Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard

@alexshephard.bsky.social

senior editor at the new republic

9,860 Followers 1,445 Following 3,082 Posts Joined May 2023
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11 hours ago

thank you Leander!

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14 hours ago

I've backed Golden Goal, a new (print!) soccer magazine on the World Cup that promises lots of insight and great writing, like the newsletter below.

You should, too.

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12 hours ago

It doesn't seem like an accident that the administration keeps splicing footage from this war with stuff from video games and action movies because many of the people overseeing this war seem to think it is no different from a video game or an action movie

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12 hours ago

These people obviously speak like this because they're sociopathic cretins but I do also wonder if the specific conditions of contemporary warfare also insulate them from the consequences of their actions enough that they can simply choose to ignore the human toll if they want to

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There’s More to Messi’s White House Visit Than Meets the Eye To really understand Inter Miami's awkward trip to Washington D.C. you have to look at the team's owner, Jorge Mas.

Why was Messi really at the White House? For this week's @goldengoalmag.bsky.social newsletter, I wrote about Trump, Cuba, Inter Miami president Jorge Mas and the legacy of his father, Jorge Mas Canosa, the godfather of Cuban American politicians. goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/theres-mor...

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While most of the focus on Inter Miami's visit to the White House has understandably focused on Messi, the real story is the team's owner Jorge Mas, who is using his star player to help bring about his father's dream: goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/theres-mor...

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15 hours ago

this was exactly our response

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16 hours ago

One thing we learned while working on this story but did not include is that Jorge Mas's son appears to be dating Marco Rubio's daughter...

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There’s More to Messi’s White House Visit Than Meets the Eye To really understand Inter Miami's awkward trip to Washington D.C. you have to look at the team's owner, Jorge Mas.

For this week's @goldengoalmag.bsky.social newsletter, @salazar.bsky.social wrote about Jorge Mas, the billionaire Inter Miami owner, who just used Lionel Messi to push the Trump administration toward regime change in Cuba goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/theres-mor...

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17 hours ago

The idea that Trump was an "isolationist," let alone "antiwar" was always absurd. He loves using American military power and has always been convinced that he can use it in "smart" ways—as opposed to the "stupid" Iraq War. That arrogance got us into this mess newrepublic.com/article/2077...

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With the War in Iran, Trump Has Launched His Own Brand of Forever War A decade ago, Trump promised an end to military interventions like the disaster in Iraq. Instead, he’s merely reinventing them.

I wrote about Trump's aggressive, hubristic, increasingly chaotic foreign policy and a 2016 "antiwar" debate clip that has been misunderstood for a decade newrepublic.com/article/2077...

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With the War in Iran, Trump Has Launched His Own Brand of Forever War A decade ago, Trump promised an end to military interventions like the disaster in Iraq. Instead, he’s merely reinventing them.

excellent @alexshephard.bsky.social piece looking back on Trump's headline "antiwar" moment in the 2016 campaign, the South Carolina primary debate

we should see the Iran fiasco as arising from the unilateralist, imperialist ideology he articulated on that stage newrepublic.com/article/2077...

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if you peep the new issue of vanity fair you can see this chart I worked on mapping all the terrible people whose ideas trickle their way into the White House, along with their various beefs. You could call it the everyone is 12 chart

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1 day ago

The Trump administration selecting for pure ideologues means no one in the room could read a map or do basic ballistic math and now everything's going to get more expensive as people keep dying to serve a war whose entire desire effect is making snuff films with military cameras for social media.

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1 day ago

we've been emailing with him, a thrilling experience

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1 day ago

also they reference Miguel's (great) Colombia jersey but for the record I was wearing a Salmon Rondon shirt, a futile attempt to keep the flame that @jonawils.bsky.social lit alive

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1 day ago

If you would like to watch me try to explain @goldengoalmag.bsky.social, talk about my weird growing USMNT fandom, and awkwardly reference Absalom, Absalom! to two writers (and people) I admire very much, the interview is also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTN...

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The first @goldengoalmag.bsky.social trivia night was a huge success! We'll be hosting these monthly until the tournament begins. Follow along here for more updates: goldengoalmag.substack.com

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1 day ago

this certainly seems like a threat!

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1 day ago

but maybe the way to do it is to just fully commit to the bit and insist that all subsequent Tommaso "hoaxes" were done by a copycat and that the real Tommaso was dead (crashed his vespa into a cannoli stand while catcalling a woman)

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realized recently that I could do a really good Tommaso Debenedetti death hoax but if I did it would only make him happy

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So proud to be a part of this project, and to have worked with so many excellent writers. I hope you love it. Thanks, @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for having me.

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Sara Yasin’s new digital magazine, The Key, will center Palestine. The Key launched with an essay by the new magazine’s editor in chief Sara Yasin called “It’s Not Complicated.” The essay is part reflection, part media criticism, part thesis statement for th…

At @literaryhub.bsky.social, I spoke with Sara Yasin about the new publication she’s editing, The Key

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1 day ago

Barron? also this was a print piece so finished a while ago

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1 day ago

my brain may just be telling me it wants beef jerky or I might be having a stroke... possibly both

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1 day ago

IDK why but every time i scroll quickly by this photo I think Kash is speaking behind a lectern featuring the Buc-ee's logo

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My Year as a Degenerate Sports Gambler Practically overnight, America made wagering on a game as frictionless as checking the weather. I was determined to understand the consequences—for my country, and for myself.

This is as good as everyone says it is, read it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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1 day ago

We're just going to Wages of Fear/Sorcerer the global oil supply

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