Clare Malone

@claremalone.bsky.social

Staff writer at The New Yorker. (Currently on leave working on a book about MAHA.) https://www.instagram.com/clarekmalone/ Clare_malone@newyorker.com

As someone born into Irish-American Catholicism, I am fascinated by people who do not think about their death/deaths of their loved ones often, if not daily. Must have been all the open-casket wakes! Anyhow, good read. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Lindsey Graham’s death leaves Trump reflecting on his own mortality

Publicly and privately, the president has been musing about aging and fate after his friend’s sudden death. He is set to deliver a eulogy for Graham today.

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Obviously you don’t need to a parent to find every part of this horrifying but if you are a parent it pretty much hits on every nightmare you have had, bar none. I am both terribly sorry and grateful that a reporter was there to document this. bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

The Department of Homeland Security quietly allowed a mother to return to the United States for her 3-year-old son's funeral, after ICE officers deported her to Honduras without him. She was given three days in Atlanta to say goodbye.

My lowbrow take is that the Real Housewives has done more to raise awareness abt the potential financial fuckery of marriage than Belle Burden ever could. It’s basically THE B-plot of all the franchises; kicky lady entirely subjugated to the whims of her controlling, financially literate husband.

Blue Sky feels like a place to ask this question since this place is lousy with type-A “I run marathons” vibes: is it strange to see a young (probably?) childless man pounding a GoGo Squeeze at the gym or is this gym culture now?! I’m fascinated!

My research colleague Gabriel Sandoval obtained 911 logs from Dilley that had calls about toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman passing out and a girl with seizures. Three calls were about alleged sexual assault between detainees. 8/

Jake Lahut, a Wired reporter who from the Nancy Mace airport story last week, was among those fired. During the incident, CN's HR chief asked staff not to congregate outside his office. Lahut asked "what's your definition of congregating?" and was let go later on Wednesday.

Nate, Galen, and I doing another live NYC podcast at the Comedy Cellar on Nov. 3, the night before Election Day! Link to tix below:https://bsky.app/profile/galendruke.bsky.social/post/3m3atgr5bwk27

Galen Druke@galendruke.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It may be an off-year in the election cycle, but don’t call it boring! Grab a drink and join @claremalone.bsky.social, Nate Silver and me on November 3rd at the Comedy Cellar in NYC as we make sense of this year's contests just 24 hours before polls close: www.gdpolitics.com/p/election-e...