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John Dickerson

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Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency www.johndickerson.com

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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 52m
The 5th Avenue response is weakening. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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Trump's Voters Are Drifting Sixty-seven percent of the people who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 approve of the job he's doing. That comes from Pew's new survey, taken Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. Put the oth...
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Slate @slate.com · 22h
Political Gabfest is heading to Providence, Rhode Island (for the first time!). Join Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz for a live taping and their signature discussion, banter, and bickers on Wednesday, October 21st. Get your tickets now: slate.com/gabfestlive
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is that really the choice: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A series of audio essays (with transcripts) of 35 years of carrying a notebook. Memory, attention, identity and starts. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/navel-gazi...
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Navel Gazing Episode Index
Your quick guide to finding what you need.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Five episodes are ahead of you!
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A series of audio essays (with transcripts) of 35 years of carrying a notebook. Memory, attention, identity and starts. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/navel-gazi...
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Navel Gazing Episode Index
Your quick guide to finding what you need.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"He accused a prosecutor of working backward from a verdict, and made the case by working backward from a verdict."
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
You may have seen the exchange between Jack Smith and Senator Eric Schmitt. Shakespeare called it long ago in Hamlet. First: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk f...
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The Senator set a perjury trap and wound up catching himself. By late afternoon, even pro-Trump influencer Benny Johnson's clip of the triumph had come down.”
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shakespeare in the Senate hearing room. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
You may have seen the exchange between Jack Smith and Senator Eric Schmitt. Shakespeare called it long ago in Hamlet. First: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk f...
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Wynne Everett @wynneeverett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah man, I love me some John Dickerson. Lord, how I miss the smart people being in news.
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Citizen At Large (formerly San Diego at Large) @sdatlarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*chef’s kiss*
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shakespeare in the Senate hearing room. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
You may have seen the exchange between Jack Smith and Senator Eric Schmitt. Shakespeare called it long ago in Hamlet. First: "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk f...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
youtu.be/rmhVw6q-KOA?...
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Bobby Ponders About Quasimodo - The Sopranos HD
YouTube video by TonySoprano
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is extremely embarrassing. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
It appeared that the Missouri Republican misinterpreted a text message reference to the "hawks."
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sauron made the trains run on time.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is quite an achievement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm struck by how low the bar has become for Republicans to be described as "breaking with Trump." substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making the pinball point: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Pinball President
No commander in chief has been better at seizing public attention than Donald Trump. But there is a difference between getting attention and doing something with it.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So that was baloney. www.johndickerson.com/p/should-thr...
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Should. Three Times.
The president speaks for himself.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Clocking the pinball: How to measure a president action by action. www.johndickerson.com/p/testing-th...
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Testing the President
A simple way to evaluate behavior
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's in the last paragraph of the piece.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/09/2026
No president has been better at seizing public attention than Donald Trump—but there is a difference between getting attention and doing something with it, John Dickerson argues:
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The Pinball President
No commander in chief has been better at seizing public attention than Donald Trump. But there is a difference between getting attention and doing something with it.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The year that Donald Trump was born, the pinball machine offered everything but control...the only move was to pull a spring-loaded plunger. After that, the ball belonged to the machine, zinging and zooming... This is how many experience the Trump presidency. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Pinball President
No commander in chief has been better at seizing public attention than Donald Trump. But there is a difference between getting attention and doing something with it.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The flippers were not introduced until 1947. The game in 1946 had no flippers.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The year that Donald Trump was born, the pinball machine offered everything but control...the only move was to pull a spring-loaded plunger. After that, the ball belonged to the machine, zinging and zooming... This is how many experience the Trump presidency. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Pinball President
No commander in chief has been better at seizing public attention than Donald Trump. But there is a difference between getting attention and doing something with it.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Stop Me Before I Choose Again
A soldier, a monk and a Hobbit
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My latest for The Atlantic: The Pinball President. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Pinball President
No commander in chief has been better at seizing public attention than Donald Trump. But there is a difference between getting attention and doing something with it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“.. In hindsight, that weekend marked the start of an unmistakable trend in the global economy ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Experts say not allowing MS Now on to White House grounds is unlikely to pay immediate dividends in opening the Strait of Hormuz: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
Experts say not allowing MS Now on to White House grounds is unlikely to pay immediate dividends in opening the Strait of Hormuz: Before the war: 125–130 ships a day. Now: roughly 14 a day, includin...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Must be nice. I don’t wanna go to the office today even when I’m in the office.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Must be nice. I don’t wanna go to the office today even when I’m in the office.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who would like to put a percentage on the amount of blame due to the institutions that treat running vote counts on Election Day as if they are the score in a football game which contributes to this world view that vote totals counted early are somehow more legitimate than votes counted later.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why do you think the Fed raised rates?
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why I read fiction in the morning. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
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Season Two, Episode Five
Morning reading is a dunk of fluffy focaccia in olive oil.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How wrong can you be about something? I defined the outer limit in my 2008 prediction about Twitter. Find out how in the latest episode of navel gazing season two. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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Season Two, Episode Five
Morning reading is a dunk of fluffy focaccia in olive oil.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It was such a pleasure putting myself in Rachel Martin’s hands for this episode of Wild Card. www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...
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John Dickerson says doubt only helps to solidify his faith : Wild Card with Rachel Martin
John Dickerson made a name for himself as an anchor at CBS News. Last year, he left the world of broadcast news to pursue stories that put his values of generosity, curiosity and integrity at the core...
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sweet man alive…
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reading Notes. 9/13/26: open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
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Notes
September 13, 2026
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Notes 9/12/26: open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
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Notes
September 12, 2026
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My piece on the falling man photograph with the extraordinary Richard Drew. Producer Jay Kernis : youtu.be/DrGp270SSKM?...
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Richard Drew on photographing the "Falling Man" of 9/11
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
Five years ago, we lost sweet George our dog: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/john-dickerson-goodbye-my-familys-beloved-dog/620010/
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Asking simple questions cause these responses: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
A reminder that simple questions to the president to explain his policies create excessive responses.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/09/2026
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Life had stepped into the place of theory. www.johndickerson.com/p/life-had-s...
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Life had stepped into the place of theory
Spoiler alert.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Life had stepped into the place of theory. www.johndickerson.com/p/life-had-s...
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Life had stepped into the place of theory
Spoiler alert.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Notes 9/5/26: open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
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Notes
September 5, 2026
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