel Day-Lewis is a legendary actor renowned for his intense method acting and transformative roles. The only three-time Best Actor Oscar winner, he is celebrated for his profound commitment to characters in films like Lincoln
Jerry Lewis. That’s right: it’s all in the alt text. If you’re clever enough to check here, I know you don’t need your hand held through every joke. It’s the people who don’t read these and immediately comment ‘that’s the wrong photo’ who can’t be saved
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
OMG so much of its place and time. Simultaneously made me feel young again and somewhat grateful that I'm not.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
www.salon.com/2026/04/26/t... Trump and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio persuaded themselves — or allowed Netanyahu to persuade them — to ignore the Heffalump trap in front of them: yet another protracted, expensive and massively unpopular foreign war likely to crater or destroy a presidency.
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Trump lost badly in Iran. How does he spin that as a win? - Salon.com
No amount of late-night posting and Fox News bluster can make this world-historical humiliation look like victory
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
Trump is fighting total war against wokeness as his eyes close and his mouth droops
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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
From me, today: After Hungary, there's some evidence that the MAGA-adjacent far-right wave in Europe may be receding. It doesn't follow that "liberal democracy" will make a triumphant comeback. www.salon.com/2026/04/19/m...
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MAGA lost big in Hungary — but the battle for Europe isn't over - Salon.com
Donald Trump has turned toxic and Viktor Orbán is toast. But the authoritarian threat isn't going away
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
FIFA president Gianni Infantino desperate to make the US FIFA World Cup the worst one ever has confirmed the World Cup Final will have Coldplay playing at half time for about 30 minutes. And no I'm not joking.
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mr Met hugging Zohran was “the ‘mother’ of all events, the pure event uniting within itself all the events that have never taken place.” Mr. Met did it, "but we wished for it." You and I and CitiField are the "simulation," and Mr. Met is the reality we struggle to imitate.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“Why do we feel a paralyzing sense of dread all the time?” I type into my Paralyzing Sense of Dread Machine that lives in my pocket.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Mamdami’s pied a terre tax is just going to further squeeze working class commuters who had to buy a Greenwich Village row house to avoid paying the congestion charge every day.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2026
what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service
For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/04/2026
if we actually get a senior political figure excommunication then just a heads up that every single medievalist on here, we’re gonna lose our entire shit
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/04/2026
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
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Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Bayern Munich are one of the world's great teams, no doubt about it. They deserve this, and it was a fantastic game. But that song they play when they score a goal is like maxxed-out German nerdiness
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Salon.com @salon.com · 14/04/2026
A friendly moment at a UFC fight with controversial influencer Andrew Tate is putting Guy Fieri back under scrutiny. It’s also making us revisit why Anthony Bourdain didn’t like him.
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Anthony Bourdain was right about Guy Fieri
Bourdain knew that food was political. Here's why the Mayor of Flavortown’s politics matter, too
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Yeah an old friend started to argue with me -- with the best of intentions! -- all about the separation of church and state and how the pope should have no role in politics. I guess the only real answer is "Cool story, bro." It's also true that he's literally a head of state.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13/04/2026
Let’s just acknowledge that this kind of attack is foundationally antisemitic at its core
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 13/04/2026
Disney Pixar's 1984 coming 2027
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Slightly concerned that the lesson from Hungary that leadership Dems and Dem voters will take away is that you can run any ole neolibcon and people will turn out in huge numbers if the other guy is bad enough and not to run someone actually good who can turnout huge numbers just by being like good
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Greatly appreciated! I'm so bad at promoting my own stuff, it's charmingly lame
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
can it be closed down sooner
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/03/2026
Nation Doesn’t Have Anything Left To Enjoy Once Scented Candle Burns Out theonion.com/nation-doesn-t-have-an…
Nation Doesn’t Have Anything Left To Enjoy Once Scented Candle Burns Out
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New "Standing Room Only!" This one is a banger, y'all! Pete Hegseth is such a clown that we had trouble narrowing down what dumb clips of him to show. But it's not all laughs. His failed macho act is killing real people. youtu.be/nTi9aBHI1wc?...
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Pete Hegseth’s macho act is backfiring
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Andrew O'Hehir @andrewohehir.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I feel like everyone has missed a crucial fact here: the London judge overseeing a civil suit against Gerry Adams by three victims of IRA bombings (now dropped) is named Jonathan Swift www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Gerry Adams welcomes decision by three victims of IRA bombings to drop civil action against him
Judge had asked plaintiffs why the case against Adams should not be dropped on two grounds
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Salon.com @salon.com · 19/03/2026
The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure.
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Laugh at Trump's shoe gifts all you want — it's a loyalty test
The Florsheim presents aren’t about style — they reveal the mechanics of MAGA authoritarianism and if it can endure
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