Emily Tamkin

Before you yell at me, consider I explicitly put “don’t yell at me” in my bio

These “DC elites shouldn’t deny crime” takes are so…did you just land here from the moon. First of all who are you talking about. Second of all the point isn’t that there is no crime, it’s that Trump is clearly describing a fictional dystopia for political gain while making our real city less safe.

It’s good to signal virtue, actually. It encourages others to do the same in support of people with less power. Also, the alternative is signaling vice.

To me the striking thing here isn’t that this is not true, though it’s not, but how from job numbers to crime stats Trump says you can’t believe the facts. I think the logic is that, when you can’t really believe anything, why not believe him since he’s at least telling you that?

To paraphrase All the Light We Cannot See: Don’t tell lies. Lie to yourself if you like but don’t lie to me.

Wrote about Carlson, Fuentes, Heritage, Jewish support for ethno-nationalism, and the right's "mask off" moment open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

Who could have foreseen?????

One irony is that de Blasio was not born de Blasio, unlike, presumably, De Blasio

This month’s ET Ask Home is up and it is here open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

Important point here: “By constantly demanding that Mamdani denounce Hamas, we are putting him in a similar position of having to judge an entire movement he supports by its worst representatives. Perhaps we would do better to offer solidarity than to join the witch hunt.”

Indeed forward.com/opinion/7320...

I’m not going to single out any one respondent but if you replied to me saying “well it’s not an issue because Cuomo won’t individually sexually harass voters,” you 1) didn’t read the piece and 2) are a goofball feigning ignorance forward.com/opinion/7791...

Good news, everyone. According to the men who have written to me this morning this is in fact not a risk at all 👍

There is a good book that is in part on this this phenomenon (not in Germany but generally) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...