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Garrett M. Graff

@vermontgmg.bsky.social

Journalist & Historian. Director, @aspencyber. Contributor, @WIRED. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail.
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In this clip from LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST, @vermontgmg.bsky.social points out that the U.S. has curbed other everyday risks, but the right to own and carry guns still carries a steep price. All six episodes, produced in collaboration with @thetrace.org, are out now. Listen: buff.ly/3Vceu2v
What's the price we pay to buy and carry guns?www.youtube.com In this clip from LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST, Garrett Graff discusses how regulations have curbed many everyday dangers in the U.S. and ponders what makes the sale and possession of firearms so different.
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New Geopolitics Decanted episode! A special treat. An excerpt from the #WorldOnTheBrink audiobook describing a detailed likely scenario of the Chinese invasion of Taiwan! Plus, my conversation with my co-author @vermontgmg.bsky.social about the key themes in the book!
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An excerpt from our “World on the Brink” book in the @washingtonpost that discusses how to stop Chinese semiconductor breakout and its importance to deterring an invasion of Taiwan CC @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | How the right U.S. chip strategy can keep Taiwan freewww.washingtonpost.com The “chip breakout” that China desperately seeks would be a geopolitical game-changer.
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If you aren't listening to Long Shadow, you are missing a truly compelling podcast. Highly recommended.
Tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting. Listen here:
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Today, April 20th, marks the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. In this new season of my podcast LONG SHADOW, I look back at how American life has been changed by guns—and why. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting. Listen here:
The mass shooting at Columbine High School marked the start of a new era — one in which Americans asked themselves, over and over, how to prevent kids from being killed. In the first episode of “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust,” host @vermontgmg.bsky.social explores the legacy of Columbine.  Listen:
Long Shadowpod.link The April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School hurtled the United States into an era of mass shootings. Now, a quarter century later, the horrors of that day have become an almost regular facet of American life, and gun violence a record-smashing epidemic. Clad in both camouflage and Kevlar, 21st-century America is a bastion of freedom where workplaces require active shooter protocols, schools run lockdown drills, and the Second Amendment has become a religion unto itself.Guns are a uniquely American problem, but the U.S. wasn’t always like this. LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST explores the story of the people — some names you'll know, some you won't — who changed the way America relates to guns, for better or worse. This season, host Garrett Graff, in collaboration with The Trace, chronicles how firearms moved from being an ordinary part of the background of rural life to a menacing element of modern American life.Crackling with rich archival tape and riveting eyewitness and expert interviews, this narrative podcast examines threads of history that are vitally relevant to our current political climate. In LONG SHADOW’s first season, Graff, a Pulitzer-finalist and a best-selling author and historian, examined the lingering questions of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Season two chronicled how bloody tragedies at the hands of federal agents led to the rise of American far-right extremism and ultimately the January 6 insurrection. Season three will help listeners understand how simply carrying firearms has become its own act of defiance, and how a very specific, carefully manufactured fear has driven explosive demand for guns across America. How did we get here? Subscribe and listen to LONG SHADOW to find out.LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST is produced by Long Lead and Campside Media in collaboration with The Trace, and is distributed by PRX.
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April 19th is one of the most important dates in the far-right extremist movement. Last season in my podcast LONG SHADOW, I explored its significance across centuries. Start listening here (and then stick around for S3, which also has an April 19 tie): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
‎Long Shadow: Waco: The Spark on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Long Shadow, Ep Waco: The Spark - Apr 12, 2023
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25 years ago, a mass shooting at Columbine High School ushered in a new era of gun violence in the United States, one that changed the way America experienced life in public. @vermontgmg.bsky.social looks back at the massacre in Episode 1 of LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST. Listen: buff.ly/3JaCDzJ
Why Columbine?buff.ly Episode one of LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST, examines the repercussions of the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. In this clip,...
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Amazing feeling of accomplishment to open the box for the first time… #gettingreal #firstbook CC @vermontgmg.bsky.social worldonthebrink.com
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Political violence in the streets, conspiracy theorists in Congress, the fringe in the mainstream—how did we get here? In season 2 of LONG SHADOW, @vermontgmg.bsky.social examines how the American far right gained power. Vote for LONG SHADOW here: buff.ly/3TYrDvE (Stay tuned for season 3 news!)
Trailer: Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Rightwww.youtube.com The Ruby Ridge raid, the Waco siege at the Branch Davidian compound, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jan. 6 insurrection… they are all explosive moments in re...
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New week, new book: “UFO” (Avid Reader Press) by @vermontgmg.bsky.social. The author of the excellent books “Raven Rock” & “Watergate” asks whether the truth is really out there and what the government does/does not know about UAPs. A fun & diversionary read that is, thus far, superbly written.
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gosh now that musk is posting racist memes I’m wondering if his trolley-problem thing is something other than a purely academic exercise
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It’s wild how much of the culture wars is just straight up grift.
Totally normal stuff here "The package also includes a puzzling ban on any district investigations of his tenure and an agreement that he can keep his district-issued laptop as long as he wipes it of school records."
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Through my UFO book research, I saw plenty of evidence of a US government cover-up about its full understanding and knowledge of what UFOs and UAPs actually are—but it's more nuanced than many have come to believe. Here's what I think the cover-up actually is: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The U.S. Government UFO Cover-Up Is Real—But It’s Not What You Thinkwww.theatlantic.com Decades of declassified memos, internal reports, and study projects create the sense that the government doesn’t have satisfying answers for the most perplexing sightings.
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A fun final excerpt from my UFO book, in POLITICO, about the strange ways that UFOs have influenced US presidents. Tuens out presidents are just like us: They want to know if there are aliens too. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Which Presidents Have Seen UFOs? Yep, It’s More Than One.www.politico.com A wild history of Oval Office obsession with the biggest conspiracy theory of the modern era.
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This is a delight—and true! What’s also fun? Ordering a book once it’s out! Here you go: a.co/d/cmM8mGd
Preordering books, forgetting about them, and then having them arrive with no warning brings me more joy than I should admit. It’s like found money for nerds. Looking forward to digging into this new @vermontgmg.bsky.social book
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How many libraries could have been kept open for how many days if we weren’t burning money on pointless toys for the police? Budgets are moral documents, and Eric Adams (R-NJ/Bonkersville) has made his moral statement pretty clear.
NYPL and other NYC public libraries suspend Sunday service as Mayor Eric Adams orders massive budget cuts
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Yay! Thanks for reading!
My copy of @vermontgmg.bsky.social's new book, UFO, just arrived, and I already know it's going to be great because there's an entry for #FOIA in the index 😂
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Meta will let political campaigns run ads claiming the 2020 election was rigged on Facebook and Instagram. Let's be honest about why. Meta expects Trump and GOP Super PACs to have huge digital ad budgets, and the company wants that $$$. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-al...
WSJ News Exclusive | Meta Allows Ads Claiming Rigged 2020 Election on Facebook, Instagramwww.wsj.com Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year
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Grateful for a *great* UFO review from the AP: "an authoritative and objective look at the history of UFO sightings and research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life over the past 75 years... a narrative as compelling as Graff's other works." abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
Book Review: 'UFO' is a detailed look at the history of the search for the truth that's out thereabcnews.go.com Garrett M
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This tweet by @lauramotta.bsky.social was one of the best moments of WATERGATE being a Pulitzer finalist this spring, so I knew she had to be one of the first to get UFO. Out tomorrow!
Thank you so much, @vermontgmg.bsky.social! Can’t wait to delve into this. Am hoping for some good tidbits on Area 51 and whatever is happening out there in the very weird, very wondrous Nevada desert.
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The idea that any pundit ever seriously thought Tim Scott would be the nominee shows how poorly pundits still understand the modern GOP.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott announces he is dropping out of the 2024 race.