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Emily Tamkin

@emilyctamkin.bsky.social

Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.

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Mia Brett@queenmab.bsky.social · yesterday

Max Miller & Graham Platner are examples of men who perform masculinity in ways that men drool over even if it harms women. Democrats don’t need to follow the republican masculinity playbook to win men. My latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/08/04/e...

What Is 'Edgelord' Politics—and Why Are Democrats Flirting With It Before the Midterms?

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the rise of edgelord politics on the left. Democrats don't need toxic men to win young male voters. Here's why.

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Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 7d ago

A friend sent me this post so blame him, not me, for this self promotion www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bad-jews-e...

Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 7d ago

Am interested in reading more about the boundary drawing and contestation over “who is *really* Jewish?” Am open to work about any country. Recommendations?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was curious about what the report says, so here's the relevant section. Beyond the sloppiness (there's a sentence repeated twice by mistake), note how the report doesn't make any real effort to DENY the racial origins of the Act, but instead just takes umbrage at people pointing out the history.

In addition to attacking America’s white Christian Founders, NMAH’s exhibits also portray restrictive immigration laws as a tool of white supremacy. The Many Voices, One Nation didactic entitled “Negotiating Inclusion” alleges that when “thousands of Chinese journeyed to the American West, encouraged by the promise of gold rush opportunity” in the 1850s, “[t]heir race…troubled white Americans,” leading to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, “the first of many restrictive immigration laws.”457 Another states, “White laborers considered the Chinese competition and responded with hostility.”458 One American Democracy didactic asks “How Diverse Should the Citizenry Be?” and notes that “In a nation created by immigrants…One view is that ‘multiculturalism,’ the preservation of diverse cultural heritage, enriches the country…Still others challenged diversity by seeking to restrict immigration and exclude certain racial and ethnic groups.”459 In addition to attacking America’s white Christian Founders, NMAH’s exhibits also portray restrictive immigration laws as a tool of white supremacy. The Many Voices, One Nation didactic entitled “Negotiating Inclusion” alleges that when “thousands of Chinese journeyed to the American West, encouraged by the promise of gold rush opportunity” in the 1850s, “[t]heir race…troubled white Americans,” leading to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, “the first of many restrictive immigration laws.”460 Another states, “White laborers considered the Chinese competition and responded with hostility.”461One American Democracy didactic asks “How Diverse Should the Citizenry Be?” and notes that “In a nation created by immigrants…One view is that ‘multiculturalism,’ the preservation of diverse cultural heritage, enriches the country…Still others challenged diversity by seeking to restrict immigration and exclude certain racial and ethnic groups.”462 Photo of “How Diverse Should the Citizenry Be?” didactic in NMAH’s “American Democracy” exhibit. Another American Democracy didactic claims that “the calls for exclusion of certain groups span the history of the nation” and is not limited “to certain ethnic and racial groups, but also sought to exclude those of differing . . . sexual orientations.”463 This rhetoric mirrors language Director Hartig used in an April 13, 2024 address while serving as the President of the Organization for American Historians, where she recounted the story of Juana Briones, a Mexican-American immigrant who “fought a long battle to retain title to her lands” after “the American take-over of California in 1848,” stating: Understanding Juana’s life thus also foreshadows and connects for us the long and ongoing histories of brutality in all European colonial regimes across the continent. In particular, in California after 1848, Anglo-American ‘sexual violence, laws prohibiting interracial and same-sex relationships, and controls on women’s reproduction helped establish and maintain white male supremacy and class hierarchy in North America. Each served as scaffolding to slavery, Native American removal, Jim Crow, and immigration restrictions.’ 464 Notice what Hartig repeatedly demonizes here—“European,” “Anglo-American,” “white male”—and her characterization of “immigration restrictions” as a racist and oppressive practice akin to “slavery,” “Native American removal,” and “Jim Crow.”465
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4w ago

You know, in hindsight, that there was a show about a guy whose whole thing was that you can get more women by being mean to them was a sign that maybe we as a culture were headed somewhere bleak

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 4w ago

The 2000s-famous pickup artist Mystery (remember him?) is posting AI-generated animations of a female character he says he’s fallen in love with. He even “wrote” a book about their relationship. I read it and found out that he thinks they’ve actually smoked weed and had sex together:

Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4w ago

See this is why Belgium should have just said "while it's wildly inappropriate for the US president to have weighed in, we are prepared to play and beat whatever constellation of Americans is on the field"

Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”

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Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · last mo.

Also, when certain Jewish leaders imply that, for example, harshly criticizing AIPAC is somehow the same as criticizing 85 percent of American Jews, they are actually making it harder not easier to distinguish between the two

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last mo.

There are people using AIPAC as a slur to do rank antisemitism, but AIPAC is also a real actual thing doing real actual bad stuff and it can’t be the case that criticizing them harshly for it is equivalent to antisemitism.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DC resident, can confirm: for people pushing that narrative this map is more or less the funniest conceivable result

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There were some ugly claims on X that Janeese was the candidate of white “transplants” while McDuffie was the choice of longtime Black residents. But it looks like McDuffie will only win ward 3 (wealthy, white) while Janeese will carry every other ward (including majority-Black wards 7 and 8).

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