Rebecca Traister

@rtraister.bsky.social

Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack.

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Collins "decried the 'gutter-level political campaign' waged against Kavanaugh by 'dark money' and 'special-interest groups' (groups that presumably included Planned Parenthood, the organization that had last given her an award just the previous year), portraying Kavanaugh as the real victim."

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One of the dynamics of the Maine senate debates is how deftly Jackson is baiting Collins to go headfirst into affronted victimhood mode. Her incredibly thin skin is something I wrote about in my profile of her in 2020:

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@rtraister.bsky.social’s reporting in @nymag.com makes it clear Jackson didn’t “emerge from nowhere.”
His long history in state politics and the relationships she describes are why he was able to become the candidate.
The fact that DC & NY editors had never heard of him doesn’t mean Mainers hadn’t.

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This is such an excellent piece by @sarahjones.bsky.social and pairs pretty well (I think) with one I published yesterday on a mainstream preoccupation with the performance of class, but not the expression of true horror at the rounding up and killing of human beings:

Sarah Jones@sarahjones.bsky.social

I wrote about my mother’s family, their lives of working poverty on the coast of Maine, and the truly bizarre and detached conversations our pundits are having about Platner and working-class America nymag.com/intelligence...

nymag.comWhat Does It Mean to Be a Working-Class Candidate?Graham Platner’s campaign was fatally flawed. Its message is still worth examining.