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Zev Karlin-Neumann

@zkarlinn.bsky.social
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Writer of speeches and righter of wrongs. Now: Founder at JustWriteComms.com. Once: State Dept, DPC46, Pete For America, Sen. Kamala Harris, NSC44, @westwingwriters.bsky.social. Views and puns my own.

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It’s going to supercharge the gerrymandering wars. For _both_ Democrats and Republicans. (derogatory) And it’s going to turn the worst race-baiting campaigns into savvy legal strategy. (extremely derogatory)
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Callais is disingenuous statutory interpretation stuffed in willful mock naivete rolled up in ahistorical blather with a light glaze of facilitating racism. As both judicial reasoning and real-world policy, it’s a turducken of putrid.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Commencement speakers are often inclined to play it safe. With our democracy on the line, I think that's the wrong approach. My latest screed in the @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social:
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
From my oldest pal @eisenwrites.bsky.social, a great piece of reporting on how Collins has gone AWOL on climate issues.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Genius.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Farewell to this legend who represented Palo Alto and Asian-Americans on a global stage; he'll be a success in whatever he chooses to do next www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/31/f...
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Former NBA star, Asian American trailblazer Jeremy Lin retires
On the verge of being out of the league, Lin saved his NBA career over a two-week stretch during the 2011-12 season with the New York Knicks.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
“The only way to change the power structures in those states is to organize people,” Mr. Kennedy said. “That’s not a short fix. But what else can you do?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
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A Kennedy Toils in Mississippi, Tracing His Grandfather’s Path
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
NYT Headline: Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death

An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.Anakin and Padme meme
Panel 1, Anakin: The 2024 autopsy isn't covering key Biden and Harris decisions
Panel 2, Padme: It's because we all agree those decisions were bad, right?
Panel 3, Anakin: silent
Panel 4, Padme, now concerned: It's because we all agree those decisions were bad, right?
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Stephen C > Stephen A
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Just 15 years ago, we had: 🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK. 🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate. 🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses. Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party’s Status Quo
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Sometimes calls for prayer are sincere and sometimes they are an argument: a claim that this is God’s fault and our choices and policies have nothing to do with it.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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a bald man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says operation war feed
ALT: a bald man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says operation war feed
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Happy Birthday to my favorite Skee-ball expert, best-selling author, dog dad, fixer of dolls and bikes and dinners, and amazing parent to our kids. What a year it’s been, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social - and here’s to the adventures yet to come!
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erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
the embarrassment of the first Trump term combined with the shame of the second Bush term is a helluva place to be
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner, sends a message to President Trump. Narges has spent around 13 years in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prisons over the last 15 years.
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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...
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'Weakness masquerading as strength': Hear Newsom's blistering speech on Trump as LA protests persist
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Interested in speechwriting? Love hearing about the State Department clearance process? Don’t absolutely hate the sound of my voice? Check out the podcast I did with Caitlin Dallaire and the Public Service Project: open.spotify.com/episode/5cFD...
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On Research and Writing with Zev Karlin-Neumann
The Public Service Project · Episode
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.” This would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s my birthday on Sunday but you really shouldn’t have, this is just too much, I don’t deserve it
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hassett has now taken to forecasting what going to happen last week, and he’s still wrong.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“At a recent luncheon at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan, a top lawyer for Citadel delivered a message to leaders of some of the country’s biggest law firms. Brooke Cucinella told them that the hedge-fund company likes to work with law firms that aren’t afraid of a fight.” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients
After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
“They told us Putin would take all of Ukraine if we didn’t send weapons so we sent tons of weapons and he never even took all of Ukraine.” 🤔🤔🤔
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Hey Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel & the rest of the MAGA goons & bullies Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a message for you: Go f***k yourself." 🔥
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Forget Russia’s torture and killing of Ukrainians, let’s focus on the real threat like U.K.’s laws against hate speech,” one of the department officials noted wryly. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Rubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in State
The cuts are part of a Trump administration plan to overhaul State, outlined in internal documents.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Hell of a legacy.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“For Buttigieg, the answer to populist despair is policy imagination. Big, functional, future-oriented ideas. Not just to fight Trump, but to build something worth fighting for. There’s something there. Maybe everything.” demwinsmedia.substack.com/p/pete-butti...
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Pete Buttigieg’s Theory of Everything
How the former mayor, transportation secretary, and unlikely culture whisperer is piecing together a Democratic response to the chaos of Trumpism – and everything that comes after.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here… But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.” She paused. “This is Carol.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
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A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/05/2025
if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Opinion | Sarah Milgrim’s Death Was a Tragedy. Distorting Her Legacy Would Be Another.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“I’ve always wondered,” he said, “when pressed, would rich liberal lawyers choose to stay rich or liberal? Now we know.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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The Website Where Lawyers Mock ‘Yellow-Bellied’ Firms Bowing to Trump
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“Leaders on the call seemed surprised that Trump seemed relatively content with what he heard from Putin, and presented it as a new development, even though the Russian leader did not seem to have changed his position at all.” President Deals! www.axios.com/2025/05/20/t...
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Trump's deference to Putin stunned European leaders on call
"Some of the leaders on the call were shocked."
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
OUT: Eating the cats and dogs IN: Eating tariffs
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
“Carpenter thought it ‘almost providential’ that an original Magna Carta would show up at Harvard, as the university battles with the Trump administration over its refusal to submit to the government’s demands.” Not very subtle by this season’s writers! www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“He’s got the guts to go on Fox News, to go into the manosphere, to go into these places,” O’Bryon gushed. “And he’s so smart, and he’s just — you can’t stump him.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Buttigieg, eyeing a presidential run, says ‘maybe’ Biden hurt Democrats
The former Biden administration official was in Iowa, where he warned in his highest-profile public appearance since leaving government not to ‘hang back’ against President Donald Trump.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Creating a problem and then demanding praise for fixing it. A pattern.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Great news for fans of funny
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“In a Hollywood disaster movie, when the big one arrives, the characters don’t have to waste time debating whether it’s happening... In the real world, though, the cataclysm can come in on little cat feet.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If they come for Bluey, enraged parents will make January 6th look like a picnic. For real life.
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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"The record of failure after a hundred days is, at once, astonishing and predictable." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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One Hundred Days of Ineptitude
Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal.
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