Recent posts by The Atlantic Writers Community on Bluesky

"If 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' is the tendency to become irrationally obsessed with Donald Trump and project that obsession onto everyone else, then somebody is indeed deranged, and it wasn’t Rob Reiner." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

@dgraham.bsky.social: “The simplest reason Trump posted this is the same reason he posts anything: The man cannot resist making everything about himself, even if it’s the heartbreaking murder of a beloved artist in an alleged domestic dispute.”

I've said it before, but the key text I keep returning to for understanding this era is Merrill Markoe's essay on narcissism, because that post today is a textbook example of what she calls The Narcissist's Credo: "I'm the piece of shit the world revolves around."

Imagine if, after picking up and then putting down an item in a retail store, its personnel then chased you down outside the store, following you around for hours or days, badgering you about how you had "left something behind."

@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social: American anti-Semitism is not primarily a partisan phenomenon, “but a generational one.” “Jews constitute just 2 percent of the American population, but they’ve assumed much larger and more sinister proportions in the imagination of the country’s youth.”

Day 15 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Turbulent Lagoon. Back in 2018, to celebrate its 28th anniversary, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the Lagoon Nebula, a roiling cloud of gas and dust about 4,000 light-years away. Gift link: theatln.tc/pS0boJ4g

Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.

"The reality is that we’re all on the 'dead people' beat now." Devastating and true, from @juliettekayyem.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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