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Olivia Messer

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Olivia Messer

@OliviaMesser

Journalist. Created @thebarbedwiretx. Tina Brown’s called me “meticulous.” Words in @rollingstone @slate @thedailybeast etc Email: [email protected]

Austin, Texas

oliviamesser.com

Born June 20

Joined May 2011

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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Mar 24, 2024
Filed a draft of a story I've been reporting for a year. For fun, I deleted all my tweets. Just pinning this. Very excited to get back to work on edits for SWWTG. Through writing it, I've become a better wordsmith and person, even if it was so transformative as to be painful
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 13, 2024
this is one of those horrifyingly clear moments in history when you immediately know everything has changed but you can’t see how yet
Seung Min Kim
@seungminkim
Jul 13, 2024
The @AP photo from Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — from @evanvucci apnews.com/article/trump-…
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Oct 14, 2024
just absolutely top tier mom texts
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Oct 21, 2024
I worry about grown folks who don’t realize that campaigning, for almost all of history, has involved giving basically the same speech in as many places as possible — so much so there’s a Parks episode from ~10 years ago about how boring it is for the candidate
Tim Murtaugh
@TimMurtaugh
Oct 20, 2024
At least this time she’s plagiarizing herself…
Trump War Room
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Trump War Room
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 13, 2024
Replying to @LoneStarLeft
If what just happened was the attempted assassination of the former president, I guess that feels dramatic to me, but everyone’s making me feel like I’m being crazy
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Sep 22, 2025
Man I just don’t know anymore how we are supposed to keep covering and contextualizing and fact checking this level of absurdity, day after day
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Sep 22, 2025
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 25, 2024
I'm single and in my 30s but I do eventually hope that one of the dumb Hinge dates I go on will turn into a partnership and maybe I could also one day have kids — just, can y'all quit being so weird about it? it really shouldn't matter this much to strangers
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Nov 8, 2024
incredible fact here nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 13, 2024
Replying to @SeanMcCann4L
Very big-feeling deviation from the one we were on
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Oct 11, 2024
I believe this might be the best journalism I’ve helped make in my career to-date. It’s deeply personal and vulnerable. It’s local news with national relevance. And it gives urgent insight into a mysterious American archetype: a Trump-to-Harris voter.
She Voted for Trump. Then She Had Two Terrifying Miscarriages in Texas.
From thebarbedwire.com
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 13, 2024
Replying to @DoktorG and @youngvulgarian
I watched the A24 civil war movie too recently
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 13, 2024
Replying to @LoneStarLeft
I’m 33, and I’ve never seen anything like this in my lifetime. These images are going to exist forever.
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 12, 2024
If one more casual reader from the northeast comments “it’s Texas 🙄” … do you think the women here don’t deserve the things you deserve? Listen to yourselves.
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Olivia Messer
@OliviaMesser
Jul 12, 2024
Leaders in the Texas Senate have created a system in which lawmakers who sexually harass employees, interns, and students—a state crime—are seldom held accountable. As a result of a lack of records, the public is left in the dark. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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