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Rebecca Traister

@rtraister.bsky.social
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Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack.

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Collins "decried the 'gutter-level political campaign' waged against Kavanaugh by 'dark money' and 'special-interest groups' (groups that presumably included Planned Parenthood, the organization that had last given her an award just the previous year), portraying Kavanaugh as the real victim."
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the dynamics of the Maine senate debates is how deftly Jackson is baiting Collins to go headfirst into affronted victimhood mode. Her incredibly thin skin is something I wrote about in my profile of her in 2020:
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The Immoderate Susan Collins
After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Adding the link for you. On a reread, you may find that it’s about Troy Jackson being a pretty great candidate, whose DC campaign stewards didn’t seem to have much confidence in. Thanks for thinking of it! nymag.com/intelligence...
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Troy Jackson, the Accidental Candidate
How the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lord, please let Troy Jackson survive his close proximity to The Consultants nymag.com/intelligence...
Another source familiar with the campaign said, “I don’t even think it’s disdain for Maine so much as it’s just disdain for, more generally, people. They want to run this campaign through numbers and spreadsheets. And wherever a campaign is connecting with people or doing anything quirky or unique, they’re like, ‘This is bad and weird.’”
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
Like, c'mon people. Nothing in @rtraister.bsky.social's piece suggests anyone shouldn't support @troyjackson207.bsky.social for Senate in Maine. Stop trying to make a scandal where there isn't one.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@rtraister.bsky.social’s reporting in @nymag.com makes it clear Jackson didn’t “emerge from nowhere.” His long history in state politics and the relationships she describes are why he was able to become the candidate. The fact that DC & NY editors had never heard of him doesn’t mean Mainers hadn’t.
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B.G. Firmani @bgfirmani.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Steinem could always care enough to cry in part because she always believed that human beings not only should — but really might — be better than they often are." I loved reading this piece on Gloria Steinem by @rtraister.bsky.social. www.thecut.com/article/glor...
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Gloria Steinem Loved Women
The feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s-liberation movement.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A piece I've been reporting for more than twenty years, I guess: www.thecut.com/article/glor...
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Gloria Steinem Loved Women
The feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly made times less hard for a lot of people thoughtcatalog.com/nicolestawia...
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Dolly Parton Funded an Oscar-Winning AIDS Documentary in the 1980s When the Reagan Administration Wouldn’t Act
Parton lost friends to AIDS in the 1980s and put her production company Sandollar behind Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, the documentary about the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt that wen…
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Starting last night I read as many of the statements as I could (a truly beautiful document) & made note of people whose statements I liked. But I could only get through to the letter F. After that I filled in from the slates of my favored candidate/s.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wow who knew the raw exhilaration of voting for 179 delegates out of 800 in under an hour?
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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
As @rtraister.bsky.social wrote in **2017** www.thecut.com/2016/07/mass...
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What Mass Killers Really Have in Common
The horrific connection between terrorism and domestic violence.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"In Maine, the people being hunted, rounded up, and separated from their families by ICE, in addition to being sisters, brothers, and parents of toddlers in Bluey pajamas, are workers"
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The Democrats Have an ICE Problem
What the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero reveals about the appeal of the insurgent left.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is such an excellent piece by @sarahjones.bsky.social and pairs pretty well (I think) with one I published yesterday on a mainstream preoccupation with the performance of class, but not the expression of true horror at the rounding up and killing of human beings:
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I wrote about my mother’s family, their lives of working poverty on the coast of Maine, and the truly bizarre and detached conversations our pundits are having about Platner and working-class America nymag.com/intelligence...
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What Does It Mean to Be a Working-Class Candidate?
Graham Platner’s campaign was fatally flawed. Its message is still worth examining.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"In Maine, the people being hunted, rounded up, and separated from their families by ICE, in addition to being sisters, brothers, and parents of toddlers in Bluey pajamas, are workers..." A must read from brilliant @rtraister.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Democrats Have an ICE Problem
What the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero reveals about the appeal of the insurgent left.
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V S @dragonaerie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"As one Mainer who was always leery of Platner but wound up donating to him anyway explained to me this week, 'When you are starving, you will put your tongue on the floor.' "Among the things voters may be hungering for is basic recognition of those whose lives are at stake right now."
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Writing again about Maine, its politics, the national circus around it, and what's to be gleaned about performance, power-building and our view of humanity in the wake of the unspeakably evil killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero.
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The Democrats Have an ICE Problem
What the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero reveals about the appeal of the insurgent left.
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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“We are in an emergency. Caused by Graham Platner. And, honestly, by… Chuck Schumer, who was criminally negligent in clearing the field for Mills, a candidate who was wrong for the moment, rather than one who could have offered a legitimate alternative to Platner.” 🎯 @rtraister.bsky.social
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Eberhard Tarpenning @keikiokaaina.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I recommend @rtraister.bsky.social 's smart article about Platner that ties together disparate and contradictory strings of the saga. She's always a good read.
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What Women Saw in Graham Platner
Once again, a man fails them.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Figuring out how to maintain moral clarity is awfully hard in a world where half the potential political candidates start with a gender disadvantage and the other half are raised in a world that accustoms them to power over female bodies. Nailed by @rtraister.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
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What Women Saw in Graham Platner
Once again, a man fails them.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Even if you think you don't need more Platner discourse -- you should listen to my show today. Two women on why they supported him for so long: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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She Supported Graham Platner. Then She Couldn’t Anymore.
Can Platner’s platform live on without him as the candidate?
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Goes hand-in-hand with this honest assessment by @rtraister.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
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What Women Saw in Graham Platner
Once again, a man fails them.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"The fact that many women supported Platner because they cared so much about women makes this juncture extra enraging, heartbreaking, and horrible."
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"But it’s also pretty rich that many of those eager to remind us that they Told Us So are the same people who also Told Us in recent years that it was a feminist insistence on Me Too–ing too hard that got us where we are now"
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Perfect day and perfect venue to publish a column in which I publicly acknowledge that I liked Graham Platner, correct? nymag.com/intelligence...
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What Women Saw in Graham Platner
Once again, a man fails them.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Always always always always read @rtraister.bsky.social -- and especially on Graham Platner, women, and what comes next. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And yes, his confusion about how he doesn't know if they were guilty (of witchcraft) is stupendous. But also like a gimme. I think it's JUST as good that he thinks that the real problem was their disorganization and could have used a grand inquisitor. I mean, Happy Monday everyone.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"The one area where I would say the Salem witch trials went a little far..." Okay, you've got me hooked.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 30/04/2026
Chatting with New York’s Rebecca Traister about Graham Platner’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary, and the next phase in this blockbuster senate race.
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Graham Platner Has Won the Battle. Can He Win the War?
Chatting with New York’s Rebecca Traister about Graham Platner’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary, and the next phase in this blockbuster senate race.
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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Chart showing major rise in Black reps after 1965 Civil Rights Act
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
She definitely is. Plenty of people have been direct with her about it.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I talked to my colleague Ben Hart about Mills dropping out. I've been away on book leave so I had a lot to get off my chest, enough that stuff got cut (Mills' data bad center veto; her also bad sealed criminal records veto; the impact of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation on 2020) But nevertheless..
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Graham Platner Has Won the Battle. Can He Win the War?
Chatting with New York’s Rebecca Traister about Janet Mills’s primary exit and the next chapter in a blockbuster Maine Senate race.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/04/2026
Annnnnd this goes well beyond what was written down in Project 2025!
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“it’s fair to say that 80 percent of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won’t let go" nymag.com/intelligence... (still relevant Nov piece by @rtraister.bsky.social )
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It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To
Talking to the gerontocracy.
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Jess House @jesshouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.
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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I revisited a Q&A I did with @rtraister.bsky.social on writing public history as a journalist in 2021—and it struck me as too good not to resend! alexiscoe.substack.com/p/wordy-wedn...
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Wordy Wednesdays: A Q&A with Rebecca Traister
“How could you not have told these stories?”
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"All of this is to say that by most standards, I have developed a pretty hard shell when it comes to stories of sexualized power abuse. So I was surprised when the air left my lungs today. When I felt like I was going to vomit." @rtraister.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rebeccat...
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When it can still make you cry
It’s been a long time since I’ve been as thrown by a piece of reporting as I was in the middle of today when, after a lengthy morning meeting, I settled down at my computer and read about Cesar Chavez...
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Elizabeth Warren was originally a Republican from Oklahoma and this normie, practical, "why should we pay for this useless, profligate, non-Congressionally approved war" perspective sounds like exactly what you would once have heard from such a person
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Very coherent, and very, dare I say it, small-c conservative in the best sense??
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is amazing. When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels. That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I’ve been talking to @amylittlefield.bsky.social about this book for years and today it’s out. Killers of Roe, available here (or your local bookstore): bookshop.org/p/books/kill...
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The “optimizing” trend is all about shifting responsibility for health onto the individual and profiting from it. You can do everything “right” and still get cancer. Ask me how I know.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/02/2026
When @rtraister.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social got going I had to check my settings up see if I had the speed turned up. I needed this
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Is This MeToo 2.0? with Rebecca Traister
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 02/17/2026 · 53m
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Shravya Jain-Conti @shravya.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This interview with @rtraister.bsky.social is a serious must listen. Imagine what we're continuing to lose because women aren't taken seriously and because many men get away with so much podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Is This MeToo 2.0? with Rebecca Traister
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 02/17/2026 · 53m
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is v worth your time:
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