@ashleyrparker
I remain skeptical about Bluesky. Also: @TheAtlantic staff writer. MSNBC analyst. And Washington Post + New York Times alum. Mainly links to my stories and posts about my kids. Email: aparker@theatlantic.com.
A former Washington, D.C., police officer has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women whom he met on dating apps, Vivian Salama reports; the suspect denies the charges. www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
You gotta go to Europe to get the real Haribo swag...
NEW: President Trump is expected to endorse John Cornyn over Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP primary runoff, three people briefed on the deliberations tell me + @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Last night, after being in bed for two hours, the 2-year-old woke up, opened her door, and appeared at the top of the steps at 9:45 pm, a baby doll tucked under each arm, and a temperature of 103, and shouted: “Daddy, I’m coming down! I’m ready to play!” 🤒
Last night, after being in bed for two hours, the 2-year-old woke up, opened her door, and appeared at the top of the steps at 9:45 pm, a baby doll tucked under each arm, and a temperature of 103, and shouted: “Daddy, I’m coming down! I’m ready to play!” 🤒
V fun to appear on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast w @michaelscherer.bsky.social, talking all things Trump. Listen here —> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Verbatim quotes from the 2-year-old to the 7-year-old:
“I am not So Annoying! I am just kind!”
“If you’re feeling frustrated, why don’t you go upstairs until you calm down.”
(Note: This insight did NOT help calm the 7-year-old…)
2-year-old, unprompted, at dinner: “I’m kind and I’m sweet and I’m smart and I love pooping in the potty!”
(Three of these things are true. Can you guess the outlier?)
Stop what you're doing and read Erica Werner's moving, important piece on her daughter's struggle with anorexia—and her struggle to understand and support her: slate.com/life/2026/02...
Yesterday, I was wet-eyed (obvi) on the Metro, wearing my Post beanie (obvi), and a woman, a stranger, leaned over and hugged me.
Which is to say: The entire city understands the scope of this devastating tragedy… www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I'm sorry, too. But thank you.
"The Post is all of our “we”—the journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I arrived at The Post during a personal and professional nadir. But they welcomed me into their merry band of misfits, and believed in me — so I started believing in myself, too.
My ode to what makes The Post so special. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Always read the great @sallyjenx.bsky.social, whether she's spitting truth about what's happening—and why—at The Post, or writing this beautiful profile of the boy figure-skater who broke physics—> www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
This morning, the 7-year-old came into my room at 6:30 a.m. to say she had helped the 2-year-old take off her diaper, and poop in the potty, and I did I have a sticker as a reward?
And I was both v proud of their independence and resourcefulness, and annoyed to be woken up.
A single day in the Trump presidency can be exhausting, but what about a year? For the latest Politics Weekly America I spoke with the Atlantic’s @ashleyrparker.bsky.social about Trump Exhaustion Syndrome - and how it helps an increasingly extreme president open.spotify.com/episode/3pNu...
The Washington Post has long done — and is still doing — great journalism. I don’t understand how laying off a bunch of talented and hardworking journalists solves what is fundamentally a publisher and business side problem. The Post deserves better.
"Among the greatest tricks Donald Trump ever pulled is convincing significant portions of the population that the slow erosion of their rights is not, actually, that big of a deal." My latest—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
"Because he can." My latest, on an emboldened and unfettered Trump. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump is testing out the Boiling Frog theory of governance, with the U.S. populace as the slowly boiled frog. My latest, on the one-year mark of Trump's second term: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“Fuck the Overton window,” Bannon told me. “You move it, and you do it, and no one complains—or MSNBC and The Atlantic complain and nobody gives a fuck—and then you do it again, and push it again.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
TFW you’re 107 steps into a Hogwarts LEGO train, and you realize a mistake has been made…circa step 13… 🤯
Stephen Miller's persona of the gleeful contrarian persona has now become more true character than occasional outlandish caricature. My latest, w @michaelscherer.bsky.social + @nickmiroff.bsky.social, on Donald Trump's accelerant. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
"Stephen," Trump said, during a contentious debate about immigration, "if you had it your way, everyone would look exactly like you."
“That’s correct,” Miller said, before turning back to continue sparring.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Our profile on The Wrath of Stephen Miller—the man who is the pulsing human id of a president who is already almost pure id. W the great(s) @michaelscherer.bsky.social + @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
2-year-old: “Whatcha doing?”
Me: “Blowing my nose.”
2-year-old: “But… you can just use your finger?”
The Fuck Around and Find Out Doctrine now enters the pantheon of the greats (Monroe...Truman...Reagan).
My latest, w Missy Ryan, on Trump, Venezuela—and the Americas as the president's personal sandbox: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Trump, it turns out, seems to believe that a little foreign adventurism is just fine, as long as he’s the one doing the adventuring. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with @michaelscherer.bsky.social, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
The 7-year-old, after watching me (unsuccessfully) negotiate w the 2-year-old for several minutes: “It’s tough having a baby like that.”